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Let’s hope Fallon’s plan is up to snuff.
A totally irrelevant picture, but hopefully it will raise a smile
ReplyDeleteLovely picture. Ducks always look happy somehow. Awful storm here last night and today. Haven't heard nextdoors' ducks today so suspect they are huddled up in their hutch keeping warm.
DeleteCheshire CheeseApril 12, 2023 at 10:44 AM
ReplyDeleteMy lovely tulips are now well and truly battered, first by the hailstorm on Monday and now blown over by the wind.
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MiriamApril 12, 2023 at 2:58 PM
Luckily the only tulips I have, are in a pot and are still only about 4" high, so they are still OK.
There's been snow in N.Wales, where I used to work, so only 15miles away. It is cold here so heating back on.
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MiriamApril 12, 2023 at 2:54 PM
I picked up my prescription from Lloyds in Sainsbury's, for the last time today. It is such a shame it is closing next Tuesday.
The counter staff have already gone, and the shelves are empty.
I still had great service though, as the dispensing technician asked me what pharmacy I was nominating for the future, and she immediately went and changed it for me..It saved me doing this.
I hope she didn't think I was a a pensioner, who would struggle with this! 🤣🤣
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MiriamApril 12, 2023 at 3:23 PM
I had a quick chat with the pharmacist, just to say thanks for the wonderful service I've had for many years. As she said, this was like a community pharmacy with so many regular cust
egular customers and with the pharmacy services provided now going, it will be so detrimental for very many.
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Lady RApril 12, 2023 at 5:54 PM
A shame indeed 😟
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MiriamApril 12, 2023 at 5:10 PM
Just heard, niece was discharged from hospital earlier this afternoon.
What a relief for all the family.
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Sarnia April 12, 2023 at 7:35 PM
And presumably still none the wiser as to what the problem was.
Miriam, i am pleased to hear your niece is back home.
ReplyDeleteMy Daughter had her first B12 injection today, only 5 to go!
Hope it will make her feel more alive as the weeks pass KP
DeleteI hope things will go well.🤗
DeleteThat duck would be very happy round here - it could float in my pots of dwarf irises.
ReplyDeleteMRS P 🎂 💐 🎈 🎉 enjoy your day!
ReplyDelete(Bathroom done - back to bed now🙃)
Many Happy Returns Mrs P.
ReplyDeleteHope you have a lovely day. Any plans? 💐🍰🍾
Many Happy Returns MrsP !!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Mrs P.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday Mrs P. Hope the sun shines for you. 🍰🍦💐
ReplyDeleteLovely month in which to have a birthday,Mrs P .
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your day
Thank you all for your Birthday wishes.
DeleteNothing special today but am going by coach tomorrow to The Eden Project and the daughter in Cornwall is meeting me there.
I’m looking forward to it, although I understand that it’s now looking very faded and tired. Never mind it will be an experience for me.
The following Saturday another coach trip to Wells to spend some hours with younger daughter who will drive from Bath.
Lots of muscari still in bloom here - it seems to do so well in this area - along with the three cornered garlic which was such a plague in Stroud but although here seems to be less invasive. So today I shall pick myself a fresh small posy of blue and white.
Had an email from G daughter telling me what a wonderful time she is having on her travels. I believe she is in Vietnam now. Another month before she returns.
Plenty to be looking forward to Mrs P, be sure to tell us all 🤗
DeleteI hope that you have a lovely time on your trips out Mrs P.
DeleteHappy Birthday Mrs P. 🎉
ReplyDeleteHow lovely to hear what you are up to along with the meet-ups with family.
How your life has changed since you moved. You obviously made exactly the right decision 🤗
Thank you Miriam - yes it has been a new start.
DeleteLots of texts and messages today, but just received one from SinL from
Dar Es Salaam …… he is in charge of Mango Groves in his current work.
I so remember a kayak trip I did in mango groves, in Ecuadour. It was brilliant.
DeleteWow, you do get about these days, Mrs P. Marvellous!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Mrs. P. Hope you enjoy your trips.
ReplyDeleteBelated Happy Birthday wishes Mrs P - only just logged in and seen all the posts.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your outings and have a wonderful time. 🌺🌸🌼💐
‼️Todays Saturday Daily Mail tv book has THE ARCHERS on the front cover and a double page spread inside (yet to read) I thought at first it was a spoof but no a real article about the grittty issues now covered and some of the actors commenting why this has to be to carry the programme onwards.
ReplyDeleteWill return…….
Should also be on TA blog as well I guess, any chance KP or shall I rewrite on there?
ReplyDeleteTo repeat thanks KP 🤗
ReplyDeleteEveryone busy this weekend?
ReplyDeleteHad a lovely evening yesterday, drinking beer on a steam train as we chuffed through the Hampshire countryside and enjoying our picnic, first RAT (real ale train) for several years, absolutely great.
Just busy in the garden KP. Your evening sounds lovely.
DeleteAssuming this was The Watercress Line KP?
DeleteSounds like fun, KP. MY Saturday was a bit more mundane by other people's standards, though exciting for me.
ReplyDeleteOuting to B&Q with David's cousin and husband to fetch builder's sand for last bits of paving, and Little Owl of Athens for the copse of sumac saplings in the courtyard.
Thence to the garden centre for coffee, cake and the remainder of plants needed for setting up summer pots.
