Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

That's rotten news, Gen but as tumours go you're right that the prospects are promising ( and that's not always the case for younger people). Good luck with the next step.

Don't hesitate to talk as much or as little as you like about it here. We're not strangers and you can put a face to a name for a lot of us now.

Cheers Zag.

All this support means a lot to me. It's funny really, I'm far more positive today than I was a couple of days ago. I got this weird thing in my brain that I was going to be told I had 3 months to live yesterday. Not sure why but it just got lodged in my brain. After that being told that I have an indeterminate amount of time on this planet is kinda good news!

neverdespairgirl

Darling Gen, it must still have been a horrible and shocking thing to hear <hugs>

Will delete the detail later, don't quote:

My mother's cancer 18 months ago was non-Hodgkin's Lymphona, ......

I hope you and Mrs Gen are able to cling together for love and support, and we're all here for you <hugs>

Nikkster

Generali wrote: »

Cheers Zag.

All this support means a lot to me. It's funny really, I'm far more positive today than I was a couple of days ago. I got this weird thing in my brain that I was going to be told I had 3 months to live yesterday. Not sure why but it just got lodged in my brain. After that being told that I have an indeterminate amount of time on this planet is kinda good news!

Indeterminate is as good as any of us get.

Glad you're feeling positive, Gen. I'm feeling positive for you too

Nikkster

Doozergirl wrote: »

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

fabulous! Thanks for the update.

I have hit a sartorial low and am at the cinema, almost in my pyjamas (have my pyjama top on under a hoodie). I'm watching a play, and there is an intermission... A bit odd at the cinema!

Generali

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

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:

Thank you for your kind words Maggie. It really helps.

Spirit_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

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

**swoons**

They'll be inventing wheels next.

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

fabulous! Thanks for the update.

I have hit a sartorial low and am at the cinema, almost in my pyjamas (have my pyjama top on under a hoodie). I'm watching a play, and there is an intermission... A bit odd at the cinema!

Nikks you whippersnapper! You don't remember intermissions at the cinema? What about Pearl & Dean?

Da da da da - da da da da Da da da
Da da da da - da da da da
DA!

I have a sudden urge for a raspberry Mivvi.

Spirit_2

Nikkster wrote: »

I have hit a sartorial low and am at the cinema, almost in my pyjamas (have my pyjama top on under a hoodie).

Why have you got your pyjama top on?

Generali

@NDG. I was pretty shocked yesterday. Now I'm just feeling stubborn.

Generali

Nikkster wrote: »

fabulous! Thanks for the update.

I have hit a sartorial low and am at the cinema, almost in my pyjamas (have my pyjama top on under a hoodie). I'm watching a play, and there is an intermission... A bit odd at the cinema!

You really should move to Sydney. I regularly see people in the supermarket in the pjs and about once a month will see someone in the CBD wearing a onesie.:eek: