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All aboard the Seafour tour bus #2

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Seafour · 12/12/2018 20:12

A new thread for us

Old thread in HDU with respiratory failure and terrified

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MintyT · 23/12/2018 14:29

Tell us when your home, the bus can park up - a whole new parking thread await

justasyouare · 23/12/2018 14:36

Whoop whoop. I hope the journey was smooth and you are settled and comfy at home.
Hope you’re ok crown

yawning801 · 23/12/2018 14:38

God knows how we're going to manoeuvre the bus when we get to yours, Sea! So glad you're on your way there though - you've come so far in the space of a thread and a half.

WheresTheCoffee · 23/12/2018 14:41

Great news!

JustanotherCHRISTMASuser01 · 23/12/2018 15:01

If ok with everybody I'm going to set up a little den upstairs with nice calming lights and light tinkling music, I'm also going to invite my therapist (she was my psycosexual councillor but she does awesome other therapy) just in case anybody needs any more of a hand hold than we can offer, shes an amazing lady and I'm sure would fit right in here . There's also a massuse a nail technician and any other beauty you could require the upstairs is going to be a tranquil zone over the manic Christmas period. Also I've installed little pods big enough for just one in case you need some alone time

Applesandpears23 · 23/12/2018 15:10

Merry Christmas! So pleased to hear you have been discharged.

Seafour · 23/12/2018 16:04

I got home to a super excited Lola who came out to the ambulance, the crew were lovely, I told them all about the buslings and they said I'd made their Christmas for them. The journey was shattering so Lola and I have had a wonderful snooze, the tortoise celebrated by crapping in the kitchen, I've not seen rabbit or cat yet.

I'm happy to report you are on my drive and you have a view across the field of cows to the village church. I imagine that I can here you singing Christmas carols and songs.

I can't thank you enough for pulling me through this operation and the recovery. I mean it from the bottom of my heart when I say the healing love of this thread is what pulled me and Fabulous through. I know dh has been reading snippets too, from us to all of you🎄❤️❤️❤️❤️💐🥂🍾 let's raise a glass "shampoo for our real friends and real poo for our sham friends"

This is my new view.

All aboard the Seafour tour bus #2
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Almostfifty · 23/12/2018 16:12

I'm glad you're home safe and sound. Take it easy now.

Andro · 23/12/2018 16:18

We have the Annie Lennox, Christmas Cornucopia album on at the moment. We're also eating Christmas cake 'samplers' - i.e. buns made from Christmas cake mix (the actual Christmas cake isn't started until Christmas day in this house).

There are plenty of 'samplers' for my fellow buslings, anyone nut allergic is safe - I don't put any in my Christmas cake mixes.

NancyHoHoHo · 23/12/2018 16:19

Lovely to see you home sea and Lola looks very pleased too.

I'm getting off the bus to go for a yomp across some fields - where are the nearest footpaths?

Andro · 23/12/2018 16:19

Seafour, glad you had a safe journey and a good nap.

yawning801 · 23/12/2018 16:25

Andro since it's nut-free, I'll make the most of this opportunity!

Sea We're all very lucky to have met you, you are one of the bravest people I know and I feel rather honoured to be one of the buslings! Glad you're home and dry, and revel in the absence of that vile hospital smell!

InflagranteDelicto · 23/12/2018 16:40

I am sooooo pleased you're home. The view is fantastic, and the company even better.

Raising my mug to you all BrewGin

WitchDancer · 23/12/2018 16:51

Welcome home 🎉

ThinkOfAWittyNameLater · 23/12/2018 17:10

My eyes are leaking. I'm so glad you're home @Seafour. No-one deserves it more.

Lola looks so happy, bless her.

