Zombie Continues Her Shuffle Into Spring

[IamtheZombie]

New season, new thread. The previous thread can be found here.

All are welcome.

I get most of my shoes and sandals from Hotter. There is a third pair on back order...

We have a hotter shop here in town, I will have a look.im afraid I've inherited my mums bunions and finding comfy shoes is a difficult task I would love these 👠👠👠 Lol 😀😀

I've bought two pairs of sandals recently but am still trying to convince my feet to make friends with them.

It might be because I spent so many years wearing ridiculous but gorgeous spiky heels

A friend swears by Hotter, says they are very well made, I must have a look!

My toes seem to rebel in sandals, and poke out of all the wrong holes and inbetween the straps, more like a baby octopus instead of an elegant foot.

I've got some elderflower tonic in the fridge, chilling ready for World Gin Day tomorrow!

Maybe we could have a competition who has the ugliest feet!!👣👣👣

HAPPY WORLD GIN DAY PHALANX!!!!

Hope you're feeling chipper today Zombie.

How are you doing today zombie ? 🌸🌸🌸

I have overdone the gardening and housework. Mostly the gardening though. My shoulders are tighter than the tightest thing ever before. They occasionally throb. I thought I was being both wise and brave to sit on the damp ground while manically attacking the weeds in the veg patch. Wise because all that bending from the waist probably isn't good for me. Brave because once I'm down it's a toss up as to whether or not I'll be able to get back up on my own. Anyway, my hips are telling me not to do that again.

In other news, appointment for my next CT scan has come through for 30th June. That's the day after my MRI in Birmingham. Both are done with different contrast agents. I'll have to ring on Monday to make sure there's no problem with that. I hope not because going ahead as currently scheduled will mean that I will have the results from both at approximately the same time and we should finally know whether or not my liver really is clear of tumours. I really am anxious about this particularly since I obtained a copy of my last CT scan report which mentions:

"The large metastases in the left lobe of the liver remain stable when compared with the previous CT."

Eh? What large metastases in the left lobe? Last I was told my liver was clear except for the one small spot very close to where one of the previous tumours was removed.

Oh! I've also just realised that my next chemo is on Referendum Day. Given that there was a polling station at the hospital for the May elections and parking spaces were taken out of general (i.e. patient and visitor) parking use I shall probably need to get to the hospital hours early so I can endlessly circle the parking lots looking for a space.

Bah humbug.

Looks like you need a long hot soak now to heal those overworked bones! Then a large gin , for world gin day and the queenies birthday ! 🍸🍸🍸🎂

Oh no! that all sounds so very sore and painful, you poor soul.
Have you got some Radox for a hot soak in the bath? Or a heat lamp to ease your shoulders?

I'm just about to crack open the gin here, and knock up a Chinese dinner, so Clinkalissimo everyone!!!

(I like your little cocktail glasses Susie!)

You learn something new every day.

I've just been chatting with ZombieLad. His mom was on Ancestry.com and learned that my first husband (ZLad's Sperm Donor) died 17 years ago.

ZLad is going to request a copy of the death certificate to learn the CoD.

I hope you're not getting upset over old news Zombie, ....
"The past is a foriegn country they do things differently there...."

Keep your pecker up

I'm just trying not to dance, All.

Example:

The last time I saw him was 'interesting'. I was visiting C'ville and went into the bar I used to manage. ExH was sitting right in line with the door, a couple of (small) tables back. He looked up, had a gander at who'd come in and then went back to his conversation.

I realised the fecker hadn't recognised me. Why should he? We'd only been together for 5 years and had a child together.

So....

I found a table and sat down. When the waitress took my order I told her to give him another of whatever he was drinking and to say it was with the compliments of his ex-wife.

Wish I hadn't done that. When his drink was served his head spun around so fast it's a miracle it didn't fly off his shoulders. Then he came over for a chat. Within 30 seconds I remembered why he was EX. Still took 15 minutes to get him back to his own table.

Sounds as though you made a wise decision to kick the ExH into touch!
He must have died at quite a young age, so a good call for ZL to find out COD.

Re the trip to the hospital and trouble parking that day, maybe park somewhere in town and get a taxi to the hospital? Lots of hospitals have a dedicated taxi service, so it would be worth finding that out. The Friends of the hospital or the information desk would know and have the taxi phone number.

Park in town? Park IN town?? Hahahahahaha. Not really an option. I could use the Park and Ride into town and then find a taxi. P&R = £1.60 round trip; taxi probably £15 - 18 round trip. Parking at hospital as an oncology patient attending for treatment: Free.

Oh Z so sorry you've had those worrying bits of news, not knowing is the worst thing especially when you're given conflicting information.

I winced reading your description of gardening.

If I want to get something from the bottom shelf in a supermarket, I have to plan how I'm going to get back up before I descend!

Can't do it without something strong and rigid to pull me up haha!

(Tip: do not trust the shop shelves, trolley is better)

Wish I was closer, could drop you off and sit in car park, enjoying 'fresh air' till I got a space

BBB I can't bend or get to the floor either. When I'm doing my physio exercises I literally have to crawl to the sofa and try and pull.myself up from there. It's bloody hard work. I've no idea how zombie manages all the busy work she does!

Zombie, do rest today, you certainly deserve it, it makes me worn out just reading of all the things you do in a day !!
Hope all hospital stuff turns out to be ok.

ZombieLad has led me astray.

I have fallen into the black hole of Ancestry.com.

Just popping by with virtual cushions and a large dose of empathy/sympathy after some uncharacteristically achy hips of late- most unpleasant. Crossing fingers that your results are good and that your liver is behaving nicely.

I suspect Zombie may be gone for quite some time based on my own experience of that place.

Is it age, morbid curiousity, the ease of t'internet or something else that makes it so bloody fascinating to look back? I only discovered this year that my sperm donor died in 2012. Not seen him since 1983. No idea of the cause of death but I hope it was painful.

Feeling pain,indifference, and all those strange feelings about the past.My ex died 2years ago, he just walked out after 27 years of marriage, left me a letter on kitchen table.I found out he had died via Facebook . It unearths feelings that you thought you got over , strange

That's awful Susie

Strange is definitely a good description. Called my dsis to tell her, we agreed that we were both more upset about the passing of David Bowie which was recent news.

She has even more reason to hate him than I do- not that I did. The most apt quote I ever read was 'Hate is too extreme an emotion to waste on someone you don't like'.

Zombie is an inspiration. It was too wet yesterday to knuckle down to the outdoor housework.

I so hope the hospital appointments are good news. Can't think what BBB can mean by enjoying fresh air in the car .

Loved seeing you at the last meet-up. sorry to hear you sent your former beau a drink

What some sad times some of you have been through for you all.
Zombie how are you getting on with your searching. Will we have to wait months for you to come up for air
Not been a good weekend here, my nephew had to be sectioned so it's been quite upsetting fir my sister and his dad and of course for him too.
Then my Dh had a black circle in his right eye so went to doc, hospital apt made for this afternoon , it appears to be floaters, but they checked his other eye and found a tear in it, so they have lasered it there and then so it dosent get bigger. How lucky was that. He has been sat here tonight with my sunglasses on as everything he said was too bright, Roy Orbison the second lives here !!

I've a similar time line to you married, divorced him in 1981 and not seen him since. He died in 2012 also, though I knew at the time as a distant relative contacted DS.
It does stir up a strange mix of bitter sweet memories, I remember how he kept DS & me so short of money, I had to beg for money for winter clothes for DS, yet in his will he left money to charity!

Hope you are OK lin what a lot you are having to cope with just now, take care.