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lindisfel said:
Some people have no gritty sense of humour that we found quite normal in our generation. Actually it was always a sign you liked someone enough to pull their leg.
D.
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Think the term for this bunch of wannabes, is 'Snowflakes'

'Melts' down here, cos they melt at the first sign of resistance... :hilarious: :hilarious: :hilarious:
 
lindisfel said:
Went to see physio today 1300 at local hospital at Wigton no reception on you just sat and waited for them to come and get one.
Had a good chat and she looked up my pelvis scans from when I fell 18 months ago coming out of the hospital after audiology app.
It was the problem with my eyesight, caused it from having a cataract done at Preston a couple of years before.
Had a major haematoma on my b*m and they kept me in two days.
Our friends came and brought the Octavia and Marjorie back home in the afternoon with their daughter that day in another car.

If I had to rely on family it would be difficult with them all being away.
Anyway the appointment with physio went well. Had a late lunch and then started with a migraine and took two paracetamol and went to sleep for a full hour in the chair.
Now having an easy day
Derek
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It is difficult when you don't have nearby family to help out with hospitals and travelling and stuff @kindisfel
 
jjraak said:
Get in.....ker-ching.

We have today's WINNER by a mile .

What a FANTASTIC RESULT.

So so so pleased for you.

Feet up, a hot cuppa & a cuddle off that furry hot water bottle.

Today IS a Good day :cool: :cool::cool:
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Thank you so much @jjraak
I fell asleep when I posted my good news.
I am half asleep here, trying to read your responses.
An amazing day for me.
Furry hot water bottle is on me...
I never got as far as pouring my hot cuppa from my flask...so I am rectifying that now....
C(__) for me and a cuppa for you c(__)
Thank you so much x
 
Lamont D said:
As the others have said, result!
Get yer pjs on, and have a cuppa and lots of praise from us.of

if I may, why would you stay at the Adelphi?
There is a lot of really decent modern hotels on the riverfront, more than half the price than that relic!
I could say why the Adelphi had gone out of favour, but it's against forum rules!

And it is awful on the motorway outa da city. It's called wacky races, between four and seven in the afternoon, it is much heavier traffic but not so bad going back on the A roads. Until you get through Chester to Wrexham. But even around there it can be madness.
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Hi @Lamont D
Thank you.
I have no family close by to help me with appointments and stuff, and if a problem after the appointment, I need somewhere to stay, I cannot walk far and I would not be able to drive to the waterfront if there were a problem. I said Adelphi cos I knew that is nearby. Last year I booked a place at Aintree because I needed a rest after the appointment and I could stay until 2pm the next day, I was totally exhausted, but that was far too far...
I did notice coming out of the New St Paul's that there is a Novotel hotel immediately opposite which I had no idea was there. I would need something that close proximity...in addition if I book Novotel in advance I can book a secure car parking space, albeit a single space on a private property very nearby. I did that when I went to stay in London, I found someone who was away for that couple of weeks, and they rented out their underground secure car parking space to me...
Adelphi would have been £46 for the night, but Novotel would have been £61 but worth it to me for being immediate proximity...
 
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gennepher said:
Hi @Lamont D
Thank you.
I have no family close by to help me with appointments and stuff, and if a problem after the appointment, I need somewhere to stay, I cannot walk far and I would not be able to drive to the waterfront if there were a problem. I said Adelphi cos I knew that is nearby. Last year I booked a place at Aintree because I needed a rest after the appointment and I could stay until 2pm the next day, I was totally exhausted, but that was far too far...
I did notice coming out of the New St Paul's that there is a Novotel hotel immediately opposite which I had no idea was there. I would need something that close proximity...
Adelphi would have been £46 for the night, but Novotel would have been £61 but worth it to me for being immediate proximity...
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The novotel would be clearly a better choice and close to the theatre's around Lime Street and St Georges.
The Shankly hotel is just around the corner from there. And expensive. But so many to choose from. The prices rocketed around the Eurovision song contest.
The Adelphi is very close to a gentleman's club that is the best way to explain. And that small area is known for its night life. The Adelphi suffered because.
It's a very vibrant city. And so much to go and see. I love the museums, but not the Beatlemania.
The shopping in Liverpool one is brilliant, if you are into it! Huge choice and dear!
So glad you got it sorted!
 
gennepher said:
Got back an hour ago. It was a very long day, and there was a lot of waiting.


I had to go through various eye tests and things like I always to do at the hospital and I did not see the specialist until very late afternoon.


It was the top man like it was last year.


I told him about the optician diagnosing cataracts and referring me to have a cataract operation and...


And so he interrupted me, looked in my eyes and started laughing his head off.


That's the teeniest tiniest cataract I have ever seen, he said. That won't cause you any problems. Rip up that offer of the operation and throw it in the bin.


