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  • 2010 finished work & the big 50 approaching

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi all

    Have not been on here so much since Christmas but heres an update.

    I finished work 31.12.09 after being at the same firm for 33 years taking early release.

    Its the big 50 on tuesday where have all those years gone!! 

    I was supposed to have been on a narrowboat as of yesterday for the week but cancelled it due to the ice as the boats frozen solid in the marina.

    I dont mind snow when it first falls but hate the…

  • Cellulitis

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi all
    Just a general enquiry, has anyone ever suffered from cellulitis?
    What i thought was just a spot coming up on my nose early last week has turned out to be cellulitis.
    By last Friday my nose was so painful & swollen that all Saturday i was beside myself in pain.
    Early Sunday i called the out of hours doctor service & a nurse called me straight back telling me to go straight to hospital, i saw the nurse within an…

  • Just a little update on life

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Haemo was happy with my bloods & CT last week.

    GP signed me off sick again & hoping to take release from work (if they accept it) to leave by end of year.

    House on the market & busy looking at smaller properties that i can afford to live in & enjoy life.

    Had a call from brother last night that was rather upsetting, Mum had taken a fall yesterday. Passers by called ambulance & she's in hospital. Face…

  • Routine bloodtests & stuff

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Went to GP's to get bloodnurse to do my monthly bloods checking that my drugs i take for Crohn's are not mucking things up...it was last months routine tests that picked up abnormaility that led to recent diagnosis for CLL :(

    Ive known this bloodnurse for near on 20 years from when she was caring for me as a nurse after having a bowel resection & was one of the most caring nurses from the old schoo of nursing…

  • CT scan result - anyone interpret results?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi all

    Obtained a copy of my CT scan results from last week, can anyone interpret the results. I have to wait till end October before seeing my Consultant.

    CT NECK, CHEST, ABDOMEN & PELVIS.

    There are two large right submandibular nodes measuring up to 11mm in short axis & several nodes in the left axilla measuring up to 14mm in short axis. None of the right axillary nodes are significantly enlarged but they are…