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Ping Tweed
Tweed, have you heard anything from your doctors yet?
-- Hugs, CatNipped http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... Tweed, have you heard anything from your doctors yet? No. I shall not know any more until I wake up after my operation and they tell me what they found. That's what makes it harder to bear, although I think I know really as I found a couple of lumps in gynae places yesterday which weren't there a few days ago. I have prepared most of my family now not to expect good news, and that was very difficult and emotional for me. My cousin Margi who I am close to is on holiday in Tenerife and I've left strict instructions that she is not to be told until she gets back. I am now working my way through my friends. I have told all but two or three. One is half-told, if you know what I mean. so only two to go and I so wish someone else would tell them because it starts us all up weeping every time. My dear German friend, Nüle, phoned me for two hours on Saturday night, she is a doctor who now practises homeopathy only and she is sending a remedy she thinks might help (can't do any harm, anyway) while I wait to go back into hospital. She is visiting me at the end of May. I was also blessed and anointed yesterday by two who hold the priesthood in the LDS. I found it very touching, and I cried. I am holding up for now. I am being counselled to death. I fully expect to collapse into a gibbering heap when the full impact hits me. I am reading the group, on and off, still over 1000 unread though. I love to hear the stories about what everyone's cat/s do. I strongly suspect that Kitty was poking today. She has hardly stirred out of the house all winter, but today it has warmed up and she was sitting on top of the freezer in the conservatory, well, just sort of thinking in a sunbeam. Actually she was crouched, like meatloafing with her eyes half shut. Does that qualify as poking, Fil? Tweed |
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Christina Websell" wrote in message
... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... Tweed, have you heard anything from your doctors yet? No. I shall not know any more until I wake up after my operation and they tell me what they found. That's what makes it harder to bear, although I think I know really as I found a couple of lumps in gynae places yesterday which weren't there a few days ago. Oh, when is the surgery scheduled for (sorry, was that in your first post - I haven't searched)? Hugs, CatNipped |
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Purrs and healing thoughts from deepest Bedfordshire.
You're welcome to have my phone no. if you want, sometimes there are things it's easier to say to a stranger than to close friends or family. -- Shirley http://community.webshots.com/user/shirleycatuk "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... Tweed, have you heard anything from your doctors yet? No. I shall not know any more until I wake up after my operation and they tell me what they found. That's what makes it harder to bear, although I think I know really as I found a couple of lumps in gynae places yesterday which weren't there a few days ago. I have prepared most of my family now not to expect good news, and that was very difficult and emotional for me. My cousin Margi who I am close to is on holiday in Tenerife and I've left strict instructions that she is not to be told until she gets back. I am now working my way through my friends. I have told all but two or three. One is half-told, if you know what I mean. so only two to go and I so wish someone else would tell them because it starts us all up weeping every time. My dear German friend, Nüle, phoned me for two hours on Saturday night, she is a doctor who now practises homeopathy only and she is sending a remedy she thinks might help (can't do any harm, anyway) while I wait to go back into hospital. She is visiting me at the end of May. I was also blessed and anointed yesterday by two who hold the priesthood in the LDS. I found it very touching, and I cried. I am holding up for now. I am being counselled to death. I fully expect to collapse into a gibbering heap when the full impact hits me. I am reading the group, on and off, still over 1000 unread though. I love to hear the stories about what everyone's cat/s do. I strongly suspect that Kitty was poking today. She has hardly stirred out of the house all winter, but today it has warmed up and she was sitting on top of the freezer in the conservatory, well, just sort of thinking in a sunbeam. Actually she was crouched, like meatloafing with her eyes half shut. Does that qualify as poking, Fil? Tweed |
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CatNipped wrote:
Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... Tweed, have you heard anything from your doctors yet? No. I shall not know any more until I wake up after my operation and they tell me what they found. That's what makes it harder to bear, although I think I know really as I found a couple of lumps in gynae places yesterday which weren't there a few days ago. Oh, when is the surgery scheduled for (sorry, was that in your first post - I haven't searched)? 16th May. It's not so much that I bother about dying early - as long as the pain control is much better than it was in hospital - but I am terribly worried about what might happen to Boyfriend if I do. He is only around 2 years old and I am the only person he will go to. He doesn't like it if the back door is closed, so I leave it ajar 24/7 so he can feel he has an escape route. I can't imagine anyone else would do that. I am not worried about Kitty Farmcat. She will go to anyone for comfort and favours. I doubt she would miss me at all, which is good. BF is another matter entirely. He is such a scaredy-cat and it's taken him more than a year to trust just me. I am debating to myself whether or not to leave instructions for him to be put to sleep if I die as I just can't imagine how this tender soul could go through a rehoming and maybe live in a city where he cannot wander around safely and pretend to be a fierce hunter of birdies and small mammals and to know that he can always get out of the house if he feels he has to. (BF here. I do not *pretend* to be a fierce hunter, I am one. I have caught loads of birdies, some big ones like collared doves, a shrew, three mousies and two baby rats and I looked at a grey squirrel and said I would get it one day. I am quite excited that Mimi says she wants to go on the Mouser voyage. She is my cyber girlfriend and I would very much like to meet her on the ship. I hope Capt PC will allow us a couple of days in our cabin to get to know each other before reporting for duty. !! |
