Preparedness for when

meanmarie

Welcome back 2t.

GQ....hope that nan will make a good recovery

Marie

alfsmum

Hope your Nan is making a good recovery GQ

alfsmum

2tonsils wrote: »

Thank you for all the messages saying welcome back. Although things went pear shaped we both loved our time in Thailand and we are glad we went. Yes we are back in the same house, we got rid of lots of surplus stuff by giving it away to people who needed it in the village where we live. It was much appreciated. Ironically, when we left Thailand we did the same thing, and gave it to the people living nearby who had almost nothing. It was a good feeling to do that!

Mr 2T is much better. He was still ill when we returned home and came through the airports in a wheelchair. It would have been a great help if I hadn't been forced to carry all our luggage, both is and mine! When we got home he went to the doctor for treatment and it helped a little, but what helped most was realising he was suffering horrendous side effects from the meds he had been prescribed for over two years.

Yes, the memory problems, blurred vision, muscle cramps and high blood pressure were all from his prescription meds. We stopped them and within two days he was feeling much better and his blood pressure was normal! Since then we have gone onto a very healthy diet and supplements of coconut oil (great for storing, very healthy and can fry food in it ) hemp protein powder (great for all kinds of ailments and very good for general health) and Maca powder which is doing wonders for my energy and my thyroid. I mix them in my breakfast smoothie, I make it with Greek yogurt, fruit and local honey. I feel amazing since I changed what I eat. I have to eat gluten free of course as I am Celiac.

We are happy to be back and the villagers are thrilled we came back. We have been doing repairs and updating the house and it looks terrific. I have made the upstairs patio into a little peace garden with Buddha statues and plants and its now a lovely place to sit instead of somewhere I just dried washing .
I have loads of containers planted up with herbs, spring onions, medicinal herbs and lots of other things growing. I think my French beans came from a Jack and the Beanstalk show as they are growing so fast I can't keep up with them. My friends have also started giving me organic veggies and we were given 2 litres of wine this morning. I don't drink, so our visitors are in for a treat ! Locally produced as well.

I don't think the military coup is such a bad thing in Thailand, people are seeing it as positive and they are cracking down on corruption. They have paid the poor rice farmers all the money they were owed by the government for three years crops. They have stopped the violence by the protestors , so that is a good thing.

When I was in Thailand I had to go through the demonstrations to get our emergency passports (the rules had changes so it couldn't be done by post). I ended up being escorted through the camp by two armed men who took me to my mini bus. I managed to stay calm somehow but it was very alarming for John who was at home worrying about me. Luckily he did not know what happened till I got safely back to him. What happened was that they cut off the exits to the sky train, so I had to go through the camp. I was being stared at so bowed and showed respect to the leader, who asked me where I wanted to go and gave me the guard. The day before there had been people killed when hand grenades were thrown in that area, which was the place to change buses and the sky train. People were being shot as well during the demonstrations, so at least the military coup is having a positive effect on the violence.

Welcome back 2T. Interesting to hear what you add to your smoothie. I keep a good stock of flax seed, chia, goji berries and pumpkin seeds. All long life so good for stores. Hemp is great bit I will try the maca too.

Love the sound of new quiet space - just what you need with this feeling that S will Htf in the not too distant future.

mrs_lds

Great to have you back 2 tonsils. Love to hear hats going on in Greece

jk0

If it's not private, may we know what hubby was taking that had those awful side effects 2T, so we may avoid them also?

It wasn't 'statins' was it? I've heard they give muscle weakness, and would not take them even if offered.

thriftwizard

Back from a lovely weekend in the 1940s/50s to say welcome back 2T and get well soon GQ & GQ's Nan.

