up, up and awayyyyy....

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oh fellow sufferers! What a day I`m having!

The main thing on my mind at the mo is my dear Aunty Anne. She is dying…she is my second mum. My mum was Anne`s big sis…12 years older. Anne has been a brick for me and helped me when things got bad…both before my disability and after.

I visited her in hospital on Monday and although her body is failing, her mind was bright, the same sense of humour still there and we had a cuddle…catheter to catheter…we both ouched as we cuddled.

Today the news is worse…only a matter of time now…poor Aunty Anne, Uncle B and my cousins and all.

So why my post`s title?

Hubby got me into my recliner after lunch, and went about finishing off laying a new carpet upstairs. Then he went into his mancave (garage).

I took and made phonecalls about Aunty Anne.

Then I got my laptop and switched it on…nowt…hubby hadnt turned the main switch on for it. I rang him on his mobile, as is our arrangement when I need him. No reply…15 minutes later…still no reply.

I started to get worried. I asked Sophie to bark for daddy…she doesnt understand that yet…Lucy used to do it great.

So I decided I should find him to check he was ok. I got slung up in my hoist and started the ascent…

oh nuts!..the chuffin remote cable came out of its housing…I could go neither up nor chuffin` down!!!

What the flummoxing `ummer would I do next?

Sis rang about summat else…told her I was stuck mid air…she lives 5 miles away so couldnt instantly get to me!

I rang my lovely 80 year old neighbour, who isnt too good on her pins. She offered to come. I told her she wouldnt be able to reach the cable socket. She rang our in between neighbour. He and his wife came running…they`re in their 70s!

They came in followed by a mistified hubby of mine…whats going on?`

I was crying, I was cursing…he`d been on the phone…so why didnt I get his engaged signal when I rang him?

Oh, I wondered what the bleeps were!

We got me down, calmed and settled again.

Isnt my hoist a chuffin stupid design? There is a red emergency pull cord, but I cant reach it...its 2 inches long. Gonna add some string to it now…the chuff!!!

pollx aaarrgghh!

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Oh Pol, while I’m sad to hear if your impending sad news, you made me smile. You painted such a picture :slight_smile: Talk about “kill me now and we’ll laugh about it later”! Bet hubby is feeling suitably hound dog been scolded. X

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Bloody hell Poll you don’t do things by half so you

Jan x

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Poll,

sorry for your sad family stuff. I am also sorry that I giggled at the idea of a Boudica type hanging mobile.

All the best Mick

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hi poll

poor auntie anne, you can understand that she’ll be going to a better place but you’ll miss her badly.

but…

it tickled me pink to see (in my mind’s eye) you cursing and swinging in the hoist.

sympathies and smiles

carole x

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Poor Poll,

Sorry to hear about your aunty anne hun. Just waiting for bad news you know will come is one of the worst things you can go through.

And sorry to hear about your mishap - but Poll, it did make me laugh - sorry again. I hope you kept a lady-like demeanour and didn’t resort to bad language.

Take care sweetie

JBK xx

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In my imagination there was lots of very colourful language used!

Poll, sorry about your Aunt. So difficult when someone is ill and everyone is waiting for the inevitable. So emotionally draining and exhausting.

The thought of you swinging mid-air really has made me giggle. I can picture it now. Sometimes I think that a TV producer could get some great material for a really decent TV drama from this forum. I’d watch it.

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Poll,

sorry to hear the news about you’re Aunt.

the hoist story made me laugh and reminded me of my own recliner escapade. Our recliner has a button to allow the seat to recline but doesn’t have a button to get you back up. You need to push the front of the seat back with your legs instead. I don’t have the strength to do this myself, so normally one of the kids does this for me. The other week I sat on the recliner and reclined happily. The wife and kids then had to go out unexpectedly. Goodbye I cried, I hadn’t thought through how I was going to get from recline to incline.

Loretta, it’s just as well there wasn’t a camera there to film my feeble attempts to get somewhat vertical. I certainly would have given the producer plenty of entertaining material, although the bleep machine would have been working overtime to remove all sorts of sweary words - I’m sure my old English teacher would have been proud of my extensive vocabulary.

I tried miserably for about half an hour and gave up. 45 minutes later the family returned and rescued me. By that time the MS bladder had spotted the weakness in my defence and pounced. Bladder 1, Derek 0. Thankfully I was protected.

derek.

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Oh Derek, you gotta get a leccy recliner…but they could also prove troublesome should there be a power cut!

My leccy one doesnt have a battery back up. I could get stuck in that too!

Gadgets and modern techy stuff = arrrgghh!

pollx

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Oh Poll poor you and much love for Aunty Ann, we struggle on daily, normally with a cheery smile and a no I’m OK love you do whatever it is you must do lol

Please don’t get stuck on your hoist again it is a very scary thing to be stuck halfway up I have fears of Stannah stopping half way up or down but fingers crossed its working OK at the moment.

Keep your cheery smile on and keep up the good feeling xx

Much love

Jules

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Oh Poll. Poor Aunty Ann.

I really feel for you all and Aunty Anne.

I had this vision of you being stuck in mid air and you did make me smile. I bet the air was blue when hubby came in.

H xx

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Oh the air was more than blue…it was navy blue, purple, indigo and crimson red!

Jules, doesn`t your stairlift have a back up battery incase of electric failure?

On to another day, eh?

Next!

pollx