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Well I just dont believe it............... poor Mike , you will never guess whats happened to my son now . He went into college on Monday and sat his first exam on Tuesday , as he hadn't seen his girlfriend for almost a week he bought her a large bar of her favourite chocolate and went looking for her , when he found her she turned round and said ' I dont know why I ever went out with a boy like you ' and walked away leaving Mike open mouthed wondering what on earth he'd done to her He couldnt get her to talk to him after this and eventually came home that night very upset , we spoke for sometime and as far as I can see she has just called him some awful names and will not answer any of his questions as to what he'd done . I called her mum and asked her to get her daughter to speak to Mike on the phone as I said this was very distressing for him and that he had another exam today and needed to know what was going on , for as far as he was concerned he last saw her in hospital and she was fine , yet now she's calling him all sorts of horrible names...........her mum said she would speak to her than night. Mike went in yesterday and she had not spoken to him on the phone , later via one of his mates she told him quote ' you are to nice , to romantic and you treat me to well , so I dont want to go out with you any more' ................... my son and his mates all stood around with there mouths open and didn't know what to say , as neither did hubby and I ! In the end all I can say to my son was this ' well Mike , I've heard of some strange things for being dumped by girlfriends , but son this is the best one yet ! you should feel proud of yourself for being such a nice guy, and if this young lady didn't like being treated well then thats her problem , not yours , paying for her to go out , buying her flowers and chocolate is not a sin or anything to be ashamed about '..........and his mates all agreed. Today he has another exam and he's gone off worth yet another course of tablets to take , yet another sort that the doctor is trying in an effort to stop /sort this constant pain and now horrendous tiredness that he has . But the strange thing is .........................having been dumped by this young lady , mike is now the talking point of the college and all of her friends and another 30 + girls at the college are all eager to make friends with him , in fact he's had so many girls come up to him and ask him is it true why she dumped you , that he feels a bit of a celebrity, even his tutors have spoken to him about it so this must be the first in history for being dumped because you are caring , kind, considerate and generous .........some mum's would die for a lad like this for there girls.............well mum's he's available and he is a real catch . Willows................gobsmacked at the stupidity of some girls.

Hello again everyone, Well we have had a bad few day's again , Mike couldnt eat his supper last night and went to bed at 7.30pm sleeping right through to 7 am ..............today is his first exam , which in my book is not that bad as its his business studies one on finance, so we sat at 7 am going through all the In's outs and things to do with running a business .........and as I'm an ex business woman he should sail through , well he went of very happy anyhow. We were at the doctors yesterday morning getting him more drugs to help as he had been up the previous night ( which is why he slept for 12 hours ) and tomorrow we are back at the doctors again. It was only yesterday that I learnt Mike can get this special consideration as long as our GP writes in and tells them about his hospital and the drugs that make him tired and also the constant pain............yes he's still getting it . Well not much more to add at this time , we are all OK , or as well as cab be expected at this time, still worrying . Ami.

Hello Maxine, I've just been reading the post's about your mum , so sorry you to have had a bad start to 2007 , we are just about over it all now and I do hope that your mum feels better soon , its such a worry and if your like me , you'd rather be the one who's ill than see the ones you love suffer . My best wishes to you and your family . Willows ( Ami)

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW brilliant photo , I'm going to get hubby to have a look at them when he comes in from the garden , he's still out there using his new camera . How we wish we were there as we just adore show and ice .......yep crazy , butt we do ! Willows and family ..................let it snow, let it snow , let it snow HERE please!