Absolutely wiped out today as it was a treatment week, but really enjoyed the company and still managing some planting out today, my day off.
Quiet weekend for me.
ReplyDeleteNo gardening as I am on top of it, well at the moment! lt has been ironing, cleaning and minor chores only...
But next week will be very different.
A quick extra as to a radio listen - the R4 drama - The Voice in my Ear.
DeleteHaving terrible trouble with blood pressure. Since I stopped taking the tablets that were making me ill, it has soared to, frankly, dangerous levels. Cannot get GP appt until Friday week so will have to take those additional tablets until then and just put up with the side effects.
ReplyDeleteGet down to your surgery in person, explain in person and stay there until you are seen. Trust me, you’ll get seen.
DeleteCannot understand the Surgery not fitting you in AP appointments are kept free for just your sort of problem. Have they advised you to go back on the other medication until your appointment?
ReplyDeleteOn thé phone they advised me to stop the new vasodilator and go back on the diuretic I have been taking for years, if I preferred. However that’s when the BP shot up - it’s may well have been like that for some time, unbeknown to me. So I have returned to the new vasodilator and the BP readings have started going down. So I shall just have to get used to them. I think, when I do see the GP next week that may put me on a completely different drug
Delete….called a Calcium Channel Blocker (Amlodipine) which is more suitable for older patients. It will mean swollen ankles but if it keeps the BP down I shall have to put up with that.
DeleteI am on a calcium channel blocker also and without any side effects now. It took to trying two different ones, and the third one I was prescribed is great (but I did this suggest this one to my GP who agreed luckily). It does the job, without any side-effects, except puffy ankles when it is really hot and humid.
DeleteI couldn't tolerate amlodipine either and this was changed after just two weeks of taking
Chin up - there is a solution, but it is often trial and error.
That’s very interesting Miriam. Thank you!
DeleteMr A has been taking Amlodipine for several years with no side effects, but he couldn’t tolerate Ramipril because of a constant cough, something that dosen’t happen with me.
It’s strange how drugs can affect people so differently.
Glad to say my BP has gone down a lot today so I should be OK to see the BP next week.
Meanwhile we have our next Covid vaccination boosters tomorrow, being in the over 75 group.
Our surgery keeps one morning and one afternoon appointment free. You have to ring on the dot of 8.30a.m. to get one of them, and admittedly it is problematic if several people need the appointments.
ReplyDeleteI can remember the days when our nearest village surgery was in the front room of someone's house and you needed no appointment but could just turn up. If there were a number of people the doc just kept on going until he had seen them all. I suppose population levels, even in rural areas, has increased a lot since then.
DeleteIt was like that in our suburb too, when my children were small. Then working mothers complained that they couldn't take all that time off to sit waiting with their children and agitated for an appointments system. Be careful what you wish for!
DeleteAnd ours too. You turned up, waited until it was your turn (though some impatient patients would try and sneak in before you). The ‘waiting room’ was the hallway of the doctors house and always freezing cold.
DeleteHope you get back to 'your normal' asAP.
DeleteWe still have this system in my provincial French town.
Five doctors at the surgery with walk-in service every day, waiting time around two hours or by appt with the dedicated doctor in 10 days, waiting time up to an hour;)
When we lived in Southampton, if you could convince the receptionist that your arm was literally hanging off, you could get a sit and wait appointment. But you had to carry the Slip of Shame - a bright yellow piece of paper reminding you that these appointments were for *really* urgent cases that could not possibly wait for a scheduled appointment.
DeleteOur surgery in Bournemouth also offered booked appointments or same day sit and waits. When I asked for clarification about what counted as urgent enough I was told, 'If you think you need to be seen the same day, we will see you.'
During the pandemic, our surgery, like many others, went to telephone appointments. If the doc thought they needed to see you, they would book you an in-person appointment. This system persisted, and worked quite well, BUT if you were on the phone 30 seconds after 8am you'd be queing for hours to get through, and still risked all the slots being taken.
Now, you can also pre-book for a few days ahead which is much more convenient. And it's much easier to get hold of my preferred doctor - he's so good that pre-pandemic you were lucky to get an appointment with him in four weeks' time!
Miriam, I'm so envious of your ability to be 'on top of' your gardening. In my case, it's always the other way around.
ReplyDeleteIt is called work in progress, always looking forward to something new.
DeleteAnyway, isn't gardening just the taming of nature?
Given a chance my indoor plants would walk out of their pots and back to the land.
Oh, Basia, not in my situation, as most of my portion of nature is more or less untamable. It's more a case of reaching some sort of detente between what I think would suit the garden and what it's prepared to tolerate! Most people seem to find the end result pretty harmonious, although I've had to compromise a bit on my attitude to wild garlic.
ReplyDeleteMr BB says gardening is just bullying nature!..........I told him to..........off and pull his weight!! Honestly! 🙄
DeleteEV - Happy Birthday 🥳🎂🍷💐🎈 trust you are having a good one!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday to a fellow Aries Ev.
DeleteAs we haven't heard very much from you lately, I fear you are still unwell.
In which case I wish you “ get well soon “
Many happy returns Ev. Hope you are feeling better now and have had a nice day. 🍰💐🎁🎈🎉
ReplyDeleteMiriam, my answer to your very helpful post is above, in case you didn’t see it.
ReplyDeleteThere's no need to put up with any side-effects, just keep a note of when these happen in the day etc. There will be an alternative to suit you,
DeleteIn the meantime if feet/ankles start swelling, particularly as the weather is getting much warmer, what about putting on "flight socks" or similar, on which will help.
I have done this when I had such a problem and found it helped.
Take care, + glad you both had your vaccines done and rightly so. I have been reading about the new varient rampant in India, not giving more severe symptoms yet, but mask wearing is becoming compulsary again. We are so lucky that we get this wonderful service, as boosting protection is so importantas to, no-one knows what could happen again.
Best wishes to you EV and hope you had a lovely birthday. 💐🍰
ReplyDeleteThank you for birthday wishes. it is on 23rd (St Georges Day). I was born in Scotland!
ReplyDeleteNot much celebrating this year as I am still unwell. I saw a consultant yesterday but he is awaiting results of a scan I had last tuesday. The wheels grind slowly but at least I am in the system. Following posts but only able to post on my computer so contribution very much down as it is much easier if I can post on my IPad.
Going back a while to safety of online banking. I always use a card reader on which you input your pin number and then you are given a n 8 number random code to put in. This way the only personal details ar your DOB which can be obtained easily elsewhere anyway. The only time I have been scammed was several years ago when a site I was buying from was hacked. I reporteed it and did get the money back. Now I have a separate small current accont into which I transfer money as necessary for purchases.and use the debit card for that. I usually only keep about £30 -£40 in there so not much to lose if it happens again. I am happy with tit all and find it so much easier to transfer money for jobs around the house and so on.
Best wishes to you all and many thanks again for your thoughts. xx
Oops Ev I failed ‼️ I kicked off the 🎂 wishes I knew you came into Aries and now do recall you are the 23rd - St George’s Day, two days before Mr R ( Lady’s Day 🤗)
DeleteApologies I have no wish to make you another year older so soon!
Do hope your health issue is sorted as soon as possible 💐
Sorry to hear that you are still unwell Ev. I hope that the medics find something that will help.
DeleteI am shocked
ReplyDeleteWe we’re on the way home after having our 75 + Covid booster jabs, and decided to pop into the village shop for a couple of things. Having a short chat with the lady at the till ( she is there. regularly in the afternoons) I mentioned where we’d been. Her reaction amazed me.
“Oh, are you sure you should have done that”
Me, “ Of course. Why not? I
“ You do know they are still experimental don’t you? There is no proof that they work. You may have put yourself in danger. 2OOO (or some such number) people have died after having the vaccination……….”
I was so shocked by her attitude and saying all this to a customer in public that I put up my hand to silence her and started to walk out of the shop
“ Oh. I do hope I havent upset you” she called out as I left.
Can’t help wondering if the shop owner, who wasn’t there at the time, knows she is an anti-vaxer,
preaching to the customers.
When in my previous home, I was on friendly chat terms with a young mother locally. We had met through our dogs playing with each other. It became evident to me at the beginning of ‘Covid’ that she was in denial that it existed, ( there were many such in Stroud) and it became very difficult to have a conversation thereafter.
DeleteSince i believe that every person has a right to their opinion I never challenged her, but did my best to stay polite and to cut our conversations to as short as possible.
It shocks me too AP, but there are plenty of conspiracy theorists around.
I’m with you Archerphile (yet also agree Mrs P to a degree each to their own) but how many anti vaxers are 70 yrs and over not such a higher percentage I wager. Life is special and so much better than the alternative in our opinion therefore we are so very grateful that a vaccine and follow up boosters were discovered 🙏🏼
DeleteI should have added that I agree with AP - this woman was speaking inappropriately in the village shop, although I suppose that if her response had been positive would that also be inappropriate ?
DeleteA difficult subject !
Yeah, let's all wait 10 years before we trust these new experimental vaccines. It would save an awful lot of hassle - either Covid will have died out by then, or it will have killed us ...
DeleteThere was something on Radio 4 today about somebody taking Astra-Zeneca to court because his partner died after here covid jab, I only heard a snippet of it, butI understand that he & his child still had their vaccines so they could go on holiday, so I’m not quite sure where he’s coming from.
ReplyDeleteLike Mrs P I think everyone is entitled to their opinion, but the shop assistant was out of order.
Still got your 🎂 wrong Ev St George’s day is April 23rd not March. I am retiring from birthday 🥳 duties. Happy Birthday to all whenever yours is 🤣
ReplyDeleteOh no! Don’t give up Lady R. Where will we all be without your diary reminders? 😉
DeleteMy dad was born on St Patrick's day, to Scottish parents : )
DeleteThere was more on ‘ The World At One ‘ today following the change of cause of death on a death certificate- following on from yesterdays report.
DeleteMost of today’s discussion was about the dismissive attitudes to those seriously affected by the vaccine until some time later.
I wanted to contribute that when I had a reaction and was finally hospitalised, I was told about this blood clotting on the brain found after the vaccine, and was seriously investigated to illiminate the possibility of that being the cause in my case.
Just found it on iplayer and listened to it. Very interesting. Basically the usual collateral damage to try to protect the majority. I have had the vaccines (but would not have Moderna again) but I do so despite believing it is indeed experimental. Governments did the best they could in difficult circumstances, and basically wanted no news of any serious side effects emerging that would hinder a high percentage uptake of the vaccines.
DeleteI was listening to that report at lunchtime to Mrs P……in bed!
