Evening JoJo.:+))))))))))))))

Thanks, the food encourages you to get home as quick as possible.

I only watched the whole operation as i'm nosey, the monitor was 1ft from my face.
I could even feel them pressing on my stomach, quite an unreal experience.

Good Morning Everyone.:+)))))))))))))))))

It looks like a cool wet day for most.
Not right for this time of the year. 14C for me, rotten.

Good morning you lot.



Hi there Hicky. Welcome home.

Climbing up to about 16c with some rain in the middle of the day forecast for London. Yesterday, the weather people got it all wrong. It stayed dry with gorgeous sunshine all day.

Good Morning Eddy.:+))))))))))))))

Thank you, Hospitals seem fine if your either too ill to notice or well and can get your own food brought in.
When you don't feel too good cold food that should be hot doesn't help, and toast that looks like and tastes like 6 layers of cardboard made by recycled paper isn't an exciting breakfast.
The sandwiches were ok, also the cornflakes, the jelly and ice cream was ok as it was bought in.
But the food is no hotter reaching the patients now than it was 40 years ago.
For 2015 it seems disgusting to me.

Good morning everyone

sun is out here been out gathering my raspberrys have had a good crop, lovely morning

i dont understand either Hicky how the food is still delivered luke warm, i hate luke warm food. I think it should be delivered to the ward in trays and patients chose what they like, it would keep it hotter than individual plating. Years ago a hospital i worked in did this and it could be plated up to look more attractive. Its all to do with cost cutting and saving money but diet is important particularly when you are sick.

Good to hear you are home, dont be doing too much

Good Morning Janet.:+))))))))))))))

I don't know how the food was delivered or where it was cooked, surely they can bring hot food in containers and serve it by the 6 bed wards, the whole ward was only 5 rooms of 6 beds, but if you serve food onto a cold plate that wouldn't help, some wasn't even warm.
The breakfast was always cornflakes or something and toast, a person who had ordered scrambled egg and bacon had left so she offered it to someone who was Diabetic or on High Protein Diet, i wasn't allowed it because i wasn't on a diet.
All the diets are marked on the sheet against the dishes, i asked the nurse which category i was in, she said none, so i said what can i order then, she said order what you want but you probably won't get it.

Morning everyone.

Sometimes the food isnt even made in the same building. i feel sorry for the doctors and nurses who (as far as I can see) do their absolute best and are continually thwarted by the "system" which seems to have been thought up by someone with no common sense or medical training.


I was in one hospital where we were served a particularly small pullets egg each for breakfast. On its own. No toast. It must have been no more than thirty calories. We laughed on the ward and someone said we should put them all together and draw straws for the breakfast.

I was in Blackburn yesterday. I got a sink from Ebay. It wouldnt fit in th car and CL had to dismantle it by the side of the road while a couple sat outside their house on a bench enjoying watching us bickering.

I could have sworn there was an outside market in Blackburn. We drove round and round and could only find an indoor one, which isnt the same, (and we had Nobby) so after being stuck going round a few more times we went to Bolton market which has also changed to mostly indoors but at least it had the same fruit and meat stalls.
I would never go in a shop again if we had decent food markets locally. We easily saved the cost of petrol by getting bargains in the market.


So near yet so far, hicky.
I dont know about your hospital, but in "Aintree" (its actually in Fazakerly) you often see the food sitting in the corridor waiting for someone to take it up, so it is probably due to staff shortages. It varies from hospital to hospital, i think.
"Aintree" food isnt bad at all if you strike lucky and get it hot. They have got a really good canteen, and if you are waiting a long time to be seen in casualty or an appointment the nurses bring you snacks and tea.

They have got the opposite problem at Broadgreen heart hospital. When CL was being done there they sent round a funny little milk shake in a polystyrene container.
It turned out to be melted icecream.
At least the food always provides a much needed laugh.

makes no sense does it. You should be able to order what you fancy within reason


Hi Honey

haha i would have helped you had I known, that was mean of them to just watch they could have helped! Wasnt Cristians mother was it?

Its a while since we had the outdoor market, the town centre at the moment is a mess i dont know how anyone finds what they want! Although that veg stall on the market is cheap and you can pick your own items. The best outdoor one near here is in Chorley, its just like the old markets were. It is in the town centre so if you wanted the big shops also not far to go.

the food in the hospital here comes from the ground floor and has to go up in the lifts already plated, the hospital is massive so bound not to be hot. The food on the childrens ward used to come up in trays and the staff plated it up, like Hicky says warm plates would also help.

