Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

ukmaggie45

Masomnia wrote: »

Things are a bit mixed here. Had quite bad chest pains last night. I've had similar twinges before but last night I had pains in my left arm, felt breathless. Probably should have called an ambulance. I'm here to tell the tale anyway, the pain faded and I went to bed. If it happens again I think I'll go to A&E. I booked an appointment at the doctor's but that's not till the 15th :eek: I might not make it till then! There's a walk-in centre in town which I might go to.

Masomnia, that sounds horrid and scary.

I had chest pains (ages ago now) and tried to get to see GP but they said go straight to A&E. OH was still working then, so didn't manage till evening. Felt it was too over the top to call ambulance! <roll eyes smiley>

I was seen very fast, but basically nothing wrong... But at time was under a load of stress around trying to sort out parental estates with a useless solicitor who parents named (along with OH thank goodness!) as executor for both their stuff. So for me it was down to stress I think. But pain down arm sounds worrying.

Please just call an ambulance if you get the same again! You are a young man, you shouldn't be getting pain like this. I'm a 66 year old woman, so prob take it more seriously (especially given my high bad cholesterol etc), but I hope you will take it more seriously too.

Lecture over!

But please look after yourself!

Hugs from Liverpool.

Yorkie1

Masomnia wrote: »

Thanks everyone. I'm going to go to the walk-in centre tomorrow. First sign of any symptoms tonight I'll ring for an ambulance.

In the mean time I've stocked up on aspirin

Hope it goes well tomorrow and that you have a peaceful night.

Spirit wrote: »

I have a cashmere wrap
In with as it is an old favourite. My neighbour has sewn Velcro only on my dressing gowns. I want to wear my normalclothes. Out of work tops,gilets , jeans and clogs. Jeans are the problem along with bra's cannot do bra's one handed even sports bra's are tricky

I do expect to do well and get back most functionality it will just take time and a lot of practice. I am learning to be patient.

Lovely to hear from you x

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Neighbour with adjoining land hstrip, where there's a lot of squeaks/movement, where they duck under my fence from, had no idea that part of land was on the deeds to that house as they rent and it's outside the fenced garden area.... she's getting her dad round to strip it back entirely, rip it all up - and cut back the big hedge to the boundary. Trouble is, that'll get them on the move. Mrs Furry, when I spoke to her on the phone, said it should be baited first .... but I am not in control of what arrangements neighbour's already set in place with her dad. It's out of my hands.... this is what happens when the 'authorities' don't take a proactive approach to a report from day 1.

Once that's cleared, that'll remove their cover for getting to mine.... but shed provides them with cover. So, it could go either way ....

Can you get something like fly paper, except for rats? Maybe Velcro based? Just a thought.

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

You ladies seem a bit overly scared of rodents. On the other hand, I bet you can deal really well with spiders, even though spiders are actually far, far scarier than rats.

Spiders are certainly scarier over here!

The Generalissimos have spent the week with Grandparents & cousins which is fine. The girl and girl cousin found a red bellied black snake, a pretty nastily venomous snake albeit pretty shy. What did they decide to do? Try to make it a pet by going up to stroke it < face palm>.

If you touch one then it will try to run away unless it feels trapped. It might feel trapped
If 2 young girls approached it and tried to stroke it.

Idiots.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Spiders are certainly scarier over here!

The Generalissimos have spent the week with Grandparents & cousins which is fine. The girl and girl cousin found a red bellied black snake, a pretty nastily venomous snake albeit pretty shy. What did they decide to do? Try to make it a pet by going up to stroke it < face palm>.

If you touch one then it will try to run away unless it feels trapped. It might feel trapped
If 2 young girls approached it and tried to stroke it.

Idiots.

Is girl cousin Aussie born and bred? If so she should know better, even if generalissima doesn't. The first thing I learned in Aussie school, before reading and writing, was how the flora and fauna set out to kill you. This was then reinforced, e.g. through school treks and Brownie badges. I can't believe this has all been dropped in the loooong intervening period. I can see that daughter may have missed a lot of this, but not niece.

I never saw any snakes in Australia except in the zoo. For many years as a kid I would have sworn blind that I heard a rattler in the Dandenongs, but as they aren't native it must have been something else... like crickets.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

Is girl cousin Aussie born and bred? If so she should know better, even if generalissima doesn't. The first thing I learned in Aussie school, before reading and writing, was how the flora and fauna set out to kill you. This was then reinforced, e.g. through school treks and Brownie badges. I can't believe this has all been dropped in the loooong intervening period. I can see that daughter may have missed a lot of this, but not niece.

I never saw any snakes in Australia except in the zoo. For many years as a kid I would have sworn blind that I heard a rattler in the Dandenongs, but as they aren't native it must have been something else... like crickets.

Girl cousin is Aussie born and bred but then The Girl has been here since she was 18 months so both were being dumb.

If it had been a brown snake or a taipan then one of them would be in the hospital right now. As it was, the snake reared up at them (I think it's called displaying ) and it takes a fair amount to get it to do that.

zagubov

Playing catch-up here.

:bdaycake: for james and lj!

Spirit wrote: »

I have a cashmere wrap
In with as it is an old favourite. My neighbour has sewn Velcro only on my dressing gowns. I want to wear my normalclothes. Out of work tops,gilets , jeans and clogs. Jeans are the problem along with bra's cannot do bra's one handed even sports bra's are tricky

I do expect to do well and get back most functionality it will just take time and a lot of practice. I am learning to be patient.

Good to see you posting.:j

Masomnia wrote: »

Thanks everyone. I'm going to go to the walk-in centre tomorrow. First sign of any symptoms tonight I'll ring for an ambulance.

Agree with the others! Do get this checked!

CKhalvashi

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I had chest pains (ages ago now) and tried to get to see GP but they said go straight to A&E. OH was still working then, so didn't manage till evening. Felt it was too over the top to call ambulance! <roll eyes smiley>

I ended up in hospital about 5 years ago with chest pains at work, and was lucky enough for someone in the office to drive me there (this was when we were in the old office)

Nothing serious, but better to be safe than sorry. I'm asthmatic, which I don't think helps matters either.

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

Spiders are certainly scarier over here!

The Generalissimos have spent the week with Grandparents & cousins which is fine. The girl and girl cousin found a red bellied black snake, a pretty nastily venomous snake albeit pretty shy. What did they decide to do? Try to make it a pet by going up to stroke it < face palm>.

Have you and Mrs Gen had a wild kid-free out every night week?

GDB2222 wrote: »

You ladies seem a bit overly scared of rodents. On the other hand, I bet you can deal really well with spiders, even though spiders are actually far, far scarier than rats.

Spiders aren't at all scary. Rats - they scurry.

Masomnia

Forgot to mention, in good news, the German whom I mentioned finally messaged me back and said she wanted to go out. I kind of feel like the moment has passed, but I would be an idiot not to take her up on it