Rubylady

Hi ruby - just catching up with your thread and sending love. What a long time this is taking. It was good to see you stay positive and also, that your little dog is well. Being in hospital is tough but being away from your dog adds to it in a big way.
I'm going to be away for a couple of weeks, may not have internet and if so, I'll catch up when I get back .

I do hope your op goes well and that your recovery is as good as can be. You'll be snuggled up with your dog before too long x

Gransnet at its very best!

Lol Elegran - I certainly enjoyed looking at the calendar so hope Ruby does

Hi rubylady - I've just been getting up to date here (been in hospital for an op myself, back home next day). I can't believe you're still waiting for your surgery! Still, maybe it's needing careful planning, monitoring and so on - best not to rush things sometimes. I really hope things start to move for you soon, so you can get back to your little doggie and begin your brand new life, feeling healthier than you've done for a long time!
Keep smiling - and when you start to feel a bit down, just have a look through Elegran's link to get your spirits up again (don't tell the doctor though, he might say the excitement's too much for you )

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Hi Ruby, you have lots of GN friends wishing you well and home soon. Really hope you get some sleep tonight, you'll probably have naughty dreams of firemen now!!! Here's a pic of 2 of our cats staking out a molehill, they can hear it, and are getting annoyed ....we need your little dog to dig it out! Also some pics of our very weedy garden. Best wishes and sleep well xx

Theft in multi storey car parks, wrong on so many levels......

I have to stay an extra week! My blood pressure is through the roof with the sight of those firemen! Similar to the porters in here! lol Xxx

Well I have never seen French firemen that good looking, maybe I have just been in the wrong town.
Another week Ruby ? you deserve an endurance medal.

Hi Ruby, sorry to hear that you are being incarcerated for another week, at least you are being fed and watered. Re Phoenix's joke, I hope you are more awake than I was when I read it, I wondered what on earth she was doing posting about car park theft. Sorry. Will drink my coffee now and get ready to go out shortly. If Ann visits today, I hope she doesn't get too delayed on her way to you, because of the dreadful happenings in Manchester. Best wishes and chin up.

Hi Ruby. Sorry to hear they've extended your sentence ?. Here is a joke (which you have probably heard). A young doctor was asked to give a talk to a local women's group on marital relations. He was embarrassed to tell his wife what the talk was about, so he told her it was about his sailing experiences. The day after the talk, one of the ladies met the doctors wife and said "we so enjoyed your husband's talk. He really knows his subject doesn't he?" "Really?" said the doctor's wife. "He's only done it twice; the first time he was sick and the second time his hat blew off!"

Lol, me too Flo, far too clever for me Phoenix, only just got it and I read it yesterday!

Had a bad morning, pain in chest checked with ecg, got upset and then the infusion of iron for half hour through yet another cannula. ?

Dinner soon, forgot what I've ordered now. Very sore burning bottom/bottom of spine thanks to this chair. Looking forward to seeing Ann though, be nice to talk about other things for a bit.

Staff all upset about senseless attack. Ordered some sweets for them which came today so hopefully they will cheer things a little.

Thank you for photos, very beautiful. Xxx

Morning Ruby (only just!)

Sorry to hear you've had a bad morning-I know chest pain can be very worrying but not every pain is significant so try not to fret too much. Hooefully the ecg put your mind at rest a little. I think you said the docs were round today, hopefully they'll get a date sorted out for this week. Try asking nurses for one of those cushions with a hole in it that you get in maternity!! Would help your back pain.

Don't have any (bad) jokes today but have sent a pic of my magic toadstools in the shrubbery. Dgc think they're magic anyway!

Hope you get some positive news today.

Hi ruby just catching up as been away for the first 2+ weeks of May. Hope that you are soon well enough to go home! but better to be somewhere where support, entertainment and care are easily to hand!
Sending all good wishes for a speedy recovery

The sweets were a kind thought ruby
I agree you need some sort of pressure cushion.
please don't suffer in silence.
We don't want you deleloping bed sores.
Hope your day improves a little.
Xxx

A couple of Tommy Cooper jokes for you -

I'm on a whisky diet... last week I lost three days.
and
They always say start at the bottom if you want to learn something. But suppose you want to learn to swim?

Ruby if it's any consolation I thought Phoenix had posted on the wrong thread. I've done it myself. Then I got it! Bit slow.....
Greyduster first time I've laughed today! Really funny.
This is a lovely thread thanks to you Ruby. Glad you've been getting our cards, something to look back on in the future. I thought your extra week was due to high b.p caused by elegran's calendar! It wouldn't surprise me. Those models must spend hours in the gym though to acquire those six packs!
Have a lovely afternoon with ann. It's nice for you both to chat though I know a lot will be about the senseless attack so near to you. Hope you get a bit more comfortable on your chair. Speak to us soon. X

Just back. Ruby not so good when I got there, breathless and hoarse , however we had a good chat and more than a few laughs . They took blood while I was there and something else I can't remember ?.
She really is in for the long haul.

Ann - is she to stay in till the surgery? Glad you were able to dispense cheer.

Thanks for visiting annsixty xx Love to you ruby girl, what a time you're having here's hoping things get better for you

Hi yeah, they like me too much to send me home. I'm up and down like a bride's nightie, one minute having a laugh and then in tears. It's dragging on now, need to look at it from a different perspective tomorrow, write a list maybe of small things to do, have a shower, make someone laugh, enjoy my grapes my Aunt Ann brought me, have a brew. Then I will think I am being constructive with my time even though I'm not doing much. Tomorrow's job is to wash my kaftan with the travel wash my adopted Aunt brought in. I might smell fresher then! I've another cannula in which is on the side of my wrist and is painful and a menace. Had iron through it earlier but bloods to be tested again in morning and see if haemoglobin level has gone up enough. It's all good fun! Going into my fifth week now. Anyone who lives nearby can visit if they want.

I had a lovely time with Ann today, she was just the tonic I needed to help me feel better. A great chat and a warm hug off my beautiful Aunt Ann, what more could I ask for? She very kindly brought me some treats too so they will get me through the next few days. It makes a huge difference, waking up knowing that I am cared about, the feeling you leave me with is so very precious to me, so thank you so much ? Xxx

I thought you might like some garden pictures. The wisteria is lazy and miles behind anyone else's, and the palm thing produces these weird flower things every year.
I do hope you're soon fit enough for your op Ruby. It must be so frustrating for you.

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Super photos nfk.

I'll try to post some later too, ruby. I'm glad you enjoyed your visit from Auntie Ann - I bet she finds it a tonic too.

I had an Auntie Ann who was as deaf as a post and wore one of those huge pink boxes attached to the front of her dress. She was always fiddling with it but still never heard a word anyone said. She was a lovely, gentle lady - always smiling.

Hope you get some resolution of some sort soon, ruby.

Patience running very thin this morning, I feel like a prisoner, I can't go home and nothing seems to be moving on other than at snail's pace.

Does anyone know of any rules where treatment has to be carried out in a certain time frame?

And, is there a person, like patient rights/Welfare who I could speak with?

With having suffered from depression, being on my own for months on end, it's getting to me with all this constant commotion and noise. The only view is the concrete wards around me, no greenery, no proper fresh air and even no fan to cool down in this heat.

I worry I am going to get too institutionalised and will struggle to cope when home. I've never been in hospital, or anywhere away from home, for this long before.

I feel like I'm going to lose it if this operation doesn't get done very soon, Xxx