A Very Crepey New Year

[Cremolafoam]

Will this do ??

I think Herbcat has a bit of Maine Coon in him. Long hair, pointy face, feathery tail, very friendly and clever - could open doors [and loved doing sudoku]. I've already looked up Maine Coon rescue! Though feel a bit disloyal...

Cheered to hear of chundering crepeys. It's what keeps us young.

When my last cat died I really regretted not getting another one sooner (it was several years later before I got Nice but Dim). I would stroke and pick up cats in the street and yearn to find abandoned kittens. I don't think it's disloyal to think of getting a new cat already.

Oh FGS. Just had call from vet, and he's doing really well. Eating, putting on weight, bright and sprightly. He could have ages...

I think he heard you, Herbs

Oh pussycat we love you so, but you are a trying bastard.
Herbs that's good isn't it? I know it won't end well, but it gives you all a bit more time at home with him.

I too throw up on buses ( once into my shopping bag, casual like) and once "stop the bus please driver, I'm going to puke" 🤢 Causing a full double decker of commuters to watch.

Mrs S , I do The looking for strays thing too. I imagine I will find kittens in the hedgerows in these parts.
Dh wants a kitten immediately, and is willing to part with big money for the right amount of fluff and character. I am forcing him to wait until we are back from hols. Doesn't stop us looking st Gumtree every night.

The house is EMPTY OF OTHER HUMANS. Loving it. Again, I am off, but tripping over self with the cold. When can I be on leave and feeling fine???

Waf, is it lansoprasole you've been given? Feel for you, but interesting you have lost weight.

Oh it is of course good,
But I'd just got used to the idea of his demise and have to reset my neural pathways.

Bless your rallying puss, Herbs.

Yes, well done Addle, taking one for the team on the over-indulgence front. I haven't booze-puked in years but it used to be a habit. Love the bag-chunder Crem. My best one was a red wine barf up the sleeve of my old-man-coat-from-the-chazza, in the back of a taxi.

CALLING HIATUS HERNIA AFFICIONADOS
I'm prescribed 30mg of lansop twice a day, Crem but I'm also now on 10mg x 3 of Domperidone (since last week) and THIS IS NOT TOUCHING IT. The further amount of lansop plus ranitidine I'm also taking when I can't get to sleep for the reflux is HUGE. I CAN'T BRING MYSELF TO POST HOW MUCH MEDICINE I'M TAKING. It's a lot . Rose, I was going to pm you but basically what is 'max meds' to you? PM if you'd prefer. Please don't say anything too scary.... I've been on gradually increasing omeprazole/lansoprasole for ten years quite comfortably but I went to doc a few weeks ago as 30mg x 2 hadn't been controlling symptoms. He'd reffed me to hernia clinic in any case, Then this mega flare up (never known any thing like it) started on Boxing Day. Clearly something is NOT RIGHT. Please forgive the random caps. I think this is one of those shituations where not having the bolster of a mentally well husband in full employment is hitting me. I've managed to get my clinic appointment brought forward to next Weds (I was supposed to be on a writing retreat next week but have cancelled).

I'm not doing porridge except for break but am sticking to fish, rice, salad, avos, oats etc in small portions (lost 4 lbs since christmas)

Oh and the tiniest thing for dinner with nowt after 6 ish. Symptoms of slight chest pressure last night for first time too (def HH related, not heart)

Bonjour tout le monde! Je suis au Pondicherry. Toute seule. Felt a bit weird at first especially as am in not such a nice room - it's rather noisy - but went shopping and cheered self up on my mother's Indian bank account (she would have wanted it this way. I should add I am actually the beneficiary of said account and I now have some Actual Suitable Clothes and do not have to keep rinsing out the same pair of salwar indefinitely.

I have chundered memorably in many an unsuitable venue.

Herbs, you may remember that one of our cats was given six to nine months three or four years ago now. Well before my mum's diagnosis. Mum had chemo, surgery and more chemo and lasted 20 months. Cat is still adamantly refusing to kick the bucket, despite no medical intervention whatsoever...

I have Pondicherry envy... I am at home shouting at DD1, who is resolutely determined to fail her IB. I can see her going to the local college to do GCSE English and Maths (which she would probably get an A* in) next summer...

Herbs - that was just one of your cat's nine lives, I guess. Plenty more where that came from.

WAF - poor you, you sound in bits. If things get worse before your clinic appointment, seek more help. It does sound like you need it operated on sooner rather than later - you can't go on for long rattling with all those meds.

