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Lesley i so hope you will be feeling good soon, I hope the London trip goes ok for you.
As MH says you moan and groan if you want we will send loving caring hugs to you {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{LESLEY}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
Reply #281. Mar 24 10, 6:27 AM
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| lesley153
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Thank you everyone! The occasional grizzle won't hurt, and hugs are the best.
I've got a dental appointment this afternoon. My dentist is about twelve miles away. I can drive the whole way or I can drive to Bedford station and get the train one stop. It would be OK if you could trust the trains to run on time or at all. It would be even better if the station had a lift, but Flitwick station has two flights of very steep steps and getting up them is dreadful. We're spoilt because Bedford station has a lift. There is a lot of walking, as you'd expect, and that can be hard work too.
I cancelled the last two appointments; one because I thought I remembered the way [blush] and one because I felt too ill to go anywhere, and ended up going back to bed. I dare not cancel this one! So I rang a local mini-cab firm who will take me there, wait, and bring me home again, all for £30. That was a pleasant surprise, because not long ago I took a London black cab from Jonathan's college to St Pancras station, four or five miles, and that was £20. I don't want to add £30 to the cost of every dental appointment but there are times when it does seem like the best (only) thing to do. I may need more hugs when I get back. :) |
Reply #282. Mar 24 10, 7:01 AM
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Deunan
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I shall join the queue with those waiting to give you hugs upon your return.
Good luck with the dentist and I think your idea to utilize a "hired car" is quite brilliant.
Reply #283. Mar 24 10, 8:21 AM
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| lesley153
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Thank you, I'm ready for my hugs now. :D
The driver was outside on the dot of 2.30, which is pretty unusual, and welcome. I haven't used this firm for years because they were a bit slow and sometimes unreliable, and the last driver I had IIRC made up his own fare. So I paid him what it usually was and changed firms. They were also slightly cheaper than the other companies, which is why I decided to give them another try.
Years ago, there were two people on the switch - Tim and Bernice. Then Tim disappeared because he had a heart attack. My driver today said he'd been driving for them for a good few years, and before then he was on the switch.
"You're not Tim, are you?"
"Yes - how do you know that?"
He drove comfortably, chatted easily, was happy to wait outside till I came out, and deserved his tip. Another company I just stopped using wanted £16 each way but they haven't got enough drivers to let one spend an hour waiting, so it would mean two different drivers, and probably a wait for the second one.
That's the same company which said the car was late because they had scrambled my house number, and would tell the driver the right number immediately. That was obviously flannel because the scrambled number is only nine doors away from my house, and I'd have seen if a car had turned up there and gone again. The boy on the switch who gave me the flannel is the same one who was driving when I first met him, and took me on a 40mph "short cut" through the hospital.
"What are you doing?"
"Watch and learn, darling; watch and learn."
The dental treatment was fast efficient painless and effective, and door-to-door transport was a treat, but it still wiped me out. There's a local concert tomorrow, which I still haven't decided about going to, but I can't face a trip to London on Friday, and have already apologised to Jonathan, who said it's OK, it's not worth struggling in, and there will be a recording.
And my neighbour is going to get me some rice cakes, cheese, eggs, potatoes and apples, just to keep me going till Monday. Thank you all for the hugs - they really do help! :) |
Reply #284. Mar 24 10, 5:59 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Lesley, I'd hug you, too, but I'm British.
(Well, of British descent ....)
Reply #285. Mar 24 10, 6:25 PM
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| lesley153
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I'm British too - and conceived in Scotland.
Group hug! |
Reply #286. Mar 24 10, 6:51 PM
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| Lochalsh
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((((((((((((((((((((((((((group))))))))))))))))))))))))
Reply #287. Mar 24 10, 6:58 PM
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Deunan
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That was nice.
I'm glad your day did not have uncooperative drivers.
Now, feet up and relax.
((((((((((((((group)))))))))))))))))
Reply #288. Mar 24 10, 7:09 PM
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satguru
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Glad you and my dad had a good time at the dentist, while you were there he was having three teeth out, and was there and back within an hour including getting there early. All on the NHS and arranged within a few weeks. You need to learn one thing from me, how to sit on your arse, not feel guilty and keep occupied. I've made such an art I could start offering classes.
Reply #290. Mar 24 10, 8:30 PM
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MarchHare007
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Now that's civilised, Lesley!
Any chance you could line up Tim the Driver for subsequent trips? ;)
Sorry you're feeling wiped but one dentist appointment now off your list.
Nice there will be a recording of Friday's concert - not the same as live but music through headphones can still transport you away.
Hugs for your neighbour for looking after your shopping.