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Shirley wrote:
Purrs and healing thoughts from deepest Bedfordshire. You're welcome to have my phone no. if you want, sometimes there are things it's easier to say to a stranger than to close friends or family. I might take you up on this after my op, which I am told is going to be just awful, cut from sternum to pubis. Gone are the days when a bad prognosis was concealed from you. I'm not entirely sure about this "tell it as it is straight away" thing. More delicate preparation is needed to take this news in. I was not told sensitively. When a doctor came to my bed I asked what chance he thought it might not be malignant. He said "Well, patients can always surprise us." Very tactful (not) Tweed and if I go screamingly mad and post rubbish in the next few days, don't be surprised. Just humour me for now. |
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Christina Websell wrote:
Tweed and if I go screamingly mad and post rubbish in the next few days, don't be surprised. Just humour me for now. If the group could handle me as a basket case, they should have no problems with handling anything you could toss into the gene pool. Seriously, hang in there and think of it this way. You won't have to worry about wearing out your bikini now. Isn't it scary to know that your surgeon has a more intimate knowledge of your body that your spouse/lover? Pam S. who's thought about these things... |
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:08:50 +0100, Christina Websell wrote:
Shirley wrote: Purrs and healing thoughts from deepest Bedfordshire. You're welcome to have my phone no. if you want, sometimes there are things it's easier to say to a stranger than to close friends or family. I might take you up on this after my op, which I am told is going to be just awful, cut from sternum to pubis. Gone are the days when a bad prognosis was concealed from you. I'm not entirely sure about this "tell it as it is straight away" thing. More delicate preparation is needed to take this news in. I was not told sensitively. When a doctor came to my bed I asked what chance he thought it might not be malignant. He said "Well, patients can always surprise us." Very tactful (not) Tweed and if I go screamingly mad and post rubbish in the next few days, don't be surprised. Just humour me for now. Forty years ago I was mentally going through what you are going through. Then I said to myself "I am not dead yet" and that is what I said to myself for the next five years....now it is 40 years later. A year later my cousin got "the message". She was ready to give up then and there. They even botched her treatment -- gave her radiation before the surgery. Still she made it another 25 years until she was 90. My boss got "the message" and was sure it was the end. It is now 30 years later and he is 89/ Don't give up -- just don't give up. Say "I am here today". Purrs and prayers that you can say "I'm here today" for many, many more years. MLB |
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Tweed, I can't post what I want right now because this (*&$(%&(*& computer
is popping up with virus alerts every 15 seconds and not allowing me to type, but I *DO* have some things to tell you and I *WILL* post first thing in the morning. Hugs, CatNipped "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... CatNipped wrote: Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... Tweed, have you heard anything from your doctors yet? No. I shall not know any more until I wake up after my operation and they tell me what they found. That's what makes it harder to bear, although I think I know really as I found a couple of lumps in gynae places yesterday which weren't there a few days ago. Oh, when is the surgery scheduled for (sorry, was that in your first post - I haven't searched)? 16th May. It's not so much that I bother about dying early - as long as the pain control is much better than it was in hospital - but I am terribly worried about what might happen to Boyfriend if I do. He is only around 2 years old and I am the only person he will go to. He doesn't like it if the back door is closed, so I leave it ajar 24/7 so he can feel he has an escape route. I can't imagine anyone else would do that. I am not worried about Kitty Farmcat. She will go to anyone for comfort and favours. I doubt she would miss me at all, which is good. BF is another matter entirely. He is such a scaredy-cat and it's taken him more than a year to trust just me. I am debating to myself whether or not to leave instructions for him to be put to sleep if I die as I just can't imagine how this tender soul could go through a rehoming and maybe live in a city where he cannot wander around safely and pretend to be a fierce hunter of birdies and small mammals and to know that he can always get out of the house if he feels he has to. (BF here. I do not *pretend* to be a fierce hunter, I am one. I have caught loads of birdies, some big ones like collared doves, a shrew, three mousies and two baby rats and I looked at a grey squirrel and said I would get it one day. I am quite excited that Mimi says she wants to go on the Mouser voyage. She is my cyber girlfriend and I would very much like to meet her on the ship. I hope Capt PC will allow us a couple of days in our cabin to get to know each other before reporting for duty. !! |
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