How was your day?

[franticllama]

Happy Anniversary cute cat!

My day is a bit of a strange one. I have had worsening asthma sympotms since 6th Aug. Last week, duly went off to the GP and got some steroids to help with this whole breathing thing again. They did their magic and I was pretty much back to normal on Saturday. Then started feeling rough on Sunday and have been going downhill since. slept it off most of yesterday and woke up this morning feeling great. Got about 2 hours of work done before needing another nap, and have acquired the sort of cough that makes strangers look concerned. So have messaged the GP again, think it may be yet another chest infection. It will be my 12th in 12 months which is very annoying. I was refered to the respiratory nurse, she tried a few things but it didn't make much difference. So now I'm on a waiting list for the respiratory consultant. The NHS app says I should have a response from them by October so that's nice.

[celebaelin]

So dizzy.

Seriously room-spinningly dizzy - like the first teenage experieces of being drunk but without the drinking or (hopefully) subsequent nausea.  I have a plumber coming in about half an hour to take a look at my boiler and very little of even the most remedial tidying up has been done; not none but the place still looks like it's been hit by a recent tornado.  Which is ironic I suppose because that, metaphorically at least, is what should have happened but didn't.

Some long unaddressed messes have in fact been cleaned up but the general appearance is still one of being woefully uncared for.

[Bondee]

The food was scoffed like she hadn't been fed in weeks!

She's currently sulking because I raised my voice at her. It's her own fault! She shouldn't have been treating my right arm like it's a chicken leg! I've got teethmarks in my wrist.

[alexanderhoward]

Aug 20, 2024 13:43:44 GMT celebaelin said:

So dizzy.

Seriously room-spinningly dizzy - like the first teenage experieces of being drunk but without the drinking or (hopefully) subsequent nausea.

That sort of room-spinning dizziness is something I have not had for a while. (You weren't caught in a waterspout, where you?) The first time I was in that state, I woke with the room going round and round like a fairground ride, and I was not right for a couple of days. Despite my usual reluctance to bother the medical profession over petty things like being on the point of death, I went along, and the doctor was baffled. He had never seen anything like that before. Like the times a plumber has come round and said "Well in thirty years I have never seen that. It shouldn't be doing that."

I found the answer myself, and it was a plumbing issue. It might be something specific to my metabolism, but  I had eaten a massive, heavy rib-pork meal the night before which my guts were unable to process. Somehow that made me fall-down dizzy.

This was confirmed a year or two later the morning after a birthday meal. Needless to say, I now avoid excessive heavy meat meals, and drink a lot of juice.

[celebaelin]

I can't think of anything dietary that would trigger the dizzyness.  I get it occasionally but there doesn't seem to be any commonality as to when or why unlike, say, swolen gums which I only get when I'm short of sleep - why that should be I'm unsure but there is an identifiable common factor.

Perhaps it is not for the worst that my afternoon has been conspicuously plumber-free - I guess we will have to re-arrange for another day.

[RLDavies]

I had a bout of severe vertigo many years ago -- the full-on "just stepped off the fairground ride" experience. Couldn't stand to move my head or eyes in any direction beyond straight ahead, so there was no way I could do any work or anything else.

It turned out to be a viral infection of the inner ear. I was prescribed a course of betahistine, which specifically increases blood flow to the ear and therefore helped flush away the inflammation a lot faster than it would subside by itself.

There are many possible reasons for vertigo, but they all warrant a visit to the GP.

[Bondee]

Things just livened up a little.

Neighbour's Yorkie just got into our garden through one of the holes the foxes have dug under the adjoining fence. Poor little thing was panicking because she didn't know where she was when all she had to do was turn around and go back the way she came. Her "mum" was trying to calm her down from the other side of the fence while her "dad" took the long way round and brought her lead with him.

JJ didn't help matters by hissing at her.

[bigmartin]

To use up more of my faller cooking apples, I've made apple and pineapple and apple and cherry jam today. 4 pots of each now cooling down before I try to find cupboard space for them. Still want to make some apple and ginger (my favourite) and raid the trees in the lane between me and the pub car park for enough damsons for jam as well. Hope the weather is OK on Friday as I prefer keeping the mess of preparing the fruit outside!

[amanda]

big martin wrote:

Poor little thing was panicking because she didn't know where she was when all she had to do was turn around and go back the way she came.

It's possible the space to get back the other way was wasn't big enough and/or it looks different. 

[Bondee]

Aug 21, 2024 22:39:24 GMT amanda said:

big martin wrote:

No he didn't, Bondee did.

The quote function really isn't that difficult.

[amanda]

Sorry, but I've had a headache for days that isn't abating and it's getting to the point where I can't cope anymore, despite having a normally high pain threshold. Starting to wonder if it's from the massage I had last Sunday that I need for my ongoing back pain or that gets too bad, as these places also massage the neck muscles but with mine permanently tight from the fibromyalgia, the often Asian workers think they need to go hell for leather to fix it in half an hour, which will never happen. I'll have this pain for the rest of my life. 