Well its now Sunday and Mikes been able to keep some food down at long last . The hospital have called here every day so far to see if he's OK and if I want to bring him back in to be looked at again , this is something new to me and I've never heard of the ward calling someones home before , may be this is a new thing they do ????? In fact the staff nurse who has been calling me was so nice and said how worried they all were as Mike is such a nice lad .............which he is ! Mikes sleep better as well and I've only had to get up once in the night to him to sort out his medication for him, he's now taking two types of painkillers plus an anti-sickness when he needs to ...................BUT.............poor boy has three exams this week and we dont know how he is going to cope with this and all the drugs , I'm going to take him onto college on Monday and see the head of year as I feel that having been so ill for so long with so much pain its a bit unfair for him as he's not been able to do any revision as such , so we'll see what they say next week. Still no idea as to what caused the pain , all we do know is his blood pressure has been very high , he's been yellow and he has had pain like he's never felt before , so until it happens again and 'something does' .........what ever that may be ...........we , including the hospital are all stumped . Hubby and I are OK , I've lost 4lbs in weight from last weeks in and out of the hospital trips , which is fine by me , but just SO tired now and keep falling sleep all over the place , I keep trying to watch a film and waking up thinking 'here , what happened to the middle and end of it' ??? so I've given up trying to do that for the time being. Thanks for all your support guys . Willows ( ami)

Thanks for all your replies guys, sorry I haven't been back on but I've either been at the hospital .or as happened on Tuesday night , they sent him home...............only for him to be taken back in after an all night session of pain on Wednesday night . We we are still no nearer to knowing what it is , pain still 8-9 , I took him out for an hour on Wednesday and he went as white as a sheet , had to sit down and then had to come him again , which is why we were back at the hospital today , all day , no food or drink for us all ...............MG I cannot cope with that , poor hubby and I felt like death as well by lunchtime. So we are all out again ...........still no diagnoses. Mike's just been given hi pain killers and anti-sickness and we have to 'get on with it' National Health in the UK is the pits , they just cannot finish what they start to do without leaving you for hours in between and forget to do things and it seems if you are a bit different from the norm they dont want to know ...........as I know from experience myself . I'm going to look up all you sent me , Thanks ever so much , its nice to know I have you all with me on this awful time. Mike is just 'not himself' doesn't want to eat , tired , but cannot sleep with the pain, quiet , head down , its just so upsetting for us both ( hubby and I ) and you feel so inadequate as you cannot help him at all. Ami.

Thanks for your kind words and thoughts and I am OK except for both my eyes are now full of blood again and I'm scaring the children's ward staff and little ones , so I'm having to keep my sunglasses on all the time.......cool or what ! I've just come back from the hospital , another 8 hour stint sitting with him . Mikes a it better now and his blood pressure is much more normal, the consultant came today and ask all sorts of strange questions like ' are you being sick and not telling your parents '............of course Mike had no idea what he was going on about until I said to him ' no, my son is not bulimic and starving himself , he likes food to much ' Mike was quite put out by the consultants remarks until I informed the consultant that the dentist had suggested it was acid from his stomach that was melting his teeth and that he had already been seem by a consultant ( adult one) for this problem as he had brought up dark red jellyfied blood in the shower .............that made him stop and go pink and re-read the boys notes! He found the section and apologies ( dam check ) So tomorrow they are going to knock him out and have a look at whats going on in his stomach, his pain is back to 5-6 but not as bad as it was ( 8-9) Also they did some blood test for jaundice and he was just one point of being jaundice !!! ha ! didn't I say he was going yellow ............us mums' we know our kids . Well Dracula's daughter here is still feeling OK , very tired from just sitting on the chair beside his bed all day ( did fall sleep and almost slid off the thing once ) but OK , Hubby's a lot better thank you and is almost back to his old silly self again. I do miss having Mike around and it isn't until they are away that you discover just how much you do for them and natter away to them , also the food is disgusting there, poor boy who's got digestion problems was given soggy , limp greasy chips and turkey dinosaurs for his first real meal ...............you had to be there to see the total look of disgust on my 15 year old face ..............perfect son , haven't I taught you well , good food always rules in our house ! Back tomorrow hopefully with more news. Willows.

