General Chat

Thanks Carole.

I think we all have that problem Diane - it's hard to keep up sometimes.

SueMaid, I know what you mean. When I'm out and about with my scarf on, some people smile, others look and then look away and some, just stare. I usually just smile at them.

Alison hope all goe's well for you hun

OH Sue, how can you give the lad's aminition like that about poor Alison, they find enough of their own without our help LOL

Diane

Diane...as if!

Allan

SueMaid, I'll do my best. I might start banging on the doors though! "Let me out, let me out!"

Berona, I don't think my lad is as worried as he used to be. He doesn't say much, so I try not to bring it up. He's on school holidays at the moment, so he knows what my schedule is for this week. Luckily, today my 18 year old has the day off, so he is minding his little brother while I go to the hospital.

I think much depends on where you live with regard to people talking to each other. When I lived in the town, nobody spoke to each other. Certainly my neighbours never talked to each other. It was years before I knew the name of my next door neighbour.
When I came to live here, I was pleasantly surprised to find that everybody spoke to each other. They were very direct in their questions, but I soon discovered this was not nosiness, but genuine interest.
Being a small village of 400 inhabitants, everybody knows one another.
There are of course no secrets lol... and they probably know what I'm having for breakfast tommorrow, but it's to know that nobody here is likely to be in trouble for long, without someone makes it their business to find out what's up.

Tec

Now don't you act all innocent, I know you two of old
In fact by the time I have finnished this post you will have put somethng up

Diane

Allison... my sister in law had a very multi colored beanie on while she was having her treatment, you couldn't help but smile;-))

Carole xx

I guess we all perhaps stare when we see someone who looks a bit different. My OH does volunteer driving for our local community service and he was a little concerned about how he would react to people who have disabilities. He is soft-hearted and he thought he may feel so sympathetic it would make his job difficult. He's found that when you get to know people you look beyond their illness or disability to the person they are. When I've worked on the oncology ward I meet the most wonderful people. They are people with cancer not the cancer itself. When I train the new volunteers the first question they ask is how I stop myself from becoming emotionally involved. Well I don't stop myself - I'm human and I care so of course I become involved. I just look beyond the illness become involved with the person. I hope that makes sense.

Sue xx

OK Allan I was wrong LOL

Diane

Thanks Diane,

Hopefully nothing naughty is growing, but I shan't worry about it (not until a couple of nights before I see the Oncologist, when I will have trouble sleeping) - *note to self - purchase some more red wine.*

Diane..please stop egging us on! We would not want to extract the urine about Alison's wee problem

My apologies Alison, I just couldn't resist it :0))

Allan

I seem to just stick to the one scarf - it fits so well. I have a big head - not full of brains either, sadly.

One oncology nurse told me that she loved working in the oncology ward as you see the people as how they genuinley/genuinely ? are. Another time, a different nurse was teary, as one of their long-term patients had died. I felt sorry for her. She had to carry on - the news came through just after she started her shift.

That is so true Sue, as I have said before when you approach two people and one is in a wheelchair don't speak to the person who is pushing it, about the wheelchair user speak to the person themselves as most of the time they are quite able to speak for themselves.

Diane

Sorreeeee, Alison. Should've know that Allan fella wouldn't be able to help himself. He's so vulgar:-))

Sue xx

I know what the obvious answer is going to be but when I go walking in Australind, particularly as it becomes lighter I can say good morning to people (and bins) and usually get a respnse and some even have a bit of a chat.

When I do that in Perth I am just met with a stony silence and a stare that makes me wonder if am waering a label that says "Raving Loony"

its weird!

Diane your apology is acccepted :0))

Allan

Alison, what about the onion butty LOL

Allan you deserve a thump for that, what do you say Alison { you or me } or better still both of us

Diane

That's quite allright Allan,
*wee* do have a sense of humour!

I know, Alison, otherwise I would not have posted. It just seemed too good to miss :0))

Allan

So you didn't get p**d off with Allan's joke, Alison:-)))

Sue xx

PS The two stars are e's by the way - I'm too ladylike to use the other word:-)

Last time I visited my solicitor, his lovely secretary chatted to us while we waited for him. Later, I remarked on her natty headscarf and said how it looked so much better than the hair on a lass in "Home and Away" - whose hair looks like a hedgehog having a fit! My daughter said 'it's probably from chemo" and I was surprised that I hadn't even thought of that. I was more inclined to think that if there was a reason, it could have been a hair colour disaster - but I had accepted that it was a new fashion trend.