Good afternoon @clickinhistory, and everyone else.
What can I say: if I had known I was about to go base over apex I would have hired a stunt double too, and not just for the exit move from the car! All I can say is “Thank God I have a robust sense of humour!”
Take care and stay safe everyone, and keep on smiling. Eventually there will be a Colgate contract!
Jimbo165
Oh @Jimbo165 with your turn of phase you could write the script for the stunt double and crew and with your vivid imagination you could produce a best seller!!!
@Jimbo165 its ok the daughters have sent us a link to your family video archives 
life’s little moments
Well now @clickinhistory, and everyone else.
You’ve got me there, Road Runner and Wily Coyote are my joint favourite cartoons along with the original Tom and Jerry, with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck close and joint Runners-up!
When spirits are low, like now, they are a welcome tonic to the senses, although I’d like to know how you got hold of those confidential videos of me! 
Take care all, stay safe, be kind to yourselves and keep smiling.
Jimbo165
Thank you @Erica.
You may have arrived at the conclusion that I struggle to take any part of life seriously! 
Life is too short (I should say this??) to take it too seriously to be honest. The irony of my message is that it didn’t require any imagination, vivid or otherwise. There was so much laughter (the best medicine - ever!) from my daughters and myself, with more to follow, as these two young lady’s were trying to help this doddery old bloke up off of the floor, who was having a fit of the giggles as well as crying in agony and feeling paralysed from the waist down. Oh the memories that we retain.
Life is what we make of it.
Jimbo165
@Jimbo165 your two foster daughters, Hanna and Barbara gave us the family vault keys
@clickinhistory, my family seems to be ever expanding! I have four (that I am prepared to admit to!) biological daughters, two “work” daughters ( that I am happy to admit to!) and now, seemingly, two adopted daughters too!
I wish them all health and happiness in their lives and endeavours, although the first mentioned category does have their Dad’s health issues gently playing on their minds, what with my heart attack, and my Essential thrombocythemia (ET), for both of which they have been checked out.
It is a strange feeling knowing that you have a condition that isn’t hereditary, but no one is able to give a satisfactory answer as to how you have developed it. Nor a good answer as to why some families seem to have it “running” down through the generations.
Fortunately there is nothing written down that says life must make sense!
Jimbo165
Oh @Jimbo165 it is too much like hard work for me to look for answers, sense or logic.!!!
@Erica, It does sound remarkably similar to work to be honest, where there seems to be little sense, no logic and only ever the wrong answers!
To be fair Erica, I have the feeling that you and I, as kindred spirits, would be bored out of our minds if everything was running smoothly all of the time. Just occasionally it would be nice though!
Righto, I’m off to beddybyes now as i am feeling very sore, tender and unbelievably fatigued this evening.
Nighty Night Erica and everyone else. 
Jimbo165
@Jimbo165 well we did find this clip of you over seeing their first dating days https://youtu.be/-MNbxXcQieY?feature=shared
My dad had prostate cancer and three sons, we have looked over our shoulders for years, I get Polycythaemia vera (PV), middle one has blood that has issues with vitamins and minerals and youngest has diabetes, oh and mum’s side have interesting heart issues.
We are the wheel of genes and no doubt the DNA bright sparks will discover we are all related to some random family that left the Med rather sharpish after selling the neighbouring clans some dodgy clay pots and fish broth. That should stop @Erica wondering 
Something was written down, but the cave paintings and carvings were lost when the Ice melted and a sloth, a tiger with strange teeth and the hairy elephant diverted the flow through it.
They say it could be a virus, a chemical exposure, or could we have more lab rats please for a new theory.
And if you look at it this way, your illness as made them more away of being healthy(random drunken nights down Silver street aside) and has created a deeper bond between you all than many get to have.
Hey there @Jimbo165, really sorry to hear about those naughty platelets, needing increased medicine, another BMB (!!!), and especially that query about the disorder potentially transitioning to MF. I have to live with that potential as well, having Polycythaemia vera (PV), but I try to keep in mind that only about 10-15 % of MPNs progress to MF from what I was told by my haematologist. So many acronyms. Let’s keep our fingers crossed you are simply an “awkward case”! My haematologist also told me in the one appointment I’ve had with him that our spleens can occasionally start producing blood like our bone marrow, perhaps why yours feels tender if you have bonus blood right now? Mine felt pretty tender after I started hydroxyurea but that faded over a few weeks and it feels fine again. Plus now I know where my spleen is!
