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Zappa, thanks for the link which I'll read when I'm next in the library. My dial-up connection is being really irritating today.
GG -Prayers for the Grandad, and of course for you. That sounds major. And if it's at Wellington Hospital - prayers for the parking too.
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The statistics and stories that prompted the intervention were shocking, particularly in relation to child abuse. To anyone's knowledge, has there been any progress in this regard since the stats were gathered, either as a result of the intervention or subsequent polcies/initiatives.
"Lies, damned lies and statistics." Nothing that I aware off, though a couple of studies are being done at present. However, if someone has a link to completed studies showing the effects of the Intervention, it would be very useful.
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GG,
My wife had to have a similar operation to repair a hernia arising from emergency appendectomy. The recuperation takes some time as the mesh is assimilated into the body, but when complete she has found relief from pain and discomfort.
She is however a couple of decades younger than the Granddad, so our prayers are with him in the hope that similar success and relief can be achieved.
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{{GG and Grandad}} ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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From here, too
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Prayers from us to you and the Granddad GG. Does all this happen closer to home than the last admission? Is it common in NZ for people to have an operation and then go to a rehab hospital? This seems now to be the usual course here and takes a lot of burden from the one at home.
Yes, in our Wellington hospital, just a year from the last emergency op in Waikato Hospital. Everyone speaks very highly of the surgeon (who specialises in breasts and hernias???) I don't know how usual the rehab system is, though it seems to work best for joint surgery and stroke.
And Huia, if you park at the crack of dawn, as instructed for surgery, the parking is free; if the Grandad's to be in for some time (they told us six days when they rang today but we expect longer) I'll ask for a chitty that gives me a 50% discount for parking. It's okay about the underground park with all those shock absorbers, it's probably the safest place to be in an earthquake.
Those prayers are all appreciated.
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If its the surgeon I think it is (and with that odd combination of specialties it seems likely) the Granddad is in excellent hands. Will be thinking of you.
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If its the surgeon I think it is (and with that odd combination of specialties it seems likely) the Granddad is in excellent hands. Will be thinking of you.
Can we say that in both he does battles with bulges? It does cast new light on the old nip and tuck. (Sorry GG, I know that this is really very serious stuff, and you both have our prayers and thoughts. I can just imagine what's going through both of your minds.)
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for the Granddad.
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GG Prayers for you and the GD today for comfort and support through the operation and recovery; and for the surgeon and his team that they may have skill, judgment and wisdom.
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Amen to that, and again we say, Amen!
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Well, after all these weeks of anxiety, we went in to Admissions at 7 am and had a chat from the Famous Surgeon about the complexity and possible risks of the operation.. at 2 pm the assistant phoned to say all had gone very well and the Grandad was in ICU and would be coming round within a couple of hours – and there he was, giving cheek to the nurses through his oxygen mask. What could be more reassuring? I suppose now that all his innards have been tucked back inside we'll have to go shopping for new clothes.
Life begins again!
And thanks for all those prayers, which meant a lot to both of us.
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GG, that's marvellous news. We've been thinking of you both all day. I told Madame when I got home a few minutes ago, and she had a little cry of mixed joy and (it drawing near to her father's anniversary) of sadness. Prayers now for a good recovery.
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Glad to hear all went so well GG!
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Lovely news and continuing prayer for all, GG.
Interesting you comment about giving cheek. My dad was, as my sister said, 'a truly gentle man.' After an anaesthetic he would be either outrageously flirtatious with nurses or extremely quarrelsome. He was utterly mortified if anyone mentioned either behaviour after he had recovered.
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1993 and just pre-op the guy pumping me full of whatever they give you just before they tell you to count to ten was absolutely gorgeous - because of the circumstances I can't say for sure that I told him he was but I rather suspect that I did.
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Great news, GG - may the Grandad's recovery be swift and complete! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
WW, I shouldn't worry - he was probably used to people talking gibberish while under the influence. I remember once coming round after a general anaesthetic for a tooth extraction talking complete bollocks and asking where Bert was. The only Bert I knew was my then boss - why on earth would I have been asking for him?
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GG - so glad to hear the good news, continued prayers for his recovery.
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Thanks to God for GG's successful surgery. ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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The Grandad's still in ICU and still chirpy but we can see there will still be a while before it's okay to send him home after all that clever chopping and reorganising of tissue. Not too long, we hope, but all systems have to be working well, and he still has the epidural in place as well as various other painkillers.
We have a great photo of him looking great and surrounded by technology though.
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...We have a great photo of him looking great and surrounded by technology though.
GG
Including the machine that goes beep?
Grandad, get well soon.
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Many thanks Huia for such a positive and encouraging update. Prayers continuing.
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...We have a great photo of him looking great and surrounded by technology though.
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Including the machine that goes beep?
Grandad, get well soon.
Oh yes, with limited lung volume and a degree of apnoea, and the lungs may have a bit less room with the gut back where it should be, every time he forgets to breathe properly the oxygen level drops below 89 and we have loud beeps and a flashing yellow light.
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Prayers continuing.
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Of course, that should have been thanks to GG rather than Huia Wrong island and all, I don't know how that happened except the early hour.
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I glad you sorted that Gee D - I was feeling a bit confused.
Week 2 of the bathroom renovation starts tomorrow. So far there have been about 9 ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) tradies involved. The electrician had a couple of apprentices so that upped the numbers. He was careful to explain the safety rules behind why they were moving the light and when I said "Oh good, that will make reading in the bath easier" the young lads looked at me as though I had mentioned some kinky behaviour they had never come across before .
