The (not so old) Crocks Cafe -Part 2

LameWolf

Mooloo you're more than welcome here, y'know! I know your pal Molly from the Old Style board, too.:o

I'm fairly lucky in that I can do most things left or right handed, so if one arm or hand is giving me more trouble than usual, I just switch to the other.:D Doesn't work for things where you need both hands though... still working on that one!:D

Savvy_sewing

LameWolf wrote: »

Mooloo you're more than welcome here, y'know! I know your pal Molly from the Old Style board, too.:o

I'm fairly lucky in that I can do most things left or right handed, so if one arm or hand is giving me more trouble than usual, I just switch to the other.:D Doesn't work for things where you need both hands though... still working on that one!:D

thanks, yes Molly is a very good friend to me. We met on here, and I thank my lucky stars that I did. I wouldnt have known a soul here when I moved, and would have felt very lonely indeed. Its lovely to have a visitor for a cuppa and someone who is in a similar boat to me, who understands the ups and downs of being ill.!
the frustration seems to be the hardest thing to master!
Letting go of it is difficult.
While my arm is reasonable today I am doing some sewing. Time to get back to the machine while I have the chance. I have some bags and walking stick bags to make.

mary-op

Lamewolf -well done !! I know the feeling.......Twice now I've managed to hang out some washing........what a milestone that was and how pleased I felt with myself :T Every little thing I manage to do might be a small step for mankind but its a big one for me!

Mooloo..........have pm'd you about walking stick bags. Would love to see a piccy ......any chance ?

Valli

LameWolf wrote: »

OK, this is totally pathetic as far as achievements go, but I know a lot of you here will understand it being something of a triumph for me.:D

We have little air vent latches at the top of our patio doors, which for nine years, I have been unable to operate myself, having to ask Mr LW to open/close them for me.

This morning, I managed to open them myself!!!!!:j:beer::T
It hurt like pure hell to stretch up to do it, but I managed it! Albeit with a fair amount of swearing. :whistle: Lol, the tricep extension exercises on the WiiFit must finally be paying off!:D

WTG Wolfie!

(as I used to suffer from arthritis I still get a thrill when I can press my palms together and bend the fingers outwards - so I DO know what things like this mean...):cool::T:T:T

Savvy_sewing

mary-op wrote: »

Lamewolf -well done !! I know the feeling.......Twice now I've managed to hang out some washing........what a milestone that was and how pleased I felt with myself :T Every little thing I manage to do might be a small step for mankind but its a big one for me!

Mooloo..........have pm'd you about walking stick bags. Would love to see a piccy ......any chance ?

Yes I tried to send you a reply but you don't seam to be able to receive Pm's for some reason.
If you click on my name, you can go to my homepage and you can see the latest walking stick bag that i did for Molly41. It was a request so it has a picture of her two beloved dogs on it for her. Bit more ornate then necessarily needed of course. But she loves it. She has another one of mine as well.
(Cath Kidston fabrics as we are both a little mad on her stuff!).

needing-help

Hi everyone:D

LW Thats brilliant things like that give you such a boost.

Mooloo Those bags are gorgeous I always envy people who can sew. I love Cath Kidston but her stuff is way out of my price range.

Sorry my brain has self distructed after remembering 2 people but hope everyone else is ok.

I've had a good day today too. Went out for lunch with dh while the kids were at school which we never get to do. I have just come in from the garden where I got some more veg planted with dd. This is our first time growing stuff so hoping for the best.

I am now collapsed in an exhausted heap:o

Savvy_sewing

needing-help wrote: »

Hi everyone:D

LW Thats brilliant things like that give you such a boost.

Mooloo Those bags are gorgeous I always envy people who can sew. I love Cath Kidston but her stuff is way out of my price range.

Sorry my brain has self distructed after remembering 2 people but hope everyone else is ok.

I've had a good day today too. Went out for lunch with dh while the kids were at school which we never get to do. I have just come in from the garden where I got some more veg planted with dd. This is our first time growing stuff so hoping for the best.

