Termietermite

[Lord Steve]

Blimey, you go away for a few days and come back to Debs in hospital. Again!
Keep your chin up sweetheart and Ian, you look after yourself as well mate.
I'm volunteering for tent erecting duties at Silverstone Debs.

In my (recent) experience the medical staff at LM General are fantastic si I hope they're looking after you.

Steve

[Jason]

I know I don't venture in here too often these days, but am sorry to hear about Debs. I hope things turn around quickly for her, and you Ian, and she's back to her normal self soon

[Mr Termite]

Deb is eating a bit - first real food in a week. Not using oxygen, either. Drip has been withdrawn, but she did have some blood-plasma instead. The bone sample from her sternum was a failure, so now she's had one from her bottom. Some time after the procedure was over, the nurse came in to inspect the bottom, and pronounced it "parfait". I think she was a bit taken aback when I agreed!

[Kristof]

Missed this thread somehow ...

Hope you'll get well soon Deb !

[Nordic]

Chin up.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

[Mr Termite]

Deb has had an MRI scan today, has  some other sort tomorrow, is booked for yet another variety next week. Still no suggestions as to what is wrong, but the bloating that started all this has not returned, 4 days after she was drained. She is always a v fussy eater, & hospital meals aren't exactly hitting the spot!

[nopanic - neil]

Ian

good news that it has not any worse, and all these scans, your definitely get your moneys worth.

As for being a fussy eater - offer to bring her in a Big Mac  

Keep you chin up and hope all get sorted very soon.

cheers
Neil

[Mr Termite]

Sick visiting can be an - er - interesting experience. Yesterday I arrived to find a grumpy lobster. Most of Deb was bright red, and because it is all so itchy, she hadn't slept much. Eating was beyond her, too. I didn't stay long! Today her car needed servicing, so I dumped it at the dealer and caught the tram to the hospital. No sign of Deb, who had gone for another scan! Deb appeared just before I returned having got the car back. She'd been gone 3 hours for a 15 min scan. So far the scans haven't identified anything to cause her problems and her lungs are fine after 35 years smoking - but she has something on her uterus, something on her brain. I'm cancelling our annual trip to the 24 hrs of Spa. Yawn.

NB We have two weekend tickets for Spa. They are paid online tickets in the name of Deborah Dudley, and the Ts & Cs say they are not transferable. Nevertheless, the chances of anyone asking for ID when you exchange them are limited, so if anyone wants these dodgy tickets, I'll send them free. If they work, they save you some money. If they don't, you haven't paid for them!

[knetter]

I'll take them Ian, if nobody else beat me to it. Do they state on the tickets that they have to be exchanged at the information center? Cause last time for the 1000 km they did check ID when I picked up my ticks! How Deb will recover soon, give her my best!

Roy

[Mr Termite]

Sorry Roy - a PM from another CA-er beat you to it. Apologies!

[Mr Termite]

Termie is still punching - she actually so likes the "Grumpy Lobster" monicker that she fancies she might adopt it when she comes back on dry land! Better today, with less itching and some fading of the red. As it was Bastille Day, she didn't see a doctor all day - it's a national holiday. Frankly, I don't "get" the French. On this day in 1789 they changed everything, but since then they've changed nothing - many of the laws date back to Napoleon, and are about as relevant as the Saga of Noggin the Nog. If they still moved forward, kept pushing, they might become something, but instead the bureaucrats rule and everyone just shrugs. Sad, really. Doesn't really affect a couple of retired old ghytts, natch, but all the same.....

[Mr Termite]

Took Deb down to the entrance today in a hospital wheelchair, hoping to do a tour of the grounds, but it was breezy and spitting with rain, so we snuck back under cover for a few minutes, then went to the cafe. Made a change, and she is so much better than she was. An intensive eye-test on Friday revealed nothing sinister - except a (common at our age, apparently) potential for a detached retina. This week may well be a turning point in getting to the bottom of it all, with the gynae people probably having another look now D is stronger, and a Positron Emission Tomography scan on Tuesday. That was booked a fortnight ago, suggesting that it is an important and valuable technique, not to be readily had like an x-ray!

[knetter]

Good to hear she is doing a bit better!

[Nobby Diesel]

Wow! A rocky path for the good lady.
Chin up and hope improvements continue.

[Jules G]

Ian, thanks for the up date. pass on my best wishes To Deb again.

Jules G