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Thank you, Phoenix.




And you take good care of yourself, lezzles, hear?

That is a bitch of a disease, and I hope Lezzles is feeling a bit better and able to join us on the threads again in due course!

Me, too, Clary!

The Oz Election thread awaits your presence, lezzles. When you're feeling up to it, of course!

In the meantime, rest & recover!

I have a bit of a sore throat, msolga. Could you toss some love my way?

I will give you an example you can try at home to see what one form of COPD can be like.

Take a deep breath,as deep as you can.
Now,exhale just one puff of air,the amount it takes to puff out your cheeks.

Now,take a deep breath again.
That is how difficult it is to breathe when suffering with COPD.

COPD is what killed my first wife.

basically means bung airways!

Hope you're OK lezzles

That's awful Lezzles!!!!


I do hope you are feeling better soon.

Sorry if I came across as a bit rude, msolga - I did see you were asking after me and I did appreciate your concern.

When I posted that message yesterday I was tired and depressed - I don't know if I will ever come to terms with being connected to an oxygen tank for the rest of my days - but enough, down that road lies morbid self-pity and that is NOT on the agenda! (I keep seeing scenes from that awful movie Blue Velvet with Dennis Hopper - makes you want to walk in front of the nearest bus - luckily I cannot walk that far!!)

However, the hair is still as red as ever, and redheads bounce back - so the fight has just begun!

As for the Oz Election thread - things are warming up - see you there, pussycats! :wink:

Lezzles--

Tethered to an oxygen tank for the rest of your life? Grim. Eventually you'll be better off than Jacob Marley wearing those chains he forged in life, but if you have to have an oxygen tank, it would be nice to have Jacob Marley's money.

Are you tethered to one of those welding sized oxygen tanks or is it slightly more portable?

Will you be able to decorate it, or are you going through replacements too quickly?

When will you be able to get out and about without diving under a bus?

mysteryman, I'm sorry your wife suffered with such a harsh disease. I'm also sorry for what you went through.

Best wishes to lezzles!

mysteryman--

I had no idea.

I do have an idea of what life was like for you--at least for a few years. If you ever feel like cursing, screaming, or talking quietly about it--or the aftermath-- or planning an assault on Life, Part Deux, PM me. I'm a militant.

<sending supportive vibes>

<<<and to lezzles>>>

and btw, I'm taking this opportunity to scream bloody hell at everybody who told me not to worry about anon.

Of course you didn't come across as rude, lezzles. Absolutely no need to apologise.

I figured you'd gone back to bed to bed, just being out of hospital ...

I do hope you've perked up a bit since then.

Hang in there!

Sure thing, Gus.

Here, let me wipe that fevered brow.

There, I hope that feels better!

What does a brow have to do with a throat msolga? I am sre gus was hoping for a little......

never mind

I miss hiama !

Well, possum, I assume that the sore throat could well have caused Gus to be feverish. So I was tenderly wiping his fevered brow. See?

Hello again!

Thought you may like to know I"m just back home again after another stint in the hospital. I had to see my own GP three days after my release; my neighbour kindly drove me to his office (only ten minutes from home), but as soon as I arrived the doctor phoned for an ambulance. Evidently I had turned quite blue and my blood pressure was through the ceiling.

(It must have been the mental image of msolga cooling gus' fevered brow.) :wink:

However I feel very good now and am determined not to think of gus, so I should not stress out.

Oh, that's no good, lezzles! You poor thing!

Do you think they released you a bit too soon, the first time?

Pleased to hear that you're feeling good now, though.
Yes, avoid thinking of Gus, under any circumstances! :wink:

msolga, that may well be so (the early release).

While I was in the first time there was a cleaner (although I was warned about calling them that - they are PATIENT SUPPORT OPERATIVES) but his job, among other things, was
a) removing and replacing the plastic rubbish bags they stick on your bedside table and
b) stripping, washing down and remaking the beds between patients.

As usual the hospital was very busy and always short of beds. On my first night in the Medical Ward (after being brought from the Emergency Ward), two beds became vacant in my room. This PSO, John, had just started work on one bed when the nurse came in. "Ah, good, John," she said "Can you be as quick as possible, please? They've got them stacked up in Emergency and there are two more beds in room 7 to be done."

He turned to her and said quietly "You're being pushy - I hate women and I especially hate pushy women."

You may have noticed the guy in all the Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc etc movies - when people are getting chopped up, buried alive and all - he's usually standing under a tree on the edge of the woods, or standing out by the barn or whatever - just lurking and watching. He's sort of cadaverous looking, 60-70ish, white hair, short white full-faced beard, creepy; well that's what this guy looked like.

I was so polite to him.


(It only occurred to me when I got home that the above is also a perfect description of gus......)

Nah, lezzles.

Gus loves women. He only pretends not to! But I know better! :wink:

I'm so pleased you're in such good spirits. More, more, I say!




(P.S. please call me Olga, lezzles. My real name. msolga is a carry-on from Abuzz. It makes me feel like a school marm. Which I am ....from time to time.)