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oscar;1391821 wrote: I could feel sorry for myself I suppose. Physically, I am exhausted. Peter Is more mobile but still needs a lot of help.

Some time In the next few weeks, maybe sooner, my eldest dog needs to be put to sleep.

But my brother Is coming to stay for a week on wednesday and I can't wait.


Horrible decision to make on the dog front, maybe you could do it whilst your brother is around to help.

theia;1391822 wrote: Sitting on someone else's lap would be inadvisable because I'm 63 and I have a hacking cough.

I shall say no more and I trust that my chum will make no further comment.

Thank you.


:wah: no comment here.

2.44 in the morning, would you believe...the only one around and feeling so sick...just wish it would happen so that i could try to get some sleep

theia;1391984 wrote: 2.44 in the morning, would you believe...the only one around and feeling so sick...just wish it would happen so that i could try to get some sleep


That's some extreme to go to to avoid a monday morning at work there! I'm guessing you fancied a day off on the beach in this glorious weather we have! :wah:



Seriously, are you feeling any better? Would you like one of my cardi's to make to you feel better?

Betty Boop;1392043 wrote: That's some extreme to go to to avoid a monday morning at work there! I'm guessing you fancied a day off on the beach in this glorious weather we have! :wah:



Seriously, are you feeling any better? Would you like one of my cardi's to make to you feel better?




I'm good at those things...just before I broke the bone in my foot, my next door neighbour had suggested that we could get fit together by taking regular walks. When I told her about my foot, she said that I didn't need to go to quite such an extreme to avoid exercise.

It comes on in waves...I'm hoping it's getting longer inbetween waves.

So I've got to be poorly for you to offer a cardi? Whatever, I'll take one!

theia;1392044 wrote: I'm good at those things...just before I broke the bone in my foot, my next door neighbour had suggested that we could get fit together by taking regular walks. When I told her about my foot, she said that I didn't need to go to quite such an extreme to avoid exercise.

It comes on in waves...I'm hoping it's getting longer inbetween waves.

So I've got to be poorly for you to offer a cardi? Whatever, I'll take one!


As long as you're not sick on it :wah: which one by the way?

Feeling any better yet?

I'm sick of being the one who has to solve other people's problems because they're so caught up thinking their solving other people's problems they need help to sort their own reality out. Then once they realise that they weren't in control they turn on you and treat you like you caused their problem in the first place and in the end you put a large amount of resources to get treated like crap.

go for the bone density scan. It has helped me. My bone dentisy was that of a 75 year old. they started me taking calcium with vitimin d. alot of it. It has started to work.. Hopefully they can help you.

I never ended up with a cold but have got blocked sinus', how's that work :wah:

I had two days of feeling almost normal but then the aching came back with a vengeance yesterday afternoon, no wonder Jowan was so miserable last week!

Everyone else well??

Or blown away with this lovely weather?

Betty Boop;1392491 wrote: I never ended up with a cold but have got blocked sinus', how's that work :wah:

I had two days of feeling almost normal but then the aching came back with a vengeance yesterday afternoon, no wonder Jowan was so miserable last week!

Everyone else well??

Or blown away with this lovely weather?


It sounds back to front?

I'm back to work tomorrow and it promises to be a hectic day...

theia;1392494 wrote: It sounds back to front?

I'm back to work tomorrow and it promises to be a hectic day...


Just seems totally wrong, no runny nose but blocked sinus, hey ho.



Enjoy work, best place to be with weather like this :wah::wah:

I'm feeling poorly & sorry for myself. Tomorrow I undergo peripheral catherization, I think it's called. My left leg will be roto-rootered, the arteries/veins cleaned out of clogs, a balloon inserted. Then, in a couple of weeks, the right leg. I want to talk more about it, but I'm nervous & scared now & my heart is pounding.

Tough times, AnneBoleyn. But it has to be done, my poor wife lost her leg to blood clots. They're very scary and dangerous. Keep your chin up. Modern medicine is amazing, you'll be OK. (They even brought my wife back from the dead after her heart stopped for over 34 minutes.)

