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  • Karmacat
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    I'd like to get into picking and eating more 'greenery' too. Some of it looks so healthy it seems a shame to just ignore it.
    It does! I don't want to faff about with acorns and whatnot, but greenery seems so easy, it really is a shame to ignore, as you say.
    I expect if we were all starving we'd be eating anything and everything;)
    Absolutely! I do hear that in Yugoslavia during the wars out there, people ate grass, for instance.

    I forgot one of the biggest crops from my garden (because its not green :rotfl:) the rhubarb - plus there's the quince (for a while, anyway!) the blackcurrants and the mahonia berries, which can be made into a chutney I think.

    I have more to plant today :j the garden centre/arts and crafts visit went well - one full price mint, two reduced rate mint, and a fennel. Mint will be planted in borders (bordered by paths on both sides) and the fennel will go into a container, the soil's too claggy round here.
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  • Karmacat
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    Erm, planting didn't happen - by the time I was ready, I had to meet up with my sister to speak on the phone with my brother, about the house sale, then follow up with documentation of our right to sell. It all takes time and energy ... when I recovered from that, needed to focus on collecting the rubbish collection for this morning. I won't do the planting before next weekend now.


    So, today:
    - been doing SB, quite difficult now, but I've met the 14 day bonus, so I'm only going to collect the low hanging fruit now, as I'm catsitting next week.
    - lots of washing needed :) ditto the reasons :)
    - blog! For heaven's sake, finish off the blog post!
    - I'm watching for a delivery from Wickes - garden soil and bark chippings - so I'm sort of glued to the front of the house for this morning.
    - so, downloading and sorting photos, skipping in and out of the back, I don't really trust deliveries, can you tell :rotfl:
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • I hate looking out for delivery drivers too. Our postcode covers quite a lot of strung out houses (most without visible names on although we certainly have one on ours) and couriers and delivery trucks have a nighmare time locating addresses. Most of the regular courier company drivers know us now so it isn't such a problem but if it's anyone new I often receive a frantic phonecall asking for directions as they've been back and forwards for ages and are 'lost'. Of course, there are no particular landmarks to guide them by apart from a solitary postbox which they could easily miss and when I ask what they can see from their current location they often say trees or an old barn:rotfl:. My recent AO delivery was brilliant, plenty of communication and 3 separate phonecalls as they got nearer and nearer. Although it was a huge truck which practically blocked the lane:eek: at least I didn't have to direct him out of any narrow dead ends:j

    Had some resolution (well, partial anyway) to my GP recall after my blood tests. She said everything seemed to be in order except for a severe B12 deficiency problem. She mentioned pernicious anaemia (which I think is the same thing) and arranged for some more bloods to be taken:eek:. I'm as white as a sheet as it is:rotfl:. She also took a quick history and says it's obvious that the situation isn't diet-related. Apparently about 10% of ladies over 60 and 20% over 75 are prone to this so I felt strangely reassured. She thinks my version is because the vitamin B12 I'm obviously getting plenty of isn't being absorbed and can be remedied by 3-monthly injections probably forever. She has referred me to a gastroenterologist rather than a haematologist (usual procedure apparently) and I had a phonecall just now with an appointment late next week. Speedy or what:eek:? If it's what she/he think it is I can have my first injection straight away and should be feeling right as rain again in no time. This is the first 'thing' I've ever had wrong with me and I was panicking a bit (well, a lot really:o) as I've always had to be the one to cope with other people's problems and was scared that I suddenly felt vulnerable. I'm feeling so much better just knowing what's wrong even though the treatment hasn't even started:rotfl:.
  • beanielou
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    Thats good carbootcrazy that you hopefully know what it is and it can be easily treated.
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

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  • julicorn
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    That's good that it's something that can be quite easily treated, carbootcrazy! And I think with B12 deficiency, you'll see the effect of the injections pretty much straight away, so should feel better in no time :)

    Also, waiting for deliveries is the worst :rotfl: Our address is easy enough to find, but about half the delivery drivers don't seem to be able to use our door bell. They also don't think to knock on the window, even though we're on the ground floor and usually leave a note as well if we're expecting a delivery.
  • beanielou
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    Todays low re delivery drivers.
    They rang the bell but by the time I hobbled to the door they were away :mad: :mad:
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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  • Karmacat
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    edited 17 August 2018 at 7:04PM
    I'm glad I'm not alone about the deliveries! In the end, it was fine, he turned up on the early end of the slot, absolutely no problem, and a bit of a chat too about this and that :)

    So, lots of washing done (though not quite dried), more house sale admin done (the proofs of ID and address ... sigh) but my internet connection has been tormenting me again (i.e. not working!) so I couldn't even pretend I was going to do the blog.

