Lola at the Coffee House

@firefly,

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Do they give you the results more immediately if they are positive for a malignancy--and indicate a need for further treatment?

When my wife was diagnosed with cancer things moved very quickly. All you're likely to get is anecdotal evidence. A few months ago I went to see my GP in the morning, and was Southampton General being operated on that afternoon.

All you're likely to get is anecdotal evidence, all we can say is what's happened to us..

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

As some attentive readers will know, I have been giving the works of Ms Austen a closer look over for the last couple of months than I did when I first read them many years ago. My medical adviser thought it might my help to deal with my ADD problem.

She certainly helps me with my insomnia, so I can see your adviser's point.

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@Lola,

Lola wrote:

Bernie once ate an anchovy, by accident at the bottom of a bowl of salad. He had to leave the restaurant immediately and threw up in the taxi on the way back to our apartment. He really can't stand the sight or smell, much less the taste of sea food. No joke.

In 1972 my best friend (male) was dating a very nice girl, not stupid or ignorant, a trainee teacher, and she was very emphatically a vegetarian. Eventually this couple, and me, and my then girlfriend all moved in together into a rented house. She unpacked her kitchen things and I noticed a bottle of Lea And Perrins Worcestershire Sauce. I didn't say anything. Soon afterwards she was horrified to discover a certain supermarket's own brand margarine contained whale oil. We had to stop buying it.

One day we were all sitting down for an evening meal and she idly picked up the Worcestershire sauce bottle, (we knew that she was very fond of it) peered at the label and asked "What kind of plant do anchovies come from?"

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@firefly,

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You're much more patient about it than I would be, vonny.

Has the scarring improved any, appearance wise?

I haven't contacted my doctor for biopsy results yet! If there is a malignancy, or if they need to operate again to remove more of the tumour, then I'm sure I'll find out about that on 16th July when I go for my follow-up appointment. I was concerned about the results at first, but as I haven't heard anything, then I'm presuming (and hoping) that it was a straightforward BCC. Not really worth worrying about now - I've decided to put it on a back burner until I see the surgeon again.

The information I was given after the op was that the scars would look their best just after the stitches were removed, then would thicken and grow redder for a period of three months or so, after which time I can commence serious massage - the site is too weak before for pressure before then. It's not too awful - can't hide it with make-up yet, but I have enough self-confidence to carry it off until I can get to work on reducing it. The young American who did the op was pretty skilful and a great deal of the skin flap on the cheek is hidden in the fold of the 'smile line'. That young chap has a great future ahead of him if and when he decides to go back home and practice cosmetic surgery!

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

One day we were all sitting down for an evening meal and she idly picked up the Worcestershire sauce bottle, (we knew that she was very fond of it) peered at the label and asked "What kind of plant do anchovies come from?"

A processing plant.

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@izzythepush,

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A processing plant.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

contrex wrote:
One day we were all sitting down for an evening meal and she idly picked up the Worcestershire sauce bottle, (we knew that she was very fond of it) peered at the label and asked "What kind of plant do anchovies come from?"

A processing plant.

Yes! She was really nice... I fancied the hell out of her. I felt guilty about this because I was going out with her friend, and she was going out with mine. We met up years later and I confessed this somewhat shamefacedly, and she exclaimed "I wish you'd bloody told me! I could have ditched that prat I was with!" Live and learn...

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@firefly,

Here you are ff as promised--

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This will be complete enjoyment; and I do not know, Mrs. Elton, whether the uncertainty of our meetings, the sort of constant expectation there will be of his coming in to-day or to-morrow, and at any hour, may not be more friendly to happiness than having him actually in the house. I think it is so. I think it is the state of mind which gives most spirit and delight.

It is Mr Weston speaking in Emma to a lady who Ms Austen has made some readers feel they might quite enjoy stuffing an arctic explorer's socks into her gob.

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@izzythepush,

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All you're likely to get is anecdotal evidence, all we can say is what's happened to us..

