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Post by RitaLittlewood on Oct 30, 2006 19:59:57 GMT
I got a text saying Reet has DVT which is their excuse for giving Barbara her holiday. DVT?  Oh come on! Okay so she matches some of the criteria (overweight, HRT, over 60, bone idle) but surely she'd be able to fly sooner than that. Any mention of drugs? My late aunt was on blood thinning drugs over 20 years and was constantly in hospital over bleeds. Reet will have to be on herparin or warfarin the rest of her life, suffering the same things. Know what that also means? Moderate boozing on warfarin and none on herparin because it increases the risks of bleeding! And we all know the amount she guzzles during a night in the pub. They haven't done their research AGAIN! This will all be forgotten within months so why bother using that as an excuse? Patsy |
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Post by sallywebster on Oct 30, 2006 21:06:40 GMT
My dad had this after having an operation and had to go on warfarin to thin the blood for months.
They went to a lot of trouble this time to explain Barbara's absence! Usually they dont need an excuse when she buggers off
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Oct 30, 2006 21:36:12 GMT
It was. I haven't seen it. Well she's not there! LOL! Last year they completely forgot about her cruise and we were meant to assume she'd been back ages before she popped up. They could have done the same here. Or come out with another reason. But DVT??? They do realise it doesn't mean Double Vodka Tonic I hope. They had Blanche home pretty fast after her hip op which was wrong. You aren't recommended to fly after that for 3 months unless you're on specific medication, which she wasn't.
Did they say how soon she was seen by a doctor and if she had any tests? I saw a locum when I thought I had DVT 5 years ago after getting back from Australia and was brilliant, getting me a hospital appointment for a few hours later. Luckily it was all clear. And you know about my swollen and blue foot while I was there this year and the moronic doctor I saw.
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Oct 30, 2006 22:07:28 GMT
LOL! Why dont you watch it as they were talking about her even though Reet was absent.
Emily was talking to Ken about it in the street, she said Reet had some sort of operation on her foot, which was a success. So it was to do with the operation that she got DVT. They wont let her fly for at least 3 weeks.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Oct 30, 2006 22:18:54 GMT
Foot? Did they say when this operation was? Day after arriving or what? They give you stockings in hospital to prevent DVT. I had some after my last op 3 years ago but I was up and walking as soon as they brought be back to the ward despite the agony so didn't need them. My mum was given some when she had her cancer op nearly 6 years ago. I very much doubt Hungarian hospitals would be any different. It's not third world care. I have a feeling the writers still have the old Iron Curtain illusion they did when they wrote about Gdansk. You know I'm getting more spooked by these coincidences between my life and Reet's. Wasn't it you who mentioned that? If it was her right foot I'll scream. LOL! Course I didn't have to have an op. Just wasted $15 on useless antibiotics and $45 for the examination for mine because the doctor was an idiot. Oh I can't be bothered watching. I may have a look tomorrow. No time now. Have to go to bed so I can be up too early tomorrow to freeze and boil. Easier to ask someone who did watch.  Patsy |
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Post by sallywebster on Oct 30, 2006 22:53:59 GMT
I replayed the scene to check. No mention of what happened. I can only assume she injured it and had to have an op.
LOL yes it was me who mentioned the conincidences between you and Reet and Barbara! There is a link!
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Post by Nick on Oct 31, 2006 0:00:26 GMT
They are treating a serious condition like one of their famous throw away plots (like Fred falling down a hole in Audreys garden or Tyrone & Molly driving a burning chip van into a lake,happens one minute..forgotten the next)..why can't they just say she emjoyed the place so much she decided to stay on for awhile and see the country (She can afford it after all)..far more realistic
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Post by sootycat on Oct 31, 2006 12:30:59 GMT
Why didn't they just say she was stopping a couple of weeks with Mavis.
That would have been more believable.
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Post by Nick on Oct 31, 2006 14:59:19 GMT
True Sooty....or they could have said in the first place that Mavis was going with them,they were meeting at the airport and they stayed on together
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Oct 31, 2006 15:58:27 GMT
Or even better, Mave was going with her leaving Norris behind.
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Oct 31, 2006 18:47:34 GMT
Why didn't they just say she was stopping a couple of weeks with Mavis. That would have been more believable. Or she was so drunk they wouldnt let her on the flight home - now that wouldm be believable! |
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Post by Nick on Oct 31, 2006 20:57:02 GMT
LOL ;D
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Post by CG Wendy on Oct 31, 2006 23:58:40 GMT
Maybe its to put DVT out to the masses tha it`s not a potentially fatal disease as people are led to believe.