Things are going from bad to worse here now guys, and Saturday night was just horrendous here......... My hubby was taken ill with his terrible head/neck pain from his degeneration of the cervical spine and was in chronic pain in our bed and my son Mike was once again on his knees rocking back and forth in his bed ( see my other post to catch up) so I was trying to shuffle back and forth between the two most of the night. Sunday morning I was shattered , hubby was looking life death now and Mike was on his last legs. Called on-call doctor again and got the most wonderful little man out to the house , he just didn't know what it was BUT ; He agreed with me that Mike is slightly 'yellow' and his blood pressure is still that of a 60+ year old 147/120+ and it should be around 110/80!!!! so he just wouldnt take anymore chances as he said ' something is very wrong here, he looks terrible , he's dehydrated ( no food , hardly any drink since Wednesday evening) and he's on chronic pain with no upset stomach at all and only been sick 3 times now in 3 + days ..............he's going in. So an ambulance was called and off we went ...........leaving hubby in bed still . Mikes now on morphine and they are testing him for ; Heb -B......pancreatitis.......some sort of poisoning ( from dog bite ) Glandular fever again ( had it at 10 years old last time ) and others. We still haven't ruled out an appendicitis , and they are now looking at a link between Mikes illness and my own , which is terribly worrying for us all. I came home last night , via hubby who's now over his session , having only eaten 6 ginger biscuits and a cup of coffee since Saturday feeling like death and just fell into bed exhausted , stiff as a board and with low blood pressure again, up a 5 am as couldnt sleep anymore from worry which as you know brings forth other little 'nastys' .............so I'm stuffing in drugs left , right and centre in an effort to keep myself going and not as hubby put it ' going to end up in one ward of the hospital while Mikes on another ' .............no way, I'm trying to keep calm and not shuffle to much about to keep things stable. We are off to the hospital again this morning , they are doing more tests today , so hopefully we should get some answers soon . Willows.

Well guys things are getting much worse here and no ones smiling or laughing any more , in fact I feel terribly guilty Our little litter bin has been on a couple of trips now , last night after my son Mike was terrible sick and still suffering with terrible 'period pains' we took him to the on-call doctors for assessment as he now looks so pale and really ill. The 15 miles + trip took us about 20 mins late at night and I can tell you it was a long 20 mins. Mike is now supposed to have a stomach virus ............but it doesn't add up at all , this is his symptoms; Chronic low stomach pains for the last 30 hours, sick twice , but not enough to make sence to fit a very bad virus , he's getting dehydrated and looking slightly yellow , he has a temperature of 38 + and he has a slightly red/sore throat . We were told that he has the sickness /diarrhoea virus ....but after 30 + hours of chronic pain you'd have thought he would have 'been' like someone who'd eaten 6 madras Curry's by now ..........yet not a drop ......nothing . He was given painkillers last night , which didn't work so this morning have been up with him all night rolling around the bed , getting him hot water bottles ( that didnt work) trying to get him to drink ( that didnt work either) we went back to the doctors on -call who have now given him under the lip anti-sickness drugs in order to get him to drink and not bring it back up . Both Hubby and I are fine , so is his girlfriend ( who I know he snogs ) and all his mates are fine , when you think of this and how close they all are , especially Kelly his girlfriend ..............why haven't one or more of them got it ???? We are so worried now and I feel so helpless , Mikes upstairs now so tired he doesn't know what to do with himself , still in pain .......but now no sickness..............so its a game of wait it out and see . I still think he may have the start of an appendix problem , as I had this at his age and I was not diagnosed until it was on the point of bursting , some 6 days of agony. So little green little bin has had a few emergency runs in the past twp days .............seem a lot of action , from the inside and out and there it sits now by my sons side on his bed ( just in case ) I really must find an award for all its loyal service to us . Willows.................so tired and so worried .

