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

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MissConductUS · 24/03/2022 23:17

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.

Here is the link to the prior thread:

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

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Lemonsandlemonade · 29/03/2022 18:44

Happy BirthdaySilkie am so sorry you’re feeling so rotten. Gentle hugs to you.

HelenaJustina · 29/03/2022 18:53

Happy Birthday silkie teenage girls can be the absolute pits… they’ll get their comeuppance as mothers and when they are demanding to be treated as adults, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to communicate with them in the same vein. ‘I’m disappointed in the way you have behaved around Mother’s Day and my birthday etc’ but all that needs energy and it sounds like yours is best conserved for treatment.

I got back from work at 20 past 6 (I stop getting paid at half past 3), I have lovely leftovers to look forward to for dinner but need to tackle the bathrooms first.

LoveFall · 29/03/2022 21:28

Happy Birthday Silkie! 💐🎉🎂

My Dad was given dexamethasone in short bursts for his multiple myeloma. I am not sure why but he did feel wired and energetic, and had trouble sleepig

Silkierabbit · 29/03/2022 21:50

Thanks mawika Glad your DD is OK.

Thanks Iwandered Not the greatest of birthdays, was expecting a rough one with chemo but wasn't expecting no cards, no presents, no-one in family saying happy birthday and DDs awful moods. She just came back for round 2 which was worse than ever and added that her brother hates me too. Lovely child atm. But DH has finally said happy birthday at 9.30pm, DS is mute so wasn't expecting him too and DD just has ranted/sulked all day. I did try Helena's I am disappointed with the Mother's Day birthday thing but would have been better to take her recommendation of just do cancer. Mother's Day apparently how would she know, though she told me she knew 2 days before and I said on the day and she was with her boyfriend so she knew. Its strange she goes from long periods of being lovely to periods of being really vile and saying lots of untrue things just to hurt me as much as possible. The doctors have put her on new meds recently for migraines and mental health, don't know if that is affecting things, would like to know what she is on as it isn't improving things.

DH is now booking her trip to Paris. Wish MIL good luck with her and hope DD does not take covid over with her, MIL is a hugger and kisser and DD is very sociable though currently only in school half the days saying she has headaches the rest but never has headaches on the weekends. Though it may be anxiety re school but she also told me well in advance she was going to miss school as possible as they won't kick her out once they have exams booked. DD did covid 2nd on Sunday.

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. I did get biscuits from DH but they went wrong Grin At least DH has booked DD in for Mon to Sun so we if I am up to it maybe able to get away for a night or two at Easter, I really want to see the puffins though not supposed to be an hour from hospital and its a boat to an island. We will see. So far no temps.

Silkierabbit · 29/03/2022 21:55

Actually I did get 1 card and it was from MIL with a lovely message saying she was sending me 1,000 kisses, is making strawberry from the garden tarts for when I come and hopes everyone is well. It was so kind it made me cry and also as MIL was the only one. Though I have about 150 messages from women with cancer for birthday and I don't tell many people so hardly anyone knows tbf.

Pinklimey · 30/03/2022 00:21

I had fun teaching dd maths with the use of combine harvesters and chopped off fingers. Much less macabre evening if the teacher had actually explained percentages, instead of leaving it to me.

Champagneforeveryone · 30/03/2022 00:59

miss I am really impressed. So far I've seen mice and rabbits, and that's just in the course of a night shift with other distractions and the camera not properly positioned yet.

I'm like a teenage girl going all giddy every time she gets a phone notification Grin

halfpasteleven · 30/03/2022 01:44

Just catching up on this thread-
Happy birthday Silkies, We never know how strong we are until we have to be.

sueelleker · 30/03/2022 10:17

Just had a phone call from the eye hospital to book a cataract assessment appointment for April 12th. I'm getting nervous-it didn't seem real until now, although I have noticed my sight deteriorating a bit. (I described it to the optician "as if my glasses permanently need cleaning")

ZZTopGuitarSolo · 30/03/2022 15:22

@MissConductUS

Happy Birthday Silkie.

Champagne, I've had a look at the Blink cameras on Amazon and they look fab. Amazon also owns Ring. I see that the Blink cameras also have two-way audio. I love talking to visitors through the camera. The shock on their faces is priceless. Grin

I may get my second covid booster tonight. It's just been authorized here for age 50 and over.

DH is away at the moment but he still gets notified when I go out the front door, which triggers the Ring doorbell. The other day I wandered out there for a few minutes and he started talking to me through the camera from a building site in Florida where he's currently working. Very weird!

Do you think it's worth getting the booster now, or waiting until it gets closer to winter? I can't decide and could use some advice. I'm also over 50.

ZZTopGuitarSolo · 30/03/2022 15:25

@Silkierabbit

Actually I did get 1 card and it was from MIL with a lovely message saying she was sending me 1,000 kisses, is making strawberry from the garden tarts for when I come and hopes everyone is well. It was so kind it made me cry and also as MIL was the only one. Though I have about 150 messages from women with cancer for birthday and I don't tell many people so hardly anyone knows tbf.
That made me feel quite tearful so I can only imagine how you must have felt. I'm sorry it was such a horrid birthday.

