Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Actually is it possible to activate these accounts with cards about to expire?

I'm guessing you'd have what I'm having now...request for details on expiry or thereabouts.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

These temperatures everyone's discussing sound awful - I'm wondering how I'd fare in Oz.

The latitude I was born was north of Moscow and north of Alaska's capital Juneau (well not due North obviously). I consider myself cold-adapted and although I like mediterranean temperatures I'd only want them in short bursts.

1. You get used to it.
2. It's rarely above mid-30s
3. Everywhere has air con

I really noticed #3 in London last (your) summer.

The weather said it was going to be 30C. Ok, thinks I, hot but not that hot. As long as I walk across London and avoid the Tube I'll be laughing.

Stone me! Nowhere has air con. It was horrible. How can you have a pub with no air con in the middle of a city? Crazy idea.

That's the thing in Sydney and indeed most of Australia. You get pretty hot at times but it's easy to cool down again. It's perfectly normal to duck into a shop for a few minutes just to cool down a little. In London everywhere was stifling. The only place that wasn't baking hot was a Pret a Manger I went into.

I understand the reasons. Sydney is a pretty unpleasant place to be in the cold. It doesn't make it any better though! The only time Sydney is unpleasant in the heat is if your air con breaks down on a stinking hot day. Having said that, I did a few days in the tropics without air con and managed just fine. Lots of cool showers was the key there.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

1. You get used to it.
2. It's rarely above mid-30s
3. Everywhere has air con

I really noticed #3 in London last (your) summer.

The weather said it was going to be 30C. Ok, thinks I, hot but not that hot. As long as I walk across London and avoid the Tube I'll be laughing.

Stone me! Nowhere has air con. It was horrible. How can you have a pub with no air con in the middle of a city? Crazy idea.

That's the thing in Sydney and indeed most of Australia. You get pretty hot at times but it's easy to cool down again. It's perfectly normal to duck into a shop for a few minutes just to cool down a little. In London everywhere was stifling. The only place that wasn't baking hot was a Pret a Manger I went into.

I understand the reasons. Sydney is a pretty unpleasant place to be in the cold. It doesn't make it any better though! The only time Sydney is unpleasant in the heat is if your air con breaks down on a stinking hot day. Having said that, I did a few days in the tropics without air con and managed just fine. Lots of cool showers was the key there.

As a student I had a summer job fitting aircon in a department store. Had to crawl through vents which were so narrow you couldn't turn your head from left to right so had to do two trips to get all the rivets done. It 's how I realised I'm not a claustrophobe.:D

In thrillers the aircon ducts that Bruce Willis or Kiefer Sutherland "crawl" through in their movies look like palaces compared with the prefabs that occur in real life.

Mind you other countries take it more seriously and I read decades ago of a student in Aus who lived in the aircon system of her university when she lost her accommodation when her work visa ran out.

lostinrates

Hmm...no going straight to b and a for me this morning......crashing back to bed instead:(. I had a migraine over night and feel ok now, but as if I've been running. Which, when you are as unfit as I am is a bad feeling!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Hmm...no going straight to b and a for me this morning......crashing back to bed instead:(. I had a migraine over night and feel ok now, but as if I've been running. Which, when you are as unfit as I am is a bad feeling!

Hope you feel better soon. Drinks lots of water.

lostinrates

Thanks pastures, I will.


Neurologist thinks I have 'painless' migraines all the time but I don't know on what basis. The eye problems might be migraine rather than classic nerve damage because of the odd pattern of vision loss.

Il used to get crashing migraines as a teen, sometimes lasting over a week, but these dropped a lot to being hormonal with adulthood, and then stopped almost completely, ironically, when my big neurological problems started. I'm hoping the creeping recurrence of migraines might actually be a positive sign, because migraines are horrid but contained.

My mother was on a few drugs trials for migraines. And I'm on drugs which are anti seizure drugs and used for severe migraines too,( this wasn't awful at all) so they must be pretty determined little beggars. .

bugslet

silvercar wrote: »

I'm not grumpy, I look on it as a challenge, finding people a path out of the !!!!.