Retreatbynameretreatbynature · 23/12/2018 17:23

Welcome home Seafour. I’m so pleased that you’ve been reunited with Lola. Glad to hear that you’ve both had a well-deserved nap together. Happy Christmas to you and your family. 🎄

Seafour · 23/12/2018 17:42

For dog walkers, cross the road at the pedestrian crossing just to the right when you leave the drive, continue right and just past the row of houses you will see a style, over you go. You are now in the "field of naughty cows" who Lola is convinced are out to get her. Well behaved dogs can go off lead, the footpath goes diagonally towards the church, over the style at the other end and past the cottages, now a right turn and you come to the footbridge over the railway, up the steps and onto the bridge, if its a slow train and the toddlers wave they will be rewarded with a " toot" from the driver.
Down the steps and along the path next to the church at the end you will see the gate to the nature reserve, free poo bags for anyone who forgot to bring some are in a plastic bottle nailed to the gate post.
The dogs are very excited, lots of wagging, and they're off, heading towards the river, round in a big loop, eagle eyed little ones might find some of Seafour's painted rocks along the way.
Back at the start and do it all in reverse, muddy dogs into the grooming van and everyone else back on the bus for hot chocolate and a gingerbread star from the Christmas tree.

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MrsFrankDrebin · 23/12/2018 17:56

So glad you are home, @Seafour. It's not the same at all, but eventually got my DC home yesterday after being caught up in the Gatwick drone chaos. But they - like you - are happy to be in the familiar surroundings of home.

As with everyone else, in total awe of you - makes me ashamed to ever think I have a reason to moan, because really I have nothing to moan about. It's humbling to check the thread for updates every day.

Happy Christmas to you and yours, Seafour, and all fellow buslings! I will raise a glass to us all as I 'hic' at the back of the bus with my bottle of prosecco! Xmas Smile. See you all on the other side!

KnittingSister · 23/12/2018 19:28

Great news Seafour, welcome home!
Wishing you much rest, good food, tender care and a very happy Christmas Xmas Smile

Roystonv · 23/12/2018 20:46

Congratulations on your safe return, healing good wishes for your continuing recovery and happy Christmas to you and yours.

Crownandheelshigh · 23/12/2018 21:03

Thank you @Seafour.

It's a long one so bare with... she was emotionally and physically abusive for years but I kept going back "trying to make her love me" I suppose,
Step mum and bio dad. Bio mother put me in foster care (so haven't lived with them since I was 11) then 3 years ago tomorrow had an affair in America with a. Man she had never met before after 29 years of marriage, then came back and dragged me to court as she accused my dad of rape (which he didn’t because I was in the house the night of it “apparently” happening, and had messages to prove that my dad had gone to bed early and she didn’t go till 2/3am before she flew to America. When she came back (today, 3 years ago) I was stood in weatherspoons in my local town, had a call of police asking me to go home for my own safety and when I asked why they said she was back and had tried to kill dad, bare in mind I had been told to look after her dogs and dad etc while she went to America. Xx

gigglingHyena · 23/12/2018 22:23

Congratulations on a safe arrival home, there's hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows for anyone needing warming up after the dog walk. Towels for muddy paws are in the stack on the left.

Ready for a bit of Christmas hibernation here, we've had a walk round looking at the Christmas lights, there are some very impressive displays this year, now it's home for some board games and nibbles.

JustLurkingAway · 23/12/2018 22:29

Oh Seafour I've just caught up with the thread! I'm so pleased that you're home for ChristmasXmas Smile

Pennina · 23/12/2018 22:50

Ahhhh home. Nothing like it. Glad to see you home safe and sound. Xmas Smile

Seafour · 23/12/2018 22:53

Crownandheelshigh you poor love, it's so hard to come to terms with not being loved by a parent, your story sounds as if your life was full of chaos caused by the very people who should have cared most about you. Anniversaries of traumatic events can be emotive and stir up difficult feelings, I know that it can catapult you back to the events and reawaken the trauma, it's horrid. Don't let her own any part of you, no feelings, no headspace no memories..
There is a big red box with a small slot a bit like a post box, you'll find it behind the drivers seat, I want you to take it into the den and sit down with it in front of you. You know you're safe in here, now you're going to unpack the memories, trauma, hatred and abuse and push it all into the slot, it's hard because there's a flap that makes it impossible for anything posted in to ever get out again. All of the space those things were taking yo in your head and heart will instantly be filled up with the love, kindness and hope for the future that we've created on our beautiful, magical bus. Promise you will do this, when you're done put the box outside the bus under the magnolia tree, there it will consume all of the nasty stuff inside and tomorrow you can clean and polish it, we need to take care of it, pop it back behind the drivers seat in case you or someone else needs it again.
The only anniversary of this day is the day I came home 💕

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