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"As I lie in my hospital bed..." sang Roger Daltrey on 'Sister Disco'
Well, as I lie in my hospital bed I'm using this forum as a way of keeping my spirits up - along with an iPod full of In Our Times and Word Podcasts.
On Friday I was rushed into hospital with a suspected ruptured bladder. This involved a certain amount of undignified writhing and screaming on my part - as well as a ride in an ambulance with the blue lights and the 'nee-naws' going.
Since then I've been lying in bed with an antibiotic drip in one arm and an 'on demand' morphine drip in the other waiting for the infection to be cleared up before they can operate. (just on 48 hours so far).
I don't usually indulge in what the Candyman would call 'self-regarding nonsense' but I just wanted to say thanks for unknowingly keeping my spirits up :-)
The combination of free wi-fi and an iPad is a wonderful thing.
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Dig the morphine Dude
I was rushed in a few years back (sans blue light) but when they hooked me up to that it was fantastic.
You'll get sorted man, dinna fear, the NHS isn't fulla horror stories, and I can testify.
get well soon
James
No need to apologise Stimpy
How could we wish you a speedy recovery if we didn't know you were indisposed in the first place?
Get well soon.
Count yourself lucky
Last year I was in the coronary care unit for a week (I broke my leg and post-op suffered a large clot on my lung). No wi-fi, no telly, no mobile phone, nothing with a plug (has to be checked by an electrician). It was the longest week of my life.
On the upside, after discharge home, I discovered this blog.
Enjoy the morphine and get better soon.
Sounds as if you have good reason
for a little "self regarding nonsense".
Get well soon Stimpy.
Did you arrive at hospital like the start of this clip, stimpy?
Sounds painful, fella. Get well soon.
(Video is from Carry On Doctor)
Stimpy
- all the best for a full and speedy recovery.
Free wi-fi?
You must have gone private ;-)
Chin up. Get better soon.
Wales... The land of milk and honey innit?
I'm sorry, I was blinded by technology
A ruptured bladder!!! That sounds horrific!!
Have you googled your symptoms yet?
Hope you're on the mend soon!
Yikes! Sounds terrifying
Keep your fingers crossed for a Joanne Whalley lookie-likee on the ward and get well soon.
Get well soon
Been trying to find that famous interview with Graham Hill from his hospital bed to post here for cheering-up puposes, but alas, the internet has failed me.
Here you go
Get well soon.
PS I googled you tube graham hill nurse.
A-ha!
Good man Neil.
Now THAT's how to be ill... Ding dong!
Get well soon, Stimpy
Keep your pecker up.
Read into that what you will. But do get yourself better and home soon, sir
All I can say is
best wishes for a speedy recovery but at least we don't miss out on the postings.
With all best wishes
For a complete recovery Stimpy.
get well soon
hope it's a speedy recovery and confess..where you in Kenny and did you drum on "The Bump" ?
All the best to you...
I'm sending you a bottle of Lucozade, some grapes and a 50 CD Grateful Dead Tour Rehearsals '72 box set through the ether.
And in the meantime, here's some Led Zeppelin.
"Self regarding nonsense"...?
...here? HERE?!? Surely some mistake...
What you need Stimps is some cheery balladry from Ken Middleton and his ukulele. No, no - I insist! (And get well soon...)
Get well. We mean it maan.
Whatever you do, avoid episodes of Casualty, House, Holby City or Quincy. They will freak you out.
Blocky-off wee-department bloke things.
They smart, they do.
My wife's an ITU nurse. She demanded an iPad after she had a play with one that one of her patients had. She also notices that the (few) patients who have one and, in her department, are well enough to use one, seem to get better quicker because they are, basically, happier.
Oddly enough, it's attracted a lot of attention in here
Most of the nurses know sort of what it is - "Ooo is that one of those iPad things?" - but don't know what it can do. The younger ones I point at Facebook, the older ones I pull up a slideshow of the family and they're hooked :-)
It certainly makes lying in bed for three days with no reason to get up fell like an extended Sunday morning -well above the waist anyway.
