Hopefully Jim will have had his op, by now......and all went well, yesterday !
Very best wishes, Jim.
Cheers - Phil
In that case, good luck and speedy recovery Jim!
Yep, hope it all went well Jim and that you are on the mend already.
Best wishes from Chez Pixie as well, Jim.
Hope the op went smoothly and you're now recovering!
You were in my thoughts yesterday also, Jim, as I was waiting in another hospital for a very relatively minor procedure* compared to your own (which I understand was major surgery). Hope your surgery was successful and sets you on the road towards a full recovery. Best wishes.
* (a colonoscopy - and I hasten to add I was not thinking of you during it! - that would be very weird! :-[ ... plus, as Techno will agree, thank God they've stopped using these old East German Praktica cameras .... )
Yeah keeping my fingers crossed for him
Take care
Andy
Hope you are on the road to recovery Jim :) :)
Speedy recovery Jim!
Jim, I hope you recover quickly and get back to youre warm hearth!
You better hurry though, you left a couple paint pots open!
All the best for the future Jim.
Hope all went well and wishing you a speedy recovery
The op did go well, kidney and cancer removed.
Unfortunately the heart is playing a different game and low blood pressure is keeping me in.
Glad to hear the op went well Jim :). Let's hope the blood pressure gets back to normal so that you can go home. All the best!
Seconded :)
Good stuff.
Hopefully the blood pressure will sort itself out soon. Fluids tend to help.
All the best wishes, Jim. Glad you're on the other side of the operation.
Good stuff, mostly, hope you can follow doctors orders and have a lie down to recover!
Hope you start to feel better soon
Take care
Andy
Great news about the op, Jim.
I'm sure they'll get your BP sorted out quickly.
Get better soon.
All the best - Phil.
Get better soon, Jim. Warm regards.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 09 January 2018, 11:33:19 AM
... as I was waiting in another hospital for a very relatively minor procedure* ...
Hope that all went OK in the end.
Pity about losing the kidney, Jim, but you knew it had to go. Not out of the woods yet but at least the outlook for the future is looking a lot brighter now. All the best.
p.s. Thanks, Nobby. My own procedure was trifling compared to Jim's, of course (embarrassed even mentioning it now!). It made me wonder how Jim was doing whilst waiting. All went well results wise, thanks.
Just wanted to add my best wishes to all the others.
All the best for a quick recovery.
Cheers Paul
Good new about the OP Jim, follow the Doctors orders and you will soon be able to venture south to visit the great shows in the sunny North East ;) ;)
Take it easy Jim and we'll hopefully see you soon.
8)
The first show I am fairly sure of attending will be Claymore.
There is a small possibility of getting to Albanich but someone would have to drive me there.
I have a family wedding on the day of Carronade so I'm stuffed.
This all seems awfully far away in the future but I'm sure it will all happen soon enough.
Good progress this evening, managed to walk, slowly, to the bog and have a pee. First time since 5am on Sunday.
Whoopee.
Great to hear you are up and about Jim :).
Look after yourself Jim.
Glad you are up and about but take it easy.
Look forward to seeing you at Claymore!
Good to hear Jim, take the time you need to recover
All the best! Don't rush it!
After an op a few years back that first per was magical :D
Glad to hear you're getting a bit of function going!
I hope you have a speedy recovery!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 11 January 2018, 12:00:37 AM
After an op a few years back that first per was magical :D
After having the catheter into the belly for the best part of a year......I'd completely forgotten how to pee normally.
I'm still not convinced I'm using the same muscles to pee, as I used to. :o
Cheers - Phil
When I had a catheter I didn't even know I was peeing. When I had a colostomy ... the same ... but potentially stinkier.
Don't these devices bypass the voluntary parts of the brain and just let the involuntary systems do their thing?
I think that you'e not using those pee muscles at all.
I'm now going to pour soap into my ear to see if I can wash my barin of the images there.
Fortunately I've never had to have a catheter; they were muttering about one shortly before the blessed release. Think the idea frightened my bladder back to normal :D
Here's to everyone currently recuperating, Jim, Westmarcher, I hope you're all clear and out at home soon as.
Quote from: Techno on 11 January 2018, 07:07:00 AM
After having the catheter into the belly for the best part of a year......I'd completely forgotten how to pee normally.
I'm still not convinced I'm using the same muscles to pee, as I used to. :o
Cheers - Phil
How are you doing, Phil? That's about a month now since your own operation.
Thanks, Nathan. Results clear.
Splendid stuff :)
Hope same for everyone else!
Quote from: Westmarcher on 11 January 2018, 02:56:35 PM
How are you doing, Phil? That's about a month now since your own operation.
Thanks, Nathan. Results clear.
