Put away your purse & become debt-averse

milann

I had the Pfizer one and flu yesterday. My arms have been sore, but settling down now. So far no other symptoms but I’ve rested today after a bad effect previously. Sorry to hear you’ve had a bad reaction.

Kantankrus_Mare

Awww hope you feel better soon @Foxgloves XX

2Scratters

Hmmm people getting double jabs I sense a conspiracy that they may put them together in 1 vial at some point in the future. I hope not.
2 Scratters xx

Four_Seasons

Hope you are feeling so much better today x

EssexHebridean

2Scratters said:

Hmmm people getting double jabs I sense a conspiracy that they may put them together in 1 vial at some point in the future. I hope not.
2 Scratters xx

They've already announced that they are working towards it - makes sense as usually combined vaccines give fewer side effects I believe. Certainly about the most common side effect from either covid or flu jabs is a sore arm, so at least there would only be one of those! 

foxgloves

@Kantankrus_Mare - Congratulations on your good news. Honestly, any nice news at the moment feels like such a bonus, doesn't it?
Re your mis-reading of my post about the snowy abbey grounds.....apart from frostbite, it wouldn't have mattered if we had thrown them off, lol, as there was nobody around to see us!
F

foxgloves

Hello everyone & thanks for your good wishes. 
Yes, I did have side effects after my previous Pfizer booster too. I mentioned this to the nurse who did this week's jabs & he said I might get them again, or I might not. I think it must depend on where our immune systems are with things too, idk. Anyway, he asked me what side effects I'd had last time & I said it was waking in the early hours very cold, then too hot, as an unshiftable headache developed, general aches & feeling yuk & collywobbles innards. He said those are all normal side effects. And the next morning, well it was rinse & repeat! Woke at about 2 am very cold.......no further sleep as the other symptoms came on. Felt much improved by last night & today, I am ok apart from tired & a bit of a sore throat. 
Have got quite a lot done, actually. Budget updates, various pre-holiday tasks, a few surveys & I added a couple of lineage diagrams to the genealogy folder I'm giving as a gift, to make it easier to understand everything. It's completely finished now. I only have a small item to make for that person & her Christmas presents are all ready to wrap when I make a start on that later this month.
Another task I'm leaving until later in the month when we return from our holiday, is to number-crunch the quote I've received from the dentist following my recent consultation. As I suspected, because I was working only on a very 'ball park' sort of figure, it is going to cost £1700 more than I have put aside for the work, which isn't available on the NHS. I can borrow this sum from our emergency fund & put in place a mechanism for paying ourselves back and I think I will much prefer this option to setting up a dental payment plan or borrowing it from elsewhere. But as with all things, I do like to play around with figures on paper before committing myself. I have already taken a 2nd opinion on what options are available for me from a dentistry point of view & there are no viable alternatives from the NHS. This means that whether or not I go ahead with the work isn't really up for further debate, just the best way to ensure that I instigate a monthly system for putting the £1700 back into our emergency savings. I didn't have to go into our emergency funds for the recent tree work in the end, as was able to move a few pots around & do a tighter budget for the month, so at least it is in good heart, but none of us like dipping in, really, do we? I think it's because I was a silly spender for much longer than I have been a reformed character, so having any savings at all still seems like a novelty.....& also faintly unbelievable.
In other news (not money saving!) - Soot went to the vet & we have a couple of things to try, including a herbal remedy, which as i have taken something similar myself in the past, am confident will be useful. ........if the little B would eat it, of course! It's a powder sprinkled onto his food & he could detect it from the other end of our 130' garden with a blindfold & a peg on his nose....oh, I exaggerate, but isn't it infuriating when you pay more on their treatment products than the actual consultation, then they go into full-on refusenik mode?! He is also not happy at all to hear from the vet that he has to do some.......slimming!! He started yesterday. He can't believe how few biscuits he is allowed under the new regime & feel sure he'd be dialling the CPL already, had he the capacity to operate a phone.
Nearly 3.30 already! Must crack on.
Love to all,
F x
 

DawnW

Foxgloves, I am sure that the person to whom you are gifting the genealogy folder will be thrilled, and touched at the amount of time and hard work you have put in

Elisheba

I no longer accept herbal remedies from my vet.  The cats won't take them and the insurance won't pay for them, so they are a double pain in the neck!

EssexHebridean

When we still had HRH The Cat I remember our vet on one occasion offering me powder or tablet form of - I think it must have been an antibiotic. As Madam was an absolute DEVIL for taking tablets (the vet usually used to offer to do her wormer as he took the view he might get slightly less shredded than I would!) I opted for the powder...well what a waste of time and money that was - even when it was sprinkled onto the dish with some sardines spread out on top she STILL knew it was there - little minx! I returned two days later for the tablets - the vet, with an expression of resignation, offered to give her the first one...

Glad you're feeling better Foxgloves - I really must get round to sorting my Covid booster out - although I suppose first off I should probably ensure that the sight scratchy throat and vague headachey feeling I have currently is only a cold and nothing more significant...