I am not missing.

[tettridge]

Hi Gins and all

Received an e-mail from Gins asking about how I was as she has not heard from me in a while.

Sorry for the lack of information and input lately but I have (like a lot of people on this site) been having a lot of negative times of late.

The various Hospital stays and trips & so forth they all just seem to totally exhaust me.

Also while in hospital my ex brother in law was admitted and on my second stay in he managed to come to visit me (his daughter, our niece brought him down) as he was in a ward on the floor above me. The week after I was released from hospital he went and died. Another funeral and trying to console our niece, but our eldest son had been helping her with everything in the hospital and after so he was a brick for her when we couldn’t help so much.

I have been cleared of pneumonia now (Tuesday the 15th July) trouble is now I have been told the COPD is with me forever and how I am now is the best it will get. Problem is just going to the bottom of the garden and back leaves me out of breath, really out of breath. Hopefully if I stick at it I can improve on that and get more mobile.

Then I have the Hepatology department telling me I am no longer just a carrier of Hep B but now I have it and I have an enlarged liver so have had to go on a special diet.

I am also waiting for the pain clinic to give me a course date and I hope it is a pain clinic and not pain management as I have done pain management so have been waiting for that as well as the pain again has gotten worse (due to the hospitalisation with the pneumonia plus being unable to do much exercise due to pain and breathlessness).

So all in all it has been a bad time that I imagine is not an unknown thing for any of us with these problems,

I know I have thought 'Yes I know how they feel' more than once in the past as a response to someone’s input, it just seems that with me it is all at once now and finding it difficult, thankfully I have an understanding wife and daughter who help me enormously both physically and mentally.

I hope this does not make me seem depressed about how I am but with all the hospital stays I have had I have found that what is wrong with me is mild by what some people have to live with and although I have more than one illness it could be a lot worse.

Take care and kindest regards.

Terry.

[TheAuthor]

Hi tettridge

I am so sorry to read that you are still experiencing and suffering such problems, and I genuinely hope that you start to pick up soon. I would like to sincerely offer you my condolences on your sad loss, and I understand how difficult it must be for you at this time.

It is wonderful to hear from you though! We have all missed you and your incredible sense of humour!

Please take care of yourself

Ken

[Shazzzy]

Hi Terry, have been wondering where you were, but seeing as i started questions on your absence last time, i thought if i asked again you may think me a stalker!

Sometimes everything does go wrong at the same time, and it is quite natural to want to retreat from the world. But you have been missed by your friends and although your news is not good, it is still good to hear from you. Iam so sorry you have had so much to deal with healthwise as well as the loss of your friend, you must be reeling from the punches at the moment. The only thing that helped me through the darker times was deep and slow breathing, done whenever i remembered, to calm myself and keep me sane,sending lots of love and very careful hugs, sharon

[Hidden]

Hi Terry sorry things have been so rough for you of late and very glad to hear from you

Hope things begin to improve soon and sending healing fluffies hugs and smiles for you

xxxsianxxx

[Ginsing]

Hi Terry,

My friend I was truley just concerned for you and justly so you have ben through the

preverbial wringer. Now you are out the other side of the pnumonia and with all our bestwishes I

am sure you will day by day me more rested and better! So it hurts to go down the bottom of the

garden well ge chairs placed about the place and do it in stages sonds a bit bonkers well yes I am

My chairs start five foot from the door and weave their way throughthe garden! This week I am having a

wheel chair path put in. I refuse to let my ody defeat what I enjoy.

Take care, hold on to your spirit anyour marvelous family ad it will be beter!!

xgins

[a42h]

Hi Terry, so sorry to hear you are having such a bad time with your health at the moment, like Ginns said, I also have seats up along my garden patio chairs by back door one by my shed, plastic stool in my greenhouse but I must amit I'm getting scared of falling into the glass just lately thinking of replacing it soon, wooden chairs by my pond, wooden arbour further up then plastic chair by the chicken lol. Until I've just told you I had not realised how many seats I have. Lol!! My garden is only 12ft wide & 40ft long and I have days when I can walk up there without sitting on any but they are there for the days I cannot. I hope you will be able to do more once you build your strength up.

[Shadows-walker]

Hi terry I am realitively new to the site ,but even I noticed you weren't posting ,I am sorry you are going through so much again at the moment ,I am suffering with breathlessness and am waiting for a pain clinic appointment ,I hope this can give you some relief I am not as bad as some here as I assume the condition gets worse the longer we have it ,take care of yourself you have been missed even from us newbes x Christina

[Hidden]

Hi Terry it is so good to hear from you. I am so sorry for your loss and the horrid time you have gone through with health issues.

Sending you gentle healing hug and hoping that thing will now begin to pick up.

sue xxxxx

[Willow51]

Hi Terry, like all the others I was wondering where you had got to. I am so sorry you have been having such a tough time, hopefully there will be some relief for you soon. Love and hugs, Linda xx

[ninjananna]

Ahh! The funny man returns!!(albeit a bit battle scarred) My love and best wishes for a speedy recovery!! I truly miss all your jokes Terry and used to find it amazing how one person could hold such wit!!..:-D..Do return to us when you're feeling better and "self compassion" is the saying for the day!!.. Much love...ninja..xx

[tettridge]

Hi all

Thank you all for your wonderful words and thoughts. I shall be up and running soon, trouble is even writing this leaves me tired, it is that for every letter I press I seem to have to use the backspace to get the correct letter, therefore when I manage to write something it is generally twice as long than what actually manages to get written properly.

Thanks once again for your concern.

kindest regards

Terry

[lilian68]

hi terry i missed you on the site you have had a bit of a rough time nice to see you back.

[Scouser58]

Hello Terry, having read all the posts from so many people who missed you, so special to have friends, well I am writing to mention that there is a computer disc, that when loaded onto your hard drive, it gives

you the opportunity to speak and the computer writes what you say, and will save your fingers and wrists, from typing your posts. I hope this little bit will help you, and make life a shade easier, ttfn

[tettridge in reply to Scouser58]

Hi Scouser58

Thank you for the advice, I actually have one of those on my computer but I feel like a prawn when I use it, I know I will have to soon because there are so many mistakes to rectify that they make until they 'learn' ones voice, so I need to do it while I can before it is to hard for me to do.

There is another thing, I do most of my writing in the middle of the night and being in a bungalow the noise travels so far it is hard not to disturb anyone.

But let me not diminish the idea you have given me as it is a superb one and I will bring it foreword on my things to do list.

I imagine just about everyone else on this site could benefit from it. there are various programs especially on Windows. There used to be Dragon speaking and another is Talking Desktop. I have no idea how good they are, as I said I am to introverted to use these when someone is about.

Kindest regards

Terry

[Scouser58]

Glad you are thinking of this and maybe others would consider it., ttfn