Wol's Riverbank tales: Part 3 Restoration

Wol2

Karmacat wrote: »

What is it with parents not telling adult offspring in their 40s and 50s about what's going on? Hope you get to the bottom of it all Wol - I had another example last night. My Zimbabwean auntie died yesterday - I knew her, but not well - and when my mum rang to tell me, she asked if I thought my sister (age 51) should be told - I mean, yes, her husband died earlier this year, but not to tell somebody about a death in the family is a bit extreme, it seems to me..... she was upset, of course, it brought back all her own - but how can you not tell somebody about a death in the family???? It beggars belief sometimes, but I'm of the firm school of "better out than in........" as applied to emotions............

Hope you're okay - and I'm so glad you got the piggies back okay. And now its poo-time....... lovely. Many, many changes of rubber gloves, I think!

Hi Hun

Thankx for sticking "with".....need to check your thread....so sorry but been a bit pre-occupied recently :o

Hope all is well down your way :beer::beer::snow_grin

xxx

Wol2

Horace wrote: »

Wol - glad you managed to have your hair done, that the piggies are home (put your rubber gloves on when rummaging through their poo:eek:), good luck with your parents and good on you for remember that top totty had jack russells - give them a bell tomorrow to see if they want to go ratting:D

Lemon thanks for sharing about your dad.:D

You are so right about the rubber gloves Horace

Turns out Yersinia is transmissable to humans and vice versa..but in humans it manifests as a gut disease..:think::think::think:..a lot of things about my "non-existent" allergy (hospital finally notified me yesterday my food allergy panel was negative...so no Coeliac, no cancer, no allergans....yet I have these symptoms )

Need to be a bit nore careful with piggie poos/secondary spread atm

xxx

Wol2

In case you were worried:

Dippy got her overdraft facility Despite all the work I;d done writing her "case" to be presented, she started to blow the whole thing and didn't refer to the documents I had prepared the day before until I stopped her and put them direcly in fornt of her

Good news: I declined her request for further business advice
I was not swayed by her tears :cool:
I further declined her request of "can we be friends" v:T:T

By this time...I think my defenses were really shot to helland back as I finally agreed that she could write to me...but i wouldn;t guarantee to reply :wall::wall:

Exit achieved :j:beer::j:beer::j:beer::j....I hope!

Nargleblast

Pleased to hear you have a medic bod in the family. Hope some of his message got through to them, although aged parents can suffer from selective deafness at times. All you can do is sit and wait, que sera sera etc. Look after yourself and the animals and the business, hope for the best for the rest. Certainly you cannot be arrised with idiot clients at a time like this.

Karmacat

Wol2 wrote: »

Hi Hun

Thankx for sticking "with".....need to check your thread....so sorry but been a bit pre-occupied recently :o
Hope all is well down your way :beer::beer::snow_grin
xxx

I'm okay - got a streaming cold at the moment, and of course in my line of work that stops you doing anything - its a bit distracting for clients, to say the least! As well as being infectious, blah blah.......

Actually, Wol, I feel really bad I haven't phoned you, speshally now I've got my charges sorted out on the phone (I think). Truth is, I'm just coping myself, fed up of it, but there we are - its nothing big like you're going through, just the situation getting on top of me.

Wol2 wrote: »

In case you were worried:

Dippy got her overdraft facility Despite all the work I;d done writing her "case" to be presented, she started to blow the whole thing and didn't refer to the documents I had prepared the day before until I stopped her and put them direcly in fornt of her

Good news: I declined her request for further business advice
I was not swayed by her tears :cool:
I further declined her request of "can we be friends" v:T:T

By this time...I think my defenses were really shot to helland back as I finally agreed that she could write to me...but i wouldn;t guarantee to reply :wall::wall:

Exit achieved :j:beer::j:beer::j:beer::j....I hope!

I am *so* glad to hear this! Good for you - I have a "decline the offer to be friends" to be done myself, on this Canadian guy who bought a book from me and thinks that means we're buddies who email daily..........:mad::eek:

chevalier

Hi Wol *waves madly*

Sorry to hear about your little one passing. It is a hard thing to do, especially when they have such great personalities.

Glad to hear that the hand issue is being taken seriously. God how terrible that it has taken this long for something to happen.

Ref your gut and the piggy disease, can you get tested for it? Cos if you have it then I guess the piggies do and it saves them having more tests?

Hope you have a great time in Edinburgh. I wonder if anyone will be having a meet at the end of April/beginning of May as we will probably be back in the UK then:T
chev

Wol2

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm okay - got a streaming cold at the moment, and of course in my line of work that stops you doing anything - its a bit distracting for clients, to say the least! As well as being infectious, blah blah.......

