hi , just to let you know today outcome was better than expected. No further spreading, been taught how to cough with a pillow on my chest , I have excuse spelling , a small nemothorax on left lung. Not allowed out for a week and light duty around house . Two weeks supply of antibiotics but if it doesn't heal itself which it should, in hospital for a couple of days and have a tube inserted into left lung
bp slightly elevated and O2 levels are passable white cell count was higher than normal but ok to say what my body is fighting. So no mountain climbing no windsurfing and no marathon's 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well in honesty one thing about using the pillow technic is I'm not collapsing on the floor like I was . Before the cough would take control then out of control and I would black out due to lack of oxygen apparently
Finally get an answer that I can understand . Thank you I asked the oncologist and unfortunately the language barrier got lost in translation . This is the problem dealing with things in a foreign country with people who you don't understand or they don't understand you . Thanks for the information
Good 👍 morning to you and others, daveyboy, hoping 🙏 it will be a good one. Bit cloudy but 🌞 ☀️ 🌤 is out, got the day off from everything but medication. So, am intending to enjoy it.
Don't even think about it, daveyboy. Not much of one, but you do have a life. You also have many people rooting for you, you know that. You are a very popular person on here, people love you for your gutsy outlook on your illnesses.your ability to make people smile is unique. Don't throw it all away. Please.
You understand better than most we have days like this buddy it's just how you feel sometimes. It's not helping because the system out here for dealing with terminal illness is way different and is family participation . I'm alone here so it's a lonely road to travel apart from emails phone calls and on here . My answer to anyone with serious illness if your looking at moving abroad alone don't do it . Seriously don't do it . Having beautiful weather is fantastic but being able to get proper medical treatment and aftercare is more important .
What you say is correct, daveyboy ,I have to take chronic pain 24/7and that turnes into chronic sheer agony. Sure, I have, as my doctor once said, enough pain treatment to fell a horse 🐎 but it only takes away half of the pain,I sleep sitting up,while trying to find a position that's even remotely comfortable. A good night sleep is about two and a half hours.of course it's torture and depressing, but I for one will never give in until I am ready to call it a day.
Now and again, I used to, in hindsight, think I wouldn't have all this, if I hadn't had the heart operation that kicked all of this off.one thing I learned very early on,the heart 💔 sure does not like to be touched 💔 for sure. Still, what is, is.we get on with it.
Going down to the village hall, local kids are doing a musical 🎼 play of bugsy malone, should be fun. Get a restful night, daveyboy, catch you soon mate.
So pleased this morning went ok and that results are better than you thought 👍 Hopefully the antibiotics will help you feel better too! Anyway, give them a good go, you don't really want to have to go to hospital, unless it's air conditioned of course 😂😂! xx
No! I guess not! So what's the plan for today then? A bit of gentle baking? I am making a Pavlova for my daughter to take for supper at a friend's this evening and a little gardening if I have any energy left 🤣🤣 xx
Well being I have to go easy on duties and I'm at home for the week not even allowed to go to the beach , I'm making a dozen chocolate muffins for my friend who took me to my appointment today and will be checking me twice daily . 👍🏼😂😂
Must admit I did enjoy the one I had but my friend ate two on collection said he would bring the plate back later so guess they won't be around for long 😂😂😂😂
Well my day went awry! Daughter bought ( I am ashamed of this ) a packet (yes, I know 😱) of brownie mix to do for her pudding! AND, as if that wasn't enough, it's been raining all day! No rain for weeks and weeks, but when I want to go out there🤷♀️.It always happens, kids break up and it rains for the rest of the summer!! Hope you are taking it easy now, feet up and relaxing
Can't believe boxed brownie mix 😂😂😂 that's Satan's work that is 😂😂😂😂 it's always the same when you want to go out and enjoy a walk it rains ah well the joys of the UK 🤣🤣 sorry I am still in shock boxed brownie mix 😂😂😂 xx
She has now gone off for her meal. I spoke to her (lovely) husband and expressed my concerns. He said that it is due to her living in my (baking) shadow! How very tactful is he???!!! Normally , to be fair, she is pretty good, we have had many days in the kitchen together Just me for supper then, going to do something prawnish! xx
Better than expected news is always good and I hope the antibiotics do their job and that admission to hospital won't be needed. Do take it easy but if your mega high temperatures materialise that won't be too hard to do. Glad you are getting good medical care Dave. All the best xx
So glad your appointment was not too bad. Your cakes look absolutely delicious. I've tried to convince myself I don't like cake/ feel no urge to eat it, then you go and post pictures like that.😢😢😢. Good job I was never a great cake cook. 😁😁😁Hope the antibiotics will do their work, so you can get back to JD pdq. xxx
I used to have 3 idiot proof cake recipes to trot out for fetes, bazaars, school events and visiting relatives. I never mastered scones (except as building blocks) and my sponge cake was strictly cheating. My mother in law was a superb cake cook, so I always felt overshadowed. Rest of her cooking was lousy (meow, meow). She overcooked everything.
