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jjraak said:
Trying to cancel appointment.
Keep texting me say how much it costs to not attend, instruction is DO NOT text back call....

Problem is I've been trying all morning line always busy.:banghead:

Bike now gone :(
Never going to be able to ride it again due to hand..(and leg position, if I could )

Scooter in bits.
Might be able to ride that at some point, just to prove I can still do it.

Did ride once, but not the carefree, joyous experience it once was.

Time will tell.

Meanwhile I live vicariously through those who can .

Travel safe...:cool:
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Hospitals don't make communication easy do they @jjraak
I had problems recently trying to postpone an appointment, it was impossible. Finally I wrote a letter, but you don't have time for that.
I got my new appointment eventually, but half way through 2024....sigh...

Some extra e-hugs for you x
Best I can offer...
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Just back from getting my legs rebandaged. Temperature here is 6C and it is a bit breezy and a bit wet. Raining, but fine light rain. Just feels cold.
BG at 2.30 am was 7.4. Tea then breakfast (low carb) and now it's 5.8. Eating veg yesterday was a painful experience so I'm going to leave out the veg altogether today.
Dishwasher broke down again during the night so I had to empty it and wash everything in the sink. Neil thinks there is a leak at one end of a pipe (the difficult to access end, of course) so he'll have another look at it - hopefully today. His plumbing skills are in demand today - Alistair is trying to plumb in a new bath and has hit a snag with the hot water supply so he needs Neil to go and try to sort it out. Handy for everyone, Neil being so useful, not so handy for Neil, I suspect, although he is always willing to help anyone who needs it.
 
gennepher said:
A few years ago I had a chunky spider on my bedroom ceiling that I named Boris. I took loads of photos of her. Occasionally she went in the bathroom. But a couple of years later Boris disappeared for good. I missed Boris...

This inset is from when I found Boris all bunched up in Popeye's bucket of water. I rescued her, and she climbed my bedroom walls back on the ceiling and lived another year.....

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I was concentrated on another thing going on when a spider seemed to be flying backwards through the air upside down, about 10 feet in the sky, nowhere near anything at all, good job son3 was standing by and witnessed the event. Never seen that before!

6.9 pre counselling.

A beautiful morning and warmer than the forecasts. A cloudless sky, all blue!
Might walk or bus? Don't know yet!

Chores, shopping and exercise done.

Anyway, might rob a bank on the way back, if I can find one, cos, I won't be sent to the nick! Cos they are not only full but overcrowded!
Report back later! With loadsamoney!
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7



Yesterday I conferred with some friends in England.
Their advice was the same as my thoughts, leave the Berlin Wall, do nothing, and deal with it if/when insurances are needed.
Hopefully the wall will stay up and doesn't succumb to wind (pigs might fly) but I really do sincerely hope the Berlin Wall will stay up because I now have my privacy from him which I like very much.

Mr Berlin Wall Xmas Lights neighbour's bungalow was up for sale when I moved here 20 years ago, and he has been trying to sell his bungalow ever since. But it never sells. Every year or so the For Sale signs go up for a year or so, sometimes signs from 2 or 3 estate agents. Then the next year he tries again with different estate agents. I think he has run out of estate agents now....


Wildlife nighttime camera
#ukwildlife
Badger gets on the swing!!! And looks in the trail camera.
This is Pa Badger. His son, Boy Badger, tries but fails.
1min


Creative...
The Magic Tree
I need some magic...

Have your best day.

Time for a cuppa.

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Stunning, Wow!
 
gennepher said:
Hospitals don't make communication easy do they @jjraak
I had problems recently trying to postpone an appointment, it was impossible. Finally I wrote a letter, but you don't have time for that.
I got my new appointment eventually, but half way through 2024....sigh...

Some extra e-hugs for you x
Best I can offer...
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In the Merseyside area now, it is not the actual hospital or department that organised appointments it is a designated appointment department that handles the appointments. So you don't phone the hospital or if you did, you would get transferred to the appointments dept.
 
Good afternoon all. Drip trip was an hour earlier today so prep needed briging forward. Mainly a good fluid intake so veins are easy to access but not too much as walking around with all the tech and line attached would be a mission. @gennepher and @dunelm once again you have both treated us to a feast for our eyes and imagination with your art so thanks. @jjraak good to see you but hug for the appointment issues and realisation that life has changed. One or two of us here, or maybe just me, have real difficulty living with this fact of life. @Annb hug for the dishwasher and I hope Neil can fix it. @SlimLizzy glad you enjoyed the Frost poem. A wet and dull day here so tea and CWC seems like a plan for me. Have a great rest of the day.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Good afternoon all. Drip trip was an hour earlier today so prep needed briging forward. Mainly a good fluid intake so veins are easy to access but not too much as walking around with all the tech and line attached would be a mission. @gennepher and @dunelm once again you have both treated us to a feast for our eyes and imagination with your art so thanks. @jjraak good to see you but hug for the appointment issues and realisation that life has changed. One or two of us here, or maybe just me, have real difficulty living with this fact of life. @Annb hug for the dishwasher and I hope Neil can fix it. @SlimLizzy glad you enjoyed the Frost poem. A wet and dull day here so tea and CWC seems like a plan for me. Have a great rest of the day.
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Thank you @ianpspurs and yes, not 19 any more.
 
ianpspurs said:
Good afternoon all. Drip trip was an hour earlier today so prep needed briging forward. Mainly a good fluid intake so veins are easy to access but not too much as walking around with all the tech and line attached would be a mission. @gennepher and @dunelm once again you have both treated us to a feast for our eyes and imagination with your art so thanks. @jjraak good to see you but hug for the appointment issues and realisation that life has changed. One or two of us here, or maybe just me, have real difficulty living with this fact of life. @Annb hug for the dishwasher and I hope Neil can fix it. @SlimLizzy glad you enjoyed the Frost poem. A wet and dull day here so tea and CWC seems like a plan for me. Have a great rest of the day.
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Thank you Ian. I have now resigned to myself that I need an afternoon nap every day now......it feels like not much is done in a day....I have had to accept a much slower pace. Whatever all our difficulties, it is not easy to accept life has changed, but we do need to embrace it. Sometimes I find it hard and demoralising, as many of us do, but a little sunshine helps whether is be a cheery person or the actual sun itself. Today for me was actual sunshine, and no machinery noises, and I had a restful lazy day today.
I hope the rest of your day goes well Ian.
 
Lamont D said:
I was concentrated on another thing going on when a spider seemed to be flying backwards through the air upside down, about 10 feet in the sky, nowhere near anything at all, good job son3 was standing by and witnessed the event. Never seen that before!

6.9 pre counselling.

A beautiful morning and warmer than the forecasts. A cloudless sky, all blue!
Might walk or bus? Don't know yet!

Chores, shopping and exercise done.

Anyway, might rob a bank on the way back, if I can find one, cos, I won't be sent to the nick! Cos they are not only full but overcrowded!
Report back later! With loadsamoney!
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Young spiders use their spun threads to travel miles in air streams like paragliders.
There are not inhibited by not having wings but there has to be the right conditions.
 
Marjorie has been exhausted for some time and unwell this last week, the op seemed to have made her worse. Helen has been very helpful this week but she goes home tomorrow. We had to cancel the COVID jab today, but I wasn't keen anyway.
Helen took Marjorie to the shops this am and stopped her getting vertigo.

She sent off an e-consult form to the surgery for her yesterday, they are not doing tests at the surgery and Marjorie had a thyroid adenoma and half the thyroid removed when she was young and it should be checked properly each year.
I think my illnesses wear her out and she worries about me.
Life gets harder but there is no real alternative to old age.
Best wishes to you all
Derek
 
lindisfel said:
Marjorie has been exhausted for some time and unwell this last week, the op seemed to have made her worse. Helen has been very helpful this week but she goes home tomorrow. We had to cancel the COVID jab today, but I wasn't keen anyway.
Helen took Marjorie to the shops this am and stopped her getting vertigo.

She sent off an e-consult form to the surgery for her yesterday, they are not doing tests at the surgery and Marjorie had a thyroid adenoma and half the thyroid removed when she was young and it should be checked properly each year.
I think my illnesses wear her out and she worries about me.
Life gets harder but there is no real alternative to old age.
Best wishes to you all
Derek
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If you could note every aspect of your late life that has happened to you and your dearest.
The impact of the effects of that will impress the changes in how you do things and the approach to either solve or cope with the circumstances.

or the machismo answer, is,..... it is what it is, get on with it!

I get it mate!
 
lindisfel said:
Marjorie has been exhausted for some time and unwell this last week, the op seemed to have made her worse. Helen has been very helpful this week but she goes home tomorrow. We had to cancel the COVID jab today, but I wasn't keen anyway.
Helen took Marjorie to the shops this am and stopped her getting vertigo.

She sent off an e-consult form to the surgery for her yesterday, they are not doing tests at the surgery and Marjorie had a thyroid adenoma and half the thyroid removed when she was young and it should be checked properly each year.
I think my illnesses wear her out and she worries about me.
Life gets harder but there is no real alternative to old age.
Best wishes to you all
Derek
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You both do what you can. Look after each other.
 
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