As for me, I'm feeling sad for myself for having to declare bankruptcy for those medical bills. On the other hand, she's alive, I go chapter seven and walk away from hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills (after excellent insurance?) and start anew.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Thank you Saint_. What a story. Your wife went through a lot. I'm feeling sorry for myself I guess because it's been nothing but doctors & hospitals for me for the last 9 years. This mess started in 2003 with stage 3 colon cancer. That has been "taken care of" but it's been one lousy thing after another since then. I must be really nervous, as my heart is just pounding away & I'm finding it difficult to think, let alone talk. I think I may be in panic mode, hope I can stop it.

I'm sending you huge hugs, Anne :yh_hugs:yh_hugs

Will you be an inpatient for a while?

It's the thoughts that make us panic, isn't it? And how impossible it is to halt the thoughts.

You've certainly been through some rough years. I'll be thinking of you tomorrow :-4

(((theia))). Thank you. Not an inpatient unless something goes wrong. They send a van to pick you up & take you home afterwards. Same day service. I'll think of you thinking of me tomorrow. Cheers!

Hope it all goes well Ann, will think of you too and won't mention my aching body with this damn cold it's insignificant compared to what others have going on. Just bloody hard work with an almost one year old who won't stay still and let mum sit quietly :wah:

It's an almost one year olds primary job Not to let mum sit quietly! Thank you Betty. I just got a call from the hospital, they said I'd probably stay overnite & told me a van would pick me up 4:30am & I begged for a later time, they said 8am, now I wish I didn't say that & I hope I don't drive myself & everyone else crazy before tomorrow!

Hey Anne, do you have a hobby? Mine (videogames and the guitar) always distracts me from nervousness and pain when my Rheumatoid Arthritis is flaring up.

Hobbies................let's see..............I come here!

AnneBoleyn;1392546 wrote: Hobbies................let's see..............I come here!


Why not begin a controversial thread? It may help to distract your anxious thoughts a little.

theia;1392548 wrote: Why not begin a controversial thread? It may help to distract your anxious thoughts a little.
I don't know if I have the patience to answer avid responders right now. Unless I start something & sit back & be amused by everyone else screaming!

AnneBoleyn;1392549 wrote: I don't know if I have the patience to answer avid responders right now. Unless I start something & sit back & be amused by everyone else screaming!


Now that sounds like a good distraction

Do I feel sorry for myself? I do not know yet. If i need a 6th surgery, I think I just might. It seems like every year, I need yet another back surgery. The only good news is, I have a new and better surgeon.

tazzy;1392596 wrote: Do I feel sorry for myself? I do not know yet. If i need a 6th surgery, I think I just might. It seems like every year, I need yet another back surgery. The only good news is, I have a new and better surgeon.


I passed a pub today with an odd sign chalked up outside saying they'd be showing a short film this evening called "Back to the Fuschia" about repetitive strain injury among the gardening community. I'm still wondering whether they meant it.

Oh bless you ! When the sun comes out properly and things warm up a bit I'm sure you'll feel better.

I had a bone density scan because I ws prescribed steroids which thin your bones. It came back 'normal for my age'....whatever that is.

anyway.....eat & drink plenty of dairy stuff to get plenty of calcium and maybe see what the doctor / pharmacist advises. If there is a problem the Dr. will prescribe something I'm sure

chin up old friend xxxxx

Bez;1392636 wrote: Oh bless you ! When the sun comes out properly and things warm up a bit I'm sure you'll feel better.

I had a bone density scan because I ws prescribed steroids which thin your bones. It came back 'normal for my age'....whatever that is.

anyway.....eat & drink plenty of dairy stuff to get plenty of calcium and maybe see what the doctor / pharmacist advises. If there is a problem the Dr. will prescribe something I'm sure

chin up old friend xxxxx


Thanks, Bez xxxxxx so good to hear from you.

When do you get your scan results?

I'm still feeling like crap, back to feeling cold and shivery today and the girl is on the sofa with a temperature and aching limbs. Reckon I've blown an equivalent of my bodyweight of snot out of my nose :wah:

Betty Boop;1392820 wrote: When do you get your scan results?

I'm still feeling like crap, back to feeling cold and shivery today and the girl is on the sofa with a temperature and aching limbs. Reckon I've blown an equivalent of my bodyweight of snot out of my nose :wah:


4-8 weeks

I can imagine you now as about 3 stone

Betty Boop;1392820 wrote: Reckon I've blown an equivalent of my bodyweight of snot out of my nose :wah:Though it must be said in your favour that you do it in a very ladylike fashion.