DeleteNot convinced that it is reaction to yesterday’s booster jab but I felt awful this morning, head thumping, wobbly on my feet etc. Half filled the bath then didn’t dare get in it incase I couldn’t get out again, so went back to bed and just slept.
I kept thinking about the shop assistant yesterday and how delighted she would be to have her theories justified.
Should say I have never reacted to any of my 4 other jabs apart from a sore arm so this might simply be a coincidence. Who knows!
Had several days of heaviness and headache after the A-Z, and nothing much at all after the Moderna. Have never had any more because the clinics only had Pfizer, which I'm advised against due to risk of cardiomylitis.
ReplyDeleteI'm now told that all boosters have been phased out locally as not needed!
I wondered who he would have sued if hi partner had died of COVID?
Nothing is 100% risk free in life, we all take risks all the time in day to day life, most of the time without thinking about it. We just have to look at all the available reliable evidence and make up our minds. Sadly there is a lot of misinformation out there and a lot of misuse of statistics, it's not easy. The more we try and make things risk free the less able we become at assessing risk for ourselves, getting the balance right is a very difficult for individuals and organisations.
ReplyDeleteI so agree. Getting the balance right is so very important, be it individual or something different.
DeleteI am a writer of "Pros" vs "Cons" lists, as it helps me decide what to do - just my way of putting things into perspective.
Archerphile ,had I been you I would have had to say something to the Shop Assistant .
ReplyDeleteBefore we had the vaccine we were wearing masks ,washing our hands loads of times for 20seconds and were scared of going anywhere near to people
I believe that whilst we can still get Covid we are unlikely to get it it as severely and hopefully would not need to be hospitalised.
I would hate to go back just over two years ago when Mr LJ was in hospital and I was visiting him
Had my jab last Monday.
Because it is limited to the over 75s I believe,I had choice of date ,time and venue.
My friend and I walked in slightly early and were seen right away.
The lovely young man who gave me the previous injections did the latest one.
So far I haven't had a reaction.
He says the needles are finer now.
I am getting used to needles because I am still going to see the acupuncturist .
Hopefully that seems to be working .
Good point, CC. I'm constantly mystified by the clamour to ban fireworks because 5 or so children a year are injured by them, while the thousands killed or maimed on the roads seem to be accepted as collateral damage for the convenience of mass car ownership.
ReplyDeleteBut then, never having been behind a wheel in my life, I suppose you'd expect me to see it that way.
Given that some on here seem to be called for a booster, as I haven’t been called perhaps I should call my surgery and ask why.
ReplyDeleteLanJan - I’m pleased for you that your acupuncture seems to be working. Hope it continues that way.
ARCHERPHILE - I do hope it’s coincidental that you felt so rough today.
DeleteI hope it doesn’t last long.
I heard from an old friend today that he and his partner had both caught covid, were not too affected by it, and that he felt that his vaccinations had done their job.
This man, now in his early seventies counts every day as he has been living on death row for many years now.
He has smoked throughout his life, has extreme damage to his lungs, accepts his responsibility towards his poor health and still smokes and drinks daily.
Nevertheless he is the most vibrant and creative human being I’ve ever known.
My mother in law insisted on having her cigarettes even when she was in an oxygen tent !
Am delighted and relieved to say I’m feeling much better today and just left with the usual sore, itchy arm.
ReplyDeleteThe vaccine I had was the new one, Sanoffi’s VidPrevtyn-Beta which is protein derived, similar to the way flu vaccines are made. It was designed to give protection against the Omicron variety and to be compatible with whatever vaccine you had before.
Reported side effects are headaches, painful muscles and joints which match my symptoms exactly but should only last a day or two, which they did.
Even though I had a very uncomfortable day, spent mostly in bed, I would far rather that than another dose of Covid so I will happily take another booster when thought necessary.
I don’t understand why you haven’t been offered a booster yet Mrs P. I got a text message saying I qualified and it was linked to an easy online way to book an appointment or a phone number to call. It is available to people in care-homes, those with long term illnesses and people over 75.
I wasn't offered a Covid jab either,Archerphile.
ReplyDeleteI have always been given a card before when I had the jab but wasn't this time.
I presume a note is made of my NHS number.and sent to my GP
A friend saw it mentioned on the TV and told me about it and as I said earlier I had the choice of date ,time and venue.
There was nobody else there when we went on Monday which I think might have been the first day.
I was offered appointments at several different venues and chose the nearest, in a local pharmacy. I could pick any day and whatever time I liked , but I was applying on the first day of notification. When we got to the pharmacy there was quite a queue but everyone was called in according to the exact time they had booked. It seemed to work remarkably well.
DeleteCovid seems to have gone away in my neck of the woods: no jabs on offer anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI called my surgery today and was given a number to call.
DeleteI have now booked at my local hospital next week.
Interesting Archerphile I assumed you had been to the Basingstoke Hub again. We both had a text and because of Mr R mobility situation he has at our request been added to his Surgeries “Booster at home” list will get a call when this is to be actioned. Which leaves me Mr R goddaughter took me before and will willingly do so again if it is Basingstoke Shopping Centre I detest that particular ride and the parking. As I waited to sort out Mr R appointment my Surgery link has expired so I have to get it reactivated tomorrow and will then see if any other venues are available to which I would be happy to attend without bothering GD (who kindly insists she will enjoy the chance of a good natter en route) but I doubt there will be any Pharmacy offers in my area. Will report back…..
