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04/27/10--19:01: From Twitter 04-27-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 13:51:51: Amazing! RT @devinjay A Tiny Apartment Transforms into 24 Rooms http://tinyurl.com/3xd78yw
  
• 16:32:30: Hang 'em high! RT @kevjumba: Headed to jury duty again this morning, ugh.
  
• 16:34:34: Some chicklehead rang my doorbell while I was upstairs in bed. "There is a pre-alarm fire here" No there effing isn't! I gave him what-for.
  
• 16:35:10: I thought it might be a candidate canvassing. Unless it was Simon Hughes, I don't want to talk with them. I've already voted, anyway.
  




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04/28/10--19:01: From Twitter 04-28-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 08:45:41: Morning tweeps and peeps. Had a bad day yesterday and a moderately bad night. Off to get my shot in the butt now...
  




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04/29/10--19:02: From Twitter 04-29-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 07:44:54: Morning, tweeps and peeps. Interesting political day yesterday. Who knows what today will bring? PM's debate tonight.
  
• 23:41:49: Well, tweeps and peeps, off to bed now. Wish me luck at the foot clinic tomorrow. I don't honestly know what will happen.
  




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04/29/10--22:59: Happy birthday, mrpandabehr, pinkfish, and shelbycub… (chan 2097897)

…and many happy returns of the day to you all!


04/30/10--19:01: From Twitter 04-30-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 23:04:56: Well, tweeps and peeps, a hard day today. Lots of bed rest and maybe everything will be OK soon. Keeping my fingers crossed.
  




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05/01/10--19:01: From Twitter 05-01-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 09:29:15: Good morning tweeps and peeps. Feeling a bit better today. Not out of the woods yet. Tuesday back to the clinic to see about leg angioplasty
  
• 16:40:05: @jonk thanks!
  
• 20:35:31: @angelxxxcruz yay for us Scorpios!!!
  
• 22:45:31: Good night, tweeps and peeps. Knocking on wood while I say this; I have felt much better today than I have in a week. Hope it continues.
  
• 22:46:36: @urbanbohemian and you!
  




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05/02/10--19:01: From Twitter 05-02-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 07:41:50: Morning, all. Slept OK, but my foot does feel better today. Gloomy and rainy outside though. Can't have everything.
  
• 21:44:25: Well, tweeps and peeps, almost bedtime.Odd day today.Not feeling good but not as bad as Friday. Will concentrate on getting better.
  




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05/04/10--19:02: From Twitter 05-04-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 09:55:53: Please vote. It's very important. RT @Squibby_: I don't think I'll have time to vote. Oh well.
  
• 09:58:09: Morning, tweeps and peeps. Surveyors have come and the house will not fall down. Off to the Foot Clinic shortly. Wish me luck!
  
• 20:46:59: Well, tweeps & peeps I spent most of the day at hospital & am now out of the cast & on different antibiotics. Pray, pls, if u do that!
  
• 23:01:00: Well, tweeps and peeps, off to bed now. I am very depressed so good thoughts would be most helpful. See ya tomorrow!
  




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05/04/10--23:22: Happy birthday, mouseworks… (chan 2097897)

…and many happy returns of the day!


05/05/10--12:04: Update (chan 2097897)

I've been remiss in keeping this up to date with my health problems, so this will have to do. I went to the foot clinic last Friday and they cut more flesh off my right foot and sent me home with my cast. I was still having injections of antibiotic and taking metronidazole orally. On Tuesday (Monday was a public holiday here) I went in, ostensibly to see the vascular surgeon about possible angioplasty. He had a terrific bedside manner. However, bad news: having the cast on my left foot had affected my gait to such an extent that my right foot was seriously affected. In addition, the antibiotics they were feeding me were ineffective against the bugs I have. So they then had a tussle with the microbiology people to determine whether they could give me ertepenem by injection and ciprofloxacin orally. It took quite a while for them to win, but that's what I'm now taking, They also gave an air cast for my RIGHT foot, and padded my left foot so that there should not be much strain on the much smaller ulcer I still have on that.

