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Post by rikiiboy on Jul 7, 2024 12:34:07 GMT
Hi all, I have an appointment for tomorrow afternoon for a CT scan on my lungs after failing my gas test, I had the last test in 2021. I have finished 2 different lots of antibiotics as the first lot didn't clear my chest, I am still coughing when ever I bend down or any sudden change of temperature, X-ray's won't work on me because a drug I take weekly for my RA gave me 2 black lungs. Ron in an earlier posting said he had his lungs drained while on a holiday, I wonder if I would get offered some kind of procedure like that? I will use my bus pass when I go for that appointment as my bus stop is 3 or 4 hundred yards from my house and it stops 1 hundred yards from hospital entrance. I am crossing my fingers that my IPF hasn't gone up a grade?
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Post by althea on Jul 7, 2024 12:54:19 GMT
Good luck, Riki.
Well,yesterday ,after a busy productive day and being proud of myself for accomplishing so much, I went and spoilt it. I was sitting on my recliner, which no longer reclines and Leo jumped up onto my lap. Then he started wiggling a space for himself beside me. I obligingly moved over so that I was in a twisted position half up the arm of the chair. When I tried to get up I felt a terrible pain in my leg and hip. It was agony. I held onto the furniture and found my stick to help me walk. The pain was so bad, we went to bed, but I couldn't move and was in considerable pain. I dragged myself to the kitchen and took two codeine which just about took the edge off. Terrified to move , once I had settled again I lay awake for the rest of the night. I rang my nearest daughters and they came to help. One took Leo for a walk, while one got me a banana and my tablets(with a yoghurt). She heated up my hot bag to scalding and it did help. The codeine helped too, though it makes me feel sick and bungs me up. I don't know how many times I berated myself, worrying that the family will think I'm not up to looking after a dog. It's so easy to hurt oneself these days. The girls were enchanted by Leo ,who was a little star. I am hoping I have just pulled or twisted something and a few days will see me back to health. No more squashing together on that chair.
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Post by rondetto on Jul 7, 2024 14:21:23 GMT
Yes Althea, I reckon you're right there. Being sitting or laying awkwardly dies twist ligaments and muscles. Hopefully in a day or two it will settle. I've refused anything with Codeine in as it bungs me up too. It's worth asking your GP if he or she can prescribe something else. I have Coproxamol on licence and used it for years with no side effects. Riki, yes I did have my lungs drained by a navy doctor while visiting our daughter in Portsmouth, he showed me the stuff that came out and it was black. He gave me antibiotics and within about three or four days I felt much better and I was able to drive home again, some 250 miles.
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Post by rondetto on Jul 8, 2024 3:28:50 GMT
Morning all: Back into the world of the living today, I read that the met office are saying it's unlikely now that we will get any heatwaves throughout July.
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Post by rikiiboy on Jul 8, 2024 7:01:27 GMT
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Post by marispiper on Jul 8, 2024 8:16:22 GMT
Well, two of our mates are in bother. Althea, though painful, I think yours will pass in a, few days - sounds like an awkward movement brought that on. Riki, yours is more troublesome and I sincerely hope this trip to the hospital results in some positive action that'll help you. I have never heard of Ron's draining procedure - sounds effective And horrific!
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Post by rwthless on Jul 8, 2024 11:44:49 GMT
I have caused myself injury by twisting too much at the wrong moment but I was lucky and it passed fairly soon. To have it last longer is so limiting. It's a good plan to rearrange one's movements, but another can arise, so it's as well to move around in less of a rush sometimes.
My gardener has come so we've had a coffee and he's off to make my garden look as I'd like, only fortuitously tidier.
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Post by rikiiboy on Jul 8, 2024 14:25:09 GMT
Well, two of our mates are in bother. Althea, though painful, I think yours will pass in a, few days - sounds like an awkward movement brought that on. Riki, yours is more troublesome and I sincerely hope this trip to the hospital results in some positive action that'll help you. I have never heard of Ron's draining procedure - sounds effective And horrific! The CT scan was very quick I was in and out in less than 5 minutes, I only had to take my jacket off and no gown required, the results take about a fortnight, the assistant said.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 8, 2024 15:10:16 GMT
I've just watched Michael Caine's last and best film "The Great Escaper" (it's about the Old boys going to the Normandy Beaches remembrance.)