Well now here's the NOT such a funny thing ......................... Its my son's 16th birthday in a few weeks so I'm starting to look about for a few nice things for him, so far I've managed to 'grab' him a gold and diamond signet ring of one of those shopping channel for a brilliant price so I was up very early this morning sorting it .........along with my son who was looking like death warmed up and suffering from what he said must be the equivalent to monthly pains he couldnt sit, stand or lay down , so from 5 am onwards he was pacing while I was trying to quietly make phone calls without him hearing, rather like a game of follow the leader around the house trying to avoid each other , at one point I was in the bathroom sitting on the lid of the loo talking to the ring people ..........flushing the toilet every few minutes in an effort to stifle my words ............I'm sure my son must have thought I had terrible diarrhea with all the noise I was making , but it worked as he has no idea what I was up to . So 7am came .................along with the litter bin again I tell you that litter bin has seen more sick action than all the litter its ever had put into it in its life time ! Poor boys has spent today in bed , white as a sheet at first then a shade of dingy yellow ...........more fluids boy thats whats needed ...........in rather than out by the way I'm now wondering if this is a virus and who's next ............well , we all know who's left in the household and that's 'Hubby' . As you may know he's got this aversion to sick , so today he has been starving himself in an effort to avoid a session with the litter bin but as I said to him ' Darling , now look , lets be sensible , we dont know if this is a bug or virus and we dont know how long this bug or virus takes to 'Erupt' ( I like that word made hubby go pale at the thought ) so starving yourself is stupid ' .................to which he literally galloped into the kitchen and wolfed down a cherry and almond tart ...........you'll be sorry So our faithful litter bin may be needed later tonight or in the morning for the last member of the family , and I'm now thinking of giving it an award for faithful service to the family ...........I'll sleep on it ( no not the bin, fool ! ) Well I'm off , I'm glad I'm not the only one who suffers from the 'lets see' syndrome ...never again . Bye , bye from Willows .............and a swish from her trusty bin

It would appear that 2007 is going to be one of those years when hubby calls in the men in white coats to take me for a long holiday wearing a nice jacket with straps on the back Now that I'm better I remember way back doing the very same thing and suffering , what an idiot I am You see yesterday I was having a very rare 'good day' hardly any pain , sweating a bit but felling 'hunky-dory' so here am I at 9 pm going to take my cocktail of drugs ( and I do mean cocktail ) and this thought comes into my head ' here' I think to myself ' I wonder IF I really need such strong painkillers at night now ???? after all I've been alright today ' .........yep you guessed it I DIDN'T TAKE MY PETHERDINE . Laid there and was fine at about 11pm...12 ...10m then OMG the pain hit me like a sack of potatoes embedded with rusty nails .....arms , legs, hips, back , so reaching for the tablet I managed to drink down the last of the drink in my 'tippy cup' ( yes, the ones that kids use to stop them spilling it , great for night times when your as stiff as a board , and a good talking point at posh dinner parties , if you want a laugh) anyhow drunk all in my cup ..........but drug not gone all the way down so carefully getting the big bottle thats beside my bed in the pitch black I managed to take a swig ............jiggled around a bit and the tablet went down .............all's well we think ...........NO ! Laid down and suddenly felt .............errrrrr.......sick ....very sick . By this time hubby who apparently without me knowing was watching all my little jiggles and swigs etc, so he go up and went to the loo ..........just as I wanted to throw ............so dragging myself across the bed I managed to reach the plastic litter bin ..............ah ! thats better . Heard hubby go downstairs , so thought I'd nip ( ha, ha, with a bucket of sick ) out of bedroom to bathroom and wash face, teeth and bucket , no problems with this , left bucket in bath after washing and made for the door................................. just as I went to open door unbeknown to me hubby was just about to open door from the other side ............he holding a glass of water ( for me ) and me well ...................in the natural state ! Husband , glass, me and door all collided ........OMG was the water cold So having screamed ( according to husband ) like a woman possessed , well wouldnt you if you collided with a man with a glass of freezing cold water at 2 am in the morning in the pitch dark and wanting to heave again , we managed to rid me of my sickness, wipe the floor and go back to bed ( me still with my litter bin) all in under an hour So what lesson have I learnt from this guys.....................If in doubt take the tablets , then ask the doctor her advice before messing around or you to could meet a naked man with a glass of cold water in the middle of the night ..............Oh ! if only I had the strength ( blush, blush ) Willows....................a few pounds lighter from her nighttime activities , silly woman.

