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SpikyHedgehog

becca-2012 wrote: »

Thanks spiky, is a complete nightmare with all the washing but I wouldnt want to try medication. She is getting better but progress is slow and sometimes i feel like we are going backwards. Will give her another 6 months and then give the alarms a shot:j

I know! My machine wasn't working the other week, so I was washing soggy sheets in the bath :-( got them clean though.

& having lots of sheets & blankets helps too.

They'll be dry in the end, I'm sure...

grandma247

Can I ask do all these bed wetting children have a light on in or next to their room? I found that helped. I have no idea why.

Also my family have problems with bed wetting that goes back many generations. One of my aunts was nearly nineteen and about to get married before she stopped.

We also have a problem in the family where a child cannot wait and must get to a toilet when they say they need it. They do seem to grow out of it though. My daughter, youngest son and my niece all had this but stopped at different ages.

With my kids I used to put a shower curtain over the main sheet and then put a draw sheet over it like they used to do in hospital. If you can get to it quick enough you save the main sheet so only have a little one to wash and dry.

Some people who use real nappies use a pure wool cover under the child. .

prepareathome

Kidcat, can I ask if you still have your gallbladder, reason I ask is 20 years ago I kept getting attacks of pleurisy one after the other, went on for over a year. One day I suddenly got pain in gallbladder area - a Friday I remember as was in agony all weekend. Went to doctor on the Monday and he touched the area and I jumped in the air.. He had me seeing a specialist following week who took a x-ray and found gallbladder was full of stones and he decided it was infected and had to come out.

Had it out just a week later and I have not had an attack of pleurisy or even a chest infection since then. It was something to do with it being so big it was affecting my liver which was not working so well and cleaning my blood as it should. As I never had pain till that Friday doctor never considered it - they gave me the 29 rather large stones they found.

Another woman on the ward having hers out only ever had pain in her left foot until like me one day she suddenly doubled over in agony.

Might be worth asking your doctor to check.

Popperwell

Morning All,
It's raining again...

The good news they say the Jet Stream is moving at last so early next week we may have the weather we should have at this time of year

I suppose food prices will still go up, the wet weather here, the hot weather in the States...

prepareathome

Morning Pops, yet raining on and off here, has all night but its warm.

I have been spending the night watching home inprovement programmes on C4 not because I want to fully do up the house but to pick up ideas.

Have a good day, stay dry

Popperwell

Hi PAH,
I've slept off and on but was trying to record some missed radio programmes off the net and discovered...the link had gone down so some had not worked...

I have been looking at the tweets of some UK celebs I like(I opened a twitter account but have nothing to say)

Well, if you are not going out much and I don't want to run up a big text bill...so there's not much you can do on a pc with 140 characters...

Anyhow one tweet is interesting...someone has noticed that the BBC now calls welfare cuts "Savings" See how a story can be changed by one word...

Hope you spotted some useful ideas...

mardatha

I've got a twitter account but I dont know how to use it. I just want to pick up the latest news and politics headlines - what do I do ? Do I have to go onto twitter and look every time ?

Possession

mardatha wrote: »

I've got a twitter account but I dont know how to use it. I just want to pick up the latest news and politics headlines - what do I do ? Do I have to go onto twitter and look every time ?

You'd have to follow the right accounts but you would have to visit Twitter I think. Twitter can be very immediate but I don't enjoy it, I confess. And you get too many spammers following you and have to keep blocking them.

Popperwell

mardatha wrote: »

I've got a twitter account but I dont know how to use it. I just want to pick up the latest news and politics headlines - what do I do ? Do I have to go onto twitter and look every time ?

I'm a novice and I haven't tweeted and I have aquired a follower from New YorK! She'll be disappointed at the lack of Tweets coming from me...

Find someone who is in the news world and oten they'll post a tweet about a news story or a link.

This link might work...

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/

Just found it!

Popperwell

Another one...

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld