OP
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Both have certain hotels (but not all) open for business travel and any other exemptions under the current rules.
Right, I'm off...
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Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
My last overnight was last April - ish. Miserable at a Premier Inn. I booked it because the obligatory attached Wheatsheaf-type pub does a pretty good steak pie but when I arrived it was shut due to staff shortages. Went to a nearby Indian for a curry but got scared at the complete disregard for distancing and took my meal as a takeaway instead.
Unlike you, I had no nice spork so had to eat a lukewarm curry with a plastic teaspoon
Unlike you, I had no nice spork so had to eat a lukewarm curry with a plastic teaspoon
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
Oh! I thought you said north, not the Southern Midlands.
Rocky
Hello decadence
Here’s a big hug from me and the Prof. Hope everything turns out ok. Let us know if there’s anything we can do.
Send our love to @Hill Wimp
OP
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
They say only the good die young, so you'll be right mate.
True story...
When you say:
"When taken I was told it was fine, quite why or how it’s just got to my GP neither of us know"
...brings to mind the time I visited my doctor about a cough that seemed to be making itself rather too much at home for my liking. She did her usual bit of cursory prodding and then as usual came up with a solution that didn't actually involve her in any work, which this time involved saying: "maybe this would be a good time to go back and have that shadow on your lung checked out."
When I had stopped gaping, picked my jaw back up off the floor, I managed, as best I can recall, "what shadow on my lung?"
It turned out that when she sent me for a chest x-ray the previous winter because of a cough, the x-ray that came back featured a clear shadow on the lung. Which she'd not thought worth bringing to my attention.
I know, right?
Anyway, long story short, it turned out in my case to be indeed a cancer. Malignant. Further investigation revealed another nodule. Also malignant.
I think it was about this time that I clearly remember coming back from one of these meetings with the consultants and saying to my wife you know just once just once it would be nice to have one of these meetings that didn't start with them putting on their sad face and starting, well I'm afraid it hasn't been quite as we'd hoped...
Anyway, even though it was quite advanced (thanks, doc), there was good news. Both nuggets were tight, and nobbly. Metastasis is the real end game, and there was no sign of it. both nuggets seemed to have got to their size and then stopped. They could have been there for years.
My half-arsed theory: I got cancer because I used to smoke heavily. I gave up smoking and I took up cycling. Now, as I later read, if there's one thing cancer hates, it's oxygen. Add that to a body generally returning to really bouncing health after a period of sedentary living, and I think the cancer got hit by this lifestyle turnaround, basically said what the hell, and got stopped in its tracks by all the oxygen and broccoli.
Anyway, without wishing to hex anything, that was about seven or eight years ago now (five years with no backsliding and they consider you 'cured'), and I'm fit as the proverbial. As I said on another thread, before having my hip replaced last week (another long story - I'll spare you
) I was told that my blood pressure was perfect, my BMI on the good end of the 'ideal' zone, and my veins excellent.So, bottom line: it probably isn't. Simple statistics. And even if it is, it's not the end of the world. Being fit - by which I mean healthy in mind & body - is, in my half-arsed belief, absolutely crucial. So, you should be alright.
All the best FF.
Look on the bright side, you didn't have to go oop north. Every cloud...
sorry to hear that. Hope all goes well with the Doc.
The Crofted Crest
Veteran
Look after yourself, Fabs. The north can always wait.
OP
OP
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Thanks swee'pea99, It's was a shock call out-of-the-blue because I don't have symptoms of anything. Now I'm checking every breath. I appreciate there are a lot of outcomes but one tends to think the worst on receiving such news, I'd rather hope for the best and prepare for the worst.They say only the good die young, so you'll be right mate.
True story...
When you say:
"When taken I was told it was fine, quite why or how it’s just got to my GP neither of us know"
...brings to mind the time I visited my doctor about a cough that seemed to be making itself rather too much at home for my liking. She did her usual bit of cursory prodding and then as usual came up with a solution that didn't actually involve her in any work, which this time involved saying: "maybe this would be a good time to go back and have that shadow on your lung checked out."
When I had stopped gaping, picked my jaw back up off the floor, I managed, as best I can recall, "what shadow on my lung?"
It turned out that when she sent me for a chest x-ray the previous winter because of a cough, the x-ray that came back featured a clear shadow on the lung. Which she'd not thought worth bringing to my attention.
I know, right?
Anyway, long story short, it turned out in my case to be indeed a cancer. Malignant. Further investigation revealed another nodule. Also malignant.
I think it was about this time that I clearly remember coming back from one of these meetings with the consultants and saying to my wife you know just once just once it would be nice to have one of these meetings that didn't start with them putting on their sad face and starting, well I'm afraid it hasn't been quite as we'd hoped...
Anyway, even though it was quite advanced (thanks, doc), there was good news. Both nuggets were tight, and nobbly. Metastasis is the real end game, and there was no sign of it. both nuggets seemed to have got to their size and then stopped. They could have been there for years.
My half-arsed theory: I got cancer because I used to smoke heavily. I gave up smoking and I took up cycling. Now, as I later read, if there's one thing cancer hates, it's oxygen. Add that to a body generally returning to really bouncing health after a period of sedentary living, and I think the cancer got hit by this lifestyle turnaround, basically said what the hell, and got stopped in its tracks by all the oxygen and broccoli.
Anyway, without wishing to hex anything, that was about seven or eight years ago now (five years with no backsliding and they consider you 'cured'), and I'm fit as the proverbial. As I said on another thread, before having my hip replaced last week (another long story - I'll spare you
So, bottom line: it probably isn't. Simple statistics. And even if it is, it's not the end of the world. Being fit - by which I mean healthy in mind & body - is, in my half-arsed belief, absolutely crucial. So, you should be alright.
All the best FF.
Look on the bright side, you didn't have to go oop north. Every cloud...
I need to up my exercise for sure....
Thanks
FF.
Hopefully I'll have the CT scan by the end of the week and then I'll be better armed
Jazz mags, the need for glasses?I had to re read that with my glasses on.
Nudge nudge, wink wink! 😂
- Location
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
I'm not surprised you're discombobulated. All the best for the scan and other tests. I hope it turns out to be nothing to worry about after all.
Now that's proper desperate, although hopefully you'll be back on the road again soon big F.
I still have to stay away about once a month, last week I booked a night in a Best Western in Dundee and the website came back saying that the hotel would ask for proof that my travel was essential, I've got a covering letter from work should I need it.
Anyway, I turn up at the hotel and it's straight in with no questions asked. 😊
