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  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh Linda that sounds awful. Do take the delivery for a later date. They have long dates on them. They ring me every 6-8 weeks to arrange my next delivery and if I have a backlog I postpone the next delivery. will it mean rearranging the nurse visit?

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thanks for your replies, you've put my mind at rest, I didn't realise they have a good dateline on them so I shall accept delivery. I thought they might have to be used within about a month or six weeks ......WRONG!

    I don't have a number for the nurse yet as I have to wait for her to make first contact with me. Following what you've all said I shall still arrange for her to come and talk to her then.

    You're all brill and I shall put you on my Christmas list! :grin:

    Luv
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,764
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I have no advice as I've not been on this stuff but can I still be on the Christmas list, please? I'd like a nice, tall, fit young cricketer. He doesn't have to be international standard (at cricket) but he does have to understand my fanaticism and preferably not be too fussy about his women being tall, fit and young. (And Mr SW says deafness would be a useful attribute too.) Thanks, Santa.

    P.S. I hope you're feeling better soon. Hoping that someone gets well enough to stab themselves seems an odd wish for them but there you go...that's how it is with us arthritic types. Take care.
    If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
    Steven Wright
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    :lol::lol::lol:

    I've approached Stuart Broad to see if he's willing to be put in your stocking. He is game but he needs a head to toe photo of you first in your best bikini before he'll commit :wink::lol::lol:

    Luv,
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,764
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    OK I've sewn 4 stockings together so he should just about fit in. I'm enclosing a photo of me in my bikini in Cornwall looking stunning. Could you please ensure he doesn't see it was taken in 1967? Thanks. You're a pal.
    If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
    Steven Wright
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    stickywicket wrote:
    OK I've sewn 4 stockings together so he should just about fit in. I'm enclosing a photo of me in my bikini in Cornwall looking stunning. Could you please ensure he doesn't see it was taken in 1967? Thanks. You're a pal.

    You do realise Sticky he's really 63 but has had 'work' done and led an easy life ......he'll be a mummy's boy I'm warning you :roll: :wink:
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Had a phone call from the hospital at six this evening, I'm to go on Monday at 10.30 for my grotty botty appointment. YAY! I'm so glad six weeks of the runs is no fun and I need it sorting. :grin:
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Legs

    l have laughed out loud at you and sticky and l wanna be on your Christmas card list too please :grin:

    Also if you need pocket duties you can count on me - head end though only :shock:

    Love

    Toni xx
  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,764
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    That's excellent news, Legs. No, I mean about your appointment. 6 weeks is definitely long enough to wait with a grotty botty and you have faced it with patience and strength and that good old Legs sense of humour. I hope things go well and your grotty botty trots become a thing of the past.

    Now, about S. Broad. As you, and the local orthopaedic guys, well know, I have had some 'work ' done too. The 63 yr old 'Mummy's Boy' tag is a little worrying but then I look across at 68 yr old Mr SW and think....and think...and think "Well, whoever his plastic surgeon is, he's done a great job." But, on the other hand, 43 years of hard graft has gone into getting Mr SW to occasionally offer to cook, to sometimes wash up or vac without being asked, to accept that, in this household, he is the chief zip fastener, coat dragger-offer and, most importantly, wine bottle opener. I need to give this matter some serious thought. I'll get back to you.
    If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
    Steven Wright
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I have one injection left of the current batch-expiry date March 2013 but I'll have to take it bfeore then as my fridge needs defrosting!

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Dear Linda

    How remiss of me. :oops: I seem to have been AWOL from your thread but you have had lots of support and I would never have thought it would be otherwise.
    I am sorry that you are still suffering with "bum" issues. I really do sympathise - makes life pretty hellish and makes you feel petty grim too. I hope you get sorted as well as I did ..... eventually.
    I so hope that you feel better soon and get on with the new med and that it works for you.

    Gentle hugs
    Elna x
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

    If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.
  • kellerman
    kellerman Member Posts: 741
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh Linda,
    How on earth have I missed this thread.....Specsavers me thinks.

    I do hope you get sorted at the hospital....6 weeks is too long to suffer like this.
    Hope,also that the meds work for you.I'm keeping my legs crossed as my fingers are already crossed and won't uncross......hope this makes sense.

    Love May
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thank you ................that's four more for my Christmas list :wink:

    Was downstairs for 8:00 this morning and Enbrel came at 9:30. I couldn't manage to make an impression on the signing machine as my hands are so rubbish so the driver did it for me.

    It's now in the fridge, I've read the information pack and watched the DVD so I am now an official Etanercept/Enbrel expert should anyone need advice :lol::lol:

    I just have to wait for nursey to ring to arrange a training session. Will keep you posted.