I offer my profound sympathy to those suffering in this thread, the Boop and theia and Anne and tazz and Bez (hi Bez!!) and all who would post here but feel reticent. May their sinuses dry out, their feet re-knit, their bowels tighten (or, should it so be the case, loosen), their blood flow copiously in those places the good Lord intended and their spines stiffen to just the proper extent and not a jot more.

I started drinking almond milk since dairy was doing terrible, smelly things to my digestion and according to the container, it's got 50% more calcium than milk. It's delicious too... wonderful in coffee and delicious in oatmeal.

I feel healthy and pain free this morning but man oh man, am I tired. I had trouble falling asleep anyway and then a bug flew up my nose at one point last night and I was sneezing uncontrollably for about five minutes. God, what a way to be woken up. I'm thankful this is my Friday at work.

My bone scan is fine and I've been discharged from further fracture clinic appointments :-6

A check at the opticians revealed that the pressure behind my eyes has increased dramatically and I'm awaiting an opthamology appointment at the hospital :yh_frustr

That'll be all the brain-store you keep adding to. You could wear blinkers and stop listening to Radio 4.

I'm pleased your bones have re-knitted.

theia;1395789 wrote: My bone scan is fine and I've been discharged from further fracture clinic appointments :-6


That's a relief and should make life easier :-6

theia;1395789 wrote: A check at the opticians revealed that the pressure behind my eyes has increased dramatically and I'm awaiting an opthamology appointment at the hospital :yh_frustr


But *that* needs sorting right away - I'm surprised you are having to wait for that, it should be straight in and to hell with the queue

Bryn Mawr;1395793 wrote: That's a relief and should make life easier :-6





But *that* needs sorting right away - I'm surprised you are having to wait for that, it should be straight in and to hell with the queue


Well, I had a call from the "eye" co-ordinator a couple of weeks ago telling me that I would be contacted shortly by opthamology with an appointment (he must be the chappie that endeavours to keep the waiting time within the correct limits because he had no knowledge of actual opthamology at all).

I tend to think spot is right re my brain :wah:

Well...my bone scan wasn't okay even thought the doctor's receptionist told me no further action when I called. I was eventually summonsed via letter to see my GP and whilst my spine is okay, my hips aren't, or vice versa, can't remember.

However this pales into insignificance since my yesterday diagnosis of glaucoma. The opthamologist said she was 99% certain but when I asked a colleague to access my patient demographics today, to change my address (disciplinary offence if we access our own), there it was, above my name, GLAUCOMA. So the 1% of "maybe not" has apparently disappeared!

And, yes there is a funny side...but I won't go into it now in case there is anybody here who doesn't find it funny.

theia, I am sorry for this diagnosis of glaucoma. I do know that marijuana protects against it & aids in it's treatment. I wish you & your beautiful eyes the very best.

AnneBoleyn;1420343 wrote: theia, I am sorry for this diagnosis of glaucoma. I do know that marijuana protects against it & aids in it's treatment. I wish you & your beautiful eyes the very best.


Mee too, Theia. There's nothing worse than feeling ill. Everything else becomes so much more difficult. As the British say, "Keep a stiff upper lip!" I'm pulling and praying for ya!

theia;1420339 wrote: Well...my bone scan wasn't okay even thought the doctor's receptionist told me no further action when I called. I was eventually summonsed via letter to see my GP and whilst my spine is okay, my hips aren't, or vice versa, can't remember.

However this pales into insignificance since my yesterday diagnosis of glaucoma. The opthamologist said she was 99% certain but when I asked a colleague to access my patient demographics today, to change my address (disciplinary offence if we access our own), there it was, above my name, GLAUCOMA. So the 1% of "maybe not" has apparently disappeared!

And, yes there is /B] a funny side...but I won't go into it now in case there is anybody here who doesn't find it funny.


Ouch.

At least having found it they can now stop it from getting any worse.

I want to hear the funny side, and I'm sure everyone else does too.

SnoozeAgain;1392824 wrote: I started drinking almond milk since dairy was doing terrible, smelly things to my digestion and according to the container, it's got 50% more calcium than milk. It's delicious too... wonderful in coffee and delicious in oatmeal.

I feel healthy and pain free this morning but man oh man, am I tired. I had trouble falling asleep anyway and then a bug flew up my nose at one point last night and I was sneezing uncontrollably for about five minutes. God, what a way to be woken up. I'm thankful this is my Friday at work.