    But a proper amount of garden navvying *was* done :) Unusually, I'm going to carry on working in the front over the weekend, I think - I'd like to get that bit clear enough to put some of the bark chippings I've just bought down on it. And having just finished the ID stuff to be sent to bruv, I'm carrying on scanning some photos - just a few more folders now, and I really, really want to finish them for good before catsitting :)


    CBC - honestly, B12 has huge implications and is very easily fixable - great to hear that its something that simple, though I **do** understand about being horrified about something going wrong after years of good health. Orrible.



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  • maddiemay
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    Karmacat, I hope that you don't mind me hijacking your diary for a moment?

    CBC - I was diagnosed with PA at 60, 19 years ago. Not wanting to be a voice of doom - a lot of people bounce back quickly once treatment starts, but a significant number who have been lacking B12 for a long time can take longer to recover. It takes a little while to replenish red blood cells and sometimes longer for other cells and organs in the body to gain the benefit.

    Not writing this to cause you worry, just to reassure you that if you are not one of those who are immediately ready to run marathons:( you will get there. You seem to have a good GP and that is a great start.

    Masses of great information available from the PA Society and their FB group.
    The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. (Abraham Lincoln)
  • maddiemay wrote: »
    Karmacat, I hope that you don't mind me hijacking your diary for a moment?

    CBC - I was diagnosed with PA at 60, 19 years ago. Not wanting to be a voice of doom - a lot of people bounce back quickly once treatment starts, but a significant number who have been lacking B12 for a long time can take longer to recover. It takes a little while to replenish red blood cells and sometimes longer for other cells and organs in the body to gain the benefit.

    Not writing this to cause you worry, just to reassure you that if you are not one of those who are immediately ready to run marathons:( you will get there. You seem to have a good GP and that is a great start.

    Masses of great information available from the PA Society and their FB group.

    You're all so supportive here on KC's diary:A. Thank you all for your advice:T.


    maddiemay, I'm afraid it's me (I?) who has been hijacking this diary of late. Apologies as always to KC.:o


    I don't think I'll be signing up for any marathons, either soon or ever though:rotfl:. I'll definitely seek out more information online, maddiemay. Thank you for mentioning it. I hope you're now in robust health yourself:beer:. I'm not sure how long I've been lacking B12, I've felt quite energetic and active (for my age;)) until relatively recently. Maybe one of the experts I'll be seeing might be able to tell me.


    I had all the stuffing knocked out of me at the turn of the year when my brother was diagnosed with cancer and died 2 months later. Then there was that unbearably hot weather which never agrees with me and seemed to make me permanently exhausted. Everyone else seemed to be suffering too so I didn't think there was anything odd. Prior to all that though I was feeling pretty much as usual. Anyway, I'm feeling really optimistic about being 100% very soon:j


    KC, are the cats you're going to be sitting the same ones you looked after before or is it going to be a new adventure for all of you?
  • maddiemay
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    maddiemay wrote: »
    Karmacat, I hope that you don't mind me hijacking your diary for a moment?

    CBC - I was diagnosed with PA at 60, 19 years ago. Not wanting to be a voice of doom - a lot of people bounce back quickly once treatment starts, but a significant number who have been lacking B12 for a long time can take longer to recover. It takes a little while to replenish red blood cells and sometimes longer for other cells and organs in the body to gain the benefit.

    Not writing this to cause you worry, just to reassure you that if you are not one of those who are immediately ready to run marathons:( you will get there. You seem to have a good GP and that is a great start.

    Masses of great information available from the PA Society and their FB group.

    OMGoodness, it is a sign that I am tired, don't even know how old I am, should read diagnosed at 50 19 years ago:eek::eek::eek:
    The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. (Abraham Lincoln)
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