That cataract might never cause you any problems and you may never need an operation. There's nothing for you to worry about.


He told me my eyes have not deteriorated one jot. My sight is just the same as it has been for the last 5 years since the YAG iridectomy laser treatment.


That Specsavers optician has a lot to answer for. She was totally irresponsible. I have been worrying ever since she told me and ever since she said my eyesight had deteriorated dramatically and me needing the cataract operation urgently.


I literally want to slap her across her face for the unnecessary distress she caused me.


My brain believed her and I felt like this was the end of everything, and I lost my confidence these last couple of weeks. Even though I was saying hopefully St Paul's hospital will not agree with her diagnosis that I had cataracts, I wasn't fully believing what I was saying, and I was getting depressed over it.


It did not make sense. I felt my eyes had not deteriorated at all in the last 5 years, and because I had the same glasses and the optician at Specsavers has never said that I needed to change them.


That Specsavers lady optician telling me (a couple of weeks or so ago) that my eyesight had deteriorated dramatically since last since last year really did put me in a bad place. The St Paul's specialist today confirmed my eyesight has not changed at all, and has not deteriorated at all. And that my eyesight is good, and that my right eye which the lady Specsavers insisted was really bad it is not really bad at all BUT it is pretty much near on par with my left eye. I could read further down the hospital eye chart with my supposedly really bad right eye, yet I couldn't at the opticians. And I wasn't having a bad day at Specsavers, her eye equipment was steaming up/misting up which was causing me problems. I had no problems like this at St Paul's Hospital today.


It was murder coming back home on the motorway with the going home traffic, the inside lane was doing 70 minimum, the middle lane was doing 80 and the cars and stuff, and the outside lane were doing 90. And they were weaving...I had no choice but to do 70 on the inside lane. I have not done that kind of motorway driving in many many years, not since J died, so we're talking 15 years.


I wanted to come back home for Midnight. Last year I had said I was going to book a hotel for a couple of nights. But I changed my mind and decided if I did need a hotel then I would just have to pop my car somewhere safe and go to that dive, the Adelphi which is literally a stone throw from the hospital.


When the eye specialist began laughing at my miniscule cataract, somehow I got a whole pile of confidence back, and strangely I could see more clearly, It is like all the stress over this so-called cataract business just melted away.


I haven't come back to Planet Earth yet...

Or got over the Specialist Boss Man laughing at my minuscule cataract...
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Wonderful news! So glad you had that appointment and could talk to someone who knew their job. It must have been so worrying for you these last days - you were bound to wonder if that woman was right in her diagnosis even while doubting it. The certainty offered by your specialist is such a relief - not only to you but to people here on this forum.
 
My last prescription of insulin was collected from the pharmacy - it was 4 packs of 5 pens and would normally last me about a month and a half. Unfortunately, whoever made up the prescription had failed to put it in the fridge and it had been out on the shelf for a couple of days before Neil collected it for me. I'm told that it must not, now, be put into the fridge and has to be used in 28 days from the date it was made up. Whatever is left after the 28 days will have to be returned to the pharmacy and they will replace the unused pens.

I have read on the leaflets in the boxes of pens that once the pen has been taken out of the fridge, it mustn't be returned there so I was aware of that injunction, but I don't know why.

Does anyone here know what the reason for that is? Is it like Epipens which have to be used by a certain date because the mechanism deteriorates (not the adrenalin), or does the insulin deteriorate in fluctuating temperatures?

If the latter is the case, I may have been using substandard insulin recently because my fridge draining tube was blocked and water gathered and froze in the drawer where I keep my insulin. The pens were in boxes, which absorbed water and then froze. Although the pens were very cold, they didn't freeze, so I carried on using them.
 
Annb said:
Wonderful news! So glad you had that appointment and could talk to someone who knew their job. It must have been so worrying for you these last days - you were bound to wonder if that woman was right in her diagnosis even while doubting it. The certainty offered by your specialist is such a relief - not only to you but to people here on this forum.
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Thank you very much @Annb
It was very worrying, because had the dissonance in my brain between a knowledgeable optician specialist, and my gut intuition that she was not right/wholly right
 
Annb said:
My last prescription of insulin was collected from the pharmacy - it was 4 packs of 5 pens and would normally last me about a month and a half. Unfortunately, whoever made up the prescription had failed to put it in the fridge and it had been out on the shelf for a couple of days before Neil collected it for me. I'm told that it must not, now, be put into the fridge and has to be used in 28 days from the date it was made up. Whatever is left after the 28 days will have to be returned to the pharmacy and they will replace the unused pens.

I have read on the leaflets in the boxes of pens that once the pen has been taken out of the fridge, it mustn't be returned there so I was aware of that injunction, but I don't know why.

Does anyone here know what the reason for that is? Is it like Epipens which have to be used by a certain date because the mechanism deteriorates (not the adrenalin), or does the insulin deteriorate in fluctuating temperatures?

