Hello everyone just set up our van for the first time and South Lea campsite at pocklington, they were fantastic and even put it on the pitch for us, also friendly neighbours helped us with the awning we stood there with the directions in hand looking helpless!!! anyhow one and a half hours later we were up and ready and a cup of tea in hand, we have had to drive home to pick up my tem year old from schoo; he is excited about the weekend we are going to the york show for motorhomes. the bad news is last friday i was diagnosed with a tumour in my eye, and temple, we are visiting the hospital tomorow to hopefiully discuss major surgery chemo and radiotherapy, please keep your fingers crossed i havent even cristened the caravan yet !!! been told to be poitive in my attitiude ! SO NEEDS SOME FUNNY STORIES PLEASE take care out there is anyone else going to the york show??
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Gosh - I'm rubbish with funny stories - sorry! But you clearly have a positive outlook which will help you through! Good luck tomorrow - hope your treatment goes well! I'm sure you'll be spending many a happy holiday in your 'van.
Not going to the York Show (?) this weekend - off to Dent for a bit of P and Q and a few drinks on the local. Fingers crossed we don't blow the 10AMP EHU with our domestic fan heater. We reckon we can EITHER watch a DVD,
OR keep warm OR see what we're doing by having a light on!
Sounds like you had fun with the awning! Our first outing with out 16 year old ebay purchased caravan was such 'fun'! Too windy to put up the awning, the lock seized on the caravan door needing new lock, the battery packed up and, once the wind dropped had another go at the awning only for two of the 'ring-tightening-thingys' to break! Spent almost as much in the camping and caravanning shop that weekend as we did on ebay buying the 'van!
that made me chuclkle i coulod relate to some of your miss demeanors use to have a motorhome that constantly let ua down, no water, no heatin, broke down etc yes it was windy today took 4 people at each corner to hold it my last funny story was playing strip badminton on a campsite cosst us loads of bottles of wine in apopligies to fellow campers however they enjoyed the entertainment !!! i am looking for good eyepatches as i going to lose my eye definetaly.
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Hey there Lozzie I have just got my forst van and we took approx 3 mins to name her, our car is called Derek ( sadley the name of the guy we bought the van from!) so we just had to call the little dithering van Mavis......
Our first trip out this weekend fingers crossed and our awning has a annex that my daughter and grandson are sleeping in so it has to go up right lol
Im sorry to hear your new BUT there is always a good side to everything like you can eye up ( no pun intended) the male nurses, you get special treatment. Like free sun beds (rads) and you get the spend time with some lovely people....
Yes some of the treatment is sh*t but there is light at the end of it and having just one eye means you can be the pirate princess when they want to play Pirates of the caribean, and you will never have to park the van alone you will get loads of help....
Good luck sweety keep us all posted on your progress, I know your really sh*tting your pants cos I wuld be but there is some brilliant treatment available now...
Story :my Mum has a total mastectomy 3 yrs ago she was really down as you can expect when she was feeling better approx 1-2 yrs she started going out with her friends again, on night in a club (yes a club she is 64) some guy asked her if he could walk her to her car, she agreed and when they got there he tried to kiss her, she told me she turned to him and asked him if he would like to hold her breast, when he nodded like a little doggie she took her prosthetic one out and put it in his hand....
Hi Lozzie, sorry to hear about your eye trouble and I hope that your visit to hospital went ok yesterday, what did they say? really sorry to hear that you will lose your eye, you sound very positive about it. I worked with a man who had a false eye, and you would never have known!
Daisy, loved the story about your mum, what is it with men!
Sorry to hear your news Lozzie, but hope you get the chance to get out in the van and relax between some of the treatments - I reckon a good bit of caravanning should be prescribed treatment!!
Lozzie loads of sympathies but I thought you were asking for some funny stories however none are forthcoming which proves that caravanners in general are a boring lot with no fun in them!
My parents live with us as they are unwell. Tonight they are out to a friend's 60th, dad is 83 and mum is nearly 74. I was getting mum ready as she is disabled and I managed to put her shoes on the wrong feet and I didn't even notice!! She has lost her speech and it was only when she was gesticulating wildly at me that I realised what I had done. DOH! Good job she was awake......... else she would have looked a right clown walking in with her shoes all wrong, ooopsie.
My dad had a tumor in eye over 15 year ago - He thought he would lose eye,sight etc but docs offered him special treatment where they put plate/isotope in eye to kill tumor - Think it was done at Sunderland Eye Hospital (poss specialist from Liverpool did it from memory)........ and it worked !
If it hasn`t been offered, ask - it certainly worked for my dad as he kept eye and only suffered with slightly poorer vision in the eye that was treated.
Good Luck and keep smiling .......it helps
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oh how i dream of going back to sleeping on beds you blow up, drinking wine wrapped up in a sleeping bag and peeing in a bucket .... well the wine was good .... happy days !
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Topic: good news, first time out....and bad news
