Krystyna23040
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
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- Diet only
He definitely needs a bucket on his head. He really won't like it but it will have to be done.
He definitely needs a bucket on his head. He really won't like it but it will have to be done.Poor Archie and what a worry for you. Our Labrador Moet had one of those buckets on his head, not pleasant but a needs must to prevent him causing larger problems from licking his wound.
Thank you @ianpspursHug for Archie
Can you get a volunteer to put curtain up @gennepher ? Can get expanding curtain rails which go up in seconds, possibly use the hook or rod style tie back, so no need to pull them every night? I remember you saying that was difficult for you.Just what I was thinking - we have blackout blinds or curtains in all our bedrooms - they work a treat.
Unless you are in Cornwall, IOW or Scilly Isles, Tier 2 mainly. All 32 London Boroughs Tier 2. Tier 3 appears to be mainly the fabled Red Wall turncoats. One needs a very, very, very long spoon if supping with the Devil. To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.Hahah not surprisingly the Govt website is down trying to search for the tiers!
I was chatting with my bestie who is in Manc and now feels she won’t even be able to go to her folks in Chepstow for Xmas which is sad.Unless you are in Cornwall, IOW or Scilly Isles, Tier 2 mainly. All 32 London Boroughs Tier 2. Tier 3 appears to be mainly the fabled Red Wall turncoats. One needs a very, very, very long spoon if supping with the Devil. To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
You have my sympathy. One of the advantages of steering clear of making friends as such is not having to deal with their issues. The family we have raised and blood relatives, dad's line really, is enough for me. I have taken to emailing 3 people I was closest to at Uni over 40 years ago. Julie has a friend with multiple issues. I'm sympathetic when she visits but good fences make good neighbours. I hope the commentary works out for you and of course I have empathy for those who feel anxious due to COVID/lockdown or anything else. I am grateful for the undue Grace shown to me. Take care.I was chatting with my bestie who is in Manc and now feels she won’t even be able to go to her folks in Chepstow for Xmas which is sad.
I have a friend struggling with a lot but who seems to want to break the bubble rules and I find myself feeling horrible when I tell her I cannot put MY bubble for Christmas at risk because she wants to break the rules.
Her parents are in Liverpuddle (also Tier 2) so that is her support bubble but her attitude is “from next week no-one will know so what harm will it do”... thus far I have declined to add a further reply!
There are lot of other underlying issues that I won’t bore you guys with but having had this at the start of lockdown the next step will be to tell me that I make no effort for her (I have suggested FaceTime... she refused, she point blank won’t eat in a restaurant, if we arrange to meet, she leaves at the time we are supposed to meet and leaves me in town for 30m plus)... so I am a bit stuck now. She will rant and rave about how I will talk to my other friends but not her (difficult when she refuses to pick up the phone, answer the door, answer her texts) and... that I won’t break the rules for her.
But if I try to tell her that I am suffering from anxiety from being unemployed at 51, managing diabetes and arthritis etc..she will say she can’t take on any one elses’s issues right now. Again this is totally the depression talking and she was very supportive when my mum died three years ago. So... I guess I just absorb the oncoming storm of “you are a horrible person and not my friend” and wait for the inevitable “I’m sorry for what I said”
For the first time in a while I feel quite weary of this pandemic now!
You have my sympathy. One of the advantages of steering clear of making friends as such is not having to deal with their issues. The family we have raised and blood relatives, dad's line really, is enough for me. I have taken to emailing 3 people I was closest to at Uni over 40 years ago. Julie has a friend with multiple issues. I'm sympathetic when she visits but good fences make good neighbours. I hope the commentary works out for you and of course I have empathy for those who feel anxious due to COVID/lockdown or anything else. I am grateful for the undue Grace shown to me. Take care.
Lord, she sounds like some of the people in my local NextDoor app who accuse anyone of getting their flu vaccines as perpetuating the myth/nanny state/alien landings/shooting of JFK [/insert appropriate conspiracy theory here]Finally found the right people to help me, no criticism of you lot
Age UK is championing my corner now, just been sent a load of bumpf by email and I've been 'attached' to a new 'friend' who is local and will be my advocate in sorting my mess out. Hopefully, I can get out of my situation soon.
Her ladyships shot over the bows today was to call me a liar regarding having had covid. She also pointed out that it's all nonsense and only weak-minded people fall for it.
