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Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper
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Maggie- sending you Hampshire vibes to help you keep your cool during this frustrating patch.
LJ-Anger is a normal reaction dont let it overwhelm you, can you arrange to play more bowls or do something that relaxes you.
Agreed. I'm more worried about taking the anger out on un-deserving others. To avoid that, I don't want to isolate myself from people though.If you are getting angry then they are winning...and they are certainly not worth the effort of getting angry over. Deep breath, there are many more important things in life.
Today has been a health day. I must officially be getting old, as I had a letter from my GP saying [STRIKE]I'm pretty much past it, it's all downhill from here[/STRIKE] I was invited to a health MOT. All pretty well - could do with modifying my diet (knew that anyway, and who doesn't tbh!). They took blood (I HATE needles!) & the results will be available in a week with updates on cholesterol, kidneys, & diabetes.
Followed that up with an eye test. It's been 2 years, & I'm still an employee for now, so I'll claim that cost back. Happily, prescription was exactly the same, so no need to change glasses/lenses (which last time cost over £600!)It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
We have a new fence!
I've paid half and given the bank account details to the neighbour to pay the other half as agreed. Hopefully they will sort and harmony be restored.
Our solicitor has returned from holiday, told him that we are going away soon and he promised to get back to me....heard nothing more.
Given my situ, am hoping the fence here can last a couple of years, rather than just the 1 year I was thinking a couple of months ago.It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
NP's are welcome to vibes from chez jelly. I just hope they're not cursed at the mo....It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0
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Today is the day Josh goes on his first ever residential school trip...at the age of almost 19!
I'm bricking it because they always seem to forget Josh has problems with his memory, verbal understanding, confusion etc and assume he is just like any other 18 year old. Unlike James, if he gets seperated from the group, he will not be able to find his way back to the hotel (hell, he gets lost around our town and he has lived here all his life!) and would have trouble understanding any instructions given to him to do so. He may be a big lad but he is also the one who is not able to live independently and will always need support.
Still, he's going to have a brilliant time, he will be performing (drumming and singing) twice to the public whilst out there alongside having all the fun you would normally have on a school break away.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
Today is the day Josh goes on his first ever residential school trip...at the age of almost 19!
I'm bricking it because they always seem to forget Josh has problems with his memory, verbal understanding, confusion etc and assume he is just like any other 18 year old. Unlike James, if he gets seperated from the group, he will not be able to find his way back to the hotel (hell, he gets lost around our town and he has lived here all his life!) and would have trouble understanding any instructions given to him to do so. He may be a big lad but he is also the one who is not able to live independently and will always need support.
Still, he's going to have a brilliant time, he will be performing (drumming and singing) twice to the public whilst out there alongside having all the fun you would normally have on a school break away.
If he has a friend's number in his phone, and they have is, ( might be worth exchanging a number with a teacher) contact can be made and he can describe what he can see, find a street name or similar and stay put till someone gets to him.
Tell him to get a card for the hotel so he knows the name of it, or better still, if they have one, one of the leaflets with a little basic map....0 -
Ah, another complication....he will only text and not call! Awkward little begger....
He would be more likely to text me to tell me he is lost, well actually no he may not as he doesn't have an abroad calling plan and will not think/realise that he would be able to contact someone in an emergency, he will only think "Can't use the phone, it costs extra over here"
Welcome to the world of Josh's Aspergic logical mind with added lack of processing skills, memory issues etc. It can be very frustrating at times....what makes perfect sense to you or I, never enters his mind.
Re the map/hotel name, he will forget the instruction, so I will ask one of his friends to remind him of it when they get there or to get one for him.
He really does have the memory of a fish and that is if he understands the instruction in the first place (he has a verbal understanding disability related to his brain injury, what might seem simple to understand to the rest of us, he finds almost impossible or will take a different meaning of it). He can be told something, only to have forgotten the entire conversation (even having the conversation), 5 minutes later. This goes for everything else, he doesn't remember if he has changed his underwear, eaten food, had a bath etc.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
Team Sky / Team GB clearly seem to have a special ingredient when it comes to cycling at the moment and I am not talking about magic wheels. (Hopefully) it is within the letter of the rules though I wonder if it is within the spirit.
It's easy to be cynical but Team Sky have written to the UCI about where they feel that there are gaps in the testing, for example at training camps. I couldn't imagine Astana with Lance leading the team asking for more testing in Spain. Pantani used to walk straight past the testers and hook himself up to a saline drip to get his hemocrit levels down!
My feeling is that they train for this. It's hardly like this is the first time that Sky have attacked the field on the first day in the mountains after a rest day.
I suspect that a part of it is great organisation: they plan and adjust for the stages like a F1 team. It also helps a lot that they have Richie Porte (who apparently is leaving Sky at the end of the season) to drag Froome up the hills. You could also argue that it wasn't so much that Froome had a good day as Quintana and Niabli had bad ones.
Of course maybe he's just doped up to the eyeballs. If Sky have worked out a way to get around the testing and blood passports, enough people have left Sky that the whole peloton would know how to replicate the doping and would either be doing it themselves (level playing field) or would have dobbed Sky in.
I really hope Froome is clean.0 -
Ah, another complication....he will only text and not call! Awkward little begger....
He would be more likely to text me to tell me he is lost, well actually no he may not as he doesn't have an abroad calling plan and will not think/realise that he would be able to contact someone in an emergency, he will only think "Can't use the phone, it costs extra over here"
Welcome to the world of Josh's Aspergic logical mind with added lack of processing skills, memory issues etc. It can be very frustrating at times....what makes perfect sense to you or I, never enters his mind.
Re the map/hotel name, he will forget the instruction, so I will ask one of his friends to remind him of it when they get there or to get one for him.
He really does have the memory of a fish and that is if he understands the instruction in the first place (he has a verbal understanding disability related to his brain injury, what might seem simple to understand to the rest of us, he finds almost impossible or will take a different meaning of it). He can be told something, only to have forgotten the entire conversation (even having the conversation), 5 minutes later. This goes for everything else, he doesn't remember if he has changed his underwear, eaten food, had a bath etc.
He can do all I suggested by text.
. A friend might have to take the initiative to text him first, but they'll cope.
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lostinrates wrote: »He can do all I suggested by text.. A friend might have to take the initiative to text him first, but they'll cope.
He'll be ok.
Gotta say, I'm with LIR on this one. She'll be 'right as they say in Aus (I know it should be he but that's Aussie logic).0 -
Of course maybe he's just doped up to the eyeballs. If Sky have worked out a way to get around the testing and blood passports, enough people have left Sky that the whole peloton would know how to replicate the doping and would either be doing it themselves (level playing field) or would have dobbed Sky in.
I really hope Froome is clean.
I watch Sky News quite a lot and this was on their morning news this morning. In the ultimate act of the pot calling the kettle black, Lance Armstrong has questioned whether Froome is doping.
He has said that at the end of the tour he will submit to extensive testing. He also said that he has advantages as an elite athlete that other athletes just don't have - for example his heart rate at full tilt is still lower than other athletes.
I hope he is clean too. Although they are marmite, I quite like what Sky has done for cycling in the UK. I don't want them to be tainted. If they are tainted, Brailsford will be tainted and if Brailsford is tainted, the whole UK team will be. I just can't see that personally.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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