December 2009 - Still waiting for our Silent Night

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Good luck! I want to hear all about it in case I am braver in the future!!!

Ooooh Blathers take lots of photos so you have blackmail material for teh future. Get very drunk. Grope Justine. You'll make mumsnet history especiallyif you do it when someone is taking a photo.
Say hello to everyone from me really wish I could of gone but I knew the back op would of stoppped me. Grr.

Ooo, how exciting, you must come and tell us what it was like!

Details, details?

Imogen is much better thanks Lee!

It was fab!

Bit weird at first but once the first few drinks had been sunk and people got a little bit more pissed relaxed, it was huge amounts of fun.

No-one looked like I expected. Some were just far too gorgeous . Everyone was lovely. I've met Riven and the Edgars and Fellatio and AlouiseG and Imnotshortimfunsized and Methods and Val and BecauseImWorthIt and loads more who's names I can't remember right now. We drank, we chatted, we even danced! I did miss actually chatting to Justine which I was a bit annoyed about but I think I'll definitely try to make the Christmas meet up to rectify that

I highly recommend it.

Lee I'll go if you go! I don't do glamourous either and I am definitely not a 'presence' either...

We were supposed to have badges but Val's little boy got poorly and she ended up in such a rush to leave, she forgot them so we ended up with post it notes with our MN names on. Not glamorous but it worked even if we did look a bit dodgy staring at strangers boobs to read the lables :)

It wasn't very glamorous, some of us were in dresses, some were in jeans, everyone was in what they were comfortable in...and no need to be a 'presence', I was there after all :)

I managed to get back to MK. Took just over an hour which is about the furthest I would have wanted to travel at that time of the morning night. I have said I'd love to get a hotel room next time though so maybe we could book into the same place so we have someone to go "home" with? As you say, the thought of a lie in and a bed to myself is soooo tempting. Especially as DH seems to think that as I had a lie in on Saturday, I should get up with Catherine at 5.30am this morning after just 3 hours sleep! [shock He had to take his parents to the Airport this morning at 9am and I was hoping to be able to stay in bed till he left but no chance.

I know that sounds selfish of me but I'd pre paid for the ticket and the train so the money was already spent and I was determined to go but my Tonsillitis is back again and the Doctor has got me on 10 more days of Penicillin. I got a last minute appointment on Friday to be seen, got the ABs and figured if I rested then maybe I'd feel well enought to make it still - and I did - but he's making me pay for it today

Got a proper scare this afternoon because of that too. The phone rang on a Sunday afternoon and a woman announces she is from the Pathology lab with my results. There I was panicing and trying to remember when I'd last had a smear (I've had dodgy results in the past) and thinking it must be bad for them to phone on a Sunday...and then remember my throat swab!

She wanted to get me to come to the hospital for a prescription for Penicillin but as the Doctor had guessed that was what I needed as that's what the swabs from last time had come back as, I already had some. I guess it must be a nasty infection to warrant the path lab ringing me on a Sunday rather than leaving it for the Doctor tomorrow but it's certainly better than my first thoughts!! She has suggested I ring tomorrow and get an appointment for another swab at the end of this course to check if it's gone though. It reoccured within about 2 days of the ABs finishing the first time and was then harder to kill so I guess they don't want that happening again - and neither do I!

oh no about the tonsilitus. You hero for going to the meetup despite it!
We definitely should make plans for staying together for the christmas meetup. I would feel better going if I knew I didnt have to travel back and that I had someone to stagger go "home" with.

I forced myself to stay up till my normal bedtime last night then went to be as usual. I feel much better today :)

Doctor hasn't mentioned anything about removing my Tonsils and from what I hear, it's quite a nasty op for an adult anyway (not as bad as ABF's admittedly but I'm a wimp :) ) and they can't guarantee that you won't just start getting infections in the remaining tissue anyway. Tonsil-less tonsillitis! I'm hoping this is the last time and it just goes.

I'm up for staying together at the Christmas meet up. Some of the MNers who were there this time booked twin rooms to save money. Sound very forward right now but we all loved each other by the end of the night and wouldn't have cared

Is Cheltenham close for anyone? There's a a Summer meet up there in June sometime I think....

I wouldnt be able to do June. Paul is having heart surgery roundabout June/August time so wouldnt like to make any definite plans.

Heart surgery Hope he's OK and it all goes well.

You two don't do things by halves do you :)

Nope. We thought instead of a holiday this year we would have nice exciting stays in hospitals!
He is ok atm just needs to get a replacement heart valve before he starts to feel any ill effects.

I'm not sure the words "just" and "replacement heart valve" are used together very often.

Hopefully next year you can settle for two weeks in Spain like the rest of us :)

LOL you know me i'm trying to be all blase about it when really i'm shitting myself!

I bet you are! We're here if you need to chat though.

I'd offer you a but it's just not the done thing on MNet

Blimey ABF, it's all go in your household! Seriously, hope his surgery goes well, like Blathers says, we're here to chat :)

Aw Lee! So sorry you're birthday hasn't been great Maybe you'll get a make-up day once everyone is well Fab time for a birthday though - it's mine on Friday :)

I've heard one tale of continuing infection after a tonsillectomy in an adult but your experience is certainly hopeful. I'm still keeping everything crossed that it'll just go away this time though. Someone suggested that a Candida overgrowth could lead to recurrent Tonsillitis too. Can all be solved by diet apparently but I'm not sure I have the willpower to do at least 3 months with no sugar, carbs or yeast! I'm not sure there'd be much left to eat

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lee! Demand a bank holiday birthday day instead where you are waited on hand and foot I say... Would you dh be up for that?!?