If I had a van I'd be living in it about now.
I hope Age UK help ameliorate your plight. Without wishing ill on anyone I feel a form of justice should befall Her Ladyship but judgement is mine etc. For parsimony of posting one can see why certain areas may be rife with/hotspots of COVID: "Britons stricken with coronavirus have the lowest mandatory sick pay of the OECD industrialised nations as a proportion of average earnings" - soucre = Owen Jones in Guardian so take yer salt.Finally found the right people to help me, no criticism of you lot
Age UK is championing my corner now, just been sent a load of bumpf by email and I've been 'attached' to a new 'friend' who is local and will be my advocate in sorting my mess out. Hopefully, I can get out of my situation soon.
Her ladyships shot over the bows today was to call me a liar regarding having had covid. She also pointed out that it's all nonsense and only weak-minded people fall for it.
If I had a van I'd be living in it about now.
No man is an island unto himself alone.Finally found the right people to help me, no criticism of you lot
Age UK is championing my corner now, just been sent a load of bumpf by email and I've been 'attached' to a new 'friend' who is local and will be my advocate in sorting my mess out. Hopefully, I can get out of my situation soon.
Her ladyships shot over the bows today was to call me a liar regarding having had covid. She also pointed out that it's all nonsense and only weak-minded people fall for it.
If I had a van I'd be living in it about now.
Be strong and stick to your principles, doing so won't make you any less of a friend to this person, pampering to their needs won't help you or help them, just remain supportive but firm.I was chatting with my bestie who is in Manc and now feels she won’t even be able to go to her folks in Chepstow for Xmas which is sad.
I have a friend struggling with a lot but who seems to want to break the bubble rules and I find myself feeling horrible when I tell her I cannot put MY bubble for Christmas at risk because she wants to break the rules.
Her parents are in Liverpuddle (also Tier 2) so that is her support bubble but her attitude is “from next week no-one will know so what harm will it do”... thus far I have declined to add a further reply!
There are lot of other underlying issues that I won’t bore you guys with but having had this at the start of lockdown the next step will be to tell me that I make no effort for her (I have suggested FaceTime... she refused, she point blank won’t eat in a restaurant, if we arrange to meet, she leaves at the time we are supposed to meet and leaves me in town for 30m plus)... so I am a bit stuck now. She will rant and rave about how I will talk to my other friends but not her (difficult when she refuses to pick up the phone, answer the door, answer her texts) and... that I won’t break the rules for her.
But if I try to tell her that I am suffering from anxiety from being unemployed at 51, managing diabetes and arthritis etc..she will say she can’t take on any one elses’s issues right now. Again this is totally the depression talking and she was very supportive when my mum died three years ago. So... I guess I just absorb the oncoming storm of “you are a horrible person and not my friend” and wait for the inevitable “I’m sorry for what I said”
For the first time in a while I feel quite weary of this pandemic now!
I know... she has all but cut off her best mate and worried her sufficiently during the first lockdown for her friend to drive down from Ruislip and come knocking on her door which she then refused to answer. She feel we aren't doing enough and when I sent her some links from the recent BBC Breakfast push to circulate mental health helplines, I got a retort of "I am NOT phoning them, I will just book myself into The Priory"...Be strong and stick to your principles, doing so won't make you any less of a friend to this person, pampering to their needs won't help you or help them, just remain supportive but firm.
Sadly I have seen and heard this spoken about Covid too many times this year and often by educated older people who are fortunate enough to live in the countryside away from crowded urban sprawl, most believe it is all a means of controlling the hoi polloi. They are fond of asking, "do you know anyone who's got it or died from it?" And of course they don't as I don't, such attitudes are not easily changed and if you challenge them you are considered a fool.She also pointed out that it's all nonsense and only weak-minded people fall for it.
Sadly I have seen and heard this spoken about Covid too many times this year and often by educated older people who are fortunate enough to live in the countryside away from crowded urban sprawl, most believe it is all a means of controlling the hoi polloi. They are fond of asking, "do you know anyone who's got it or died from it?" And of course they don't as I don't, such attitudes are not easily changed and if you challeng them you are considered a fool.
My attitude is to remain strong, trust in my principles and continue to show love and friendship whist disagreeing with their beliefs. However such people are dangerous.
On that basis there is a very long list of illnesses that don't exist."do you know anyone who's got it or died from it?" .
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