Happy new year everyone........................hope yours is a better start then mine was 3 calls to emergency room as both feet and right hand doubled in size ! .............who's been doing to much again . Willows

OMG..............did I get my husband or what Having told him I was giving him money for christmas and not many gifts , he say down on christmas morning to his rather large bag , full of 3 items ( 2 jumpers + ginger) ...........my 'friend' who owns the post office had given us 2 large carrier bags , which I said probably had biscuits in one and bottled fruit in the other ( I lied) . So there was hubby on christmas eve as I was setting out some of the presents 'sniffing' the carrier I said had biscuits in ( we , that's brother, son and I trying not to laugh out loud) Christmas eve I also placed a card on the mantelpiece telling hubby that this was his 'christmas money' ............in fact it was loo roll in a card! Christmas morning arrived bright and breezy and I suggested to hubby that as he had only two presents he should open my friends ( for the family) so off he went slowly peeling of the tape , with us three watching with bated breath ................he looked into the first bag and said ' here , thats funny , she's put twp boxes in here wrapped?......are you sure there for us ?' he then started to open the first smaller box and inside was one of the batteries............looking rather perplexed he asked ' she's sent us a battery ? what ever for ? '...............he still hadn't caught on Next large box was started , but as this was the camera body as soon as he saw the writing he went 'strange' !!!!!!! OMG..............OMG................OMG......... he kept repeating over and over again. I quite honestly didn't know if he was going to laugh , cry , shout or have a heart attack , after this it was a case of hubby tearing at the other carrier bag like a man possessed ................he kept asking me if he was dreaming , tears in his eye's he didn't know what to say or do when he had unpacked it all and looked very pale in the face . A big smile went over his face and he gave me the biggest hug ever , it was then I told him I had broken into his emailing account and photo site account had been emailing his best mate and the camera shop , had the local post office in on the surprise and had been 'spotted' by the local chemist .....who had then said he hadn't seen me at all. So all in all 'I GOT HIM AGAIN' ..............ah ! its nice to see I can still bring a man to his knee's and gobsmacked him But then I was gobsmacked as well ! Hubby had bought me a full length white lynx coat ( no , not real but almost as good ) a royal blue sapphire and diamond ring and channel no 5 along with so much other stuff it took me 2 1/2 hours to unpack it all ! my son bought me ruby and diamond earrings and bro brought me a selection of DVDs and loads of smellies ...........so who's a lucky girl then . Come on guys ...what did Santa bring you this year ?????? Oh ! the car's been fixed , Mikes leg has finally healed and husbands bottom ! well I'm not to sure at this time .............its a case of wait and see now . So Happy new year top you all and be back on soon with more strange antics.............. Willows ...........looking like a polar bear and smelling like a perfumery

Well .....good things come to those who wait and at 9.45 am this morning ( UK time) bro walked in the front door he's been driving since 3 am this morning and was still full of the joys of christmas , he's lost some weight and looks good ...................well this is it , the begining of two weeks of real family time , the last christmas I had with my brother was 8 years ago when my ex went 'ga-ga' on us and we all had to leave the house on boxing day and seek refuse in a hotel until he'd been 'put into a secure unit' .........thank heavens thats all over and done with now and our family can look to a brighter future. Well I'm off now , no more post's until about Wednesday at the earliest .........have a great christmas .............AMi .......AKA willows. XXXX

Dear Santa....................our nice new mobility car has just died on us , yes .........2 hours before we are due to go out on a meal ( which has been arranged /cancelled /arranged /cancelled and arranged again for tonight) with my son , his girlfriend , hubby and sons best friends , a special meal to celebrate the start of christmas for us all. So for christmas could you please arrange some of your elves to fix our car or a hire car delivered to our house , we would even pay you for use of your sleigh and feed the reindeer if this was acceptable, if this isn't possible then please can you come down the chimney and stick a large piece of carpet tape to my husbands mouth while he sleeps ,because knowing him he will talk on and on for the next few nights about flying cars, flying pigs and christmas meals ........... and as its christmas , please give a girl a break and let me have some few hours sleep . Willows.............pulling her hair out , whilst stuffing her face with mince pies............XXXXX to all and especially you Santa clause.................I just dont believe it !!!

