Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

OK, so our cut and pasting homework is finished, and the architects side kick, who is good fun, has suggested we further give an idea of feel by saying of each rooms ''feel'' who would live there. Now besides wanting to just write ''us'' and roll our eyes for each room we thought this was quite funny. We think Ralph Lauren's poor cousin lives in our sitting room...sort of a clean Grey Gardens, Vivienne Westwood in our Library and Liberace in our dining room. We wonder at which point the architects will ask us NOT to link the project with their name....

SingleSue

Another trip to see the asthma nurse today for youngest after his check up 2 weeks ago (she wanted to keep him on the flixotide for an extra 2 weeks) and she wanted to review him.

Well, his peak flows are starting on the downward slope again (even with the extra steroids) and it appears he is developing the cold middle son had last week...it's not even come out yet and it has already put him in zone 2. So, we continue with flixotide, she has drawn a line on his peak flow chart where we need to contact them immediately if he goes below it (which is only just below where he was when he saw her at lunchtime) and we go back in another two weeks.

She and her colleague though were mightily impressed with his very elaborate charts for his peak flows etc, so there are some good points to being autistic as they could see at a glance what was going on.

lostinrates

SingleSue wrote: »

Another trip to see the asthma nurse today for youngest after his check up 2 weeks ago (she wanted to keep him on the flixotide for an extra 2 weeks) and she wanted to review him.

Well, his peak flows are starting on the downward slope again (even with the extra steroids) and it appears he is developing the cold middle son had last week...it's not even come out yet and it has already put him in zone 2. So, we continue with flixotide, she has drawn a line on his peak flow chart where we need to contact them immediately if he goes below it (which is only just below where he was when he saw her at lunchtime) and we go back in another two weeks.

She and her colleague though were mightily impressed with his very elaborate charts for his peak flows etc, so there are some good points to being autistic as they could see at a glance what was going on.

Poor chap, I hope the cold is at least brief.

Dh was talking to a great nurse today. where he got glass in his hands he's getting quite nasty psoriasis. In fact, since he came back to London his psoriasis has got noticeably worse, this summer despite lots of scantily clad work in full sun it didn't clear as well as usual, and this winter its got pretty bad. He's feeling a bit low about it tbh. Last dermatology appt he was told he's one beyond topical stuff and needs light treatment, but its taking a long time to set up. He'll be having it in London if it ever gets sorted out. He's been threatening to just go on sunbeds because he's feeling so grim about it.

Anyway, the nurse he was speaking to today said his waiting time is too long and is going to try and speed things up.

Its not a serious thing, DH's psoriasis, but it gets itchy and he feels a bit self concious about it.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Had a bizarre occurrence today. Went to look in a shop, which had shiny things. Baskets of stuff in bags.... obviously gagging to be picked up and looked at. Woman/assistant and I were the only people in the shop - and she actually took something out of my hands and put it back in the basket while I was still enjoying the look of it.

Made me feel really bad, so I legged it. Don't want to be in shops with odd people .....

I'm with jelly on this, leg it and give her a big two fingers up to any thoughts of future custom.

When I was getting married I went to the wedding dress shop in Brent Cross. I had just got over the flu really bad and looked a right mess, but my big day was calling so I had to get out and look. So I went in and asked if they had any dresses in a particular style. The woman looked down her nose at me from behind her glasses and said "not in polyester". A few weeks later I commissioned my own dress, hand made from silk that I chose and imported from Thailand and she lost out on the commission.

SingleSue

I had a similar thing for my wedding, both me and now ex hubby turned up at the poshest hotel in our town where I had always dreamed of having my reception. We had both come from work in our lunch hour...me on a motorcycle, him on his moped.

The receptionist took one look at us and refused to even give us any information at all, didn't even bother to check the diary to see if it was free..just said, fully booked and that was that (we were booking a year ahead at a quiet time of year).

It was their loss.....we had our reception which consisted of 70 people for a sit down 4 course meal with drinks package in the afternoon plus an evening reception of 150 with buffet, plus extra rooms booked for guests to another hotel.

misskool

Horizon: science under attack. should be good as sir paul nurse is commentating.

