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Strange how the address of Mistress came to have a different meaning to 'wife'.

Greetings,

24°c, The soothsayer is going for 25°c
Dome, flat calm.

A slow day beckons, ECG this afternoon.

OFSO wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:16 am

How's Wodrick's thrombosis?

Crema is slowly improving the throm.

Wodrick wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:31 am

Greetings,

24°c, The soothsayer is going for 25°c
Dome, flat calm.

A slow day beckons, ECG this afternoon.

OFSO wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:16 am

How's Wodrick's thrombosis?

Crema is slowly improving the throm.

Karearea wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:16 pm

Good morning on a blue dome day with bright sunshine and 13.7°C, expecting 20°C by early afternoon.
Deciduous trees have thoroughly coloured up, and are well into shedding their leaves.
I see that Friday 19th is Poppy Day when sellers will be about the streets and poppies may be worn; Anzac Day next week.

Fuschia leaves are starting to show, always a good sign that spring is on the way.

Afternoon folks. Overcast, rain forecast. A baby squirrel just fell out of the thatch on us. That is one less. Gardener went home sick. Said he was going to the village clinic. If he wasn't a thieving little bastard I would have given him a lift. It is 5 kms.

50 years ago today I joined the Royal Air Force, and so started a 42 year career in aviation.

I am currently lying in hospital (planned) awaiting 3:30 tomorrow when I expect I will be relieved of a polyp on my internal exhaust pipe.
Just had my first (and last) 'sustainance' of the day - a mug of Oxo cube in hot water.
Cavok outside.

Last time I had a mug of Oxo, made from my only remaining oxo cube, was on a November survival/escape and evasion exercise, prior to being chased around the Yorkshire Dales all night.
That was a pain in the backside too.
Best wishes for a good outcome!

I love a mug of Oxo, especially with a bacon sandwich, (sorry G-C) but the Oxo has to be the low-salt one.

Hey G-C, best of luck with the polyp. Assume it will be with a proctoscope ? Over quickly, and then it will be examined...

OFSO wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:42 pm

Hey G-C, best of luck with the polyp. Assume it will be with a proctoscope ? Over quickly, and then it will be examined...

Good luck from here as well.

A week and a half ago I had a consultation with a G-I doc new to my medical practice.
I had been scoped a little over a year ago by another doc in a different practice as my practice was short of one. That doc reported that everything was good and that he had removed several small polyps.
I had the doc who scoped me send the new guy my records and pics.
After addressing my concern that brought me in, he informed me that the polyps that had been removed, while benign, were serrated shaped. He said that this shape was more likely to develop into something less than benign.
He told me that this was only a small concern but required a follow-up scope after three years instead of he usual five year interval.
After learning that colon cancer was what did my father in, he urged me to contact my sister and make sure that she was getting screened as this is the sort of thing that can be hereditary

PP.

Just received a text from my neighbor informing me that her 80 something year old mother had died.
She and her late husband were some of the first homeowners in this subdivision, having bought the house while it was still under construction, some 45+ years ago.
I had known them for the 22 years that I have been here.
She was slipping into dementia and home care for about a year before her daughter moved her into an nearby memory care assisted living facility.
I haven't talked to the daughter yet to find out what the actual cause of death was, but the dementia left no quality of life as I saw with my mother as well.
RIP Leigh.

PP

G-CPTN wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:05 pm

I am currently lying in hospital (planned) awaiting 3:30 tomorrow ...

Best wishes, G-CPTN, hope all goes well.

PHXPhlyer wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:41 pm

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I haven't talked to the daughter yet to find out what the actual cause of death was, but the dementia left no quality of life as I saw with my mother as well.
RIP Leigh.

PP

I'm sorry for that, PHXP.

ricardian wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:03 am

Fuschia leaves are starting to show, always a good sign that spring is on the way.
...

^ I bet they're a lovely sight when in flower.
I used to have a fuchsia here but the Gardener/Lawn Man is not a plantsman, and that was one of the casualties...
The Gardening Fairy knows much more

Morning is overcast and dampish, supposed to see the sun later.

Karearea wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:56 pm

ricardian wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:03 am

Fuschia leaves are starting to show, always a good sign that spring is on the way.
...

^ I bet they're a lovely sight when in flower.
I used to have a fuchsia here but the Gardener/Lawn Man is not a plantsman, and that was one of the casualties...
The Gardening Fairy knows much more
Morning is overcast and dampish, supposed to see the sun later.

Alas, although folk tell me that they look wonderful when in flower, I am red/green colour blind so the flowers & leaves look almost the same to me. They are getting a bit too tall now (over 10 ft) so I'll have to ask my handyman (retired local GP who cuts my lawns) if he can trim them down a bit.

Will someone please explain why every time I do the washing I have to play Guess the Weather, today started fine and now appears to be turning
towards showers, knowing this I will be hanging it out in the breezeway. With my luck, this will possibly turn out to be the wrong decision.

^ Likewise. I thought the sun would have been out for a couple of hours here by now.

The Face has reappeared at the window of the house opposite.

Morning all. Cloudy with occasional drizzle here today. Currently 21C, forecast max 23C.
Hope all goes well G-CPTN, looking forward to your update (see what I did there.) D2 is undergoing similar as I write.
Bob, unforecast showers here at present.
Sorry to hear your news PHXPhlyer, but it's probably what I would have wished in the lady's position, and I have an advanced care directive that I hope will cover the situation should it arise.

Went to pick a couple of pink roses this afternoon, and the green praying-mantis seated thereon looked at me most reproachful when I invited him to leave.

Yet another clear and cold dawn with rain forecast at midday. Birds are singing happily though as they don't see that forecast.