Where's TD?

[Storm]

Thanks for asking after me. I am much better than i was,but the scars will always be there. I'm hopeful my days of in and out of hos are over,though i'll be going to clinics for rest of my days to check blood etc and i said it was last time last time!
But yes,i am improved,much more than 12 months ago.
Doing Aikido is a good way of meeting people so good luck.

 

[Amos Stevens]

Good to hear that Storm!

 

[TDWoj]

Thanks for asking after me. I am much better than i was,but the scars will always be there. I'm hopeful my days of in and out of hos are over,though i'll be going to clinics for rest of my days to check blood etc and i said it was last time last time!
But yes,i am improved,much more than 12 months ago.
Doing Aikido is a good way of meeting people so good luck.

I just worry if they keep taking out bits and pieces of you, what's left won't be enough to be getting on with!

But I am glad there's been improvement, though. Maybe a small step, but still a step in the right direction!

 

[TDWoj]

Hey, Amos. Glad to you see back on line. Was it computer problems kept you away?

 

[Storm]

Well the pieces left will go on 2nd hand meat market! Heh.

 

[TDWoj]

Well the pieces left will go on 2nd hand meat market! Heh.

Where's Sweeney Todd when you need him, eh?

(evil grin)

 

[Amos Stevens]

Yep TD...major computer problems

 

[Storm]

Just one virus crippled this pc a few months back,and it had to be reformatted from scratch,beyond me. I had to pay someone!
Sweney Todd's pies were tasty by all accounts,human liver et al!

 

[TDWoj]

TD today is at home, worrying....

I spoke to my father on Sunday, and I knew he wasn't feeling well - a "head cold" (translation: pneumonia). Shortly after I spoke to him, he decided he was sick enough to go to the hospital, so off he went - without calling me first, of course. I didn't find out until today that he was in the hospital, and only then because when I made my usual Wednesday night call, he didn't answer. My first thought was, "hospital", so I called and there he was.

Of course, as soon as he got on the phone, he started giving me orders (while continuing to flirt with the nurses). I figured if he was well enough to be chasing the nurses around... but it seems they're going to keep him in a few more days. He's being such a drama queen about it (though I suspect, drama aside, it probably was a close call). Anyway, he ordered me to call a friend of his, then call the post office - no, wait, tell the friend and have her call the post office.... meanwhile, I'm trying to find out what happened, exactly, when he went in, how he got there, what the prognosis was....

Honestly, sometimes I could just strangle him.

But I guess, as I said, if he's chasing the nurses around the floor, there can't be too much wrong with him. Can't help worrying, though; and it was a good thing I have the presence of mind to call the hospital. I'm concerned about the house, though; since he didn't have a chance to contact the post office himself, the mail is piling up and that's just asking for the house to be burgled, or burnt down just for fun.

More worrying.

 

[Lollipop]

Sorry to hear that TD, my Mother has moved to an assited living complex, at first she did not like it. Now she has gotten use to it! They have emergency button in all rooms, I still worry so I call her too!
Keep us undated on your Father!

 

[Serena]

Sorry to hear about your father, TD. It must be difficult, being so far away and not being able to do anything--except worry. I hope he's better and out of there soon.

Or he may grow to like those nurses a little TOO much.

 

[TDWoj]

Thanks, guys. Of course, I can't reach his friend right now - her husband is also in hospital, been dying by inches for nearly three years, now, and not being able to reach her (or anyone else in the house) makes me wonder if something's amiss with him, too.

As for those nurses - they love to fuss and cossett my father whenever he goes in. "Such a nice, charming man," they simper when he's around. Well, he is - to everyone, except me.

He's going to be so angry with me for not getting a hold of his friend. I'm absolutely dreading calling him tomorrow.

 

[Amos Stevens]

Sorry to hear that your dad is in the hospital TD,atleast he's where he needs to be right now to have an eye kept on him. I might suggest-even online you may be able to contact the post office in his area & ask them to collect the mail they have delivered & hold it for him. Also the police department here will keep an eye on the place if asked.
AS Lollipop said,keep us informed!

Lollipop..my Grandmother when she was still living at home had one of those devices that hung around her neck that she could push & let the place know she was in need of help. Ofcourse she forgot to put it on one day & fell in the other room & it was a couple days till someone found her.

 

[Lollipop]

Sorry to hear that your dad is in the hospital TD,atleast he's where he needs to be right now to have an eye kept on him. I might suggest-even online you may be able to contact the post office in his area & ask them to collect the mail they have delivered & hold it for him. Also the police department here will keep an eye on the place if asked.
AS Lollipop said,keep us informed!

Lollipop..my Grandmother when she was still living at home had one of those devices that hung around her neck that she could push & let the place know she was in need of help. Ofcourse she forgot to put it on one day & fell in the other room & it was a couple days till someone found her.