ReplyDeleteYes I was surprised about the Hub too Lady R. I was given several places to choose f rom and don’t remember the hub being on it. We chose the Brighton Hill Pharmacy because it is nearest to us, doesn’t require driving into town and is where we had the last booster.
DeleteIf Mr R is entitled to a booster at home it strikes me as bonkers that you, as his carer, can't be done at the same time.
DeleteIn part at least because Mr R and myself use different surgeries CC - all to do with our lives before we were together and in our 27yrs together neither of us has changed.
DeleteIt is lovely to hear that you are all getting your booster vaccines done. It wouldn't be offered if it wasn't still deemed neccessary.
DeleteI have posted the same post twice today, and on both times I got the Your Post has been Published message, but haven't appeared.
ReplyDeleteOh Well...🤷♀️
What I posted wasn't important, so nothing has been missed.
DeleteThank you for letting us know Katy.
ReplyDeleteEv, hopefully your hospital stay won't be long and you'll be back home with Katy and the dogs, all the best under the circumstances.
Katy. Thanks for letting us know.
ReplyDeleteEV If you read this, I wish you well and I am thinking of you, and hope all goes well. 💕 🤗🤗
Katy, it's good to know that Ev is now getting the greater care and attention that she needs but this must be a very worrying time for you as well.
ReplyDeleteIt was most thoughtful of you to let us know; please add my good wishes to those already sent.
Ev & Katy, thanks for keeping us updated, I am sure I speak for all of us when I wish you well, fingers crossed for a speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteI am up in Birmingham for the Academic Archers/ Dum T Dum meeting. Some people are meeting up this evening but the chosen venue was a very noisy bar that I didn’t feel comfortable going into, I have become a bit of a country mouse over the years. So i am back in my hotel room with a glass of wine & some chocolate which is fine.
Will look forward to hearing all about your weekend KP strange now to think that a few years back you attended one of these with Gary….
DeleteAppreciate your post Katy on behalf of Ev.
ReplyDeleteGood to know you can read our comments Ev ensuring you are aware of the support and love winging its way across the Solent to you 🥰
Ev many good wishes for a swift diagnosis and a speedy recovery, and thank you to Katy for letting us know. Sending a big hug. 💐
ReplyDeleteThank you Katy for keeping us in the loop. Sending best wishes for a speedy recovery Ev. 💐
ReplyDeleteHave a good time KP. I’ll have to have a look on google to see if any of the conference is going out live again.
PtbY: thanks for drawing my attention to Magpie Murders. It's such an engrossing plot that I've finished up binge-watching on i-player. I haven't come across this particular composer before (Owen Brady) and I'm enjoying the music, but first time round I can't work out whether it references the characters, the plot, the landscape.or all three.
ReplyDeleteI love the music of Christopher Gunning and especially Debbie Wiseman, and wish I had it in me to do another degree; if I did it would be composition for film and TV!
Sarnia,
DeleteRe your post above…… on weekend evenings I often tune in to Classic FM and I believe it’s Saturday evening, there is a programme about film music and composers of same.
If you haven’t ever caught it, you might find it interesting.
Sarnia…..👍
DeleteEv, I wish you well and hope that it won't be too long before you can go home.
ReplyDeleteI wish you well Ev and happy that the GP managed to get you sorted (eventually) into the hospital.
ReplyDeleteRest easy and come home fighting fit !
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ReplyDeleteAs I posted, a niece of mine was in hospital for 5 days over Easter but no idea why. She has private health care through her work, so has many upcoming appts. to try to work out what the ongoing problem is.
ReplyDeleteIt appears it could be familiar gentetic auto-immune problem, which is it seems is affecting very many family members. My little Sis has had such one for over 30yrs now...and it seems that this is now appearing in other younger family members .
The only ones who don't seem to be showing any symptoms are myself and my eldest niece, who have always been very different as to the rest of the family, and we look alike!
To add. My thought about this niece was right - as niece was possible sepsis
DeleteHi Miriam, I found and copied in one of your posts above, (I assume they were the ones that vanished. For some reason posts sometimes vanish on here but stay on my “control screen” so I can copy them into the relevant place if requested.)
ReplyDeleteI hope your niece’s problems get sorted out, I feel that more auto-immune disorders are being found, possibly due to improved diagnostic tests. My daughters low B12 was picked up along with a couple of raised inflammatory markers associated with auto immune disorders, pernicious anaemia is considered an auto immune condition as are a selection of digestive, skin & arthritic conditions.
As to these two posts above…… as KP says “ possibly due to improved diagnostic tests “ and hopefully more and further research into auto immune disorders as it has historically been of low priority.
DeleteMy list of disorders started at around the age of six or seven with Vitiligo.
At eighteen or so Hashimotos ( AI under active Thyroid ) and slow release Alopecia kicked in, at some point later I developed problems with compromised Adrenals that no consultant wants to claim a name for, and finally Pernicious Anaemia. The longer I live the more chance there is of developing another condition.
But of course none of the above are particularly severe and most certainly will not kill me. There are many A I disorders far more distressing and severe than these that I have. And for many these conditions are invisible to others and so people suffer without much consideration of how lives might be affected.
Just putting it out there to gain some support for putting funds into research for Auto Immune conditions.
