The future is bright for 3Dogs and it's about time too

3Dogs

Hi FFC - yes I'm popping on and off as I do some tidying up - I needed to sort some boxes of car boot and ebay stuff in the hall as I had to keep moving them to get into airing cupboard, and struggled to get into my cloakroom for the freezer :mad: Well I've sorted them through now, and got 3 empty cardboard boxes, a plastic lidded boxes of ebaying items, and 1 box of car boot , plus got dry clothes out of airing cupboard and put some more in for drying off, got washing in from line which was out from yesterday in all that rain but just needs airing off BUT I've now got loads of bits in kitchen to sort out that I am keeping, and I now have those ebaying boxes in my sitting room taking space up in there :mad:

It's moving bits around rather than getting clear :mad: but I guess the answer is to get some eBaying done - I haven't done any for over a month :eek:

Ah well - gonna sort out tose kitchen bits and get them washed and put away, while I make the tea ready for hubbie getting back up in half an hour or so - he got up early this morning and is having a nap now

BUT GOOD NEWS - my headache has gone - probably 'cause I've been busy instead of sitting here on the laptop all day :whistle::whistle:

BigMummaF

I am such a coward with things like booties & 3bay My track record is one of buying things from others but never having stuff others want to buy from me :doh:Doesn't help being a complete non-Follower of Fashion & I'm surprised there hasn't been a song written about me :rotfl:
Glad yer'ead's gorn as me muvva would say

3Dogs

We love car booting BigMumma - it's the social bit about it that's the best 'cause I don't know if ya noticed at all but I'll talk to anyone :whistle: but it's also good to make some much needed extra cash :T

I did a bit more clearing up and made our tea - spiced potato wedgies baked in oven, with roasted tomatoes, mushrooms & bits of gammon with half a tin of baked beans added when nearly ready, topped with a poached egg with cheese on top - yum yum yum

Gonna have some of that chopped melon later with WW yoghurt on top for supper later

What's everyone been up to today I wonder ?

fireflycatcher

I'd be too nervous to do a car boot so kudos to you.

Your tea sounds nice, going to go clean house and come back and check the thread soon.

*waves Beanielou*

3Dogs

OooErr Missus - I just noticed that I've got my 4th Ribbon & Star - must have changed a 2000 posts :j :j :j :j Old Timer now I am or Fantastically Fervent MoneySaving Super Fan as they call it

3Dogs

I've been working on the next instalment as promised and will post it later. Right now I am going to have my supper of chopped melon & WW yoghurt (creature of habit, me) and perhaps chop some more melon up, to make sure we have enough ready for tommorow

beanielou

Only time I ever did a car boot sale I got half of the money stolen.Paaahh.
Have never done another one.
Cant think why!

3Dogs

Oh dear Beanie that's awful - we have had stuff nicked off the tables before, but never the money - you do have to keep a close eye on your things as thieves do go round pinching stuff at most car boots - mind you if any of them get caught red-handed, everyone soon gets involved in getting them thrown out and banned

Definitey off to those melons now - back later

3Dogs

I've had my supper and cut up more melon for tomorrow, so I'm back, with a nice cup of 'dippy' tea (I give the tea bag one quick dip just to colour the water and out it comes)

Gonna post instalment 4 now folks

3Dogs

So, the story so far - part four:

With hubbie working, although it was still a struggle, I was paying some debts regularly but I was ignoring some – it’s that case of robbing Peter to pay Paul again – it was only when something came up that I could not ignore that I paid some debts. I’m sure that most of your will be familiar to all this head in the sand stuff – hubbie knew that we were struggling a bit but, as he left it all to me, it was quite easy to hide some debts from him – getting behind with Council Tax and having, eventually, after a liability order, to come to an arrangement. My main problem is a part of my depression, where I say I will do something, but don’t do it that day – I’d tell myself that I would sort things the next day or the next month when things would be better, but they never were better, so they were put off yet again. I was doing a budget and just about keeping to it, but ignoring some debts and expenses completely

