The future is bright for 3Dogs and it's about time too

AllieBallie

3Dogs wrote: »

Yes it does get you like that - you want to help people on here and you offer them advice and support but that is nothing like facing them in person and heping them practically. You are also right about looking for the positives - whatever our problems there are always peope worse off than us

For a young un' Allie, you have a very mature head on your shoulders - night night petal

Firstly, sorry for squashing the happy atmosphere last night, I was just feeling a little overwhelmed. thank you for being so understanding:)

Love being called a young un' I'm 23 but feel more like 33 (sometimes 83!!!).

Hope everyone has a happy Wednesday

3Dogs

Morning all - well, it's morning to me as I just got up half an hour ago :eek::eek: Hubbie did not go down to sort out the storage unit as it was wet again this morning :mad: So a lazy morning for both of us :j
Hope everyone else is having a good day whether at work or at home :j :j

Tixy

Hi 3dogs, hello all

You know about being fashionably late to things?? well thats not me, I'm late for things wherever I go, several times a day at least, nearly always unfashionably so .

Nice new very speedy diary you've got yourself here 3dogs - I'm not going to pretend to have read the last 30pages but I've skimmed through it. At the rate you are all posting I've no chance of keeping up but will pop by from time to time to read how things are.

fireflycatcher

Hi Tixy Hope to see you here sometimes.

Allie you didn't at all you can talk about those things here, bad and good I feel dumb saying that oops.

Have a good day 3Dogs

sw you have a good day too, I liked your old avatar and like your new avatar.

x

3Dogs

Yes you are right FFC - we can all say anything on here, good or bad, happy or sad - isn't that what diaries are for?????????

fireflycatcher

3Dogs wrote: »

Yes you are right FFC - we can all say anything on here, good or bad, happy or sad - isn't that what diaries are for?????????

Only when you say it it makes sense I didn't really Hehe.

3Dogs

How rude of me again - welcome Tixy to my humble abode - hope you can pop in whenever and make some sense of what is going on :eek:

I have just been going through the diary with Mr 3Dogs and he has told me off for leaving so long between instalments - he wants to read the next one too So I am going off to type instalment 5 up and will post it later today - I PROMISE - I told you how I put things off didn't I - well now you have see it in action :eek: :eek:

3Dogs

So, the story so far - part five:

So that all took us to the start of 2008 with Mr 3Dogs waiting for his first post-cancer check. It’s often said that it takes something like this to make you review your life. Well Mr 3Dogs had always been volatile (never violent I hasten to add) I had always been on edge for him to blow up over something simple, but I was always able to talk him round and calm him down, but now, instead of getting angry, he got upset. I could see it happening him, now I knew more about depression, and we were better able to deal with it. At last he understood why I had been the way I was, because it was happening to him too. I think it was the thought of not working again, his back ache and increasing arthritis problems, together with worry over the dreaded cancer, but also the debt situation. He was at home every day and I could no longer hide the debt from him as he was there when the phone calls came and the letters, so I had to own up to most of it. I say most because I still hid some

However, he quickly accepted that he needed medical help to get him through and saw the doctor who immediately recognised the problem as depression and prescribed him the appropriate medication. It still took a while, but the meds started to work and he did feel better in himself most of the time and able to see things more clearly

Then came the first bit of good luck we’d had for a while. At the end of February 2008, we got a letter offering us a bungalow in a nearby village. We were surprised at the offer, as we had not put this village down on our application form, but we drove round to see where it was and what it was like, and we liked what we saw. It was a small bungalow, built early 1990’s, the middle one of a terrace of 3, next to another set of 3, at the end of a cul-de-sac, with village football field to the back, cornfields to one side, and a cemetery to the other side, which you needed to walk along the edge of to walk the dogs around the playing fields. So we put in the form and have an internal viewing. It was one bed-room, small kitchen, living room, bathroom with step-in shower, and a walk-in cloakroom/storage. There was a brick-built shed attached to the back, with a small back garden which was mostly paved. Although it was small, it was ideal for us and we accepted the tenancy. We had a month of decorating during our notice period on our previous house, and then moved in on 30th March 2008

At last, no stairs – it was wonderful for me – mind you we had so much stuff that we had boxes stacked up everywhere, but that didn’t bother us too much as we now had a home we could be happy in again, and of course at a cheaper rent, which helped us too

Mr 3Dogs had his first of the 3-monthly cystoscopy check-ups a month after we moved in, and his specialist was delighted with it, saying that the growth was gone and the wound had healed well. Hubbie asked if there was anything he could do to help his chances of stopping it returning, and the specialist (who is considerably over-weight himself) said that most cancers could be avoided if people kept to a sensible weight, so if hubbie could lose weight, that would be a great help

With the first check up out of the way and us in our new bungalow, we both decided that it was time for us to get our weight sorted out, properly this time. So in May 2008 we both joined a Sl*mm*ng W*rld class on a Monday afternoon, on the edge of town – more of that later though ......................... ...................



....................... to be continued

You will note that I have changed the type colour to red, this is so anyone just flicking through can spot the story entries easier if they just want to read my story. I will go back and change the other instalments to red too ......................

savingwannabe

Hooray another instalment, good to hear there was some news about the house and Slimming World. Can't wait for my next fix.

All is well here. Just had a long day at work, it went well and it is all over hooray!!! Tomorrow the Project Manager is coming to see the house and we have a list of so many problems. Luckily mum and dad are here and will do the talking for me. Dad realised they have disconnected my house alarm which invalidates my policy i would not have realised. We just rang the insurance company to let them know and I am still covered.

I missed you girls. Glad you had a lie in 3Dogs, it's about time you did. Hello Tixy, welcome to the thread. Hooray. I love your avatar. I love Paddington Bear. FFC i have missed you. Welcome back. I like it here. I still feel a bit numb though. Allie Ballie like everyone else we post how we are feeling all the time, so why shouldn't you? You are a welcome member of the gang!!!

3Dogs

Oh dear about the house alarm - gosh, if that hadn't been noticed :eek: good luck with the project manager tomorrow then, though I'm sure your Dad can deal with them just fine

When you say numb, do you mean as in your diabetes? Have you eaten during the day hun? or do you mean you feel numb as in brain dead? nothing changed there then if that's what you mean :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek::D but I guess you mean numb after what has happened over the last couple of weeks? I think it is over now so just settle and be happy. Once your house is all finished then it will really seem like a new beginning for you :T :T