The ... What are you doing or thinking right now - Topic

[Hughie]

Gerard's biggest asset was his ferocious determination.

Bob & John, it's been the same with my wife with breast cancer, she was always so positive before the operation and the following chemo and radio therapy. She's just had the thumbs up on being a ten year survivor.

We're sending positive thoughts winging your way, Bob.

[Milda]

Love and best wishes go to you Bob x

[hahaya2004]

Fingers crossed for you, Bob.
Irene

[bobnetau]

As Hugh said we are sending positive thoughts your way. A fighting spirit works wonders. Aim for your Dad's birthday.
Netta and Bobby.

[BigIan]

Last Thursday, whilst laid out on the table as the Urologist examined the inside of my bladder with a special camera, I had, under the circumstances, the somewhat less than pleasant experience of seeing this seemingly large, jelly like pink blob in full colour on the monitor beside me -

Oh yes! It's always funny when "they" insert a camera somewhere into you and you lie there watching the screen as it slowly dawns on you that this is the most realistic "reality television" programme you've ever seen, and you're the star!

I won't tell you where they stuck my camera, suffice to say the tattoo at the base of my spine that says "One Way Traffic Only" was completely ignored! (With apologies to anyone currently eating!)

I'd like to be still around when Dad turns 100 in 2016 shortly after I reach 65 & qualify for the pension.

Bob

Based on what I've seen with my mate and how far advanced his cancer was when they first found it, I have every confidence you'll still be around! Trust me, I've dated a (female) doctor!

Tell you what, I'll make a deal with you: you fight this blighter as hard as you can and I'll keep telling jokes!

Like; when I was in hospital I'd been heavily sedated for my bone marrow biopsy and was a bit groggy. As I was coming around a young agency nurse had come up to me and given me some news. A wee while later the sister on the ward came and saw me and asked why I looked so down in the dumps. I told her the agency nurse had said that I was being sent home to die.........at which point the sister, bizarrely, burst out laughing!

"No! No! No!" she exclaimed. "That nurse is Australian! What she tried to say was "We're sending you home t'day!" in her thick Sydney accent!"

Keep up the fight, and everytime you start finding yourself thinking about your (temporary) illness, think of something else instead, like walking along the North Shore in Ardrossan and looking out over a flat calm Clyde as the sun slowly sets behind Arran

You'll get through this, or we'll all come out there and beat you up!

[morag]

Sorry to hear this Bob, but as others have said, keep your spirits up!
And to any of our other members suffering health issues, the same, you've a large 'family' here on your side!

[down south]

Hoping for the very best for you, Bob. We'll all be thinking of you, and your father .

Susan

[Mac]

Thinking ..... I need yet another whisky!

This is making me sad

[Bob Bryden]

I told her the agency nurse had said that I was being sent home to die.........at which point the sister, bizarrely, burst out laughing!

"No! No! No!" she exclaimed. "That nurse is Australian! What she tried to say was "We're sending you home t'day!" in her thick Sydney accent!"

That incident instantly reminded me of an episode of Dad's Army - can't recall which one though - where Capt.Mainwaring mentioned the same mis-interpretation in the different pronunciations of "to die - t'day". I've managed to accumulate all surviving episodes of Dad's Army on DVD's & will re-discover which episode eventually.

Thanks to everyone for their kind thoughts / comments re-my cancer scare. I haven't known what it was like to have cancer before but at the moment it just feels like an uncomfortable belly-ache. At least I managed to mow the front lawns at both my place & Dad's next door plus pruning his Kiwifruit vine this morning. Our gardens are fairly small & Dad's has a lot of shrubs / fruit trees & thus we don't have room for the luxury of a ride-on mower. I have an old re-conditioned 2nd. hand Husqvarna motor mower which does fine.

Yesterday morning I drove down to the nearest supermarket for groceries for Dad & I & have never seen so many people out walking or jogging - my immediate thought was that there were a lot of people working off the over indulgence of their Xmas dinners. We've never had anything special for Xmas dinner - it's really a carry over from when Mum was alive & did all the cooking. She literally didn't have time for elaborate meal preparations in view of the time & effort required to care for my severely disabled elder brother (cerebral palsy). This Xmas dinner Dad & I just had sausages, scrambled eggs & baked beans plus a small Xmas fruit tart & some ice cream.

By the way Hughie, how did you fare with those hail stones? It was on our tv news last night & showed several cars in Melbourne (?) with smashed windows caused by the hail.

Bob

[Hughie]

By the way Hughie, how did you fare with those hail stones? It was on our tv news last night & showed several cars in Melbourne (?) with smashed windows caused by the hail.

Big time damage around Melbourne, Bob. But it missed us by a few kilometres from what I saw on the Radar. Hard to believe that we could get a storm with hail the size of golf balls on a day of thirty degrees Celsius, but there it was - some clown was boasting about it being a white Christmas.

[Hughie]

Sitting here under the patio roof out of the Sun, enjoying a cauld wan with Johnboy. He is into my malt and droonin' it with watter. We're trying to have a conversation but these Stinston women are Awful noisy - we cannae hear each other even think. Temp is in the thirties Celsius.

Hope you're all keeping warm where you are.

[morag]

I'd like a wee bit winter..high 70's here, supposed to be 80 by Wednesday...
Don't let that Philistine hae ony mair wusky if he canny appreciate it, gie him the cheap stuff, lol!
(When I drink whiskey, I drink whiskey. When I drink water..Quiet Man)