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@ Saturday, Jun. 03, 2006 - 08:18:40 amI know I haven't blogged for some time but I've been exhausted. I guess I didn't realise how much not eating, lying in bed, having kidney failure along with everything else takes out of you. Typically I want to run before I can walk . Anyway yesterday I was so tired that I went back to hospital to have my blood checked,everything was fine except for my platelets which were down to 11, but the doctor said that I could last until Monday as long as I stay away from sharp objects !
After the hospital I went for a massage which made me feel a whole lot better.
When I was at the hospital I met my consultant. I was quite embarrased because I knew that he knew things bout me that I couldn't remember - like me pulling my hickman line out. Yes, I know, all that pain putting the damn thing in and there I was 'out of my head' removing it! Anyway I broke it sufficiently that it had to be removed and now I just have the stitches and no venous access! Which of course means needles and searching for veins - not so much fun. I'd quite like to manage without another hickman line but it will depend on how well things go over the next few weeks.
It's very weird not being able to remember parts of your life, I don't want to remember the episode with the line - it makes me shiver to think about it. But the rest was like being in a dream, I was never sure whether I would make it to the next day. I didn't believe that it was real. I became obsessed with knowing what day it was and what time it was, just trying to get to the next day to prove that I was alive. Eventually it felt like I knew all the conversations that were happening around me and began to feel like I was back in the dream again. The only way I could feel better was to get out of the hospital. I've been in hospital for so long and I can cope with the confinement but this was different I needed to understand that life was real that I was really alive and the only way to do that was to get out.
My spindly legs carried me out last Friday and this week has brought me nothing but pure happiness every single day.
Today we are off to pick up Elliott from grannys and then on to A & K's for the night. We'll take the boys back to school on Sunday - they have exams all next week - yikes - bless them. Then we'll be back at the hospital on Monday morning for platelets.
So I'll try and blog more next week, give you all the update on our new house plans and maybe just let you in on the hours I spent studying the size and speed of bubbles in fizzy
water and coke - bet you can hardly wait !!!
Lots of love
M
ps - Carry - got the pink fluffy duster - thanks - Russ keeps it his side of the bed and I have the card with you and Neil fixing the guttering , what sparkling clean people you are!!!!! you make me smile - thank you.
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Carry,
Just to add that the Fluffy Duster has brightened up my side of the bed significantly and I use it religiously to maintain a clean environment - the pink end is so large that it makes light of most duties!
Love,
Russell
XXX
Everybody should have a big enough pink end to make light of most duties, Russell - I know I have. Hope you are taking it easy and relaxing Moira, it is so lovely hearing you again properly on the Blog, so to speak. I have sent a party bag down to you and there is a pink tiara and matching wand on their way. It is difficult nowadays to find matching envelopes at the Post Office, but I settled for a rather nice white box. The wand will need something else. These are the niceties that make the modern home for the housewife and her man in pants. You know who you are, Russell.
03/06/06 @ 15:14
I feel so dusterless! Im going to search on E-bay.
Not only do you have Red bull man in knitted red pants feeding you titbits but a clean bedside as well..... And you dont need to go on a diet...Bliss
Kerr is perfect of course but with a pink duster he may cross over to sublime.
Platlets. I hope they will be chilled and have tapas on the side.
I wanted to give blood but the Texans dont want it!
Have a germ free knive free weekend.
Love Liz and Kerr
03/06/06 @ 18:12
Hi Moira
Good to see you bloggin again. Must be great to be away from the excitement of watching fizzy bubbles. Now you can watch Russell do the dusting.
Take it easy both of you.
Love and hugs
Judy
03/06/06 @ 18:25
I want a duster too. Don't suppose you can get them in the Co-Op. And pink as well! My favourite colour. Where can I/ Kenny find one?
I get tears in my eyes thinking of you at home, I'm so happy for you. Enjoy your weekend with the boys. I get tears in my eyes too when I see that sign outside Aston Lodge. So...... I don't really need my eyesight checked for encroaching old age it's just these darn tears!
Anyway have a great family weekend and remember..don't be tempted to shave your legs...a razor is a sharp object!
XX Megan
 | rosywood [Member] 04/06/06 @ 18:35 |
Hey Mo,
Good to hear your news and re-collections...at least some recollections without 1966 mentioned... I'm not sure I will survive the next few weeks of F**tb*ll...
Had a great evening in Duthie Park this week watching the ballet beamed in from Covent Garden...the weather had finally warmed up enough to make it feel like a relaxed summer evening - people picnicing etc...ummm nice....but all the menfolk could say was can we have the big screen next week for the f**tie...arghhh...
Dee Don Spey run on Saturday - TG did a monster run of 7 miles over the Fungle, whereas I just moaned about about my little 'ladies' leg from Strathdon...No camping at Loch Morlich (remember warming the red wine over a gas stove one summer evening after the run a few years ago!)as we had Davys 50th....the first of many I'm sure!!!!
House details arrived - copied and making their way to various notice boards....
Enjoy....
