Preparedness for when

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What is more wonderous I ask you than finding the toad that your neighbour gave you in the autumn (her dog had found it and wouldn't leave it alone poor old toady)is still living a happy toad existence in your greenhouse and has enlarged considerably and kept the greenhouse pest free since then. I can't say that said toad was terribly enamoured at being discovered again, in fact the look it gave He Who Knows was decidedly baleful and the look it gave me when I picked it up and hoiked it back into another corner so it could hide under a growbag would have melted kefflar!!! But a toad, happy or furious is a wonderful thing to be called up the garden path to see and it made me vey happy!!!

jk0

Thanks GQ. Yeah, I think it will have to be self catering from now on.

They want to take my gallbladder out. It seems that removing the stones is only available in China. There is a medicine you can take for a couple of years to dissolve the stones, but my doctor said they only give that to people too poorly for the operation.

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

Thanks GQ. Yeah, I think it will have to be self catering from now on.

They want to take my gallbladder out. It seems that removing the stones is only available in China. There is a medicine you can take for a couple of years to dissolve the stones, but my doctor said they only give that to people too poorly for the operation.

Ahh yes, just googled* it - lithotripsy (ultrasound to break up the gallstones). Seems it's seldom used these days and the preferred answer is gallbladder removal.

I actually use duck duck go but it doesn't lend itself to becoming a verb.

mardatha

jk0 I've had a good few GB attacks and the best thing I have found is a hot water bottle and totally immobility. I had a lot of attacks while I was working (nights) and I had to practically crawl into the ladies and sit on the floor hunched up until it eased. I'm also not keen on the op, as have heard too many horror stories. Once you have bits of you removed then there's no going back lol - so I'm just avoiding anything that irritates mine. But I don't go abroad.

CRANKY40

I still have my gallstone as far as I know. The original scan showed just one very large stone.I had it when I met the late MrCranky and that was the year 2000. When I rang to cancel the op because the low fat diet was working fine the nurse said "oh you've fixed it yourself then". I seem to recall reading somewhere that if you eat properly for long enough they can just disappear. I never mentioned it when we went on honeymoon to Tenerife and the local cuisine there didn't seem to cause any problems. Fish, veg and Canarian potatoes, yum! On the other hand my sister had her gall bladder out and hasn't had any problems since, so who knows.

I can now eat the occasional high fat meal without it hurting. I don't like to push my luck too often just in case though.

Nellie_the_Viking

ivyleaf wrote: »

If/when we do get that referendum, you may be taken aback by the result after all moneystooshort - I suspect a lot of people in the generations below ours will vote to stay in, because it's what they're used to.

Not just because its what they are used to, but also the likely wider impact of withdrawing, which many in those generations would see as a negative thing, having benefitted from the freedoms they are afforded by membership of the EU. Not everyone will see it this way, but a fair number of young people would.


Empirical evidence suggests that if we opt out of the EU, a lot of businesses will decamp - Slovenia appears to be the preferred choice for many - to maintain the advantage of non-bordered trading. Who knows how many jobs that would remove from Britain, and I'm not convinced that many people would move with the companies. I can't see many companies moving in to fill that gap if we cut ourselves off from Europe.


If we substantially restrict EU immigration (which makes up only around 25% of immigration to the UK year on year) we would then also potentially lose a fair proportion of useful workforce who do the jobs that a lot of Brits won't do because of hours, conditions and in the case of a few of my acquaintance, because they consider themselves to be too qualified. That would be a pretty negative impact of withdrawal.

charlies-aunt

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

What is more wonderous I ask you than finding the toad that your neighbour gave you in the autumn (her dog had found it and wouldn't leave it alone poor old toady)is still living a happy toad existence in your greenhouse and has enlarged considerably and kept the greenhouse pest free since then. I can't say that said toad was terribly enamoured at being discovered again, in fact the look it gave He Who Knows was decidedly baleful and the look it gave me when I picked it up and hoiked it back into another corner so it could hide under a growbag would have melted kefflar!!! But a toad, happy or furious is a wonderful thing to be called up the garden path to see and it made me vey happy!!!

Brilliant post! Aren't their eyes beautiful though? like brightly polished agates.

jk0

I was cleaning out a surface water drain that connects to a soakaway, and found a toad living down there. He must have been there since he was a tadpole, as he was too big to fit through the grating.

I rescued him. However, thinking back, I wonder if he wouldn't have been better off where he was.

ArthriticOldThing

JK0 if you declare that you are waiting for treatment when you intend to travel abroad you may well be charged almost double for insurance IF you can find anyone to insure you. :eek: At least that was my experience last year at least.

thriftwizard

Posting from my mother's, complete with my BoB grabbed & gone; she's a tad under the weather, with a temperature of over 39.5*C and BP of 200/125.

Re a sense of wonder: on a clear night, take a tablet (in the computing sense) and a garden lounger out into your garden. Download one of the stargazing/satellite ID apps & just watch the sky go by. It's a brilliant mix of the best of new technology and the most ancient, awesome & wonder-filled sights you can imagine. Even though we don't have anything like clear skies here on the edge of the conurbation, it's always a fantastic, relaxing way to get a real sense of perspective after a gruelling day. We are just fleeting motes of dust in an infinite universe, and privileged to be able to watch & wonder.

Re traffic accidents & technology: I saw a young man nearly come to grief yesterday. He walked out, completely oblivious, into a stream of traffic whilst gazing open-mouthed at DD2, who admittedly is fairly high on the traffic-stopping spectrum. It isn't always technology that ties people's minds up & takes their attention away from everyday survival issues..