I suggest a box of tissues.
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Post by althea on Jul 8, 2024 17:01:29 GMT
Glad to report that during today, my leg has improved and I can just about walk without a stick. Limping a bit, though. A few people have recommended that film to me, Arena, but it's not for me. It's not because I'm unfeeling, but because I'm the opposite. We have had a lovely sunny day today. It's due to rain again tomorrow.
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Post by rondetto on Jul 8, 2024 17:16:59 GMT
Yes it is a good film, it's lovely to see the old timers meeting up after so many years. They all have a life story to tell.
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Post by rondetto on Jul 9, 2024 3:29:38 GMT
Morning all: I've been listening to the rain battering the bedroom windows all night. Still hasn't stopped.
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Post by marispiper on Jul 9, 2024 9:37:40 GMT
I have my artist pal coming for a coffee this morning. Since retiring, she's got really stuck in...now doing portraits nearly all the time. I shall enjoy talking art 🎨 which is odd, as I cannot draw an accurate stick man and never ever doodle... I just love looking at it.
We went to see the Michelangelo drawings at the British Museum ( very moving)last week and John Singer Sargent (absolutely stunning)at The Tate. Week before to Clapham to see Beryl Cook - brilliant 🤣 along with Tom of Finland ( NB parental advisory before you look HIM up 🙄)
Next weekend, we are going to Nuneaton - a premier UK destination 😁 I want to see a stained glass window in an RC church there depicting Thomas More and the English Martyrs. We will go to Saturday evening Mass there then Sunday on to Coventry - again, to see the stained glass in the cathedral. Really looking forward to that.
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Post by rwthless on Jul 9, 2024 10:51:16 GMT
I sometimes wonder if I like Art. Most of the Pre-Raphs make me cross, but I do like JMW Turner of course like the Newlyn School especially Langley who was actually a Brummy. I love Durer, and Breughel and Van Eyck. Also Magritte. Then Escher because. Just because. But my mawkish side is touched by Beatrix Potter, Margaret Tarrant and Tunnicliffe. My cousin Benito Beamand did some lovely paintings of his Black Country childhood of the ripple beds at Dudley, abandoned locomotives and railway cuttings. His android beach scenes and clinical landscapes, though very trendy in Italy, left me cold but after his retirement from teaching art at Margate he painted a dinghy on the north Kent shore which sets up reverberations on the north facing Severn shore where I live (slightly inland, we have the second highest tides in the world.) I went round the National Gallery in Canberra and was almost unmoved, except by some of the Aboriginal Art. Outside, the sculpture park was much more to my liking. The Angel of the South, just the same only about 6 foot high by the lake shore, the hollowed out trees serving as aboriginal drums and the huge pears in bronze were really a joy.
Coventry Cathedral, which I saw in about 1958 when it was so new it almost squeaked, was wonderful. I wasn't sure about the huge tapestry but the etched glass on the West window was really lovely. After a childhood of heavy stained glass, the delicacy of the monochrome window was wonderful. The Chagall glass in the church at Capel in Kent is also lovely if you like that sort of thing, and I was told that at Stoke Poges where Grey set his Elegy, there was an Alice in Wonderland window. Our rector was the rector there too but it may have had to be taken out for some reason.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 9, 2024 13:43:51 GMT
I have my artist pal coming for a coffee this morning. Since retiring, she's got really stuck in...now doing portraits nearly all the time. I shall enjoy talking art 🎨 which is odd, as I cannot draw an accurate stick man and never ever doodle... I just love looking at it. We went to see the Michelangelo drawings at the British Museum ( very moving)last week and John Singer Sargent (absolutely stunning)at The Tate. Week before to Clapham to see Beryl Cook - brilliant 🤣 along with Tom of Finland ( NB parental advisory before you look HIM up 🙄) Next weekend, we are going to Nuneaton - a premier UK destination 😁 I want to see a stained glass window in an RC church there depicting Thomas More and the English Martyrs. We will go to Saturday evening Mass there then Sunday on to Coventry - again, to see the stained glass in the cathedral. Really looking forward to that. One of my favourites
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