Better late than never.
It only took eight months of sheer, agonising hell for it to happen, but finally, yesterday, my wife had her operation to remove her gall bladder and already we are seeing an improvement. Okay, so she’s laid up with five holes in her belly, but we know that the worst is now behind us and that’s a good thing.
The stupid thing is that her operation was at the hospital in our town, literally at the end of our road. This being the same hospital that the government has slowly been closing down over the last years and moving the patients to another hospital, which is a 40 minute drive away, not only that, but it just cannot cope; it’s out dated, run down, over crowded and run by people who just don’t care. You think the waiting times at your hospital is bad – you try a go there, you’ve seen nothing you pansies. Oh yeah, and the UK’s most prolific paedophile also worked his ‘magic’ there for decades, unchallenged, despite everybody knowing full well about it. Classy.
Do you know why they’re closing our hospital down? The real reason. The land it stands on – it’s a prime location, ripe for property development – that’s why. The land has more monetary value than the value of life and health care that currently it supports. Good to see how those running the country have their priorities set. Yeah, forget the fact that our town is situated next to a busy motorway and that our hospital is the only hope to those involved in a serious RTA, or the fact that the survival rate in our town for any emergency has taken a nose dive because the patients die on the way to the other hospital… so long as the money rolls in, who cares?
How’s this then for service? She went in at 7:30 in the morning, was under the knife within two hours and was out the door by 4pm when I went to pick her up. Utterly fantastic. Had it been the other hospital, for a start she simply wouldn’t have got the operation anyway, but had it been there, I’m sure that she would have lost the will to carry on before they’d even got around to start filling out the paperwork for the pre-op procedures… and even then, it’d probably be cancelled just as she’d donned the operating gown and settled down on the gurney.
Two weeks rest for her now… and I’m not allowed to make her laugh because it hurts.
I’ll just sit quietly in the corner then.
Two weeks of giving orders to my lovely husband from the comfort of my sofa. Pure bliss. And all the jobs that need doing round the house – now that I have time to think about it, he will be off to the local DIY store instead of typing blogs. Mind you, the pure drivel of day-time TV will drive him crazy.
Let’s see how long it takes until he voluntarily re-schedules his long overdue surgery as a pay-back.
Die Zeit für Befehle vom Sofa aus ist begrenzt, deshalb ausnutzen! Später kann er sich ja revanchieren, wenn auch er den Mut für seine Operation hat.
I think you may need a marriage counselor after this.
your a cruel woman Ines but im laughing here ,sorry mate,was going to contact you but considering how busy you will be and knowing wrath of the poorly wife ill pass ,i know supportive friend ,you will have to get a little bell to ring
Jeremy Kyle This Morning ,can i recommend homes under the Hammer ?,might give you some food for thought
glad went well ,did you keep the stones in a jar as a souvenir ?
Glad to hear she’s on the road to recovery following the operation.
My brother and his fiancée recently had to go to the other hospital after she’d suffered some bleeding, as she’s currently pregnant, we feared the worst.
After they’d gotten back they told us that the hospital had informed them that the baby had been lost.
Not long after they went to the in-town hospital as there’d been more bleeding, and the staff at the hospital that’s being plucked apart not only detected something the other institution had missed… but they also monitored a heartbeat! The baby was still alive!
You can imagine we were relived, but also monumentally pissed off.
Still, things had a happy ending.
Let us know if you need a second pair of hands with the DIY, Purple.
Thanks for your kind messages one and all, as you can see from her comment above, she’s doing well and has plans for me. Oh dear.
Ben, that sounds just about typical of the other hospital and your brother and his fiancee must have been horrified, then relieved – I can understand how they feel. The same was said of me to my mother, yet here I am.
Oh yes, when the DIY starts, I’ll give you a shout – might even have some prop projects to do here too, depending on how I feel. I need to get some supplies in, the only trouble is the cash for it!
The cash… that’s a groan I can definitely share at the moment, although I’m waiting to hear back on a job interview (fingers crossed).
You’ve got my number and email, and a visit to the DIY store might inspire more prop ideas.
Good luck for the interview. I’m sure it went well.
“… and I’m not allowed to make her laugh because it hurts”
I have heard your jokes, and I predict that Mrs. Purple is in abosolutely NO danger whatsoever!!
Now, get that pinny on …
Ooh, the very nerve of this upstart.