On 1st October of that year (2007), when Mr 3Dogs had been working in this job for just short of a year, he came into the bedroom one Monday morning as he was getting ready and told me that he was passing blood in his wee. I immediately got on the phone to the docs and they fixed him up with an appointment with the nurse. She said that it was probably an infection and gave him antibiotics, telling him to come back and see his doctor if things were no better when the 7-day course was finished. The next night we were at a village hall auction and he came back from the loo looking ashen-faced saying that his wee was now full blood red, with clots of blood in it. The next morning I got him an urgent appointment with a doctor, who checked him for prostate problems but it was all clear. So he referred him to the hospital for checks just to be on the safe side, saying that it could well still be just an infection.

After some tests (x-rays, cystoscopy (camera up his you-know-what), ultra-sound, etc) he saw the Urology Specialist on 21st November who said that he had a wart on the lining of his bladder which would need to be removed. Work was very slow at that time and there had been talk of redundancies but that was the last thing on our minds. Anyway, he was booked in for his op for 12th December, and the day before, he was told that he was to be made redundant that week and would not need to come back after his op – lovely we thought, that’s all we need. So he went in for the op on the morning of the Wednesday, and was the last one to be seen, after lunch. He was told that he would have to leave the catheter in for a couple of days and to come back on the Friday to have it removed.

He spent a very uncomfortable and painful two days with that catheter in, and went back as advised on the Friday. Again, he had to wait to be seen, but they said it was because they were waiting for his treatment to come down. They said it could not be ordered/mixed or whatever beforehand so they had to do that as soon as he checked in and then wait for it to arrive. After about a 4 hour wait, two men came to his bedside with equipment and closed the curtains, asking him if this was the first time he’d had this done. We assumed they meant the op so said yes, and one of them explained that they would feed the Mitamycin through the catheter and it had to stay there for 20 minutes, if he could manage it for that time, explaining that if the chemo was too much before the 20 minutes were up, he could call a nurse and they would flush it out sooner. Then they went away leaving us very puzzled and worried. We just turned to each other and both mouthed the word ‘‘chemotherapy’, no one had mentioned that. I went off to ask the nurse who said that it was just precautionary in case anything was there, which I told hubbie, but we were both stunned. The next day we asked a friend who is a nurse, and she looked aghast when I told her and just shook her head. No-one wanted to say the ‘C’ word of course.

Anyway, 2 weeks later he went for another cystoscopy at the hospital and then saw his specialist who immediately told him that the results were very good and it he himself had to have cancer, the type hubbie had was the sort he’d want. He gave us leaflets and explained that it had been a Superficial Bladder Cancer or First Level cancer growth and appeared to have been removed completely and was healing well. He then left us with hubbie’s Support Nurse who went through the leaflet with us and what it all involved, before asking us if we had any questions ...... cough cough questions?????? ...... We told her that today was the very first time that cancer had been mentioned and that we were shocked. We explained what had happened so far and what we had been told, and she apologised, saying that another patient had said exactly the same and she would have to have words to the specialist so this did not happen again. We then went home in shock and I read through the leaflet properly. It appeared that hubbie's cancer had been caught relatively early and before it could expand and spread, and at that stage the prognosis was very good. Still it took a long time to come to the realisation that he’d had a cancer removed, and we both took a long long look at what might have happened. After all, had hubbie followed the advice of the nurse and waited until the 7-day course of antibiotics was finished, he would not have gone back as the blood had stopped by the 6th day!!!!!!!!!!!! Just what would have happened then??????? He would have been none the wiser unless and until the blood started again – it could have been months or years, you just don’t know, and what would the growth have done by then??? Were might it have spread?????

So there we were – hubbie with no job and faced with the prospects of 5 years of regular cystoscopy checks until he could be given the all clear. With all this on our minds, things were about to change ......................... ...................


....................... to be continued


Edit: I need to add that this part of the story has a happy ending, so far anyway, so please do not have nightmares