| lesley153
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Good morning - doing rather well, thank you!
I haven't been cleared to drive yet, and haven't been out of the house under my own steam, but Jonathan is driving me around, taking me to places like foody shops and photographic processing shops, and I'm walking to them and round them. Every day, it gets easier, and I can walk further more easily. Of course the more I can do, the more I can do, and I've almost completed the transition from baby steps upstairs to grown-up steps. A few more weeks like this, and I'll be able to forget that any of this ever happened.
One of the things yesterday's doctor did was take me off a strong-ish painkiller (at my request) and replace it with one a quarter of the strength, and not addictive. I've had two of the supposedly weak ones, and they're putting me to sleep. There may be a message in there somewhere.
The video David did is great fun, and your reply will come when it comes. Don't young people have strange priorities?
Which reminds me. We're still waiting for your HobNobs advert!
Which reminds me... now I don't have to avoid gluten, it's once again safe for me to eat HobNobs, and yesterday in the supermarket I saw milk chocolate HobNobs half price. Who could resist! (I couldn't.) |
Reply #1141. Aug 12 10, 11:31 AM
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| Professer
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Good for you Lesley great to hear.
Reply #1142. Aug 12 10, 12:09 PM
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satguru 
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I may have to do Jammin' and Uptown Top Ranking next now I'm in the groove. I don't think I've linked it here actually so if anyone wants to while I'm in bed please do or no one else will know where to find it.
Reply #1143. Aug 12 10, 8:09 PM
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| lesley153
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| I remember that. God, people actually bought it! I thought at the time that it was energetic and fresh. Now it's just a bit too energetic. Old age creeping in, I think. |
Reply #1146. Aug 13 10, 7:36 AM
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garrysouders
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Good morning Lesley and all, old age may be creeping in on some but it has become a raging torrent on me, I am caught in its tow and it is taking me to sea, through me a life ring, please.
Reply #1147. Aug 13 10, 7:47 AM
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| lesley153
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| Better not - woman can't throw, remember? - and it would probably hit you on the head. I've got some good rope here, though. Here it comes! |
Reply #1148. Aug 13 10, 8:12 AM
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Deunan
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Women can't throw? Baloney!
Morning, Lesley. How are things?
Old age...no thank you. I prefer to think of it all akin to a fine wine or a fantastic cheese. We are improving with age and becoming more wonderful. Well, at least I try to think of it that way. On mornings when the body doesn't do as it should, there is plenty of cussing going on at my house.
Reply #1149. Aug 13 10, 8:21 AM
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| Professer
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Well i think Lesley and Deunan are like fine wines to be savoured
Reply #1150. Aug 13 10, 9:06 AM
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| lesley153
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The throwing remark was only slightly tongue-in-cheek. I used to play marbles and won an awful lot more marbles than I lost and, in the days when we were forced to play netball, I was the only person I knew who could stand on the outside of the semi-circle and get the ball in the net every time.
I no longer need these skills, so they aren't practised, and I would not wish to risk Garry's consciousness.
Things are very good, thank you. Healing things are healing apace, with little or no pain and discomfort. I still have some adapting to do, but my body will do that by itself, with no help from me, and I can now do grown-up steps half way up the stairs.
Details of the trail of damage available on request, but perhaps not too interesting, especially as it's fixed now, and my body just has to get used to functioning normally again. Yippee! :) |
Reply #1151. Aug 13 10, 9:25 AM
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honeybee4
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Old age. What is that? I still feel 16 even though my body tells me I am closer to seventy. I won't grow old, I won't grow old, I won't grow old....
Reply #1152. Aug 13 10, 11:51 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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It feels good to feel good, huh Lesley?:)
I'm with you HB. I will not grow old either!
Reply #1153. Aug 13 10, 12:15 PM
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| Professer
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Age is just a state of mind
Reply #1154. Aug 13 10, 12:16 PM
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Deunan
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Then I am 21 and not one day older.
I love how you all think.
Now if I could only convey the information to my body so it wouldn't lock up on me after I get out of bed.
I am young, I am young, I am young....
Reply #1155. Aug 13 10, 12:39 PM
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| lesley153
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Yay! I stopped counting at 39.
I have another landmark to report. The hospital physio told me to do Baby Steps to go upstairs. I did them till a week ago when, without thinking, I did Grown-up Steps on the first four or five stairs. The number increased until this evening I went the whole way upstairs like a grown-up! See, even at 39 I'm not too old to learn. :)
That's just my body, though. My mind is still about 17. |
Reply #1156. Aug 13 10, 5:45 PM
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satguru
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Great to hear everything's working as it should, and way better than it was before. And from earlier remarks I've made I am an expert at stating the obvious but to me is way better than embarrassing myself trying to be original and ending up sounding rude or sarcastic unintentionally. Been there, done that, made the apologies.
I have just put up Uptown Top Ranking, which was a bugger as my PC is at the repairer and found the printer doesn't plug in the laptop. I had to do three pages in handwriting which I can't read when I made it up myself, let alone something not that known to me, so did struggle to keep up. I'm not too disappointed with the result though so didn't have to do another go (which are usually even worse).
Reply #1157. Aug 13 10, 7:39 PM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, David.
According to Jonathan, who whiled away many long hours talking to Papworth staff, preferably those who had been in the operating theatre with me, the failure of my aortic valve led to dilation or damage of other valves and bits, and the tricuspid valve wouldn't have needed repairing if the heart failure had been picked up a year earlier. The mitral valve and other areas which have been damaged will recover without surgical intervention, now that the worst components have been repaired. You can tell that my GP is not fit to practise, and that I will never make a living writing medical textbooks.
And yes, I understand the concept that it is better to be obvious than apologetic.
"I have just put up Uptown Top Ranking"
Sorry, didn't understand this. Where did you put it, and how, without a PC? |
Reply #1158. Aug 13 10, 8:02 PM
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garrysouders
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Yesterday Carol and I went to the Oklahoma museum of science at Oklahoma university. They were doing a whole presentation on the history of chocolate. Hmmmm. Their store had a great variety of chocolate and I partook. Hmmm, wish I could have shared with all. The stuff makes me feel so happy.
Reply #1159. Aug 14 10, 7:54 AM
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| lesley153
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David, you will have guessed that I meant my ex-GP!
Garry, did you think you were going for the science, or did you know it was about chocolate? And did they give you samples, or was it just a way of getting you to buy tons of it from the museum shop? You don't need to answer, I am drooling happily just thinking about it.
You can't easily share your spoils, but you can share what you learnt about it. Pleeease. |
Reply #1160. Aug 14 10, 8:55 AM
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