| veronikkamarrz
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OK she's gone to bed, we can talk about her! Shhh...:)
Seriously, the only thing I remember being 'required' to do before being discharged was, wait for it...Poop!
Reply #1061. Aug 07 10, 9:58 PM
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Deunan 
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lol...that is so true.
Reply #1062. Aug 08 10, 8:08 AM
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| Professer
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Weird that VM as i was in a week and was released without having a poop
Reply #1063. Aug 08 10, 8:51 AM
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| lesley153
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Oh yes, now you mention it, that was one of the things we have to do too, and not only before they let you go home - it's a subject of daily interest. Nurses have asked me routinely about my recent bowel activity any number of times, starting as I've woken up, from once or twice a day to six times in an hour, and once three times in five minutes, which is when I started giggling helplessly and everyone thought I'd lost it.
Jonathan and his girlfriend thought I'd lost it soon after I came round from the anaesthetic last month. He was asking me those classic boring check-old-people's-befuddledness questions, like what day is it and who's the prime minister.
Where are you? Papworth.
OK, so who is the PM? I first thought of cheerful Gordon, then remembered it was the double act, the boy David and little Nicky.
What's my GF's mother's name? and that's when it all started falling apart. Her mother's name is Elaine. I haven't met her parents. I was expecting to meet them when I went to the concert in June, she was leading the orchestra and he was doing a solo, but they got stuck in a traffic jam behind an accident on the motorway, so they never made it.
He has a very old friend from the county music service. I've known her for ages, probably the best part of ten years, and I met her mother at a charity gig they did while he was still at school, some six years ago. The friend gave me a piece of paper with her mother's name and phone number on, and instructions to ring her mother and go out for a drink.
So I answered: Griselda; and they looked at each other, with classic worried expressions. They don't know anyone with that name, and they thought I must have heard it in a fairy tale, or made it up.
"We were supposed to be going out for a drink but I never had the energy."
"I have met her, though. Years ago, at that charity gig you did with the school, at that old house on the A6," and I gave him precise instructions on how to get there, northbound on the Clapham bypass and turn right as soon as you hit the 50mph section, and I could tell from their faces that I had some work to do, so I mentioned two of the people I'd seen and talked to.
I even remembered one piece of conversation with one of them. Someone had walked past and smiled and waved at us. Familiar but I couldn't place him, so I asked my companion, who is that man? He couldn't remember either, except "His wife died." Then I remembered who he was, and remembered thinking what a dreadful way to be defined and identified: the bloke whose wife died.
The house is huge, with vast grounds, and the owners often make it available for charity gigs and big parties. Unfortunately, Jonathan didn't remember the gig or the big house, and he definitely didn't recognise the name...
It started falling into place though when he found a piece of paper on my bedside cabinet. It said "phone Griselda on this number." By then I realised that I had remembered everything perfectly clearly except I'd got the wrong daughter, and told him to look on facebook for his old friend's profile, which mentions her mother by name.
Apparently what I had is called pump-head. The pump is the machine you go on when your heart is stopped, often to the detriment of memory cells. It was mild, and it didn't last long, but giving his girlfriend's mother someone else's mother's name was probably the worst thing I did... I think she's forgiven me. I hope she has! |
Reply #1064. Aug 08 10, 8:52 AM
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Deunan
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You are a gem, Lesley. A very precious gem.
Reply #1065. Aug 08 10, 9:41 AM
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| Professer
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Lesley is a Diamond the broke the mould when they made her
Reply #1066. Aug 08 10, 12:59 PM
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Rowena8482
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Just think what you could have come out with had J not had the lovely new g/f with the perfectly shaped head! When you said "pump head" I immediately had a vision of a head of a certain shape (you know it I'm sure lol) but I shall be circumspect and not type it here :-) (Is my halo shining now? I'm practicing "if I can't say anything nice don't say anything at all very strongly just now so I don't tell someone else entirely exactly what I think of them lol))
Reply #1067. Aug 08 10, 2:01 PM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, Deunan and Prof. [smile]
Rowena, your halo is dazzling! Are you thinking of the same toodamncleverforhisowngood person I'm thinking of, or am I on completely wrong lines? |
Reply #1068. Aug 08 10, 2:45 PM
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Rowena8482
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I was thinking of a female and her mother, and her new b/f lol - the ones with ah, how to be delicate now... "heads of a certain shape" ;-)
Reply #1069. Aug 08 10, 3:17 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Omigosh. I knew you were speaking of a certain female, Rowena, and you and I have never communicated directly! I must stop reading posts, I must stop reading posts ....
Reply #1070. Aug 08 10, 3:33 PM
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satguru
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I think you've solved why my grandma seemed to enjoy her extended hospital visits so much, she'd give us poop (and the rest) reports whenever she had the chance anyway, so to be formally asked and people write it down and ask for more details must have been her idea of paradise. She said (at nearly 100) had she got a computer she'd never be off it, and would imagine her daily doings, a log of every bodily function on a timetable format, sleep hours (only an hour and I just lay there the rest of the night, but I didn't need to go to the loo so that was a good thing (verbatim) and another for her medical appointments with complete accounts of the conversations with the doctors and nurses. I really ought to do a screenplay and send it to Woody Allen. Just a bit of nostalgia you sparked off there, back to topic...
Reply #1072. Aug 08 10, 4:16 PM
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| lesley153
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Rowena, that was my first thought, but I got a little side-tracked by a more recent conversation.
No, Lochalsh - spherical. And her mother's too, now I come to think of it, but I don't think Rowena knew that, so it must be conjecture. Genius!
David, do the screenplay. And no back-to-topic - that is the topic. |
Reply #1073. Aug 08 10, 6:26 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Poop's the topic? Oh, my, and I'm here for the poetry.
Reply #1074. Aug 08 10, 6:31 PM
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MarchHare007
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Just Never Know what will greet me when I pop in here! :D
Good Morning All! :)
Reply #1075. Aug 08 10, 7:24 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Hey, Diamond Lil--er, Lesley, need a good-morning hug? :)
(((((((((((((((((Lesley))))))))))))))))
Reply #1076. Aug 08 10, 11:04 PM
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| lesley153
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Oh dear, I got that bit wrong. I didn't really mean that poo was the topic. It's a topic, but there are other and better ones. Sorry, David's Grandma, but there are.
Morning all - and I always need a hug. |
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Deunan
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| Professer
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Reply #1079. Aug 09 10, 9:58 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Sorry, no hugs. I have this "touching" thing, you know... Yes, even cyber touching! How about I blow you a kiss? :)
Reply #1080. Aug 09 10, 10:29 AM
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