This is really a fascinating post, you're all very lucky to have me as a member here.

AnneBoleyn;1420343 wrote: theia, I am sorry for this diagnosis of glaucoma. I do know that marijuana protects against it & aids in it's treatment. I wish you & your beautiful eyes the very best.


Hmmm, evidently next time I visit Theia we shall have to skin up :wah:

SnoozeAgain;1420349 wrote: I want to hear the funny side, and I'm sure everyone else does too.


Well, I'm really interested in what Anne had to say! I shall google it.

I'm moving into a flat in two weeks time. I have 100s of books and I love them all. So it's going to take me and several other people a number of trips to move them all. I was talking to my daughter in law earlier and I said, jokingly, that it would be a complete waste of time if my sight deteriorated. She responded, seriously, well you can always use your i-pad! Oversight and pun all in one :wah:

Ah, I know all about a lot of books... when I had movers pack me up before moving to Utah, one of the guys said in a heavy Russian accent "oh, books" (heavy on the double O sound). They're apparently the bane of moving.

But seriously, your ipad, if it's anything like my kindle, can read to you even if the book wasn't released in audio. Neat feature.

SnoozeAgain;1420354 wrote: Ah, I know all about a lot of books... when I had movers pack me up before moving to Utah, one of the guys said in a heavy Russian accent "oh, books" (heavy on the double O sound). They're apparently the bane of moving.

But seriously, your ipad, if it's anything like my kindle, can read to you even if the book wasn't released in audio. Neat feature.


Yes, my mover who has moved my stuff six times since the mid nineties and is a nice bloke, always sucks through his teeth when he sees the bookcases and I always say, guiltily, oh I'll be moving the books. And I always do.

My daughter mentioned that about my i-pad, too...I've been known to whinge and moan about technology (yes, me) but it's pretty good, isn't it.

theia;1420358 wrote: Yes, my mover who has moved my stuff six times since the mid nineties and is a nice bloke, always sucks through his teeth when he sees the bookcases and I always say, guiltily, oh I'll be moving the books. And I always do.

My daughter mentioned that about my i-pad, too...I've been known to whinge and moan about technology (yes, me) but it's pretty good, isn't it.


Moved any books yet? Dreading if we ever move, loads of books here :wah:

I expect my removal man will charge me double.

Oh, I hope your foot is better theia.

chonsigirl;1420441 wrote: Oh, I hope your foot is better theia.


Thanks, chonsi, it seems fine now...I was saying to my brother this morning (he's 70), as we were lugging bags of books into the new flat like two old fogies, did we ever imagine we'd be this old? He just grimaced...probably from back pain :wah:

LOL I understand. I had an overnight hospital stay last month, and my older brother calls me to see how I am. Wants me to tell what it was for, after all, we are now older and might have similar complications. Like what! I don't want more worries.......

I do not take getting older gracefully, and find having to rest a little more now a big pain. The doctor told me to take yoga classes and less martial arts stuff, cut down on my stress. My kids are laughing in back of her, but they had already given me the lecture. I asked if I could do tai chi-the doctor says, isn't that just slow martial arts? Like what again! So I compromise, and take a day off in between, but what rest can you get if you teach 12 year olds? :wah:

And no, I have not given up martial arts. But it does feel funny having to sneak out of the house for kung fu so the kids don't know. Just don't ship me off in an ambulance again......

chonsigirl;1420452 wrote: LOL I understand. I had an overnight hospital stay last month, and my older brother calls me to see how I am. Wants me to tell what it was for, after all, we are now older and might have similar complications. Like what! I don't want more worries.......

I do not take getting older gracefully, and find having to rest a little more now a big pain. The doctor told me to take yoga classes and less martial arts stuff, cut down on my stress. My kids are laughing in back of her, but they had already given me the lecture. I asked if I could do tai chi-the doctor says, isn't that just slow martial arts? Like what again! So I compromise, and take a day off in between, but what rest can you get if you teach 12 year olds? :wah:

And no, I have not given up martial arts. But it does feel funny having to sneak out of the house for kung fu so the kids don't know. Just don't ship me off in an ambulance again......


This getting older is an odd one, chons...although you know it's coming, or even there, it still sort of sneaks up on you with an increasing number of sly taps on the shoulder, lest you should forget! I couldn't believe what I'd written on this thread, when I read back through it the other day!

I say, keep with the martial arts...