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madameshawshank

Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 1654 Location: Penrith (where jacarandas remind me of change), New South Wales, Australia
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:00 am Post subject: |
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someone must know... _________________ "I've never accepted the external appearance of things as the whole truth. The world is much more elaborate than the nerves of our eye can tell us." - James Gleeson |
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David
Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 1855 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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huge monster grin being thrown at gingerpale! _________________ Vivant Linguae Mortuae!! |
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cigalechanta
Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 200 Location: cambridge, ma.
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome home and much better days ahead. _________________ Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly
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Donna

Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 827 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Barbara- so glad to hear you're back home! I know for myself, when I'm in the hospital I never feel as though I am healing until I get back to my own home and bed (and food)(Thai or homecooked)!
I know from friends in the medical field that any time you can get in a study like the one you're in, you're in great shape, because they are looking so closely at how you're doing. And my friend who is doing pulmonary rehab (which sounds maybe like what you will be doing?) is making great progress! She only stopped one time today on our walk!
Best to you and Bryan both! What a team! _________________ L'appetit vient en mangeant. -Rabelais |
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Barbara
Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 899 Location: Gold Coast Australia
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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Griffin - that would be Tom Yum Goong - the Thai answer to chicken soup for recuperating. I will make it my goal to walk to my nearest Thai asap so it isn't only Bryan getting the exercise. Today is Wednesday, I will aim to be able to walk that far within 1 week - it's just under 1K.
David - LOL, thank you.
My recovery is going well, helped by a lovely phone call from Madame. _________________ Barbara |
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Chicago Bear

Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 240 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Barbara, no recovery can be considered complete without the news from Chicago. As you might expect, for 9 days of the year, people in Chicago are a happy-go-lucky bunch, slapping each other on the back, buying each other drinks, and enjoying our summer weather before we're forced to acknowledge that there are other places on earth that are more blessed than we are. Ah, if only we could be in Australia. Even in hospitals, those people know what life is all about. Best wishes from here, and please let me know if it would speed your recovery if I drank twice as much for the next several weeks. _________________ The goal is to fit it all in. |
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Barbara
Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 899 Location: Gold Coast Australia
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks everyone. CB you may drink my share for a little while. I'm planning my first drink for 16th July. _________________ Barbara |
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madameshawshank

Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 1654 Location: Penrith (where jacarandas remind me of change), New South Wales, Australia
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:23 am Post subject: |
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ok troops...16th July calls for special sipping (NO gluping CB )...Barbara I'll call on Sigi to peruse the cellar and ask for something fitting ....again and again I stop in wonder at this forum...in awe
hugs to all _________________ "I've never accepted the external appearance of things as the whole truth. The world is much more elaborate than the nerves of our eye can tell us." - James Gleeson |
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Judy

Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 1196 Location: buried under a pile of books somewhere in Adelaide, South Australia
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 6:36 am Post subject: |
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During my brief visits to a private hospital in Bangkok when I broke my arm, I noticed a Starbucks and McDonalds on the ground floor of the hospital. Probably for the staff and visitors more than the patients, but as many 'medical tourists' go to Thailand for surgery, the standard of cuisine is probably fairly high in private hospitals compared with the establishment I worked at here in Australia. We called the flavour of the yellow jelly there 'hospital flavoured' 'cos it tasted like nothing.
Dunno about the public hospitals in Thailand though. _________________ Doing what you like is freedom
Liking what you do is happiness
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madameshawshank

Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 1654 Location: Penrith (where jacarandas remind me of change), New South Wales, Australia
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:20 am Post subject: |
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There's the 'taste' of hospital food, 'n then there's the texture which is something else again. A dear aunt of mine was a patient at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Sydney. The food was very very very different from my experience at another hospital  _________________ "I've never accepted the external appearance of things as the whole truth. The world is much more elaborate than the nerves of our eye can tell us." - James Gleeson |
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