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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Em found some cardboard boxes which inspired her to start on a "project". Unfair of me but I was hoping to get those out of the house before she found them. Em's projects tend to leave the kitchen as a disaster area with boxes and bits of boxes all over the kitchen table and floor. Mum had come in from work feeling ill and went to bed, but Braidie was in the house so Dad popped up during his break to pick up Em, so the mess was worse than usual. Never mind - at least the floor is clear now - just the table to clear.

I should have gone to the pharmacy this morning (they close at 1 pm) to see if my sensors are in and to see if they have some ointment or something for sore eyes because mine are getting very sore now. Vision is fine, once the tears are wiped away - it's mostly the skin around the eyes, due, no doubt to the wiping away of tears all the time.
 
I think I've worked out why I feel so awful. I suspect it's my gall bladder acting up again. It happened last year too but it went away again. If this doesn't shift soon I reckon I will have to try to get a doctors appointment. I woke up at 5am feeling very nauseous and a pain on the right abdomen radiating up my back. Took an hour to get comfortable and dozed off again. I'll just have to be very careful what I eat to see if it will settle again.
 

Alistair found that, to a great extent, he could control his gall bladder problem by being very careful what he ate. Towards the end it didn't work very well, but for some months before his surgery it did seem to get the flare-ups under control. Of course, his diet then was not anything like the diet you would be used to but he increased the amount of fibre using nuts and seeds as well as eating pretty well no meat. He did eat fish, as long as it wasn't fried but cut out all dairy products, which did seem to be a major issue for him. He stopped tea and coffee and drank only oat milk or water, stopped fruit and fruit juices, at plenty of vegetables. Stopped using oil for his food. On the whole his diet was low fat and low carb. He also reduced the volume of food but snacked on a little during the day, so had no actual meals. It was pretty extreme and he lost a lot of weight but at least the pain and nausea went away. It wasn't too difficult for him to stick to the regime because he never did like sweet, creamy, fatty things. The fish he ate was mostly tinned in water or brine because DIL is actually allergic to fish in most forms so he couldn't have fresh fish in the house, to keep her safe.

This was all in the last year before removal of his gall bladder - before that he was told that it was IBS and it was treated with pills, which didn't really do much good. With all that, towards the end, he wasn't able to control it at all and just had to work through it.

I do hope your condition doesn't get that bad, although it sounds very painful even now. But as long as you can find the right one, diet can help a bit. I gather that high fat is the thing to watch - I wish someone had told me that when I had my gall bladder removed because I always have been very fond of cream, butter etc and ate plenty of it both before and after surgery. But that was many years ago (about 1977).
 
maglil55 said:
I'll just have to be very careful what I eat to see if it will settle again.
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When I had gallstones there was no rhyme or reason as to when an attack would come, there didn't seem to be a clear connection with food.
Very happy to have gotten rid of that pesky gallbladder.
 
Just had a visit from Em and Bella. Bella was Em's first pet and is a Lab, about 10 years old and the sweetest natured dog I have ever come across, which is a bit of a surprise because she was badly treated in her early days. DIL bought her from a breeder who was having a bit of a hard time and intended to have Bella put down because she couldn't afford to get her speyed. She was also living in a cage with 2 male siblings and having to fight for whatever food she got. DIL couldn't bear the thought of such a lovely young dog being put down and bought her even though they couldn't really afford her or to have a big dog along with the other rescued dog (a male King Charles) they had.

Em fell in love with her immediately and Bella apparently reciprocated! The only problem is that she is a bit overweight. She has never forgotten having to grab whatever food she could get, apparently.

Edit: and she's a bit of an attention seeker, but sweet with it.

 
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It's Sunday and that means that it's Antje's birthday. Hope you had a very happy day Antje and maybe spoiled yourself just a bit?
 
Got to the oncology unit and found I did not bring my sandwiches with me, so had the food that they supply.

I was there close on six hours, while gave me gave a biggish bag of i ron while they waited for the blood tests to come back that they took out of me when I first arrived there. Then it was two baggies of blood dripped in over the day as my blood counts were still down.