Well you tell christmas is almost upon us now .............by the amount of antibiotic's our family is taking ! Yep......................... another one of the family is down and out for the count ............poor old hubby has for many years suffered great pains with large abscesses in the region of the bottom ( ouch) last year having had so many 'sorted' by the hospital they decided to do an operation in which they cut away all the scar tissue and put in a 'Seton stitch ' ( a stitch which is left inside the body to cut through the internal skin , for about 6 months...not nice I can tell you ) . He suffered agony's with this , but hope was on the horizon as he was told this would put an end to them all. Yesterday he started to feel unwell and getting himself to the doctors has now been diagnosed with another of his so called 'little friends' . So at this time I have my son taking drugs for his dog bite , which doesn't seem to want to heal at all , and hubby swallowing them as well , looking rather pale and running a temperature. My last christmas shop was delivered yesterday and the company had played games with me , sending me stuff I didnt order and stuff at 5 times the price I asked for so in all not a good week. The only bright light on the horizon which is shining over this house at this time is my son's girlfriend, who is such a sweet young lady is bringing a lot of laughter and happiness to the family , on boxing day we are all going to her house to join a family party , which was a great surprise for us all . My brother is now trying to get sorted and has emailed me to say he's just about ready to leave after he has seen his mother , a very long trip down to us , but a good 2 weeks rest for him I hope. Well I'm off now as I need to sort out some supper for Mike and I , hubby's not feeling like food at this minute and has taken to laying sideways on the settee for reasons as I said above !!! Happy christmas all and to everyone who's reading this I do hope you have a great day , dont eat, drink or do to much .........you know me I always follow my own advice !!!! Willows.

As Christmas is almost upon us and things are getting a bit hectic , I thought this is a good time to start a chain of christmas wishes from around the world to all on the site. Here's my Christmas message to you ; To all the staff, the members and their families who make this the best site on the WWW , I wish you a very happy christmas and may all your christmas dreams come true. May 2007 bring you better health and the knowledge that even when you feel that all is lost and you can't go on , we are here for you , your friends around the world , sending you our love , our understanding and the biggest hugs a site can ever give. Merry christmas all .................Ami, Mark & Mike ............Plymouth , Devon , United Kingdom.

I just dont believe it .............................ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh This morning hubby , son and I decided that as we are a bit behind card delivery wise , we would drop off some of our village cards then go into town for a carvery lunch , for a change . Well we did the first two cards without a problem................then it happened Poor old son went to deliver a card to one of our friends who has a dog , as far as we were aware the dog is friendly and has never shown any sign of aggression to anyone before today .............yep , you guessed it ..............it bite Mike on the leg and the knee , so badly that we had to go to the local hospital for attention and now he's on a course of antibiotics , his brand new trousers have a whole in them and Mikes not happy ..........nor are we ! The dog was somewhere near the back door , which was open , mike just walked up to the door , said hello to our friend and the dog went mad and bite him, he didn't make the dog jump, nor frightened it , as it watched him walk to the door , he didn't shout , or do anything that would make a dog attack ...........I'm livid to say the least. But it doesn't end there............oh , no ! Having come out of the hospital we were all in need of food and drink , but it was to far to go into town so we went to a local Pizza place for lunch , Mikes a real fan of Pizza's like most teenagers are ...........so sitting there calming down now ( yep , stressed to the roots of my hair) I got a 'twinge' ...............then another .........and another ....then a full blown angina attack in the middle of the restaurant ..........well at least we were only 5 mins from the hospital So home now and feeling terribly tired and cold , Mikes got his right thigh strapped and I'm looking like death warmed up ................please, please dont say this is the start of our christmas week As promised my husband has posted a few pictures of our christmas tree , its about 6 feet tall and has 500 lights on it , its very pretty if you stand in the garden in the dark with all the lights on , but as yet hubby's not able to catch it properly ( new camera now 8 days away ) Bye for now ..................a somewhat stressed me and sore son .............Willows. click here for photo's: http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i318/ban.../miscellaneous/