Addle - quite frankly, I'm shocked! This chundering story is completely at odds with your ladylike demeanour. I am blessed with a cast iron stomach and have only ever been sick a handful of times in my life and never from alcohol, oh no no

So, I'm back at my desk - it's as if I never left. I have a huge to-do list already, and have spent the morning "onboarding" my new assistant so haven't got much done. This morning, though, the DCs were on fire, and we were out of the house super-early. DS is now able to drive us all the way to school, including reversing out of the drive and tackling the tricky T-junction at the end of the road. He has his theory test on Saturday!

I'm taking one on the chin for the Crepeys and having a mojito.

Thanks MI - someone has to do it.....

WAF that sounds mighty grim......

Here hound pulled me over and I predict a bruised arse.

Tonight will mainly be threatening ds with dire consequences if he doesn't get things ready for the return to school tomorrow.

Back from hols to find out that central heating has stopped working and British gas can't come and fix before Thursday - so there's a some sort of silver lining to having to go back to work tomorrow. There was a mixup with the cat sitter so we were met by 2 v hungry mogs and the carefully managed insulin timings have rather fallen by the wayside but he still seems in good spirits. House is still a mess from Christmas and the girls need nagging re thank you letters but otherwise 2017 looks ok so far.

Oh waf that's miserable. A question for you....do you think you might have worried yourself into developing an ulcer as well? Indigestion etc runs in my family. I've never been to a doctor about it. I had to take ranitidine when I was having chemo as standard. At one point they swopped me to PPIs..... But I didn't get on with it...made me feel so much pressure in my neck and throat for some strange reason. I looked up whatever the max safe dose of ranitidine was on the web and just multiplied what I got over the counter don't try that at home, children. Norty self medicating
Domperidone, as far as I know is an anti emetic..I was prescribed that as part of my chemo also but then got Zofran which was much better. Not sure either reduces acid....what surgery are you waiting for? Is it a Fundoplication? Don't lose heart...nothing works straight away for reflux....a new drug regime can take weeks to kick in. and {{{{{ }}}}

Domperidone works for acid reduction as it empties the stomach quickly.

I have developed an irritating cough, which I fear may put a strain on my pelvic floor, as the only time it has failed me was when I had bronchitis a few years ago. Just how much piss does a Tena Lady hold, does anyone know? (From their aged mother's experience of course, all of you are much too fragrant for this.)

MrsS, I am pretty sure that they are made to take considerable strain. As it were.

Gawd, WAF, what you have sounds horrible. Can they fix it with surgery? I seem to remember my aunt had this and did get it fixed somehow..

Herbs, hope the old puddy-tat is continuing to rally.

MI, nice to hear you are having a good time :) It is v parky here, you will be glad to know.

Oh Waf, I'm so sorry you are feeling so unwell. I don't know anything about HH and did not realise it had an effect on reflux as well. I've also been taking lansop. for years. I always put it down to drinking unmeasured gallons of Chilean Sauv. Blanc and stripping the lining of my gullet. ( medically unsound obviously) wishing you hope and help SOON!

Mrs S, well.... at least two tablespoons of blue water appaz

CV Iceland alert!!!
Rick Stein on bbc2 now

DD1 now in tears as she hasn't enough time to get everything done. No shit, Sherlock. I have told her that she has to go back to school tomorrow with her maths, theatre and extended essay done. This means that her history and TOK work (which are assessments and used towards her IB grade) won't be done, but there are not enough hours left to do everything.

I feel physically hurt by the way she has treated us, not least all the lies about what hasn't been done. And the money spent on this tutor to get her organised. Proof that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

Catching up slowly.......

WAF, am so sorry you are feeling so lousy - really, really hope it can be sorted soon.

And Cocoa, it sounds like you have some thinking to do as dh bounces around the subs bench - you have had a rough few months so do look after yourself as you work out what might be best, and take things slowly.

MrsS, I'd be hurt and hopping too not helpful.

I have been hungry all day and eaten everything I could find. We missed several meals during protracted saga of trying to get home after flight was cancelled and my eating clock seems up the spout. Mmm.

dd back to uni tomorrow. We had such a good holiday together, with family time heavily diluted with friends and intense and varied activity. A little family time goes a long way in my book.....

at classy crepey chundering.

Mrs S, frankly her distress serves her right. This is learning through consequences, is it not. That discomfort you're feeling is your piss boiling.

All you with acid problems - at the risk of being unutterably tedious, I too suffered (tho not to the HH extent), taking Zantac like sweets, carrying pepto bismol in my bag, until I gave up wheat. Now, nothing. Could be worth a little go...

Maybe time to play hard ball MrsS - horses water etc. I guess it must be very frustrating because you see the wasted opportunities, but she doesn't.