Well I'm on a mission I'm hunting down marzipan as my dear friend has challenged me to make a battenburg cake mmm so I've told him to find the marzipan and it's as good as done . The last year in college we were set tasks in cooking and mine was to make a baked Alaska . Well I did it and even though I say it myself perfection . I managed to get a grade 1 CSE for that 😂😂😂😂
That’s good to have a better outcome than was anticipated so well done. I now hope that your gentle lifestyle for a couple of weeks while the antibiotics take effect is successful also.
After all of this JD awaits you. Give up on the label licking your baking is a good replacement for now.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed because to be honest I'm so tired of feeling like I do. I always put on a mask and hide how I feel I always have a smile even though I feel like screaming. Today being one of those days but tomorrow is another day.
That was pretty good news yesterday, not what you expected. Just take it easy for the next couple of weeks and let the antibiotics work. Those muffins look moreish. I have excelled myself today and baked 2 banana loaves, couldn't waste the bananas! Take care Davey xxx 😊
So pleased the outcome was better than you expected, Now do as they tell you and only light duties, you have to look after your heart, muffins look delicious, take care Dave.Trish.
I am doing everything I have been told but today got a high temperature nausea and sore throat I'm getting a bit worried . My mate is bringing me a couple of COVID tests just in case but leaving them at door just in case and is doing tests himself
Had a temp this morning sore throat nausea then oncologist called me the radiologist who dealt with me tested positive for COVID so waiting for a COVId test
Pulmonologist and oncologist both said I'm more risk of worse case scenario because of the condition of my lungs . Hey ho it is what it is keeping everything crossed at moment .
Pleased for you that the outcome was better than expected but worried about your oncologist having covid, how are you feeling now? and was your covid test negative . Take care x
Today if you were here in 44degrees it would be black coffee lots and lots of ice 😂😂😂😂 I've been sat in my shower with two bags of ice tipped out on floor of shower
Aww! That’s not nice. I can’t stick it either. It’s a little bit dull here today. The sun does come out but not for long. There’s quite a breeze too. It’s 19.3 by my back door. So nothing like your temperature where you are. I hope it cools down a bit for you soon. It’s coming up to the end of July now. Another couple of months and it should go down a bit. I always thought I should move to a warmer country but I’m not made for it really. 24 or 25 degrees and I’m happy.
Greeks won't even run their Aircon it's expensive to run electric went through the roof here aswell. Last year summer bills were around 45 to 50 Euro now looking at 250 to 500 euros . A Dutch woman round the corner from me had her Aircon on she got her bill yesterday 1250euros .
I’m not surprised. It’s bad over here too. At the moment I’m on a fixed tariff until next October. I had it fixed for two years. I hat to think what next year will bring if it’s the same. I just wouldn’t be able to run anything.
Oh no it doesn’t cover the extra you’ve got to find. There’s going to be people who live in their houses in the winter that either heat but not eat or eat not heat.
Very true. We send billions to other countries. They are trying to help people but the trouble with some is it just encourages them not to do anything anyway. A lot of people in this country are poor because they don’t want to go to work.
Hell yeah to that . The money I get covers my medication and rent and obviously food but I'm on a budget this is why I make three days meals because when electric bill or water bill comes in I don't buy food and live out my freezer . I don't get the extra money from government even though I'm in the right benefit catagory
I’m sure they will. I lived through the cold when I was young and survived so let’s hope we can all cope. We used to have icicles inside the windows as well as out.
No I'm not reliant on it it's just a treat . I think a little of what you fancy does you good but in moderation .. some it's chocolate some it's going to a disco or driving a fast car I can't even drive a fast pair of legs 😂😂😂
Mine is Snickers Bars, had major abdominal surgery, knew would be 1 week nil by mouth, then1 week liquids, then if OK 1 week pureed food. The surgeon caught sight of a Snickers Bar on my bedside table and went nuts (excuse the nut). He ranted on about the fact I would be going home before I was able to eat this. I politely replied, that it was there for when i could eat pureed food, and I would just suck the chocolate coating off, and keep the nuts for when I got home. So glad I had it there as my first pureed meal, was mashed potatoes (a watery white pile) pureed parsnip (a watery orangey pile) and pureed gammon in a white sauce with herbs (a watery grey pile). Visually disgusting, did not taste much better, so glad for chocolate to lick of the bar.
I'm not into sweet things I'm a pure carnivor 😂 I make cakes for others to enjoy not myself I get the pleasure of making them . I did smoke but trying extreamly hard to stop but I've weened myself to a vape with no nicotine so im a none smoker as the oncologist put it 😂 so my only vice is one small glass of JD in the evening to unwind
The only mountain climbing I'm interested in right now is climbing inside a really nice cool one . Way too hot here. Greeks are even saying it as never been this hot before . Climate change strikes again 😂😂
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Just me for supper then, going to do something prawnish! xx
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