make do and mend for tougher times

mardatha

Tonsils, I've been dragging meself round the house like a dying slug for 3 weeks+ and was at docs on Thurs. Seemingly I'm the most perfectly healthy dying slug on planet earth :mad:
Glucose fine/thyroid fine/iron fine/blah blah fine. So how come I canny stand for more than 20 minutes without sweating and wobbling and am so exhausted I want to cry ? AND I've had a bloody headache for 3 weeks! :mad:
But they found "something" in the chest Xray and I've to go back on Tues for breathing checks. I haven't got a cough and have never smoked in my life... Sometimes wonder if they get all the test results, throw them up in the air, kick them around the surgery, then stick a name on them!
GQ I'm a type O as well, so off to google blood type-y diets lol

D&DD

Hope you get it sorted soon Mar XX
You too cheapskate xx
Sunshine don't overdo it hope you are less sore today xx
PAH I'm sure if you need to talk you know we're all here for you or via pm xx

Mrs_Chip

I'm an 'O' too, so that makes sense.

Mar, sorry you are feeling so carp, did the doc have no ideas?

PAH, hope you are ok, I know you were considering your future before, I guess things have got bad again, so sorry . Don't feel you will be burdening us, we all need to offload at times, and where better than here!
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Margaret54

Hi Fairyprincessk

Just read your post re gammon in slow cooker. I always make mine in slow cooker. I read where you said maybe putting lentils in it next time. I rinse and rinse my gammon before I put it in the s cooker(I find it can be very salty too) Then I pop in one chopped onion, 3 carrots chopped 3 potatoes chopped and 1/3 of a bag of orange/red lentils. When all is cooked I take out the gammon and after it has rested sliced and will make a lovely meal with boiled potatoes and steamed cabbage, for 4 of us. Then i blitz up the rest of the stuff in slow cooker and you have delicious lentil soup enough for 4 with crusty bread. The family loves it and it is so full of flavour:):)

RosiePuddingPaws

Mardatha
If you're like a dying slug, keep away from GQ - she was going out with her spade today too!!

Hope you feel better soon.

RPP

D&DD

Fiddle the swizzle sweets etc were either on the half price or price drop lists been relegated to iPad and have no idea how to do links at the best of times let alone on here

D&DD

Lol hence the spellcheck changing your name to fiddle for me :rotfl:

fuddle

D&#8517 wrote: »

Fiddle the swizzle sweets etc were either on the half price or price drop lists been relegated to iPad and have no idea how to do links at the best of times let alone on here

D&#8517 wrote: »

Lol hence the spellcheck changing your name to fiddle for me :rotfl:

I did wonder :rotfl: thanks 3D's. I will have a good search through.

Does anyone else get a load of gobbledegook when someone quotes D&DD? I get

D&#8517 wrote: »

It's bizarre.

smileyt_2

Sigh. Trying to tidy up a bit and working through the letters I have let pile up. I have letters asking for money from the RSPB, the Donkey Sanctuary, the Brooke (horse/donkey/developing world charity), Greenpeace, Refugee Action, the Animal Health Trust and Oxfam. All of these charities I either support now or have supported in the past. I feel so guilty about throwing the letters away but I really can't afford to be sending a tenner off to them all (one of them asks for "£50 or whatever you can afford" :eek:).

How do you all handle this? I feel bad because I know charities are suffering in the recession. I find the letters really draining and I know that's bad because the people/animals who are suffering are having a much worse time than I am.

It wouldn't be so bad if it was just one letter per year per charity, but I seem to get at least two or three per month - the ones mentioned above have all been in about the last six weeks - and with Christmas coming up it's going to be more and I find it very hard to handle the emotional side of it.

I direct debit to the Brook and Refugee Action for £3/month each which is all I can realistically afford. The Brook is my favourite because it helps animals and people at the same time.

I don't begrudge charities my money but I find it overwhelming to get so many letters through the door constantly asking for money. Sometimes I rip them up and put them in the bin without opening them, I suppose it's a sort of 'compassion fatigue'.

I'm not asking for a magic answer. Just asking for any tips on how to deal with the emotional side of it!

VeggieCatLady

smileyt wrote: »

It wouldn't be so bad if it was just one letter per year per charity, but I seem to get at least two or three per month - the ones mentioned above have all been in about the last six weeks - and with Christmas coming up it's going to be more and I find it very hard to handle the emotional side of it.

Have you thought of e-mailing or phoning the charities individually and asking to be taken off of their mailing list? I have had the same thing in the past when I have had to cancel direct debits due to things being tight financially. It doesn't mean you won't donate to them at some point in future, but that way you don't get the horrible guilty feeling when you read the letters and have to throw them away. You would actually be helping the charities in a small way as well, because every letter they send out costs them money. HTH x