| Lochalsh
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Honeybee, keep in mind that Lesley is only 39, and that Jonathan is a child prodigy at university. When you're under forty, you heal more quickly (as I too often recall).
Reply #1042. Aug 06 10, 2:35 PM
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| lesley153
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Surprised you were a proofreader? Not really. :p I bet if you hadn't gone back to correct the "not" nobody would have noticed and everybody would have known what you meant.
I'd have pronounced it How-t'n there, Horton in Britain. I suppose the answer is to ask the employees, if they care, or the founders, if they're still alive.
Judy, I'm sorry you had an extra-rotten time. Would it be silly to ask why you didn't take more painkillers?
Thanks, Deunan. I've replaced your original address.
Good point, Lochalsh. There is no substitute for lying about your age. :) [grin] |
Reply #1043. Aug 06 10, 6:05 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Perhaps others would have understand what I said before I emended the sentence, but the original error would have nagged at me. It matters.
I say "How-t'n" myself, without hesitation. The employees were the ones at sea about the pronunciation, Lesley, and they were the ones who made the t-shirts. No recourse to authority there. Did you ever go to your sister-in-law's office when it was on Beacon Street? The HM cafeteria on the top floor had an incredible long view of Cambridge and of the Charles River. Oh, sigh
Of course, I like the dreamy spires of Oxford, too. Didn't at least one your decent English poets live nearby? :)
What's for tomorrow's lunch? We should be there by noon, we FTers. You don't mind drop-ins, do you?
Reply #1044. Aug 06 10, 6:20 PM
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| Lochalsh
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I will not correct, I will not correct ....
Understood, Lesley? :)
Reply #1045. Aug 06 10, 6:33 PM
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| lesley153
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If it would have nagged at you, it matters. It just probably wouldn't have mattered to many other people, but then you already know that.
"Didn't at least one your decent English poets live nearby? :)"
Er... pass. Probably!
Lunch will be the second meal of the day, which means I don't know when it'll be and I have no idea what it'll be. When will depend when I get up and what will have to be related to my energy levels (low) and based on my food supplies (lower). Sorry to be so clueless!
"Understood, Lesley? :)"
Oh yes. Apsoludely. Enjupitably. Wihtout a doubt!
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Reply #1046. Aug 06 10, 7:05 PM
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honeybee4 
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I don't really know why I didn't take the painkillers other than when I had to be re-admitted they didn't give me any in the hospital. By the time I got out of the hospital I didn't have a lot of pain so I just didn't take them. I was on oxygen constantly for a month and at night for another two weeks. I have never liked taking pills, but I guess I should have.
Reply #1047. Aug 06 10, 7:12 PM
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| lesley153
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| We do make odd decisions, don't we? A particularly good one is keeping your GP when really the best thing to do with him is to kill him. |
Reply #1048. Aug 06 10, 8:13 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Looks as though we might need to delay the lunch and hope to meet up in Edinburgh. Forgive me for being presumptuous.
As for drugs: Although I have a high threshold for pain, I think I might have gnashed my teeth to infinitesimal bits after bilateral hip surgery had I not had that drip, drip, drip at my side.
Now I'm off to the goblin market (although I have no idea what I just said).
Noche-noche, Lesley!
Reply #1049. Aug 06 10, 8:25 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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The self administered Morphine drip, has got to be the best EVER (in hospital) pain management tool! It only allows a push button 'hit' every ten to twenty minutes.
I got tired of the 'stare and drool' affect, but pain was not a factor! :)
Reply #1050. Aug 06 10, 8:36 PM
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| Lochalsh
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VM, at my age, I stare and drool, anyway. :(
Reply #1051. Aug 06 10, 8:53 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Btw, I was referring to a morphine drip earlier. It was great, but, wow, when they removed it, they removed it, showing no mercy. :)
Reply #1052. Aug 06 10, 8:54 PM
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| lesley153
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Me too. I had one hip replaced about eight years ago, and they gave me a happy button when I came round. It was very welcome but they took it away after a couple of days. I don't know if I stared or drooled or both but I didn't care.
They told me I had morphine coursing through my veins last month too, but only while I was anaesthetised. What a waste!
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What on earth is a goblin market? Is it real?
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I may be passing yet another milestone in my recovery. I had to show the hospital physiotherapist that I could manage stairs before they discharged me. He told me to do Baby Steps - two steps to each stair, leading with my stronger leg, and putting the other foot next to it.
Going down is easier, of course, and I've been using alternate steps to go down for at least a week, but going up is still hard. Last night, I was going up to bed, wasn't concentrating, and found myself doing Grown-Up Steps for the first few stairs.
So there's my milestone - feeling almost grown-up.
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My new GP is on holiday but I shall be seeing one of his colleagues on Wednesday for a medication review. It's only because I'm new to the practice. Once I've done this, I shall be able to request repeats normally, with reviews at whatever the normal intervals are. I don't know what's normal, because my ex-GP never bothered.
He won't be able to clear me for driving, because it will still be less than four weeks since the surgery - but it won't be long. Goody. :) |
Reply #1053. Aug 07 10, 1:11 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Goblin Market is a poem by Christina Rossetti. It had nothing to do with the rest of my post, but, at my advanced age, am I not allowed a little mental nonsense?
Reply #1054. Aug 07 10, 1:18 PM
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| lesley153
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| I found it and it made my head spin, with its perfectly astonishing, unexpected imagery. Whatever happened to prudish Victorian maidens? |
Reply #1055. Aug 07 10, 6:50 PM
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| Lochalsh
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They're alive, well, and living in Bedford?
Reply #1056. Aug 07 10, 7:07 PM
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| Lochalsh
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By the way, for some reason I was going to end post #1049 with "And the goblins will get you if you don't watch out!" (I think that's from James Whitcomb Riley, a Hoosier poet.) Once again, I don't know why that line came to me; I'm just weird, I guess. At any rate, with goblins afoot in my strange little head, I decided to opt for C. Rossetti instead, partly because she was English (as you are), and partly because I like the Pre-Raphaelites. Goblin Market certainly has the more interesting subtext of the two poems.
Sorry for rambling, Lesley.
Reply #1057. Aug 07 10, 7:20 PM
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| lesley153
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So Bedford's where they've got to?
You're not rambling, and IMHO Goblin Market is more interesting full stop.
Tired today. Think I'll revert to Baby Steps upstairs for now. Goodnight! |
Reply #1058. Aug 07 10, 7:56 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Buona notte, bambina!
Reply #1059. Aug 07 10, 7:59 PM
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Deunan
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Good night, Lesley. Wonderful dreams.
Reply #1060. Aug 07 10, 8:35 PM
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