When life sends you Lemons, just bake a cake

Lemon_Tree

we'd love Peedie to visit us, he's more than welcome, so are his extended bipedal family

Uniscots97

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

thanks Uni, i had a look at lunchtime, and will have a better look tonight or over the weekend, if can get some money i will surely be looking into it.

that's the way we viewed it LT, its a bit extra cash towards something else.

Lemon_Tree

you have to don't you Uni

natsplatnat

"Every little helps!"

Lemon_Tree

that it does Nat!


i'm trying not to take a piece of national news personally and get grumpy over it, and i certainly don't want to invite judgement but it's really doing my head in that certain pct's have decided that they won't operate on smokers/overweight people. They don't mind taking our taxes/national insurance money and they certainly don't mind taking our blood for the national blood banks yet they wish to make us pariah's. What about alcoholics or drug addicts? I was also majorly cheesed off when one person said that overweight people were offered a lot of help with the issue.... when? where? does the phrase "eat a healthy diet but we don't recommend anything for you to use as guidelines" helping? or does the obligatory " you must eat brown bread" solve the world's problems? because it certainly seems to be the be all and end all solution for certain medical people. Sorry, to grumble about this but after being made to feel like scum by medical people for almost my entire life (including overweight/obese ones!) and now waiting for all other pcts to jump on the bandwagon (because it won't be long) my knee jerk reaction is to tell the blood people to sod off the next time they send me a letter and i know that i'm better than that.

grumble over, sorry to interject politics into my diary, i don't usually do them but this has just wound me up.

Uniscots97

you're not grumbling LT, I've faced that prejudice as well. I have gastric reflux and the nurse very helpfully said 'lose weight and you won't have a problem', .... the consultant was much more helpful and could see that my build contributes to my weight so I don't look as heavy as I am (if that makes sense) and I got treatment. I love my Mum to bits but she is a size 8 and has bought me various diet books over the years until I exploded at her. Even she says when I was my skinniest (just after buying the house, I barely ate) I went down to 9 stone 4, now I'm kidding myself here saying I was a 12 as I wore vintage clothes then so they are more like an 8 now. I looked terrible, but now things have gone the other way and the last time I weighed myself I was 12 and a half stone. I would love to lose about 2 stone (and my debt), it might happen (I mean the weight bit might happen, the debt is definitely getting paid off asap) but if it doesn't then this is who I am.

As for the brown bread thing, I scared the absolute ***** out of a consultant a few years ago when OH was geting ready for quite a serious op which worst case could have killed him, mid-case would have left him with a bag and best case he just has to be careful what he eats (Thankfully it came out best case). The consultant said for him to eat bananas, brown bread etc, I went ballistic and said he couldn't have those as they would cause potentially lethal swelling and cause complications for the operation. His face was a picture! He went away for about 15 minutes and then came back, apologising as I was correct. The next run in was with the ward sister who told me off for cleaning the be frame of OH's hospital bed. When I wiped my finger across a bit that I hadn't cleaned and it was covered in thick sticky grey dust, she went very quiet and said it must have been missed. When I explained that every bed in the whole ward was the same she went bright red, at that point the consultant came in and asked what was going on so I explained and also explained I'd had to help OH to the toilet (can't keep someone waiting to go when they've had this op as the pressure can cause infection) after him waiting for 2 hours as the nurses were having a cup of tea and gossiping (caught on his phone). The consultant said to the ward sister to sort it out sharpish and not to upset another consultant (moi? ). He did pull me aside and actually ask what I did for a living..... I replied.... 'I'm just very good with computers ':D

Lemon_Tree

lol i hate getting so riled up about things Uni, i rarely think things are worth it but it's just got under my skin i have to admit. I would eat brown bread only within an hour i feel sick which lasts for hours, i get to the stage that it would be worth making myself sick just to get relief. i'm sure that would then cause me other problems but because i explain that to dieticians they say i refuse to take their advice. I didn't realised that brown bread was literally the saviour of our world.

hope everyone has had a lovely day today. mine started with a trip to the knitting circle which i enjoyed, and then i've pretty much only done a bit of housework, sorting out and chilling with Mr LT. not got much planned tomorrow either cept to actually takle a couple of boxes on the top of the wardrobe, if i can load Mr LT's car completely for the charity shop then it will be worth the petrol.

made an effort to start the using up the freezer/cupboards. taken some stuff out for breakfast/dinner tomorrow to defrost, used up some chinese packet sauce with tea tonight, made fruit and sugar free jelly from the freezer and cupboard respectively. If we've got about 3 weeks to move then that's not a long time to run things down. wondering whether to bake some buns before i pack away the baking equipment/ ingredients. we've no chocolate in the house (apart from that in packed boxes) so i'm get a bit jittery.

Knitting_Nora

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

lol i hate getting so riled up about things Uni, i rarely think things are worth it but it's just got under my skin i have to admit.

Mine too - where on earth do PCTs get off deciding who they will or won't treat?? It's not like we get to decide what our tax and NI goes on (though there are a few gvt initiatives I'd happily opt out of...).

:mad::mad: I'm a tad sensitive to this at the moment anyway, as someone who's a little shorter than her width would suggest she ought to be..;)

A slim friend of mine has been dancing near the edge of late with a general 'your life would be better if you lost weight' opinion in my presence (!)...and I'm really having to resist the urge to yell "you spend hours in the gym, and don't eat half the things you want....and you may look fine from the front, but your back has boobs!!!"....for I fear it may offend...

we've no chocolate in the house (apart from that in packed boxes) so i'm get a bit jittery.

Get thee to thy local shop woman!! No sane person can live with boxes when none of them (including the chilly one in the kitchen) has choccie in them!! :eek:

Lemon_Tree

but the terrible thing is some of the boxes do have choccies in them - my christmas ones that Mr LT has un thoughtfully sealed tight in a big cardboard box! i mean this could be grounds for divorce but i guess i should get us into the new house before i show him the error of his ways. and it gives me more time to think of suitable punishments......

Knitting_Nora

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

but the terrible thing is some of the boxes do have choccies in them - my christmas ones that Mr LT has un thoughtfully sealed tight in a big cardboard box!

:eek:And you've left them there!!!:eek: