Simple living in the country - back to basics

Cheery_Daff

Well how interesting! I'd never heard of them, until I had my first and someone I was with recognised the symptoms.

Slightly vexing day here 🙄 Smoke alarm went off for no reason at 6am, half an hour before my alarm. Resigned myself to a short  extra nap, but it went off again 10 mins later. And again 10 mins after that 🙄 Flicked the fuse box after the second time (it's mains powered) but it didn't work, and eventually removed the battery when the damn thing went off a fourth time when I was holding it in my hand 🙄

Anyway, Mr Cheery will be making progress on figuring that out. 

I'm off to the dentist, just a hygienist appointment, not any of the actual appointments I need to get the ball rolling with my dentures.

Then I have to go and get a couple of new headlight bulbs fitted in the car, and hope they've just gone because of the normal run of things, not because Mr Cheery drove into a bollard and cracked the casing 🙄 I think so - we taped it and there's no water in there, and one of the broken bulbs is on the other side of the car...

Got enough time to drive home in the daylight anyway, and we can book in the garage if necessary 🙄

badmemory

Kaleidoscope is the perfect description.  I've only had it for a couple of years & have no idea what brings it on.

Midgetgem8200

Delurking to say for all the visual/migraine sufferers that are only recently experiencing it. If you are women of a certain age then it could be due to changing hormones. I think I may have seen you mention perimenopause Cheery and this can be a common symtpom of it

Cheery_Daff

Midgetgem8200 said:

Delurking to say for all the visual/migraine sufferers that are only recently experiencing it. If you are women of a certain age then it could be due to changing hormones. I think I may have seen you mention perimenopause Cheery and this can be a common symtpom of it

How interesting! Yes, it first happened for me a couple of years ago, so the timing would fit. Isn't the body weird??

Hygienist appointment done and dusted. Spotted my normal dentist in reception, she said waiting list for urgent appointments at the dental hospital is about 3 months at the minute. One down, two to go! 🙄

Midgetgem8200

Yes hormones affect everything! I've had many random symptoms/ailments over the last 3 or so years and only when my cycle went adrift did I google perimenopause symptoms and realise that actually I'd been suffering from quite a few of them aalready not thinking for a second that they were all linked.

badmemory

I wonder if mine was triggered by being forced to come off HRT a few years ago.  I didn't go through a natural menopause as I had a hysterectomy in my 40s.  Very interesting.

greenbee

I had visual migraine in my late 20s/early 30s. Very scary the first few times as it came out of the blue and blinded me completely (someone else had to dial the optician for me, and then take me to A&E). It did make me worried about driving for a bit. But I grew out of it. I definitely wasn't perimenopausal or menopausal then. Mind you, I'm in my 50s now and still haven't hit perimenopause - apparently the side effect of some treatment I'm on means I may never experience either  

Cheery_Daff

Well, I didn't get my job 😕 They haven't appointed anyone! So today I'll be fighting off feelings of "we'd rather have nobody than have to work with you" 🙄

The senior person emailed, and seemed very cross that nobody had let me know yet, so was at least very apologetic about that. 

Not surprised, but still disappointed 😕

Grumpelstiltskin

Cheery sorry for you but you may have missed a bullet.

 What I mean is the person they want doesn't exist and if you had got the job you would never have been good enough for them.

themadvix

Ah Cheery, that sucks - Grumpelstiltskin may well be right (and they may yet have to rethink the whole thing), but we all know how much effort you put into that application/interview and it seems harsh that it was for nothing. 

Still onwards and upwards - the future holds other opportunities that may be even better.