Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

zagubov

Spirit wrote: »

I have two female cousins with crohns - on my mothers side -Irish catholics.

I think it's one of those diseases that runs in families but doesn't have a well-defined genetic cause.

I gather the biggest risk factor for having MS is having a Scottish surname.

When I (try to) teach about high blood pressure or diabetes or sickle cell I always get expert knowledge quoted back at me from students from certain ethnicities burdened with high levels of the disease.

They earned this knowledge at great personal and emotional expense . I've never to my knowledge encountered anyone from goups with enviably subnormal disease rates ( basically Okinawans and Seventh Day Adventists AFAIK).

michaels

Spirit wrote: »

I cannot imagine waking up each day and knowing you will never eat 'food' again and that you must at frequent intervals drink milk shake just to survive. He has become very frail.

Hmm - My first thought is that it wouldn't worry me too much either way, I seem to eat a very boring repetitive diet already for cost and child friendly reasons.

zagubov wrote: »

When I (try to) teach about high blood pressure or diabetes or sickle cell I always get expert knowledge quoted back at me from students from certain ethnicities burdened with high levels of the disease.

They earned this knowledge at great personal and emotional expense . I've never to my knowledge encountered anyone from goups with enviably subnormal disease rates ( basically Okinawans and Seventh Day Adventists AFAIK).

Now you tell me - 2 of 3 of my DKs have sickle cell trait and not long before I met DW I did date an Okinawan....

GDB2222

Overheard whilst out walking "In September, my daughter is doing a 1 year MA in drama, and then she'll decide what to do....."

I must be very bad, because my immediate thought was that she can choose between selling ice creams or flipping burgers.

Sadly, I'm not so far off the mark, am I?

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

Hmm - My first thought is that it wouldn't worry me too much either way, I seem to eat a very boring repetitive diet already for cost and child friendly reasons.
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I think the difference is that that is your choice.

Spirit_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

Overheard whilst out walking "In September, my daughter is doing a 1 year MA in drama, and then she'll decide what to do....."

I must be very bad, because my immediate thought was that she can choose between selling ice creams or flipping burgers.

Sadly, I'm not so far off the mark, am I?

The carpenter who has recently done some work for us has a 17 year old daughter who is going to a dance college in September. He says she is in training to be a waitress.

PasturesNew

For lunch today I had some spuds that have been sprouting for a week (and starting to go green) and half a tin of beans in the fridge.... as I'd picked up some cheddar yesterday (My word it's getting almost impossible to buy it at £5/Kg these days, so decided to go for broke and paid £5.77 to save going to another shop) .... so I peeled/nuked/mashed the spuds, added in 80grams of cheddar and nuked the beans. Served my cheesy mash and beans in a big bowl with a big spoon.

Even so, it's surprising just how much that cost. Cheese was 50p, spuds were 25p and beans were 17p = 92p for what many would assume'd be a 30p dinner.

So that's my "£1/day" spent, with the breakfast doughnut having cost 6p

lostinrates

I haven't lost sense of smell but I did lose sensitivity and its miserable. ( but then I have also lost some hearing, some sense of feeling and as of last year some sight impact, and the pills mess with my sense of taste, Rofl. )

This spring I can s,ell more than I have for ages, and its glorious. (Apart from dog fart)

lostinrates

I have been trying to get a new app loaded on macputer and I think there is something wrong with it. It's an app I used on macputer one, but every single user na,e I try has been taken. Even teethoffuryseventwosix. Or various other numbers of teeth of fury. (Only takes letters, no numbers). I cannot believe there are a whole load of people signing up to go under the name of teeth of fury.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

So the gym thing wasn't too bad.

Mostly because we only got as far as filling in the application forms! :rotfl:

Nikkster

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

So the gym thing wasn't too bad.

Mostly because we only got as far as filling in the application forms! :rotfl:

You've probably still dropped a few pounds then