The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

I've been on 2x Symbicort 2x a day for just short of two years even with a continual peak flow of 500. That's a lot of hits of steroids for, maybe, no reason but I do understand that medicine can sometimes be about trial and error, testing, waiting, interpretation and then testing some more. My diagnosis came 2 months before the first bad pneumonia. The scan for a pulmonary embolism was clear so it was thought that the reason for the fast heart rate and my complaining of breathlessness was down to untreated asthma. I remember being asked to blow into the Peak Flow then. I got a reading of 370 so I confirmed suspicion and that was that. I do know that I took a stagnant breath that day and didn't breathe in before blowing. To be fair, I've had a few years of flu jabs because of the diagnosis, and with this new heart thing, it's probably been a blessing. I can't be cross. As my grandma used to say "it'll all come out in the wash".

I have passed my paleness to my eldest so I think it's hereditary. My grandma had jet black hair(even at 70 and she swore she never dyed it - and the way she begged for greys to stop people thinking that she did dye it confirmed it to me) and extremely pale. I do wonder what nationalities are within my DNA.

MrsMac we have skin so soft and it does work on the Scottish biters. We're often up there in holiday time, yip, there goes the wally English again.

Poor DD can hardly speak with these braces and struggled sleeping. They are stopping her jaw from closing (purposefully) and she can't get her tongue to the roof of her mouth because of the palette. I'm going to dig some of my old speech and language stuff out from working in the school days and do a few sessions with her. She'll hate that but tough. I am mother. I know best.

I'm having a relaxing day today but I'm going to do a bit of baking for the family - gingerbread I think.

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I've just seen a butterfly!

Lillybet Where are you? It feels lovely and warm in the living room, the sun is streaming in but if I had patio doors there is no way I would open them. I'm sitting in a sunbeam. Enjoy the feeling of summer. I'm sure it is not warm after yesterday. My feet were still cold at bedtime.

Two of us, me and a stranger, though no one stays a stranger in this area long. We sat shivering in the corner of the bus shelter watching the bus we wanted standing in the bus station. When the bus came the driver was pressing a button very hard again and again and the doors would not open. He then got up and prised them open while we were freezing outside.

monna That was a laugh I've had two like that. Husbands I mean.

fuddle I'm very pale, they don't make foundation pale enough for me. When DS was at school the teaches would ring me and tell me he was ill when he went as pale. My palness is caused by my cancer medication.

I'm sure they will get to the bottom of the problems.

I wonder if Avon skin so soft will help my hands and feet? They go bright red and feel really sore. I can't pick things up and I can't walk when it's bad.

Still baltic up here and snow not moving at all in the shade. I'm not moving either, I'm stapled to the recliner.

Cocketts, you are not the only one. I've had my patio windows open all day, washed muddy pawprints off the floor and gloried in the warm fresh air wafting through the house. There many be more freezing, wet and windy weather ahead, but days like this reassure me that misery is not permanent.