Please think about it the next time you make a contribution to the big research programmes. The little ones do not have the funds to advertise themselves in the same way at all.
May I add my best wishes to you Ev ,for a speedy recovery .
ReplyDeleteI hope that your stay in hospital is not prolonged and that when you come home you have nice sunny weather to help you recuperate.
And my love and very best wishes too Ev. I seem to the last one logging in today and seeing Katy’s post. What a brilliant idea getting her to let us know what is happening so we can all be in touch with you through her.
ReplyDeleteI do you have a diagnosis soon and can get back home to recover in comfort.
KP, didn’t realise the archers conference was so soon. Have a great time, send us all the news and do let us know if you bump into Gary!
ReplyDeleteEv, wishing you all the best, fingers crossed for a quick recovery, so you can return home to your daughter and Dud 'n' Bud
ReplyDeleteHappy happy Birthday Ev! Today is the day I believe, so sorry you are in hospital but I’m sure they will help you celebrate and your daughter will be there to make it special for you. 💐🪻🪷🌺🌸🌼
ReplyDeleteI have said it before but as April is my favourite month it would be a good time to have one's birthday so I hope you manage to enjoy your's today Ev.
ReplyDeleteI am sure your daughter will make it special for you.
Hope you enjoy the Conference KP.
ReplyDeleteI watched it on my IPad - was it 3 years ago or was it 4 ? - when you went there with Gary.
Happy birthday Ev. Hope you can have some cake even if in hospital! 💐🎉🍰🍫
ReplyDeleteSo finally it is your birthday dear Ev - I told the bloggers it was fine for me to retire from birthday duty after giving you 2 more so far this year 🙃
ReplyDelete🎂 thoughts are right there with you today from myself and Mr R who likes me to keep him up to date with “my girls” goings on 💐 🎁🎈
Ev, positive healing thoughts to you. I perceive you to be a woman of strength and I hope this attribute will .enable you to focus on dealing with whatever the medics ascertain is causing your discomfort.
ReplyDeleteWishing you well and with treatment a speedy return home to celebrate your birthday.
🎂 happy birthday.
Happy Birthday Ev, hopefully you’re not feeling too unwell to enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteI’m still in Brum, they are just about to start recording the DumTeeDum podcast with special guests Keri Davies & Sunny Ormonde who I always think looks like you would expect, not the case for all the actors.
I forgot to say, no Gary here but I was chatting to one of the organisers at the dinner last night & she said she’s in contact with him over Instagram & he is apparently living it up with MrGG which is good to know.
ReplyDeleteWell that’s good to know KP and thank you for enquiring. Enjoy the rest of your weekend 🤗
DeleteMany Happy Returns Ev, I hope you can manage some cake and that the sun is shining.
ReplyDeleteMust tell you are surreal story. My niece, who now lives in OZ on the Gold Coast south of Brisbane, takes their boys to swimming lessons. They have been seeing a couple at the same time each week, and yesterday went to say Hello. They are from N.Wales and the wife was in the high school just a year below my niece. They didn't know each other, but had mutual friends. This female also knows the tiny hamlet where niece lived!
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't make it up...
The emergency alert test didn't sound on my phone today. Mr CC wasn't expecting it to sound on his as it's too old but mine is fairly new so it should have sounded.
ReplyDeleteMine sounded loud and clear (have a 5G 'phone).
DeleteEven though I expected it, it still made me "jump"!! - and puss cat didn't like it bolting off out the cat flap 🙉
I wonder if pets hear this different??
DeleteThank-you KP for the GG update.
ReplyDeleteIt is really nice to learn that all is well with him and his partner.
It is just a shame that he didn't do a farewell post of sorts, but I am delighted that his life is all he ever wants.
I loved his mortar, in which names were put in, to then be drawn out in a random way in that 1st awful Lockdown and so to post thoughts on a topic.
DeleteMy favourite was the Desert Island Discs one.
I really enjoyed others music and book choices, plus many different luxury items.
My phone sounded, which I wasn't expecting as it's only turned on when I'm using it.
ReplyDeleteI thought the only way to avoid the alarm was for the phone to be right off yet yours went off 🤔
DeleteLike Miriam I was waiting for the alarm and then jumped out of my skin 🤣
My phone also sounded but not until 3.20! So if there was a real emergency I could have been dead by then!!
DeleteMine like many I believe went off a minute early after all the publicity stating it would 3pm exactly - good job the Military is in charge of King Charles 111 Coronation 🤭
DeleteSafely back home after the conference, return trip marred by car deciding to grind to a halt on the A34, fortunately I managed to get to a lay-by but then had to wait for 2 1/2 hrs for RAC, absolutely busting for a wee by the time I got home. Phoning garage first thing tomorrow
ReplyDeleteGood luck KP! Mr A’s car did the same thing 2 weeks before Christmas. He finally got it back, repaired, on March 20th. 😩
DeleteOh dear KP, hope your gets fixed soon.
DeleteAs I was doing my morning mental wake-up (Wordle, Quordle, Nerdle) it occurred to me that we haven’t heard from OWIAS for a while. I hope she is merely busy not unwell or locked out of the system as Ev is on her ipad. Just about to phone garage & will be using MrNuts’ car for a few days, easy enough as he works from home now.
ReplyDeleteHoly Week and Easter are such a very busy time for clergy families so it's usually followed by a break. She's probably been away.