Evening all, miserable grey and wet here, lovely for the time of year

I can never understand the food situation in hospitals - given that the people in there are sick and need all the help they can get to regain their health and strength. In this day and age is quite ridiculous that patients can't get nutritious and hot food 3 times a day - no-one is asking for gourmet service, just palatable and hot.

Laughed at you and your roadside antics Honey, you are hilarious with your bargains!

ETA - they can manage it in private hospitals so it must be a question of money, as is everything in the NHS. I visited a friend not long ago in a BUPA hospital and as a visitor I was able to order a ham and salad sandwich, fresh bread, lovely ham, and it cost me/the patient £1.30!

Hi guys

Hicky, I'm so very glad that the operation went well, and that you were able to watch it all, and it must have been so interesting to watch. Well done for being home and, er, dry already. I beg you to take things easily!!


she drives very well, and although I feel guilty saying this, much much better than my late BIL. She has hired a car (Fiesta) and we went to the Antiques Show at the NEC today. I even, eventually, managed to get the satnav to take us there. What a wonderful invention that is!

Thanks Janet!

Good morning you lot.




Rather wet here this morning.

Good Morning Eddy and Everyone.:+))))))))))))))))))

Thick cloud, light cloud and rain later, 16C, not the weather for July at all.


Morning Moots.:+)))))))))))))))))

Thanks, it sure was an experience watching my own Operation, but i had nothing else to do, and the surgeon and nurses were talking me through it, and at the end showed me the debris taken out in a plastic container, all the smashed stone fragments and bits of flesh cut from the prostrate, the pile was about 7cm wide by 1.5cm deep.

It looked like what you brush up when cleaning a butchers block.

Hi there Hicky. Look after yourself!

Hello all

Good Morning Everyone.:+)))))))))))))))))

Another rather miserable day here 15C with cloud and rain, how exciting.


Morning Moots.:+)))))))))))))))))

It's not something everyone has to go through, it's the same as being awake while the Dentist does your teeth, maybe a bit more graphic, but at least i know what is involved.

Good morning.

A very nice and sunny start here. Dry. 14c at present.

Good Morning Eddy.:+))))))))))))))))))

Well thats better than what i have here, it's dark and miserable, 13C at moment, not much nice weather expected till later in the week.

Can't find a sunny day for the next 9 days.

Hi there Hicky. Very pleasant here indeed.

How are you feeling? I trust you are taking it very easy.

Hi Eddy, I'm feeling fine, am taking it easy, much better without pipes coming out of you.
Feel more comfortable.
Not got the right colour wee yet, also a bit of stinging, it should get back to normal, not sure when, i suppose everyone is different, when you consider what they did it's no surprise it was all bleeding, think it will take a while to heal.

Ha ha thats just how i feel !

I am sure it wont heal straightaway but hopefully wont take to long.

With regards to you watching the op on tv, while i have never done that, i did once have a tube put up me and was able to watch the screen that they were looking at as i wasnt knocked out. (i had passed blood and so they needed to check all was ok, which it was fortunately). It hurt to wee afterwards as well, the first time, which they made me do before i left! certainly not something i want to do again lol

Hi Barra.:+)))))))))))))))

I think judging by the size of the catheter used after the operation to flush the debris and blood away i don't wonder why poor willy is stinging a bit when i pass water, the width was about 9mm which is stretching it a bit so i can see it stinging for a while yet.

Afternoon all.
How are you supposed to clean a butchers block? I have never brushed up anything.

I suppose its better than lying there awake not knowing.

Anyone would think it was autumn. Maybe the seasons have shifted?

Give it time Hicky. It hasnt even been a week yet.


I see "Nikki's shoe" has "sold" for seven thousand one hundred pounds.

What on earth is going on with her and Nick?

Hi Honey.:+)))))))))))))))))

You scrape it with a scraper then scrub with a wire brush, then put the bits of flesh in a bottle.

You are correct, imagine lying awake looking at the wall for 1½ hours.

I've seen it a lot better in Autumn.

I am very impatient, hate waiting for things to heal.

who would pay that for Nikki's shoe, you could buy a nice car for that.
Maybe the girl buyer only has one leg.

What is it that get scraped? And doesnt the wire brush rough it up and make germs and food get trapped in the scratches? I thought smooth tighter grains were better?
I just bleach or dettol mine every day and oil it often.
Flesh?


Maybe Harry has bought it and she's going to shove it up Nick's wotsit and dump him after his shenanigans with Nikki?