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News about spacecadet

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spacecadetshusband · 09/01/2006 09:21

Spacecadet has asked me to get everyone who was concerned about her know, that she was admitted to hospital last night. she is currently in MAU, where she will be for up 48 hours depending on how she responds to treatment. She had another chest x-ray and is on IV antibiotics and also a drip as she was dehydrated.She has asked me to say thankyou to everyone who was concerned about her.

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PrincessPeaHead · 09/01/2006 10:36

I've been telling her for 5 days that pneumonia kills.
She's been telling us that you won't take time off work and your dad told her to stop being a hypochondriac.
You can see why you aren't flavour of the month on here!
But glad you are contrite - PLEASE just remember that it takes a long time to recover from pneumonia, and it is easy to relapse from. Just because she is home from hospital, dressed and not coughing her guts out in a week or so does NOT mean she doesn't feel like the living dead and have a lot of convalescing to do. If you can remember that you'll go a long way to redeeming yourself!!!

LadySherlockofLGJ · 09/01/2006 10:37

Besides which, if Spacey is truly one of us, once she is feeling better retribution will be swift, brutal and above all expensive.

PrincessPeaHead · 09/01/2006 10:38

PS I told my dh once to stop moaning about a stomach ache, he was clearly constipated, and if he wanted to know about abdominal pain he should try labour.

He was operated on for an almost burst appendix a few hours later.

Hope that makes you feel a bit better!

BudaBabe · 09/01/2006 10:38

Def needs to be expensive - hits hardest I always find!!

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spacecadetshusband · 09/01/2006 10:39

point taken princesspeahead.

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Lonelymum · 09/01/2006 10:40

Oh SC I do hope you are feeling better soon. You have soooo been through the mill lately.

As for MrSC not taking her seriously enough: hey that is just humankind for you. Let's face it, most of us are with someone exactly the same. I had a tired and headachey thing before Christmas and I am sure dh thought I should pull myself together and get on. Well, now, he has it and he has almost admitted he was wrong to be so blase when I had it!

misdee · 09/01/2006 10:42

i told peter to stop being a baby and get on with things once. later that week he was told he had DCM and was in heart failure. bad bad wifey

anything we can do to help then let us know.

codthemod · 09/01/2006 10:42

ARF PPH
MY DH WAS TAKING INDIGESTION TABLETS FOR HIS APPENDIX

oops

codthemod · 09/01/2006 10:42

ARF PPH
MY DH WAS TAKING INDIGESTION TABLETS FOR HIS APPENDIX

oops

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spacecadetshusband · 09/01/2006 10:50

I feel even worse because E always worries too much about me, its her that makes me go to the doctors when I otherwise wouldnt.

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sansouci · 09/01/2006 10:53

So sorry to hear about Spacecadet! Hope she's getting some proper rest now & will be out soon.

BTW, how do you know when a very bad cough is pneumonia? I've had one since 31 Dec & am feeling very rough besides...

Marina · 09/01/2006 10:53

And I once told dh to stop whingeing about his mildly upset tummy and get on with moving furniture. 24 hours later he was in hospital with kidney complications arising from untreated salmonella - not down to my cooking.

PrincessPeaHead · 09/01/2006 10:55

sansouci, go to your gp and get him/her to listen to your chest.

my dh never has many symptoms except a cough and just real tiredness and lethargy and feeling really rough.

there is a lot of it about at the moment, if you feel much worse than you think you should do with a cough, IYSWIM, you should get your chest listened to.

sansouci · 09/01/2006 10:57

Thanks, PPH. Now that all the docs are back at work (from their extended hols , I guess I'd better go.

trefusis · 09/01/2006 10:59

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charliecat · 09/01/2006 11:01

Yep, dont let her do anything until...at least the end of Feb

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spacecadetshusband · 09/01/2006 11:08

thats going to be hard, I have to move to wales in less than 2 weeks to start a new job, what am I going to do?

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misdee · 09/01/2006 11:09

can you employ a mothers help?

ggglimpopo · 09/01/2006 11:09

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codthemod · 09/01/2006 11:09

HIRE someone asn fast
where do you live at the mo

ggglimpopo · 09/01/2006 11:10

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LadySherlockofLGJ · 09/01/2006 11:12

MR SC

You need to find out which local college runs a child care course, and ask them if they can help you source a Mothers help,they will tell you what you need to do, but will not do it for you.

HTH

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spacecadetshusband · 09/01/2006 11:13

we live in cambridgeshire at the moment.

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BudaBabe · 09/01/2006 11:13

Could SC's Mum come and help out?

Failing that you should hire someone. It may seem expensive but would probably be worth it in the long term. The more rest she gets and the less stress she has the quicker she will get better. And moving is stressfull enough.

codthemod · 09/01/2006 11:13

a stoodent