Aaaww Gill.
Lifes a bi tch dont we know it. There is nothing that I can say that will improve your situation but I very clearly understand how you feel, believe me.
Like you I find it difficult to sleep but the blue pills are wonderful at giving me 6 hrs which will do.
Love MIn

Hi Gill sorry I didnt spot your post before I sent you a message Blooming heck no wonder you couldnt sleep! Stephen must be so fed up at the thought of more treatment and surgery , sometimes I have a weak moment and want to say get lost when told I have got to go through it all again. I hope the next results are better news for you Take care love…[Read more]

Green shield stamps were amazing when they came out! I still have a few glass plates and a mixing bowl that came from there Mind you the amount you had to spend to get them was astronomical!! My mum smoked Embassy cigarettes and she used to send me up the road to sell the cigarette cards as they did a similiar scheme love Bridget x

Hi Debs just thought do you have any contact with the Macmillan nurses? They are expert in pain relief and so knowledgeable about different types Perhaps you could ask for a referral. I have found minne so helpful in all sorts of ways it might be worth a go for you love Bridget x

I remember the cheque number that you had to remember 15527. They wrote in in a book and doled out the divvi every quarter and everyone with a number was a member of the coop.
I remember cos I worked there for a few months when I left school. And as I was a dunce and could not add up I used to loose some of my wages to make up for loses in my…[Read more]

Hi Chelle
I know exactly how you are feeling. My husband had had a stem cell transplant that failed then velcade then Revlamid.
We were devastated. But dont give up just yet.
What they did to start with was to put him back on Thalidomade which was a drug that he had responded to very well before.
Next they gave him a big dose of melphalan…[Read more]

Hi Chelle you sound like an amazing woman supporting not only your husband but your young family too It must be very tough but I think you are right to share your fears and tears sometimes , none of us are superhuman !! By sharing your worst fears I am sure it must make it easier for you husband to talk about how he is feeling too To start up a…[Read more]

Hi Dai what bad luck hurry up and get well soon love Bridget x

Yes Dai
and that being so I told him that if he had still been in the military he would be on a charge for letting his health fail.!
😛

The lack of an update leads me to suspect (Inspector Cleausau type) that you are now an In Patient Dai.
That being so Get well soon. If they sent you home with tablets Get well Soon.
Im sure you will make the holiday as planned keep taking the tablets. Janet must be looking forward to your holiday too and fearing you wont get well in time…[Read more]

In Wallsend where I come from we used to call the Saturday flicks, the tanner rush.
Interpretation a tanner was Geordie for sixpence.
The place is still there but its a Bingo hall!

Hi Min I loved dripping on bread nothing like it now though One of the smells I remember vividly is bacon in a big sainsburys store . It used to fascinate me watching bacon and cheeses being sliced to order love Bridget x

Hah I love Memory lane ! Does anyone remember the Saturday Cinema? We used to love getting the bus on our own then spending a very noisy , exciting couple of hours with a few sweets thrown in . The following week we played whatever games the best film had been about , cowboys and indians or robin hood stick out in my memory .The smart kids knew…[Read more]

Good morning Gill well the image of you on a soap box certainly started my day wuth a smile !! Absolutely nothing wrong with having strong opinions so keep on telling us like is please Gill Not sure about Carry on Posting though the only character I could play was the Bernard Breslaw one , very large and dim!! Haha hope you and Stephen have a…[Read more]

Hi Min poor Peter I really feel for him , what a hard way to learn that lesson! I hope he begins to feel better tomorrow and they can zap him with anti-biotics quickly Your description brought back memories of my sct where I had a few days feeling very similar In fact I ended up staying in hospital for 5 weeks and I would not have felt able to go…[Read more]

Hi Eve the reason it took a few days to post my news, actually there were a couple. the main one being I didnt want to add any more gloom when we are all still reeling from losing Gordon and Gaye But I do believe this site is a place where you can share both good and bad news, sometimes being able to voice your darkest fears puts it all into…[Read more]

Dear Bridget,
Im so sorry to hear this news. But I know you have a wonderful team looking after you and they will do everything in there power to keep you well.
If they are suggesting a few days in hospice to sort our your meds for pain it cant be so bad. My friend went in for just 3days and they sorted her out quite quickly as they are on site…[Read more]

I am afraid Peter is now proper poorly.
They moved him into a single room as he had had a high temperature all last night and when I went in tonight he was not in the bed but in the loo. Where he seems to spend most of his time!
There was a wonderful new machine in the room and I could see that his last temperature reading was 40.1
I went into…[Read more]