Recent content by DerekP

How is your wife doing today? It's a frightening experience spending time in Intensive Care let alone having the illness to contend with. Highly stressful for you and family as well. Did the lumbar puncture help confirm the diagnosis of GBS? We were advised that very gentle massage and...

My son was also in agony. It was weeks before they got the pain meds balanced. Nerve pain doesn't respond to normal painkillers. Gabapentin and Amitryptyline seemed to work well together. He loved the morphine because it killed the pain so well but didn't last long though. He had all sorts -...

My son was in ICU for 2 weeks - a bit longer than they wanted because there were no beds available on the wards. When he eventually went onto a ward, my wife refused to leave him for 3 days because he couldn't move a muscle, couldn't speak, couldn't press the help buzzer and had been placed in...

My then 20 year old son had GBS in November 2010. It began with tingling and numbness in his hands and feet but within a few days he had lost the use of his legs and arms. It travelled upwards and affected swallowing, speaking and even eye movements and he too was moved to Intensive Care because...

did you say its tuesday nights at kettering? I'm local and wouldn't mind going along myself:).

Well I've been going to Weymouth for 18 years (Mother lives there) and never knew there was a Nature Reserve at Winfrith. Looks good - I'll be visiting that next time. Always used to visit The Countryman pub in East Knighton but I've heard its been sold so not sure what its like now. I can...

I definitely recommend Portland. Great crashing waves and huge rocks round by the lighthouse. Also, for sunsets I recommend visiting the Cove House Inn at Chiswell, Portland (just as you enter Portland) Its a great view of the sun going down. The Nothe Fort area in Weymouth will give you...

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I've been using the 350D for about 6 months now and have had some successes and a lot of disasters! Things that I thought looked brilliant on the cameras LCD are not so good once theyre up on the computer screen! Still persevering and enjoying it anyway...

Being with AOL, have spent some time trying to register on here, faffing about with alternate email addresses / passwords, forgetting them, messing them up etc. Finally got one that works. Damn those AOL people they make everything so difficult.:bang: Hello everyone. I am a complete amateur...