I'm not sure how long this is going to take (I have yet to meet the vinyl layer or the tiler) but it will be amazing when it's finished.
(someone, unhelpfully, told me that their daughter's bathroom work had dragged on for over 6 months, ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif) but that involved earthquake damage, so I am discounting it)
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I glad you sorted that Gee D - I was feeling a bit confused.
Week 2 of the bathroom renovation starts tomorrow. So far there have been about 9 tradies involved. The electrician had a couple of apprentices so that upped the numbers. He was careful to explain the safety rules behind why they were moving the light and when I said "Oh good, that will make reading in the bath easier" the young lads looked at me as though I had mentioned some kinky behaviour they had never come across before .
I'm not sure how long this is going to take (I have yet to meet the vinyl layer or the tiler) but it will be amazing when it's finished.
(someone, unhelpfully, told me that their daughter's bathroom work had dragged on for over 6 months, but that involved earthquake damage, so I am discounting it)
Huia
Maybe you need for the bathroom work(ers).
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Huia, you obviously need a Kinky is Kool badge!
I hope it all gets sorted soon.
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Of course, that should have been thanks to GG rather than Huia Wrong island and all, I don't know how that happened except the early hour.
No worries, mate (I think that's the Australian expression).
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Usually said today with an Italian accent though.
How's the Granddad - keeping the nurses on their toes?
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Usually said today with an Italian accent though.
How's the Granddad - keeping the nurses on their toes?
Shades of They're a Weird Mob .
I second concerns for the Granddad and also for you. Hard work being on the sidelines watching,
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Usually said today with an Italian accent though.
How's the Granddad - keeping the nurses on their toes?
Not a very happy camper this morning – they'd taken out the epidural and drain, the physio was giving him tough breathing exercises, he was feeling tired, and I could only stay briefly as i'd found an appointment of mine was at 11 am and the petrol gauge light was on.
I'll do my best to cheer him up this afternoon.
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Quite a few hard days ahead, as well as many good. Even just sitting quietly knitting or whatever you'd do at home when it's too bad to go outside will be comforting for him.
On another tack, my father was 96 in March, and has been in the semi-supported living section in a retirement village for quite a while. He's not too flash at the moment either, with whatever flu-type bug is going around. He's probably where you catch that sort of thing.
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Dofo'th flaen di, O Arglwydd santaidd,
O'r cysgodion i'th olau euraidd;
Gwaed y groes ddaw a mi i'r goleuni,
Chwilia fia glanha fi o'm brynti
Grist, clyw fy nghri, goleau fi.
Yes folks, it's "Shine, Jesus, Shine" in Welsh. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) I attend the Chapel that I go to, not the Chapel I don't, in the city of the south. We had a Gymanfa Ganu (pronounced Gamava ganee) (Songs of Praise) on Sunday. It was good!
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Thank you Piglet. He'll be right in a while, just that recovery from even the bug that everyones getting takes longer at his age.
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... I attend the Chapel that I go to, not the Chapel I don't ...
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Like the Scottish Wee Free bloke who, if he were shipwrecked on a desert island, would build two churches - the one that he goes to and the one that he doesn't?
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Gee D, your Dad will recover, but I'm not sure about JtC!
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My phone just popped up a reminder that it is FD's birthday today. I have no idea now if that is correct or not.
Clarence, if you see this, please pass on birthday wishes to him. If reminder is wrong, say hello anyhow.
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... I attend the Chapel that I go to, not the Chapel I don't ...
Like the Scottish Wee Free bloke who, if he were shipwrecked on a desert island, would build two churches - the one that he goes to and the one that he doesn't?
Ah, the joke must be a generic one that changes nationality according to the audience.I had always heard it as the Welsh Chapel man. Whatever, it is still a good joke.
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Gee D, your Dad will recover, but I'm not sure about JtC!
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Gee D, your Dad will recover, but I'm not sure about JtC!
If he's singing in Welsh, he must be overdue for his long service leave.
An easier day to end what has been a difficult week.
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The local council has announced the sale of a large parcel of land a block from where I grew up. One thousand apartments are to be built there.
Down my end there were swings, slippery dip and a climbing frame and we would be sent up there on a Saturday morning. No soft landing under any equipment and no supervision either. I had tennis lessons there at two fairly decrepit courts. It was not attractive at all, fairly dry and few trees. My school endeavoured to rectify that by marching down on Wattle Day every year to plant some more. With no attention and rabbits around they did not last long.
There was also a concrete cricket pitch, used irregularly.
A mini golf centre has done well on one corner. That was built in 1969.
Just as well I have memories.
Sale price to council? 130 million dollars. They have a big profit on it as it received almost no attention over the years.
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Fascinating morning at Church. I celebrated and preached, a traditional Anglo-Catholic communion - along with the Watoto Children's Choir from Uganda, with dancing and arm waving and other sights usually unseen among the Frozen Chosen of Anglicanism. It was not only the Choir dancing and singing, but also my congregation. One of those amazing moments.
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Fascinating morning at Church. I celebrated and preached, a traditional Anglo-Catholic communion - along with the Watoto Children's Choir from Uganda, with dancing and arm waving and other sights usually unseen among the Frozen Chosen of Anglicanism. It was not only the Choir dancing and singing, but also my congregation. One of those amazing moments.
We recently watched a very moving documentary about students at a school in a refugee camp in northern Uganda who competed in a national music and dance festival. They did well, amazing competitors from the rest of the country, but two of them revealed to the camera harrowing experiences at the hands of rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army.
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