| Lochalsh
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I didn't meant to be a nitpicker; I was clarifying for myself. Forgive me if I offended. :(
Reply #1121. Aug 11 10, 12:02 PM
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| lesley153
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Yoohoo! **waves hankies and sends hugs back**
The easiest way for me to make it clear which one, certainly if it's not immediately clear from the context, and always in speech, is to refer to Garry from Oklahoma, and Gary from Lincoln - or Prof Gary.
You're hardly nitpicking when a whole identity hinges on one little letter!
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Jonathan took a photo of me a week or so after I came out of hospital, and I've approved it for public display because it's actually half-way decent. He has been trying to scan it to post it on facebook (shame there's no longer anywhere on FT for posting pictures), but hasn't been able to scan it properly. Perhaps it will look better if he finds a decent scanner. Knackered on technology! But he's shown it to a few friends, who have all expressed surprised that I look that good only a week or so post-op.
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This evening I saw someone I haven't seen for a month, and she said there is no comparison between my colour now and a month ago.
"What colour was I a month ago?"
"Ill."
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Reply #1122. Aug 11 10, 1:23 PM
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| Professer
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Well from what i have been told #Lesley my colouring has changed in the past few weeks, was ashen white grey and then yellow now i seem to look normal so i been told.
All i shall say Lesley my dear friend is long as you feel fit and healthy bugger anyone else says.
As for colouring it can change anytime
Reply #1123. Aug 11 10, 1:37 PM
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| Lochalsh
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You're hardly nitpicking when a whole identity hinges on one little letter!
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I have to show a little editorial humility once in a while.
It's all my mother's fault: she pushed me into those spelling bees! :)
(Is spelling a competitive sport in the UK?)
Reply #1124. Aug 11 10, 1:43 PM
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satguru 
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Glad you've found your way here Garry, what took you so long?
I have just returned from Waitrose (another little present by the way) with a pack of not just viennas, but Bloom's viennas. They are still somehow making food, although originally the manufacturers went under long before the restaurant, but I think someone rescued them. I don't think the ones we used to have were theirs but don't expect them to be any different. I then came home to find the computer screen was black and have just driven 15 miles to pick up the laptop I keep at my father's. I would be lost without the internet now.
Reply #1125. Aug 11 10, 2:15 PM
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garrysouders
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I could not make it without mine either, I do all my research via the internet, no more going to the library and meandering about. I also keep in touch with friends and family and believe it or not some of my family are actually friends, note I said some. To all the folks who have said hi or good morning to me, Hi and good morning to you. Sometimes when my fingers are quick I put three r's in Garrry.
Reply #1126. Aug 11 10, 2:32 PM
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| lesley153
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Not in my experience, although The Times is doing its best to promulgate its own spelling bee, and Wikipedia says they're widespread in English-speaking countries. The nearest we've got is spelling tests in school, which usually mean the teacher saying a word and the pupils writing it down. An attempt to copy the "spelling bee" was made on TV a few years ago, but I stopped watching it because I couldn't bear to listen to the newsreader who was employed to read the words out. I've always switched off when she has brought her mangled vowels on news programmes, and can only assume that she gets the jobs because the men watching are looking at her but aren't listening to anything she says.
I gave up on the programme completely when she asked for Challow, with the 'll' sounded at the back of her throat, like Russian. I was stumped, and the competitor's face was covered with desperation and panic. He made a wild guess, because he would have lost points for asking for a definition. It turned out that she was saying Cello, but nobody would have guessed that. I seem to remember that the programme only ran for one series.
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Jonathan, get thee to Waitrose! :)
I think all of us here would be lost without it. It's certainly a lifeline when you're not up to entertaining or going out.
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Hmmm - some of my family are friends too! My American cousins are on facebook, and one is a friend I talk to occasionally. My SIL (bro's wife) and some of her daughters are on it, but hardly ever come on. Two of my cousins in England are on facebook but never come on it.
Another SIL (husband's sister) and her two daughters are on FB but I have absolutely nothing I want to say to any of them. If I approached them, they'd probably just ask me for money. I haven't mentioned them here before and am unlikely to again.
Does that mean you've stopped going to the library and, if so, do you miss it?
Aren't there supposed to be three 'e's in Garrry? |
Reply #1127. Aug 11 10, 3:10 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Garry, yes, and Tony the Tiger does something similar. :)
Reply #1128. Aug 11 10, 3:11 PM
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garrysouders
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I must say that this is a lot of fun, I still go to library to check out books on tape, I love being read to.
