Blog expropriation
Hello Ramble followers, daughter here. I’ve asked dad to update this site a few times, because I know he has lovely loyal followers out there who are keeping an eye here, curious about his progress. He’s in a funk though. He reminds me of one of those Daddy Gorillas in Dublin Zoo, the one that sits on the grass with his boobs hanging out idly picking his belly button and chewing on the contents with that thousand yard stare. Except dad doesn’t have his boobs hanging out. Not both of them, anyway.
He’s doing well! Every time I see him something has changed or improved. He walks with me down to the main foyer of the hospital just for a change of scenery and doesn’t seem too self conscious in spite of one or two second glances from passers by. He’s resolved to remain himself and let people keep their opinions which is pretty healthy. He’s decided to tell inquisitive children that Jesus/Santa stole his nose because he didn’t clean his bedroom.
His healing is going through stages. Sometimes he can speak quite fluently, sometimes his mouth refuses to cooperate because of accumulations of healing gunge which he refuses to allow me to clear. He’s struggling to eat solid foods yet as the mechanics of it all are far too messy but he craves a Vindaloo which apparently doesn’t come in hospital liquid form yet.
Scars are looking well, sometimes he picks at a blob of aforementioned gunge and flicks it subtly across the room when nobody is looking. A small smirk forms on his face when he hears the tiny ‘ploop’ sound of gunge landing in someone’s cup of tea, much like the smirk he used to have when he witnessed toddlers falling over. So, he can still smile, and shrug, and tell me to “pfhuchh offth’.
Grandad is just in hibernation mode, but will reboot soon no doubt.
Glad to hear he’s doing OK. Please keep us in the loop.
Glad to meet you, I will indeed fill in the gaps as best I can:)
Thank for the update. Your prose is just like his. Keep on keeping on. Send my regards to grandad & best wishes to your good self.
I’ll send them on! Thanks for commenting, I think we talk to each other in this sort of hyperbole a lot of the time so that might come across in the writing. The poor foreign nurses don’t have a bog’s notion what we’re talking about half the time.
Fabulous!
Nice to meet you! I’m glad you’re here 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to write. I can imagine that what the auld fella has been through has had quite an impact. When will he be getting his new nose? Would it be possible for us to vote on the different candidates, for example a perky little button or something a toucan would be proud of? Give him our best.
Perhaps put up a chart of different candidates so we can “PICK” the best nose.
I’ve been sitting on that line for ages waiting for the right moment!
Oh man.. we were talking about this. He wants a plague doctor beak. I don’t think he minds much so long as he has a perch for his glasses. He’s blind as Magoo, another reason why he finds it hard to type. A poll is a fantastic idea 🙂
Thank you for the update, pleased to know he is improving.
Thank you for staying with him, dad knowing there are people out there rooting for him gives him motivation, I think.
Thanks so much for the update, I think about him daily and look for updates. It’s certainly understandable that he’s in a funk, who wouldn’t be? You sound amazingly similar to him with that witty sense of humor. All in all it’s fantastic news he’s doing so well. Keep it up Grandad.
Hi Elaine, it’s lovely to meet you, I’m so glad he has this support. I hope it doesn’t hurt him to laugh, we do that a lot when I’m visiting and he can’t seem to get any craic out of staff with language barriers. He keeps taking the mick out of the nurses and leaving them standing with this expression of blind panic on their faces.
So thankful that Grandad is progressing. My prayers are on going and looking forward to steady progress. God bless you and your family during these trying and difficult times.
Thank you from all of us for your prayers, there is so much power in collective thought.
Best wishes to you all .
Thanks Ray, I’m glad you’re there 🙂
Thanks for the update, and best wishes
Thank you Mark, more updates to follow for sure.
Daughters like you are so important. Your post has uplifted me more than you can know, as I’ve only just written to my own daughter, who has been an enormous help in arranging my dear wife’s funeral, which was just yesterday, and seeing your words just now are a real comfort, and, thankfully, a big chuckle as well, especially as everyone here is rooting for Grandad from the rooftops, (if that’s physically possible)!
Well done you!
Hi Scrobs! My dad told me a little about your story, it punched me in the feels and made me well up. Such an enormous loss, I’m so sorry and I’m glad you have a good support. Children can be useful occasionally.
I too, sadly lost my wonderful partner of 40 years to Alzheimer’s just two weeks ago. The devastation has been almost unbearable but even in the midst of all this despair I have still needed to know if our friend had come through his difficult operation and now I feel a great comfort in knowing that his recovery is looking favourable.
Well done indeed.
Glad he’s enjoying being a bugger.
