Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

In other news, I'd like to be able to time travel and to fire a love ray at fighting forces and paramilitaries (in the current era, if I did it in the past I might change history, not necessarily a good thing, I'd have to time travel responsibly).

I think we could say that everybody born since the second world war was born because of the war. If you went back and killed Hitler none of us would be here

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think we could say that everybody born since the second world war was born because of the war. If you went back and killed Hitler none of us would be here

True. DH certainly wouldn't. His grandmother and grandfather would never have met were it not for her fleeing Germany.

Otoh, the war's ravages on family life had very severe implications for my mothers family ( not straightforward loss).

The question is I suppose, would it matter? It matters to us because we are here now. If we hadn't been here we wouldn't suffer a loss of not being here IYSWIM.

Thing is, had it not been that war would have been any of the others, and if not them, other ones in different histories.

People are not that magnanimous really, and some are downright up for a fight.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

Just had a bit of a shock.

One of my former work colleagues died tragically young a couple of years back. I've just had a reminder from LinkedIn asking to celebrate his work anniversary. I know that after his death his friends tried to get his page taken down but were unsuccessful. It was a bit unsettling really.

In other news, I'd like to be able to time travel and to fire a love ray at fighting forces and paramilitaries (in the current era, if I did it in the past I might change history, not necessarily a good thing, I'd have to time travel responsibly).

I'm with you there.

An old mate of mine died last year and a bunch of messages were sent between his old Uni mates to celebrate his life and disseminate the the news of his death.

The problem was I couldn't stop the reminders from Facebook telling me that I had new messages despite the fact I didn't. When I was going through the process of being diagnosed with cancer I was getting daily messages to remind me that my mate had died aged the same as me.

Ultimately, these websites don't give a flying fox. They just want to make money from your private data. Linkedin isn't doing you any favours by taking your CV and selling it to people.

The burns from the radiotherapy are getting pretty bad now, extending over the entire area from my collar bone to my cheekbone including burning my tonsils and my gums. I really wasn't expecting it to be this bad.

I'm ok about it but I am a bit shocked and really very tired now. I habitually go to bed at 10pm in the week normally and am currently struggling to get up by 7am to get to the hospital in good time. Then I'm sleeping for 3-4 hours during the day on top of that.

The pain is still perfectly manageable with OTC pills (not being macho, it simply is) but I didn't realise I'd get this tired.

PasturesNew

Just achieved another online banking transaction. Logged onto my Sainsbury's account, set up a payment mandate and paid myself £9999. There's no indication of what the maximum might be/is, so I put that as it was the example amount and I didn't want to type in a high figure, then have the account locked and have to wait for a poncy letter ..... and it's not until it happens to you that you know that could happen. So to avoid being surprised by systems I don't even know exist I'm going for the £10k/day approach.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Only, my house would be VERY noisy! and not sure I'd like that much. Its an interesting idea extended though. Could we kill rats whose distress we heard more clearly as the poison sealed through their bodies? Or eat meat? Or enjoy birds skipping across the lawn if we heard their bug prey scream? Or the impact on us as a species could be hardening and murderous, totally opposite to my hope!

I suspect the latter quite honestly. A lot of the relationship between people and animals is anthropomorphic. Wasps think nothing of forcing another beastie to be controlled for its purposes, people only exist because we are full of bacteria doing our work for us. There's even an orchid that looks like the back end of a particular type of bee so bees mate fruitlessly while they get to procreate (kinda).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophrys_apifera

There's a theory that stars live rather as animals do. They live, they die and from their death comes planets or stars or other stuff.

lostinrates

At least you are on the home run for treatment now Generali. And this should be the end of it.

I absolutely understand why fatigue is more of an issue than what sounds like nasty pain.

I wonder if LJ or anyone here with experience knows how long the fatigue is likely to last for you?

Eating still ok? Is hot, or acidic or scratchy food uncomfortable?

Icecream? Jelly? Pasta?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Icecream? Jelly? Pasta?

And lying on the sofa with a big bag of frozen peas on his face for comfort

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

At least you are on the home run for treatment now Generali. And this should be the end of it.

I absolutely understand why fatigue is more of an issue than what sounds like nasty pain.

I wonder if LJ or anyone here with experience knows how long the fatigue is likely to last for you?

Eating still ok? Is hot, or acidic or scratchy food uncomfortable?

Icecream? Jelly? Pasta?

Eating is absolutely fine and no food offers relief or extra pain. Toast and roast spuds are just as easy to eat as ice cream and chocolate pudding.

I'm really very tired and the constant, if low level, pain is doing my head in.

It may not sound like it but I am positive about all this. The treatment will end and the pain will go and the disease won't come back. I'm certain of all those things.

I'm a lively person. Until Xmas I cycled 40kms a day. I've swum 5 miles and cycled 200 miles in a week repeatedly. I'm normally the last adult at a kids' party who is still running after the kids. This treatment is taking away my definition of who I am. I define myself as an active and fidgety person (positively and negatively).

Aaaargh!!!!!

Staying positive but retaining the right to be grumpy.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Eating is absolutely fine and no food offers relief or extra pain. Toast and roast spuds are just as easy to eat as ice cream and chocolate pudding.

I'm really very tired and the constant, if low level, pain is doing my head in.

It may not sound like it but I am positive about all this. The treatment will end and the pain will go and the disease won't come back. I'm certain of all those things.

I'm a lively person. Until Xmas I cycled 40kms a day. I've swum 5 miles and cycled 200 miles in a week repeatedly. I'm normally the last adult at a kids' party who is still running after the kids. This treatment is taking away my definition of who I am. I define myself as an active and fidgety person (positively and negatively).

Aaaargh!!!!!

Staying positive but retaining the right to be grumpy.

I understand, so well. More well than I want to if I'm honest.

I think you must know how I feel too. I'm not me anymore.

Lots of love generali, you'll be back to yourself soon

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

And lying on the sofa with a big bag of frozen peas on his face for comfort

I was thinking I might go to the bottle shop tomorrow and sit in the 20m^2 fridge until the area stops generating heat. I could load up the football highlights onto my phone and sit there for an hour watching the Budweiser FIFA Visa World McCup.

I wonder if my local bottlo would object to me taking a sofa in? I do a reasonable amount of business with them.