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Goodintentions

((Hugs)) to Jo4 and lots of positive vibes being sent your way x

Jo4

I cannot believe that my Mum has just phoned and she has to be at the hospital tomorrow morning at 8am for a dye test. They may put in a stint when she is there and keep her overnight. Mum wasn't going to tell me but my youngest sister made her. My youngest sister and I are always the two that goes with Mum & Dad every where - holidays, days out, hospital visits, etc. My sister is going to take tomorrow of work to go with Mum and of course Dad will be there too.

Hubby, Mum, Dad & MSE are the only ones I have told about Friday. My Mum hasn't even told all my siblings that she is going into hospital tomorrow.

I hate not being at the hospital for Mum tomorrow but I am on a different diet and I don't know how I am going to get on with it and how my blood sugar will react.

Mum & Dad had been getting rid of things too. We were all enjoying the "Joy" process but now it will have to wait.

Tempted to cancel my own appointment and go with Mum but Mum says we will be glad to see the weekend because we will both have these hospitals visits over with and can celebrate with tea and a cream bun!! I just don't know - it never rains but it pours.

Clutterfree

Oh hugs Jo.
Your family are really going through it.
Your mum is right, do not cancel your appointment because the worry of that will be standing over you for even longer.
Take care xx

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Extra dose of hugs and coping vibes for you Jo

Hope all are as well as can be.

Have a joyful day, I will be about as I just have. Normal work hours today, but lots to get done and still need to shift the boys to school & work.

in_need_of_direction

Jo4, please don't cancel your appointment. Apart from anything else, it will just add to your mum's stresses which wouldn't be good. I know things didn't go well for your aunt but no two circumstances are identical. While I can see how hard this is, you need to focus on best outcomes. Take care of your family but don't be self sacrificing. It's not good for anyone. My best wishes for a good outcome for all.

mrs-moneypenny

I agree with what INOD posted, very wise words, you do have to take are of yourself before you can help others.

Right lads have been shifted. Moan from DS2 Ds1 has a drawer full of headphones but they are all tangled, it would be so much better if they wee like the lounge drawer with toilet roll tubes in so they were all individual and not a snakelike mess. Think that was a back handed way of asking me to do his bros drawers for him.

Going to do an hours cross stitch as I've not done any since Friday and goal was an hour a day if I wanted to stand an chance of getting it finished.

PollyWollyDoodle

Joe4 I think your mum is right, by the weekend hopefully you'll both be celebrating that the appointments are over with.

VJsmum, you made me howl:

VJsmum wrote: »

Mins game day #22

2 juice bottles, too small to be any use

Some years ago there was a string of correspondence in the Times, where people wrote in about clearing elderly relatives' homes after their death (I think that was where it started, anyway). One person wrote in saying that everything in their uncle's home had been neatly packaged, including a bag marked 'pieces of string, too small to be of any possible use'! My sister and I often repeat this phrase when one of us finds we've kept something that turns out to have Died in Storage or to be completely useless for purpose.

No KM for me today, got a day out in town catching up with friends.

mavvymoo

Jo Sending positive vibes for you and your Mum for your appointments what an awful week for you all

Mav x

mrs-moneypenny

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

Some years ago there was a string of correspondence in the Times, where people wrote in about clearing elderly relatives' homes after their death (I think that was where it started, anyway). One person wrote in saying that everything in their uncle's home had been neatly packaged, including a bag marked 'pieces of string, too small to be of any possible use'! My sister and I often repeat this phrase when one of us finds we've kept something that turns out to have Died in Storage or to be completely useless for purpose.

No KM for me today, got a day out in town catching up with friends.

:rotfl::T:rotfl::T
Have a lovely day out today Polly

When I was clearing the drawers out for mil last week we came across a bag of elastic bands that had died in storage, I asked if she needed bands that were no longer elastic and pulled one slightly letting it fall apart, she hesitated, and said you better keep them I must have been saving them for something. I wanted to throw them straight away but we compromised by her agreeing DH could take them to see if he could find a use for them because in her words "he's like his dad and won't waste things for the sake of it." His dad bless him passed away 5 years ago, and is possibly the reason we still have a garage full of stuff that might be useful to someone one day to take to the tip.
The reason it's taking so long and is all still there five years later is my darling husband is most definately his fathers son.;)

GreyQueen

Morning all.

I am grinning at pieces of string, too small to be any possible use.

And wincing. Because I knit, and you get bits of leftover yarn, about a foot or two, and I catch myself thinking (and I have made these hooked rugs several times) that I could collect these bits and then eventually have enough to make another rug. And then I force myself to head towards the bin, whilst the other voice in my head says but you could save them to tie bags up with. Or plants on the allotment.

I have natural fibre twine on the allotment, so it doesn't end up in the soil and cluttering forever. I don't want bits of acrylic yarn up there but it's like I'm fighting with various parts of my mind. When people say they're in two minds about something I catch myself thinking ONLY two? Lightweights! I'm ususally in ten minds about a lot of things! :rotfl:

I blame a thrifty upbringing and Bloo Peeter for a lot of this.

On a more positive note, I finished up the bath product I had decanted into a plastic container, because the glass one it came in made me nervous about dropping it. I have taken said container (formerly a peanut tub) to the allotment to switch out for another one which got damaged, and the damaged one will go in the recycling.

This means that there are only two things in the bathroom which don't fit into the little drawer unit, a shampoo bottle and a bath foam bottle. Actually, that was a Crimble 2014 present, I better get on and use that or there will probably be some more incoming in 3 months.

Can I ask a candid question? Have any of you, with the plastic bag charging date bearing down on us on Oct 5th, been tempted to acquire and hoard extra plastic carrier bags?