Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Aww.... so much pressure to "think positive" which is more deflating if you're not feeling that way. It must be tough, "so far from home" too. Everything's different, along with the natural worries/fears and everything.

We're rooting for you!

Exactly. Gen, you've had so much uncertainty and fluctuating diagnoses up to this point. Its been a rollercoaster reading it, let alone living it.

You've dealt with all that as well as anyone could hope to. I have every confidence you'll do the same with this. Doesn't mean you can't be !!!! scared though. I'm sure I would be.

As PN said, we're all rooting for you.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Aww.... so much pressure to "think positive" which is more deflating if you're not feeling that way. It must be tough, "so far from home" too. Everything's different, along with the natural worries/fears and everything.

We're rooting for you!

You have it spot on in many different ways. I'm naturally a positive person and people get very off with me if I'm not. Positivism doesn't beat cancer, it enables you to put up with the treatment that lets you beat cancer.

If I was in London right now I'd call one of a dozen people and have a beer and some chocolate based pudding. I don't have anyone I can call at 9pm on a Sunday here.

The scary bit really is the unknown. Once I know what's going on I'm basically ok.

Thanks for your thoughts PN.:)

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

You have it spot on in many different ways. I'm naturally a positive person and people get very off with me if I'm not. Positivism doesn't beat cancer, it enables you to put up with the treatment that lets you beat cancer.

If I was in London right now I'd call one of a dozen people and have a beer and some chocolate based pudding. I don't have anyone I can call at 9pm on a Sunday here.

The scary bit really is the unknown. Once I know what's going on I'm basically ok.

Thanks for your thoughts PN.:)

On the money.

Unknowns are horrid.

Realistically health feels closer to the bone but everything is pretty much the same. Politics, world events, climatic impacts. Etcetc.

Have some pudding.

Funnily enough I have been craving a deeply chocolatey fudgely stick to my teeth pudding too. Not going to make one because I have doubts if would live up to my expectations of what it could do for me but ....when I think about it I make a funny face of want.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Today has been mostly spent in the car.....me and loverr took my parents to East Sussex for their holiday as dad can no longer drive and mum doesn't like driving on the motorway.

150 miles there, drop parents off and unload the car, have a quick cup of tea and then leave within 30 minutes of arriving and 150 miles back.

I'm blooming shattered!

Sounds exhausting. Well done for surviving it. How long did it take? Did you have the boys as well?

Generali wrote: »

If I was in London right now I'd call one of a dozen people and have a beer and some chocolate based pudding. I don't have anyone I can call at 9pm on a Sunday here.

The scary bit really is the unknown. Once I know what's going on I'm basically ok.

Would love to join you for a drink and a chocolate based pudding. Why hasn't anybody invented the Star Trek transporter yet?

I hate unknowns too. Sending hugs. :grouphug:

Generali

Tahlullah wrote: »

Thought it had been reported in the paper that some scientists had moved some atom from one spot to another. And another lot of scientists had invented the start of the tractor beam. A lot going on towards the reality of Star Trek at the moment.

I think it might have been an electron rather than an atom and it was moved by a metre.

IIRC, an electron exists both in a single time and place and also every time and place that there ever has and ever will be. That what would make a quantum computer massively powerful: you could effectively use evey quantum computer in the universe that would ever be made once you made one.

PasturesNew

I heard a man on the telly say "we moved data from one place to another a few feet away" - and I thought "isn't that wifi?"

GDB2222

Just going to pick DW up from hospital. She saw the GP on Friday, who advised an immediate visit to A&E. To be frank, I don't really feel that grand, myself, but I'd better go.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Just going to pick DW up from hospital. She saw the GP on Friday, who advised an immediate visit to A&E. To be frank, I don't really feel that grand, myself, but I'd better go.

Is this " the meal"?

zagubov

Tahlullah wrote: »

Thought it had been reported in the paper that some scientists had moved some atom from one spot to another. And another lot of scientists had invented the start of the tractor beam. A lot going on towards the reality of Star Trek at the moment.

I can remember when I was a kid and the first trailer came on for Star Trek announcing it was going to be starting in a fortnight.

Jumped for joy, I did. I followed in in a weekly comic strip at that point and I had no idea the series would ever come to the UK. I was a scifi buff in a television era that was saturated with cowboys and western series.

Thought the transporter was the coolest thing ever. However after seeing the original movie The Fly, I'l not be the first volunteer to try it, thank you very much.:D

These discoveries of teleportation only seem to involve things so tiny we can barely see them when they're in one place, let alone when they move.

If they had this technology for real does that mean you could send someone some food and make it arrive again and again? Hmmmmm :think:

vivatifosi

Gen, I don't know where the road is going to take you, but I hope that the first step on Tuesday is a good one.