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Try remaining seated near a loo , is my best advice .

Hope both go smoothly
 
I hope it all goes tellingly well, my mate.
Hope they don't select the wrong end!
 
Best wishes for Mr K. @Krystyna23040 ,
6.6.
Busy day again.
Many visitors again.
First carers, then window cleaner, then shops, doing laundry inbetween, chores became real chores after changing bed etc. Afternoon carer, then kitchen and laundry duties. Evening carer, and the DiL calling in, for birthday cards for #4 tomorrow. After #1 son and other DiL with #5 called in.
Latest from her hospital is covid is rife, putting it down to the schools going back and spreading it.
Phone calls to docs, asking for home visit covid and flu jab again. They will let us know list is done...... It's October...... It's rife........ Mrs L already has a lung infection...... Aaaaaagghhhh.

Best wishes.
 
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The following page in my sketchbook...
Watercolours...

A long day today... saw my friend who I've not seen for a few months...

The badgers are digging a lot of holes in my garden, and digging up the roots of everything... I think they are looking for grubs... but they are leaving my dustbins alone... I did have to get some stronger white vinegar, because ordinary household food grade vinegar works very well, but not when it is raining....

This morning I checked the garden and in the front garden was quite a deep hole and a badger had done the biggest longest badger poo I had ever seen... there was a suggestion online to say that this is badger wars... and that they are marking their territories......

I am ready for sleep now, so good night....

Sweet dreams...

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BG up in the 8's during the night, and still there, despite a leap into the 10s briefly earlier today.

There wasn't really a night; well actually there was, but it was a long, sleepless one. Another night in the chair but this time no sleep until about 05.30 until 07.10 when I had to get started on the day (removing bandages, showering, having coffee etc) so that I can go out at 10.30 to get my legs bandaged up again. I daresay I shall be very sleepy later but will have to stay awake because I also have a dentist appointment this afternoon.

Need some matchsticks
 
Change of plan. I got home from getting my legs bandaged, prepared to go out again for my dentist appointment, but just after I got home, the dentist's receptionist phoned to cancel the appointment. No idea why. She may have said, but I couldn't really understand what she was saying. Anyway, new appointment on 15th October.

Wonder of wonders. I asked the nurse how I was supposed to get an appointment to see a GP, which she was recommending. I have asked others before and they had no ideas to offer. This nurse just wheeled me to the reception desk and told them to make an appointment for me, which they did - for next Monday. Easy as that!
 
Annb said:
I hope he didn't mean September 2026. In fact I hope he did arrive unannounced yesterday to make it Sept 2025.
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It could well be 2026 since MrSlim did email but had no satisfactory reply, no date at all yet.
 
gennepher said:
This morning I checked the garden and in the front garden was quite a deep hole and a badger had done the biggest longest badger poo I had ever seen... there was a suggestion online to say that this is badger wars
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"My isn't the internet and interesting & magical place & SO educationa..." My Goodness

Longest badger poo & badgers wars weren't quite what I was expecting from it today.

Pretty sure, given the dross that's does get made into shows on telly, you could pitch badger wars to some one in the 'in' crowd at CH4 and get it commissioned for at least the first season.

If its any help, I'm happy to do a badger voiceover, wonder if @alf_Josiah or others might be up for it too...

mmhh..think I'll make one french, as in the monty python sketch ..."sacre blue, You stinky baddgers "
 
I was reading through an old document of a collection of records that some brave man spent ages compiling (online) about Gloucestershire, where some of my ancestors lived and found mention during the 17th century of people being buried in sheep's wool shrouds and the fact being affirmed in affidavits by named individuals. Curious. Was this some religious practice (unlikely), did they have coffins (not mentioned). That led to further investigations and, as I had surmised, it was a government policy (law) to support the wool trade. No mention of coffins, but I guess they did use coffins. Oddly, although the law wasn't honoured much after the 17th century, it was still law right up until the 19th century.

Surprising the things you find out when you go off on a tangent. They never taught us these things in my history classes at school. Actually, as far as they were concerned, history started and ended with Egypt and the pyramids. Alexander the Great - who? English civil war - what? 1st world war - never happened.
 
jjraak said:
Any word on Mr k, @Krystyna23040 .

We all know how precious your time is of late.
So understandable you've prioritised, and quite rightly so

Just wanted you to know we're thinking of you both.

Best wishes
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Thank you @jjraak .
We had a 20 minute appointment with the Consultant at the Spire hospital in Norwich - which turned into well over an hour long appointment.

The Consultant was so thorough. The upshot was that Mr K was misdiagnosed in 2010 and was also misdiagnosed at A&E last week. He does need an op, but not the one they were going to do.
The Consultant is specialist in both areas so I think he is right.

Thank goodness they didn't go ahead with the op on Monday. They were right when they said that they could have made him much worse because they didn't have the expertise in that area.

He needs 4 to 6 weeks of medication before he can have an op but he will, hopefully, be in much less pain as the meds start working.

Yesterday I was so exhausted I didn't post. I don't know why I was exhausted as I am not the one who is in pain.
 
The worst of the wool industry was that England even though they had banned slavery, still had its commercial trade in the slave trade right up to the 1860's, maybe after. The northern mill towns, the docks,, the canals, the trains, the cotton from the deep south, were mainly British owned and ran. The Liverpool city was built on the slave trade.
There was a chance that British government would back the southern states in the US civil war. The hierarchy in British industry did actually try to persuade the government in the early years of the war.
Due to the blockade of cotton coming across from the South.
Cammell Lairds actually built a raider, that was the most successful raider in that war.
And has the only blue plaque granted by the UK for US historical site outside of the US.
Britain and the rest of Europe had to find other cotton producers to import for quite some time since.
It's quite curious about our special relationship with the US, it didn't exist as such then, if we had sent troops to help the southern states in that war and possibly brought in the Canadians into as well!
And following that, what sort of world would have developed from that?
Obviously, you could ask that question about many different historical events.
Favourite of mine is the civil war in US, but Waterloo changed Europe so much. Especially the German states.
 
It's the stress of the anxiety and the not knowing how, why, when and the outcome.
You need to look after yourself, and need some me time, through this.
And you will get through it
Take care.
Best wishes and plenty of hugs.
I'm due my pit, I'm knackered. Been dozing in my chair.
Sweet dreams for you lot please?
 
Thank you @ianpspurs. The appointment went well yesterday, although we did a really silly thing. We thought it better to take the prescription for Mr K 's new meds to our local pharmacist instead of getting then from the hospital pharmacy in case any of the meds had to be ordered. We thought this would save us a journey to the hospital to pick them up.

One local pharmacy said that one of the items didn't exist so they couldn't order it. So we went to Boots who confirmed the meds did exist but all the meds were specialist meds and it would take 2 weeks for them to get them for us.

I rang the hospital pharmacy today, who had them in stock and we went in early this afternoon to pick them up. Fingers crossed they will work quickly.
 
Thank you @Lamont D . You are right that it is the not knowing that is so stressful
 
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