I am now collapsed in an exhausted heap:o

Thanks, I must admit it comes as second nature to me to sew, but I come from a family of dressmakers really. Both my mother and my grandmother used to make all the family clothes when we were small.
Re the Cath Kidston, I agree that she is very pricey. Molly41 and I went to the shop in Bicester and I came away with ideas, but was so shocked at the poor quality of some of the things in there. Especially the oven gloves and things like that. They really were roughly made. A lot of her stuff is now made in China.
I try to buy her fabrics on ebay etc, as its cheaper then her site, but then again I do slip up and sneak the odd metre from the site when I just cannot resist it!.
I am very tired now, I have been sewing for a few hours today. The longest I have done in many a year. I hope I didnt over do it, or I will suffer for it tomorrow!.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Well done on your triumphs!



For a change, spent most the day at the hospital, but not for me, for DD.

Having been systematically dismissed and had various insinuations about my coping as a mother for years, actually managed to get a GP to refer DD to the paediatrician.

Upshot is that she appears to have hypermobility (well yes, I know THAT, I don't need you lot to tell me about her elbows, thumbs and knees bending backwards and her ankle permanently twisting) but she may have Marfan's, as she also has a malformed chest, scoliosis (which the GP had repeatedly dismissed), is incredibly lanky, has crowded teeth, a high palate and gets chest pain/breathlessness/lack of stamina/fainting. That and her father has various Marfanoid features that he refuses to get checked until he has to be admitted to hospital, as he thinks that ignoring them means they aren't there. If not Marfan's, then she has hypermobility and scoliosis coincidentally with a funny shaped chest and is getting chest pains and dizzy from lack of breakfast and her back affecting her neck.

So, from there being nowt wrong with her except a paranoid mother :mad:, she now has to see an orthopaedic surgeon, have scans, xrays, an EEG, ultrasound of the heart, blood tests and see a visiting genetics specialist.


[slams head against table]

Refusing to let her know just how bothered I am - done lots of shrugging of shoulders and pointing out that it could easily be nothing important and she's just lanky and wonky and bendy - and not mentioning that it might mean repeated tests lifelong or having to wear braces, etc, etc. No need to complicate matters by making her stressed about it, after all.

[slams head against table again]



Ugh. Going to go to bed early tonight. But not until I have shown the cats where I have moved their litter tray to (downstairs) as I am sick of the late night smelly excavations, and hope to persuade them that ultimately, their new place will be behind the shed and not indoors at all. (ETA: they seem to have grasped the concept and gone to use it in the new place :j)

Last night I was very naughty and ordered a gorgeous knitted throw from Laura Ashley as it was half price and I have wanted it since it was full price. I am intending to give it as a moving in present for someone special when they get their own flat - but it might be a struggle to part with it. I, however, will still be making myself ones that are totally to my liking, as I can't spend the same sort of money on things that will be trashed by the cats within three days of purchase. And I do have to have some means of distracting myself, after all.

On a more sensible note, I used my catalogue goods for credit (or whatever it's called now) to order an upright, lightweight vacuum cleaner - only a very cheap one, but it only weighs 4.5kg and I am having a heck of a job managing a cylinder cleaner nowdays. I'll still use it upstairs, but as downstairs is all open plan, the new one should reduce some of the effort involved in cleaning. Hopefully.


Just another ten minutes and then I'll try and write today off as positive but draining. I really need some sleep tonight.

LadyMorticia

Evening everyone.:wave: Had a productive GP appointment today. She's going to refer me to the M.E clinic and is going to write a letter to the housing department advising that I need to move because of medical need and ideally need a ground floor flat. I'm not sure what that will mean for banding (we have a bidding system here and we're currently on the silver banding).

I'll read back soon. Got a headache and my meds have made me drowsy.:o

Trialia

Jojo - apart from the lankiness, I have all the things you just listed for your DD, including the Marfanoid ribcage, but I have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, not Marfan's. They're not all that dissimilar... So keep an open mind on it, I would suggest. That said, Marfan's is more common.