The staff were very good as well, the nurse that was looking after me was great never felt the cannula going in. Got no bruising this morning either.

Had a chat with a couple of people having chemo, and I am glad I did not go down that road.
 
Ferries cancelled! I am currently trying to find out if the Scottish Ambulance Service has any help they can offer to get me from the airport to Raigmore in time for my surgery on Thursday and if the hospital can get a porter to take me from the hostel to the ward and back. Information is difficult to come by - especially when nobody answers the phone.
 
It's all sorted. I'm flying tomorrow lunchtime and will be picked up by taxi from the airport and go to Kyle Court (the hostel). Next morning the taxi will come back and take me to the main entrance of the hospital - someone will take me up to the ward from there. Since I am on my own, I shan't be discharged until morning and then the taxi will collect me and deliver me to the airport for the trip home. The only problem is that the hostel doesn't have any food source nearby and doesn't have a kitchen that I could get to anyway (down a set of steps). Can't take water on the plane. Just have to hope the water in the shower room is drinkable. I'll only need food in the evening when I get there - nothing after midnight anyway. I'll carry something with me in my bag. I'll also need to take something to read - no TV or anything like that at the hostel. It really is just a bedroom and a shared shower room.
 
I hope everything goes well @Annb. What was the reason this time for the ferry cancellation?
 
maglil55 said:
I hope everything goes well @Annb. What was the reason this time for the ferry cancellation?
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Weather.

The wind wasn't very strong here earlier on but even so, the Tarbert to Uig ferry was cancelled today. The wind is building up now and the Stornoway to Ullapool one won't go tomorrow. I'm not sure when the wind is expected to die down but, whenever, it will be too late for this trip.

I don't know if the ships they use these days are less seaworthy in bad weather or if either the crews or the owners are just less willing to go out in a gale. Probably something to do with owners being wary of passenger dissatisfaction, or health and safety. Certainly 40 or 50 years ago, the old Loch Seaforth sailed in much worse conditions than these. Of course, she wasn't such a fancy ship - just a passenger lounge at one end, a bar at the other end and plenty of deck space for the more hardy passengers. On today's ferries, you can't get outside at all - everyone is hermetically sealed in and the ships are pretty top-heavy.

Going by air, of course, means being sealed into a kind of sardine can with no space for legs and narrow seats. At least the flight is only 45 minutes.

I was just saying to Neil that I'm beginning to wish we hadn't chosen to live on an island all those years ago. There again, 40 years ago, this procedure would have been done in Stornoway - we had pretty well every medical service here then. These days it is usually just a consultation here and a referral to somewhere on the mainland for all except emergencies, like broken bones and heart attacks.
 
Annb said:
It's Sunday and that means that it's Antje's birthday. Hope you had a very happy day Antje and maybe spoiled yourself just a bit?
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I did have a lovely birthday, and was both spoiled by myself and by others!
I lost this thread again though, hence my silence here.
And here's my belated update!
Very happy with the present, 5 different flavoured dried sausages.
First is almost finished, the other 4 are in the freezer waiting their turn.

 

A Cheddar sausage. Now that's interesting. And can I just see the word jalapeno? I hope it was as good as it sounds.
 
Annb said:
A Cheddar sausage. Now that's interesting. And can I just see the word jalapeno? I hope it was as good as it sounds.
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So far I've only tried the zwarte peper (black pepper) one on the left, and that is definitely very good!
The others are garlic, chilli, cheddar and smoked jalapeno, and fennel seed.
 
@Antje77 - I seem to have fallen foul of the 11pm or so double posting blibs. I've tried to delete the duplicate a few times but it tells me Ivdon't have the authority.
 
During the electrical storms late last week, the breeze turned into wind that ripped the screws out of the hook and eyes catch on the laundry door.

I ordered this door stop from Amazon Au and it arrived yesterday arvo, the parcel postie asked what it was for being heavy for it's size told him half a chineese house brick wrapped in rope.


 
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