They kept me there from 11 am until 5:45 pm with no lunch, no drink (there was no water bottle on the cooler) and one pee break. I am not ashamed to say that when I came home I sat down and wept for 1/2 an hour. I go again next Monday and if my condition has deteriorated or the antibiotics have not taken, I will be hospitalised. Next Wednesday is when my installation as Master of my Lodge is scheduled. My brother and a friend arrive from Marblehead on Saturday. I am heartsick.

This was all so preventable. All they had to do is remove my left big toenail last June. None of this would have happened in this way had they not done that.

If you're a person of prayer, then I would appreciate an occasional prayer. If you're just a person of good will, kind and healing thoughts are just as welcome. Thanks.


05/05/10--19:01: From Twitter 05-05-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 08:02:27: Good morning, tweeps and peeps. A restless night, but I did get _some_ sleep. Off to the GP at 11:20am and then wait.
  
• 15:02:45: @kathyclugston sorry to hear it. Get onto ur bank soonest. Happened to me a few months ago but managed to stop any losses. Good luck!
  
• 17:58:49: @seashellseller many many thanks!
  
• 18:04:22: RT @Shelbycub Better Marriage Blanket - New Lower Pricing! http://post.ly/evum
  
• 22:53:37: Well, tweeps and peeps, another day...I feel OK but not right. Thanks for all your kind thoughts and prayers. Off to bed now.
  




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05/06/10--01:53: Today's Near Disaster (chan 2097897)

I have scheduled visits to my GP's practice each day for my injection. I am feeling slightly better (but not out of the woods yet) and feel that the injections and the pill are helping.

So this morning I get a call from the GP's surgery where the receptionist said, brightly, "Sorry, Nurse E is ill today and we've cancelled your appointment." "But, but, I need this antibiotic desperately. I need it every day!" "We'll call you back."

I decided to call the District Nurse (=US Visiting Nurse) and throw myself on her mercy. About 15 minutes later, she called me back and said that they would slot me in.

Now I am very grateful to them. But my life is suddenly flashing before me, and it's not good. Depression looms like a black cloud over my life, and has done for almost a year now.

Had I known this was going to happen, I would have just let my toenail fall off naturally last year rather than go in for all these consequences to be set into motion.


05/06/10--19:01: From Twitter 05-06-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 10:05:06: Morning, tweeps and peeps. Had a tussle with the GP's office today, who wanted to cancel my daily injection as a nurse had called in sick...
  
• 18:56:29: @soveren Very good; I voted yellow too, as did my Chinese husband.
  




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05/07/10--02:54: Election notes (chan 2097897)

Well, the election is over. However, the shouting has just begun. The electorate has mumbled, not spoken. Labour has lost around 90 seats or so, with some high-profile losses such as Jacqui Smith and Charles Clarke, former Home Secretaries, and some junior ministers. The Tories have gained around 90 seats, some in Wales, which was surprising. The Liberal Democrats have lost quite a few seats, including Lembit Opik, the erstwhile consort of one of the Cheeky Girls, and Susan Kramer. My own MP, Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrat) was returned with an increased majority, crushing the Labour candidate and leaving the Conservative in the dust. The Greens have their first-ever MP, in Brighton (the gay mecca of England).

Now when the smoke clears, the difficulty is that no party commands a majority in the new House of Commons. This has not happened in 36 years, since the first election of 1974.

For those who are not living in a parliamentary democracy with more than one possible governing party, here is the situation.

Gordon Brown is still Prime Minister. Even though his party no longer commands a majority, he gets the first try at forming a working majority in the House. This is why the electorate shoudn't mumble so much. They are mumbling "We don't want Gordon." but they didn't speak clearly enough.

The big loser of the night is Nick Clegg. There was a flurry of newspaper stories after the first debate intimating that the Liberal Democrats would do very very well indeed. The polls said the same thing. But, as usual with the British voter, s/he got into the voting booth and thought, "Oh, no, I can't vote for the Lib Dems. They can't win." This happens in every election and no one seems to have mentioned it this time. Well, the truisms of former elections seem to have held true this time.