One of my teen daughters was pretty awful at that age. She actually sounds similar to your DD - very very talented at math, went to a special science and math magnet school, which was actually really wonderful for her. She is much kinder now at 20.

Gentle hugs.

MissConductUS · 30/03/2022 16:38

Do you think it's worth getting the booster now, or waiting until it gets closer to winter? I can't decide and could use some advice. I'm also over 50.

ZZ, it depends on a number of factors. How long has it been since you got the first booster? Do you have any medical conditions that put you at risk of severe covid (referred to as comorbidities)? At six months or more past your first booster, there is an increased risk of having a case severe enough to require hospitalization, but that risk also goes up and down with the other factors.

If your general health is good, walk, don't run, to get the booster. There's almost no downside to getting it. I'm early 60's and have hypertension, so it may be more important for me than you. Holding off because there might be a surge next winter doesn't make much sense to me. We might have another varient and surge in July. I think it's going to become a twice-a-year intervention and I'll get another dose next fall anyway.

Bottom line, get it, but it's probably not a hair-on-fire emergency for you, I hope this helps. Smile

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ZZTopGuitarSolo · 30/03/2022 17:55

Thanks MissC. That's really helpful. I'll be due for it early May and it sounds like I should get it.

Iammilliemoosauntie · 30/03/2022 19:22

I've had quite an exciting day for a change, I went for my mammogram. As a full bosumed girl, I knew pain would be involved so I went in and as there was no one else around, I told the receptionist that I had come to get my knockers felt, no response! The young girl that actually did my appointment was brilliant though, I told her that I would be closing my eyes and pretending that she was Richard Gere, she laughed and said " that's fine by me"!! It flippin hurt but she was quick and it was soon over. Then i came home and did a lovely lasagne with salad for tea, a good day!

LoveFall · 30/03/2022 21:05

I went to put up the patio umbrella on our deck yesterday and it pretty much fell apart in my hands with little metal pieces falling out. I had quite the fight with it to put it back together so it would fold. DH and I just spent a good hour trying to fix it, and then to fit the spare we had.

We now realize the spare was faulty too so we are not only getting a freezer, but a new umbrella too.

We really need it on the deck to reduce the amount of afternoon and evening sun we get in our apartment. It is all windows and brutal in the summer. It bothers my eyes.

I would love to get a covid booster before we go to England but not a peep here about boosters. I had three doses due to my CEV status but nothing since.

I am worrying about our trip to England because of covid and my joint pain limiting me. I wish there was something that works like ibuprofen but was not hard on my already borderline kidneys. I end up staying home watching the dog while everyone goes off on country gad abouts,

I hope you are feeling OK Silkie (and everyone)

MissConductUS · 30/03/2022 21:56

Welcome, @Iammilliemoosauntie, and thanks for sharing your mammography news. The techs always appreciate a patient with a sense of humor.

Love, I'm getting ready to put out our deck furniture and hoping that it's all in good shape. When are you going to England? Canada may have second boosters available by then. I did not get mine last night as CVS, the chain pharmacy I use, hadn't received instructions get from their corporate office to offer them. I'll check back with them last week.

I spent the afternoon at my specialist dentist getting impressions taken for the crown and abutment I need for the implant I had placed in January. The whole business is going to be expensive.

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LoveFall · 30/03/2022 22:23

MissConduct, we are leaving for England on the 24th of May. I am really not sure if my third jab was because I am CEV (that's what the invite said) or was an actual booster. DH got an invitation for a booster. The whole line up when I was there were CEV people. Sharing autoimmune disease diagnoses is such fun!

We have recently loosened rules here but of course numbers are rising, and the numbers in England are high. Son and both granddaughters have covid right now (our English ones).

We have cancelled twice and no way is DH going to cancel this time. He is determined regardless.

Lovely day today. I am preparing my biggest planter to start some herbs like arugula (rocket) etc. but can't plant much due to our trip.

LoveFall · 30/03/2022 22:39

Miss, I just did some research and it says people in CEV "groups 1 & 2" will be offered a booster 6 months after their third dose. I am in group 2 it seems so six months after my third dose which was on October 9.

Hopefully I will squeak in before May 24!

mathanxiety · 30/03/2022 23:26

Silkies, I'm sorry I missed your birthday.
I hope you can feel the good wishes on this thread, wafting your way.

