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BRILL I love a good belly laugh. Doesnt it make you feel good.
Thanks
Min

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Gill,

I know how it is with a husband on treatment again.
Its all too easy to forget how it was, you dont mention what his treatment is apart from dex, and anti sickness. New medications that he is not used to will have new side effects. Peter was found to have bleeding haemoroids at the outset needed the darn camera up there to find out it was easily treated.
If it were Peter with Stephens symptoms [b]I[/b] would be on the phone for him. Bleeding may be irritation from a variety of causes, but it cannot be ignored even for a short time. Better be safe than sorry Gill.
Love
Min

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Hi Pamela
Im afraid I don't know either but I googles it and it would seam to be a 'splint' though obviously more complex, that sits inside the bone in the space that the bone marrow usually occupies.
It looks really interesting. sorry if that sounds sick.
Have a look at this link. I may be absolutely wrong on this and I know it not good to go surfing but could not resist it. It looks like its done with keyhole surgery too …..
MIn
http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/fellows/lvanrensburg/classification/surgtech/stryker/manuals/t2-femur%20102005.pdf

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Stuart and Web Team

J[b]ust wanted you to know that the SPEED is back[/b]. thanks a lot guys. No clicking and waiting its click and go again.
Big well done.
Just one more little thing. there was a wealth of information on the old site from old posts. Any chance of an archive?????
MIn

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Hi Michelle
Doesnt good news give your spirits such a lift?
Its wonderfull when we hear good news for a change, our good news is that peter is back on the velcade and his platelets went from 40 to 110 by missing one injection. Dont know yet about his light chains, but that fact alone gave me a lift.
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Gaye,
Peter and I travelled to Kenya about 15yrs ago. We stayed in a hotel I thought was Paradise, visited the local infant school, and was amazed at how pristine the children were turned out whilst living in such unimanginable filth. You should be very proud to have given her a start she would never have otherwise had.
I am sure she will make you proud of her and will never forget your faith in her.
I am chuffed for you too.
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Roz
My thoughts are with you at this very difficult time.
As difficult as it may be, do you have a hospice near to home? It could be so much better for both of you.I hope you and your daughter will find the strength to cope with the days to come and that Michael is pain free and comfortable.
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Bar stewards!
What a blow. Did you not tell him that as a tax payer you were now his boss! Or are hsbc one of those that did not get tax payers money to bale them out?
Dont get me going on that or I will blow a fuse.
Awful as it sounds, ask your Macmillan nurse if she can help you out here.
Then write to the financial ombudsman, your local paper. The letters page of a few national papers, The financial pages of Express and Mail ect.
Watchdog. on the bbc. Shame them with as much exposure as possible bad publicity will stop some one thinking of investing in the same product. You have nothing to lose Gill but the time it takes to type a letter or e mail.
Dont sit back and take it without the same fight in your belly that MM has given you.
You might just get enough to pay for holiday insurance!
MIn

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Moan away Bridget,
I am happy to hear you get it off your chest. Hope your cold goes soon
I remember the good old days when we went on regular holidays coming home with two suitcases full of washing to a dead washing machine. I nearly had an apopleptic fit. Made a hurried purchse on the internet, then discovered it was a fuse!!!!!!!

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Wow Gaye,
You have got me thinking. Peter does not suffer from PN.
But as an ex drill instructor….He used to make his recruits pee in their boots and leave it there overnight. They had to wear the said boot wet but emptied the following day but did not get any blisters! The result of which the foot hardened, the boot softened. Im not sure if he still follows this advise but he rarely buys new shoes still wears some of his drill instructors shoes, not quite so Bulled (that means spit and polish) as they seem to last forever (but regularly attends the cobblers)So for all I know he may not get PN due to this!
Dai let us know how it goes!
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All the very best for you shirley. Im sure you will be home before you know it, Lucky You to have had Christmas early, you missed those massive queues in the supermarkets ! Might try some of that myself.
I believe the weather is about to turn awful so batten down the hatches in Devon. (hope I remembered correctly) if its not Devon wherever you are
MIn

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Well that one evoked some memories with us golden oldies. Coming from the North East but having spent a lot of time 'down south' when Peter was in the RAF. I know for sure that it is definatly two cardigans colder up here!
My memories of winter are of sleeping with our coats on the bed when it was really bad. The windows being frozen with ice and my mum leaving the gas oven on so the heat would rise upstairs. As for fires, it was my job to chop the kindling or sticks as we called it with a pretty lethal axe. folding paper to put under the sticks and holding the blazer on it to get it going when it was about to go out.
I would absolutely love to have an open fire,crumpets and chestnuts mmmmm but not the mess of cleaning it out or getting coal deliveries!
luv
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Hi Kevin,
Haven't heard from you for a wee while so just checking in to find out if your OK, Hope to hear you have made a tiny bit of improvement since last post. Get well soon
On the plus side all of that bl***y snow has melted up here in the frozen north. But its still cold. Dread to think of the central heating bill to come.
Regards
MIn

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Hi Jean and Frank.
What a b***t* go on holiday and find yourself poorly Frank. Trouble is if we wrap ourselves up in cotton wool we would not leave the house. Im sorry it turned into such a disaster, for both of you. Jean worrying and Frank suffering.
Keep warm, try not to get a chill, and hope your journey home is not too arduous.
As a lifelong and yearly sufferer of bronchitis and the dreaded cough that accompanies it my method of dealing with said cough is. Paracetamol, and honey by the spoonful. When I am in the throes of an uncontrollable cough a cold compress on the carotid artery does the job, but try and prevent getting overheated. Not difficult in this weather. Home sweet home and stay wrapped up for the rest of the winter.Get well soon
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Hi Tom
The only one I have absolute confidence in telling you is your platelets are absolutey spot on perfect. The only reason I know that is Peters are dangerously low at 50 something hence the reason he could not have his velcade last week. The other numbers look like his looked before he started his velcade at pretty darn normal. So dont worry, your myeloma nurse or the helpline nurse will help you to interpret them properly so give them a call to set your mind at rest.
Luv
Min

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