Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

SingleSue

Absolutely shocking events. I had dozed off as I felt unwell last night but Joe woke me with the words "Have you seen what has happened"....those words always fill me with fear every time someone says them recently.

They were just kids having fun, enjoying music, how can anyone do that sort of thing?

bugslet

michaels wrote: »

It all make sense now - you have a traditional basin with a pedastal/space underneath whereas we have an integrated one with a cupboard underneath so if you squat you have to move back to make room for your knees - unless perhaps you did some sort of yoga thang with your knees angled out at right angles.....

Try it, post it on youtube:rotfl:

The flowers look lovely Lydia.

I know the arena well, only about 4 miles from it now. Horrible situation everytime, but to target children and teenagers.....

SingleSue

Re backs - I was born with an extreme inward curve (and a fixed pelvis on one side - not good when having babies!) which initially didn't give me any problems. Unfortunately at the age of 12 I seriously damaged my spine on a trampoline and from that moment on, I had issues. First slipped disk was at 15 whilst playing with the dog on the floor, several more followed.

My really bad problems started though after Josh had an aspergic rage in the car when he was in high school, he was kicking me in the back through the seat and trying to strangle me with the seat belt. The damage was so great that I had to give up volunteering at a local special needs playgroup and within a year, I had to have a wheelchair.

And on top of all that, due to the extreme inward curve and the pressures that creates plus the EDS, I have degenerative disc disease!

In brighter news, Joe got another distinction for a completed unit yesterday....16 units completed, one unit still waiting to be marked and 15 distinctions received.

ivyleaf

Beautiful flowers Lydia x

Pastures It sounds as if you'd benefit from a visit to a chiropractor.

LydiaJ

Heard about Manchester this morning from DD, who had picked it up off social media of some kind. Makes other things seem trivial by comparison, but thanks for all the compliments on our flowers. The pink ones in the middle at the back are a pot plant, so should last longer than the others, which are cut flowers. Selection and arrangement a joint effort between DD and me.

SingleSue wrote: »

Re backs - I was born with an extreme inward curve (and a fixed pelvis on one side - not good when having babies!) which initially didn't give me any problems. Unfortunately at the age of 12 I seriously damaged my spine on a trampoline and from that moment on, I had issues. First slipped disk was at 15 whilst playing with the dog on the floor, several more followed.

My really bad problems started though after Josh had an aspergic rage in the car when he was in high school, he was kicking me in the back through the seat and trying to strangle me with the seat belt. The damage was so great that I had to give up volunteering at a local special needs playgroup and within a year, I had to have a wheelchair.

And on top of all that, due to the extreme inward curve and the pressures that creates plus the EDS, I have degenerative disc disease!

Sounds grim Sue. Sending hugs.

I too have been having problems since I was 12 - but for me it's neck rather than back. My issues are of the sort that the chiropractor can sort out for me when they flare up every year or two, though. Plus I have to be careful with having the right kind of pillows, and have been advised to have my handlebars significantly higher than my bike saddle, so I'm in a more upright posture - bad for air resistance, but much better for the neck!

SingleSue wrote: »

In brighter news, Joe got another distinction for a completed unit yesterday....16 units completed, one unit still waiting to be marked and 15 distinctions received.

Wow! That's truly amazing. Well done Joe.
:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

DS is in the midst of GCSEs. Last week he did the ethics bit of philosophy & ethics, and the theory part of drama. This week he has English lit (yesterday and Friday) and the first of 3 maths papers. Then it's half term, followed by two weeks of exams just about every day, a few days off, ad maths and that's the end.

I am finding it sooooooo much more stressful as parent than it is as teacher!

Pyxis

LydiaJ wrote: »

I too have been having problems since I was 12 - but for me it's neck rather than back. My issues are of the sort that the chiropractor can sort out for me when they flare up every year or two, though. Plus I have to be careful with having the right kind of pillows, and have been advised to have my handlebars significantly higher than my bike saddle, so I'm in a more upright posture - bad for air resistance, but much better for the neck!

:T :T

Do you know, when I heard about people being reprimanded for not wearing high heels at work, I was flabbergasted, not only because of how in this day and age something so ridiculous could ever still be contemplated, but because, apart from anything else, it's a health and safety issue; the damage that can be done to spines by the persistent wearing of high heels is well documented.
It's one thing for the individual to choose to wear them and risk that, it's quite another for an employer to insist that they take that risk.

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

Heard about Manchester this morning from DD, who had picked it up off social media of some kind. Makes other things seem trivial by comparison, but thanks for all the compliments on our flowers. The pink ones in the middle at the back are a pot plant, so should last longer than the others, which are cut flowers. Selection and arrangement a joint effort between DD and me.



Sounds grim Sue. Sending hugs.

I too have been having problems since I was 12 - but for me it's neck rather than back. My issues are of the sort that the chiropractor can sort out for me when they flare up every year or two, though. Plus I have to be careful with having the right kind of pillows, and have been advised to have my handlebars significantly higher than my bike saddle, so I'm in a more upright posture - bad for air resistance, but much better for the neck!



Wow! That's truly amazing. Well done Joe.
:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

DS is in the midst of GCSEs. Last week he did the ethics bit of philosophy & ethics, and the theory part of drama. This week he has English lit (yesterday and Friday) and the first of 3 maths papers. Then it's half term, followed by two weeks of exams just about every day, a few days off, ad maths and that's the end.

I am finding it sooooooo much more stressful as parent than it is as teacher!

I think I was worse than the boys when they were doing their GCSEs, James was really laid back about it all, too laid back I thought but it obviously worked for him as he did so well.

Joe showed me part of a unit he had completed, I was blown away at the high quality (and quantity) of it and so was my dad...he thought it was the official stuff he had to learn rather than his own work and research and was worried about him having to remember/learn it all, took quite a few explanations before he calmed down and stopped stressing :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Ibuprofen .. 25p for 16!
Blimey....

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ibuprofen .. 25p for 16!
Blimey....

Awful lot of anti-ibuprofen stuff in the press recently. Much better to use paracetemol if it works at all.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

I think I was worse than the boys when they were doing their GCSEs, James was really laid back about it all, too laid back I thought but it obviously worked for him as he did so well.

Joe showed me part of a unit he had completed, I was blown away at the high quality (and quantity) of it and so was my dad...he thought it was the official stuff he had to learn rather than his own work and research and was worried about him having to remember/learn it all, took quite a few explanations before he calmed down and stopped stressing :rotfl:

DS seems to be coping better than me, too. Such a relief - after all, if I'm stressed it doesn't stop him concentrating, and considering he has an anxiety related disorder I was worried he might be so anxious as to be unable to function at all, but he seems all right. No exams today, but he's gone into school for a couple of revision sessions. They have optional revision sessions for different subjects every day, and he's going to all the ones for his subjects (unless they clash with exams, of course).

As for Joe's work... you need significant talent AND hours and hours of hard work to do that well in most subjects. I imagine I'm not the only NP who feels just a little bit vicariously proud of such an admirable Nice Offspring.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ibuprofen .. 25p for 16!
Blimey....

That's five whole shillings! Daylight robbery.

michaels wrote: »

Awful lot of anti-ibuprofen stuff in the press recently. Much better to use paracetemol if it works at all.

Unless you're DS. Any form of paracetamol makes him vomit. Immediately and copiously. If he'd eaten berries as a child I'd have given him Calpol as an emetic! Recently I've been happy to find a cold and flu medicine with decongestant etc that's ibuprofen based rather than paracetamol based, so he can have them.