Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Generali

I'm going to do the rest of part 2 tomorrow morning. I have a terrible feeling that I'm going to have a lot of time on my hands to do the rest of the course.

We've getting the house clean today in case I have chemo.

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

A cheeky request. No obligation, but if anyone is considering giving to Sport Relief this evening, would you think about sponsoring DD, doozergirl junior (8 years)? She's going to run the mile in our hometown on Sunday morning. She just had her first sponsor and nearly burst into tears with joy.

She is asking for £1 and has a justgiving page set up so the money goes direct to them, not me!!

I'm going to post it up for this evening, will remove it later.

xxxx

Quick question (for my future reference), do you see my name or just silvercar?

tomterm8

Generali... wrt the chemo there are dozens (hundreds of combos) of different chemo drugs, they range from only slight effects to remarkably evil... so the best answer is to ask your consultant...

A friend of mine called the place you're visiting the department of radioactive spiders.

neverdespairgirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I did think about it long and hard. 5 year fixes were around 3.5% whereas 2 years at 2%. Although as you say pressure is starting to build for rates to increase but at the same time forward projections for growth are under 3% for the next couple of years, eurozone growth much lower and the uk economy still looks fairly weak outside London. So in the end I thought I will probably be able to fix for at least another 2 years at under 4% so it will probably be cheaper this way.

I think that those rates show that the market is already pricing in a rise before 5 years is up - when we fixed last June or July, the difference between 2 years and 5 years was much less, about 0.7% from memory.

LydiaJ wrote: »

Done

Hope she's enjoying watching her sponsorship page fill up.

Me too - and give Doozergirl our love and best wishes for tomorrow.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

silvercar wrote: »

Quick question (for my future reference), do you see my name or just silvercar?

They see names of donors, but public page only sees what you entered (or anonymous) as per your input to that box.

I'd obviously have no problem trusting Doozergirl with anonymity given longstanding record with the forum, but probably worth remembering for any future appeals.

silvercar

Generali wrote: »

I gave up caffeine at Christmas and my anxiety just evaporated. It was amazing. I didn't even drink much tea & coffee, just a couple of cups a day. As someone who used to live with anxiety I would very strongly urge you to quit caffeine. Very very strongly.

Quitting caffeine is strange. I had 2-3 days of a horribly upset stomach and crazy insomnia. I now sleep better and I can feel the times when I would have had anxiety before: I can feel all the triggers going into place but I don't actually get anxious. That's a bit mad in itself.

Whenever I try to give up caffeine i get a blinding headache. I ration myself to one coffee a day, if I don't get it in before noon I can feel a headache starting to appear.

Generali wrote: »

I'm going to do the rest of part 2 tomorrow morning. I have a terrible feeling that I'm going to have a lot of time on my hands to do the rest of the course.

We've getting the house clean today in case I have chemo.

I'm sure your house is clean. It is bugs from others you need to avoid, particularly about a week after the chemo when your resistance is lowest.

Jumping the gun here, Leon could be well contained.

silvercar

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

They see names of donors, but public page only sees what you entered (or anonymous) as per your input to that box.

I'd obviously have no problem trusting Doozergirl with anonymity given longstanding record with the forum, but probably worth remembering for any future appeals.

Thank you. Exactly the information I wanted.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Doozergirl wrote: »

Her face earlier was one I don't see very often. It was a face that comes before tears, but wonderment, like when Santa does something to prove himself.

SantaFace.

Best....Thing......Ever.

neverdespairgirl

tomterm8 wrote: »

Generali... wrt the chemo there are dozens (hundreds of combos) of different chemo drugs, they range from only slight effects to remarkably evil... so the best answer is to ask your consultant...

A friend of mine called the place you're visiting the department of radioactive spiders.

My mother reckons chemo was very similar to pregnancy - same list of foods to avoid (things like unpasturised cheese) same get-out-of-jail-free card for litter boxes and dog poo, and feeling tired and sick at times.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Jumping the gun here, Leon could be well contained.

Dr Morgan, my specialist, said that the best case scenario is PET scan shows no other tumours and then Leon gets hacked out on Tuesday and that's that.

The most likely outcome is that I'll have to have some chemo either to kill other tumours or as a prophylactic.

When Leon was still a cyst the ultra scan showed up other small lumps in the same area so unfortunately I think chemo is very much on the cards.

We'll see though. This is all just speculation. Nothing can possibly go wrong from here I think it's fair to say.