    Luv,
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    well you are organised and on the ball well done know nothing about it so no where to turn if get that far lol good luck val
    val
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thanks Val, you're on my list too :grin:

    Been out to lunch today and to see the Lowry exhibition on at a local art gallery and made sure I was brought back early for a phone appointment with the hospital at 14:40. They sent me this appointment on a letter with a secret password on and if I can't quote it they won't talk to me :roll:

    This is an assessment before the appointment at the hospital itself on Monday morning.

    The letter is next to the phone with a pen and paper and a list of my meds and notes of my tummy troubles. Though I have had other calls to make I haven't used the phone because I didn't want to inconvenience the hospital and the phone be engaged when they tried to call.

    You know where this is leading.

    NO BLINKING PHONE CALL!!!!

    How come we try so hard to fulfil our end of the bargain just to be let down! Secret passwords PAH!
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    they are a pain but well we would not be with out them they get some of it right ((())) val
    val
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    What a nuisance. So now do you wait for a call that may never arrive.....


    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    tkachev wrote:
    What a nuisance. So now do you wait for a call that may never arrive.....


    Elizabeth

    I don't think they'll ring before my appointment on Monday now 'E' and even if they phone tomorrow morning I'm going out ......so I waited in for nothing.

    Have a good weekend.

    Luv
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    lindalegs wrote:
    tkachev wrote:
    What a nuisance. So now do you wait for a call that may never arrive.....


    Elizabeth

    I don't think they'll ring before my appointment on Monday now 'E' and even if they phone tomorrow morning I'm going out ......so I waited in for nothing.

    Have a good weekend.

    Luv


    at least you had a good rest lol hope app goes well monday have good weekend val
    val
  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    hi Legs,

    i know i am useless just now but never think your forgotten!

    oh hospitals are pains and its just the way things sadly are..... i hope it goes well for the appointment and we are all gong to leap in your picket.. thats me, the employers on mass and the lodgers so we are yomoping weight less buckets just now :wink:

    so hope things ill ease up and get better fro you my friend and got every thing crossed. love and a hug with side order of make legs better and a rare and not often found universal fixer bucket. Cris who can';t see so good but still so envy's you the Lowry exhibition... bet it was quite something eh? xx
  • bertyboy
    bertyboy Member Posts: 1,860
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    just having a belated catch up ,and fount pocket dutys so just making my self comfy in your pocket Legs , really hope its a good one , xx

    ps i will leave my Santa list in the corner i would like something nice and not common xx :lol:
    I know i am a lady ,all life is a journey xx MAY xx
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thanks girls, you're on my list, in fact my cyber gift sack is getting quite heavy.

    Cris never, never call yourself useless that is not true at all ......that's your wrist slapped! :wink:

    Now for the update.

    This morning the consultant took my full poo history and then I was introduced to Mr Microscope-up-the-jacksy!!!!!! She said my lower bowel looked nice and healthy but just to make sure she’s put me down for a colonoscopy next Wednesday 30th November. :shock:

    Etanercept nursey came at lunchtime today and Mr Legs put on his nurses uniform and gave me my first jab. It didn’t hurt at all and I just felt a little pressure as the dose went in though I did hold an ice pack on my stomach for a few minutes before the injection. I think I'll give it a couple of weeks then have a go myself though then I'll put it into my thigh as I'll have to do it two handed. :roll:

    Just hope it works and then I can enter for Olympic hurdles 2012 .......fingers crossed for me now.

    Love,
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,026
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Well done you and well done Mr Legs!!!

    What a clever nursey he is :wink:

    Don't let it go to his head though will you or he may not be able to get in tha hoose :shock:

    Glad Dr MUYJ is happy with your innards as far as she can ascertain, but agree tis wise to make sure eh :shock:

    Catch you later

    Love

    Toni xx

    Ps perhaps you should begin with some gentle jogging?? d055.gif
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I have never, ever been brave enough to inject in my thigh. They all go in the roll of fat round my tummy.
    I prefer to do it myself and have the control but well done to your hubby.

    Elizabeth xxx
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Toni and 'E'

    Mr Legs is very adept at whatever task is set him, except ironing, he wouldn't even know how to plug one in :roll: :lol::lol:

    Next Monday I shall get him to inject my thigh just so I know if it'll hurt or not before I try. I can't inject my stomach as my hands are so malformed I can't pinch my flesh together to put the needle into but with my thigh I can press firmly down and use the heel of my hand to click the pen top.

    I wouldn't be feeling the good effects of the Enbrel already would I? Last night the pain I've had in my right hand knuckles for the past fortnight has gone :shock: Surely this is coincidence or my brain wanting this to be happening? What do you think?

    Luv,
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'

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