Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Generali

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Ain't that the truth. I had basically never really had anything wrong with me until I was 30. Since then I've fainted three times, been to a&e twice, had two leg operations, been for physio more times than I can remember and spent most of the rest of the time nursing a nasty achilles tendon problem.

All health care for over 40s is essentially palliative.

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

I wonder what my height was at 2?

There are approx 7-8 inches difference in height between me and my brother. I was just about taller than my mum (though she claimed to be taller than me) - I'm sure she's shrinking though

My dad isn't particularly tall either, no idea where my brother gets his height from.

There's loads of genes for height and in humans tallness tends to be recessive, so it's common for tallness to skip generations and for people to be taller than their parents.

Just been to see Monty Python at the cinema. Quite an experience! Some of them are getting a bit forgetful though.

Spirit_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

After the second time, the doctor sent me for various tests which concluded that I was a bit pasty and needed to go out in the sun more, but that wasn't what was causing me to faint. She said that it happens to some people and I just need to learn to recognise the signs and manage it as best I can. The best way is to not stand up quickly!

My husband has this too. The main issue is if he gets out of bed quickly. He has a very slow heart rate. After one faint and a trip to A&E I was somewhat horrified to see him being taken into resusc:eek:

They were very surprised he was not in some serious heart failure, it was just below normal for him.

ukmaggie45

chewmylegoff wrote: »

After the second time, the doctor sent me for various tests which concluded that I was a bit pasty and needed to go out in the sun more, but that wasn't what was causing me to faint. She said that it happens to some people and I just need to learn to recognise the signs and manage it as best I can. The best way is to not stand up quickly!

Have a look at this about POTS. Hopefully totally irrelevant, but something anyone who faints should at least be aware about? Usual thingy - I am not a doctor, I know nothing. Other than as a patient. I don't have POTS but have friend who does, from what I hear it's not a barrel of fun.

I really hope that this post is totally irrelevant to you Chewy!

Hugs from Liverpool. It's no fun feeling faint or fainting.

CKhalvashi

GDB2222 wrote: »

Hey! I managed to post the image! It's been commented on quite a bit on the www, so I wasn't the only one struck by it.

Is that supposed to be Rossiya, or MH?

The liveries are similar.....

SingleSue

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Have a look at this about POTS. Hopefully totally irrelevant, but something anyone who faints should at least be aware about? Usual thingy - I am not a doctor, I know nothing. Other than as a patient. I don't have POTS but have friend who does, from what I hear it's not a barrel of fun.

I really hope that this post is totally irrelevant to you Chewy!

Hugs from Liverpool. It's no fun feeling faint or fainting.

James has this.....

neverdespairgirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

5'7"

My dad is 5'8" and my mum was 5'7". One of my brothers is 5'8" and the other two are taller but still less than 6'.

SO all 6 of you were, in adulthood, very close in height, it sounds like.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Ain't that the truth. I had basically never really had anything wrong with me until I was 30. Since then I've fainted three times, been to a&e twice, had two leg operations, been for physio more times than I can remember and spent most of the rest of the time nursing a nasty achilles tendon problem.

Ouch - hope you heal and recover quickly. Apart from re-damaging it this weekend, is the knee mending?

Generali wrote: »

All health care for over 40s is essentially palliative.

I'm not sure it is. My mother was cured of the non-hodgkins lymphoma, it wasn't just managed.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

Street party is an annual event and very competitive (in the friendliest possible way) with the surrounding streets....

I thought it was something about average parents height and add 2 inches for a boy and subtract 2 for a girl?

Can't be, really - otherwise there wouldn't be 3.5 inches height difference between sister #1 and sister #2. My OH is 4 inches taller than his brother, and my brother 3 inches taller than our Dad.

My mother's taller than all 3 of her daughters, too.

lostinrates wrote: »

Fir is a giant in his family. Hugely taller than his parents. Taller be some way than his brother. My sibling and I ( one parent in common) are the same height.

And your parents? Are they taller than you, LIR?

There's a fantastic photo of my mother, aged 5 or 6, with her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Of the 4 generations, my Granny stands towering above the rest - which is impressive, until you remember that she was 5 ft 3, so the rest are midgets!

My uncle's only half an inch taller than my mother, she got all the height genes going, really, given the gender difference.

LydiaJ wrote: »

Your mother is, as we have already learnt from so much of what you say about her, amazing. I am not remotely surprised that she was equally wonderful about baby weight gain.

My mother was also fantastic with babies, although actually I did my own "breastfeeding despite the HV" journey on the basis of a book lent to me by a friend, rather than my mum's advice. She was a midwife in the 1950s, before BF went out of fashion, so was very much pro, but belonged to the "feed by the clock" generation, whereas I fed my babies whenever they were hungry/sad/scared/making more noise than I wanted them to.

She's great. Shame she's not got more grandchildren to be a fantastic Granny with, really!

When Kermie had his infected-head appointment, I asked the paediatrician if being a doctor meant she was calmer with her own children, or just thought of all the nasty things that could actually be wrong. She said both, it varied. Perhaps being a midwife was similar?

With 4 children, how many grandchildren did you parents end up with?

Generali

Doctor/parents I have known have tended towards the neurotic. I put it down to the fact that they know what can go wrong. Combine that with the human inability to judge risk and you have a combination that will tend towards being over protective.

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Can't be, really - otherwise there wouldn't be 3.5 inches height difference between sister #1 and sister #2. My OH is 4 inches taller than his brother, and my brother 3 inches taller than our Dad.

My mother's taller than all 3 of her daughters, too.



And your parents? Are they taller than you, LIR?

There's a fantastic photo of my mother, aged 5 or 6, with her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Of the 4 generations, my Granny stands towering above the rest - which is impressive, until you remember that she was 5 ft 3, so the rest are midgets!

My uncle's only half an inch taller than my mother, she got all the height genes going, really, given the gender difference.



She's great. Shame she's not got more grandchildren to be a fantastic Granny with, really!

When Kermie had his infected-head appointment, I asked the paediatrician if being a doctor meant she was calmer with her own children, or just thought of all the nasty things that could actually be wrong. She said both, it varied. Perhaps being a midwife was similar?

With 4 children, how many grandchildren did you parents end up with?

There used be a saying that the cobbler's children were the worst-shod. Reading back that doesn't exactly sound ultra-modern but it's probably still got some weight.:o

As regards height, there was a radio show recently discussing a New Zealand economist captured by the Japanese. He noticed the deaths in the camp followed a height graph and because he was one of the shortest in the camp he thought he had a good chance of making it, and make it he did.

Had a weird thought today after taking the dog for his walk and a thunderstorm interrupting it. The dog was totally wound up by it, and I was wondering for the 493rd time why an animal would be so upset by a routine environmental disturbance. Then remembered that lightning and thunder were less common where I grew up compared to where I live now and increase massively the closer you get to the equator. How common would it have been in the areas of the Arctic where huskies (modern dogs ancestors) come from?:think: