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Subject: Re: morning Sat 26 Apr 2008 - 21:32

Hi all.
Full of a cold again, feeling fed up. You feel grotty and still have to go to work. When I had malaria at least I got a rest in Monsall Hospital. I think one day I will write and tell you of the tropical deseases I have caught during my time working overseas.
The funniest one although not at the time was while I worked in Jerusalem.
I had a bad car crash and ruptured my liver amongst other things, when they operated they found I had caught a liver desease from my time in Tanzania. There was a mess up at the embassy and they told the company I had been shot and killed. Mum and Dad were in France on holiday and my company got hold of our Lynne and told her. So company and Lynne tried to get hold of parents.
Parents came home. Meanwhile I recovered sufficiently to supervise the engine I was working on (still with my stitches in) and then headed home.
Arrived home minus front teeth and weighing about 7 stone. Knocked on front door, no answer. Looked through front window, no furniture. They had moved house.
I went across to the local pub opposite and found it was closed. Knowing the owners who happen to have the same names as mum and dad.
I went in calling their names. Still no answer I deceided to open my bottle of duty free Southern Comfort and chill. The next minute Bill entered and his face went white. (Good opening line here). " Hi Bill do you know where my mum and dad live". Well Bill just burst out laughing and came round the bar and gave me a gentle hug. He told me not to go round to the new house as the shock might kill mum. Instead he said to phone my dad at work and kill him. So all is well that ends well, apart from the fact they had bought a 2 bedroom bungalow and there wasn't a bedroom for me.
The good side was that I had to go into Monsall hospital for tropical desease straight away to be treated for Billhartsia that I had caught in Tanzania. So I had a bed for three months. When I came out they sent me straight back to Jerusalem so I didn't get the caps for my teeth fitted for another year. Still I was alive and had a place to stay. Billhartsia by the way is a parasite thet lives on the snails and when we used to go sailing at the yacht club on lake Victoria it passed through the pores of your skin as you stepped in the shallow water. It then passes to your liver and lays eggs at the rate of 200 a day. These then hatch into worms. When I was in Tanzania they used to say that the local children would be weeing blood before they where 1 and would die soon after. This was through washing in the lake. I was lucky as I had left over a year before.
At Monsall they did a liver biopsy and got an egg which they used for training untill its closure. Professor Kershaw who treated me and is no longer wirh us, opened the 1st research station into the desease years before in the very town I lived in. It was the professor Bless him who told me that King Tutankamoon had died of it. The surgon in Jerusalem asked me if I had been in Egypt. That's when I knew I had caught it, as it was the Arab slave traders going to the toilet in Lake Victoria that passed it across.
So that is one of my stories and I hope you enjoyed it. You have to admit it is quite funny.
To finish, when I first saw my dad when I got home. His first words were, "couldn't you have waited they were bringing your insurance round next week". I think he was trying to be funny......lol

Love to all.

Daz
xxx
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My family are like stars in the night sky of my life.
Always there at the end of the day.
The light of their love forever constant as the Northern star.
Safely guiding me home.
Dreams are the realities of tomorrow.
Everyone is in tune with the spirits of their ancestors. Unfortunately some are tone deaf.
Copyright. Daz.2008.

Subject: Re: morning Sun 27 Apr 2008 - 0:24

Daz,

You have quite an interesting life. Now if you were on this side of the Atlantic there would be a number of enterprising lawyers (believe you call them solicitors) who would take the case on contingency and sue for mental distress for declaring you dead.

I’ve been fortunate in my travels. The worst that has happen to me has been food poisoning and that was in Boston.

Looking forward to your next story.
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Don

Subject: Re: morning Sun 27 Apr 2008 - 14:00

LOL, I bet your phone call to your dad was intresting!

Love
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Maxine
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Subject: Re: morning Mon 28 Apr 2008 - 17:59

Hola Daz!

We have really enjoyed ths story but parts of it must not have been very funny, particularly for your parents, at the time. Had they collected the insurance money? did they have to give it back?

Hasta la vista Gillian
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Must be quite boring living in England, by comparison, Daz. Is it Macc where you live? I live in Congleton and the neighbouring sheep occasionally break through the hedge and devour the plants, but that's about all, marie

Subject: Re: morning Mon 5 May 2008 - 11:26

Hi all.
Sorry for delay but just got out of hospital, rushed in last Tuesday night. Ok now and resting. Will explain at the weekend. Thanks for the PM Maxine. I will get back to you.
Love to all.
Daz
xxx
_________________
My family are like stars in the night sky of my life.
Always there at the end of the day.
The light of their love forever constant as the Northern star.
Safely guiding me home.
Dreams are the realities of tomorrow.
Everyone is in tune with the spirits of their ancestors. Unfortunately some are tone deaf.
Copyright. Daz.2008.

Subject: Re: morning Mon 5 May 2008 - 11:45

Hi Daz!

As Don said last week 'you have quite an interesting life don't you?'!!

Keep well and TAKE CARE!!

Hasta luego Gillian
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Subject: Re: morning Mon 5 May 2008 - 20:15

Hiya Daz,

Sorry to hear that you got taken into hospital and you rest and get better.

Love
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Maxine
Friendship~
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey