"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

:hello::hello: just hopping on before I close down for the day!

FW, thanks for posting - its okay, I accepted the need for an op straight away, the pain I've lived with is bad enough, and the prospect of genuine, erm, don't know what to call it, disability? sends me running for the nearest operating table

Thank you for saying I'm brave! Um, they were going to give me a general *and* it still be a day op! Wanting the local honestly wasn't a question of being brave, it was, I do *not* want to overnight in a hospital, and everyone near enough to stay overnight is a 12 hour a day commuter. My mother could come, but if something *was* wrong, and she had to get downstairs to answer the door to an ambulance, I wouldn't trust her abillity to get down my stairs in the middle of the night.

Problem solved, however! My sister's back from holiday, and can stay overnight - she'd take a day off if necessary, which certainly isn't needed - she might well be an hour late, but thats all. Hurray :j:j

Pippi - glad you thought of me with the :bdaycake: making an appearance

Right, off out on an adventure! Will check back later

mizmir

Karmacat wrote: »

Imagine Margaret Rutherford with a Geordie accent and the comic timing of Morecame & Wise - delivering a lecture about Egyptian eroticism, complete with very, um, direct images. Really, we hardly stopped laughing

:eek::eek::eek: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karmacat wrote: »

FW, thanks for posting - its okay, I accepted the need for an op straight away, the pain I've lived with is bad enough, and the prospect of genuine, erm, don't know what to call it, disability? sends me running for the nearest operating table

Thank you for saying I'm brave! Um, they were going to give me a general *and* it still be a day op! Wanting the local honestly wasn't a question of being brave, it was, I do *not* want to overnight in a hospital, and everyone near enough to stay overnight is a 12 hour a day commuter. My mother could come, but if something *was* wrong, and she had to get downstairs to answer the door to an ambulance, I wouldn't trust her abillity to get down my stairs in the middle of the night.

Problem solved, however! My sister's back from holiday, and can stay overnight - she'd take a day off if necessary, which certainly isn't needed - she might well be an hour late, but thats all. Hurray :j:j

Good on your sister! Local or general you'll need someone around for a day or two. I'm with you on the don't stay in hospital. I was in for 10 days at the beginning of the year - and boy was I glad to get home! The nurses in general were wonderful and the care great but the not being able to sleep, lack of privacy, and awful food didn't help my healing. I was much better when I got home - found my mother and sisters had worked out a rota with OH so that I had someone with me for the first few weeks as OH was working away! Hope it all goes well - do you have a date yet?

Karmacat wrote: »

Right, off out on an adventure! Will check back later

Look forward to hearing all about it!

gilligansyle

Hope you had a lovely adventure, and glad that your sister can come to your rescue if necessary. It's just better to have someone around.

Double_Trouble

KC is not back from her adventure should we be sending out a search party?

DTxx

mizmir

Depends on what kind of adventure it was......;)

ZTD

mizmir wrote: »

Depends on what kind of adventure it was......;)

These eroticism lectures...leading people astray...

Triciaxx

Ellidee wrote: »

Egyptology made me think of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq7DGvfnr3U

That was my first thought as well! :rotfl::rotfl: Your actual experience sounds much more interesting!

Re local as opposed to general anesthetics (oops, that's American spelling:eek:), I had a hip replaced with an epidural and chose it for similar reasons - My DH (lovely chap and all that) is not really cut out for dealing with me in a drugged state. Also, I appreciated the fact that I felt well enough to take sensible decisions next day!

Arthritis is an evil thing!

PS : If you are not back yet, I hope you are having a good time! Say not more, wink, wink!

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: No winking needed, I'm afraid - sorry!

Tricia, no date yet, no - we mentioned after Christmas for the op, tho sooner than that for the CT-guided injection for the other bit thats giving problems. I'd assumed that once it was daytime, my sister could just pootle off - but she was talking about a day with me as well. I think I'm missing a trick here, sooner or later must do some research about the effects of anaesthetic ....

I made a complete hash of the adventure that I had planned - which was a very tame adventure, tis true - just off to my sister, and looking at mattresses in her town. But with the hour turnaround, I got completely mixed up - buses are every two hours, and I ended up waiting in the *middle* of those two hours :eek: I'd have been shattered if I waited for the next one, as you can see from the timestamp my sleeping is a little disorganised - I'm on my 2nd cup of tea already :eek: so I didn't go.

BUT! I didn't want to go straight home either, so I went a roundabout way, which ended up going out into the country, and found a footpath that parallelled the road I'd have had to walk on - I'd actually investigated the bit nearest to my own house, and not walked all the way along.

It was good! Not enough tho, so I did a bit of work in the garden - I'm finally starting to get to grips with the northern facing fence - cutting back two of the *four* rhodedendrons (tiny suburban garden! Four of them! Plus other shrubs as big!!!). The rhodedendron *tree* will also have to be cut back - its near enough the house to be a concern - but the bit I'm actually working on will let me keep the fence and hedging plants in order, *and* give me space to plant the blueberries :j

I really *was* shattered after that - and my internet access often dies in the evening - so I didn't come back on just went to bed *really* early.

Now that I have less *stuff* - thanks to charitizing, ebay, Amazon and the like - I'm picking up books I like from my own bookshelves, which I might have read once, or even never. This one, I read once, and I was about to charitize it, but a book on elves and fairies written by a scientist is a wonderful thing, The Elves Of Lily Hill Farm, this is the author's homepage:

http://www.pennykelly.com/node/203

Loving it ...

What do you mean, this is a working day? Oh. I see. Erm, I've been thinking about it.... will write my to do list in my diary, and my ta-da list on here, then I look all impressive :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

gilligansyle

No real adventures then!

This hour malarkey is really a pain, it takes me ages to start waking up later. I wanted to go to bed at 9 last night, but DS (quite rightly) said that I'd still wake up 7 hours later, so what was the point.

Karmacat

No, not really - tho I suppose you could say it was a bit of an adventure to go down a country footpath with no knowledge (a strong suspicion, but no knowledge) of where it would take you ... I love the concept of calling trips out adventures, its just that my activities seem very tame for the word :rotfl: