Just needed to be heard for a little while

Waves_and_Smiles

Good morning all! You know what's nice? Stollen for breakfast, that's what. *munch*

Hope all the frustrations improve over the day and our poorlies are feeling a bit better.

Wish me luck, physio for the first time since flu in 10 minutes. This is going to hurt...

Pyxis

Good Luck WaS! Bend a leg! :rotfl:

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahahaha! I bent two! It wasn't too bad other than we couldn't do the ones where I need to lie flat because everytime I did I coughed a lung up. You probably know how that feels, Pyxis! Waiting for my codeine to work now.

BIL rang up muttering about inheritances and what had we said to Milliefleur? WaSp told him we told her to spend every last penny on herself and forget about everyone else. BIL tried to cover up his own wishes and said but my daughter could do with the money (he hasn't even seen her for years) when we knew what he meant was he could do with it. WaSp is calling Milliefleur later to try to push her again to go for the cruise. I have offered to shop online for her to buy her some new outfits for it.

Also, my teacher friend found a photo of himself back when I first knew him, 33 years ago. He sent it to me and oddly it has upset me a little but I am not sure why. I remember him as he looked back then so clearly, more so in some ways than how he looks today. For a second it was like being back in time. He was headteacher of two schools that were amalgamating at the time and was putting in 70 hour weeks but he always found time every day for me.

He took over a father role when my dad died beyond his position, even picking me up and dropping me off at school with a hug everyday, taking me out for the day with his son and wife and then taking me back to his house to have dinner with his family. He stepped in to be the parent that I was lacking. I have some very happy and safe memories from then but there is also the reason why he needed to do that for me lurking in the background. He was involved in every case conference they had about me and was told by my psychiatric team to keep up the daily contact because it was the only realistic family life that I had ever known. He did so for 5 years until I was 18. In a way I miss those days as one would miss a childhood with a loving parent, in other ways it reminds me of how bad things were back then.

It wouldn't be permitted these days and I do understand why. A male Headteacher hugging a teenager pupil and taking her home with him wouldn't even be considered but a little part of me thinks that is sad, it was the fact that he made me part of a family that helped hold me together. I remember calling him at 3am in the morning once crying my eyes out and he came and got me and we sat chatting at his house all night. I still call him dad sometimes now, he was a very good second father and I wouldn't have made it without him. He has supported me for 33 years, tells me he loves me every day, and says that I have always been the daughter he should have had. I am very lucky to have him in my life and I love him very much.

tea_lover

Pyxis wrote: »

For travel vaccines, do you mean? How annoying for you quite apart from the fact that the travellers need the vaccines! Did you talk to the nurses about it ?

I work in Occ Health for a huge multi-national engineering company. Each site the engineers go to overseas have different requirements (eg. drug & alcohol tests, lung function tests, audio tests, etc). We also have UK statutory medical requirements as they work with radiation.

Travel is always last minute and there's always loads of people that haven't had all the tests they need. That's annoying but par for the course.

What's annoying me most today is how flaming awkward the nurses are being. One is refusing to do D&A tests for some reason, one is saying she has meetings on a day when I know she hasn't.

In between all of this I'm trying to sort out funeral stuff with my parents.

Stressful day! :mad:

Waves_and_Smiles

Ugh, how annoying tea! Deep breath and chocolate! Or wine later?

Pyxis

WaS, I'm so glad you have those good memories, but sad for the reason why you had to have them.:A
Don't talk to me about coughing! Am still coughing, though am not contagious any more. And wheezing. So am still in bed. Tried to get up yesterday, but it wasn't a good idea!
I'm now thinking in terms of next Monday to rejoin the world!



Tealover, I can see why you're so annoyed! Do you have the 'power' to say they jolly well have to do it?

Waves_and_Smiles

I am with you on the wheezing, Pyxis! I wondered what the odd squeaking noise was yesterday and it's me!

Monday sounds like a good day to rejoin the world, are you still inhaling the rosemary oil? Have you got any vapour rub? I read that you can put it on babies feet and then put thick socks on them to help them breathe. Guess what I have all over my feet? It's worth a try...

Pyxis

Yes, still using the rosemary oil. It may be coincidence, but I seemed to stop being contagious when I started using it. Sometimes it enables me to breathe more easily, and other times less so, but am still using it!

I think my feet are too far away from my nose for the Vic idea to help! But I could put some drops of oil into cream and rub it on my chest and throat.

I'm still in bed 'cos my body's telling me to. I know I'm better when I get bored with lying around, bored with TV etc. and wanting to be out. A bit of me wants to, as I've got loads of sorting out to do, and stuff to learn for AmDram, but a bigger part of me doesn't feel up to it yet.
Yesterday, I watched the three Mapp and Lucia episodes that I'd recorded from New Year. I'd never read the books, so had no preconceptions! They were fantastic programmes! So gentle, so funny and so perceptive of human nature. And lots of lovely old buildings and cobbled streets to coo over. Have you read the books, WaS? I don't think that there are any triggers in the programmes, so you could safely watch them. I expect there will be repeats. If not, I'm sure there'll be DVDs.
They are set in the 20s and 30s, and were filmed in Rye.

I love Rye. First went there in the 60s on a school trip. Then again in the 70s, and again in the 90s. The house where Lucia was living, Lamb House, we actually visited during the school trip, and I also went up the church tower. It's a fabulous town! Would love to go there again! So much history, too! I hope they make more Mapp and Lucia programmes! The acting was first class. Miranda Richardson, as Mapp, demonstrated perfectly the face that fits the expression 'she looked like she was chewing a wasp'!

Au reservoir!

(That's the catchphrase from the prog, not a typo!)

System

Hello :wave:

Thoughts aren't racing today so much, though may have gone out and bought new bedding. And a giant canvas of an iron man comic.

Going to my best friend's later not seen them in a while so will be nice to have a catch up and should occupy my mind. They asked me for ideas for baby names as they are struggling to come up with any (probably due to my friend's surname put it this way not many things go with it). They came into my work the other day and my friend actually has a baby bump now. 3 more months and i get to meet my honorary nephew (cos i'm his honorary aunty apparently!). Must not get broody...must not get broody.

iammumtoone

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

That's worth a try! She has been saying she wanted to go on a cruise for 20 years, this is just perfect for her! She is so sweet to worry about what she can leave to others but we for a start, don't care! Spend our bit of the inheritance on the cruise! She is becoming more frail so if she doesn't do it this year I don't think she will be able to, we have to manage to persuade her.

I am tempted to buy a bathrobe for myself now...

WaS can you tell her that if she leaves you the cruise money you will have too much money then to claim benefits as this amount of cruise money puts the amount over the limit. (I dont think this is the case with yourselves but she wont know that ). so it is much better for her to spend it as giving it to you will cause you problems with the benefits department (like I said I am sure it wouldn't but she doesn't have to know that)