Listen chummy, my jokes are as funny as yours and I… oh, I see your point.
Pinny donned, duster in hand and about to commence a half arsed attempt at doing the washing up – I’ve learnt the art of “soaking” stuff. Yes, you dump it in water until it magically washes itself and appears on the draining board. I’m surprised few people know of this.
Purple:
Your wife ok?
Hope so, if you can accept it, you are in my thoughts and / or prayers!
I found the pic I told you I was looking for, of your pedestal, together, with one of the lower sides under it. It was in a remote storage place in my Archives.
I’d send it to you, that way anyone looking for it could have it, except that I don’t see a way to attach a pic to these blog msgs.
If you want you can send to my yahoo email how to send it to you.
Maybe I’ll send it to Scarf.
it’a a needed pic, for anyone building this version, since it has the correct sizes of the holes the hex hatches mount in.
Anyway, the best to you and yours ( does your kid have the use of the hurt finger, did the nail grow back, or is it gone? )
Have a VERY Nice Day!
TARDIS_Jockey
Thanks for your comments, my wife is recovering well and my son has the use of his finger and it has a new nail too. So all is good on those scores. Cheers.
Regarding the console base picture, well I’m glad that you found it. If you want to attach a picture to this blog, you just do it with a Photobucket image link, just as you would if you were posting an image to a forum. To be honest, I don’t really need to picture for my own archives as I could go and take another photo of the console parts.
You have a nice day too.
you figured what big thing that has flames goes hot is yet?
Yes, it’s a device that I use to keep the house warm and in some cases, to bake latex and other products.
Get well soon Ines
Thanks, she’s doing great – very nearly all healed up now.
I think I’ll pass on trying to attach a pic here right now, as I’ve never properly learned to make a “thumb”, which means if I attached any pic, it would “swamp” your blog.
I just wish the pain I’m going thru would get better, I take at least four hydrocodone ( 10 / 325 APAP each ) and 3 Ibuprofen ( 600 mg each ) every day for joint and other pain.
That’s what sometimes keeps me delayed from work on my Console Design.
I hope your wife can adjust to not having a Gall Bladder, I seem to recall that your wife will have to change her diet significantly, because of lack of stored bile, needed for proper digestion.
Certain foods might need changing, etc…..
Oh, and, PLEASE make SURE your kid gets EXERCISE, that is, makes much use of the hurt finger, exercising it so it does not get stiff, etc…
If your kid is little, get him to do small things specific to the hurt finger, and even offer him little rewards for doing proper exercise with it, etc…….
That way it won’t “stiff up”, etc……
On tuesday my family flies to spain ( in a plane, of course ), to visit my nephew who lives in Spain.
And last, I still have never figured out the name you use, Purple, since it seems to mean purple ( and white ) pudding of some sort.
Have a VERY Nice Day ( and tell Mrs Purple, if you can that your devoted student in the Arcane Art of Console Making is hoping she and the kid get back to normal )
The Jockey
My wife and Son are both recovering well thanks and are doing what they need to to aid their healing.
As to your own ailments, so long as you keep taking the pills, I guess you’ll be okay. If I recall, you’ve been off sick because of this for a long while.
The screen name has no meaning, it’s simply two random words that I stuck together and that’s it really.
No-one should be devoted to me in any way really, just you concentrate on doing what you like to do and have fun with it. I respect your sentiment, but really, there’s no need.
Purple:
When I said Devoted etc, i was really trying to “light-hearted kidding”, ok?
But I DO “look up to you” as a Prop Maker, etc.. I respect your knowledge!
I just wish I could compare some of my measurements with your prop pieces!
Yes, it’s been a long while sick, I first had leg sores in 1978, and it was “quiet” till 2005, since 2005, I’ve been treated for leg “stasis ulcers”, and I also got sick in 1998 with bleeding eyelids and mouth and gums with white patches that come off leaving bleeding, The official diagnosis name is “pemphigus vulgaris”, it’s similar to Lupus, hyper-active immune system.
I’m mostly “stable” at the moment, taking an “Imuran” ( Azathioprine) pill every day to SUPPRESS my immune system.
I think this morning’s coffee was with about 11 or 12 pills……all at the same time…….
Have a VERY Nice Day, Purple!
The Jockey
I got what you meant and its context, it’s just that I didn’t want anyone reading this thinking that I was lording it up. Comments such as that can be misconstrued very easily.