Anyone Else Up Yet ......... Vol. 2

white what a terrible night, you must be worn out try to get some rest today, but the hospital will get it all sorted out.

thankyou for your kind thoughts - on my 15th gallon of tea! Hope to calm down today - son is coming over to collect the dog, and is providing a taxi service whislt his Dad is in hospital. Son took me to hospital and stayed and then took my home and that is one who we hardly ever see - they are there when needed folks! Don't give up on them.

Good morning, whitewave - what a dreadful night, you must be so worried. I hope the news is good today!

What an awful night for you - nights always seem so long too when things are not right. Very frightening experience for both of you - I hope that he is looking and feeling a lot better when you see him later. Do keep us posted on progress.

Good morning, whitewave. I hope you can get some much needed sleep today after such a worrying and awful night.

Good morning, whitewave. You'll have had (probably) a worse experience than your husband while all this was happening - especially when you saw the pattern of how it's all happened before. He'll have all the monitoring being done now, though, and hopefully with the pacemaker being fitted, they can regulate things while they see what the problem is and what 'decisions can be made'.
You've had an awful fright. Are you on your own - is there anyone you can call?
xx

Good morning to anyone up. Had to write as I need to talk - got back from the hospital at 2am and having had about 1 hours sleep made a cup of tea. DH has been suffering from a virus for the past few days - headache temperature aches and pains etc. Last evening he came downstairs and was just sitting when he sort of passed out I thought he was having a stroke dialed 999 - DH came too and he was reasonably OK then within minutes passed out again - his breathing was very laboured and he was totally unconscious this happened about 4 times before the ambulance arrived and at least 4 times that I knew of in A&E - it was very scary with things bleeping and staff descending on him. Anyway the upshot appears to be that his heart just stops - it isn't exactly a heart attack as far as I understand and no damage has been done to his heart - but he was going up to surgery I assume (upstairs the staff said) to have a temporary pace maker fitted and today some decisions will be made.
This has happened before and always when he is ill - the last time it happened I phoned for an ambulance and the decision at that time was a panic attack which quite honestly I was prepared to accept and he does get wound up when he is ill. That is what is so puzzling why does it happen just when he is unwell and no other time?

Thankyou for listening - I needed that now am in tears so will finish

Apostrophe alert!!!!!

argh!

I'm addicted to iPad Scrabble as well, mamie, but I just play against the computer. I win 96% of the time because I've worked out it's strategies and it hasn't worked out mine!

[Everyone likes winning emoticon]

Thank you.

Lovely photos soop and here's a to you.

Thanks Butter, we'll raise a glass to your old stamping ground!

Notso Hope all you South Eastern GN-ers have a great lunch today. Say 'hi' to Guildford for me - an old stamping ground of mine.

Lovely photos again, soop - they are of professional quality.

I have found that on dark mornings, when I wake at 6 a.m. I can take a cup of tea back to bed and start a sudoku, then feel my eyelids dropping and often have another sleep until 7.30. No chance for the last three weeks, as dogs have their own internal clock which says 'This woman must let me out and feed me -NOW'. I will miss her, though! I am going home tomorrow - three weeks' post to open - I hope there are not too many bills! It is that time of year - water and property tax and the annual electricity meter reading, but I am pretty sure I will be in credit.

What a lovely start to the day Mamie!

Have fun! I am waiting for OH to bring the tea so we can have our morning game of ipad Scrabble before we get up, we are addicted....

Good morning all Up and about quite early and looking forward to meeting up with the South East Gransnet posse in Guildford for lunch today.

Oh soop you're going to have trouble when he gets a bit older

Have you a spare glass, harrigran? I'd love to share with you.
Have uploaded two new photos of guess who...

I forgot I'd got the pape!

Actually yes and it's a Montepulciano d'abruzza!

Have you opened the wine to breathe ? A nice Chateauneuf du pape to go with the beef. We used to do that years ago, "open the wine so it can breathe" nowadays it would be gone before it got to the table if we did that

Veg in trolley Jeni??? My Dad used to do that - cooked it at breakfast time ready for 1o/c lunch
I think you should sit down now, leg up on stool and have a medicinal tot of something - not what you get on prescription either!

Finished the sauce, potatoes and strudel in oven. Fillet steak waiting to go in, veg cooked and in trolley, bread baking away, soup for tonight made and my ankle is hurting! Table laid, what have I forgotten to do please? It's bound to be something vital!

How wonderful to find other people who, like me, wake up at stupid o'clock. I'm normally on my own for a few hours waiting for my nearest and dearest to wake up. It's a bit of a fag because I can't vacuum because I'd wake him up, I can't have a shower or that would wake him up so I potter around or play games on FB, it passes the time.

Maybe that's about to change, maybe I've found some intelligent people to chat with. Why is it that when we get older we wake up earlier? I put it down to thanking whichever God we believe in that we've survived another day and not a minute of it should be wasted by being asleep.