ReplyDeleteStill here! I post from time to time, but crazily busy (as ever!) so I don't contribute much. Although it did occur to me recently I haven't been to the Village Shop recently. I'll have to see if I can carve out time to pop in and say hello to Susan.
ReplyDelete🤣😂 good one owias! Good to hear all is well with yourself and all shoe dwellers 👠👞👟
DeleteRIP 🌹 Len Goodman 🎼💃🏼🕺you and your “pickled walnuts” will be greatly missed. Hopefully on SCD return we will be treated to a beautiful (and rarely seen now) professional dancers waltz routine as a tribute - similar to the one for Bruce.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't a fan of Len but do agree that it would be nice to see a tribute as you describe Lady R.
DeleteWe were very sorry to hear about Len too. He was a real character, knew dancing inside out and didn’t suffer fools gladly. He reminded me very much of my Dad, both facially and in his accent.
DeleteApparently her was a welder before taking up dancing. What a huge change of career!
I too was saddened to hear about Len Goodman. He was a brilliant SCD head judge, but I have to admit that he did annoy me at times.
DeleteLike Lady R I hope a suitable tribute is done to him in SCD. There have been such done for others and not just Sir Brucie. I recall one for Dame Vera Lynn and also the onderful one in the last series, to the late Queen...
The beautiful ballroom dance performed by the SCD pro dancers, in tribute and memory of the late Queen, can be easily found on You-tube.
DeleteIt still produces 🥲
Alerts: my son got one at 23.00 yesterday, another at midnight and more this morning. If you didn't get one at all that's because they've all been diverted to his phone.
ReplyDeleteLen Goodman: he was nasty to Tom Chambers; I don't think I could ever forgive anyone for that!
I've got a pair of greenfinches visiting my feeders. I haven't seen any in my garden for many years, probably due to the trichomonosis which affected them so badly. It's really cheered me up today.
ReplyDeleteWe’d love to see them back too. They were frequent visitors to our garden, though we could have done without their rather annoying “dweeb, dweeb” call!
DeleteI hope EV is doing well. 💕
ReplyDeleteI went to my new "nominated" pharmacy today - which is just 3/4 a mile away from the Lloyds Sainsbury's one I used but now closed. I needed to pick up my eye-drops.
ReplyDeleteThese I know, always have to be ordered in so I always do my prescription order well in advance.
I felt so sorry for this pharmacy, as they are so inundated with all the extra prescriptions being received, as a result.
I had to wait for 30 mins, but I so understood the situation. I after all, have been there and know what they are going through.
I'm looking forward to the new series of Canal Boat Diaries starting next Monday.
ReplyDeleteLove this programme. Who is doing it this time?
DeleteI am also looking forward to Ch5 on Thursday- Dalgliesh.
I have read nearly all the PD James books in which he is the main character.
I just hope that this series stays true to the original book.
I’ve been thinking of EV today as well.
ReplyDeleteI do hope your investigations are progressing satisfactorily EV and that your not too bored with just being in bed.
So have I AP - very much!
Deleteso have I
DeleteOh dear, Yet another loss of one of my favourite personalities - Harry Belafonte and his beautiful voice. I suppose it is only to be expected that people one loved or admired in one’s youth should be reaching the end of their lives.
ReplyDeleteBut is is terribly sad and reminds me of how the years are passing for us all.
Yet again you have spoken for me AP 😢
DeleteFind new ones, AP, there are plenty of them out there!
ReplyDeleteRe greenfinches, Cheshire Cheese ,apart from the parakeets and pigeons we seem to habpve more of them than any other bird.
ReplyDeleteAs I write this comment I am looking out of the window and there are two at either side of the bird feeder on the -now depleted of blossom-magnolia tree.
Wilko's were selling their Niger feeders for £2.99 or thereabouts
Archerphile ,you seem to be going through a bad patch at the moment.
This probably won't help at all but when I feel like that I think of 10 things that I am grateful for.
You will easily find those .
My mum used to say
"It is always darkest before the dawn" and that is true
Well, thank you Sarnia and LanJan for your advice. I was simply saying how sad it is that so many deaths of well known people have been announced recently. And as time goes on it is only natural that more and more people we admired in our youth will inevitably die.
ReplyDeleteI found it sad that Len Goodman was dismissed because he was once ‘nasty’ to a particular performer.
I also do not need to find new people to admire, there are many that already have my admiration: little Tony Hudgell, the boy who was so badly abused by his parents that he had to have both legs amputated, but has gone on to raise thousands for charity; Marcus Rashford, the footballer who lobbied Parliament to provide free school meals during lock down and since; Chris Packham, not only a brilliant and knowledgable ambassador for wildlife but who has raised awareness of autism; my one time boss, Sir Richard Doll who discovered the link between smocking and cancer. And many others including Robbie Cumming, the creator of Canal Boat Diaries, whose programmes are one of the most delightful series on television.
“Smoking”
DeleteYou never know Archerphile, thread & needles could be highly carcinogenic! 😁 I’m sure the Daily Mail must have made that claim at some point (no offence to Mail readers, just a gentle dig at sensationalism & poor science in the press)
DeleteI had never heard of Len Goodman, although I since gather he had something to do with dancing.
ReplyDeleteI attended my local hospital for my booked covid jab yesterday five minutes before my booked time. Round and round the packed car park then approached the queue of around thirty people. Don’t blame us said the person marshalling the queue, blame the NHS booking system.
