Pattern Recognition
by Dhamaka
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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"........ Albert Einstein
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........ Ben Moor
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"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race"
........ H G Wells
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better"
........ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Luck favours the prepared mind"
........ Louis Pasteur
"Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction, and somewhere in the terra incognita in between lies a life of discovery."
........ Rebecca Solnit
"Give, give, give -- what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine."
........ Isabel Allende
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
........ Harold Thurman Whitman
"The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes...."
........ Marcel Proust
"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.. you have no such accurate remembrance of a country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle...."
........ Ernest Hemingway
"Ambition leads me not only father than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for man to go."
........ James Cook
"The grand show is enternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapour is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
........ John Muir
"The bicycle is the most civilised conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart."
........ Iris Murdoch
"Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your picture...."
........ Don McCullin
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With final drip
I suspect it had as much to do with my photography as NHS budgets, nonetheless after less than a week of incarceration my respect and appreciation of Lucia's strength has increased tremendously
#1 daily experiments with heart rate and blood pressure monitor had various nurses guessing what I was thinking of according to the readings
#2 the drain that came out today
#3 the three drains - the top one went under the arm and was excruciating the other two to the breast area
#4 the painful one up close. It came out this morning, thank goodness
#5 I suspect that of all the daily cocktail of drugs I've been given, that the only one I don't react badly to is the household painkiller. Doesn't bode well
#6 Post op. I also have shots of my breast marked up for dissection and then reconstructed but am sparing you from that one
#7 that bruised a lot
#8 I get the impression that they shouldn't have left these in for the entire week. They've left a nasty hole.
:(
come on guys, use your positive thinking to stop me oozing so that I can get the drains out and out of here
pasatiempo...
and the walls
and the floor
I've taken photos of my flowers
and the dust on the window
Of the insects on the window
Of the clouds
Of the sky
Of the textures of the chairs
Of the doors
Of the furniture
Of the handles and the wires and the grapes
Of the pillows and the sheets and the laptop
Of my books and my notes and my shoes
I've washed my hair twice although I probably shouldn't
and it's still not evening
(response to Sprocket - this *is* a flower-free ward. But the friend who brought them in was on crutches and is very accustomed to dealing with these guys through far too much experience of her own. While it was a lovely thought I'd personally much prefer to get these or anything else at home where I'll enjoy them for longer and they won't remind me of an unpleasant experience)
another day
at least the nurses are letting me experiment on myself with the blood pressure machine..
drains
pre admission
#1 - MRSA swabs. Worked in my favour - the admitting hospital didn't test for it so I was put in a side room instead of the main ward while waiting for the results & then they let me stay
#2 - Bloods
#3 - For those photos I'm not going to be in a state to take myself
#4 - ECG
#5 - ECG. Conversation: "you have a nice low heart rate" "Actually it's a lot faster than normal" "That's to be expected, nobody likes hospitals" "It's not the hospital, it's because I've got cancer" "That'll do it"
#6 - morphine does that to you
#7 - so many forms
#8 - "sundried tommatoeoes"...
