...then, out of nowhere, Carpathian appeared.......!

12 Dec 2004

Many of you out there won't have a clue who I am but for those that remember me......helllooooooo again !!
I guess your first question is to wonder where I've been - it's been a while indeed !
Going back a few months some of you heard during chats, emails or munches that I'd been getting some rather nasty stomach pains. Mischief, Will & Sappho were great aides at that time and things started to calm off on their own. So, like a muppet, I did nothing about it.
{can you guess whats coming next :twisted: )
It then came back with a vengence to the extent that even sitting at my desk at work I'd suddenly be in tears (not something I do lightly !) and only just be able to make it home to lie down for a while until it calmed down. Imagine feeling like you're being knifed at random moments for anything from 1min to 3hrs and you get the idea ! evil

Various visits to the docs and odd tablets later and it was no better so I went into hospital for some tests. Hey presto, the cause was found !!
If you're eating you may wish to check back later but I'd basically got a little bug in my stomach munching on my stomach llining and stopping it from absorbing food properly before it hit the actual stomach walls. Hence food would touch where it shouldn't and pain kicks off.
Turns out 50% of people have this bug but only about 1% of those react to it in any way. Lucky me - I never win on lotteries but I get that ! lol

A course of 56 tablets in 6 days left me sick from the side effects but now, a couple of weeks later I'm back in health and ready to get back to where I was all that time ago !!!
One upside is losing a stone and a half over just five weeks, though I'm sure there's better ways of burning calories !! :twisted: wink

:shock:
So.....what have I missed !!??

12 Dec 2004

WELCOME HOME Carpy
Sorry to hear you have been so unwell but glad to see you back in the land of posters.
kiss

Dawn :silly:

12 Dec 2004

Woooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
Welcome back...... lol

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Bugs :shock: ....... awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... could you not just have zapped 'em with that ant killer stuff.... always works for me :lol2:

12 Dec 2004

Hello , pleased to meet you and glad to hear your over your illness biggrin

12 Dec 2004

Hello Carpy wave

:wave: :wave:
Nice to have you back amongst us again!! :P :P :P :P :P :P

12 Dec 2004

Welcome back Carpathian.....now someone was only asking a couple of pages back where the hell you have been.........
what have you missed........don't go there Carpy...don't go there.

12 Dec 2004

Thanks folks - I realise there was maybe too much detail in that post but it saves people asking me where I've been !! wink

So, based on how bloomin long I've been away, I guess that rampant pizza from the GFZ is onto it's third generation of kids by now ?? lol

:lol: :lol:

12 Dec 2004

Hello there! biggrin

You were around when I first joined here but I've had a change of name since then so you might not know who I am! lol

I look forward to meeting you...... Neil has told me many nice things about you.
Hope your bug thing isn't contagious! It would be just my luck of late to catch it!
It could be another reason to stay of my bike though! :lol:
Welcome back! passionkiss

12 Dec 2004

Carpy!! :shock: :shock: :shock:
How spooky that you posted today of all days!! This morning I was doing my washing up and thinking random thoughts - as you do. Anyway, one of my random thoughts was where you might be and what you could be up to of late! And here you are! :shock: :shock:
Lovely to see you kiss

Hope you'll stick around biggrin

12 Dec 2004

Actually thats a good point !
The bug is gone / cured / fixed / finished / over / removed / left / etc / etc...... wink

It's also really rather touching that some of you folks remember me !! I bet it's the duck you remembered really !! He's so missed his "soft pink nests" :wink: :wink:

12 Dec 2004

Carpyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!
Ooooooh Carpy, oooooh you come here you gorgeous thing you!!!

