What are you up to today if you have a chronic illness? Thread 🧵 9 Summer's Coming

[MewithME]

Link to last thread 🧵 https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5524497-what-are-you-up-to-today-if-you-have-a-chronic-illness-thread-8-plodding-on-gently

You know the rules...let's be tidy and fill number 8 up first 😁

Ha ha I had a final rummage and found some black cotton harem pants in the bottom of the drawer. The most unflattering garment ever on me and I thought I'd sent them to charity but apparently not!

I'm back home with new specs and also new sunglasses. I've not worn varifocals for 2 months now so I'll need to re- accustom myself a bit. They are very nice though.

I'm still negotiating for some storage crates with a chap on ebay, we have now been blocked from ebay messages because I tried to send my email address! Fortunately his email address is listed in his business profile so I am in contact. All these shady business deals!

Ahh glad you’re pleased with your new specs @TeaAndStrumpets hope your eyes soon adjust and you can get your storage crates

Thank you. It sounds ridiculous but I've been searching for months for this type. DH needs to pack up his garage and workshop, and these have no ventilation holes like supermarket ones do. So much of his car and bike stuff has little components which could drop off in transit. Anyway I am getting a good discount for a job lot!

Currently 19°c here & drizzling. Heavy rain & dropping to 16°c this afternoon. You know when it's summer in Scotland - the rain is warmer 😁.

@ValleyClouds hope you are feeling a bit better today.
@TeaAndStrumpets enjoy your new glasses!

Oh lucky you! Fancy some cool Scottish weather right now. We are due 39° this afternoon, can scarcely credit it. It's currently 28° indoors.

I’d love that weather! Please send some to me @CoffeeBeansGalore

I will try to wave some down to you 😁

Hooray for new specs @TeaAndStrumpets

I think we've reached our peak of temperature - 33C which feels disgusting. It's quite windy so I hope the storms are on their way back. I woke up from a nap feeling really hot and dehydrated so am trying to revive myself with electrolytes and ice lollies.

I grew up in Scotland, there's quite a temptation to move back at the moment!

That weather does sound rather lovely @CoffeeBeansGalore

We had 34 yesterday @martha79 and I barely coped so I feel for you and those in the high 30s have my absolute sympathy!

Grey & damp but easier on the dogs today.

Flying ant alert!😯

DH found some in the study, hoovered them up and put them outside. Some adults and loads of babies. It is such a seldom hoovered room a lot were caught in cobwebs lol...the window is badly fitting so they must have crept in through a gap. Ugh.

@TeaAndStrumpets Flying ants!? Nooo! Pray for me. I am at risk 🙈

Like @MewithME I have a house that's falling apart. In particular it's letting the outside in.

Cooler here today and a bit of a breeze but still stuffy.
My day included an emergency vet's visit for the cat due to a gunky eye, a Tesco visit and a library visit for DD to get a book.

We I can be bothered I will get up to finish making our Friday Pizza 🍕

Have a nice evening all.

It's still been hot here today, but the breeze has picked up this evening and the temp is set to break overnight 🤞

Went to the allotment this morning and pottered a bit and watered. We're not due any rain until Sunday according to the forecast but a storm was supposed to pass over us last night and that didn't happen 🤨

So just keeping as cool as possible and hoping that the change will come. Living on bread and salad 😋

You will all be pleased to know that DH has been safe the last couple of nights.

Still too hot, no storms here. Looking forward to slightly cooler temperatures so I can attempt to clean the house before it heats up again. Feeling for those in the SE and East Anglia today.

Don't clean your house! It will only get dirty again!

It's stuck at 31 here which is not as bad as predicted, but I'm horribly sweaty. Just want it to be over.
Watched Clarkson's Farm to try out my new specs and they just kept steaming up from my sweaty eyebrows.

If I get run over by a bus this week I will be mortified by lack of any knickers at all! Thinking of ditching the bra too but it's horrible to have floppy sticky boobs, TMI but it's the truth.

🤣🤣 @TeaAndStrumpets stay well away from any buses 😂
Well after my MIL messaged me to announce she was floating around the house braless in a kaftan this week, I decided to ditch the bra too. Have to confess though when I had my funny turn the other night, it actually passed my mind that if DH had to call an ambulance, I’d look an utter state lying on a garden chair, braless with feet in a bucket of cold water! 😁

That is so funny - when I had an ambulance called last year, while we were waiting I staggered to the chest of drawers to find some knickers to wear under my nightie! So ridiculous! They must see all sorts 🙄

😂😂 They really must @TeaAndStrumpets

@TeaAndStrumpets its minging, we are sticking to the floors as we walk around. I wasn't planning on too much I.e floors and stripping the beds everything else can wait.

After paramedics saw me pop out a huge 10lber on my living room floor I honestly couldn't care what I look like now whenever I have anything medical. I don't think there is an inch of me somebody hasn't been seen these last few years. No knickers would be the least of my worries!

Made me chuckle reading about people going braless - in this weather it’s defo needed!

praying for the weather to cool down, there was a bit of a downpour today and some thunder etc but totally missed us (boooo!) However DS who has been working outside in this heat all week was very happy as the downpour hit near his work at which point he said he just went and stood in it smiling and wasn’t the only person doing so 🤣

Roll on September and some lovely autumn weather - I realise this won’t be for everyone but I’m not built for this weather lol

@Dozymoo42 im not built for it either however I'll admit the one positive I've had this week is no neuropathy in my hands or feet.

Well that is a positive! Glad to hear it 😊

@Oioiqueen I'm glad there's been some benefits. I've been less achy this week which has been a bonus.

😂at everyone's lack of clothing, it's absolutely necessary. I did have knickers on yesterday but nothing else from mid-afternoon onwards!

My cats have just broken into the cellar - it's the one door in the house I keep shut and they'll come out covered in cobwebs and dust but it is cooler down there so I think I'll allow it for today. Finally got round to ordering a fan as I was reading there's likely to be more of this sort of weather over the summer (thank you Argos same day delivery).

'Only' meant to get up to about 27C here today... my calendar tells me that at various points in time I was committed to a 15-mile race, a singing day and an orchestra concert this weekend but I am obviously doing none of those. I wish I was well enough to do them, but actually quite glad I'm not and nobody expects me to.

Hello 👋🏻 Finally it is cool in the house this morning. It started cooling down last night.

I am on my own with DS at his Dad's. I'm not doing well on weekends just now. I'm either with DS and struggling to rest enough while feeling guilty at being boring for DS, or I'm here alone thinking lots of unhealthy thoughts about how life has turned out.

I think I've forgotten how to be normal. How do I do life and feel like I'm living? I feel like I'm resting too much or not enough but wonder if I've trapped myself in my house when I could do something. I don't think humans are supposed to be alone as much as I am. I think too much and get in my own head.

So, I don't know what to do today. I could do with seeing someone really but friends all have their families.

Currently in bed and don't feel enough energy to go fetch a coffee yet. @Swanhilde is your kettle on?

I have pink toes! Usually purple half the year.