Big love
R&T
 | Royalscot [Member] 05/06/06 @ 18:17 |
At last,wrong leaves on the line so cold up here that my wheels didnt grip either,oh how my heart leaps when I hear your voice,it makes the bubbles in my coke go flat,my legs go to jelly and I look forward to seeng you again soon.This is in haste as I have to attune myself to a new layout computer.Love to you darling,Dad.xxxx
05/06/06 @ 22:35
I've missed your blogs and Im sure, now that you are back, hobgoblin and the rest of your fans know that all is well in the normal world of crossroads,Aberdeen. UNTIL AUTUMN ANYWAY......
Liz
| rosywood [Member] 09/06/06 @ 17:19 |
The King is back....Elvis lives...oops got carried away there Royalscot...
Great to have you back online...whatever did you do to your old computer? Maybe the same virus hit the teasmade too given you and the Hobgoblin both came back online about the same time!
Rx
05/06/06 @ 18:57
Hi Moira,
Hopefully as I write this you will have been re-plated and ready for fencing again.
Amnesia can be hard to bear during such an important episode in your life - many of my patients forget their time in ITU altogether and I have to say I think its the body's self-preservation. Jack, however manages amnesia and deafness on a daily basis quite happily - teenageitis!
I have just been spoilt rotten this weekend and was whisked off to Jersey for my birthday - couldn't have been more perfect!! Sand, sea, sun and fabulous fresh fish.....shame to come back to work!!
LOL Jux
05/06/06 @ 20:30
Hi Mo
Its great to see you blogging again, what's all this about pink fluffy dusters - would you believe its been 85 F all weekend - so no dusting only outside in the sunshine - yes I am in Ireland
Hope to hear from you soon
love Sally
 | jac13 [Member] 05/06/06 @ 20:33 |
Missing parts of your life? Welcome to my world. the only full weekends I can remember in the last 35 years were the ones I spent in hospital!
It's a fantastic ploy. You can say what you want, do what you want and then simply say you can't remember.
I think I have "lost" around 20% of my life. Enjoyed every moment of it and would do it all again tomorrow (to be exact, from 5 p.m. Friday). It's a sound investment of your time. Recommend it to all your friends.
Now, could somebody pass me that pint of memory loss.....
 | ainerivers [Member] 07/06/06 @ 22:20 |
Wonderful to hear from you. Summer seems to arrived and boys now complaining it is too hot. Sean is about to head off with 9 pals to Chamonix for a week - I have decided not to ask to many questions but sounds like the most tricky bit of the arrangements is them ensuring they get to Newcastle on time for their flights. I have just been passed a copy of the chalet they are staying at and it looks far too good for them.... what happened to inter-rail and camping or sleeping overnight on trains to save money....
Picked off another 3 Munros on Sunday as part of my training for the Caledonian Challenge (10 days to go) - it really must have been a moment of maddness when I suggested we do this - hoping to walk the 56 miles in less than 20 hours but will be pleased just to do it. I did something similar in the distant past - er 25 years ago to be exact...
Eamon turned 14 today and Brodie will be 10 tomorrow. Clare's turn at the end of the month when she will be 19 it seems only yesterday that we were at Pitfichie and Brodie was a babe....
Keep fighting
07/06/06 @ 23:35
Moira,
I'm thinking of you at home; I hope every day is as beautiful as you are!
Love,
Celeste
08/06/06 @ 17:37
remember what a fab day we had up at the cabin on Big Lake You and Moira jumping in the water and Al giving speed boat tours round the lake Lets do it again soon!
happy Days.
Its a good thing to have happy times to keep us going through the dark
Liz
| rosywood [Member] 09/06/06 @ 17:24 |
Hey Mo
Great to see you both in the week...and looking fab ...but just a bit too skinny...(but then I ask myself whether you ever be too thin.... or too rich???)
Fab headline in the Indie today that made me think of you... from that mad bat Tracey Emin
'I'm not lazy, but if I had my way I'd be lying on my roof sunbathing with a bottle of prosecco close by'
You and me too babe!!!!
Have a good w/e
Big lurve
Rxxx
Dear Moira and Russell and big boys, hope that you are well and relaxing in this weather - Aboyne is looking good with quite a lot of bare bodies on the green as well as alongside the River Dee. I have been growing peas and potatoes as well as beans in old dustbins, they all send their best to you. love and kisses carry and familyxxxxx
10/06/06 @ 11:27
Moira you are AMAZING. In fact you are all amazing!
Loads of love Ali Mc
12/06/06 @ 02:27
Dearest Moira and Russ,
Fantastic news - this just gets better by the day and will continue to do so! We now need to see some photos of the house to picture you there - let that sun shine on you and warm you through, let's get some rejuvenation going!
Stay well Moira - thinking of you heaps down-under! - where the weather is yucky and grey today - driving winds 130 km/hr! Must away to the canvas to throw some paint on it - will think of you plenty! Keep those blood cells coming!!!! Hope all is going well this week.
Love to you both and the boys, Karen, Dave, Ross and Jamie returns this Friday from the Arctic - wish I could be there - maybe soon! x x x x
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