RMweb Premium AndyB Posted April 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2017 I'd make the most of the piece and quiet, Ivan. The builders are moving in on Floor 6 soon and doing a full refurb. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 This posting comes to you from a bed in a ward on the 8th Floor of the Royal Free Hospital. After yesterday's tests, they kept me in overnight for observation. So far they have found enlarged lymph nodes, plus something in my lungs. More tests today. Apart from the enlarged lymph nodes, they have spotted a shadow over my right lung. This could be anything: - Tuberculosis - Sarcoidosis - Quite a few types of cancer Nothing to see here. Ivan, I hope your diagnosis path is speedy and accurate, and the doctors can quickly identify the appropriate therapy. I noted a recent post regarding your weight. Unexplained weight loss is certainly consistent with the last two of those diagnoses, along with extreme fatigue. The diagnosis path can be fraught with frustrating delays and scary alternatives. Given what you state doctors have observed, you may be recommended a surgical lymph node biopsy. This was key to my diagnosis of Sarcoidosis, which can be treated with steroids and is a less scary condition than some of the cancers they will want to rule out. Visits to a Pulmonologist are, in general, less scary than the Oncologist. Good luck and good health to you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Ivan Hope you get diagnosed and sorted quickly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emt_911 Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Well, I didn't manage to keep todays work short. I eventually got home at 19:30. This was all thanks to trying to find a fault that was caused by a security guard had made a change to a system that he wasn't meant to and didn't have the training or knowledge. He gets my cockwomble of the week award. Ivan - I hope that there is nothing sinister going on. Yet another load of washing is on and the washer bottle on the van has been replenished. Now, time to catch up with some of RMweb from the last two days. Back later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted April 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2017 Evening to most. Busy two days and only just catching up. Hope you have escaped Ivan....other than the occasional out patient visits I haven't needed to stay overnight in a hospital. Long may it continue. Snow... yesterday... during cricket - yes and we also had hailstones, sleet, sunshine and a very cold wind. Thank god for Crag Hoppers warm trousers for umpires! Warley show floor plan... planned.. journey down from Leeds fine - coming back Hettie the navigator through a major wobbly as the M42 was up the chute... now there was a surprise..not! Her indoors has booked the flights for our Antipodean trip next year - a few nights in Hong Kong have been added to the itineray. Stay calm and have a great time today Baz 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2017 Evening all from Estuary-Land. :banghead:Tuesday my May copy of Railway Bylines arrived, just as I settled down to read it the phone rang. Once I had dealt with the call I forgot about the magazine until this afternoon. I searched high and low for it but couldn't find it, then it dawned on me, when I went to answer the phone I put the magazine down on to the pile of newspapers and magazines for re-cycling. Last night I bagged up the newspapers/magazines as todays bin day. Needless to say by the time I'd realised that the recycling bags had been collected. I will now have to contact the publishers for a replacement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted April 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2017 Honkers is quite an experience, Baz. Paid off a ship there once, what a manic place. It was the height of the holiday season so it took a week to get a flight out - in a nice hotel at the companies expense! 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 What were the best 3 ports you visited Neil? Mine would be Nuku'alofa, Sydney and Lisbon. Past colleagues said Mombasa but I never got there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDMJ Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Mike, if you painted your house number on the bins in large letters it may deter the bin men from nicking your bin. Obviously if they did take your bin they take the numbers with it, but it could encourage them to pick a softer target. If you are eating your tea look away now. Still short of breathe here and the sputum I am coughing up is green, so I have started a course of clarithromycin, my "rescue medicine". Should clear things up in under a week going by past experience. Stay safe all. Sounds similar to that for which I find myself prescribed amoxicillan Evening to most. Snow... yesterday... during cricket - yes and we also had hailstones, sleet, sunshine and a very cold wind. Thank god for Crag Hoppers warm trousers for umpires! Baz IIRC in the later 70s during June a match was recorded 'Snow Stopped Play' 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Ivan - my very best wishes, I hope the diagnosis is benign and the problem soon solved. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 According to the BBC website United Airlines will now pay up to $10,000 to give up your seat on an overbooked plane. I would leap off the plane onto a bed of nails given that offer and beat myself up on the way. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emt_911 Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Yet another early ER for me tomorrow. Back to the Midlands after a client requested me by name. Night all Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted April 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2017 Good evening everyone Well, today's monthly meeting was a marathon one, as we had the first of the years 6 monthly technical updates, luckily I won't be there for the year's second one! I can say with all honesty that I'm not going to miss them. Once the meeting had finished we all had a late lunch. After that, I was able to escape, but only because I had to visit 3 sites (2 in Hindley, the other in Cadishead) on my way home to exchange the site drawings with the latest version. Not a difficult task in itself, just a pain in the proverbial ar$e. Which meant that I didn't get home until well after 4:00pm. After that it was a quiet night in catching up on some recorded TV. Ivan. I hope that your stay in hospital soon comes to an end and that you get some good results. Goodnight all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2017 Goodnight all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 According to the BBC website United Airlines will now pay up to $10,000 to give up your seat on an overbooked plane. I would leap off the plane onto a bed of nails given that offer and beat myself up on the way. Sell tickets for that and you could make even more! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Debs. Posted April 27, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted April 27, 2017 Now then, those who are following her Debship on Facebook will know that she's been posting some very happy and positive news thereon. I won't say what, just in case she doesn't want to have it shared on here, but no doubts, those following her on FB will know what I mean. `tis not a secret.......Joyously, John (my dear "Passepartout") and I, are imminently to be married! Our individual health concerns, have shown us that our time together may now be shorter than we`d hoped........so, we`re not wasting a moment. We`d originally planned on a quiet relaxed {future} wedding; with just our closest family (incl. my wonderful, nonagenarian parents!) and friends, our joy, simply shared, outdoors in the sunshine........but, events in these recent weeks mean a Registry Office (perhaps even via a Registrar General`s licence) is as good a nuptial as we may hope, either way, we will certainly be happy, as long as we are together. 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2017 G'night all Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2017 (edited) `tis not a secret.......Joyously, John (my dear "Passepartout") and I, are imminently to be married! Our individual health concerns, have shown us that our time together may now be shorter than we`d hoped........so, we`re not wasting a moment. We`d originally planned on a quiet relaxed {future} wedding; with just our closest family (incl. my wonderful, nonagenarian parents!) and friends, our joy, simply shared, outdoors in the sunshine........but, events in these recent weeks mean a Registry Office (perhaps even via a Registrar General`s licence) is as good a nuptial as we may hope, either way, we will certainly be happy, as long as we are together. Wonderful news that you're going to make an honest man out of him. Not such good news about why and how your wedding plans have had to change but I wish you all the very best and hope that you will enjoy married life for as long as events allow, and hopefully for a long time of course. Edited April 27, 2017 by The Stationmaster Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 `tis not a secret.......Joyously, John (my dear "Passepartout") and I, are imminently to be married! Congratulations!! May I be the second of many to follow here to offer my congratulations. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Congratulations Debs!!!! Hope they find out what ails you soonest Ivan Night all 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted April 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2017 ' Evening all from red dragon land. The plan was to post a photo of Tuesday's snow on the mountains but by the time I was ready to download it, the phone's battery was flat. Instead, let me take you back a few weekends and give you a few photos from our Sheffield weekend with CQ. Friday afternoon... turns into evening, as we hit countryside at Glossop and follow the moon. Early evening Sunday on the way home via Glossop (centre of last photo). Another busy few weeks finishing off the diorama followed. The Austin Seven van took a couple of weeks to transform into a Morris 8cwt van deluxe 1924, half the time spent creating images on the computer to be printed out for the sides of the van. The roof rack Mk 2 turned out better than Mk I which I still have not found! Just don't let on that it is a bit off centre. The grocery basket was OK(ish) until I stuffed up on the handle - just don't zoom in with the camera! Blutack over a stick man worked better than my first attempt with blutack alone - the legs simply collapsed! He is barely a centimetre tall! The diorama is now in the display case waiting for the display to be unveiled (after which I will post some pics on here). Been on a bit of high since Wednesday seeing it finished and good enough for the job - apart from the basket handle, that is. This may all backfire, of course. Ray is now of a mind to palm off vehicles awaiting attention for CQ onto me. Well, it was evening when I started. It is now early morning so will bid you goodnight and nos da. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted April 28, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2017 Hearty congratulations to Debs and Passepartout. Best wishes to Ivan for a clean bill of health and an early return to the alcohack saddle.Good night to the rest as I enter Friday morning wearing a few muscular aches account the volume of renovation work I have got through this week. Taking things a bit easier today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted April 28, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2017 Having just "caught up" a bit, our congratulations to Debs and Passepartout and wishing you all the best, Ivan. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Congrats to Deb and Mr Wossisname! (my French is atrocious) An "interesting" afternoon here. I was working with our water association contractor trying to find out where a water main runs and we asked one of the neighbors if he happened to have any idea where it went. He didn't know and then a few minutes into the conversation he informed me, in no uncertain terms, the he didn't appreciate me "tantalizing" his dog (I think he really meant "aggravating"). We walk past his house every day with our dogs, and frequently say hi if he happens to be outside, so this accusation came as something of a shock. Apparently I did this "about a year ago" and "you know what you did". At this point I was starting to get defensive/pissed so I drove home before things got out of hand. I was really upset and I was even beginning to wonder if I actually had done something to justify his accusation. I asked Lorna to call give his wife a call to try to get her take on it. Lorna asked his wife if he (Dick) was alright, at which point his wife started sobbing and told Lorna that Dick seems to have Alzheimer's or some sort of dementia, but she can't get him to do anything about it. Oh dear. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 (edited) Lorna asked his wife if he (Dick) was alright, at which point his wife started sobbing and told Lorna that Dick seems to have Alzheimer's or some sort of dementia, but she can't get him to do anything about it. Well that's awkward, and sad. Where on earth do you go from there? (A rhetorical question.) Edited April 28, 2017 by Ozexpatriate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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