If the latter is the case, I may have been using substandard insulin recently because my fridge draining tube was blocked and water gathered and froze in the drawer where I keep my insulin. The pens were in boxes, which absorbed water and then froze. Although the pens were very cold, they didn't freeze, so I carried on using them.
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That sounds a nightmare @Annb

For a start, the pharmacy should have known better than to store it on a room temperature shelf, which could be at 22C
 
Up bright and early this am with organising to do. Will have to get my prescription for over Christmas and new year and a get a month's best steak if it looks good, we like it lean.
The butchers have their own farms.

The duchess has to stay in to get a parcel.

Shopping with the duchess tomorrow and then in with my Octavia for four new Michelin's on the Octavia.

It all go the duchess is complaining of the new dynamic me!:)
Have a good day.
Derek
 
Lamont D said:
Hope you're ok now Derek, certainly been in the wars somewhat!
Having a relax myself after a busy day, even had a nap for half an hour when I should have been on kitchen duties.
Mrs L was not impressed, but soon forgot after trough time!
Darts and footie on the box.
Feet up and trying to get through a psychology tools booklet.....!
I'm worried I won't get through it before next session. Ha!

You have to laugh....
The government or should I say, the cabinet have asked airlines, if they want the contract to take refugees to Rwanda? All have refused.
And what makes it worse, is that the MoD, have also refused to use the RAF.
And what makes it worse, is that the airport, the home office will use, needs millions of pounds to upgrade it, so that the security is good enough.
And what makes it worse, the government has not applied to foreign governments, to use their airspace, to transport the refugees.....!
You just couldn't make it up!

Anyway, we are the British empire, and we will do, like we have always done. What we want!
We answer to no one, well, maybe the yanks.... And the......
But defo not the EU!!!!!

Taking back control
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Would you believe right wing Christians believe this policy!
It's a good job the Pax Romana had open borders because when Jesus was taken to Egypt by his parents fleeing Herod for a couple of years he would have been killed by that tyrant p.d.q. if he and his parents were turned back.

That shuts them up with an embarrassing silence.
D.
 
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lindisfel said:
Up bright and early this am with organising to do. Will have to get my prescription for over Christmas and new year and a get a month's best steak if it looks good, we like it lean.
The butchers have their own farms.

The duchess has to stay in to get a parcel.

Shopping with the duchess tomorrow and then in with my Octavia for four new Michelin's on the Octavia.

It all go the duchess is complaining of the new dynamic me!:)
Have a good day.
Derek
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lindisfel said:
We have been fortunate with the help of friends.
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We had a thriving community centre and café and everything else before Covid lockdowns @lindisfel

We were told that once lockdowns were finished, it would open up again, but they found there was no funding and it never opened up again. So a structure, a community where people helped each other was gone because we were all dispersed now, and I haven't seen any of them around in a long time.

There were a couple of people who used to help me out with lifts or food shopping when the community centre was thriving, and people helped me out with other stuff, and I helped them out too. One helped me out with my garden, but with lockdowns he ended up moving to be near his son, so I lost my gardener, and artist friend because we did painting.

But the meeting place with all our diverse groups - teaching art (I ran that weekly), teaching and helping people with Ancestry & Find My Past & genealogy (I became the expert in those when our genealogist died one Xmas with diabetic complications), teaching computers, teaching how to use the iPad (I helped with all the computer stuff, and that was how I learnt it all because I could work things out). Then there was the book club, knitting, baking, flower arranging and much more, and cafe (open daily run by volunteers), and the place where the CAB was, is now gone. It was somewhere where we met every day of the week Monday to Friday and a lot more stuff as well, like trips out.

A lot of people I knew from the community centre ended up moving a long distance to be nearer their families because of Covid and lockdowns. So we ended up being dispersed.

I tried to keep the art group running, with projects online via Facebook & via WhatsApp, but they just all fell by the wayside bit by bit, because it wasn't the same as them gossiping etc in the art group or people bringing in cakes they baked for our tea breaks. I still text a couple of them, but they all have their own problems now, and have become largely reclusive...or have aged parents to take care of.

I knew I would need a support structure in my old age, which is why I gave as well as received in the community centre. But I did not expect something like Covid and lockdowns to wipe out 20 years hard work if you wish to put it like that.

So, no family near me. I am back to being on my own again.

But I am not on my own in the sense I have all my Internet stuff, and Instagram and YouTube, and other stuff, and my postcrossing and penfriends where I am making new friends all the time. Life is very busy, not enough hours in the day for me...

I might be well over 70, but I still have long-term goals and plans, as I've had all my life and I have achieved all of them. I have to see how far I get with my current, believe it or not, 30 year plan..... divided into 10 year increments...

Life drops some lemons, life changes, and I have to box clever to figure ways round things......

Have a great time!
 
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