Geeerrrry
Reply #1130. Aug 11 10, 3:53 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Lesley, contain your roar, please. It's just not ladylike.
Reply #1131. Aug 11 10, 3:58 PM
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Deunan
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Garry, thanks for the great idea. Being read to while I sew or do other crafts (or iron) sounds absolutely wonderful.
Hi, Lesley. You have American cousins? Oh, I wish I were one of them. That would be aces.
Giant gentle hugs.......and little ones too.
Reply #1132. Aug 11 10, 4:04 PM
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| lesley153
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I'm pleased to say that I've lost count of the number of times I've been accused of not being ladylike. I'm not sure I even know what it means but it really doesn't sound like it's much fun.
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I have a friend who borrows audio books from the library and plays them while she's working in the kitchen. She spends a lot more time in the kitchen than I do though.
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One of my father's sisters married an American man and they toddled off to the Bronx where they produced four daughters. The oldest one is married with two progeny, and is very normal and sensible and Very Serious. The second is the most dysfunctional one of the four. She's been living in England for about 30 years, and I haven't spoken to her for the last eight of them (long story - probably too long for here, and not safe for my blood pressure). I met the third one once or twice, and never really got to know what she was like.
The youngest is the one I have spent most time with, got on with best, and is probably most like me. She's the one I am in touch with on facebook.
People had the sheer appalling temerity to feel sorry for them for having "only" daughters, but they began to change their tune in 1950, when the Korean War started, and were completely converted by 1955 for the Vietnam War. Eventually, people started saying how lucky they were, having "only" daughters. Idiots!
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I forgot to mention - I had an appointment at my new medical practice today. Not with "my" GP, who's on holiday. The one I was supposed to see was running late, so one of the others offered to see me. That would never have happened where I was before...
A GP left there to join my old practice, and brought a load of patients with him. I was told that a lot of them said how much they enjoyed coming to a small, personal practice. Me, I was thoroughly impressed by the way things were run in the big practice I belong to now.
This was a review appointment because I'm a new patient and I'm starting to run out of the meds I was given when I left the hospital. After this, I shall just be able to request repeats.
The GP I saw gave me a card to get a blood test, managed to get to grips with the relevant bits of my medical history in about five minutes, re-jig the meds he thought needed re-jigging, but not making any changes to other things which could wait, or would depend on the results of the blood test.
I can't see what's so good about a small, personal practice. Talking to a doctor in his or her own room is as small and personal as I need. |
Reply #1133. Aug 11 10, 5:41 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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I'm glad that went well. There is (almost) nothing worse than coming from the GP feeling more confused than when you arrived!
I only see mine once a year (blood results in hand) for re-ups on my meds. I am not too strict with myself, as to how they're administered...I'm trying 3,000 mg Metformin instead of ANY Insulin. Testing regularly, and hoping I can eliminate completely! The insulin, I mean. ;)
Reply #1134. Aug 11 10, 6:24 PM
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| lesley153
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Thank you, VM, so am I. It's also a pain to leave your GP when he's refused to talk to you, just said keep taking the tablets, rolled his eyes at your questions, and implied that you're a hypochondriac and a liar.
People with medical qualifications seem to lose the ability to write legibly. I wonder if the training also makes a lot of them lose their communications skills?
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Reply #1135. Aug 11 10, 8:00 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Thank you, and good night.
Reply #1136. Aug 11 10, 8:56 PM
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| Professer
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Glad the visit to new doctors for check up ion meds went well, see Lesley there are decent ones out there.
Am back on my hamster treadmill today Asda home unpack shopping then off for more blood tests, also get the ones requested by hospital consulstant i see in two weeks.
Hate the thought of more blood being removed wonder if i have much more for them to take and test.
Reply #1137. Aug 11 10, 11:48 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Gary, do you realize two-thirds of your last post was dedicated to your own health? Wouldn't those lines fit better in your own blog? Once again, I wish you well, in two senses of the word, but I come here to read about Lesley and go to your blog to see how you're doing. It just makes my days easier, and, though I never say, they're tough right now.
Thanks.
Reply #1138. Aug 12 10, 7:00 AM
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Deunan
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Wow!
Morning Lesley. How are you doing today? Hugs!
Reply #1139. Aug 12 10, 7:30 AM
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garrysouders
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Good morning dear lesley, this old boat pilot is still waiting on his daughter to help him make a video reply to Davids wonderful video, she does however have things in life that she considers more important than dad's strange activities. And how are you this fine morning.
Reply #1140. Aug 12 10, 10:14 AM
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