The (not so old) Crocks Cafe -Part 2

SingleSue

Hi everyone,

Still feeling a little low, goodness knows what is up with me...maybe I am just tired and in need of a break (not that I will get one).

Had yet another aborted food shopping trip this morning, pain was too great to carry on, I'm peed off about my washing machine - youngest smashed the door weeks back, got another door but then the little thing it attaches to dropped back inside the machine and unless the machine is taken to pieces, it is un retrievable and unfixable..so having to use my parents machine twice a week and hand washing the rest (not an easy task with arthritic hands).

And I just feel so isolated, so trapped....I want to be free, I want to have time to be me, to relax, to have fun....but I can't.

jodie114

LameWolf wrote: »

I suspect they do know mine; during the medical I mentioned, the doctor had me lie on my bed (it was a home visit), and she then proceeded to draw all over my legs :eek: and take loads of measurements. No idea what that was all about, and was too !!!!!!-scared to ask!:(

lol that really made me giggle!!! ty:rotfl:

LameWolf

jodie114 wrote: »

lol that really made me giggle!!! ty:rotfl:

*Bows theatrically* It was most unpleasant at the time, as I have a real loathing of being touched by other people (with the obvious exception of Mr LW ), but it's one of those things you have to laugh about afterwards.:D

formaldehyde_perfume

LameWolf wrote: »

*Bows theatrically* It was most unpleasant at the time, as I have a real loathing of being touched by other people (with the obvious exception of Mr LW ), but it's one of those things you have to laugh about afterwards.:D

I flinched when the airport lady had to tap me down, she asked if I was hurting and I had to say 'not particularly, I just hate being touched' I felt so stupid.

With the fibromyalgia, I find that even a light touch that I'm not expecting can feel a bit like a static shock, pressure of any sort is always painful to some degree but I have learnt which to ignore and which could be a problem. That's what I meant by 'not particularly' but I could hardly say all that on the spur of the moment with a whole (slightly angry, due to me 'pushing in' with wheelchair assistance) line of people waiting behind me.

However, there is one advantage of being visablly disabled - When I was last in America I went through security without the beeper going off (possibly first time ever!) and escaped the dreaded pat down but then everyone else was also frisked on entering the little holding bay thing before going on to the flight home, the man looked at me and just let me through. Phew! I can only assume it's because I had my stick.

Careful_with_that_Axe

I have long thought that we would make dreadful criminals as we couldn't run away fast enough and would inevitably drop what we were trying to steal/conceal.

soolin

I am sitting here smiling at the idea of you lot being a mini crime wave, a sort of smash and run in slo mo!

Just had my MRI , it is odd how soothing that noise is, rather like being young and sleeping when my mum vacuumed the lounge as the noise was so nice.

Careful_with_that_Axe

Keystone Cops! Hope the MRI results are encouraging.

ETA: I should say I have no criminal tendencies, just a mind that goes off at tangents!

formaldehyde_perfume

I have a serious sort of phobia about ever being arrested because first of all they put handcuffs behind your back, that could easily dislocate something on me, secondly I can't walk without aid so that could be interesting, thirdly omg to a police pat down, fourthly staying in the cells without my medication (and yes, I know of a cancer patient denied his drugs in custody) on such hard surfaces... I think the pain alone would cause me to have a mental breakdown.

Putting all that aside, the mental image of all of us trying to pull of a heist is hilarious.

On another tangent, did anyone see that granny who fought off jewellery shop robbers with her handbag? so fricking cool!

soolin

Careful_with_that_Axe wrote: »

Keystone Cops! Hope the MRI results are encouraging.

ETA: I should say I have no criminal tendencies, just a mind that goes off at tangents!

I have a mind like that as well, I often mis smy stop on the tube or on buses as I am busy thinking about something else.

Elle7

formaldehyde_perfume wrote: »

On another tangent, did anyone see that granny who fought off jewellery shop robbers with her handbag? so fricking cool!

I saw that! What a woman.

Hey everyone. Kidney infection is bad, agony last night and so bloated today. Feel rubbish...

Neurology appointment was a complete failure, she didn't even listen to me...Feel so disheartened. No idea what to do now - write to her? Write to the hospital? Too ill to get to my dr at the moment.

I hope the MRI results are good. I haven't had mine yet, I'm a bit worried but if it's a nice noise that's quite reassuring!