Another surprise was the fact that many polling stations, which were required by law to close at 10 pm sharp, had long queues of people waiting in vain to vote. The doors are shut and no more ballots were given out. There were many angry voters who were not allowed to vote. The Electoral Commissioner has said that the law is clear and the Returning Officers are responsible for the orderly conduct of the vote. Some polling stations ran out of ballots, and didn't bother to get any more. Something will be done, no doubt. The Electoral Commissioner says that we have a Victorian voting system, which is true. I believe that in the United States, generally, if you are in a queue to vote when the polls close, you are allowed to vote. I think that's the only reform needed here.

So what will happen? Labour will try to form a minority government, It won't be able to command a majority and will lose a vote of confidence. However, this won't happen until the end of May. Then David Cameron will try to form a minority government, and he will probably not lose a vote of confidence. What he will try to do is get some flashy programs off the ground so that he can have another election by the end of the year—probably in October. The Liberal Democrats will sit tight and not upset anyone's applecart, hoping for proportional voting to be brought in by a referendum (under a Labour government).


05/07/10--19:01: From Twitter 05-07-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 07:38:48: Good morning, tweeps and peeps. I wake to a hung parliament this morning. BNP got no seats (yay!) Greens got 1. Simon Hughes wins again!
  
• 18:41:25: @charlesarthur Robinson is still a member of the NI assembly so still First Minister.
  




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05/08/10--19:01: From Twitter 05-08-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 19:55:28: My brother's flight to London from Boston has been cancelled TWICE! ETA now Monday evening. Fingers crossed the ash disappears for a week.
  




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05/09/10--19:01: From Twitter 05-09-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 00:48:37: Well, tweeps and peeps, if the foot wasn't enough, I had a hypo just now. Have remedied it, but waiting before bed again...
  
• 15:37:09: Happy US & Sg Mother's Day to all moms out there. My mum is no longer with us so I wish you all a very happy day!
  
• 15:41:29: I thought u said England's YOBS. U can have those. RT @Naoij @Squibby_ I'm just here to steal English's jobs.
  
• 17:54:34: @callummay different genesis of the two days--read the wikipedia article on Mother's Day.
  
• 18:39:59: RT @JonSHarvey RT @paullashbrook: Proportional Representation explained by John Cleese in 1987!!!... http://youtu.be/NSUKMa1cYHk
  
• 22:08:40: Well, tweeps and peeps, feeling better today. Clinic tomorrow. Wish me luck. Brother still stuck in Marblehead. Wish him luck!
  




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05/10/10--00:23: Happy birthday, fj… (chan 2097897)

…and many happy returns of the day!


05/10/10--11:29: Good and bad news (chan 2097897)

Good news: I should be able to attend my Installation as Master of the Lodge on Wednesday.

Bad news: I will be admitted to Kings College Hospital tomorrow morning for a day and a half of IV antibiotics. I spent most of the day in the diabetic foot clinic (today I had a sandwich and a Diet Coke to eat and drink) and they wanted to admit me tonight but couldn't find a bed. Tomorrow there will be a bed and they will fill me full of antibiotics to try to kill this bug that's in my foot.

I may be readmitted on Thursday to continue the IVs but they are not sure.

I hope they aren't fibbing to me and planning to keep me in on Wednesday against my will.


05/10/10--19:01: From Twitter 05-10-2010 (chan 2097897)




• 07:51:01: @jonk Is there anything else that COULD be said about it? Enquiring minds want to know...
  
• 09:32:01: Morning, tweeps and peeps. Off to the clinic now. I feel better (not recovered, by any means) but better. More news later. Fingers crossed!
  
• 16:59:32: Well, tweeps & peeps, they're admitting me to hospital tomorrow for overnight IV antibiotics. Out Weds AM, then in again Thurs?
  
• 17:07:03: @danieljohnlewis thank you! Think good thoughts.
  




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