Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lemonjelly

Generali wrote: »

Well not good news unfortunately.

It's lymphoma. Next steps are surgery to remove it and a PET scan to see if it's anywhere else in my body. Then it might be anything from no further treatment to chemo to a managed decline, we'll see what happens.

Look after yourself fella.

Generali wrote: »

You can say sorry if it makes you feel happier. It is a platitude which says little directly but which communicates that you care about me and Leon.

Luckily I work for an insurance company so we get excellent insurance as a part of our pension (super). I have life cover which will pay out about 10 years of net income and if I'm too sick to work I get income protection of 80% of 112% of my salary, rising with CPI until I'm 65. I also have one of the best (the best?) health insurance policies available in Australia.

Actually it's all zoomed through pretty fast so far. The only delay really was that the doctor wanted a 2 week wait prior to the second biopsy which was because he wanted to maximise the chances of a positive diagnosis.

PS you're not nobody.

All sounds good & positive. Everything crossed. If it helps, my friend who had cancer is still here, it hasn't come back, all clear was 8 years ago.

Generali wrote: »

Life isn't fair but what can you do? You just have to go with it. If I am going to die then I plan to do so with a smile on my face.

There is one thing you can do: persuade Mrs Generali that I should be able to watch jelly wrestling as a might be dying wish.

Once again, I'm scared.:eek: The things I have to do for nice people...

Generali wrote: »

Cheers Spirit.

Look, at the moment all is ok. I feel well, I look well (I always look well :cool:). I can run and eat and drink. I ran up 5 flights up stairs with the kids this evening, racing the lift.

I reckon this is going to work out just fine, albeit with some twists and turns on the way.

I'd really like it if we could all be positive that when Leon is gone on Tuesday that's the beginning of all being very well. Maudlin stuff probably doesn't help anything ultimately. Let's say I'm told I have 6 months to live, do I want to live those 180 days with a smile on my face or worrying that the next day may be my last? What would you recommend?

I know my plan for the next 40 days or 40 years. It's kinda always been the same but I have rather more resolve tonight. We'll see if tonight turns into next week and next year.

In that case, man up you whinging pom!;)
Seriously, you look after yourself, you eat well, you're in good shape physically. There's no reason not to be positive. We can share a beer in 3+ years when you come back to watch spurs get trounced by us in the cup final!;)

lemonjelly

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2584503/Most-embarrassing-facebook-fails-Toe-curling-attention-seeking-status-updates-caused-family-fall-outs.html
technology helps us all so much...

chewmylegoff

Mortgage appears to have been agreed - although I have only been told so on the phone and I won't believe it 'til I see something in writing!

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

I was on a plane into LCY with the entire family onboard. It was very stormy, and the pilot tried again and again to get lined up with the small docklands runway. He went round 3 or 4 times. Everyone on board was getting decidedly nervous, not to say sick, but I felt strangely calm. There was nothing for me to do about it, and if we crashed I wouldn't be leaving any dependants behind. In the end, rather mundanely, we diverted to Stansted and landed safely.

I was travelling to the US once and the plane aborted a landing at the last minute, as another plane wandered onto the runway. BUt I'd rather that than what my parents went through when aplane aborted a takeoff at the last minute . The plane ended up in a net at the end of the runway, nobody hurt, but somehow that kind of an incident would worry me more.

ukmaggie45

Generali, very sorry to hear your news. Did you mention you were going in for Leon's removal on Tuesday? Or did I imagine that? To lazy to go back over several pages to check. I don't really know what to say, other than that I will be thinking of you and your family over the coming days, and sending you the proverbial Vibes from Liverpool.

I'm totally knackered today, yesterday OH and I went over to meet his brother and wife to go through stuff at MiL's flat prior to auctioneer coming and collecting stuff next Thursday. Spent a long time going through all the cutlery to work out which was silver, and which was plate. Brought some Scottish silver back to research it - 4 spoons which it turns out were made in Glasgow in 1832. But my favourite piece is a small ladle, about 6" long, made in Edinburgh in 1818. It appears to be in relatively good nick, am quite tempted to buy it myself.

MiL is in nursing home, she has pretty bad short term memory loss and is very frail now. I'd hoped to get to visit her yesterday, but after about 4 hours at the flat both OH and myself were too shattered to feel up to it. Maybe at the weekend. OH did visit on Monday - he gave one of MiL's friends a lift too, but she was very sleepy and just dozed while he and her friend chatted. She doesn't seem to have much interest in anything now - it's just so sad. She was a talented artist, she sculpted both wood and stone, and also made ceramics. Now it's as if she's just fading away.

We've brought back a fairly random selection of stuff, including all FiL's diaries and MiL's diaries. I also have some sketch books and water colour paints and a few paint brushes that look good ones. Just hope that get the leisure time to actually get back to drawing and painting again soon! Oh, and really entertaining is a copy of a memoir by I think OH's Great (or possibly Great Great) Aunt, who was born in 1891, has some amazing stuff in it! I'm trying to persuade OH to put it on the net but he's not keen.

Today OH has been horrid busy. First thing dropped off his car for MOT and service and got bus home. Then out to Aldi for gardening stuff. They'd run out of cauliflower plugs and he only saw the strawberries on his way out when it was too late. He also forgot to buy the pork for tea this evening. <rolls eyes> Just as he got home he got an emergency phone call from DD2 who was on the train back from London with the grandtwins... Would he go and meet them off the train at Lime Street and help her get them home on the local train. :eek: Not sure when he'll be back, but suspect he'll be fair wore out when he does! :rotfl:

ukmaggie45

lemonjelly wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2584503/Most-embarrassing-facebook-fails-Toe-curling-attention-seeking-status-updates-caused-family-fall-outs.html
technology helps us all so much...

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Mortgage appears to have been agreed - although I have only been told so on the phone and I won't believe it 'til I see something in writing!

Good news, :beer: :j here's hoping they send it by 1st Class post - not that that seems to make much difference!

zagubov wrote: »

I was travelling to the US once and the plane aborted a landing at the last minute, as another plane wandered onto the runway. BUt I'd rather that than what my parents went through when aplane aborted a takeoff at the last minute . The plane ended up in a net at the end of the runway, nobody hurt, but somehow that kind of an incident would worry me more.

:eek: :eek: :eek: I'm so glad I don't fly!

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Mortgage appears to have been agreed - although I have only been told so on the phone and I won't believe it 'til I see something in writing!

Good news!

Have you had the survey results yet?

Nikkster

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Mortgage appears to have been agreed - although I have only been told so on the phone and I won't believe it 'til I see something in writing!

Congratulations on your potentially impending debt

I didn't believe it until it popped up on my online banking :eek:

Yorkie1

Can't improve on everyone else's eloquence, Gen, but thoughts and prayers winging their way across the world, and if you'd like dodgy hug then here is one just for you :grouphug:

I've spent the last 3 days at work sat hunched over the PC, updating and cross-referencing lots of documents which need to be ready for copying at the start of next week. Not only did I achieve all that I needed to, and a couple of extra bits, but I did so without staying late tonight.

Have now got a long weekend ahead of me, just in time for it to start raining and temperature dropping!! Oh well, the paperwork in the front room has been festering for weeks (ahem, months) so perhaps I'll consider looking at that instead.

Good news on the informal mortgage approval chewy :T

Doozergirl

Guys, I have it on pretty good authority that lostinrates has heating and, I hope, hot water in the glamorous bathroom.