Hi Westie.....That's
excellent news. Matey.
I THINK I'm winning,......though a couple of days ago, I couldn't pee
normally, at all. (PANIC STATIONS)
There still seem to be
loads of wee bits of prostate 'crumbling off' (sometimes a sodding big lump !! :o)....and I reckon they'd blocked my urethra, so I was glad that I still had the 'back up' of the catheter.
It seems to be all fine now....But instead of arranging to go back to the specialist nurse to have the catheter removed in the next few days, as I'm supposed to.....I'm going to be a complete coward and ask if I can keep it for another month. (If they don't ask me to go back in, soon, I'm not going to prompt them. :P ;D ;D)
Cheers - Phil
Blee, that sounds "fun", Phil :S
Good luck again!
Quote from: Techno on 11 January 2018, 04:16:04 PM
There still seem to be loads of wee bits of prostate 'crumbling off' (sometimes a sodding big lump !! :o)....and I reckon they'd blocked my urethra, so I was glad that I still had the 'back up' of the catheter.
Lordy, Lordy, lordy! X_X X_X
Let's hope it doesn't lay you completely prostrate! Get well!
You too, Westie...and Jim...and others!
I'm still seventeen inside my head!
I'm glad i didn't read this lot at lunch time :o
Jim, all the best, wishing you a speedy recovery.
Matt
Urgh! Phil! You okay at last! ;)
My Dad has a stoma bag having had an op to remove his prostate and then his bladder. The nurse told him in no uncertain terms to replace his tubes as directed and not leave them in any longer than prescribed, as the results of doing so can lead to major infections etc. So Phil, maybe you should see the nurse as arranged...
I'm fairly confident that I'm OK on that score, Steve.
I've had the catheter changed far more often than the 10-12 weeks they're supposed to last, 'hygiene wise', and I religiously change the 'tap' twice a week.
I was originally told that I only had to change the tap once a week....But if I use one of the sterile 'flushing' bottles, 'cos I think there's a blockage...I change the tap then, too.
I Just want to make absolutely sure that I don't have any probs peeing in the normal way before they take the catheter out.
There's also the added (very lazy) bonus of being able to plug the catheter into an overnight bag, so I don't have to get up to have a pee during the night. ;D ;D ;D
That'll put a lot of people off breakfast ! ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
The luxury of not having to get up in the night to have a pee!!! Glad to hear you're good on the hygiene front Phil :).
Quote from: Steve J on 12 January 2018, 08:11:47 AM
The luxury of not having to get up in the night to have a pee!!!
That's been the silver lining in the cloud, Steve. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
I remember reading in Spike Milligan's book of his time in the Desert War where a chap put a tube over his old fella, so that when wrapped up in his blanket at night, he could just have a pee without getting up in the freezing night. One of his comrades blocked said tube one night :d, so that the chap was suddenly woken by a warm and wet feeling...
Quote from: Techno on 12 January 2018, 07:21:56 AM
I Just want to make absolutely sure that I don't have any probs peeing in the normal way before they take the catheter out.
Cheers - Phil
Stroll on....I'm definitely not giving up the catheter yet !
Tried to pee normally this morning...Couldn't !........Really REALLY forced it, and a sodding
huge piece of prostate somehow came out.
Took a piccy of it against a 5 pee ( ;D ;D ;D ;D) piece, which I might send* over to the specialist nurse on Monday just to make sure this is 'normal'. (*The piccy, not the 5p piece. :D)
Don't worry...I'm not going to try and post the pic here. :P
Cheers - Phil
In the immortal words of ET, ouch.
;D ;D ;D ;D
It didn't hurt, in the slightest, Kitty....Was a Hell of an effort, though..
If it had been a kidney or bladder stone of the same proportions, I would probably have been yelling with pain.....But as it's soft tissue.............
I'm still amazed that something that size could pass through 'the old man'. (It's now sitting in urine sample tube covered with gin......I haven't got any formaldehyde. ;D ;D ;D ;D)
Oh, the joys of getting old. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Phil - FAR FAR too much info, and yes that really does hurt.....
Bloody hell, that sounds less than fun! No pain?! Was that the aid of the gin...
it certainly doesn't sound very pleasant Phil
Take care
Andy
I can verify that there is a valid comparison between gall stones in the bile buct and blood clots in the bladder. Both are eye wateringly painful.
I'm hoping that my personal experience of both of them are now consigned to history.
:o :o :o Dear, oh, dear, Phil! And Jim, how are you doing?
Quote from: Steve J on 12 January 2018, 10:46:47 AM
I remember reading in Spike Milligan's book of his time in the Desert War where a chap put a tube over his old fella, so that when wrapped up in his blanket at night, he could just have a pee without getting up in the freezing night. One of his comrades blocked said tube one night :d, so that the chap was suddenly woken by a warm and wet feeling...
My late father-in-law was briefly stationed in Catterick in WWII. In the middle of winter, he said they had to break through the ice in the washing-up basin to get a wash in the morning. Anyway, sometimes when someone had come back from the town the worse for wear through drink and collapsed on their bunk, some of the other guys would place a basin of cold water by his bedside. By placing the inebriated man's hand in the water, it was then almost guaranteed that the poor unconscious guy would later relieve himself in his bed ...
Quote from: Westmarcher on 13 January 2018, 12:34:53 PM
:o :o :o Dear, oh, dear, Phil! And Jim, how are you doing?
I have the UTMOST sympathies for Jim. Although there are the
slightest similarities with what we've been through (are going through)......Jim's problem(s) are FAR more serious than yours truly's....And I know we
all wish him the very best for a speedy recovery and ultimately a clean bill of health !!!!
I'M doing FINE....having got rid of that 'lump'..... ;D ;D ;D ;D
Ian.... I passed the
tiniest kidney stone, decades ago.....I thought I was dying.
Anybody that's passed one of those nasty little sods deserves oodles of sympathy..(I assume you've suffered the 'delights' of that experience)...It really does hurt !! (Waxy, corpse gray face time.) Never want to go through that again. X_X X_X X_X X_X
Thanks all - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 13 January 2018, 06:37:16 PM
(Waxy, corpse gray face time.)
Erm, how is that different to normal?
Guys, I really do sympathise with both of you for the trials you are going through, and wish you both a very rapid and complete recovery.... but, is it really necessary to go into this degree of detail on a toy soldiers thread?
Mollinary
Hi Guys, Jim here, the one with all the pain.
Todays blog update is at:
http://jim-duncan.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/hori-vental.html
and makes good reading in sequence with all the others if you like that sort of thing.
Where am I really?
Well I am SOREd, and bored and inDOORs.
I am on a painkiller regime which keeps me going some of the time and some of the time it is just MORE SORE.
I cannot sit upright for more than 5 or 6 minutes (ie the time to write this post) so certainly can't paint, can't file, can't base, can't do anything useful.
What can I do?
I can slouch, read the paper or read my kindle or a soft cover book.
A proper book, forget it, too heavy.
I can't lie on either side, it just elevates or depresses the pain area.
Facedown? Impossible.
I can pee, regularly and often, small volumes only and at least it is not pink or a redder shade.
I can't crap, can only just fart so looking for a bit of improvement here.
Outdoors?
Don't be silly.
Speak again soon, hope everyone else is chugging along.
Thanks for the update, Jim.
A sair fecht right enough.
Be a brave little soldier (easy to say to someone else!).
Your grandson seemed to be having a comfortable visit at least. :)
Peeing - peeing is good.
Stay in safe mode, Jim, and may you abide until you are ready to boot up again.
You will improve my friend its just gonna take time, but don't rush whatever you do
Take care
Andy
The other things you can do Jim is plan, scheme and plot the downfall of your enemies. It's remarkably energising.
Don't overdo it. Take it easy.
Keep improving, Jim.
Cheers - Phil
Since we are now in February, here's a fresh update.
http://jim-duncan.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/24-days-later.html
Hope everyone whose been unwell for any reason is now on the mend.
Thanks for all the good wishes.
Jim
Hope the recovery goes well.
A hard fight indeed, Jim, but good to read you're still in the game. :-bd m/
All the best Jim!
Doesn't sound fun but , as they say, every day above ground is a good one!
Here's wishing you the speediest possible recovery.
Just glad to hear that things are starting to get better, albeit more slowly than hoped. Take care.
All the best, Jim.
Cheers - Phil
wot they all said
Another update.
http://jim-duncan.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/february-stock-take.html
Glad to hear you've made some good progress, albeit slower than you had hoped.
Encouraging news.
A shame the recovery is taking longer than you expected.....But it'll come, Jim.
Cheers - Phil
Good to hear things are improving Jim
It can be a little dispiriting when progress is slower than expected but any progress is better than none so I'm glad to hear you're on the mend, however slowly!
Take it easy and take it day by day.
I still expect a report on your health, in person, at Claymore :)
Glad you are making a steady recovery. Just remember Rome wasn't built in a day. A day and a half possibly. ;D ;D ;D
Keep your spirits up
So you easily get knackered? Some people will say anything to get out of doing the housework! :D
Seriously, it's progress. All the best.
[By the way, the miniatures in your blog that are the subject of the commission, are they Crusader figures? (although the Grenadiers look a tad "Foundry like"]
Crusader, correct.