Hi Brenda....I am so sorry to hear that you have had another fall my luvly, you are one tough lady aren't you? that could have been really nasty. Pleased that you are getting another motor which will be able to get the wheelchair into easier, and as you say be better for Peter as well.
Yep Mr Dollys hot flushes are coming thick and fast but the jabs are working and his last PSA level blood test has gone down from 22.5 to 6.45 absolutely brilliant. He starts his radiotherapy next Tuesday for a month and so i am glad to have my little "Snowball" in which to take him there every day. We have just returned from our usual little break and i drove, i know it is only 28 miles from here but i was a bit nervous as i hadn't driven for over 2 years, by the time we arrived i was bursting for a wee, agony!!! that is nerves i guess. We had a great time and it was warm enough to swim in the pool, and when the rain came we played cards and consequences which caused a lot of frivolity as you can imagine!
As you can see by my last message to FED we have had fun and games with our old shed.....will i ever learn????
Bet it was a lovely week in your caravan, we used to go to Devon every year in a caravan i loved it. It is just so good to have a change of scenery isn't it ? a real tonic.
Love the visiion of your BIG teeth saving you ....haha!!!
Have not beenhere for ages. So glad to hear that your OH is doing really well. It is great that you are driving again who cares how far you drive at least you are doing it. I still drive but because the way my symptoms effect me I only feel safe driving in the mornings anytime after about 1.30 ish and I am not so able. I know my limitations. Well done on braking up the shed I bet you felt a real sense of achievement. Sorry to hear about the nail and the foot. I know what you mean abut not being beaten by anything, I am sometimes so determined to do something that I don't realise quite what I have done until I can hardly move. But then I feel that I have beaten Parky for a change.
I have not been here for awhile but have just read your most recent posts. I am so sorry that you are not doing too well at the moment. You were always a bit of an inspiration to me. You seemed to be fighting this thing we call Parky. I miss your quizzes they were always good fun although I could not always get any of the answers.
You and Dolly were the first people to ever include me in the conversations which i appreciated. I felt that I got to know you both a little.
Hiya Wye...".young rock chick" how are you doing matey? so good to hear from you, i also hadn't been on the forum for a while but it is always great to get back and chat to pals isn't it? So what have you been up to recently? i hope you are keeping as well as possible and glad to hear that you are driving also. Yes certain times of the day are better than others aren't they? and i do find sometimes if i have overdone it i need a little kip.....makes me sound ancient i know but a siesta works wonders sometimes. The Spanish have the right idea!!
Mr Dolly is doing great thank you and i hope he continues that way once he starts his Radiotherapy next Tuesday, he is a positive person and has no fear about anything he has gone through, which is just as well i guess. I find also that what with one thing and another over the last couple of years, i don't worry like i used to either......doesn't help does it?
I tinted a friends hair yesterday who had a Misdiagnosed Brain tumour, very rare one and was told that it was 1 in a million. It doubled in size over 4 years before the correct diagnosis was made and had 5 ops in 7 weeks at Kings in London, and all done through her nose! isn't that amazing? Cartiledge was taken from both of her legs to build up the skull that had been affected by the Cancer and the last 2 months she has been having Proton beam therapy in Switzerland to hopefully eradicate anything that may still be lurking. I can't tell you how much i admire her and she looks pretty wonderful despite her poor eye which has turned inwards and has given her awful double vision. Having her hair done for the first time in a very long time made her feel so much better.......who needs pills? haha !!!
Her Son in Law is representing Norway tonight in the Eurovision, he lived over here for about 12 years and met her Daughter at Uni, they now live in Oslo. It is a super song and that is where my vote will be going tonight. Kjetil Morland is his name and he is singing with Deborah Scarlett. It is called The Monster in me. We don't usually bother with the Euroviision but will make an exception for my friend this year.
Looking forward to hearing all your news sometime matey...meanwhile keep well...........and yep you know it........keeeeeeeeeeep rockin darlin'
Thanks for your reply. I dont know if you remember but I had an eye op last October well it was a great success Doctors etc were really very pleased with the way it had gone so was I. It will never be perfect but a lot better. Although the past few days I have been getting double vision so am going to see Optician next week to check up on that.
Your friend sounds amazing and very positive. I always think if your hair looks good and you put a bit of 'lippy' on it makes you feel a lot better!! I don think I fancy having a brain op through my nose but how fantastic it is amazing what they can do now adays.
I turned on to the song contest as the last singer was singing, and then I just had to go to bed I know very boring.
I am going to the Isle of Wight for a holiday in June with my Sister and friends so am looking forward to that, I would love to get a tan have not had one for ages I always think a nice tan makes you feel a lot better even if Mr Parky is giving you problems.!!
Anyway, I hope things carry on going not too badly for you and OH.
I am back from my long journey (24 days) to Belgium, The Netherlands, and England. In England I was on a garden tour based in Oxford. Each day we went out in a new direction to see two or three fine gardens. I was relieved that my health stayed strong (no colds, flu, etc.) and that I kept up with the "normal" people in all that walking. I have no idea how many miles we must have covered -- a lot!
This is my first day on the forum since my return, and I was distressed to read your posts and discover how rough your days have become. As Dolly said, there is hardly anything your friends can do from the outside to give substantive help; the demon depression comes from the inside. But I do offer sincere words, for what they may be worth to you: I am thinking of you and wishing you an end to the darkness of depression and the hopeless feeling it produces. It has come and gone before; keep believing that it will go away again. Then you will write one of your silly, humorous posts once more and make us all laugh. Don't give up. We care and we need you.
Hello J thankyou for your kind words,im runninng flat out to stand still at the moment I have fended off all BLACKHEARTS thugs DEEPRESSION,DYSKY AND the ever increasing DYSTONIA,(sounds like a cruise liner),,and to be honest I was very scared J the pain of Dystonia is a new experience for me at least the severity of it,if someone had said they could stop the pain by sawing my arms and legs off without ANNIES THETIC,,little silly there" Iwould have said,, ARE YOU MAD,DONT YOU THINK IM IN ENOUGH PAIN,, ha you thought I was going to say get cutting, anyway its behind me now so onwards ever onwards J, bit like yourself on your trips,I was just thinking of you and wondering if you had been to Oxford, my Bother lives in Eynsham a typical Oxfordshire village near Witney,and he knows this guy Paul JWhite or Whitely ?????? and he has a farm with lovely gardens at Burford,did you visit perchance, you will have noticed I misspelt Brother above
I hope your mother is recovering well. Your reply to my last post was encouraging -- even a bit of silliness included.
In fact, I did visit Burford! A few of my fellow travellers and I had lunch there and looked at all the shops on High Street. It's a lovely town, just as I remembered it from my last visit 30 years ago!
Take care of yourself. We'll be eager to hear from you again.
Hello J, when my Mother rang me she sounded very shocked,as you would expect,now my mum lives about 400mtrs from us, a impossible walk for me,and my beloved has had her driving licence rescinded as she has a problem with myopia and cataracts, so I PREPARED MY MOBSCOOT, I installed a 2.6litre V6 diesel found in a local scrap yard, so I covered the 400 mtrs in 3 seconds JGREY, you will have gussed or even guesssed or gest or GUESSED, bu???R,by my mood that things are well this side my mums maiden name is BOSWORTH of the Battle, though she was not involved in that nasty squabble, 6 yrs ago she asked me to create her family tree which I did,and by far the bul of her ancestors came from Ecstasies oh bu????r D///n blast heckk, my spell chhecker needs good wedging (geordie for beating or taken to task if you prefer, I WILL CONTINUE SHORTLY JGREY AS I HAVE A GREAT PAL RENEWING MY GARDEN FENCE AND HE REQUIRES MY ATTENTION, BFN
He wanted to plug his electrc saw into a socket in the new extension, oh hang on,, sorry Lady J my Sister Marlene has popped in for a chat about Mother,, watch this space, there wiill bbe fireworks..
hope all is well witth you my lonng distance buddy
HELLO J , I HAVEE SPENT TTHE LAST HOUUR COOMPOSING A INTEESING THOUGHTFFULL SOMETIMES SHOCKING POST IT WAS A GOOD EFFORT WHICH ALTHOUGH MEANT FOR YOU, EVERYONE WOULD HAVE RECOGNISED THE SITUATION I AM IN WITTH MY LOVELY MOTHERR, NOW IM GOING TO TRY AND FIND IT BUT I KNOW I WONT AND ANYWAY I AM SEETHING WITH RAGE, AND TURNING GREEN SO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, I START THROWING CHALLENGER2 MBTs three miles and punch holes in walls,,,so
Your life never gets dull, does it? Imagine me in my little grey cottage with my dog (a Lhasa Apso), reading or playing my piano (quietly, of course) or sitting on my stone patio in the shade, listening to birdsong.
Well, imagine it, I say. But I seldom enjoy such serenity these days. Having come back from my frivolous travels to Belgium, the Netherlands, and England, I have had to face up to the repair work needed at home. The damage my bedroom wall and exterior door suffered from a roof leak last winter has been repaired except for the final repainting, which should take place Monday. My next door neighbour and I are now pooling our resources to replace the five-foot fence on our property line. On my side is a tall hedge, so I really don't see the fence, but when I looked at it from the other side, I had to laugh. It was sagging and falling every which way -- definitely past its usefulness at age 20.
My backyard needs work also: soil improvement, replanting of some areas, redesigning one end of the yard. I'm just delaying the outside projects until the inside project is complete. Before the summer is over, I hope to have everything looking good. I have no travels planned until September, so I'll concentrate on the old homestead for a while.
In June I'll meet my new PD doctor. My former doctor, whom I liked very much, decided to go into research full-time. He had been seeing patients only 20% of his time anyway, and he may be of greater value to us as a researcher. Who knows? But I do dislike having to change doctors when things were going so well.
That's my update! Do your best with your posts. No throwing of laptops allowed!
Here is a little story to put a smile on your face I read about the other day while waiting for my hospital appointment to see the doctor:
Sarah was at playschool, all the children were busily drawing a picture of there choice, the teacher was walking around the class viewing each picture as she went by, she eventually reached Sarah and said to her "What are you drawing Sarah?", Sarah replied " I'm drawing a picture of God". The teacher replied "but no one knows what God looks like", Sarah replied "well they soon will !"
As per the title of this, I'm feeling horrible at the moment but I am pleased with the rest of the day as my friend and colleague who I used to work with came to lunch today and I managed to cut up a salad and make a chocolate moose (not to be eaten together). On the other hand, I'm cross with my exmanager who said she was coming but didn't turn up or even phone me to say why she didn't come. Still, that's people for you.
I just had to sit down for a couple of hours and do nothing. So the chicken didn't get cooked again.
Yesterday, I felt the luckiest woman as I was walking down a sunny street with my daughter and my grandson who is 16 months old and we went out to lunch. I need to appreciate these moments. When parkie sets in, I can't move myself and it is very difficult to handle.
Hi everyone.....I have not had the chance to catch up for a bit but reading through the posts i am so sorry to hear about your dear Mums fall Fed, i hope she is now improving well. I too have an elderly Mum who had a fall 2 years ago as a result of a bladder infection! which may sound odd but it turned out that she was so dehydrated she collapsed and had no idea where she was. She lives in sheltered accommodation and i found her by the pull cord in her hall but she was not in any state to realise, her emergency buzzer that she should have been wearing around her neck was in the bathroom!!!! consequently she was in Hospital for a couple of weeks. It is so worrying and upsetting for you, but like mine, your dear Mum is a strong lady and i wish her all the very best.
Casie you are so right, to appreciate the things in our lives that many folk may take for granted. Spending time with loved ones cannot be beaten can it? Enjoying the moments of feeling well and being able to get on with preparing a nice meal for instance...........cor! I bet you were fed up after preparing dinner for your pal and then she didnt show up, shame i wasn't there...i love choccy mousse! i guess you will not be inviting her again?
Well every day at the moment is taken up with Radiotherapy for my dear Mr Dolly. He is coping really well apart from the extra trips to the loo!!! there are only 9 spaces for Cancer patients to park at our hospital and to park in any other part is very expensive and extremely busy so i drive us every morning or sometimes evenings to just outside the town where it is free for 4 hours, get a bus that runs every 6 minutes and is only 10 mins from the hospital, brilliant. We have to be there an hour before to "prepare" for the treatment but they have a dear little walled garden with a fountain and a cafe and with the weather being so lovely we sit out there and enjoy watching the birds it is so relaxing which is good for us both. The staff are wonderful and it is like a club with all the chaps with Prostate cancer chatting about their "HOT FLUSHES" etc....now they know what us gals go through!
I wish you all a great summer, enjoy, and i look forward to catching up more very soon, and don't forget...........keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep smiling ay?????
dolly pleased hubby's treatment going well. Heard the same re sister in laws partner re hot flushes! He has just finished treatment and seems well.
As I hate the heat , even before parky, dreading this week! Mind you in my cave at home keep cool. Mum enjoying caravan sun this week. We have had some trips there, so lucky.
Have a car with ramp under notability , had to get before I am 65 in August. Easier with red robin scooter and wheelchair . Hobble in house , lot of grab rails hubby fitted !
Have been lucky, little g daughter Isobel came for morning fun play . Mummy had hairdo. Also saw both grandchildren Father's Day and mummy b day.
Going to see friend tomorrow who had polio since she was 6, can't get out wheelchair now, but had kitchen adapted , positive lady. Makes me thankful.
