Preparedness for when

danih

Regular cleans, savlon and clean plasters. Planning on a more secure dressing this evening as leakage has slowed down (sorry, eeuuugghh)

Still shockingly sore, but on the plus side, sore finder makes an excellent hand warmer And hubby treating me to pizza. I may be milking this a little

Planning on seeking medical advice (anti-biotics) tomorrow if finger gets any worse.

thriftwizard

Oh dear danih, you do realise you can't possibly do any washing up for at least 3 weeks, with a guinea-pig bite? And you'd better put your feet up for a week, too, to be on the safe side.

danih

Thriftwizard - you make a very good point, must take care of my poor self after such a traumatic event!!!! Must bear in mind the high likelihood of PTSD and arm loss. (armless, hehehe) (oh dear, def too tired and tramatised to post, must . . . rest . . . .)

daz378

A minor SHTF moment all my lights in the flat are off fuse box keeps tripping when i try to reset ... the fuse box sparks and trips right away....council flat so i will call them in monday morning....sunnan lamp has come in useful , keychain light so i could find my other leds and you realise how more dangerous the flat is in the dark

Frugalsod

daz378 wrote: »

A minor SHTF moment all my lights in the flat are off fuse box keeps tripping when i try to reset ... the fuse box sparks and trips right away....council flat so i will call them in monday morning....sunnan lamp has come in useful , keychain light so i could find my other leds and you realise how more dangerous the flat is in the dark

The thing to do is keep one torch in an easily reached position, that you can find in the dark. Mine is near the front door, which is handy if you return and the lights are already out. If you can keep another by the bed in case a black out happens at night when you are in bed. I use rechargeable LED torches so they last longer, and you can always have some light.

Softstuff

BigMummaF wrote: »

All this with Mum has shown how much we do take things for granted here in the UK. Occupational Therapy were looking at things to put under the castors of the sofa to rise it up a bit & if they had them, Mum would have had them on free long-term loan (she's got funny legs so none of the risers would fit..not muvva ..the couch..)
She has investigations for her medical health, at no cost to her.
She has life-enhancing drugs every day, at no cost to her.
She has sight-saving procedures & medications, at no cost to her...& so it continues.

It's amazing what you take for granted on the NHS. Break a leg? over here you have to buy some crutches, get out of hospital with a wound? buy some dressings. The smallest of things are a charge you hadn't thought of.

moneyistooshorttomention

daz378 wrote: »

A minor SHTF moment all my lights in the flat are off fuse box keeps tripping when i try to reset ... the fuse box sparks and trips right away....council flat so i will call them in monday morning....sunnan lamp has come in useful , keychain light so i could find my other leds and you realise how more dangerous the flat is in the dark

when I had that a few days back it seemed to boil down to one particular electrical appliance had set it off, ie the kettle.

Could you try and mentally work through what specific appliances and/or lights you were using just before the trouble started? Maybe, by a process of elimination, you might be able to track it back to one thing - but you'll manage to get everything else working.

Mind you whadda I know...as I'm having a spell of inadvertently "blasting" electrics at the moment and, by this stage in my life, I've realised that electrical "blasts" at equipment/my whole workplace/someplace else I am/the whole street do seem to coincide to some extent with my moods. One "blast" of temper and Uri Geller 'R Us. You should just see how fast I get through lightbulbs..I really should know better by now than to push a lightswitch if I'm in a particular frustrated/angry mood..bang..another bulb gone. Right now, there are 3 electrical things adrift in my (recently modernised electrically) house ....see current signature below for clue as to why:rotfl:

daz378

all my lights are on one circuit.... took the easy lightbulbs out , lounge, front room, hallway and bedrooms.... so its either flourescent in kitchen or the or the u shaped light in bathroom.. off to work now

GreyQueen

daz378 wrote: »

all my lights are on one circuit.... took the easy lightbulbs out , lounge, front room, hallway and bedrooms.... so its either flourescent in kitchen or the or the u shaped light in bathroom.. off to work now

Morning daz, 'preciate you won't see this until after work, but if your council are anything like my lot, they'll expect you to take out and try replacements for the fluroescent tubes in the kitch and bathroom. I'm guessing what you have in your bathroom is same as in my council bathroom - curly fluro tube under a circular plastic cover?

With our lot, you're expected to change the tubes yourself, if you don't do that first and they send a sparkie and they find it's the tube, not the wiring or the switch, you get charged for the call-out. Mebbe you could call your council's out of hours service when you get home and get clarification?

A sparkie working for us told me that the council's trip switches are set to be very sensitive. The only time my electrics cut out here, other than a power cut, was when all the sockets went out all of a sudden. I traced the fault to my electric kettle (now in retirement) which was plugged in and the socket switch on, but not being used. Its fuse died between one moment and another and this took the socket circuit out for the whole flat. Amazed me.

Have continued to work steadily and surely through the allotment. Was digging with a fork for 1.5 hours yesterday, in an area between the broad beans and the turnips. This us being worked on every 3 weeks or so as has terrible horsetail and couch grass infestation and, although there was nothing much to see above ground, there were great swatches of both kinds of roots underground. Terrible stuff, horsetail, and it's got a roothold on more than half of our site, and tries to encroach into the lower half of my plot. The upper half is terrible with it, but I just keep digging it up. I have COLD STEEL, it's a plant and I'm a mammal, I can move faster than it can.

Trouble is, I'm only there a few hours a week and it's growing 24/7/365...............

SpikyHedgehog

A few houses ago, renting privately through an agency, turning on the florescent light in the kitchen at the same time as the long life bulb in the dining room was warming up was enough to trip all the lights. (I think it was just the lights, it was 16 years ago.)

I was able to reset the fuse box, but this required standing on a chair on the tiny landing at the top of the stairs as the box was so high & the landing too small for my ladder.

I kept a torch in my handbag & DS1's spare clothes bag as well as by the front door & my bed. & put signs by all the light switches, saying 'only turn on one light at a time'. (I also asked the agency to have the landlord send an electrician round to find it what was happening & fix it, but that didn't happen...)