Preparedness for when

pineapple

Sometimes things come left of field to completely divert you from prepping and all that. Pineapple had a small blemish on her chin for years. Eventually feeling a bit of a wimp she went to the doc who thought it was nothing and gave her some cream to try. When that did nothing, to allay her paranoid fears, he referred her to a dermatologist who straightway dug a piece from her chin to biopsy it . So she is now sitting here with a scabby chin with failing steri-strips waiting for the stitches to be taking out. The results will be another 3 weeks during which time the consultant says not to worry. Yeah right.
After extensive googling we are now 100% qualified dermatologists in our own right nat. Even if not the dread C word, it is likely to have to be treated and either way will leave her with a scabby chin till it is sorted.
Best cancel all those hot dates then :eek:

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DawnW wrote: »

AND I don't like FB pies :eek: I am not sure what is in them

I don't buy them either, because I know what is in them, namely meat.

GreyQueen

Are you of the err, how can I put it? vegetarian persusaion?

Not that I'm predjudiced. Some on my best friends are vegetarians. I will be visiting one of them this evening for a (veggie) meal.

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Yes I am.

20+ years.

GreyQueen

S'OK, no one will hold it against you.

My BFF, my Computer Wizard and a lot of people I know are vegetarians. For some reason I seem to be stereotyped as a person who would be a veggie herself. I've lost count of the number of times a colleague or acquaintance has said to me But I thought you were a vegetarian! when seeing me eat something meaty.

And don't get me started on my GP. He keeps checking that I'm not a vegetarian (I am iron-deficient and on tabs) every few months; it's beyond ridiculous.

I have been both a vegan and a vegetarian in my yooth. Doesn't agree with me. And I still consider Pl@mil vegan chocolate to be the vilest substance on the planet pretending to be edible. Gakkkk!

pineapple, I've done the steri-strip thingummy in an identical circ on my nose. It turned out to be nothing at all. Here's hoping it'll be the same for you.

DawnW

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I don't buy them either, because I know what is in them, namely meat.

I hadn't realised you were a vegetarian Bob. I am not, but probably would be if I didn't live with a carnivore. I usually choose vegetarian meals on the odd occasion I eat out, and try to cook 1 or 2 meat free meals a week (the carnivore is happy with this if it is something like omelettes, spinach and feta pie or macaroni cheese). I should try to widen his repertoire a bit

And GQ, when I was a postgrad I shared an office with a vegan. Lovely guy, but he seemed to subsist on a diet of brandy and oranges :eek: Amazingly, he is, I have discovered, still alive :rotfl:

short_bird

Oh, I say: someone thinking along the same lines

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2014/feb/23/food-banks-banking

craigywv

stormy and howling over here raining as usual.sorry to hear about peeps losing their pets very sad xxx.looking up how to grow strawberries in smaller pots etc as I have a raised bed of them but am making the most of all my hanging baskets this year also fancy making candle jars as they are breeding in the shed and need another use for jars not just jam. xxx

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SIEGEMODE we had our old border terrier for 16 years and when he became very poorly and very tired had to make the decision to end his suffering and we missed him terribly until one day when I heard him jingle down the stairs and pitter patter to the back door to be let out, which I duly did much to everyones amusement. I hear him often and sometimes I get him stopping beside my armchair as he did in life and actually reach down to terrier level and give him a scratch and a pat. I know he's still here with us and it's such a lovely thing that he chose to stay, so very special and so comforting!!! Lyn xxx.

greenbee

pineapple wrote: »

Sometimes things come left of field to completely divert you from prepping and all that. Pineapple had a small blemish on her chin for years. Eventually feeling a bit of a wimp she went to the doc who thought it was nothing and gave her some cream to try. When that did nothing, to allay her paranoid fears, he referred her to a dermatologist who straightway dug a piece from her chin to biopsy it . So she is now sitting here with a scabby chin with failing steri-strips waiting for the stitches to be taking out. The results will be another 3 weeks during which time the consultant says not to worry. Yeah right.
After extensive googling we are now 100% qualified dermatologists in our own right nat. Even if not the dread C word, it is likely to have to be treated and either way will leave her with a scabby chin till it is sorted.
Best cancel all those hot dates then :eek:

It's always best not to google. And dermatology pics can be particularly icky _pale_ (I remember from my flatmate's books as a student - we banned him from bringing them out of his room).

Mind you, I still google - and turned up to the doctor last time cheerful telling my GP I'd googled the problem and google said I would die within minutes, but I assumed it was wrong as I'd made it to the surgery.

The consultant for the serious health problem I have keeps pointing out to me that google won't help as I'm an anomaly and there is no data and no studies that are in the slightest bit relevant.

GQ - your GP really should know by now that there is no connection between meat eating and anaemia :cool:, anymore than spinach is going to cure it. On which point I'll go and actually take an iron tablet and consider cutting down caffeine again as my legs hurt, so my iron levels must have dropped again while I was ignoring the pills

DawnW - brandy and oranges sounds a balanced diet. Lots of vitamins and plenty of preservative. The flavours work well together. Although i'm a bit worried that he has no chocolate in his diet (and I disagree with GQ - there is some VERY good vegan chocolate about, it just tends to be very dark so you can't scoff it in large quantities...)