Maybe Reet should be on blood thinning drugs to get Norris off her last nerve....coz he gets on mine all the time.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 1, 2006 0:43:10 GMT
LOL! Yeah, Reet gets the Hungarian equivalent of an ASBO.
It's amazing though how many people, despite the warnings, don't take aspirin or wear flight socks and stay in their seats during flights. I always got up to go 'twice round the park' to and from Australia yet both times there were those who only got up to go to the toilet.
Give Norris the drugs!
Patsy
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Post by sallywebster on Nov 1, 2006 18:23:58 GMT
LOL I even get up and walk around on a 4 hour train journey im that paranoid since my dad got it a few years back.
My brother told me that aspirin thins the blood. they are allowed to give it to people with suspected heart attacks I think to make the blood flow easier.
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Post by Nick on Nov 1, 2006 20:02:41 GMT
When we went to Australia and Singapore I was up and down the plane like a blue arsed fly..(going wasn't too bad,we were upgraded to first class for some reason we have never been able to fathom)
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 1, 2006 21:04:39 GMT
My dad's on 75mg of aspirin for his angina to thin it and has been years. He gave me a pack of his when I went to Oz this year. But with my foot problem I ended up taking it longer after I got there to be on the safe side. I always get an aisle seat to make it easier to get up on long haul trips. I'm not that bothered by short ones but do TRY and do exercising. Not easy when the person in front has their seat reclined. The stuff about DVT really started coming more in the media before I went the first time and I was more worried about that than being blow up by lunatic terrorists as the flight was 32 days after 9/11. I've been looking at ones to LA. I could go from Southampton via Paris on Air France for a pittance but it takes over 17 hours due to waiting 5 hours in France.  That's almost as long as Perth including stopover! Imagine the increased risk there when Virgin is just over 10 hours. Even going from Heathrow Air France is nearly 14 hours. The airlines MUST bear some responsibility for ridiculous waits like that. You were lucky getting an upgrade, Nick. I have no idea how any of them work out who to upgrade. I'm still baffled by our QE2 one to Grill. But I doubt you're objecting any more that we are. Patsy |
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Post by pearly queen on Nov 1, 2006 21:43:49 GMT
So if Reet and Norris went as a competition prize and Norris came back after the time was up - does that mean that Reet is being forced to stay in Hungary AT HER OWN EXPENSE??
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 1, 2006 21:55:10 GMT
Shock horror! Lovely thought. May give her a seizure then she'd never come back.  The insurance company would cover it. Pah! Patsy |
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Post by pearly queen on Nov 1, 2006 22:03:22 GMT
Shock horror! Lovely thought. May give her a seizure then she'd never come back. The insurance company would cover it. Pah! Patsy Phew! Thank gawd for insurance companies - hope they have sprung for a comfy private room with Sky TV, well-stocked mini-bar and a life-size blow-up Norris stress-doll for her to punch a few times a day. |
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Post by Nick on Nov 1, 2006 23:29:27 GMT
We didn't complain one bit Pats..it was marvellous,champagne and caviar canapes (not keen on caviar,but made the most of it)..a proper dinner menu brought to you to choose..linen napkins,china plates,silver cutlery as much drink as you want..free slippers a dressing gown and sky telly.it was marvellous.glass of wine,good grub ,feet in slippers and classic Corrie on UK Gold..who could ask for anything more lol.....mind you it spoilt us for the rest of our journey
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Nov 2, 2006 13:41:13 GMT
LMAO Pearly! Though I think she'd rather have the real thing to punch a few times a day. Ooh very posh, Nick. Nice to see how the other half lives now and again, eh? At least you have a wonderful memory. Patsy |
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Oh come on! Okay so she matches some of the criteria (overweight, HRT, over 60, bone idle) but surely she'd be able to fly sooner than that. Any mention of drugs? My late aunt was on blood thinning drugs over 20 years and was constantly in hospital over bleeds. Reet will have to be on herparin or warfarin the rest of her life, suffering the same things. Know what that also means? Moderate boozing on warfarin and none on herparin because it increases the risks of bleeding! And we all know the amount she guzzles during a night in the pub. They haven't done their research AGAIN! This will all be forgotten within months so why bother using that as an excuse? 
That's almost as long as Perth including stopover! Imagine the increased risk there when Virgin is just over 10 hours. Even going from Heathrow Air France is nearly 14 hours. The airlines MUST bear some responsibility for ridiculous waits like that. 
The insurance company would cover it. Pah!