Best wishes
... and here's some more morphine if you run out.
I'm
crossing my legs and grimacing in deepest sympathy. Best wishes for a speedy recovery, fella :-)
There's only one thing better than being in hospital ...
and that's not being in hospital.
Getting out of hospital is a fantastic feeling. Keep it in sight.
And I didn't think morphine was all it's cracked up to be. I vividly remember being visited by my in-laws. Needless to say, they didn't.
Get well, sick boy.
I'd say that was another thumbs up for the
Morph!
I feel so cheap now. I didn't get the rotating blue lights.
I did pass the Glasgow Academy on my way to the Southern General and Audio Slave were loading in.
Does that count?
Grapes
I'd send some grapes, but they may be a bit rank by the time they reach from here.
Get well soon.
Ouch!
Sounds bad, but at least you seem to be getting medical care from this guy...
( Dr Robert - the Beatles )
Hope you feel better soon.
get well
soon
Good luck with everything
hope you're feeling better soon.
Get well soon
or we'll come and visit ;-)
Get well soon
Hope youre not in for too long
Ren and Stimpy
Hog jowls and a babboon. Get well soon!
Ohhh nooooooooo
Poor Stimpy, that sounds horrendous. Hope you're feeling better soon soon soon.
Hxxx
ouch ouch Ouch!
I do hope you get better soon. Chin up.
Good luck Stimps
Sounds rough, hope all is well for you as quickly as poss
Get well soon stimps.
You're in good hands. As my quack said to me when I told him I'd looked summat up on Google, "How'd you think I learned all this shit?".
If you're stuck there on the wi-fi for any longer, feel free to post requests - I can Divshare you your own playlist if you like.
Heh, thanks Vulp but the FPO brought in my 1TB USB HDD
and Macbook so, aside from the pain, it's a pretty good existence - confined to bed, class A narcotics being pumped straight into my arm, all my music/comedy on tap, 'waitress' service at the push of a button... What more does a man need?
"COLD TERKEEEEEEEEEEY 'as got me on the run..."
Bummer dude, THE MAN came round earlier and took away my drugs. Just a fluid drip to keep me hydrated now. They reckon all the infection is cleared (4 days) so its now time for scans etc to see what's going on inside, then surgery...
Blimey
Get well soon
Get well
Loved your
"Ay ay ay ay ay ay ay want to see the brrrrright lights tonight" riposte.
Hope all is well with you.
My wife is a nurse.
She confirms that all the nurses will have a look at your willy. And then they'll all compare notes.
But they don't take photographs whilst you're under anaesthetic.
Often.
Unless it's a REALLY big one.
Oh dear... It's not really looking it's best at the present.
And I suspect that as the operation gets nearer it'll get smaller and even more withdrawn.
Purchase a prosthetic MONSTER bell end
Which growls
Good luck with your recovery!
"prosthetic MONSTER bell end"
TMF.. oh, you know..
Do you have to be in hospital
for nurses to have a look? Or is it a service more generally available?
Don't get TOO used to that pain relief ...
... all the best
Belated best wishes Stimpers old bean
Hope you're fully on the road to recovery
Back home since yesterday...
Everything seems ok - tests, scans etc next week will confirm - but I feel like I've been repeatedly smacked in the groin with a Vic Reeves comedy frying pan.
Confined to bed for the next few days as the infection etc has made me as week as a kitten but at least it's my own bed.
Thanks for everyone's kind words over the last week :-)
That's great news
well done.
How are you managing without the nurses & the morphine? Or has the NHS provided those at home as well?
Meanwhile, on a blog frequented by nurses..
..a new thread starts.
"Photographs of drummers' willies"
With and without morphine
And with and without the nearby presence of a nurse
Glad you're back home Stimpy take it easy on the old paradiddles - they've been through a rough old time of it :-)
Glad you're back in the land of the Dead...
(the Grateful Dead that is). The last few days must have been horrible for you and I'm glad you're on the mend.