Sorry I haven't been able to get the photo's on site yet by both hubby and I are having a bit of a silly spell at this minute. I seem to have had all my joints tightened by some giant screw driver , stiff OMG getting up stairs , into or out of bed is a great laugh ( not ) We did manage to sort out all the presents and at this time I'm still waiting for one to come in the post from Jersey , a game for one of Mike's mates , but that's it ........all wrapped , packed and signed and sealed awaiting the big day . My brother has just emailed me to say he's now sorting out his route to us , although by USA standards the distance is not great , about 400-450 miles , us in the UK think this amount of distance is quite a way , so my brothers getting his house sorted and cleared up ready for a two week stay with us all. OMG you should see our spare room ..............talk about ' girls heaven ' its all done out with cream walls and bedding with pink roses and lilac flowers on , my huge dolls house and an assortment of teddies.........plus I've just put up one of those bed canopies all in lilac net , you know the sort that hang from the ceiling to the floor and turn the bed into a 'princess castle' ................ that should cheer my brother up ........or make him fall around with laughter ! Just one more food delivery on the 20th and that's it I'm done , cannot possible get a morsel in anywhere .................except me of course Here.....................you know I've been planning this surprise for my husband , well that's all been delivered via the local post office which my best friend owns. I picked up the special delivery and wrapped all the items enclosed , I've put them into two carrier bags , which I then brought home and said was from my best friend ....for the family ( cough , cough) when in fact its hubby's new camera body, lens, macro lens, 2 x flashcards, batteries, carrying case and loads more ............I'm still winding him up and keeping a straight face , poor love, he keeps saying just how much he is looking forward to getting this SLR camera , but because it is so expensive it is way out of his reach, and it will be at least another year until he can even think about getting some of it.............. Me ...........well I just keep saying ' never mind dear , it wont be that long , a year goes really quickly as you know ' How I keep a straight face and not just tell him I'll never who , no wonder my hearts playing sillies at the minute it all the stress of keeping the secrets Well soon be christmas ,and the shouts of hubby unwrapping his presents will echo around the village making the locals think we are all off our rockers again , but extremely happy ..................willows.

Well , all the said items arrived at my local post office earlier this week , I got a call from my friend the post mistress to say 'its in' and managed to trundle down in the car and collect the box. I must have looked rather strange as I carefully took with me sellotape , scissors and a bin liner.........then when parking up by the local co-op I opened up the box and transferred the camera boxes inside to a couple of Santa bags...........sealing them up and then went home ..............I did get caught by our local chemist who gave me strange looks of what are you up to ????? so waving and giving him a big smile I said ' you didn't see me ' ' I'm not here OK ' with a nod and a wink he just carried on . I've now been able to wrap all the stuff which include; the camera body , F2 lens , macro lens , battery and 2 flashcards , case and flashgun.....................OMG I'm so excited that I just cant wait to see his face when he opens the bags. I told hubby when I came home with three bags that Caroline had given me one bag with my present in ( which she did ) and that the other 2 bags were for the family but becuase Mike and I already have quite a few things to open , he can open them for us all .............crafty ploy this one . So now its just a matter of waiting until the big day , trouble is I'm getting so excited that I keep having to spend days stuck in bed I feel like some big kid about to go on her first date , butterflies , stomach turning and cant sleep blimey , silly isn't it , well they do say that the best part of christmas is seeing someone open the presents you have bought them .........................so I wonder what the huge box is with my name on it ????? its about 3 feet X 3 feet ?????????????? Hurry up christmas your doing my head in ..............literally Willows.

OMG .................speaking to soon again been back in bed for three days , now up again and going to try and catch up on things in the house . Well the news on the Christmas front is : Mike my son is now officially going steady with a young lady Its so sweet , he went through agony to ask her out , in the end he asked mum here to help him write a 'love letter' to her , which for me was no big deal...............so off I went and wrote down what he said he felt etc when he saw her and what he wanted . Apparently Kelly read the letter and was nearly in tears , the letter has now been passed around half of the upper college as it is such a wonderful piece of writing all the girls want to know why their boyfriends have never sent them such words ................10 points to mum and 100 points to son! On Wednesday he's going to tea to meet her mum and sister ( they live alone without dad) Then later next week Kelly's coming here for the day /night and on the 23rd ( please ,please let me be well) my husband, son, sons best friend Jake , Kelly, and myself are all going to get dressed up for a christmas Chinese by the water, well not very festive , but so enjoyable to all. Ive had so much food delivered that my cupboards are stuffed to the roof , both freezers are full and I cant fit another home made frozen mince pie into any orifice available in the whole house The spare room looks like Santa grotto the day beofre Christmas and the outside of the house is now fully lite..............when hubby has sorted out the photo's I will stick some onto my site with a lead in from here ( few days ) Well bye for now ..................Willows.

