Fibromyalgia (part 2)

Careful_with_that_Axe

pcl if you ever run out run out of housework when you're manic etc ......... *g*

sue How's everything? Dad etc? I do hope you are getting some me time and relaxation - a lot to cope with at the moment. Will give you a shout next week.

Peaceful sleep and sweet dreams to everyone.
x

purplecatlover

morning all

careful oddly thats what my sister always says too

whats everyone got planned for today?

Careful_with_that_Axe

Yay! It's not raining! At the moment .....

I'll still be sorting out stuff here pcl, but maybe I can get into the garden and actually pot some stuff up without getting soaked, but I ain't holding my breath!
What you up to?

purplecatlover

good luck with that then actually atm the sky is pretty clear here.

i might make a start on sorting my kitchen cupboards, if i could fit more clutter fomr the sides into cupboarss the kitchen would feel tidier. i really should sort through and deal with m basket of paperwork to be dealt with too. not sure i can be bothered to do either though. i may just sit here and play games all day lol

Paparika

Morning all

Not really slept well but i had to get up early (8.30)

Ds has a letter sent home at the weekend informing us that swine flu had hit the school, so after a weekend of dithering i decided to keep him home (its the last week)
rang the school and explained to the attendance officer about my low immune system expecting to be called an over anxious parent or something, and she was lovely, no no she said, keep him home, for the rest of the week i'll have him down as authorized absence....
Even my doctor on Friday warned me the surgery had a few suspected swine flu patients, i looked at her and said why on earth are they here, she shrugged and said it doesnt matter what you advertise about it, ppl will always want to see a doctor.

Ds is over the moon it was sports day today and he had already stated he hated it, and bragging on his facebook account that he had no school this week... kids

Careful_with_that_Axe

Pap Glad you got it worked out with the school and your son. I don't think any of can afford to get it - sounds nasty and it's all getting a bit serious.

Just nipped over to Dad's and (under his supervision) raided his tool shed for bits and pieces, so have come away with a full car. Again!
He does come in handy sometimes *g*
HF dropping in for coffee and a natter late this afternoon and will book her to help me out again later in the week.
Have a sweet day all.

p.s. pcl I've just started playing Peggle World of Warcraft - a really daft game that makes me chuckle. Good luck with the cupboards.

Unity

bigzippy wrote: »

:rotfl:
Seriously, get in touch, we'll get it licked...

Hi Kass, ^wot she said^. I had similar problems when we changed from Sky to Virgin recently. Is your computer wireless, or do you have a dongle to plug in to the USB port? My laptop is wireless and until they sent us a working router (long story:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:) I was able to connect with an ethernet cable - which is what I suspect this yellow lead is. Let us know what's occuring and I'm sure we can help sort it between us.

bigzippy wrote: »

Um...lost me...?
I ended up in Sainsbury's today and watching Poirot too. Got the wine for the groomsmen gifts. A nice drop of Casillero Del Diablo (one of DF's faves) which had a 1/3rd off plus 5% off for 6 bottles plus (we bought 12:shocked:)
O' course, that was after spending 3 hours in the walk-in centre cos...wait for it.... my tonsils have created a little pocket at the back of my mouth (complicated to describe) which a tablet, that I took last night, had got stuck in. It was a nightmare that had me up til 4am before I gave up in a miserable huff, being sick and trying to hoik it out. It's just about starting to go down now...

Hey BZ, Aunty Axe is right - you do need to get this sorted surgically or else you will just end up more and more tired, your fibro flares will get worse and you're inviting a bout of glandular fever to boot :eek:. I held on to my tonsils as long as I could - as like you, I believed they were there for a purpose - but that purpose is only worth considering when they are a healthy working organ. You wouldn't want to hang on to your appendix in a case like this and really it is much the same - stuff gets trapped in it and causes infection, which leads to pain and ultimate removal..

I was the same age as you are now, when I had them out and I have never regretted it :T. Mind you I was getting severe tonsillitis every four to six weeks and the GF was so bad, I knew I didn't want to go through it again ever! The pocket thing is scarring and you will always have this problem from now on with stuff getting stuck, from tablets to lumps of food (I wish they had the little green vomiting face on here :rolleyes:).

So me dear - consider yersell telt by Granma Unity - after all I have a few more years on me than Aunty Axe as I'm sure she'd tell you - but she is sworn to secrecy over my real age :rotfl:.

Someone else can have the soapbox now .

Unity

Paparika wrote: »

Morning all

Not really slept well but i had to get up early (8.30)

Ds has a letter sent home at the weekend informing us that swine flu had hit the school, so after a weekend of dithering i decided to keep him home (its the last week)
rang the school and explained to the attendance officer about my low immune system expecting to be called an over anxious parent or something, and she was lovely, no no she said, keep him home, for the rest of the week i'll have him down as authorized absence....
Even my doctor on Friday warned me the surgery had a few suspected swine flu patients, i looked at her and said why on earth are they here, she shrugged and said it doesnt matter what you advertise about it, ppl will always want to see a doctor.

