Weekly Flylady Thread 11th November 2024

roundtuit

Breakfast eaten and brew 2 supped. 

To Do Today List

Get dressed 
Feed the birds 
Fill the birdbath 
Put out the recycling 
WUDUPA 
Laundry shuffle x ?
Delicate wash wedding outfit 

That'll do for starters 

Rxx

kazwookie

Woops still in bed is that really the time!!!

Fayolle thinking of your daughter and you all, take it easy.

I did get up at 7am and feed the cats and sort the kitchen.

Honey_Bear

More *healing vibes* for Miss Fayolle.

Well done YL about the car journey.  I wish there were a magic trick to magic away anxiety.

Flying yesterday was minimal, but I did dismantle one bird feeder and give it a thorough clean and it's back together this morning having dried out overnight.  I must do the other one today when this one is refilled and ready to go back out.

\Health Update, Long and Skippable but I need to get it out there.

I've finally had my blood test result back, and the GP was beyond brilliant.  I think she must have believed that I do have cause to believe I've had a health condition for 50 years because she queried the result with the microbiology department at the hospital, who explained the antigens would have disappeared from the blood after a couple of years so would no longer show up, but that doesn't mean the issue wasn't/isn't present.  

I'm satisfied that I was bitten by an infected tick 50 years ago because i can remember going to the GP thinking I had ringworm and he took one look at the ciruclar rash and told me it definitely wasn't ringworm.  That was when I was 19.  My father's farm had an issue with cows aborting because of Tick Fever and I worked on that farm for years.  No-one had heard of Lyme's Disease back then; I have a copy of Black's Medical Dictionary published in the late 1990s and even then it it only refers to Lyme's as a form of arthritis.  I've been going to my GPs on and off for over 35 years and had given up on blood tests for thyroid problems and anything else anyone could think of because I was TATT, and am now satisfied I know what the root cause of never, ever feeling 100% but thinking I must be lazy and mustn't give into that.  I've also had leg muscle pain almost continuously for 30 years and have spoken to multiple health care professionals with no suggestions as to what it could be, so no practical treatments.  Massage feels great but is useless.  I've found my own solution, a combination of electrolytes and stretching, but it's not a cure. Since I broke my ankle and found bedrest for weeks helpful I've taken to allowing myself to throw in the towel pretty much every day at some point in the afternoon and that's been so, so helpful that I'm not going to feel guilty any more about resting. 

The massive frustration is that I want to do so much more, and to be able to do so much more.  Not necessarily dusting and vacuuming (who does?) but my choices, daily, have been limited to what I can phyiscally manage for years and frankly I can't manage all the stuff that I want to do, or want to get done, only what I need to do every day. 

I've ruled out all the things I know it's not - lupus (I miss Lame Wolf), chronic fatigue syndrome, all the things that are seriously debilitating with random symptoms and am now satisfied I know what the cause is.  I'm so grateful for the good health I do have, and beyond relieved I've worked out why I wake up tired every single morning no matter how early I go to bed and how much sleep I get.  I honeslty thought I'd feel better when I gave up smoking - no difference - and then gave up drinking - again, no difference, except I don't have hangovers any more.

I don't suppose I'm the only person who has a health issue on the Flylady Thread either, but being able to put a name on this has been incredibly helpful emotionally and mentally.  I've had a lot of thinking time to process this over the past month and the non-diagnosis is actually the end of a 35 year journey that's been very difficult to manage at times.  I know, even if the antigens aren't there, that's the most important thing and from the conversation with the GP, she beleives me.  That's a massive, massive relief.

roundtuit

roundtuit said:

To Do Today List

Get dressed ✅
Feed the birds ✅
Fill the birdbath ✅
Put out the recycling ✅
WUDUPA ✅
Laundry shuffle ✅
Delicate wash wedding outfit ✅

I've also sploshed bleach down the loo,  and WUDU recycled a pile of plastics (yogurt pots etc). Marmalade jar is soaking to get the label off and will then be recycled. Laundry is on radiators and wedding outfit is on the airer.

HB - so glad that you finally got to the root of the problem. I can feel the relief coming through your post. 😘 

YL - well done xx

I've phoned S as usual on a Sunday morning. Their telly has given up the ghost. It seems to be one thing after another for so many people this year. 

I've had a message from DS to ask if I'm happy for poppers to visit later. 😊  I messaged back to say married poppers are always welcome 🥰

Round 2

Write on D's birthday card 
Put money on card

(My youngest godson. He'll be 21 on 25th November)

Wipe door sill on hire car 
Sweep driver's side footwell 

Rxx

Honey_Bear

Thank you Round. 

First bird feeder refilled and put back on the apple tree.  Second bird feeder dismantled and scrubbed.

Pot feet under all the pots on the sundeck, cross piece and front steps.  At least it's one Frog off my list, and the list is plenty long enough.  Leaves raked and bagged. 

Doesn't sound much does it, but that two hours of hard physical graft by both of us, although while I was doing the front Belovéd was vacuuming the whole house so that's one job I don't need to do for a few days.  I spent an hour this morning dealing with hotspots too so the house looks much better.

Valli

Honey Bear - that must have been so brilliant, to be listened to and believed, I mean.  

Valli

NEW THREAD

Narc0lepsy

Fayolle said:

hugs, Narco, re the house sale, especially hard if it also happens to be your childhood home

Fortunately it isn't; I've never lived there - in fact we moved very frequently when I was a child so I don't have a specific childhood home.  It is just hard deciding on the fate of ornaments and china which I don't especially want, but they are a part of my childhood I suppose - DB just says put anything I'm sentimental about in a box and put it in the loft till I decide I can give stuff away - but I don't want to clutter up our loft too much!   I find that it feels intrusive somehow making decisions on Mum's possessions while she is actually alive, if that makes sense. Yes she isn't particularly attached to many items and didn't want much taken to the care home.

I hope DD gets better soon.