Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

No. We had instant coffee, growing up. Never tea. And if I have tea it'd need milk, but I weaned myself off white coffee about 25 years ago to save me having to buy milk as I found it'd either be off, or need throwing out, long before I got through it, making it a pain in the butt to keep in the house.

I probably buy 1 pint of milk every 5 years, when there's a specific requirement.

Cravendale do fresh filtered milk that lasts 1 week from opening. Costs £1 for 1 litre.

Tea bags come in boxes of 20, with a use by date 3 years away.

Unnecessary deprivation.

lostinrates

Felt really well today. Realised its because I forgt to take my pills last night and this morning.

Buzzed around, got stuff done.

Then had a horrid call from GP surgery about problem with my prescription. I'm in tears, even resident parent (usually ready to explain how I could handle it better) is shocked at what happened.

I had to get the hospital prescription renewed and went and spoke to the surgery about it at the beginning of the week. Asked if I would need a GP appointment because of newness of mess. I was told all was fine and it could go through as a repeat because they are on my system.

The prescriptions clerk just phoned and started laying into me about requesting unusual things not on the system and that my GP had never heard I should be on them and I had to call the neurologist (NHs) to sort it out if they had been prescribed for me. Honestly I am so confused ATM, my head is always dizzy, i can hardly remember anything. i followed the EXACT guidelines on the website about prescriptions, wven allowing the extra day because of possible need for an appt. (would have taken telephone appt). And could not do it before then because i had to wait till on the final dosage before i could know if i could tolerate them,

in these drugs and I am a bit of a wreck and I just burst into tears. I asked if I could speak to a go, and she said, no, YOU have to sort this out, call the hospital, and its too late really to get the prescription through now for next week anyway. So I just said I'm upset, I'm confused and I'm on drugs that say you should speak to a GP if you feel like that.....so she put me through to GP who has obviously circled my name with a big red Marker pen saying nutter. .

I really don't feel like me at all. (Which might be me being upset, or I suppose might be these pills, lol)

And I'm not sure why I am so worried about getting them, I'm not even sure I want to stay on them, but.....

Oh, Christ, Im laughing a bit now, I really am a nutter.....

misskool

ring the nhs consultant nurse tomorrow and tell them you are being denied drugs by the gp. the hospital should be able to issue you with some more and (bonus it will be free). and then get the consultant to write to GP with all the details.

it will get sorted tomorrow.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

ring the nhs consultant nurse tomorrow and tell them you are being denied drugs by the gp. the hospital should be able to issue you with some more and (bonus it will be free). and then get the consultant to write to GP with all the details.

it will get sorted tomorrow.

I have enough till next week ( because I have planned ahead )

Really embarrassingly its mainly I think because I feel accused of being a druggy and also being spoken to condescendingly. I should be big enough to laugh that off. I'm really glad I happened to answer on speaker phone so resident parent heard, otherwise I would feel totally paranoid. Resident parent wants to 'write a letter' and I just said ...that's how it always is.......



I think I'm ok again now . I just felt a bit 'run, run, run away from the doctors, fast'. .

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

It got me wondering how a non-food material like a medicine would go off apart from chemically oxidising. Food goes off because it's off living origin and therefore has trace minerals and major nutrients that microbes can exploit.

Do medicines have the same? I think I'd be a lot more worried about a medicine that could have a microbe growing on it than one that simply oxidises in the air, but I don't know if it's likely that could happen. I know that any food made from nuts can become dangerous if mould grows on it (liver cancer's the risk there).

Hmmmm, Plenty to think about:think:

Non-food materials do indeed oxidise in the air (some might need a bit of light), or might just decompose over time. This can cause problems, lots of things have anti-oxidants added to try and prevent this (i.e. the anti-oxidant is something that should be oxidised in preference, leaving the potential problem chemical in its intended form).

There are plenty of problems with things going mouldy that don't contain nuts (apart from it being not very nice) - you wouldn't really want to rub it all over your face would you?!

lostinrates wrote: »

Most of my bottles are not clear sided. Kinda makes one squirm a bit, huh?

Apart from looking pretty, sometimes things are in opaque packaging to protect it from light.

I kind of want to go and check my toiletries for molluscs now :eek:

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

I should be big enough to laugh that off.

No no no - there shouldn't be anything to laugh off.

Missk's advice sounds good. Hope you get it all sorted out tomorrow.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

I have enough till next week ( because I have planned ahead )

Really embarrassingly its mainly I think because I feel accused of being a druggy and also being spoken to condescendingly. I should be big enough to laugh that off. I'm really glad I happened to answer on speaker phone so resident parent heard, otherwise I would feel totally paranoid. Resident parent wants to 'write a letter' and I just said ...that's how it always is.......



I think I'm ok again now . I just felt a bit 'run, run, run away from the doctors, fast'. .

write a letter to your practise manager if it makes you feel better.

i've reached the end of the nhs line now and am scoping out private clinics.

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

Welcome back Lydia!:j

Thank you. :hello:

lostinrates wrote: »

I'd swap my sister for a brother any day of the week. But then I have friends with only brothers who longed for a sister.

All I know is I really wanted a brother or a few of them. I am also not one of those women who says 'I prefer men and don't have many girlfriends' but I do find the dynamic between my male and female friends is often different.

