The Retirement Thread

[SpokeyDokey]

A lot of hospital talk here...

Third day out since hispital release and still reorientating myself. Feels very odd being home.

Coming to terms slowly with having an incurable condition. Learnt yesterday what the road ahead will be (2 more x chemo & possible stem cell transplant) and am processing that info.

Weak as the proverbial kitten. 1-2 years is the estimated convalescence period.

My exercise routine currently consists of a short walk each day and some arm exercises using a couple of 1kg dumbells - sounds pathetic but it's the best I can do right now.

Normal stuff: off to get new tyres for the car. The 2 fronts are still legal but below what I am happy with. 12500 miles doesn't seem great but the tyre shop feels it is quite normal.

Have a good day all!

@Drago Don't worry about Bruce, he seems to have found himself a girlfriend with pink toenails to take his mind off of you.

Other non-commentable news: I see that unemployment is up and the job market has weakened - who would have thought eh? Let's put employer NI up and hope they (employers) simply suck up the cost... Stop right there Spokey!

 

[numbnuts]

A lot of hospital talk here...

Third day out since hispital release and still reorientating myself. Feels very odd being home.

Coming to terms slowly with having an incurable condition. Learnt yesterday what the road ahead will be (2 more x chemo & possible stem cell transplant) and am processing that info.

Weak as the proverbial kitten. 1-2 years is the estimated convalescence period.

My exercise routine currently consists of a short walk each day and some arm exercises using a couple of 1kg dumbells - sounds pathetic but it's the best I can do right now.

Normal stuff: off to get new tyres for the car. The 2 fronts are still legal but below what I am happy with. 12500 miles doesn't seem great but the tyre shop feels it is quite normal.

Have a good day all!

@Drago Don't worry about Bruce, he seems to have found himself a girlfriend with pink toenails to take his mind off of you.

Every time I've been in hospital, I feel very vulnerable for a few day after getting home,
I always thought it was me living on my own that did this.

 

[numbnuts]

Lord only knows what the weather is doing here. Not seen daylight in 24hrs.

You'll soon be home and back with your family and the dog
Take care, and do as you are told !!!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Firstly - best wishes to @Drago
sounds scary - I had one a few months ago and I was scared at the time


bit of a pain and I seem to have even more of a problem with names since then
(I have always been bad at remembering what people are called)

but apart from that the main remaining symptom is that I have to take 3 more tablet every day
and they finally made me take Statins - previously I was always asking "why" and "point me to the test results that say I should"

Oh - and SWMBO agrees with them - so that's that

anyway - thinking of you
and Bruce who must be a bit confused and worried
but he'll be fine - just be prepared for an enthusiastic welcome when you get back to him!!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Oh - just remembered why I came on here

Went for a ride yesterday - loveky ride along the canals

more boats this time - the number is slowly moving upwards which is nice to see
so, instead of doing my normal loop which involves going round through the Western edges of Warrington and back on the old St Helens Canal I just turned round at the halfway point and came back the same way

Now - on the way out I saw 2 people that I noticed as unusual

firstly a normal bloke - 30-40 ish - but holding his phone inhis hand and it was playing loud music
unusually very good sound from it and Classical music
which is unusual

And - a bit earlier - an older couple (i.e. older than me!!!) with the bloke sitting on the seat of a mobility scooter
and the woman sitting on his knees steering
both looking happy clealry having a good time


anyway - I went back the same way

and saw the same 2 people coming back towards me
both doing the same things exactly
in almost exactly the same places

and this was almost 2 hours later!!!


I am starting to think teh film "The Matrix" might not have been fiction!!!!

anyway - good ride - nice scenary and lots of boats and wild-life!

 

[mikeIow]

Good luck to Spokey & Drago. Keep your spirits up, & no, I don’t mean another dram…

Day trip up to Sheffield today: seeing Tim Minchin this evening. Feels like shorts weather, but maybe that is a bit naughty for an evening in company 🫣

 

[PaulSB]

The original idea was just to travel as far north as we could by train, which is Thurso. And then we added a few extra bits on, ie. going across to Orkney and the bus via JOG and Wick. There is no event at the end.
We enjoy train travel and get to see the scenery on the way.
Last year was a trip on the Settle and Carlisle line.
You'd think after nearly 45 working on the railway, and 7 years retirement I wouldn't want to go anywhere near it, but no, I still love it.

Excellent. It's a great way to travel enjoying company and scenery. I love train travel and don't do enough.

 

[PaulSB]

Every time I've been in hospital, I feel very vulnerable for a few day after getting home,
I always thought it was me living on my own that did this.

Not in my experience. I live with my wife. When I was discharged after my RTC I suddenly found I'd moved out of the hospital system into the community system. In hospital all my medical needs were anticipated and delivered. At discharge I was given a letter addressed to my GP. I rang the surgery and the receptionist advised I needed to call a specialist wound dressing clinic. It proved extremely difficult to sort out.

I was discharged on a Friday morning and I didn't manage to contact the dressing clinic till Monday, the day my dressing should have been changed. I spent most of Friday and the whole weekend feeling utterly vulnerable and abandoned.

It was a horrible feeling and it left me with a real worry as to how people who may already be vulnerable in some way would react. I feel some might just give up.

Once I got on to the community system it was brilliant. Every bit as good as the hospital care.

 

[mistyoptic]

This morning's ride aborted as the rain started just as I wheeled the tandem out of the garage

 

[gbb]

Town this morning courtesy of my concessionary pass..bit of shopping, some yellow stickered stuff including a chicken t9 roast tonight with chips and gravy...yum yum.
Sorry to hear Drago's ails, I scrolled back but couldn't find what it was...whatever it is, GWS sir.

 

[PaulSB]

@SpokeyDokey I realise I'm a bit older than you but the same principle applies. At our age it isn't the weight, resistance, distance etc. that is important but the actual exercise. Using the muscles, moving your body, raising your breathing just a little. For example the 1kg or 10kg bicep curl is basically the same thing - exercising that bicep. The weight the bicep is able to lift in my view, and that of my PT, is largely irrelevant.

In my exercise routines before the RTC I could lat raise 10 reps at 7.5kg. A struggle but i could. Today I settle for 5 x 5kg followed by 5 x 2.5. My shoulder can't take any more - yet.....

 

[Drago]

But who is taking Bruce for his daily walks? I bet you are missing him too.

Mrs D is handling that. Fortunately she's in a good place with her ms at the moment.

I a missing my boy Bruce terribly. I raised him from a little pup-pup myself and he's as devoted to his Daddy as I am to him.

 

[PaulSB]

Town this morning courtesy of my concessionary pass..bit of shopping, some yellow stickered stuff including a chicken t9 roast tonight with chips and gravy...yum yum.
Sorry to hear Drago's ails, I scrolled back but couldn't find what it was...whatever it is, GWS sir.

Suspected mini stroke

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning from that London, and firstly all the very best to @Drago, get well soon.
Got the train yesterday from Poole to Kensal rise as it's nearer sons place. Straight from the station to granddaughter's school and then on to son's place. Just popped out to big Sainsbury which is around the corner, saw this advertisement: 😁

 

[Drago]

Suspected mini stroke

Aye, 99% sure it's a TIA at this point.