Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Doozergirl

A cheeky request. No obligation, but if anyone is considering giving to Sport Relief this evening, would you think about sponsoring DD, doozergirl junior (8 years)? She's going to run the mile in our hometown on Sunday morning. She just had her first sponsor and nearly burst into tears with joy.

She is asking for £1 and has a justgiving page set up so the money goes direct to them, not me!!

I'm going to post it up for this evening, will remove it later:

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

Actually this is something I've noticed. Everyone feels the need to eloquently say something about how they wish I get better in a particularly unique and wonderful way.

Frankly all I care about is that people care about me and want to listen to me drone on about how awful it all is.

To summarise:

Positive thoughts: good
Whingy thoughts: eff off
I'm an Asre: Up yours
You're an Ars&*al fan: get over it and get up the other end of the Seven Sisters Road. COYS!

You have more guts than me. I'm not sure this is much of a complement but I always admire people with more guts than me. If I was in your boat I would probably be whinging in the corner.

michaels

Got to be worth a quid for that big smile

chewmylegoff

Doozergirl wrote: »

She is asking for £1 and has a justgiving page set up so the money goes direct to them

I won't get around to it this evening but if you PM the link at me I will stick a pound in.

Doozergirl

Thanks gentlemen :-)

She says "Thank you very much" and she feels "very happy and excited" about your donations, but too shy to post!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Generali wrote: »

Everyone feels the need to eloquently say something about how they wish I get better in a particularly unique and wonderful way.

[boganmode]

Just tell the surgeon you heard he's got a !!!! poor record so has buckleys of getting it all on the first go, wait for him to move heaven and earth to prove you wrong, and be back out drinking by the following weekend.

OK, you might be drinking water given the chemo, but if you cover the bottle with a suitably branded stubby holder the locals will think you're only puking due to a bit much grog.....

And from what I hear, showing up at work bald, barfing and sucking from a VB stubby holder is an Australian right of passage and almost guarantees a promotion.

So this could all work out in your favour.

No worries, mate...... You can thank me later.:D

[/boganmode]

Seriously though, I'm confident you'll be absolutely fine Gen and will probably look back on this many decades from now wondering what all the drama was about, (plus, you'll have a cool scar, that chicks will most definitely dig) but we're thinking about you and sending best wishes anyway.

Doozergirl wrote: »

A cheeky request.

The best kind.....

LydiaJ

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!

:T:j:D

Doozergirl wrote: »

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

I hope she's enjoying every minute of it. Just thinking of her makes me want to go and have a bath or shower or something. Do we have any news on when she's likely to get back into this century and have internet as well?

Generali wrote: »

Ok, to update everyone on the right thread (d'oh) and to avoid confusion the next steps in my treatment are:

Monday I have a PET scan. I get injected with radioactive glucose. Anything fast growing (like a cancer for example) will need lots of energy and glucose provides energy for the human body. As a result a cancer cell will suck up much more glucose than a skin cell or a liver cell. If wait a bit and then look at the bits of you that are radioactive then you'll see if there are any other cancers in the body. That's the idea.

Tuesday I have an operation to remove Leon aka Leon the Lymphoma Lump aka Bloody LLL. That is also called a Grand Biopsy. They take the whole thing out, under general anesthetic, and then find out exactly what it is.

Wednesday Sit around at home feeling sorry for myself.

Thursday Back to work where they won't stab me with needles, chop my neck up etc.

Friday Work BBQ which I am cooking for:eek:

That might all get disrupted by chemo.

How long do the deleterious effects of chemotherapy last BTW?

Hope the radioactive thing on Monday gives the right results. I've seen it done on a video (uses of radioactive isotopes is part of physics GCSE and A-level) and that sort of thing usually gives clear results, AFAIK.

Looking forward very much to Leon's demise on Tuesday.

Yorkie1

I like cheeky requests and smiles too

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

Your choice of course but I'd be fixing as long as possible right now.

I think people will be very surprised by how quickly rates will rise. NZ have already increased hers and I suspect it won't be long until Australia follows suit.

I take it that means you wouldn't go for fixed rate savings then? I have heard recently that one of the companies I'm suing has got new solicitors who are much more interested in settling with me (and therefore keeping down my costs that will get added to my claim) so it's possible it may only be a few months before I get into the "more money than debt" category.

Generali wrote: »

And I'll have a scar from the op. Chicks dig scars. Given my already striking handsomeness I think I will be basically unable to go out in the city on a Friday night any more.

9-year-old boys just like having scars without, AFAIK, having the prospect of chicks digging them as part of the motivation. DS was very proud of his when he got them, although I think he's got so used to them since then that he doesn't think about them one way or the other now.

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Having a struggling afternoon. I live with anxiety / panic attacks; most of the time I live with the restrictions it places on me and just get on with life. However, sometimes it gets a bit debilitating when I feel completely burnt out. After a few hard weeks at work, I've got a flexi day off today and can't motivate myself to do anything this afternoon. There's a stack of bank type paperwork in the lounge but all I can do is sit here with a hat on, cuddling a hot water bottle (anxiety = feel cold) watching property !!!!!! shows (HuTH, Place in the Sun etc). Nothing like what you're coping with, Gen, I know - but every now and then it just gets on top of me. Living alone means there's nobody else to share the load.

Anyway, onto happier topics before I get completely maudlin. I had a lovely chocolate orange Danish pastry for pudding at lunchtime, after a hot chocolate drink and some pecan / sultana fruit toast in the (cold) sunshine at the reading caf! in the local park this morning.

Hugs Yorkie :grouphug:

I don't suffer from anxiety, but I do have burnout, so I understand the whole "have stuff I really need to do but can't get off backside to do any of it" mode.

ATM I am experimenting with specifically identifying to myself when I switch between my two modes, "energy/motivation on" and "energy/motivation off" and trying to cut myself a lot of slack when it's off, but attempt to make the most of it when it's on, because I never know how long it's going to be on for.

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

A cheeky request. No obligation, but if anyone is considering giving to Sport Relief this evening, would you think about sponsoring DD, doozergirl junior (8 years)? She's going to run the mile in our hometown on Sunday morning. She just had her first sponsor and nearly burst into tears with joy.

She is asking for £1 and has a justgiving page set up so the money goes direct to them, not me!!

I'm going to post it up for this evening, will remove it later.
Little Doozergirl

Done

Hope she's enjoying watching her sponsorship page fill up.