'supporting each other through really tough times'

missrlr

Me too, but lemon and hot water here lol

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Evening all

cheapskate I am sure you will enjoy the change in life that you are embarking on, good luck.
kidkat I have been having physio since October for back pain caused by a car accident. I have been in constant pain since then. Last thursday I took the decision to stop doing the exercises and my pain is now much more tolerable. The real tell will be if I can sit better at work tomorrow. I suppose what I am saying is listen to your body when you start doing the physio. I thought that the pain was a barrier I had to get through but I was wrong.
Pops be mindful if you get a BP machine. Some people get very fixated by them and constantly take their blood pressure. This can result in false high readings. The other issue is that once purchased these machines never have their calibration checked to ensure they are recording accurately.
smileyt, glad you are finding the new job interesting.

OH and I went for a long walk yesterday in the snow with DD so that she could take pictures for her college course. Unfortunately it was a bit much for my back and I could not bend to take my boots off when we got home. Today we went to the town park which has been redeveloped over the last couple of years. There was lots of snow and most of the lake was iced over, it looked lovely. An outdoor gym has been provided so we had a go on that which was fun. We were all rugged up in lots of layers (think michelin man)so we all looked like we needed to use it.

OH has informed me that the Midlands have a predicted temp of down to -20 next week :eek:. I am not sure if I have enough layers to cope with that.

Keep well and warm everyone.

kidcat

Mrs VP- I am worried about physio to be honest I have never had a good experience of it, but at this point I am being driven mad with the pain.
The pain meds are not touching it and I am finding everything an enormous effort.
I couldnt take my boots off all week so kids and OH have been doing it - but I am hating the dependance.
I feel that physio is a hurdle to get through and maybe get them to look at the whys and then the pain clinic being my ultimate goal I think

Osteopaths have been recommended by a few people so I amy well give that ago and I have ordered the book softstuff recomended too. May be worth you trying it - at this point it cant do any harm

lisakay_2

no snow in my bit of manc either, smileyt i hope your route to work stays clear, but i also hope we get lots! it's getting heavy at the airport, dh has just rang to tell me.

sat here with a poorly dd2 curled up on my knee, said she had tummyache then puked everywhere! justr finished scrubbing the carpet.
so she wont be in school tomorrow, which will mean i will probably have to have a day of work, unless she wants to stay in bed with dh when he gets home.

must get off mse now, i have crochet to do. my friend had her baby boy today. 2 weeks early and weighs 7lb 15oz, but i haven't even started the present i planned for him, and dd2's teacher finishes for maternity leave on friday and i'm only halfway through her present!
night all, keep warm xx

kidcat

We have really heavy snow falling - I know its wrong but I am hoping it continues and school is cancelled - I think the kids deserve some time to enjoy the snow and be creative together, while OH is off and able to take them out.
Lisa - hope your DD is feeling better soon.

Softstuff

GreyQueen wrote: »

Thank goodness for books, or I'd've been as green as grass. I think I was in my thirties before I heard a parent swear.

I vividly remember the first time I heard dad swear, I was in my late teens. He'd bought a rather expensive jumper and it had started to develop bobbles after only a couple of wears. He was showing mum, a bit upset about it and said it had all gone "f-ing bobbly". I'm not sure who was more shocked at what he said, him, mum or me :rotfl: From that time in our house, anything we would have sworn at otherwise was referred to as "fluffing bobbly". I'd never heard him say anything even remotely like it before, but then he was a gentleman who still stood up when a woman entered the room.

I'd describe us as genteel working class too. Before dad got sick he'd never go anywhere without a shirt, tie and jacket. But then that went for everyone we knew at the local social club. Unfortunately most of those guys are gone now.

Curious to know though if the word "piles" was considered rude, was a euphemism for them? There's a sit-com here, Rake, and on one episode he's forced to describe the male genetalia using euphemisms in court, unfortunately the jury have no idea what he's talking about, so he goes through a list approved by the judge: membrum verile, nonny, nonsense, whatnot, until he is finally forced to tell them what he actually means.

smileyt wrote: »

We had a gentleman in the gallery yesterday who started taking all his clothes off and dancing around. I wasn't in that particular space so thankfully I wasn't the one who had to deal with it (so it wasn't me who attracted him this time!).

Impromptu performance art??

Kidcat, the intense pain is generally your back in spasm, rather than the damage itself. It's bizarre how often the body's response to an injury is worse than the injury itself (my mossie bite testifies to this!) I can now exercise that out before it even gets going. The book'll tell ya.

Going to look at that blog, thanks 7WW

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Batten down the hatches, ye in the north east, it's coming your way. Hope the schools are cancelled and the nippers can have some fun in the snow (and the parents not scare themselves half to death on the roads).

smileyt, I was just thinking, haven't seen her post in a long while, hope she's OK and there you are. Your post had me howling; the loose screws have followed you from the park to the gallery. :rotfl:

We've had more snow overnight, quite a bit more, so it'll be the Y*xtrax again today and the walking pole. And ordering more bliddy grit bins to be refilled, I'll wager my h.m. sandwich on.

Gotta get brekkie then outta here, have a good day, peeps.

missrlr

Morning, cleared car off last night after snow stopped, and driveway. Got to work no problems and started on the car park . Our neighbours (at work) actually had the cheek to walk past smile and say well done, but didn't stop to lend a hand or offer assistance. I nearly chucked all the snow from our parking bays in front of their doorway in a fit of pique. Ignorant so and so's!

Our delivery trucks can now access safely, but I am pretty sure that the interesting bit will be the other end of the road where it joins the main road so I will be taking a little walk up there later to see if any of the businesses at that end have continued with the gritting and clearing up there. I am not holding my breath.

mardatha

AHEM from over the border GQ where the north east is actually the south east and where we have vanished in a blizzard!
Wind working itself up to a tizzy and been snowing since early morning, elect will go off next. Snow to go on until tomorrow afternoon.
My family were all miners and fishermen and very def working class - but my parents were well educated good spellers, good writers, and very savvy on current affairs. Nobody ever swore .

Cheapskate

Morning toughies

Glad to see the weather hasn't dampened everyone's good spirits! We have tons of the blinking stuff, all schools in the authority are closed, DH went to work (always walks) but bet they'll be very quiet. Got to go up to the chemist's and take mum's meds down to her - got a bit of cash in case we really need anything. (The chocolate drawer is empty, but prob the only essential we don't have! ) Half the buses are suspended, the gritters didn't go out even on main roads, so the poor souls in highways will get stick for that!

My dad was a Scottish seafaring man, so you can imagine the language we heard as kids, but always with mum as a counterpoint saying "not in front of the girls"! He would have hammered us if we had used the same language as him anyway!

Keep safe, folk, see you in a bit.

A xo