Champagneforeveryone · 31/03/2022 00:43

I seem to have completely missed silkies birthday, so apologies and belated Cake

My cameras have stopped working because the internet is intermittently down. Probably for the best as I had a nap after my night shift and woke up to nearly 300 notifications- I have now worked out how to change the sensitivity Grin

I'm having a medical eye test tomorrow as I have a hazy patch in the vision in my left eye. So much of being an adult is just constant refurbishment Hmm

Silkierabbit · 31/03/2022 04:33

Thanks for the birthday wishes. ZZ Yes that sounds very like my DD thankfully she appears to be calming, she did reply to an e-mail I sent her yesterday asking for her NI number for new EHIC cards I need to order and at least ranting stage is over. I think she has learnt that ranting at me on my chemo day when I am on steriods I will not be my usual kind, patient and a bit of a doormat self with her. Its hard for her at the moment too, just can't wait for gcses and this chemo to be over. It will still be a bit rubbish for me after as radio to follow and I think its 6 months recovery time but this is the worst stage. Just hoping permanent damage will be minimal but they don't know atm, but are keeping on and just need to go in if starting losing eyesight, neuropathy and eye are just been monitored. May go to dentist for teeth mid chemo as lots of dental pain / numbness, quite scared for future dental bills and damage though at least cosmetic dentistry is amazing these days, sadly so is the cost and want my own teeth ideally. But the not taking anti-sickness has gone really well, no nausea, no sickness, no constant chest pain, no indigestion, constipation has gone so that ones an improvement, will just have the one tablet they give you with chemo now. So its just that anti histamines which I think they have changed or at least I wasn't zombiefied by it this time, the Pac chemo and the steriods.

My eye socket pain is finally easing today, eye that side watering a lot but can see OK, they think its the Pac but now I wonder about the steriod as it was my last one yesterday lunch and now pain has lessened a lot. I need the steriod though. Need to check if they gave me one on Monday with chemo as that is when it started.

Am trying to sort out schools for DS, one of the two got back to my personal call and said no contact from LA at all, 2 months now and he is so distressed and getting worse by the week and found out yesterday current school have issued an instruction to all staff not to ever speak to him when he is not in lessons. Great so he is distressed and no one helps him or supervises him by a 60mph road whilst very depressed and no kids help either not that is should be them. At least its Easter from this Friday.

Covid is really rife here at the moment though at least if your relatives have it now hopefully will be OK in May, it normally seems a few month gap. We have only had it once but mainly been in hiding and also handgel as DD says is the 5th member of our family. They said here the boosters are most effective for 10 weeks but not sure how often given here, I am still in normal category but should be in CEV with chemo but had third just 2 weeks pre chemo so its fine and am isolating anyway apart from hospital. Though its through the roof in hospitals but I just gel everything and nurses are masked but going down like flies. I would love to get away for a night at Easter if we can though, still want to see those puffins though its a 5 hour boat / island trip which I should not really be doing and also weather is dicey at Easter. But DH is feeling guilty about my birthday and Mother's Day and wants us to do something if we can though he is amazing normally and it so much for him too. Lucky to have him. At least no meds now until Monday, yay.

Silkierabbit · 31/03/2022 10:14

I should have a warning that I do a lot of waffling on steriods Grin

Just had really bad nosebled for 20 mins, phoned chemo line and may need to go in for bloods or A&E if happens again, getting other bleeding as well though bloods due on 4th before 3rd chemo. But said that and they said they think that's an error and glad I said.

DD messaged to say it is snowing, it was but quite sunny now.

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 31/03/2022 12:35

DB sent a picture of Hamburg on his way home from night shift - snow, "nass und matschig", but snow.

DD and I were to see the renaissance exhibition Link in English and loved it.

We are having a traditional meal of Kassler, Sauerkraut and potatoes

MissConductUS · 31/03/2022 16:40

I'm having a medical eye test tomorrow as I have a hazy patch in the vision in my left eye. So much of being an adult is just constant refurbishment hmm

Champagne, it's a well-known fact that when you turn 30 you're out of warranty, medically speaking. Smile. The best you can hope for at that point is a service contract.

Silkie, steroids do that to everyone. I used to have to take prednisone occasionally and in addition to the moon face, constant hunger, and insomnia, it made me a bit of a mad cow.

Love, that's great news about your booster. Hopefully you can schedule it online ahead of time and have it as soon as you're eligible.

My pharmacy is now offering the second booster. I rang them to confirm this and am now booked for 6:00 tonight. That will give me time to get home, change and get my vaccination card. I'll order a takeaway while there and pick it up on my way home.

I've seen pictures of the snow in London. It looks like quite a lot for this late in the season.

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Silkierabbit · 31/03/2022 16:53

Yes MissC they do that. I feel like I should add a warning to my e-mails saying that these thoughts may just be steroid induced. I keep sending so many e-mails and they are getting quite dramatic at times, still its working to get things moving with the ehcp but some of them are a bit loopy like the school plotting against us. Its funny on steriod days these thoughts seem perfectly rational and I don't give a monkeys what anyone thinks send out all kinds of things then go off steriods and think Hmm that was very efficient to get that much done but some of it was completely loopy. I can well believe Putin is on steroids.

A lovely cancer charity has just given me a night away in a hotel by a river you can canoe in and an evening meal and breakfast for free for 2 weeks time. I said I would pay for a room and breakfast for DS as well and they gave me that at a third of the normal rate. Very kind of them and will be lovely to go somewhere other than hospital. Just hope I am medical emergency free on that day.

Had counselling today though was shortened due to my bleeding everywhere for 30 minutes, then needing to bathe and managing to shower the whole room by accident then a power cut but got there in the end and she was lovely.

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