Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Generali

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Good luck for your mum, fc123.

Seconded. Hope it goes well.

I know a woman who had Crohns disease in a very horrible way. She ended up making a full recovery after a series of hopeless diagnoses. She was also told surgery would make her infertile (probably not a concern of your mother I suspect) and now has 2 healthy kids.

fc123

Spirit wrote: »

I have just been introduced to Gizoogle.

OH works for a charity and someone showed him how their website could be translated for some sectors of da yoof.

I tried their example effect on a news story about the royals....

http://www.gizoogle.net/shizzles.php?link=will

That made me laugh so much and I only got past the 1st 2 lines. The cookie disclaimer at the top is even funnier.

lostinrates wrote: »

Not yet. I was meant to see a dietician but bupa baulked, and go messed it up by saying he 'd refer me to community dietician. I cancelled my dietician, but now she has said because I'm interesting she'll see me for free (or the hospital admin fee anyway) so will do that next month now.

The complication is that I am 'intolerant' to so much it now seems ( which might be why I never picked any think up from exclusion diets.

I can eat lamb. :rotfl: and have managed some hm lamb and even chicken kebabs, but other days cannot manage salad or pita. I ate the pulled pork when we went out and was ok, and I ate some coleslaw and some green salad, ....fine, I also had those fruity non alcoholic cocktails(with ice:D).....so lots of things I might normally have problems with. ( I ate the chips but didn't risk the brioche bun in came in). Some weird things happen.....my body seems to be a snob, I cope ok with steak, top roast of beef, stuff like that, but mince was bad.....really dread ful. But its all...'beef'. Might be I couldn't tolerate fat or something.

Meal replacements are going to be tricky because I think many contain something I shouldn't have ....

I'm supplementing with pills, but not even got a complete profile for that yet. But I was taking the wrong supplements first time, they had something in them, not milk, cannot remember what. Some of my medicines had to change too...that was lactose.

It's almost impossible isn't it as have to fuel our bodies? Maybe you can only eat certain meat and veg and nothing else? But then wouldn't you get that starvation thing Gen was talking about.....the people who only ate rabbits and all starved to death.

I guess you just have to do a tick list and stick to those items.

michaels wrote: »

When you only have 'too posh to use' bathrooms will you have to start showering at the gym?!


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You actually don't know how near you are to the truth there....I did suggest that OH + DD shower there as they go most evenings after work for an hour...purely to save on cleaning.:)

......Then I was thinking of switching my swim to mornings so I didn't have to shower at home at all those days.
In fact, we could work it so that we only shower at home on the occasional day.

fc123

Generali wrote: »

Seconded. Hope it goes well.

I know a woman who had Crohns disease in a very horrible way. She ended up making a full recovery after a series of hopeless diagnoses. She was also told surgery would make her infertile (probably not a concern of your mother I suspect) and now has 2 healthy kids.

For some reason it seems to be something that doesn't get easily diagnosed at GP's.

Good that she wasn't infertile .....what was the op she had?

The liver duct failure seems to be linked to long standing colitis/IBS/ Crohns

lostinrates

Sniggering at radio four, someone had a Chinese tattoo he thought said prosperity but it actually said diarrhoea or flatulence. The comments included a tatto tha was meant to say 'herb of knowledge' but translated as 'feeble weed'. ( not very good knowledge in that herb then) I just don't get the allure of a tattoo in a language you don't speak.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Sniggering at radio four, someone had a Chinese tattoo he thought said prosperity but it actually said diarrhoea or flatulence. The comments included a tatto tha was meant to say 'herb of knowledge' but translated as 'feeble weed'. ( not very good knowledge in that herb then) I just don't get the allure of a tattoo in a language you don't speak.

Oh yes, I saw this today. The man who wanted the chinese symbol for 'live and let live' and got 'sweet and sour chicken' is my personal favourite!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10402455/Embarrassing-tattoo-mistakes-prompt-warning.html

I don't have any tattoos, in general I think they're pretty pointless and a lot of people don't give them enough thought. I'm very glad I didn't have any when I was younger. Maybe I'm old enough now to make a sensible decision.

This, I think is really poignant and comforting.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308420/I-love-good--The-touching-tale-daughter-tattooed-mothers-note-written-hours-died-arm.html

I would like to do that but I 'm a bit scared of putting it in the right place. I can't think of a sensible place where I'd see it and no one else would. I have all my birthday cards from my mum from 1 to 25, when she died. They all say pretty nice things

neverdespairgirl

Doozergirl wrote: »

This, I think is really poignant and comforting.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308420/I-love-good--The-touching-tale-daughter-tattooed-mothers-note-written-hours-died-arm.html

I think it's pretty naff, to be honest! I'm not a fan of tats either, really.

zagubov wrote: »

Ah another Belgian-connected NP!



I can't and therefore never do talk like the young people I teach. I took DS to visit a local school which has a sixth form tonight (and very good it was too I must say). We saw the sixth form common room and he asked what it was for and I said it was somewhere to chillout between lessons. He gave me a withering look and, shaking his head, said "Dad. don't ever use that word again!"

What is "chillout" he objected to?

lostinrates wrote: »

I'd like to find something we know is safe that isn't cold like a glass of water. I usually have a herbal tea but I'm struggling with the ones I have ATM ( will buy a different one next shop).

We've got loads of different ones - shall I post you a selection, see what you like?

michaels

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I think it's pretty naff, to be honest! I'm not a fan of tats either, really.

I'm a big fan of 'tats, a bit like unsuitable piercings they are a very visible indicator of.....

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I wondered more than once whether someone might live out their life there in a Truman Show-like life where they never quite get round to leaving.;)

They manage it on Eastenders

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...fruity non alcoholic cocktails

One thing I've always got in the cupboard is small tins of pineapple chunks in fruit juice. If I can't be bothered to cook, one of those is a meal.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think all this modern way of living, with people moving hundreds of miles away and moving about more is robbing our culture and heritage of these long local memories.

I wish I'd been born in and lived in just one place. I've no sense of place or identity.

Only applies if they lived somewhere suitable in the first place.

PasturesNew wrote: »

They manage it on Eastenders

It is a mystery how the eastenders folks manage to pay the high rents of the area they supposedly live in, yet work 3 shifts a week in a laundrette.