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sevenup01

:eek:Afternoon all!
Lisakay im sorry to hear your news (((hugs)))
The recipes that have been posted sound lovely and i am going to try the fried rice which my children love but i have never been able to figure out the egg part and now i know.
I started changing my living room around yesterday so it is ready for the christmas tree. I had the sofa in the middle of the room and had jsut picked up all the toys and odd socks that always accumulate when the phone rang and one of my uncles told me he was on his way to take me to a shop he has been promising to take me to. Its in Romford and did i want to drive? Ummmm....no thanks. Me? drive through Blackwall tunnel? A totally unfamiliar route when i havnt passed my driving test?:eek: There would have been no steering wheel left by the time we got there as i would have crushed it with my nerves! So he drove and i was able to buy some new christmas tree lights - they twinkle! and flash! and do 8 different things instead of just the static ones that i have always had:T. I was also able to buy new curtains for my 16.5 foot living room window one pair of 90x90 and one pair of 66x90 and cost only £12.99 a pair, And they are fully lined. Hopefully they will go up today and i will be able to see the huge purple flowers on them in all their glory:j.

prepareathome

Just popping in to say hi and send my love, not caught up yet - have about 3 weeks to read so might take a while.

I have been silent because I couldn't read, think or do much that was not already learnt behaviour. In Sept my GP asked me to double my Anti-Depressant not because of depression but in hope it would help me get back into a good sleeping pattern. Instead within 24hrs I was getting bouts of anger all the upsets and disappointments in my life were magnified and I found myself so resentful of everyone and was't helped by family hurting me badly (nothing to do with these bouts as I didn't not speak or have any contact with them so I know not me who caused it) but along with this I found my mind wounded not work, couldn't think or process input - reading was to much, could read the words but not understand them and then stopped being able to speak could not verbilise and I literally sat watching BB5 the whole series then the whole of Star Trek Next Generation its all I was capable of watching and sleeping and doing things that were ingrained in me like being able to make a cup of tea or cook simple meals.

Everything seems so confusing and beyond my understanding and it took a lot of mental work for me to work out what was wrong as even in my confusion I knew I was not right. So stopped the tablet for 24hrs then took it and hey pesto the magnified feelings all came on again so slowly cut down then stopped it and bit by bit my mind is working again. Still got a way to go as only stopped the anti-depressions fully now for a week.

Was up to seeing dr last week and she checked and found what I experienced is a rare reaction from them, a form of brain damage, like a stroke in its form but not just on one side of brain and no paralysis on body just in brain . She did offer for me to see a neurologist and to have some physio to help my brain recover but am seeing if I can manage to do it on my own She did feel I came off them quickly as had been on the lower dose for over a year but am off them now and nothing will make me take them again. So that is now on my medical record so even if I have depression again they will not offer me them.

Funnily enough depression is not one symptom I have had. I was totally stupid with an IQ of a slug but happy, to stupid to be anything else LOL.

Brain fog from Fibro and ME can cause this a bit but not quite to this extent.

Right enough of my moans will not promise I will catch up quickly as still finding it a bit of an effort to understand.

Still not up to, to much yet but did teach myself how to make a reversible granny square a week ago - most I managed to get mind to work with - and made OH a blanket, not finished it yet as its only 5ft x 4ft so far so need a few more rows to make it full size. I had always meant to learn to do granny squares but just never got round to it.
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Hugs and Love to all xxxx

Possession

Here you go Fuddle (apologies as I can't recall who posted this recipe but it wasn't me! Thanks to OP - I need to write their name in my recipe list!)

Fruit Cobbler Recipe

In an oven proof dish add in 1 mug of self raising flour, 1 mug of granulated sugar and 1 mug of milk. Mix it all up so it's thoroughly mixed together and then add 1 tin of value tinned fruit of your choice on top. Bake in the oven on gas mark 4 until golden. The flour mix will rise up above the fruit.

(((Hugs))) PAH, hope you're feeling more yourself soon.

stiltwalker

Sorry to hear of your news Lisakay - (((((hugs)))))

Katieowl - hope you ok, glad you're being looked at, take care.

jem - ouch! hope you feeling better soon.

Waiting in today for our new dishwasher to be delivered - yay - it's an early Christmas pressie from my parents (wonderful people that they are!) as it'll be one less thing I have to do. DH, while not a great washer upper, is perfectly happy to load and unload a DW. Just done the washing up to forestall any installation problems - if we have washing up ready to test it out you just know there is going to be a problem, now there is none hopefully it will go in fine! (yes I'm mad, I know!! lol) DH and I have decided we are now officially grown up though (never mind the married with children bit!) as we got excited over getting a dishwasher!!

ETA: Oh PAH - sounds like you've had a right old time of it! Sending big hugs and healing and hope you are feeling better soon. X

VJsmum

LisaKay - so sorry for your loss

PAH - nice to see you back. I have had a similar experience with Anti - D's. Although I had taken them before on several different occasions, I had cause to be prescribed them a couple of years ago. OMG i went through a living hell for a couple of months - all the feelings and thoughts magnified a thousand times, or so it felt. I had been told that they can make symptoms worse before they are better but it was an absolute nightmare. I went back to the doctor and begged her to let me stop which she did. Like you, I felt better almost instantly. She prescribed me some beta blockers to take at tough times. I take about 10 a year - mostly around this time due to SAD causing anxiety. I will never take anti-d's again. They obviously don't work for me and though I know there are different kinds, I would be too afraid to try any of them.

I went to bed and set my alarm for an hour and a half, and did manage to get enough sleep to enable me to then get some food and I will go to bed soon at a "normal" time. It is nearly 10 o'clock here and I have my final teaching day tomorrow. Although I really like the city and the students I teach are some of the nicest, kindest people I have ever met, I will be happy to not travel so much in the future (yeah, right - till someone offers me some work in Hong Kong, which isn't beyond the realms of possibility at the moment).

fuddle

Nice to see you pah

I'm at my most happiest and content on AD's. Where I have the problem is actually feeling ok coming off them. I suffered withdrawal the last time and that was a reminder at just how strong thy are.

Thanks for fruit cobbler. I knew it was 3 ingredients for the batter, I just wasn't sure what.

kidcat

PAH - ((hugs)) take care

fuddle

No rubber chicken for us this week. Alfred the naughty has helped himself while we ate our dinner. My fault as I didn't push it right back. Dogs!

Thinking about Kate, hope she's alright. She'll be surrounded by Sunday morning sports injuries.

Stiltwalker, I completely and utterly understand your dishwasher excitement. I've never had one and can't wait to try on 15th.

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kidcat wrote: »

Oooh totally forgot to mention my favourite SC tip and that its to use a cartouche - someone told me about it ages ago when I was doing a boeuf bourginon for a dinner party and I was really pleased with the results. Basically I double fold a piece of tin foil and place it not touching the food but covering the SC contents - it stops the condensation from the SC lid dripping into the meal and really improves the flavour.

great idea, I`ll pass that on to dd who now has my slow cooker

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FUDDLE - I've just had your wonderful news, told you so!!!!!!!

BYATT - You got the OK on the woodburner yes? Hope you are luxuriating in wonderful warmth and comfort, enjoy!!!

PAH Welcome back, we've missed you

Have a good evening folks, Cheers Lyn xxx.