Did they check your iron levels? Do you take daily aspirin and a statin for your heart? When I started taking a daily aspirin and statin after my heart attack I would often get dizzy and shaky, especially upon standing in the evenings. So far I’ve not [touch wood] had many typical Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) symptoms, like the itchiness or shaky hands, and can’t help but think it’s because my blood is thinner due to the aspirin. Thinner blood can reach the thinner veins we have in our extremities and nearer the skin surface—maybe the opposite of this, thicker blood, causes the itchiness? Might be worth checking with your doctors.
Really glad you have all your daughters to support you. Wow quite the team! I know what you mean about the non-hereditary aspect of these disorders when so many of us have family members also living with similar conditions. One of my siblings also has an Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), but we were both told at our separate times of diagnosis that it wasn’t hereditary. So, the scientific part of my brain says, why is there a pattern?
My only conclusions are that my sibling and I both encountered carcinogens growing up together that mutated our genes which later switched on at similar times in our lives despite living on different continents, or that these mutations are epigenetic and were passed down via traumatised DNA from our parents and became active at stressful times in our lives. Current PTSD research is leaning towards the latter.
Regardless, I hope your kids will be free of these disorders and yours will settle down, @Jimbo165!
Good evening @clickinhistory, and everyone else, you seem to have the same, or similar, warped sense of humour as I do. I hope that it doesn’t get you in as much trouble as mine does!
Take care, stay safe, be kind to yourselves and remember to keep on smiling.
Jimbo165
Good evening @Duncan, and everyone else, I hope you are all well.
In answer to your questions, I am on Aspirin, Bisoprolol, Candesartan, Nicardipine, Omeprazole and Atorvastatin on a daily basis, some of them more than once per day, plus my Pegasys injection, now every 2 weeks.
All of the above, with the exception of the Pegasys, were prescribed after my heart attack, although they have been “tinkered with” by the Haematolgy Department as I tend to see or speak with them more frequently than my GP.
I too hope that my daughters, and grandchildren, all stay free of these disorders too.
Best wishes,
Jimbo165
@Jimbo165 No comment on the grounds of silence is the best defence
Ah yes, I recognise many of those medicines, @Jimbo165. My haematologist hasn’t really mentioned mine, or tinkered with them, but I suppose it’s still early days for me. He did say that because of my previous heart attack he categorised my Polycythaemia vera (PV)/Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) as “high risk” despite my supposed youth and physical activity.
I’d rather just have regular phlebotomy than yet another medication, personally, but I understand that the chemotherapy is meant to disrupt the gene mutation itself and so should be helping, even if its benefits are invisible to me.
Good afternoon @Erica, and everyone else. Well I have survived this mornings BMB and I have to say that it was a much less traumatic experience than my first one, back in 2018. Don’t get me wrong, it still hurt like a hurty thing with something to be hurt about, but at least the local anaesthetic and the Entonox took the biggest part of the pain away. I may have uttered a few expletives (having pre-warned the driller and her assistant) and Google Translate came up with "Good Heavens, that stings a tad!) but I am all safely home and resting now. I also ended up at the Phlebotomy Department for several tubes of blood to be taken, for molecular tests to be performed.
I am due an ultrasound scan on my liver and spleen on the 15th of December as my consultant very suspects that my Essential thrombocythemia (ET) has progressed to Secondary Myelofibrosis (MF) now.
Just need to wait for the all of these results on the 5th of January next year.
Stay safe and take care all, remembering to be kind to yourselves AND to keep on smiling. Those Colgate (other toothpastes are available!) contracts must be on their way soon! 
@Jimbo165 video link from the hospital https://youtu.be/5ZUsnan3vis?feature=shared
Glad you are expanding your vocabulary
Oh @Jimbo165 another wait for you for results.
I bet your driller and her assistant have heard some language that is a tad more colourful than yours.
I always laugh at programmes with English sub titles when in a foreign language they use a swear word we might have heard before and it is translated into something completely different.
I am still smiling with my pearly whites here.
@Erica, I think I have heard all of the sweary words but, being an innocent young lad, I have no idea what they mean! 
Take care, stay safe, be kind to yourself, and carry on dazzling everyone with your pearly whites. Erm… you aren’t related to “Mack the knife” by any chance, are you?
Oh @Jimbo165 Mack the Knife, a memory from the past, no, I don’t think we are related in my lurid past!!