A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

greenbee

Mar - if it might be an ulcer I can recommend cutting out acidic foods, coffee, fizzy drinks and raw/hard to digest veg. Cook all veg well, avoid salad and onions, celery, tomatoes. Lots of nice bland food and the frozen yogurt REALLY comes into its own! It's very soothing. Also have live yogurt to keep your gut bacteria healthy.

GreyQueen

Good morning, campers. At least, I'm operating on the assumption that it is morning because the streetlights are out, it's so grey and dull it could be coming up to dusk for all the physical evidence outside. By golly, but I'd like to see some sunlight.

smileyt wrote: »

Greyqueen I once read something by a French person about the moon. If you stick an imaginary straight line next to the moon and it forms a 'p' then the moon is waxing and heading towards being full (p for premiere or first half of the cycle). If you do the same and it forms a d then that is d for dernier or last half of the cycle and the moon is waning.

Love it, thank you. Have memorised it so now, although I may still not know whether I am personally coming or going, at least I'll be able to figure out the moon. A lottie neighbour is very into planting by lunar phases and gets great results but he also uses a lot of manure and we have a running gag as to whether it's the muck or the magic (or both) that gets the result. You should see his parsnips, fnarr fnarr.....:rotfl:

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

MEME 30 - Love your comment that Mrs Chips END IS IN SIGHT! - Reminds me of a phone conversation years age when DD1 was little and we had ordered her a stereo system from our local branch of Currys. Phone converation went 'Good afternoon Madam, I'd like to tell you that your hour has come.' - 'Excuse me?' - 'Your hour has come Madam' - (Thinks at this point who is this idiot or is it really the voice of the almighty giving me a pre warning?) - yes 'Madam, this is Currys and the Aiwa Stereo System that you ordered is now waiting for you in the shop!'- Mmmmmm food for thinks!

LMAO. I almost killed myself laughing years ago when I was still a civilian and didn't work for the LA. I was up their offices talking to a woman about my own age over a wicket when the young lad at the next desk over, who'd served me previously, pipped up that "He'd had Miss X over the counter...." Me being me, and the other lady of a similar vintage and temperament, we HOWLED with laughter and the puir wee laddie went scarlet. It was a classic.:rotfl:

Softstuff wrote: »

That was me and recently I've been very glad of the fact. 2 months of assorted tests, treatments and visits for me and fingers crossed but we have my ailments identified and in a few weeks we'll know if we're treating them well. I've felt for the past 2 months that my GP and I are a team, (a bit like Sherlock and Dr Watson!) I had confidence in him not giving up on finding what was wrong with me and he has always listened to me and what I've thought even if he hasn't always agreed... though he has tended to be right lol!

I've found it a bit disturbing though that with this current situation and also with previous medical situations that I have a knack of surprising people with what I turn out to have! It'd be nice to have something easy and common for once.
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Aww, Softstuff, glad to have you back amongst us, been wondering if the medical stuff was why you were MIA. I have a rare medical condition, so rare that the consultant who finally diagnosed it was almost bouncing in her office with excitement. I asked her how many people in the UK have what I have (we were in a famous teaching hospital and her clinic specialised in this area of disease) and expected an answer along the lines of a number per hundred thousand in the general population. She admitted that she'd never seen anyone with it before but she'd read case histories.....:p

The trouble with a rare condition is that you can't go into the health and wellbeing section of a bookshop and pick up books aimed at the general reader. Pre-internet, I was reduced to hanging in the reference section of the library with medical textbooks which I lacked the scientific background to understand. Tell ya, I'd've paid more attention in Biology if I could have seen the future coming.

kidkat I agree with you about the price hikes in the groceries, it's almost breathtaking. I keep doing double-takes and am stuck halfway between John McEnroe and Victor Meldrew, with my mind going; "You canNOT be serious!! I don't belieeeeeve it!" . Hopefully, I'm managing to keep this audiotrack on the inside of my head and not saying it out loud.:o Only a matter of time before that happens. I am actually turning into my mother, all I need is a sidekick DD to mutter to whilst shopping; "Don't pay that much! You'll only encourage them!" Last time we were in her Sainsbugs, we bought 2 bags of shopping, noticably devoid of alcohol and caviar and they came to £45! We couldn't believe our eyes and went thru the receipt with a calculator when we got home, convinced we'd been robbed. Sadly, the prices did add up to all that money.

Re fuel, I went to the far side of the Pennines last Sept with a hire car and fuelled up at the start of the journey home and fuelled again in the city centre as had to return the car full. Petrol was 10p a litre more in my city than over in the west. I was as sick as a parrot, let me tell you. I can recall when petrol was 70p a gallon....OK, that was 30 years ago, but still......!