When my retina suddenly detached, a curtain came down in one eye, I called the quack and he saw me right away. After a quick exam. he sent me to the optician who also put me straight into his chair. After studying my eye for an hour he rang the hospital and booked me in for as soon as I could get there. They examined my eye for two or three hours and then booked me into Manchester Eye Hospital for the next day. There the inside of my eye was measured up and calibrated. Which took all day. The morning after I had a two hour operation during which I could see the probe inside my eye. Then, one night in the hospital, a series of lessons about how to keep my head from incorrect positions and a taxi home some 30 miles. Vision restored in about four weeks. No charge.

Same for a tramp as a duke. (Except for the flowers and cards).

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@spendius,

Someone should have sent you flowers and cards Sad

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@igm,

I'm always the person in hospital with the most 'get well soon' cards from dogs! Laughing

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@vonny,

vonny wrote:

I'm always the person in hospital with the most 'get well soon' cards from dogs!

... and they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks!

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

When my retina suddenly detached, a curtain came down in one eye, I called the quack and he saw me right away. After a quick exam. he sent me to the optician who also put me straight into his chair. After studying my eye for an hour he rang the hospital and booked me in for as soon as I could get there.

This happened to me in Bristol in 2000. I was born very prematurely indeed and had retrolental fibroplasia - now called ROP - as a baby and it caught up with me in my 40s, starting to detach both retinas. Very similar story - optician called Bristol Eye Hospital - immediate appointment - operation 10 days later- rapid, first class treatment at no charge.

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@contrex,

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She certainly helps me with my insomnia, so I can see your adviser's point.

I don't have insomnia contrex but I am a bit annoyed with myself for allowing the delusion that I had read those books to take hold of me simply because I had sped through them once more as a duty than anything.

What a wonder she is when read whilst suffering ADD.

I am well aware of her limitations but it is those, it seems to me, which enabled her to pen such wonderfully stylish revelations of her delightful heart and of such a world.

Would I have won her affection in my twenties I ask myself. I doubt it.

But I grew up in a place something like Mansfield Park.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

But I grew up in a place something like Mansfield Park.

Well, I grew up in a place somewhere near Brockwell Park. Yes, I find Austen's wit enchanting and her human observations enduringly accurate, but the world she writes about is so tiny and claustrophobic. It's all too graceful and lacks guts. The Brontës are more meaty.

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@contrex,

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The Brontës are more meaty.

So true!

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I once heard a BBC radio programme about an organisation called JASNA - the Jane Austen Society of North America. The members seemed to be mainly ladies of a certain age in comfortable circumstances. They spent their vacations visiting Austenesque locations in England, and their free time reading Austen or about her. One lady who was interviewed declared that she only read Austen's novels, nothing else. What, wondered the BBC guy, did she do when she had read them all? "Why, I start again at the beginning!" was the forthright reply.

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@contrex,

That's interesting contrex. I was premature too. 4 weeks. I have always put it down to being my head being bigger than average causing nervous tension for my mother.

Premature birth is not given as one of the causes of retinal detachment. Maybe it hasn't been researched.

Gordon Brown had detachments in both eyes as a teenager only one of which was fixed. And that after considerable trouble. I don't think the pressure bubble treatment was available in his youth.

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@farmerman,

I like roasted (but not too roasted, then they're too limp) broccoli, and I like broccoli sauteed in olive oil, garlic, chile, and anchovies. Or, with other vegetables, dipped into a warm pot of bagna cauda - the others raw but the broccoli slightly roasted.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/bagna-cauda-recipe/index.html

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

That's interesting contrex. I was premature too. 4 weeks. I have always put it down to being my head being bigger than average causing nervous tension for my mother.

Premature birth is not given as one of the causes of retinal detachment. Maybe it hasn't been researched.

Gordon Brown had detachments in both eyes as a teenager only one of which was fixed. And that after considerable trouble. I don't think the pressure bubble treatment was available in his youth.

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