Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 22: Calmly through the day

[MissConductUS]

I've started a new one. Please join us and share the boring and mundane things happening in your world. It will be calming for all.

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Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 21: Calmly through the day

Glad your results were OK Miss.
Mr. Fluff and your new adventourous chickens Silkie
I am glad they are feeling at home with you. When I was a kid I was convinced that chickens can't fly.
DD was out today and managed to run into a group / swarm / assortment of 25 chihuahuas out with their walker. At first she thought they were gigantic rats.
Lemons I hope you got the right nurse.

Lemons, was he getting an injection or having a blood sample drawn? Vials have to be labeled to send off to the lab.

Thanks, Prok. Since the orthopedist was pretty sure it was nothing I wasn't terribly concerned. Still, it's nice to know for sure.

@MissConductUS it was his one year injections so 4 injections 2 in each leg. MMR and I can’t remember the others. They record the injection batch etc in a little red book that records a young child’s immunisation, height, weight amongst other things. This you then take to the appointment to be updated.

Luckily it was a nurse who did all the paperwork and injected after. DS only cried after injection number 4.

I need to get myself to the doctors I’m exhausted all the time but have felt like this on and off for a few years. My legs and arms ache with tiredness.

Prok what were 25 chihuahuas doing all together?

Thankfully they do all of that recording online here, Lemons, or they would have spent a lot of time at each appointment scolding me for forgetting my little red book or presenting one that had been chewed by its owner.

MissC glad you had good news. Very nice of the doctor to call you and put your mind at rest.

I wonder if there is a name for a pack of chihuahuas? A nip? A yap? A ferocity?

Hope work is going OK Lemons

Thanks Prok

Its silly season for boys here. Yesterday got DD off for her English Lit GCSE, thankfully did one poem with her and was the one which was compulsory. Then call from school no DS, school can't cope. I explained on chemo and feeling very sick (forgot anti-sickness med) and so they carried on but had to call police. No-one could find DS. I said to DH he will be at school as secret squirrel and will return at 3.15pm, he did to the minute. But school insisted never there and police had to come round to see if he was here - he was at 3.15pm but hid from them and they tried to interview him, he's mute and then spoke to DH. Whole lot of paperwork, frantic school emails following that.

Then today decided to tell DS he could stay home - he's a flight risk at school as enrichment week and then had to do silly season with 3 boys. Making sure DS did not leave (tick), trying to stop Mr Floof getting in with rabbit (failed x 2) and had to get him out from playing leap rabbit and climbing to top of door frame and jumping in. Then he decided to try and come with me and try and get my food and then he loves the ipad and pawing it to get different videos etc. Today he discovered you could work it by licking. Then had oncologist call at 10am but had to spend to 11am tracking her down as so chaotic at hospital but we agreed to try to do 3 more weekly chemos then radio then hormones. Then 11.10am call with ESA, that is not supposed to happen but they got it wrong but did at least solve it on call and said I am in support group and now sorted until Nov 23. Then messages from Head, senco etc re DS. Then 2.30pm call with LA to sort DS ehco. And DD had physics GCSE. Did need a pimms and lemonade to get through today.

That Silkie sounds like a hell of a day with amusing but stressful bits in between.

Lemons We have no idea. DD assumes they were with a dog walker specializing in them. She stood there staring at them, they stood there staring back until the dog walker said: "Sorry, but I need to get past you."

Happy moment of the day: I congratulated my DN to his 24th birthday and I got a whisperd "Danke" voicemail back.

Hope your DN had a good birthday Prok

DoctorTwo I seem to remember if chemo brain is working (possibly not) you are having surgery / just had surgery, hope everything has gone OK.

It was quite the day Prok though at least the ESA decision means I get £500 a month for the next year and no more interviews, forms or medical certificates needed. Also been backdated to 5.4, no idea why as that date has no medical significance but is start of tax year. DD is already making plans to spend it for me.

Mr Floof is now curled up asleep next to my velvet slippers with have pompons on and he loves very much, excellent cat toys.

Ordered a takeaway as its been a long day, started at 5.30am ish with DH putting the things out for special collection, old carpet and underlay from DDs room, old TV unit half eaten by rabbit and 3 sacks of rubbish, which was what DH found stuffed behind and in TV unit largely by DS. [roll] It was the one bit of living room cleaners didn't do, well that and under the sofas but you need to be strong before tackling that.

DS has a tendency do the same (not with the TV unit we have none, but with his Kallax boxes and baskets) and then suddenly he appears fills 3 bags with "yellow" rubbish and then vanishes again into his den.

Lemons, that makes sense. I thought the NHS had fully electronic medical records, but I guess not if you have a booklet to record his immunizations and physical exam records. Here they scan a bar code on the vaccine packaging and the lot number is recorded automatically.

Silkie, I have been wanting a kitten for years, but I don't know if I could cope with the antics Mr Floof is putting you through. Plus I'm in my early sixties and don't know if I'll want to be caring for a cat when I'm 80. I have had a lot of cats in my lifetime.

Math, you are quite correct. The doctor could have just gone home to dinner at 7:15 and left it to my to chase up the test results. It was really thoughtful of him to call me.

