The Mundane medical thread

Unfortunately all you can do is offer support and say you are there for them if they need you. They will appreciate it if nothing else.

Life is a cnut and with continue to fuck you until you die. Nature is not our friend.

Live as well as you can and for as long as you can. It's all you can do.

Chicago: Hoping to follow the same advice.

That is really terrible, a level of heartbreak most of us can not begin to understand. There is no God, and there are no words. When I am working with people who have lost a baby you quickly find there is no 'one size fits all' comment, what comforts some, triggers others.
As Chicago said all you can do is offer your support, tell them you are there if they need you etc. Try not to be too 'you' (this is not the time for dry, sarcastic comments) Just be honest, say it's sh*t, and offer them time out with a pint if it helps or something.

Me and Junior had an accident on a water slide. He cut his foot, I have a burnt shoulder. We are soldiering on

Slept oddly last night and as a result the muscle around my left shoulder balde is painful when I make certain movements. Experience tells me it'll slowly improve as the day progresses; it's already a bit better than it was when I woke up.

Hi just to update, after 5 months four biopsies and MRI, along with three different CT scans we still dont have a proper prognosis. All we have been told is malignant Lymph nodes are being spread from somewhere. Possibly the pelvis, Cervix area. We go Tuesday for yet another meeting with the Gynaecologist, My Wife has been transferred to Sheffield from Doncaster for consultation. Its like the Sword of Damocles hanging over us. I fear the worse and while I haven't shared this with my Wife she does as well. I am now off long term sick as I am not sleeping and my mind is a shed.

Donny good to see you back. Sorry to hear this news and that things are still not going well for you. Stick around and maybe the crazy nonsense on this place can distract you a bit. Sometimes a bit of distraction can be what you need.

So sorry Donny. It's awful.

Not really mundane but one of the guys I went to the Old Trafford Test with died last week. Now, he'd had blood cancer for a few years, so dying of pneumonia isn't exactly unexpected but I do wonder whether spending the day in that size of crowd was the wisest. But got to live your life, I guess.

Technical Father in law died today suddenly. It's my wife's sister's father, (not hers) and I was asked what to do. I don't know the bloke and the sister in Law was staying with him in Buffalo (to get away from her Husband in France). I didn't want to say anything about a will (figured it was an insensitive subject considering the immediacy of the death), but that was all I had, so I said I didn't know.

She (the sister in law) and son were due to visit this week. Pretty sure that is scuppered.

Chicago: Lost for words.

Lake Erie Viking style.

i wouldn't do it personally. That is not my decision. Although I guess he was an ex-professional race driver so I think Mangeout (I see he has added a T), might be onto something.

I will make the suggestion (at least in my head) but think offering support is probably all I can do.

Chicago: Scraping up a bonfire.

It's been mangetout with a "T" since the mid-90s?