Actually, Wol, I feel really bad I haven't phoned you, speshally now I've got my charges sorted out on the phone (I think). Truth is, I'm just coping myself, fed up of it, but there we are - its nothing big like you're going through, just the situation getting on top of me.


I am *so* glad to hear this! Good for you - I have a "decline the offer to be friends" to be done myself, on this Canadian guy who bought a book from me and thinks that means we're buddies who email daily..........:mad::eek:

Hi KC - here my dear, have some hugs....
:grouphug::grouphug:

Mulled wine is good for colds and very comforting - Sainsburys did a nice one last year (tescos one this year isn;t so good)...although i prefer to get a bottle of fruity ozzy red and make my own with clementines/oranges and whatever spices take my fancy. (Mental note to add to shopping list for this weekend)

Hopefully I will be back on the diaries next week to catch up now that things seem to be evening themselves out here

xxx

Wol2

chevalier wrote: »

Hi Wol *waves madly*

Sorry to hear about your little one passing. It is a hard thing to do, especially when they have such great personalities.

Glad to hear that the hand issue is being taken seriously. God how terrible that it has taken this long for something to happen.

Ref your gut and the piggy disease, can you get tested for it? Cos if you have it then I guess the piggies do and it saves them having more tests?

Hope you have a great time in Edinburgh. I wonder if anyone will be having a meet at the end of April/beginning of May as we will probably be back in the UK then:T
chev

Yay Chev :j:j:j

How are you - is it hot down under at the moment?

The vet said today that it is more likely I will catch this from the pigs than vice versa and as my symptoms started more than 3 years ago, and none of the pigs are showing signs of diarrhoea, it is unlikely I have given them whatever it is I have.....however if their poos come back positive for what he thinks it is, I will have to notify my GP and will probably be prescribed a course of antibiotics to be on the safe side.

Wow you;re coming over here next Easter-ish - would be great to meet up/organise a meet for then. Are you going to be travelling all over the Uk or based in a specific area?

Lovely to hear from you and hope the neighbours are starting to prove a little more friendly

xxxx

Wol2

I have spoken to my Dad who went to the clinic today - he says ultrasound showed no blockage in his carotid and there is no lasting damage in his brain.Whatever caused the TIA travelled into his brain and out the other side. This is obviously very good news :T:j -
However - he has interpreted this as meaning that the problem in his carotid has completely disappeared (ie he is cured) and even though I tried to expain to him that the plaque was probably still there - just not big enough to cause an actual blockage that required an op to clear it, and that the same thing could be triggered again by the plaque unless he keeps on his medication and slows down, unfortunately he wouldn;t listen and is adamant he is cured....Wol sighs heavily......

As for piggies.....blood results are inconclusive in terms of the bug - but there is clearly something going on in Beech (as he has high neutrophil count and possible liver damage)...just don't know which bug...so it's important the poos are screened not just for the bug he suspects (which is still main favourite) but also some others as well.
He has said piggies can go back on antibiotics after their samples have been collected as he is concerned about them being off them and still really would like an animal for PM...I do wish he wouldn;t use the word "sacrifice" as it implies a deliberate taking of life and that is what is upsetting me so much.......I made it clear today I am not going to deliberately let one of my pigs die just so he can do a PM......if nature wants to take one over this weekend, he can have the body for PM....(.but i will still do everything i can to save the pig first - like put them back on antibiotics and withold their poo sample on monday )

Have done nothing today except surf the web, drift round the house, speak to dad and the vet, tidy the kitchen, unstack the dishwasher and cuddle my piggies . The irnoning mountain remains, there is wet washing in the linen basket waiting to be hung out from three days ago, the backlogged work to finish and my invoices to raise at the end of this month.

Ah well, tomorrow is another day :cool:

Lemon_Tree

and lets hope its a dry day so you can get your washing out.

I built up my Karma reservoir today, we went shopping in Lidl, two trolleys, me calling out prices so OH could write them down. The aim was to get £30 in each trolley so we could use 2 x £5 off vouchers, which we managed. We are going back once i've checked out best offers for loo rolls, laundry and cleaning stuff, but even if we did go back for one more round i had a spare voucher so i gave it to an unsuspecting woman at another till who looked like she'd bought more than enough to use it. Hated to see the thing go to waste (even though we'd been given the vouchers so didn't even pay for the newspaper) and she seemed appreciative. almost told her to come on this site to look out for such things but kept it in my head.