Old Style Ways and Poor Health part 2.

pollyanna_26

I am 5 ft 6 madarthur.Used to do athletics and running climbed a few mountains too. I've an idea what you want to measure  me for but be assurred I can deal with a wee fragile vase, I may regret suggesting this but perhaps  it's time you became something else.You could still be Ming Vase but not a vase. I always liked mardatha.

pollyx

LameWolf

I have survived my latest blood test. One of the downsides to methotrexate is the amount of the red stuff they keep wanting off me. Still, I got lucky today; I got the nice nurse who has a Cockerpoo named Kevin. She knows I hate needles with a passion, and really do NOT want the running commentary of what she's doing. She's happy to talk dogs instead.

You know the usual convo:

Nurse: "Here we go dear, just a little pr!ck"

Me: "Who let my ex-husband in here??"

pollyanna_26

Did you ever watch Hancock's Half Hour years ago. It's a long time since youngest was first prescribed MTX. She isn't needle phobic was used to needles but she did react a bit to the amounts of bloods taken for those necessary tests.

One of Hancocks episodes  was the Blood Donor He turned up hoping for brownie points and ended up claiiming they/d

aken a whole armful.

Youngest is strange ehen it comes to blood sometimes they can get it normally others they've had needles in her hands feet and other sites trying to get some sometimes during ops or other procedures she was lucky during shielding as Superdoc sent the surgery nurse in to the ragular bloos asthma and other checks..

She couldn't get a dropo one day,So it was back a few miles to the surgery for a tiny butterfly needle which dd had needed at tomes in the past.

it's a bonus to have a good nurse and in your case one who will talk dogs.

 it can take a while to adjust to the MTX and after many years it often gives yungest a kicking.However it has helped stop incresed damage to her joints.

Don't know if you remember West Coast Scot who used to post here . Last time she posted they were trying her on Biollogiics which have proved effective for many.

I/m the needle phobic one in the family. it dates back proably late 50s early 60s. No idea if it was in other parts of England but there was Polio and a TB outbeak in the NW.

There was a mass vaccination . My younger siters and my self were witn mum in a long line of others .outside the school clinic. No idea if I'd ever been jabbed before but was pretty scared. The senior school nurse was a horror grab.jab and shout next . We had no after affects didn/t get ill but the memory and a vow never agian . never had flu pneumonia jabs .

i had to do the decent thing with Covid had my 1st jab at the hub our local GPs had set up. Very relaxing and friendly a felt a tiny sting then I was walking in to town. 2nd and 3rd weree fine too .

I'd been psyching myself up for ages knowing I had to do it not just for myself but others. andi was fine. Youngest took a battering with the 1st and 2nd the 3rd wasn;t so bad.

Sometimes Wolfie we have to feel the fear and do it anyway

Just noticed the time I'll be fit for nowt tomorrow actually later today.

pollyx

KxMx

My blood always has to come from a hand with a butterfly needle... I just laugh when asked if I want them to try arms first 🤣

I find drinking lots of water (more than my body is comfortable with) beforehand is the best way to inflate my veins. Last test it was so successful she got it out first try which does NOT happen very often!

Luckily needles don't bother me, although I prefer to look away at the point of insertion. I look again once it's in though to see if anything is coming out or not 😂 

LameWolf

Polly I do indeed remember Hancock's Half Hour.

It's the luck of the draw which nurse you get - the previous time, the wretched woman didn't even give me time to draw breath before she hoiked the chair upright and virtually slung me out of it. I was non-functional and tearful for the rest of the day.

I can't watch at all, so I have no idea what they use, or how much they take.

Tell you how bad I am, I've looked after diabetic dogs,who have to have insulin injections; DH did their injections, because just seeing the needle on its own, not doing anything, was enough to turn my legs to jelly. Btw, I did check he was ok to do their injections before accepting the bookings!

I'm not quite so bad with having vaccines etc, as long as I don't see any of what's happening; but I have a BIG problem with what is, essentially, the nurse taking part of me away; for some reason that really bothers me a lot.

ladyholly

I have not posted here before but I can really sympathise with you Lame Wolf. Needles dont bother me but seeing someone put pierced earrings in really turns my stomach. Yes I know its ridiculous as the hole is already there but it is what it is.

basketcase

MingVase said:

Hmm. Ok make it dormice then. Any ancient Romans in here? Gimme yer dormice recipes.
Sigh.

Friends,Romans, Countrymen - lend me your dormouse recipes!

Here you go...

Recipe for Stuffed Dormice
Glires: “isicio porcino, item pulpis ex omni membro glirium trito, !!!!!! pipere, nucleis, lasere, liquamine farcies glires, et sutos in tegula positos mittes in furnum aut farsos in clibano coques.”

Dormice: “Stuff the mice with minced pork, likewise with mouse meat from all (fleshy) parts of the mouse ground with pepper, pine kernels, laser, and garum (or broth). Sew the mouse up and put on a tile on the stove. Or roast in a portable oven.”

Apicius, ‘De Re Coquinaria’

pollyanna_26

basketcase said:

MingVase said:

Hmm. Ok make it dormice then. Any ancient Romans in here? Gimme yer dormice recipes.
Sigh.

Friends,Romans, Countrymen - lend me your dormouse recipes!

Here you go...

Recipe for Stuffed Dormice
Glires: “isicio porcino, item pulpis ex omni membro glirium trito, !!!!!! pipere, nucleis, lasere, liquamine farcies glires, et sutos in tegula positos mittes in furnum aut farsos in clibano coques.”

Dormice: “Stuff the mice with minced pork, likewise with mouse meat from all (fleshy) parts of the mouse ground with pepper, pine kernels, laser, and garum (or broth). Sew the mouse up and put on a tile on the stove. Or roast in a portable oven.”

Apicius, ‘De Re Coquinaria’

Yuck

;"Sew the Mouse up"! Luckily the lovely knitter hates sewing so scots rodents should be safe.

I still remember her Roman phase a while ago. Interested in the History but she got carried away as usual.On the Scottish border near a Roman road I think that was when she began to visit the Poison gardens and speak to us in Latin.

Her tip about how to save energy when cooking pasta was a real suprise and normal

.pollyx

MingVase

Cooking dormice involves SEWING?     Erm........... can you look for a recipe that involves knitting the thing up? Or possibly crocheting it?

MrsCD

Could you knit it in some spaghetti???