So, good news and bad news with the pain management specialist. I originally couldn't get in to see her until the 23rd but they rang me yesterday and told me that they had a cancelation today so I took it and went over there this morning. More good news is that she's lovely and she's very highly rated. She also spent a lot of time doing an exam and consultation. The bad news was that she coudln't do the cortisone inject today, but I was able to book it for next Thursday.

I am so glad I established care with this practice a few years ago. Navigating this would be much harder if they didn't have all of these specialities under one organization and the doctors are generally excellent.

Wow Silkie sounds like one hard day. Hope your DDs GCSES are going ok. Work is going ok. To be frank am horrifically busy as it’s the end of term.

MissC sorry you couldn’t have your injection but glad she was a lovely doctor.

My childcare has fallen through for one day a week MIL is being a pain and saying she can’t cope due to her Ill health which is mostly in her head. Since covid there is very limited childcare in the area so am very stuck.

@MissConductUS, glad your test results were good and hope you are ok until the injection next week.

@Silkierabbit, that sounds like one hell of a day! Glad you got through it all with your sense of humour intact 😊.

@Lemonsandlemonade , your DS is better at dealing with injections than I am. I’d be wailing after the first one as I am a bit if a wuss with needles.

in dull news, we have tidied up ahead of the lovely woman who will come and clean the house for us tomorrow.

Oh Lemons what a pain! My DSis had a nursery for her son call and say they couldn’t have him, it was 3.5 weeks before she went back to work full time after her year’s maternity leave, I remember her sobbing in frustration and fear. It all worked out in the end and after a cobbled together month, he is now very happy in a lovely local nursery. Fingers crossed a solution falls in for you soon.

I have decided to let DS relax until the 17th (preliminary results) after that he as to find out what he wants to do - uni or a place within the dual system.
DD ran into an old school mate who is learning to become a Klavierbauer (piano builder), which I find fascinating.

Well remembered Silkie, chemo brain is not letting you down. I have an appointment in a couple of weeks which will tell me if butchery is on the cards. I will of course keep the thread updated, if only to make everybody laugh at how much of a wuss I am.

MissC I love having Mr Floof but he is rather full on and glad DD catnaps him a lot as his energy levels are higher than mine, esp on chemo. Today he has been quite snuggly and purry with me though did a MN post, someone asked about the silkies, he then deleted and did a forward roll on the bed landing off the bed. And when I got a teacake Mr Floof suddenly appeared out of nowhere underneath me and jumped on me, had to palm him off with the wrapper as he can't have chocolate. He is already 3kgs. So would recommend a kitten share with a more energetic younger person.

Hope not much butchery is involved DrTwo

Thanks Plastic Hope the cleaner works their magic.

Prok Hope you DS can come to a good decision.

Hope you can find a nursery solution lemons

DD had GCSE English Language today, finishing this week's GCSEs and two more weeks (10 to go but now 18 are done) Rearranged my radiology first call as clashed with chemo, took about 6 staff and 3 hours to get it changed but got there in the end.

Prok, I wish we had a dual system like that here. It's hard to get vocational education in the US.

DoctorTwo, if you have surgery coming up, consider what it was like in the days before anesthesia.

Silkie, he's already bigger than one of my adult cats.

It was a lovely day here. I took a day of annual leave to get some things done. Also, we had someone come in to replace our stationary bike as it was making a noise when we rode it. They essentially gave us a new bike, just transplanting the seat and handlebars.

The deck garden is doing nicely.

MissC your patio looks lovely.

I think I have a solution for the childcare issue but it will mean DM swapping her day so I’m hoping she will do that. There is one childminder in a town 12 miles away who has a space.

After writing to the zoo about our awful experience ( lovely zoo awful staff member) they have given me a free family ticket which is good and unexpected.

In a slightly scary moment today I lost the child we have for respite care. Only for five or six minuets but felt like five hours. He had wondered off and not waited as planned. I was very very proud as he went to a staff member to ask for help which was amazing as I know how much effort that would have taken him.

Lovely photo MissC

Glad childcare looks solveable Lemons

Just booking trips for our Cornish stay atm. Did a longer post then it went aww snap again so posting this quickly. Have a sleeping Mr Floof, very purry today.

Lemons That is great for the childmanother little step. Like DN's whispered "Thank you".
Miss lovely deck garden! DD and I finally managed to order the door. We have not yet been to that particular DIY shop and they had a large plant and garden section. So we spent the afternoon potting our newcomers.
DH expects - if all goes well - about 12 kg of tomatoes.

I sowed the third lot of dwarf French beans. None of the seedlings from the previous showings have survived 😔.

I went shopping by myself today. I am very proud and relieved. Felt a bit like I would never get my life back again.

Pink Well done!

DD3 and I ventured to the Farmer's Market this morning and returned $20 lighter but with doughnuts, croissants, and a lavender and fennel plant. It was lovely out and we had a croissant on the deck with tea for me and coffee for her. I'm going to pot the lavender and fennel tomorrow.

We are girding ourselves for temps above 90F next week. I hope this won't be too hot for the plants.

Math This may sound like a stupid question, but what is a 'Farmer's Market'?

I was woken up at 5 by a rain shower - I had to rush and close all the windows as we are on the top floor with "Dachfenstern" (? No help from google.)

I think we'd call dachfenstern 'roof-windows', Prok, or maybe skylights. Most people seem to call them Velux windows, as that's the company that seems to have dominated the market. I suppose it’s a bit like Hoover - the name of the company has become the name of the thing.