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Hi guys!!

Hope you are all well....
Im sorry i have not been posting for a couple of months....Life has been pretty busy with work n all...Health has been up and down too...but im better now....feeling very guilty about not contributing to the forum either,,,cos you guys have got me where i am today...Anyway ive missed you all and got my act together to post today.,..ill catch up with the posts later....noticed theres been over 2,000 new posts....god ill be here till summer lol!!! :lol:


speak to you all soon.... :bigbighug:
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Hi Angy

Here is post 2001!!. :work2: Got to keep the "British End-Up" (as Sean Connery. aka "007" would say) so glad you are back.....

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Thank you Ant!!!

Wish my syndicate would win the lottery lol!!!then I could stop working altogether and have time to read all the new posts....forgot to welcome our new members...:)
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Hi Angy,

Glad to hear you're better! We've missed you! What is your "syndicate"?

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Hi Angy------

Great to see U posting again----always miss U--

Yup now U have to catch up with everybody--

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Angy!

It's great to see you posting again. It's been so long, that I was afraid that you might have taken another trip to visit Loch Ness, and "Nessie" got you. :lol:

Anyway, it's good to see that you're feeling better, and I hope that you can log in regularly, now. We're lost around here without you, you know.

Welcome back!

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Welcome back, Angy, I've really missed you. Glad you are feeling better. :smile:

You have missed a lot. Tex has been seriously ill and was hospitalized. :sad:
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Omg tex...how are you now? I hope you are ok!!!!I'll need to look for those posts to read...thanks for my lovely greetings guys...I've missed you all too... You are the only people I can't express myself to...and feel better afterwards...tex I hope to go to Inverness this year but I'm thinking maybe Ireland.. Barb nice pic...it's good to put a face to your humour lol!!!! Polly my syndicate is my lottery group there are 13 of us. I manage the groups money every week and place 13 lucky dip tickets. Xxxx
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Angy,

Ye, I'm OK. I've been out of the hospital for 19 days, now, so I'm well on my way to recovery. Everything seems to be healing properly, and the pain from the surgery is almost completely gone. You can call me the "gutless wonder", because I no longer have a colon. :shock: :lol:

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OMG!!tex what happened to your colon? After all these years and being in remission too...geez u don't deserve to suffer that nightmare...good u can see humour in that but are you coping...I take it it's all gone or not and if so how will that work... Awe tex I feel for you...we all need to take care of you...hugs!!xx
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Angy,

My colon decided to mutiny, and it almost killed me - I woke up one morning with massive bleeding. They gave me 6 units of blood at the ER, and it stopped bleeding on it's own, about mid-morning. That afternoon, they gave me some go-litely to drink, and then scoped me, but they couldn't locate the source of the bleed.

Later in the day, it started bleeding again, even faster, (they had to put an IV line in my neck, so that they could feed the blood directly into my heart, in order to replace the blood fast enough), while they prepped me for surgery. They tried to locate the bleed again, but couldn't, so they took out the entire colon, in order to save my life.

I now have an ileostomy, (IOW, my ileum feeds directly into a pouch, that I change out, as it fills up), just below my belt line, on my right side. A lot of Crohn's patients end up this way, if their disease is very active, and mostly targets their colon. The colon's main job is to recover water from the fecal stream. All nutrient absorption takes place in the small intestine, so the colon is not necessary for survival, it's just convenient to have. :roll:

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Im so glad they saved your life tex...and I'm glad your recovering...that must have been one hell of a fright when the bleeding started...I'm sorry you had to suffer that and the pain must have been he'll...this forum would not have survived without you...it is truly not your time yet...I see you received a lovely food parcel.. That was a lovely gift to help with your recovery... Now I think maybe you should receive one from Scotland...and ye there will be whisky in that one hehe!!!that kill all pain...you allowed whisky?
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Angy,

Surprisingly, there was no pain at all, from the bleeding. :shrug: It was the stuff that happened as a result of it that was painful. :lol:

Ye, I snack on those goodies in that care package a little every day. :hungry:

I suppose I'm allowed whiskey, but I'm not sure whether you can get alcoholic beverages through customs. There might be a stiff fee - I really don't know what's involved for something like that. There was no charge for the food items, though.

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Tex,
Ill check out the customs policy and send you a wee dram :)
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:grin:

You're a gem, Angy.

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