Crumbs Becky , you were so lucky to have such an attentive neighbour and so quick thinking. Hubby's camera not arrived at the post office yet , but when it does my mate up the road is ready and waiting for me o call in to sort and wrap it , we are even going to put 'other' names on the boxes. I cant wait to see his face on christmas morning , they do say that the best bit of christmas is the giving , not the receiving , and quite honestly I wouldnt mind if I got an orange for christmas so long as my son and hubby got what they really wanted ...............hubby's is the camera .............all done and dusted now . And my son Mike ???? ...............well he got his a couple of weeks ago he's now officially going out with a girl her names Kelly and she is so sweet and he keeps walking around with a big grin on his face . So what ever he has for christmas is second place to Kelly now ............ah ! so sweet . Willows.

Well .........................the story continues, as you may or may not know my husband gave up ice climbing and mountaineering because he now has ; Fibromyalgia, M.E. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome , only one hand and the other one is giving him problems So the idea was he would choose a new hobby , he started off with a small cheap digital camera which came from one of those electrical stores , just to learn the ropes. He then bought the camera which was stolen ..............this was replaced and he has been doing some wonderful shots in MACRO anything with more than two legs is ponced on OMG the spiders are gross. NOW ..................on christmas day Mark is in for the surprise of his life. He has for sometime been literally drooling over a SLR camera which keeps being advertised on the telly..................want to know a secret ????? I've manged to get him not only this but a macro lens , flash and other bits as well he thinks I'm going to put some money into an envelope for him , so he can start to save for it ................. . So on Christmas morning at about 9 am if you here a scream of 'OMG ..........and a yipppppeeeeeee' coming from the west country you'll know he's found it . We all have our off days and moan about our 'other half's' at time's, but all said and done they are the one's who bare the brunt of all our everyday illnesses and problems, so this is my way of giving him a big 'thank you dear' mind you he's having no birthday or fathers day from my son or I until next year , so he wont feel to guilty . I cant wait to see his face ........ bet he gets all emotional and cries ........hopefully this will make up for all the summer when he had camera problems.........................please no more spiders ! Willows.

hello again..........yes as you may have guessed I've been getting a bit to excited and doing to much again , been rather ( ha, ha, ha ) ill for nearly two weeks now, just getting back on my feet again , I'll post some bits later on tomorrow IF I'm still ; upright, not vomitting, not giddy and sensible..........the first three I may be able to over come , but the last one .....no way Willows.

Thank you ALL so much for you replies , this alone makes me feel much better. My eye is better now but I've had to have steroids for it which i dont really like or want , but I suppose a short course to clear it is better than the pain , which was so horrible and it did seem to effect my ability to travel , dont know why but this to seems a bit better now. I'm off to the doctors later today , its now 2.30 am in the morning and I'm due to see her at 10 am so I'd better TRY to sleep for a couple of hours if I can before hand Crumbs I'd love to go to the loo 3 times a day , or once a day or every other day , well any sort of normal day ................. I've had an camera down one end and up the other ..............no not at the same time or the same camera oooooh ! painful if you did ! I think your right I am having to take out certain foods that just down want to wave bye, bye to me , its as if 'now were in here, were going to stay put' and by golly dont they just . I never ever want to have another few days like I've just had ,I'd rather starve first than go though that pain again, mind you cutting down as I am will make me loose some weight, which in turn will help the old joints , which in turn may make me a bit more active, which in turn may help the jolly old bowels .................well I can only hope , cant I . The blood vessels in the eye bursting wasn't to do with straining , this happened when I did the Halloween event and I wasn't straining then , also its not just the bursting of them the actual vessels in the back of the eye where all inflamed and swollen as well, I'm now having my field of vision checked again as I they are still thinking I'm starting the old glaucoma road .............never mind , Hubby has said if I go blind he will dress me ...................... I can just see myself now ; Bright green tights , purple shoes, scarlet top , pink skirt , green dyed hair , blue lipstick , fluorescent orange coat ...........mmmmmm yes dear , dont think so Well I'd better go as I now feel my pethidine starting to work and I need to lay down before I fall down, Bye for now , thanks again for you support .........willows.