Feeling more like a human being and less like a zombie today. Yesterday was a bit of a struggle due to very little sleep. Dark fantasies were entertained about tracking down the architect responsible for Shoebox Towers and arranging a forceable home-swop.........:rotfl:SuperGran knows his name and his home village, assuming he's still with us.........:p;)

Oooff, time for some more tea. ((hugs)) to everyone, esp those with poorly relatives and who are poorly themselves. GQ xx

mardatha

TY, yur far more help than my doc that's for sure! I see him tomorrow and will ask what they're doing next. The doc when I had the ultrasound said would need more tests. Think maybe endoscopy but will find oot tomorrow.
Greenbee all those things give me probs so might be ulcer yes. But odd random things set the pain off so not sure. Def need more tests, just need to make sure they actually do them! Am also having probs with bread and eggs and oatcakes.

meme30

Have been racking my brains...not a pretty sight! Was it Rosemary Conoly? who produced a diet based on Low Fat high GI foods? I think she started it because of a Gall Bladder problem and her multi-million empire started from there!
There's a target for you Mardy!:j
PIC:- 'Kissed your knees!' :rotfl:
Smiley:- I do the A*da thing as well. I save a few pounds using that.;)
Softstuff:- Welcome back Don't often make cakes but will get DD to do your Toffee and Pecan muffins. They sound delicious.

BigThelma

Hello all, not getting much time on here lately due to everyone in the house having constant colds and coughs. Haven't read back so hugs to all in need as it sounds like quite a few of us are ill. Can't shake my cough and can't remember what it's like not to have a runny nose. Wee man has it too but is holding his own but will take him to clinic today in case there is anything else we can do for him.

Weather is horrid, grey, wet and cold. Yesterday was lovely though, went for a walk to the duckpond and on the way saw lots of cats enjoying the sunshine. They always look so chilled out lying in the sun or padding along the pavement without a care in the world.

shelley_crow

Nice to see you back softstuff Your apple muffins have become a favourite in this house, we can't get enough of them!

I was mooching around on MSN and I came across this short clip of a pro footballer in America, talking about the poverty his family lived in growing up. I have absolutely no idea who he is but I found it very touching, I want to give him a hug! http://www.foxsportshouston.com/03/06/12/New-deal-emotional-for-Foster/msn_landing.html?blockID=681128&feedID=3716 he earns a lot less then some of his counterparts but he has enough to live on and says he is thankful for it, can you imagine one of our footballers saying that?!

greenbee

mardatha wrote: »

Greenbee all those things give me probs so might be ulcer yes. But odd random things set the pain off so not sure. Def need more tests, just need to make sure they actually do them! Am also having probs with bread and eggs and oatcakes.

Just make sure you are keeping a record, every bit of information helps, often the silliest of things can provide the vital clue.

Bread - white synthetic stuff, no proper bread as it takes effort to digest.
Eggs - don't remember, but don't think I ate many of them at the time (actually, I mostly ate tinned rice pudding, rice cakes and frozen yogurt)
Oatcakes - I'm not surprised. They're not the easiest things to digest. Oats in porridge are OK as they're softed. Oats in oatcakes are made even tougher!

Oops... just realised the time. I've been happily working away and don't actually got dressed yet. Don't want to get into bad habits, so better get myself respectable, and then light the fire.

grandma247

Hello softstuff, I was only thinking about you yesterday. I found this recipe and you could leave out the sugar and make sure you use home made apple sauce with eating apples so you know there is no sugar in it. Also you could add yoghurt instead of fat in cakes and muffins. It makes it lighter if you don't work it too much.

GQ it was only about 5 years or so ago that petrol was 89p a litre.

Been quiet as getting my head around another lot of bad news. Someone I have known for close to 40 years has been diagnosed with breast cancer. I think they have caught it early so she should be ok.

I have almost finished my coat and it is looking good. It has taken me nearly two weeks because I have done everything slowly and carefully. I did make a couple of small mistakes but I doubt most people would ever notice.

grandma247

shelley_crow wrote: »

he earns a lot less then some of his counterparts but he has enough to live on and says he is thankful for it, can you imagine one of our footballers saying that?!

Is the moon made of green cheese?:rotfl:

Softstuff

grandma247 wrote: »

Hello softstuff, I was only thinking about you yesterday. I found this recipe and you could leave out the sugar and make sure you use home made apple sauce with eating apples so you know there is no sugar in it. Also you could add yoghurt instead of fat in cakes and muffins. It makes it lighter if you don't work it too much.

Thanks for that Grandma247. I reckon I'll be having a play soonish with some things. I didn't realise you could use a no-fat yoghurt instead of fat in muffins and such, so it bears some experimentation for sure. At present it's a bit of a focus just avoiding things I have to avoid in main meals, so I'm sticking to fruit for dessert and not having other naughties.