Malcolm.

lostinrates wrote: »

Poor chap, I hope the cold is at least brief.

Dh was talking to a great nurse today. where he got glass in his hands he's getting quite nasty psoriasis. In fact, since he came back to London his psoriasis has got noticeably worse, this summer despite lots of scantily clad work in full sun it didn't clear as well as usual, and this winter its got pretty bad. He's feeling a bit low about it tbh. Last dermatology appt he was told he's one beyond topical stuff and needs light treatment, but its taking a long time to set up. He'll be having it in London if it ever gets sorted out. He's been threatening to just go on sunbeds because he's feeling so grim about it.

Anyway, the nurse he was speaking to today said his waiting time is too long and is going to try and speed things up.

Its not a serious thing, DH's psoriasis, but it gets itchy and he feels a bit self concious about it.

Briefly popping in. Re: Psoriais, has fir tried avoiding dough and milk(?), I believe they're meant to be trigger foods. I hear alkalising a bath with sodium bicarbonate in the bath can help.

I get some psoriasis. I'm testing an elimination diet at the moment.

lostinrates

Malcolm. wrote: »

Briefly popping in. Re: Psoriais, has fir tried avoiding dough and milk(?), I believe they're meant to be trigger foods. I hear alkalising a bath with sodium bicarbonate in the bath can help.

I get some psoriasis. I'm testing an elimination diet at the moment.

Yes, he's tried elimination diets. TBH I think when he's over or under weight it flares more....but diet doesn't seem to make a difference, general health does...so diet is linked to his in as far as rubbish food will lead to less robust health.

Hasn't as far as I know tried the bath though! I'll tell him that. Thank you. He wants the injections really, over the light treatment...have you tried either of those?

He got it in his nails a few years back and they told him he could either have injections behind the nails or the nails sort of burnt off. I think the fright scared the psoriasis right away for a while :rotfl:Its never been this bad though Old bits that have been and gone have all come back all at the same time.

Malcolm.

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes, he's tried elimination diets. TBH I think when he's over or under weight it flares more....but diet doesn't seem to make a difference, general health does...so diet is linked to his in as far as rubbish food will lead to less robust health.

Hasn't as far as I know tried the bath though! I'll tell him that. Thank you. He wants the injections really, over the light treatment...have you tried either of those?

He got it in his nails a few years back and they told him he could either have injections behind the nails or the nails sort of burnt off. I think the fright scared the psoriasis right away for a while :rotfl:Its never been this bad though Old bits that have been and gone have all come back all at the same time.

I haven't tried prescribed injections or light treatment. Let me know if any of the treatments work, and I'll speak to mr Dr about it. I'd like to take time off busy schedule to try the light option, if it works can buy a lamp and self treat at home http://www.androv-medical.com/product/27/dermfix-900-uv-b-lamp-for-psoriasis--vitiligo-or-eczema.

Exposure to sunlight has helped me in the past, sunbeds not so much, I think they're the wrong form of uv (for me).

Zinc helps, but I recall fir likes oysters so shouldn't be a problem. Unless he's allergic to them. I read somewhere that people have a tendency to like food they're allergic to, which seems odd..

vivatifosi

misskool wrote: »

Horizon: science under attack. should be good as sir paul nurse is commentating.

Thanks missk, really enjoyed that. Missed the first 15 mins as a bit slow on picking up on your post. It really made me think, firstly that there are a few people hereabouts (less so on this thread which has a disproportionate number of scientific types) that question science readily. I wish they had seen it. Second it made me question my own misconceptions re genetic engineering. I have a food allergy and have a real concern that the food I'm allergic to will be bred with other foods and its irrational but real.

If I have any concern about the programme it is with the way it was edited. It waited too long before the guy from the newspaper was given the right to reply and it looked like it had been edited to bias the prevailing opinion, whereas if you could wait 15-20 minutes until that segment was finally dropped in, it was clear how crazy the argument against the prevailing scientific opinion as.