And hugs for you - Just Because! :)
(((((((((((((((Lesley & Lovely Neighbour)))))))))))))
Reply #291. Mar 24 10, 10:00 PM
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| lesley153
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Thank you all for hugs and whisky. If there's anything better than a 16-year-old single malt, I have yet to meet it.
"how to sit on your arse, not feel guilty and keep occupied"
David, do you really think I need lessons? Ha! :)
I allowed an hour for the journey which shouldn't take much more than half an hour, but will if the driver is late. When Tim said it's just as easy to be on time as it is to be late, I thought I'm going back to this firm if I can have this man.
And today I have been gorging myself on all the things I'd run out of - crisp juicy apples, lovely little new potatoes swimming in butter, salty delicious Cambozola cheese, which I have been picking up in wedges off the cheese chiller, but she found in the deli and it's even better. She picked up some rice cakes too. Yes they're like sawdust, but they're OK with butter and something to give them some flavour.
The potatoes were the best thing. I've been filling the carb space with gluten-free "bread" which is more like dry sweet cake; and with rice rice and more rice. Long-grain whole basmati rice, smells better than it tastes; penne made from rice flour, maize flour, and lupin flour; fusilli made in Italy from organic white rice flour flavoured with tomato or spinach. Doesn't matter what you flavour it with, it's still rice... but rice cakes aren't too bad for now.
Looking forward to being a venerable guest next week! |
Reply #292. Mar 25 10, 5:46 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Butter covers a multitude of sins, doesn't it? :)
Reply #293. Mar 25 10, 6:39 PM
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redwaldo
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Lamingtons and Peach Melbas from Australia!
Reply #294. Mar 25 10, 6:54 PM
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| lesley153
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I have lots of butter in the fridge. It's essential to life. :)
Mark, I've heard of Lamingtons - Esme in "A Country Practice" was always making them, usually for fund-raisers for the hospital. I looked them up and thought they'd probably be too sweet for me. They don't seem to have made it here, though, even now, and I'm not ready to start making them. Not even with rice flour. {sob}
Peach Melba, though - {drool} - you offering?
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Reply #295. Mar 25 10, 10:47 PM
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Squisher
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Hi Lesley, just checking in. I'm dismayed you've not been feeling well, keep your chin up though. I hope you start feeling some positive effects from your gluten-free diet soon. Heck, I'm sure a lot of people would feel better on a gluten-free diet. (I try to follow an anti-inflammatory diet myself, but I have a weakness for the occasional dose of sugar). I guess it's always a balancing act when one's health problems are complicated. TGIF, hope you have a good one :)
Reply #297. Mar 25 10, 11:43 PM
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Professer
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My dearest Lesley you deserve lots of hugs and i hope one day to give you a real one, I would love lammingtons i am sure no one to make them for me though.
Well made Deunans day with a video of Trekkie the London people are so happy that he has a fan so far away.
{{{{{{{{{{{{LESLEY}}}}}}}}}}}} X
Reply #298. Mar 26 10, 11:22 AM
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| lesley153
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It's a lovely site! but I couldn't find anything about the shops outside A & NZ - I used their search box, but "UK" was too short and "United Kingdom" didn't have any matches. I also tried to email them but can't because they require a postcode and my postcode is alpha-numeric and they want it to be numeric. So I gave up. Sob. Still, it's really nice to look at. :)
I'm dismayed too. I had always planned to grow old disgracefully, bouncing on the furniture, happily walking for miles. Now I can just about walk the length of a couple of rooms, and steps knock me out. This isn't very different from the way I felt two years ago, when my haemoglobin was at half-mast, and I felt human again after about four months of high doses of iron. So I hold on to that thought, and hope it'll be the same this time - pop a few iron pills and feel normal again in a few months.
I think the big problem here is psychological. Anaemia doesn't come from nowhere, I realise now, but nobody got round to asking why I'd got it two years ago. GP treated the symptoms, as usual: job done. I finished the iron and my energy slowly ebbed away again. So now it's back, and it's good that I know why and how this time, I think I'll just wave a magic wand and everything will be back to normal. Nope, it won't be any faster than the first time. It might even be slower. Actually - thinks - last time, taking iron pills was like pouring water into a bucket with a hole. Maybe this time, with me off the gluten, my insides will be healing, absorption will be better, so it'll take about the same time.
I think there are small improvements, even after only a fortnight, but I'm just impatient. Sorry. :) |
Reply #299. Mar 26 10, 11:34 AM
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| lesley153
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PS Please keep the hugs coming.
I'll be in London in two days, and back about eight days later, so please can you save them for me?
(((((()))))) |
Reply #300. Mar 26 10, 11:37 AM
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