ReplyDeleteThe queue of thirty was apparently duplicated twice inside on the ground and first floor and the wait was estimated to be one and a half hours.
After a ten minute wait I decided to abandon my appointment and book again.
Whilst in the queue my invitation to get my jab came through and was on my IPad when I arrived home.
Don't blame you at all for rebooking. What is encouraging though, is the take-up for the extra vaccine dose, which sadly is still needed.
DeleteI await the day or that should be year, when it is a once a year combined flu/covid vaccine.
Words fail me Mrs P, and that doesn't happen very often!
ReplyDeleteEv's daughter again. She has read all your comments and appreciates them. I wish I could sort out the ipad so she could comment directly. After bloods and a CT an immune issue has been identified. As her lymph glands are inflamed they are thinking lymphoma and a biopsy in the next couple of days will confirm - however as I have been instructed not to worry as it is treatable and will be ok! I am sure mum would say the same to all of you. She is comfortable and has her phone and ipad. Her brother has come for a couple of days so I was able to take the dogs to see her and we got her some fresh air at the duck pond at the hospital.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Katy. And Ev - all our thoughts are with you. My son is here at present, on his way back from a work conference in Brighton and TO a concert in Bristol on Saturday. He is busy grafting away on the bassoon, working on a very tricky piece by Britten, so it sounds as if I have a fleet of cruise ships in my dining room
ReplyDeleteHello Katy and thank you for passing on the latest info from Ev. Always good to know what it is one will actually be dealing with and that the treatment will be successful 🤗. A relief all round!
ReplyDeleteThank you Katy - and Ev for instructing her……
DeleteWe look forward, on your behalf Ev, to hearing that your treatment has started the repair to your immune system.
All the best…..
Katy ,please also give my best wishes to your mum .
ReplyDeleteThank you for keeping us posted about her progress.
And the same from me too. Thinking of you Ev and glad you now have a diagnosis and can start getting well again soon.
ReplyDeleteChin up Ev, sounds positive, and you had a visit from Bud and Dud. Thanks Katy.
ReplyDeleteThank you for updating us Katy. I hope that it won't be too long before you can go home Ev.
ReplyDeleteThanks Katy. At least you know what’s up now Ev. Hoping they get you sorted asap do you can get home to Katy and the boys. Xx
ReplyDeleteBest wishes Ev. Having a duck pond at the hospital sounds lovely. I wonder what Bud and Dud made of the ducks 🦆🦆🦆 🐕 🐕🦺
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update EV - via your lovely daughter Katy.
ReplyDeleteWishing you every good wish, and I hope you will soon be back in your lovely home with the "boys" and Katy.
Thank Katy, for the updates as it means a lot. 💓
Hello - is there anyone there 🤔
ReplyDeleteNot a lot to report a medical weekend for us. Mr R dentist today check up, total clean and a filling. So the money tree took a knocking. Tomorrow I am having my Covid Booster at Basingstoke Hub,
too late I found out I could have had it at my surgery the first time to be offered this. Mr R is on the at home list but has also had an invitation from his surgery (also the first time on offer) which we can manage but not Basingstoke these days too much hassle for him so have booked first available date. Now he has two options and we will cancel whichever one is not required.
Still thinking of you Ev 🥰
Yes I'm here but still a little bit bemused by something that happened this afternoon. I had, as I do most days, taken baby Max (a year old now and a little dear, but still waking at night, so two tired parents) out in his pram along the lanes to give his mum a break. I got as far as the crossroads where there is an old granite cross up on the verge, and we stopped there for a break and a biscuit, and I leant back against the cross in hope of getting some energy for the walk back, closed my eyes and when I opened them there was the blackest, Ethiopian came to mind, young man I had ever seen with a guitar on his back. Very striking looking and tall and looking like a cross between a wandering medieval minstrel and the Pied Piper of Hamelin. His coat had sort of flowing tatters blowing behind as he walked. I wondered for a minute if it was a time warp and he had stepped out of the stone, but then he spoke, not in medieval English! and said he was lost and looking for St Nectan's Glen. I gave him directions across the fields but was too astonished to ask him who and what he was. Logic would say he must have been going to some costumed music event at the waterfall, but it was most strange opening my eyes and just seeing him there.
DeleteOnly news from me is also medical. Saw GP again today re very high Blood Pressure and now have my third different prescription. Took in a list of readings, 3 per day for 3 weeks- took me ages to type them out!
ReplyDeleteAdvice was ‘put the meter away and don’t take any more readings for at least 3 weeks to give new meds time to work. Then take readings to see if there is any difference. This occurs when we are supposed to be on the cruise so it will just have to wait until we get back.
But generally feeling a bit better now, less worried and fully recovered from the vaccine reaction which is a great relief.
So glad you are feeling better at any rate AP 🤗
DeleteI will have 🤞🏼tomorrow re my Covid Booster hoping for a non reaction scenario …..
Please please may your cruise go ahead this time without anything to tarnish it you have had far too many mishaps over the last few years regarding holidays one way and another!
When you are on your Cruise ,Archerphile your blood pressure will drop significantly and knowing that you can't sort out any problems appertaining to home ,you will feel relaxed.
ReplyDeleteTrust me .I bet I am right.
How long is your Cruise?
Please remind me.....
To where are you cruising?
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