Either that or I'm hating being a female at this stage of life with the hormonal changes. Can't say that at the doctors though as they think I want to investigate gender change stuff now. 

I can't take any form of painkillers and have an IBS attack anyway from the stress about the constant headache and inability to get out for days. I can't do an online shopping order as the moving icons on the supermarket website are too distracting for me.

[crissdee]

Walking home from my workshop earlier, I saw some of the worst driving I have ever seen round here. I only wish there had been a cop car around to witness it. As you may know, there is a 20mph limit in many places in Wales, one such place is the road next to the Royal Welsh Showground. This is only a two lane road, and barely a quarter mile long, with the restriction only applying to part of it, so there is no reason at all to speed. As I walked down this road, a van passed me at near enough the limit, and then some tw*t in (surprise surprise) a BMW, felt it necessary to overtake him less than fifty yards from the roundabout at the end of the road. I'm no angel behind the wheel, but that was just ridiculous.

[tetsabb]

A BMW driver caught my eye today too. Parked on double yellow lines outside Sainsbury's in Tunbridge Wells. There is a designated pick-up point just 20 metres or so further on.
Grrr...

But my visit was pleasant, meeting up with Jodifan, to whom I presented a t-shirt with the slogan 'Disaster Magnets give great hug'. She had been part of a conversation at the Con last year, in which it was decided that this was a good slogan. The other week I contacted Jodi's agent/publicist/gopher and suggested the website issue such a t-shirt. After passing designs between us for half an hour, a look was agreed, and available barely 2 hours later!

[efros]

Having finished my course of prednisone the aches and pains are creeping back. My god is prednisone effective, I had 4 days of absolutely no pain, allowed me to catch up on some sleep and actually do a few things around the house. Today started early due to a creeping pain in my right arm and wrist. Doctor called early this morning to let me know that my bloodwork gave a high likelihood that I had rheumatoid arthritis on top of my osteo arthritis. Rheumatoid factor in your blood is usually in the 1-13 IU/mL range normally, mine was 161 IU/mL, almost off the scale.





Consequently I'm being referred to a rheumatologist. Strikes me that if they had done the blood work 4 months ago when the symptoms first became apparent then... but they didn't.

[jenny]

Oh no Efros - I'm so sorry. That really sucks.

We had a very pleasant day yesterday and again this morning. It was Woodsman's 82nd birthday and we drove up to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and had a lovely stroll through the various areas of it, and some lunch in the cafe. We came back mid-afternoon because we had visitors from Minnesota (not staying with us but passing through and staying at a hotel in Portland) who we were having dinner with. We took them to a very nice restaurant called DiMillos, which is on a converted ferry boat moored by a wharf. Being visitors, they had lobster of course (not many lobsters available in Minnesota...). I've known my friend Brent Oleson for well over twenty years now online. He's a very good writer with some novels and some books of essays to his credit, and also the writer of a syndicated column which he kindly sends me every week. He was just as lovely a person in real life as he is online, and I also very much took to his wife, Robin. We had a very enjoyable evening with them, and this morning we took them touristing around here, for as much as we could cram in before they had to leave by noon to go further downeast.

[amanda]

crissdee wrote:

and then some tw*t in (surprise surprise) a BMW, felt it necessary to overtake him less than fifty yards from the roundabout at the end of the road.

Showing off, no doubt. 'I'm better than you'/ my car costs much more and is much better. 

I see them here, mid life crisis types. 

[emily]

woke up this morning and went straight in to a seizure, and after been feeling quite rough (a lot rougher than usual, actually). at least that's my morning.

I don't know about the afternoon. keep dry, probably. it's raining a lot here today

[amanda]

Aug 20, 2024 14:57:02 GMT alexanderhoward said:

Aug 20, 2024 13:43:44 GMT celebaelin said:

So dizzy.

Seriously room-spinningly dizzy - like the first teenage experieces of being drunk but without the drinking or (hopefully) subsequent nausea.

That sort of room-spinning dizziness is something I have not had for a while. (You weren't caught in a waterspout, where you?) The first time I was in that state, I woke with the room going round and round like a fairground ride, and I was not right for a couple of days. Despite my usual reluctance to bother the medical profession over petty things like being on the point of death, I went along, and the doctor was baffled. He had never seen anything like that before. Like the times a plumber has come round and said "Well in thirty years I have never seen that. It shouldn't be doing that."

I found the answer myself, and it was a plumbing issue. It might be something specific to my metabolism, but  I had eaten a massive, heavy rib-pork meal the night before which my guts were unable to process. Somehow that made me fall-down dizzy.

