The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

monnagran

Fuddle: I hope you are feeling better now that you know what the problem has been all along. There is nothing worse than struggling with unexplained symptoms where you keep trying different things and nothing quite works.
I was interested in how an inflammation in one part of the body can manifest itself in some other form in some other place completely. It makes diagnosis almost impossible I should think. Truly the workings of the human body is a divine mystery.

Last week I had a heart to heart with my DIL and she confessed that the thing that she found hardest to cope with was getting back from work and having to cook a meal. I don't eat in the evening and make sure that DGD has eaten by 5.00pm so usually just leave them to their own devices after that. DS is willing but his repertoire is limited to say the least and he is also pretty exhausted. I hesitantly suggested that I could cook for them on the days that DIL works. She nearly bit my hand off.
It has given me a new lease of life. I am now busy making a meal plan, going through the freezer to see what can be used up and feeling much more like me.

She is very experimental and a good cook so I am concentrating on old fashioned, tried and tested family meals. Such fun!

Today I am clearing up DGD s bedroom in the hope of being able to open the wardrobe door and putting some of my winter clothes away. Then I will get the iron out and start restoring order to the small mountain of summer clothes occupying the middle of my bedroom floor. Don't pity me, I quite enjoy ironing.

Then it will be producing chicken cobbler for tonight which they will have with veg and sauteed potatoes. Happy sigh.

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nursemaggie

It is not inflammation so much as they are a collection of Autoimmune diseases. In other words the body is treating a part of itself and an alien and attaching it. We do not know why but they do seem to be connected in some way.

e.g. My family have eczema. Neither my brother nor I got eczema though I do have a very sensitive skin, my brother had asthma as a child. Two of my three children have eczema, the one who does not have it has a son with asthma.

From the discussions going on here I am wondering if IBS is another of these autoimmune diseases. I have never been able to reconcile my IBS with the idea that it is stress related. In other words when I am stressed, it is silent. Stress does seem to make all of the autoimmune diseases worse if you are already having problems at the time.

Btw the digestive tract, skin and breathing are all affected by stress anyway.

nursemaggie

Sorry softstuff I forgot this bit. Of course your exhausted you have had to switch day and night twice in a month. Take it easy for a bit.

boultdj

Fuddle, I'm another one endorsing the pre-pay form for the scrips, as an asthmatic and assorted other things wrong with me, it's saved me a small fortune over the last 2 years.

Nargleblast

Nursemaggie I believe all the bowel problems (IBS, IBD, Crohns and colitis) have an autoimmune element to them, and stress as you know causes the release of chemicals into the bloodstream. Some think that diabetes, type 1 specifically, could be caused by some infection triggering an autoimmune response knocking out the pancreas's ability to produce insulin. Just gives to show what a marvellous piece of engineering the human body is, and how important it is for everything to be kept in balance.

I am currently doing a Futurelearn course about Food as Medicine, and there's a bit in there about the Low FODMAP diet which has caught my imagination, must look into it.

Knit_Witch

Nargleblast wrote: »

Nursemaggie I believe all the bowel problems (IBS, IBD, Crohns and colitis) have an autoimmune element to them, and stress as you know causes the release of chemicals into the bloodstream. Some think that diabetes, type 1 specifically, could be caused by some infection triggering an autoimmune response knocking out the pancreas's ability to produce insulin. Just gives to show what a marvellous piece of engineering the human body is, and how important it is for everything to be kept in balance.

I am currently doing a Futurelearn course about Food as Medicine, and there's a bit in there about the Low FODMAP diet which has caught my imagination, must look into it.

OOoh I am doing that Future Learn course as well!

monnagran

Glug, glug, glug..

I've just heard on the BBC news that this island has had 18mls of rain in the last hour. A glance out of the window makes me think that is a conservative estimation. Is this the end of summer? I think I'll go back to bed.

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silvasava

It'll be gone soon Monna - it will drift over to me & Mrs L!!! Lovely to hear about your heart to heart with DiL. I'd have bitten someone's hand off too if I could have come home to a meal after work. How's your sewing circle going?
Took my boat out for her first trip of the year on Sunday with DH and DS1 . DH took her off the mooring & put her on the pontoon so we could get all the seagull poo washed off the sail cover and sprayhood but I took her off the pontoon, helmed out into the Solent and had a play sailing up and down for a while then we came back and I put her on her mooring. Gradually getting more confidence but I still have so much to learn.

monnagran

It sounds idyllic Silvasava, but rather you than me. I can just about cope with a ferry - large boat, engine, coffee and loos provided. I watch the fishing boats and yachts around here with breathless admiration for the intrepid folk who are willing to risk life and limb on the ocean with nothing between them and several fat homes of water but a flimsy bit of wood (that would be f a t h o m s then (Just get the nautical terms here!)
I am uncomfortable with water unless I can put my foot on the ground. And that's in the swimming pool.

Softstuff: I hope that you are beginning to get your body clock sorted out. You missed the few days of a glorious English spring. Such a shame, the flowers, fresh green leaves and gentle sunshine are such a tonic after a long grey winter. Although you, of course, have not suffered winter, long and grey must be a foreign language to you.
We are about to embark on what is laughingly referred to as 'summer'. Hopefully it won't also be long and grey but I'm willing to bet that at least part of it will be damp and dismal.

Having plunged everyone into deep gloom I will go and finish the ironing that I only managed to touch the tip of the mountain of yesterday.

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We had some rain this morning but by 10.30 it was hot brilliant sunshine while I was in town, phew!!! very sticky here now and leaden skies so it feels like thunder in the air but you can never tell here, the Isle of Wight deflects lots of incoming weather round us and we see the clouds but don't get the rain which we could really do with for the gardens. Luckily got Cookie round without getting dripped on (poor love was still wet from this mornings walk) and have just potted up some Moroccan mint for DD1 and 2 x pots of petunias for us on the patio and given them all a nice feed along with the window boxes and my pots of mint of various kinds.

Successful trip to town this morning resulting in some good YS items and a beautiful elegant tall glass candle stick from a charity shop to continue Scandifying my lounge!