Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

bluebag

Mrs_Veg_Plot wrote: »

Hi all

..... Best of all is the wall going up the stairs, the kids run their hands up this wall (I don't know why they can not use the bannnister on the opposite wall), I thought that I would have to re-paint it but stardrops with ammonia a nylon pan scourer and a little elbow grease has brought the paint up like new. The only problem is it is showing up the hall walls and I will have to do them as well now.

Ah, yes! The one job creates ten more scenario, very familiar with that one.:rotfl:

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omg. I just had a terrible heavy fall from the top to the bottom of 5 slippy wooden steps at home. I have just taken the arnica and count my blessings in being well padded because if I were thin I would definitely have broken my hip. No more, ever again will I bemoan the fact that I cannot lose weight and yes I did see that diabetes prog last night and am again grateful that my blood sugar is normal and my insulin is working. My bp is very good and I am healthy, apart from knowing that I will have a massive bruise on my derriere and up my back and shoulder. It takes a while to come around after an fall like that, I tentatively took one step then another and waited for some horrible symptom to emerge, which it hasn`t and I am very grateful

Now I am going to find rubber step covers.

pennywisepoundstupid

Kittie, i hope your ok,rest and have a cup of tea, it can shake you up when you have a fall.

thriftmonster

Kittie - did you hit your head at all? You need to be really aware of concussion if you did. Hope you're ok - it is horrible.

flowertotmum

maryb wrote: »

I did my back in when I was pregnant and decided to have a bath to ease the pain. Couldn't get out and DH had to heave me out and promptly did his own back in!! He told everyone at work his and mine!! (we used to work together and he knew all my friend sfrom work) Soooo embarrasing

:rotfl:..not funny really...its bad enough being pregnant but getting stuck is the cherry on the cake:D...

flowertotmum

Kittie...you ok...go sit down and take a min to catch your breath...

flowertotmum

gailey wrote: »

Baths can be dangerous things. when in labour 2with 2nd got in bath and couldent get myself out had to scream for hubby who was downstairs trying to inflate birth pool.

Flowertot mum cant believe you there for 2hours you must have been cold.

just about to run bath for kids not sure how they get so flithy so quickly and baby has nappy rash so hoping it might help sooth as sudocrem not working.
Going to try cornstarch later as thats worked in past was oldstyle tip from my crazy midwife.

Got load washing on need to do stinky cloth nappies next.
lounge lookslike bombs it it and kids are bored.
weather still pants so going to wait for hubby to come home and go get paper then.

Confused my mirror lego offer as another board said they picked toys up from co-op I have a co-op but voucher never said that.

Gailey..yes i was like a wrinkled prune only bigger:o...last time i was pregnant he would come check on me after 30 mins...

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thriftmonster wrote: »

Kittie - did you hit your head at all? You need to be really aware of concussion if you did. Hope you're ok - it is horrible.

no not at all, I managed to keep my head up. One of life`s lessons to me I suppose, ie SLOW DOWN no point rushing sometimes . I must say that I feel so amazingly relieved that it will only be a bruise.

Rosanna79

Grandma247 & Kidcat
Thanks for your thoughts re the cupcake question. Being under the hospital dietitian my next attempt will be at the weekend on the basis that even the Almighty had one days rest in the week!

Katholicos
You must have that sort of face, i.e friendly and approachable! In another life I used to work as a district staff nurse in East London. The old gentlemen could be very cheeky indeed . We always reckoned it was something in the water! Being propositioned by an 85 year old was not a favourite experience on the visiting rounds but to some extent nurses have always had to deal with cheeky chaps in the course of a day's work.

A former colleague of mine rang me last night. The story is far too long and involved for this forum but my former manager continues to bully. My friend's husband received a cancer diagnosis earlier in the year with a year to live. My friend was simply informed in the middle of all this that she could only have FIVE days compassionate leave! Instead of an attempt to organise the necessary flexible working which a former manager arranged when my brother was dying from cancer, this lass was left with no alternative but to be signed off sick with stress.

She's given the NHS at least 25 years of service and now with the additional worry of her new 8 week old grandaughter being born with a very serious health problem she's just been informed by the manager that she will not be allowed a phased return to work- She's on a full time contract , too young for early retirement and will eventually be able to resume her normal work. Instead tha manager has informed her that she's putting her onto part time hours! Whilst she will take Union advice neither if us has been able to ascertain whether a change in a public service contract can simply be imposed in ths fashion? Does anyone know if it's legal to do this?

I've advised that she will find the MSE website extremely useful in info on how to manage their dwindling finances and that the online community on this thread in particular is very supportive. I wish there were more I could do to help. It's always when we are at our lowest emotionally and physically that we're least able to fight bullying management in whatever sector we're working.

I was old enough to retire completely and walk away from it. I feel so sorry for younger people having to face the increasingly difficult workplace. We Baby Boomers have been very lucky on some ways. When I started nursing we were paid literally a pittance. We were told and it was believed that to pay nurses a decent salary would attract the 'wrong sort of girl ' to the profession!! The one thing we had to look forward to for all the c--p we had to put up with in those days was a decent pension at the end of it.

My cousin in a City lawyer and when I hear what life is like for them it's another world. Very well paid but you can be out on your ear in an instant. There are so many sides to this discussion and I'm not trying to stir up a hornet's nest....honestly!

Bigsister

Rosanna79
"She's on a full time contract , too young for early retirement and will eventually be able to resume her normal work. Instead tha manager has informed her that she's putting her onto part time hours! Whilst she will take Union advice neither if us has been able to ascertain whether a change in a public service contract can simply be imposed in ths fashion? Does anyone know if it's legal to do this?"

NO NO NO
It is not legal to do this, I work in the NHS and a colleague was put in the same position whilst trying to work with a long term illness. She checked our hospital website for the facts and HR were very supportive and "reminded" her manager that she worked in the NHS and should be more considerate of patients, be them staff or patients.
My friend is now working longer days but dropped the one she needed and finds her health is better maintained. Tell your colleague sometimes it only takes a phone call and visit to HR to get this sorted fairly.