This was confirmed a year or two later the morning after a birthday meal. Needless to say, I now avoid excessive heavy meat meals, and drink a lot of juice.

Earlier today I had a brief dizzy spell which was concerning after my three days of constant headache but feel that most of it is hormonal related and so apparently is dizziness in this stage of life. 

Just wonderful, along with struggling with everything else. 

[crissdee]

With my own business failing to support me, I am once again looking for paid work. Trawling through a employment site just now, and I saw a vacancy for a Flight Instructor, but the pay rate offered was little better than minimum wage! Surely someone qualified for that kind of job, actually teaching other people how to fly a damn plane, should expect a bit more than that for his time! PDR?

[jenny]

Very routine day here today - did the food shopping this morning, went to a store this afternoon to buy a frame for a print I made at a printmaking class, went to Walmart to buy a couple of new bras, and just about to go and cook dinner - a couple of trout fillets and some veggies, with some watermelon for dessert.

[alexanderhoward]

Pulling on my walking trousers, which have served for many a year, is meant to be a reminder that a challenging day is ahead, with a sovering reminder of what the fells can do even in summer. Actually my first thought was 'Crikey, I've put on weight.'

[Bondee]

Pretty good so far.

Breakfast of a bacon sandwich and a pint mug of tea while I watched/listened to David Mitchell talk about his favourite comedy moments.

I'm now sitting on the sofa, wondering what to do next, while I have a snoring cat next to me.

[emily]

Aug 25, 2024 11:34:08 GMT Bondee said:

Pretty good so far.

Breakfast of a bacon sandwich and a pint mug of tea while I watched/listened to David Mitchell talk about his favourite comedy moments.

I'm now sitting on the sofa, wondering what to do next, while I have a snoring cat next to me.

bacon sandwiches can be nice if done right



I have them quite often, but I don't remember the last time I had a good one



... it doesn't feel like a sunday today



does anyone ever get that?. it's a certain day, but it just doesn't feel like it to you



pondering updating my thread about this morning but I don't know yet

threads I start (like my diary threads), I get bored of in a week so we'll shall see

[crissdee]

Because I am not working, and when I have been in the recent past, it was for myself or on a rotating shift system, I have lost any concept of "weekends" or "bank holidays". The only variable is whether shops are open or not, and even in my small town, Sunday does not mean that NO shops are open, just not as many as the other six days.

[jenny]

I don't have much sense of it being Sunday, except that it is a day when I am less likely to have things arranged than other days.

[alexanderhoward]

So, while the family went off to explore a town, I took to the hills. The weather forecast was mild so I was lightly clad - but that was not accurate high on the fells. That storm that has come across the Atlantic, carrying with it all the malice it learned in Canada, burst on me as soon as I was away from any shelter. The fell itself was a trackless moorland - the paths marked on the map have been scrubbed away by nature and I was creeping inch by inch through knee-high heather with hidden ankle-turning holes. When I could finally see the summit I realised it was not reachable at that rate in the absence of a route, and I needed to get off the fell before it killed me; except that there was no easy way down either. It took forever, and I was on the wrong side of the river.

I think this is the first time I have ever failed to get to the top of a hill I have aimed at. The only objective I achieved was getting back alive.

Having got back to the car and ramped up the heating, I thought I could at least have a go at seeing a remote waterfall I would have passed had the original plan worked, and I read that there is a car part just two miles or so from it. The rain stopped, so I drove out The Canadian storm though was more biting that ever - icy and cutting like a knife. I got there, but the best viewing point would have been down a narrow rocky 'path' now wet and slippery, with a high wind trying to through me into the gorge. So I admired it from where I could and headed back to the car. The hail on the way was, I felt, just taking the micky.

It was too wet and blowy to consider changing out of my walking boots, and I was soaked to the skin despite heavy rain gear, so I had an hour's drive back to the holiday let in wet clothes and feet in pools of water.

[Bondee]

[emily]

I was going to post this in my own thread, but no. I'm going to post in this thread.

I am so proud of myself.

Yesterday I was able to talk to someone privately on a forum, (actually this forum), and I didn't freak about it.

I am very shy when it comes to private conversations, and had to ask a question, so did it while I had a little confidence to do so

[bigmartin]

Another busy day at "work" - just shy of 800 people through the house. I had a very interesting chat with a lady who used to know the niece of one of the ladies in our set of 1911 portraits (see What Have You Learned) and 2 lots of people mentioned having seen me at Newark Park as well (I suppose I'm a bit distinctive) and 1 of them actually remembered something I'd explained to him! Felt like I must be doing something right.

[emily]

I am feeling depressed.

Basically, there is a carnival in town with african dancing and storytelling. I'd love to go, because it would have been a fun way to spend the afternoon

Unfortunately, because there are going to be so many people there, (and I struggle with crowds), I can't go to it.

Sooo