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It’s been a catastrophic 18 months and if your reading this then, fingers crossed, you’ve survived the worse. Pandemic aside most people on this forum will be suffering from other ailments and, without giving personal details, I think its good to talk about health issues.
I am fortunate to be relatively healthy, bar I minor heart problem, but mentally this past year or so have been a bit of a struggle but thankfully I’m coming through it.
So how the hell are you?
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Oh, Phaedra. What can I say? Sympathies don’t really cut it. Life sucks sometimes. Social Services suck all the bloody time.
Well here we are, it’s about 4 weeks since we signed for the flat.
It’s taken this long for me to paint over the walls and get a friend to paper over the chimney breast.
Gas and electric are now sorted after the housing association gave us the wrong meter reading, only took 3 one hour phone calls, 2 emails and a rant on Twitter to SSE to get them to correct it!.
I won’t tell you what it’s cost to fully furnish it but I’m glad I had an increase on my credit card limit and Argos did 9 months interest free on the white goods and electricals!.
We still need a bed and a sofa, the fridge freezer, washing machine, wardrobe and other larger electrical items are coming on the 7th so we’ll have to stuff everything in the kitchen until the carpets are fitted on the 13th. Broadband goes in on the 14th. Hopefully we’ll have a bed shortly after that and he can spend his first night in his new home.
Thanks to all for the support 🙂
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
Great job, Phaedra. Well done. Hope you get it all finished soon and the lad can enjoy his new place.
Your Son is a lucky lad having such a loving Dad, well done and hope it all works out for you both..
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What-ho!
That spell of ‘fatigue’ turned out to be a stomach bug and I’ve been . . . ‘At less than my best’ for the last few days. I’m still pretty wiped out but there are some definite signs of improvement. 🙂
To make up for my absence, here are some videos of ‘Monkeys (and Apes) Reacting to Magic Tricks’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkPx6iRqMts
Good to know you’re on the mend 🙂
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
Yes good to see you back Georgie.
Thanks for your comments, guys. And I gather from reading the Headings that you’ve had a bit of a tumble yourself, Brydo, so I’m sending a {{{hug}}} vibe your way.
It might take another few days before I’m back up to speed – even if that speed is a slow amble these days. 🙂 So don’t worry if I ‘Go dark’ again. I’ll just be sleeping off all the food I’m going to be catching up on after three days of porridge, noodles and water.
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Georgie thanks for your concern, its nice to know people are thinking of you and its much appreciated.You shared some details of your health problems and its clear that you’ve had your mountains to climb, but you always come across so positive. Concentrating on what’s good in your life is a very cure for many ailments but non greater than your mental health.
As you might now guys I am a carer with reasonably decent health, so when I read about people living with disabilities it makes me realise how lucky I am. However over the last few weeks a few things have happened to me that’s made realise you can’t take good health for granted. I hurt my eye a few weeks ago and I’m still having problems seeing clearly (even though the rain has gone lol). Then I fell down the stairs (there’s nothing like a fall down the stairs to make you feel old, especially when your 85 year old father – in – law has to help you up). Then today I took a wee bit of a bad turn, pains in my chest and down my arm and had to use my heart spray for the first time in three years. All is good now although that spray gives a thumping sore head.
Nothing as exciting as that but I spent most of this morning with my head over the loo bringing up Wednesday nights Indian!! (as well as this mornings meds and a cup of tea!). Weirdly there was no sign of the fish and chips I had last night!, just a load of onions and peppers from the night before! (too much information, sorry!).
I feel absolutely drained and I probably am!. Now with a very sore throat and getting no sympathy whatsoever from the cat who thoroughly enjoyed her piece of Chicken Tikka starter and bits of the Chicken Dupiaza (and a load of fish last night!) 😀
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
It’s a peculiar thing. A couple of days ago I woke up really hungry after n days of being sick so I had a bijou amount of porridge for brekkie, a turkey bun (no salad, just white bun, a scrape of butter and 3 meat slices) for lunch, and then quarter of Bacon Quiche for dinner followed straight after by the other quarter because I couldn’t face anything else. When it all paid a return visit at 2am I lost everything but the quiche. Clearly my body needed whatever was in the quiche and simply dumped the rest.
Experimentation in what kicks things off* combined with a review of 6 months of what I thought was ‘rib pain’ caused by the mastectomy are suggesting I might have a stomach ulcer, which sounds melodramatic until I consider the amount of Ibuprofen I’ve taken over the last ten years.
Oh joy. Another attempt to speak with a GP awaits.
* Anything the least bit spicy or acidic, coffee and tea (both decaf), granary bread, tomatoes, orange juice, tropical squash, more than an ounce of cheese . . . Not bacon, interestingly. So it’s a nutritious Quiche and Bacon butty diet for me! And endless glasses of water. :-\
There is a sickness bug going about up here. My daughter works in education and there are many children off school with it.
You’d think after the past two years we would get a break, but no someone up there is giving us a bit of a hiding and we haven’t even really hit Flu season ??
Oh, Georgie! My sincere sympathies. I really do know how frustrating the problems are. It obviously varies from individual to individual. FWIW, when faced with same problem, I cannot fast completely because certain drugs must be taken with food. I find that simple tinned salmon in a plain white bread sarnie works OK. Also simple, non-spicy rice (Tilda do an easy-to-use version).
Get better, my friend. Take care.
In the wars Georgie, hopefully a recovery will be swift, maybe settle into a book, hopefully drift away with thoughts and reading, take your mind of illness..?
My first thought was that it is ‘that gastro bug that’s going around’ but the symptoms don’t match. No dire rear, no fever, no cramps – just really sore behind the lower ribs, really bad heartburn/bile taste, and the up-chucking.
Certainly getting through chickens at the moment – chicken broth, chicken soup, chicken Nasai Goreng (turned out to be a bad idea!), Creamy chicken and mushroom with rice (v. small portion) . . .
Tomorrow is normally Commiseration chicken sarnies day, but I suspect my half of the chicken will just be . . . plain chicken sarnies.
If it’s not getting better from Tuesday (7 days from first bout) I’ll contact the GP. DH works from home and he’s keeping an eye on things. 🙂
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