Welcome home!
Ohh we have missed you so much, so bluddy brilliant to see you again :bounce:
Sorry you've been so poorly :therethere: hope you're fully mended sooner rather than later kiss

Oh I am sooooooooo excited :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

12 Dec 2004

Ah, Misschief - always the one with the small, quiet, subtle posts..... lol

12 Dec 2004

Update ......... 5 minutes later ............
I just left the Cafe then, and then came back in ............... and got all excited again to see your name rotflmao

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

12 Dec 2004

Wow - what a fantastic Christmas pressie for the Site. Someone posted a poem in a thread recently (sorry Mr Poet forgotten where) and I thought aaah those were the days when we had Carpy keeping us on the straight and narrow - and I was sad - I was promise! And now this!! Not only a return but one with a great tale to tell with it.
Welcome back my friend. :!: :!: I know a certain lady who will be beside herself - oops just seen her post.............

12 Dec 2004

It's so good to see the response - after being away from here I wondered what it would be like coming back. I needn't have worried !!
People are still asking about the SH clock, threads still meander around like crazy, people on here are as lovely / mad as ever.
Amazingly, to my delight, my poetry thread is STILL bringing in responses - to think I even asked Mark about adding it at the time !!
What the heck - I'm going to allow myself another couple of biggrin

:D

12 Dec 2004

oh nearly forgot...someone did pay you this compliment.............

12 Dec 2004

Quote by JudyTV
In fact whenever I hear the track "The closest thing to crazy" It reminds me of a very special time of acceptance by people like you and many others when I first started to venture "out" from the sanctuary of the trans community

Spooky - it was hearing that track on the ITV "Record of the Year" thing last weekend that reminded me about this place and set the ball rolling for my return ! I can remember your grin when you told me of the CD being auctioned - I was really chuffed at that.
Great to see things are still on the up and up for you Judy !
DaveJ - thanks for sharing that - thats just mental !! Duckpathian is running around the floor here quacking that he knew he'd be properly famous one day - what have you started !!
As for you, TuneEssence, I'll be writing again soon so watch this space for poems and more !!

12 Dec 2004

Quote by davej
oh nearly forgot...someone did pay you this compliment.............

Dave you bugger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:smackbottom: :smackbottom:

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
I would try and do me cross face ...... but I still can't wipe this ridiculous grin off :lol2:

12 Dec 2004

Awwwww Welcome Back Carpy......we've really missed you.... kiss

12 Dec 2004

Hi Carpy!
Sorrry to hear you have been sooooooo poorly and glad you are all better now
Big Hugs to you and your luvverly little pink duck - my stockings have never been the same since he hitched a ride rolleyes

12 Dec 2004

Welcome back Carpy, it's been a while, and it's great to see you again in here. It's good to hear that you're recovering from that illness. You'll no doubt be pleased to see how the poetry thread has blossomed in your absence.
I hope you come to another munch and bring that duck - it was wonderful to have an excuse to look down various cleavages!
Mike.

12 Dec 2004

Quote by MikeNorth
Welcome back Carpy, it's been a while, and it's great to see you again in here. It's good to hear that you're recovering from that illness. You'll no doubt be pleased to see how the poetry thread has blossomed in your absence.
Mike.

Not that you being absent had anything to do with said blossoming! :shock:
Good to see you matey.
lhk

12 Dec 2004

Quote by Angel Chat
Carpy!! :shock: :shock: :shock:
How spooky that you posted today of all days!! This morning I was doing my washing up and thinking random thoughts - as you do. Anyway, one of my random thoughts was where you might be and what you could be up to of late! And here you are! :shock: :shock:
Lovely to see you Hope you'll stick around

Must be the time of year or something. I was staring at the cafe forum page today and Carpys name on the poetry thread just kinda jumped out at me... confused

I thought I wonder what ever happened to Carpy....... and now he's back....
:bounce: :mrgreen: :bounce: :mrgreen: :bounce: :mrgreen: :bounce: :mrgreen: :bounce: :mrgreen: :bounce: :mrgreen:

12 Dec 2004

Quote by Carpathian
DaveJ - thanks for sharing that - thats just mental !! Duckpathian is running around the floor here quacking that he knew he'd be properly famous one day - what have you started !!

Duckpathian too!! :bounce: In my excitement at seeing you earlier I forgot to greet the little Cupiduck! Tell him if he ever wants a change of scenery or a night out in Manchester he has a space reserved in my cleavage with his name on it kiss

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