Ds is over the moon it was sports day today and he had already stated he hated it, and bragging on his facebook account that he had no school this week... kids

Hi Paparika - a similar thing happened on Thursday when I visited my GP and I'm still quite angry about it :mad:. We have an open surgery every morning, but the afternoons are kept purely for those with appointments (or so I thought!) and I always book an appointment as I believe that with having a depressed immune system, the last thing I want is to sit in a crowded surgery inhaling everyone else's germs - well hell, it's like passive smoking :rolleyes:.

My appointment's at 5pm and there's only one person in the waiting room, so I think: "Great, this won't take long";). Especially as I've been caught in a cloud burst and am sitting there in a rapidly developing puddle .

Fifteen minutes after my appointment time:rolleyes: and the buzzer goes and the screen requests the other person waiting, to go through to the room my doc uses. Meanwhile an elderly woman comes out, all smiles - evidently having had a good old natter :rolleyes:. I'm not totally unsympathetic, I realise there are old and lonely people out there - but why the hell are they always two in front of me? :rolleyes2 Anyway I wait another ten minutes - during which time a woman comes in, has a word with the receptionist - during which time the dreaded 'Swine Flu' is mentioned. She leaves and returns with her son - not some little child as you might think but a great big 6ft 4in bloke looking like an American football quarterback! At this point I'm wishing I had one of those medical masks you see people wearing in cities in China - but luckily these two get ushered straight through into the next waiting area and another woman comes in to see the same doc as me.

You've sussed it too haven't you by this time - yes, there's only one doctor seeing everyone - the one I'm waiting to see :eek:.

Finally the buzzer goes again and my name comes up, so I go through to see the doc, only to meet him coming out of his room. He tells me to go in and wait as he has to see someone who thinks they have (surprise, surprise :rolleyes:)Swine Flu - the quarterback and his mum are sitting in another consulting room. I know, since I have just passed within three feet of them as their door is open. Of course they don't have an appointment, they've just popped down - but they are getting seen - and seen before those who have appointments and who more to the point arrange said appointments because they specifically don't want to catch anything extra :rolleyes:.

Thankfully he comes back and washes his hand in front of me, saying that once again it is someone with a summer cold but jokingly blames me because he remembers I used to be a journalist :rolleyes::rotfl:.

I'd arranged this appointment over a fortnight previously (when even then it was the next available) to a) check the dosage of Thyroxin that I've only just gone on to b) check my bp as the nurse had noticed at my hospital appt tthat it was up to 160 over summat which is higher than usual for me and c) to discuss the appointment I'd had with the wrong neurologist:rolleyes: - but don't get me started on Choose and Book:mad:! Not to mention some very useful info (courtesy of Aunty Axe that could very well be life changing for me:T). Doc by this time is harassed:doh::huh:, I'm not really sure I have his full attention and the infernal, internal phone keeps ringing.

Normally I'd just say I realise his problem and I'll make another appointment - but in addition it is his last surgery for two weeks as he's off on holiday :shocked::sad::huh:.

Off he goes again to see another piggin' flu victim - yet another he returns to tell me, who doesn't have the virus:rolleyes:.

Anyway - when he returns I think he realises that I'm not really getting quality time, so he settles down a bit, listens and arranges blood tests. He even arranges for me to be added to the 'extras' list for the [STRIKE]vampire[/STRIKE] nurse, so they get done straight away.

As I leave his consulting room I find seven more patients, all standing close together outside the door - waiting to find out if they have SF - well even if six of them don't - you can bet they will have by the time they leave :eek:.

Of course when I enter the main waiting room I get a daggers look from the woman whose appointment was scheduled to follow mine - as she obviously thinks I'm one of these lonely people who just goes in for a natter and I've been chatting to the doc the whole time! :mad::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

bigzippy

purplecatlover wrote: »

whats everyone got planned for today?

Off to Manc with the bride-to-be who's getting wed at the same church the day before me. She wants shoes and we both need underwear. Have explained to her that prob won't be able to handle both, so we'll see what state I come home in...:rolleyes: She broke her wrist 2 weeks ago (and could have it still on for her wedding :shocked:) so can't really help in the wheelchair dept.:cool:

Careful_with_that_Axe wrote: »

p.s. pcl I've just started playing Peggle World of Warcraft - a really daft game that makes me chuckle. Good luck with the cupboards.

Uhoh...I had peggle recommended to me a while back and have so far resisted the tempation...;)

Unity wrote: »

So me dear - consider yersell telt by Granma Unity - after all I have a few more years on me than Aunty Axe as I'm sure she'd tell you - but she is sworn to secrecy over my real age :rotfl:.

Lol - I have Aunties older than you both, Unity...and I don't listen to them either! :rotfl:
(I know it too :shhh:)

As for the list pcl I shall let you know later, when I have time to report in properly, and will probably be panned out on the couch!:o

purplecatlover

peggle is a good game, so much so that i bought it for my ipod before xmas. its another one i play in phases though.

unity what a nightmare of a visit, might be worth sticking a comment in writing that they should ahve an extra doctor on to see the extra possible swine victims so other peoples appointments dont get interupted and delayed.