I have brothers. I always wanted a sister. I consider that I now have one, because one of my sils feels as good as a "proper" sister to me.

SingleSue wrote: »

I am now out of my depth with youngest. None of the old strategies are working anymore and any new ones I have tried have not worked either.

It was easier with middle son but then his diagnosis, although still an ASD, is different and he is not as severe as youngest and he has always been fairly aware of his difficulties. My problem now with youngest is that finally, he has developed self awareness and he doesn't like being different to his peers, before he was completely unaware that he was.

This doesn't just extend to his autism but his asthma too and he is now refusing to take his inhalers at school because it makes him different. He is refusing help in schooling, exams etc but then getting incredibly frustrated and stressed because he then cannot cope and he has taken to punching walls and hurting himself.

He can't sleep, he can't study and he can't cope and I am completely at a loss of how I can help him when he doesn't want to receive that help.

I have had to keep him off school for the last two days as he is in a bad asthma flare and needing his inhalers regularly during the day...and of course, he is refusing to take his inhalers at school, making it all very eek and dangerous to him.

I do have (yet) another meeting at the school on Monday and one with his asthma nurse on Wednesday but getting a referral back to CAMHS is pretty much a non starter due to their waiting lists (the doctor said yesterday it would be a waste of time as the appointment would probably come through for next year!) and we are close to crisis point now.

Arrgggghhhhhhhhhh!

I'm sure there's been more posted about this since this post, but this is how far I've got with catching up with the thread, and I just wanted to agree with everyone else that (a) it sounds very very hard for you all and (b) you are amazing, and finally (c) I wish there was something I could do to help.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

It should be a wake up call. However, there have been wake up loudspeakers in the each with double shot espresso cups and frankly...parent is a damn fool.

It falls on deaf ears and is extremely infuriating. Parents friend (someone who has far too much influence IMO) is a would be nutritionist and doesn't help. 'So and so says these nougats are ok' well...um, they might be, one or two with a eat, but a box instead of a meal or between meals,,,,,,not so much.

after much frustration and gnashing of teeth, buying of simple books on how to eat for managing through diet etc etc...of giving up and remember parent is an adult not my child. After going out of my way to produce food I cannot eat that was healthy and appropriate I found candy wrappers and healthy but not diabetes appropriate feasts taking place and so.....it's not my business.


The only thing I have had any influence on is alcohol. That's been done by threatening to call the police if the car is at the pub and not really be a use I care about the drinking but because I do care about drink driving. Dh has also had influence because while parent doesn't care what I think they do care what dh thinks.


Parent doesn't check blood sugar levels often. I used to prompt and it was then done but caused bad feeling. (i'm understanding it this week) its not my business, but dh had already talked with me and we had agreed that the appropriate response was a joke about how nice it was to have two feet/eyesight. (Which is not what we would normally do but what parent would...learn to speak the other persons language) or nothing (not what I would do but what dh would).

Hugs to lir - so sorry you have this to deal with on top of everything else.

Spirit wrote: »

Generali I tied the test and got this
The test failed to match you to a Kinsey Type profile. Either you answered some questions wrong, or you are a very unusual person.

Me too

vivatifosi wrote: »

I think also they fail to think about why people answer a question a particular way. For example, does the fact I answered FALSE to the question about whether your consideration of taking part in an orgy depends on the gender of the participants in that orgy suggest a) that I am bisexual or b) that I'm married and not interested in an orgy in the first place?

That's just what I thought, apart from the being married. There's no option to say both parts of the idea that I have never felt at all interested in (a) sex with another woman or (b) sex with more than one person at a time.

The threesome question asks if my discomfort with the idea of a threesome would be specifically due to the presence of another woman. Well, no, not at all. I would be equally uncomfortable with the idea of a threesome whatever the gender(s) of the other two participants.

If I change my answers to the orgy and threesome questions, I get 0.

lostinrates wrote: »

But I would see that as answering the question incorrectly. (I really struggle with this sort of test so this sort of thing interests me) and I cannot quite remember the question..something about sex of the participants defining your interest in the orgy?

You put aside the fact you are married and the terms of your relationship are defined as they are and look at the question about an orgy out side of that parametre. So its just the sex and orgy. Never mind the orgy, that's not the question, its the sex of the participants in it.....so its nt really asking about the orgy so much as the 'homosexual' aspect. In fact, no where in the defined groups is polygamous homo, hetero or bi separated from monogamous. For many that's a bigger divider and while it appears I the questions its not in the answers so its a red herring.

Is that wrong?

Interesting indeed. IMO it gives some insight into the (erroneous) assumptions of the sort of people who do that kind of research about how open they think "everyone" must really be to orgies etc if they were really honest.

chewmylegoff

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Having tea bags in the kitchen really isn't a posh alert - I reckon almost every kitchen in the country does. We have builder's tea, lady grey, rude-boy (can't remember the real name, that South African one), camomile, peppermint, apple and cinnamon, camomile and spicey apple - I think that's it.

I never drink coffee, I'm a tea girl.

It's only a posh alert if you've got a fancy tea strainer or one of those pots you put leaf tea in. We've only got PG tips so not posh, fact.