Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 2

elsien

Wish I could make cakes like that - I'm one of the enthusiastic but all thumbs brigade.
Gitdog and I are off to take parent to the seaside for the day. In our thermals. Unfortunately he has eaten my coat with the wind proof lining.
It may be a little chilly for sandcastles but we are happy to eat chips on your behalf.

Waves_and_Smiles

Morning Sue! I totally sympathise, it is a nightmare isn't it? When I tried the new antipsychotic medications I ended up incontinent, it happens to 0.1% of people! If there is a rare side effect I'll get it everytime. My GP now starts me on the smallest dose that is possible of any new medication because I usually need much less than the average dose. It isn't a bad thing really because it means there is always room to increase medication if my conditions get worse but you can bet that I'll be hit with every side effect going if it happens.

Do mention it to your GP if you need to, mine is now very aware of being careful with any new drugs. It is important that they realise if you are particularly sensitive to medication in general.

Hahahaha! I am sure your coat tasted wonderful, elsien! Have a good time and have some chips for me!

tea_lover

Haha Gitdog ate your coat!!! :rotfl::rotfl: I'm sorry elsien, I shouldn't laugh but that is a funny picture Enjoy the seaside. I love the coast on a sunny cold day. I used to spend many happy afternoons wandering along Morecambe seafront with not another soul in sight.

SingleSue

elsien wrote: »

Wish I could make cakes like that - I'm one of the enthusiastic but all thumbs brigade.
Gitdog and I are off to take parent to the seaside for the day. In our thermals. Unfortunately he has eaten my coat with the wind proof lining.
It may be a little chilly for sandcastles but we are happy to eat chips on your behalf.

Luckily the actual cupcakes had been made previously, I only had to decorate them and for that, we were baby stepped through the whole thing.

I'm of the try to pick stuff up and drop them brigade. My hands are not as good as they used to be and fiddly stuff really shows that up, thankfully though the person doing the workshop is on hand to lend her hands when things get too much for mine or mine are being very unsteady (I have a tremor, she will hold my hand still for me to prevent the shaking so I can do the finer things)

Must admit when I saw the teapot my first thought was "Right, you think I can do anything like that? Dream on!" but it was surprisingly easy, one of the easiest bits really...it just looks hard. However, some of the things that look really really easy proved to be very difficult indeed and took quite a few attempts (and some helping hands) to complete.

SingleSue

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Morning Sue! I totally sympathise, it is a nightmare isn't it? When I tried the new antipsychotic medications I ended up incontinent, it happens to 0.1% of people! If there is a rare side effect I'll get it everytime. My GP now starts me on the smallest dose that is possible of any new medication because I usually need much less than the average dose. It isn't a bad thing really because it means there is always room to increase medication if my conditions get worse but you can bet that I'll be hit with every side effect going if it happens.

Do mention it to your GP if you need to, mine is now very aware of being careful with any new drugs. It is important that they realise if you are particularly sensitive to medication in general.

Hahahaha! I am sure your coat tasted wonderful, elsien! Have a good time and have some chips for me!

Hehe, oh he knows and gets very annoyed when he finds he cannot prescribe yet another medication either due to my sensitivities or because I insist on having something that will not impact on my ability to drive. For some reason, despite known problems with codeine, doctors still try to convince me to have it, almost like I am not being believed. One small dose of codeine has me on my back, unable to move (not even a slight movement of my head, even blinking is not advisable, my eyes have to remain firmly shut at all times) and unable to function for days due to sickness, dizziness, confusion and vomiting.

Waves_and_Smiles

Watch where you walk everyone, my toys are out the pram and all over thread :rotfl:

I just woke up! Again!! I am emailing my psychiatrist and telling him I need to (I demand to!) reduce this medication starting tomorrow, I have really had enough. I could still go back to sleep now given half the chance. This is beyond ridiculous, I will be sleeping through entire days at this rate. Come back psychosis, you weren't so bad after all!

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

My decorating efforts

They're fantastic! :T




Eek! Codeine! Years ago I was prescribed it for a persistent cough. I spent the whole day throwing up every time I had even the smallest sip of water. I read in the instructions that this was a side effect, so I stopped. The vomiting stopped.
Went back to the GP who poo-pooed that it was the codeine and said I'd probably had a stomach bug. Stupid man.
Have never dared have codeine again.
I put up with the cough instead. It was the lesser of two evils!

tea_lover

My sister took codeine once when she broke her leg and was sick for hours. Which was hard work with a plaster cast from ankle to bum! I take codeine every day and have done for nearly a decade, can't function without it.

Aren't bodies fascinating?!

tea_lover

Aargh, why is nothing ever simple!? Washing machine arrived but they refused to remove old one or install it as a v arsey woman said the tap on the cold inlet is broken. I really don't think it is, and I was happy to jus turn off the water anyway so it shouldn't have made any difference. So now I have a broken machine, a new machine in all the packaging and no tools to do it myself.

Am absolutely raging at the world. Not least because I know if I called FOH he'd fix it in 10 mins. I need to go to my dad's and borrow spanners but I was really snappy with him on the phone so I don't want to now. Which was mean because he was only offering to help but I just want to be able to do one thing by myself and I can't. So now I'm sitting here bawling my eyes out about a stupid bloody washing machine which clearly isn't going to get it sorted.

I don't have any tools, I don't know any plumbers that aren't mates with FOH. I can physically plumb the thing in (have done it before) but I can't shift it in the tight space of the utility room. I might just go to bed and cry

pollyanna_26

Tea Phone your dad and ask him . You can say your sorry and as a parent myself I think he will understand your life is very stressful at the moment and be glad to make things a bit less so .
Hugs
polly x