My mother has one, she loves gadgets like I do! Her cat has step on it twice during the night and gave everyone a big scare! My cat weigh's
about 9-10 pds which is good, hers weigh's 20!
Thanks it is a good idea for the elderly or anyone who has medical problems!

 

[TDWoj]

My dad would never go for a device like that - 'way too stubborn and independent.

That's a good suggestion about the police - except I think there is only one RCMP officer for the area, and I'm not sure if he actually gets out and patrols, or only responds to emergency calls. I spoke to him one time, a while back - I wonder if I have his number somewhere? Anyway, my dad's friend's daughter is in the area, and she's going to stop by the house tomorrow to pick up the papers and check to make sure the house hasn't been burgled.

One would think the person delivering the papers would have noticed something amiss, with him not picking up the paper every day. The mail's not an issue - my dad has the post office hold his mail, and he goes and collects it when he gets driven into town for shopping. The papers get dropped off on the porch so he doesn't have to go all the way down to the mailbox by the side of the road to get them, especially in winter when the snow's hip-deep.

My dad's friend finally called me tonight - Wednesday's one of the 3 days per week she has to go to the hospital with her husband, who is, as I mentioned earlier, literally dying by inches. He's got less than 10% kidney function and has to go in three times per week for dialysis, among all of his other problems (blood clots in his legs, blood poisoning, various infections - the list goes on), yet he's tenacious of life and refuses to give up living. I really didn't want to put this worry about my dad on her, what with her husband being so ill, but her daughter is the only one in the neighbourhood that will look in on my dad (and she doesn't like him all that much, either, only goes as a favour to her mother). My dad's friend has been calling since yesterday, but didn't think to call the hospital to see if he was there, so she was starting to worry, too.

I really do hope my father sells the house this year. He needs to move into town (and find a whole new crop of people to piss off). At least if he were in town, he wouldn't have to face a one-hour drive to the hospital, especially if he's in respiratory distress. (He got his shopping driver to take him to the hospital - it was cheaper than calling 911 - they have to pay $200 for an ambulance in Nova Scotia - and probably faster, since they are 20 minutes away, and even at top speed, wouldn't have got to the hospital in much under an hour anyway.)

 

[Lollipop]

originally posted by TD
I really do hope my father sells the house this year. He needs to move into town (and find a whole new crop of people to piss off).

That made me LOL, It took my mother some time to settle into her place, but now she is glad she made the move!

 

[Amos Stevens]

Hmm your dad could move in with you TD

 

[TDWoj]

Hmm your dad could move in with you TD

Um.... no.

-TD, running screaming into the night

P.S. and I thought you were my friend.... one demonstration of nikkyo, applied with prejudice, coming up

 

[Amos Stevens]

Hhhhhh

Eeeeeee

Llllllll

Ppppppp

 

[TDWoj]

TD, at the moment, is in a blue funk because work has dried up and if I don't make a minimum of $680 per week, I am screwed.

I'm in the preparation stage of writing my version of a sequel to The Foreigner, and I needed some info on the CIA. Imagine my surprise when I googled CIA and found they have a website! Of course, now I'm probably on their "watch list" and will be turned away at the border when (if?) I go to... anyway, I'm hoping to have the first couple of chapters done by the end of the month. Since I'm not planning to publish it professionally, this being more an exercise in writing a novel from a structural point of view, perhaps when I'm finished it, I'll get Craig to post it as a pdf for your reading enjoyment.

All of a sudden I've got the itch to write, which I haven't had for a long time. I think it's because of the upcoming Star Wars movie - sorry, Mason, I've been avoiding your Star Wars thread because I didn't want to know too much before I go see the film! I've even been channel switching when the trailers come on tv. And being the Star Wars geek that I am, I've booked off May 19th and you will find me in the line-up at the Paramount Theatre at John and Richmond champing at the bit to get into the first show of the day. (When Return of the Jedi came out, I was seen going into the University Theatre on the six o'clock news, for the first showing at 9 a.m. - quite a feat to make it to the first showing at that time, since I had to get the first bus of the day out of Mississauga at 5:25 a.m. in order to get there in time. Alas, the University Theatre is no more...)

My father is home from the hospital, and bitching about the callous and uncaring nature of his neighbours, so he's definitely on the mend. I wonder he has any immune system left from the high-octane antibiotics the doctors have been treating him with every time he goes in with pneumonia.

Aikido class tonight. Ukemi practice still on hold. Two more weeks - I hope! The other injury I got on Monday may just have been sore muscles rather than another torn one. I can only hope - I'm back on anti-inflammatories again, and I have to wait at least four days after I'm off them to ensure there's no pain and I can go back to ukemi practice. I should be getting therapeutic massage to avoid scar tissue but with no work... yikes. Staying in good health is only for the wealthy, it seems.

Maybe I should write a screenplay... honestly, after seeing the drek that gets bought and never made into films on that website, could I do any worse?

-TD, obsessing about money, as usual