I can however understand lj saying enough is enough - some people just don't want to be helped.

I'm in the not patient camp. I like to help people, but they get one shot so to speak and then if they don't take the hint or can't be bothered, then I give in and leave them to their own devices.

lostinrates wrote: »

Ah, discovered problem.

They have to plough through three people's land and hadn't asked them first. Road , fair enough, but you'd think they'd clear it with people whose land or gardens they expect to go through.

Now I'm going to go round and explain we didn't realise and show the map we were given which showed only public highway disruption and our garden being blasted and that of course we didn't expect our neighbours ( one of whom we don't know) to just have their garden ploughed through, and if we had realised we would at least have had the grace to make an approach first!!!!

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Ah, tad embarrassing. Just smile a lot and apologise a lot.

lostinrates wrote: »

Today I emailed blood donor service with list of my meds etc to ask if I can finally give blood now I am feeling brighter. . Hoping they'll say yes, obviously.

I love that all of this is doable by email.
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I once gave blood, the service then sent a note to my doc and said I was low in iron; in short he sent me for tests, the first of which involved a barium enema:eek:. I've always been put off going back to give more blood.:o

Hope you feel better soon lir and Single Sue.

silvercar

Furnace Creek was a dry heat. We didn't stay long, one meal in an air conditioned restaurant, an hour or so in the air conditioned museum, a quick photo by the outdoor thermometer and we were out of there. Amusingly, along the highway is a sign for people to switch their car air conditioning off to avoid overheating the engine!

tomterm8

I wish I had painless migraines. I have the very empowered, painful type.

I'd still want to get a second or third opinion though - migraines are the default go to opinion when the doctor doesn't really know what is going on Not that I am sceptical, but you know what you call the Doctor who graduated last in his class? Doctor.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I wish I had painless migraines. I have the very empowered, painful type.

I'd still want to get a second or third opinion though - migraines are the default go to opinion when the doctor doesn't really know what is going on Not that I am sceptical, but you know what you call the Doctor who graduated last in his class? Doctor.

Well. They all say something different Tom term. I have seen plenty of them in the last ten years or so! This is the last neurologist, with whom I don't really get on. Its very difficult relationship and I get very stressed in appointments. I was going to change but I feel significantly better and at this stage I don't really see any benefit in that.

The doctor I have I like best is my gastero enterologist, Of all t
Of them I would say he is the one who listens to what I say I FEEL about my situation. About my experience and what is possible and isn't. He's also the oly one who seems to care about the problems outside his remit and interactions and so on.




We're having another problem with gp ATM and its not me, its resident parent.

Resident parent has always been forgetful but is becoming a liability. Things like leaving taps on overnight, leaving doors open overnight to outside, and a few times now, leaving the cooker on, gates open.

Things like remembering names andbirthdays have always been a problem ( e.g. I'd neve expect them to know my birthday or year of birth, but consider that no change or absent mindedness).

Parent did speak to the GP who said it was 'normal' and not to worry about it. Well, GP doesn't have to live wit it. Parent is aware its becoming an issue. I am finding it increasingly difficult. The freedom this was meant to offer were I well is just not going to exist, because its not safe to leave here much.

Parents sibling has early onset Alzheimer's, and mother had Alzheimer's.......I know its my future too, with an already compromised brain it seems inevitable .

But if the GP won't take it seriously.......

Parent is ok with task in hand.....e,g, fine WHILE cooking/ driving/ washing up.....its when that task is out of mind. Leaving a cooker on three days in a row is a big deal. I'm struggling to remain compassionate tbh, because its costing a fortune in water/ electricity etc and risking accidents ( e.g. Leaving dogs door open at night and back gate open......dogs get on road:mad:)


My concern is that soon parent is not going to be fine and if the doctor won't take it seriously what basis is there going to be to discuss with parent things like stopping driving. Frankly I'm terrified to deal with this, and not equipped.

Parent is I think probably 'on the spectrum' too. Its ok, nothing major, but increasing intransigence and some frustration is probably unsettling for parent as well as for me.