The weekend was an interesting experience in more ways than one - firstly because it was "first camp of the year" and needless to say I'd forgotten quite a few things. Just as well, as plan A was for OH to come up in my little car & help us pack down and transport stuff home, but apparently it started to make strange noises & he felt it was unsafe to drive, so DD1 & I had to get camping gear plus stall infrastructure and unsold stock into the bigger car and drive gingerly home, trying to avoid every pothole in Wilts & Dorset. (It had taken two trips to get it all up there.) Any more stuff & we might have sunk without trace on the A36. All I can say is it's amazing what you can manage without! Luckily the weather was great so it didn't matter too much that the tent wouldn't have stopped any water coming in; I shan't bother to re-proof it & re-tape the seams as the carbon fibre poles have also started to split (two sections have already been replaced) and the joints are fairly rusty now. So - new tent time, before the next extravaganza. Either that, or replace my dear little car (sadly, dear in more ways than one) with a van... which might also make sense stock-transporting-wise.

It was also interesting to spend a couple of days with "wartime" re-enactors. Lots of food for thought, also along the lines of what we can actually do without...

jk0

thriftwizard wrote: »

Back from a lovely weekend in the 1940s/50s to say welcome back 2T and get well soon GQ & GQ's Nan.

Oh, keep the car Angie. I'd love one that takes me back in time. Where on earth did you buy it?

2tonsils

Just heard the news that the EU have approved GMO crops to be grown throughout Europe for news...but that individual countries can refuse them....Oh yeah...... I can hear it now......grow the GMO crops or you don't get another loan.......

My husband was on Norgesic, which are a painkiller and anti muscle spasm medicine. The doctor in Thailand actually queried them but then gave him some more as he did not know what to replace them with. They gave him terrible side effects and unfortunately the high blood pressure pills made them even worse. But we did not realise it was the tablets till he had a full blood test done. My results taken at the same time were near perfect but my husband's showed very poor liver function and lack of B12 as well as other things wrong. The doc asked him how much he drank but it was a very low amount. We did not go out for a drink in Thailand for almost eight months. Then the doc said it was what he ate, but he eats the same as me, a very very healthy diet. We decided to stop them and within a couple of days he was feeling better. The blood tests were redone a month later and were perfect. His blood pressure dropped and stayed there and he had to halve the dose he was on before. Now the pressure is even lower and it looks like he will be able to come off them altogether.

GreyQueen

Evening all.

Thanks for all your lovely good wishes for my Nan, you really are a brilliant bunch of peeps, you know that?

Cousin went this afternoon instead of auntie, it had to be one or the other as you can't have those two in the same place these past 20 years without daggers drawn. Folks will be there tomorrow and we'll have more news then, so fingers crossed.

It's chastened me not to be so slack about taking the daily soluable asprin I was prescribed after having had a mini-stroke about 3 years ago, which I admit I mostly tend to forget. Nothing like a visit to a stroke ward to make you think of that.

2tonsils, amazing and fascinating about what the blood tests revealed about your hubby's health and good on you for querying things and your diet sounds excellent. Good health to you both.

I've been snuffling away today - SuperGran has wisely decided to communicate with me solely by telephone until I can unfasten my leper bell. This cold seems to be on hyper-drive as I'm crashing through the symptoms every few hours. Feel slightly better this evening and have eaten my greens and had some h.g. frozen blackcurrants (2013 crop) from the freezer, just eaten neat, in order to benefit from all those lovely curranty goodnesses.

Still, shall be crawling off to first a hot bath and then my bed. The old folks always used to say feed a cold and starve a fever and I'm personally of the view that if you're in the state I was in by 7.30 yestereve (weak and floppy as boiled spaghetti) then bed is the best place for you.

Hi, my name is GQ and my specialist subject is sleeping...........:rotfl:And drinking tea, of course, must just quickly fit some of that in before seeing what the wicked of the world are up to. GQ xx

ivyleaf

So glad you're safely back, 2Tonsils. I too thought of you when I heard about the coup! Glad your DH is better too

GQ So sorry to hear about your lovely Nan. Wishing her a speedy recovery x (And have now just read your latest post, so sorry you're a poorly girl! Blackcurrants sound an excellent thing for that. Get well soon.)

Sorry not a lot of prepping in this post - we did buy 2 enormous bottles of water when we did the shopping today though. DH said "I'm not being funny or anything, but why are we buying this water?"

So I told him what GQ had said about how suddenly you can find yourself with no water supply, so he said "Ah, I see!"