Confessions of a West Country Maggot Drowner

  • Unexpected item in bagging area, so off to A&E

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi everyone,

    I haven't been ignoring my Mac friends, I had an unscheduled stay in hospital and it goes like this.....

    Thursday last week was spent mostly in a car travelling to and from a funeral in Manchester. Not long after I got home I had what I thought was a little indigestion and took a couple of tablets. Off I went to bed only to wake up after midnight with more severe stomach pains, and eventually rang emergency…

  • I think I may need to stand in something.....

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Howdy,

    Here I am 2 weeks on still waiting for my CT scan results, I have rung the hospital but they just say I am not a priority and don't panic. I'm not panicking, I just want to know!

    Last week I had the pleasure of some sort of virus which is still kicking around. I got back in work Tuesday (after a little bit of fishing Monday with a mate to cheer me up, it did) to find out that one of my work colleagues…

  • Sometimes it gets hard

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Not put my own blog up for a long time as I haven't felt as I had anything to say about myself worthwhile, so have contributed on others.

    I try to say positive and happy about things, but sometimes it gets hard, and for once there is no joke or double entendre intended. Just sometimes cancer seems to have the habit of being able to break open a little bit of my defence shield, and it is doing that right now, bastard…

  • Clucker and baggy's adventures in Munich.

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Monday lunchtime and leaving the house with much more luggage than I used to take on a business trip. Lots of extra clothes and my little blue bag full of ileostomy products, and of course work stuff and passport. Somehow I took all I needed.....but only just.

    I got through Heathrow security easier than ever, I was almost hoping for a "beep" and a body search and explaining what the lump was. I was trying to remember…

  • Reverse, Reverse. (cha cha real slow)

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Back to the now well trodden corridors of the hospital and it was nice to see my consultant in plain clothes for a change (rather than latex gloves etc....).

    He's a very nice chap and we get on well cos he likes beer and football, but NHS deadlines prevent us from getting into much more than a couple of lines of chit chat, today was just comparing injuries. Anyway today's appointment was a bit of mystery to me and so…