Thank you for all your good wishes

corrieflash

Hi Jackie
Just wondered how you were, hope you are getting back on your feet and feeling much better  x

London_1

I'm still in hospital the drs have been on strike since Monday so hopefully I will see them this morning and may find out whats the next move 
JackieO xx

retiredinfrance

best wishes from chilly France, Jackie, and fingers crossed that it all gets seen to soon. X

joedenise

Fingers crossed you get to see a Dr today Jackie and can find out what happens next.

London_1

Good Morning chums , well  good news at last I am being moved to rehab in Sittingbourne this morning as a bed has become vacant at last, so a step closer to going home at least.They will aim to get me mobile after my groin strain after the operation, and hopefully sort out the nerve damage done by the blocker given when I had my op. two weeks ago tomorrow which has kept me bed bound ever since . 

Late last night on our ward we had a lady arrive around 11.45.pm who having announced her name loudly to the ward who were all trying to drop off to sleep she said "Anyone up for some community singing ? '  

The idea was OK, but not having to had a great deal of sleep in the preceding 24 hours I don't think a rousing chorus of "We'll meet again" was top of my agenda last night Nowt so queer as folk is there. The bemused asian lady opposite who spoke very little english at all looked even more bemused.

Luckily with the aid of a cuppa, the nurses managed to persuade her that sleep was more important than singing after midnight, and we all finally managed to get some sleep by 1.00.am. The new resident lady called Betty aged 89 was coerced with the promise of a custard cream or two to keep quiet thank the lord or I would have got a bit grumpy I think I had missed even more sleep.

Morning tea round I can hear in the distance rattling, so I too will be mollified with a cuppa this morning, and after breakfast hopefully my transport from Chatham to Sittingbourne and a new ward.

This other hospital is far smaller and mainly rehab patients on the new ward so we will all be battling around with our sticks and walkers in the hope of being freed up to resume our lives once more fingers crossed. Its certainly been an experience the past 10 months and not one I'm looking to repeat. I have far too much to do and organise what with moving in the spring as well.

Forecast for the next few days seems to be good at least so if you have washing get it out on the line and dig out the winter woolies for a spruce up. Only 86 days until Christmas chums. That's the worse of being in hospital you have too much time on your hands.

Onwards and upwards

JackieO xx  

joedenise

Good news indeed Jackie.  Definitely a step in the right direction for getting back home.  Hope you don't need to be at Sittingbourne for too long but at least you'll be up and about rather than just lying in bed!

IzzyBee

Good news Jackie hopefully you won’t be there to long let’s hope we get Xmas over and it will soon be spring and you will be all fit and well for your move 

retiredinfrance

Good news, Jackie. I had to laugh when I read Sittingbourne! No more sitting! I now have a mental picture of you all slowly marching down a corridor, sticks and walkers marking time. X

London_1

retiredinfrance said:

  I now have a mental picture of you all slowly marching down a corridor, sticks and walkers marking time. X

The march of the long walkers and sticks

 Us old biddies are determined if nothing else  I'm hoping I won't be there too long as I have so much to do and sitting around is driving me nuts I keep making lists of stuff I must remember.

I am a great to-do list maker followed by a been-done list

 Many years ago I worked for a self-made man who was quite well heeled, and had yet come from virtually nothing. He had always said that to start the day with a list of things that needed doing, and as they were done tick them off and by the end of the day you would be surprised at how much had been achieved. Its been a good bit of advice that I have always stuck to and its works well. I also if I had to go out for several things would try to do it so they all got done in order and that too saved quite a bit of time. So being stuck in a bed in hospital with virtually nothing to do has been very frustrating .I wasn't even allowed out of bed to practice on my walker without a nurse or physio with me in case I had a fall. 

Fingers crossed it will be different at the new ward I'm definitely not a community singer sort of person that's for sure I've got a voice that would scare the crows  

JackieO xxx

YoungBlueEyes

Good to hear you're making progress Jackie, and you sound so upbeat too  

Gotta say I'd have been a bit cross if someone started singing at that time of night, I might have been saying something