I don’t think any surgeon in the world could extract the buggery out of that man.
The silence was a concern, you’ve broken it in a way to make the cantankerous old bugger proud. It’s genetics, innit?
Please keep caring for him, we do too, and keep the news flowing.
Haha I’m not sure about that, he may give out to me for revealing TMI! I’m steering clear for a day and sending Navan Man in my stead to gauge the fallout.
Well done daughter, great to get a report on captain cantankerous (or Grandad)
Kia Kaha from New Zealand!!
Cheers
Kia Ora Bulaman! I’m glad to meet you, thank you for sticking around 🙂
Lovely to have an update. Please give him best wishes from someone who looks forward to his ramblings, which brings me to another point, based on your missive, which is very similar in style. Either he’s coaching you in what to write, or you are the real author of Head Rambles. I think we should be told?
No cap, fam! I’m a whole other person haha. We talk to each other in this sort of way so it translates similarly in the prose I guess. I asked him yesterday if i could post a ‘talk amongst yourselves’ update while I was visiting him. I didn’t tell him what I’d write, I suppose he trusts me THE FOOL lolz
Thanks for the update – I can’t imagine what he is going through, but I can appreciate that he wants to keep it private until he feels up to it. I’ll be looking forward to his return, if only to find out what he’s been up to with that nurse (or nurses). Hope herself is doing well too. You’re doing a great job with them both!
Hello Ian 🙂 His major problems with writing right now seem to be an extremely patchy wifi signal, and an inability to see without his glasses. With everything he’s been through I think his internal processors have burned out a little too. The nurses definitely help, however. Mum has alpacas! That’s a whole other story.
Thank you ever so much for the update. If my girls are half as good to me I will be a happy old fart.
Hello James 🙂 I hope they will be, as I hope mine will too. It all goes in circles, as long as the wheel is greased with the right stuff.
Many thanks for this wonderful report. I’ve been worried, and it’s a great relief to hear he’s doing well. Lots of love to you both, and please keep going!
It’s lovely that so many from so far and wide are hanging in there for him. Thanks Margo <3
Thank you for the update, so glad to hear he is doing ok. I check every day and was getting worried. I imagine he must be very frustrated. You do sound very like him. Tell him I hope to survive long enough to see him recover, he knows my story. How is your mum? Hope she is doing well too. Please keep In touch thanks again.
Mum is fine, though she too can’t wait to get back to some sort of normality again. I’m glad you’re here Carol!
Thank you for the update – give him all my best wishes please!
I will thanks! He may even be lurking and reading all the wishings, I hope so.
You’re a real chip off the old block, Daughter!
Bah humbug haha
Hello Daughter, (You remember me, yes?)
Many thanks for the update. Tell him he can have my nose if he wants but it has a slight problem–it runs all the time during the day. So much so that I have to have a box of tissues strapped to my waist. I’m constantly orbiting around the house one waist basket to the next. Oh, and you can tell him to pfhuchh offth from me. I’m sure he’ll appreciate it. 😉 (I sure hope he can read these comments from the hospital. Better read than said?)
Really the most fantastic news.
I can’t tell you how pleased I am this Sunday morning- the biggest smile on my face.
From one cantankerous auld fella to another (and his mini-me daughter – meant only in a good way), the very, very best!
Thank you Professor Branestawn sir! Glad to meet you, thanks for hanging in there 🙂
Lovely to hear.
Thanks for being there, More good news to follow I’m sure.
Crikey, I feel for him.
I could murder a Vindaloo now. With a big pile of poppadums and a wagon load of naan bread.
Send my regards to the old boy and wish him well.
Lovely to hear your update on both your parents. I don’t check daily as have my husband in a nursing home with limited life expectancy and son very seriously ill and blind in a hospital much further away (I don’t drive). The good news from your end has been good for my morale.
I’m so glad that he is up and around flicking grunge. This cancer, of course, was a blow because I always pictured him as a man of health with an attitude that would kill any body invaders. Please tell him that one of my memories of Headrambles was where he wrote about hitting dog turds with his golf club. I’m 76% sure my memory is correct, but if it isn’t, fuck it. I just had an ear cancer removed and I look like Trump without the orange. Fuck Cancer.
Cheers to you and the family. Thanks for updating us.
PS: if he wants to write on CloseToDead.com hurry up because the domain expires soon! 🙂
K8 The Gr8. First time blogging for you in over 10 years I think.
Tell your father I was asking for him and I’m glad the recovery is progressing.
Best wishes to you all.
Once again there are good vibes and happy thoughts washing all the way from here in the new world to Wicklow or Dublin , whichever is correct. Thank you Daughter for the update.