Hey Mr. Tangerine Man - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

Basic guidance on what constitutes a portion of fruit and veg here and you can download more detailed information by following the link at the very bottom of the page

Oh Lully, I'm sorry. My ex used to be like that too. Then he went completely psycho. I wonder if it ever ends.

I'm a festival virgin so can't comment but I saw U2 the night before I went into labour. It wasn't the greatest thing. I would not want to be far from home with a 6 week old. I'd still need creature comforts at that stage.

The Levellers are on FB?

Yes, I liked the star wars joke, FMF. It made me lol.

Soup-making sounds tricky.

Ds and I have been out at nature reserve and they had a lovely activity where the children pan for tiny gemstones in a big trough. Was really nice.

Then when we were eating our lunch ds shouted (very theatrically) "oooooOOOOOoooooh, a SNAKE just slithered off into those bushes." Cue knowing looks between friend and I "oh really? A snake, well I never" etc. Ds: "Yes a big long white snake with black diamonds on"

When we got back to the visitor centre later we nearly shat ourselves to see giant photo of 'local adders, which although venomous, are only rarely dangerous'. Ruddy big white things with black diamonds on! Scary but I wish I had seen it too.

but if I join FB i won't do anything at all. ever. MN is bad enough....

And what if all the sneery people from school find me and see I only have 10 friends?

And what if I poke people and they sneer?

ah life without facebook is fine
everyone said I would never manage without a mobile phone, either, but I seem to survive despite my Luddite ways

Mind you, I do remember sneering at mobiles and loftily telling Dh that only wnacky saps needed one...

Hello veggers

Firstly, may I apologise for not sorting it out to let you knnow how I was. I didn't inform dh to do it as I thought I would text but I wasn't banking on how late the op would be, how shit I would feel and my phone running out of battery. It was Friday evening before I got back to the ward and I don't remember much.

Saturday, I could barely move for the drain, drip, catheter and so on and it was agony. They nipped in Saturday morning, disconnected the morphine and gave me two paracetomol and an ibuprofen. I was outraged and they gave me some codeine which helped a bit but tbh I was a bit blown away by how bad I felt. I faffed with the hosptal phone when mine ran out but it was confusing and by the evening dh brought me my mobile back and then Boco texted, so sorry if you thought I wasn't bothering or dead or something.

They send you home after two days now so I was supposed to come home yesterday but I felt so shit, depressed, dizzy and vomiting and couldn't eat etc, that I stayed an extra day. Apparently day 2 can be like that after the anesthetic and morphine is leaving your system. I didn't want to see anyone, ignored my phone and dh cancelled my friends visiting and I cried most of the day.

But now I am home. Hurray! I feel a lot brighter today and am more mobile. They are all out at the fair in the park and I am sitting on the sofa with a rather splendid parcel. Thank you so much. There is an array of tea and chocolate and toiletries and a selection of books that made me stroke the covers and feel pleased that I have to do nothing for a few weeks! I could barely read a magazine in hospital and it will be great to enjoy these on the sofa. The second paragrahp on the first page of Poppy and Dingham says, 'perhaps you'll grow up now and stop being such a fruit loop! I laughed and then had to hold my stomach.

I've just eaten three enormous hunks of white choclate with lemon pieces and it is delicious. Lully, thank you so much for the concious chocolate and the lovely spray, that was really kind of you, and FMV, the carrot is brilliant. Did you make it?

Right, this post has worn me out! Thanks again for the lovely things and thoughts and patience and Boco for relaying messages and and, well, speak later. x

OMG, I just noticed the first ingredient in the woman bush flower remedy is essence of goat! Did you do that on purpose, Franny? It is making me laugh and my stitches can't take it! Lol, it smells nicer than goat though.

mrsC mrsC mrsC mrsC mrsC mrsC

MRSC!!!!!

essence of billy goat, Franny???

MRSC!!!!
have read post properly now
of course we didn't think that you were not bothered about staying in touch
you just had a huge op fgs and you DID keep in touch, we were just chomping at the bit to hear more about how you were and how it went and all that
and it is so good that you are home!
I am very cross about the drugs - I was cross at the time. I wanted to abseil in and bring you morphine or something. I suppose being on morphine for days and days is not the best idea. At the time it seems brutal though.

it's really good to have you back
can any of us do anything for you? What's happening this week with people looking after you and the dc and so on?

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it was the first thing that the glowy lady suggested! she said it would be really balancing for you!

Is it safe? Is there a genie?

the Kiki tastes really grim
I mean really grim
but will buck you up no end

I hope the parcel was not a big pressure hanging over you to deal with
you should have left it until you felt well enough to be bored - I don't think you are that well yet

yes, I was shocked the morphine went so fast, it was quite nice pressing the button and whooshing off again, I had some great visuals. Then, not only do you downgrade to paracetamol, you get it up the bum. Charming.

the buggers
I am sure they could be a lot more liberal with it than they are
I mean how many people do you ever hear of getting hooked on.....erm....opiates

well anyway! are you more comfortable today? Should we stop talking and let you rest? I feel a big weight of responsibility weighing on me that I am the only person here when you have returned and I am making a hash of asking you sensible stuff

Oh, no, it was not a pressure, I wanted to open it as soon as I got home. DH brought it to me in hospital but I couldn't manage it. I am a bad patient I think.

It has been great fun opening everything, I ma surrounded by tissue and fab stuff and it is very cheering. It is quiet, the windows are open, birds singing etc.

DH has ages off work so he will be a great help.

I will have rest in a minute. ds2 will be back soon and he is a bit tiring, poor thing screamed and screamed the first night and dh had to get up and get him a crumpet.

well there is some more stuff on its way hopefully
less hard work to open though
some things for you to enjoy over the next few weeks but if they haven't turned up yet you will have to wait and see ha ha HA

LOL at a crumpet
how easily we are replaced

Hi MrsC, glad to hear the op went well and you are recovering at home surrounded by nice things. What were you in for, if you don't mind me asking?

I lol'd at your morphine imagery as well; it brought back a memory of my brother post-surgery, off his tits on morphine and clutching his push-button delivery thing to his chest with claws of steel

yes, a crumpet! In fact, my breasts were agony by the time he came in and I fed him but then he sat next to me and pressed all his weight on my tummy. We didn't catch him in time. I screamed and then he cried and wouldn't cuddle me again.

There is less milk now but he is making up for it. Not sure if should sleep on my own tonight or just use a pillow between us. After the first night he has been sleeping through. That would be good if it continued. I feel it won't.

lol, cyteen, I was like that, asking them if I could just have one more quick press before they took it away. It was a hysterectomy btw.

Franny - more things? You have all been too generous, it is overwhelming, but very nice

aw MrsC
hide some crumpets under your pillow just in case
am glad the feeding has worked out / will work out by hook or by crook

no you need LOTS more things
and you shall have them

(but they aren't overwhelming big parcel type things so don't worry)

wasn't FMF's carrot superb! she sent me a photo of it

Right - must have rest now before they arrive home.

I feel like a need a crochet blanket over my knees sat under a tree with some lemonade and a book and my stately pile just in view through the sunny leaves. I will close my eyes and imagine that.