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Well.............silly, wonderful, crazy hubby who was supposed to have just bought me a 'token present' ..........we said we would do this for the in between anniversaries like 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and for the 10th something big....like a cruise or something to remember. Anyhow box in a small carrier ........? It was a 2 carat bright blue topaz and diamond pendent !!!!!! so beautiful.......his card had a wonderful line in it that he had underlined which said ...... ' I just want you to know that should trouble call' 'I am here for you always ......to catch you when you fall'!!!!!! Yes, dear twice in one week .............kissy , kissy love you loads.........Willows.

Suffering today from the excitement of yesterday..............yes, hubby did tell me to calm down , but its hard to ,especially when you've never won anything in your life before, not even a raffle in all my 50 years. And probably like you ?, I cant say that we have had a wonderfully exciting life full off things 'always going right ' so for once actually getting or doing something right the first time ...............made my day . Now I'm teetering on one of those ' on the knees head down the toilet jobs, head banging , blood pressure up and down , face pains, ear running , sweating like a sumo wrestler ........I want to die days' I look like I've seen a ghost, feel like I've run a marathon and act like someones thrown away my power pack Never mind.............just been told that my new suit / stuff has been posted !!! Tomorrow is my 4th Wedding anniversary , married to my crazy, wonderful, loving , lunatic of a hubby for 4 of the most perfect years of my life . We get each other a token gift and a card and always go for a meal ( son, hubby and myself). But as the wedding is only 15 days away we have decided this year to have the meal out on the Saturday of the weekend away instead. I am also now wondering what hubby has bought me ??????? I bought him a new DVD , we both just love the 'pink panther', BUT..............hubby asked me if it was blue topaz or aguamarina that I didn't like earlier this week I do hope he hasn't gone silly . I'll let you know tomorrow when I weigh son and me in ( if I'm upright !!!!!) I'm doing sons suit trousers tomorrow ( taking them up) ..............boy am I getting excited ...........must somehow keep calm or I know I'll make myself fell worse and worse , any suggestions as to how to ???? ................????????? Willows...............pale, palpitating ...........but with the perfect suit

Well................... 20 mins to the finish and I was hanging over hubby's shoulder being told in no uncertain terms to 'go away' !0 mins and still no one had outed me......hubby sweating now 5 mins and hubby shifting a lot in the seat telling me 'stop trying to see over his shoulder or I'll turn the computer off ' 2 mins and his one hand is hovering over the keys .........me ? well I'm in the kitchen trying not to have an angina attack with all the stress as I really, really want this outfit ( but so does someone Else) 1 min.......30 seconds........20 seconds......10...9...8...7...6..5..4..3..2..1.........................? Guess who's' going to the wedding in a rather nice cornflower blue designer three piece suit with matching large brimmed hat and hand bag me, me, me, me, me, me, me, ......got it A very happy willows who is now going to lay down as her heartbeat is skipping, palping and cartwheeling but who cares !!!!!

Congratulations to you and your husband ............... I am so very pleased for you all ,You've made my day as well Willows.

Panic...............Panic...............Panic..................... I've just tried on my wedding suit, you know the one that's made of chiffon with long sleeves, well after 3 mins of being in it I couldnt take it off again as it was stuck to me , talk about hot, I'd be no hotter if I went in a full length fur coat So having given my outfit a great deal of thought..... I'm now panicking . I've had a look about jolly old eBay and seen an outfit in the 'mother of the bride' section, a blue suit , hat and bag............not the normal thing I'd go for especially as its second hand but its my size and it looks rather nice , but having spent and arm, leg and left ear on the pink chiffon suit and all the accessory's last year, I dont want to spend another arm, leg and right ear on another new suit. After all ,I'd have no arms to hold my hubby with , no legs to dance with and I wouldn't be able to hear the music so no point in going ( ha.!!!!on form today guys) If I'm lucky I may win the bid by the end of the afternoon............all my extremities are crossed here. Mikes just informed me he's lost yet another pound this week already....dont ask about me I've been in bed for two days having passed out at the top of the stairs and head banged hubby's waist as I sat down 'well out of it ' according to hubby and son ( luckily hubby was coming up and caught me ) then the next day woke up with the room swimming and wanting to heave ...............another session of back and forth to the bathroom ............then so tired I had to sleep for a whole day . So this week has gone , just disappeared and I'm still tired and feeling 'blurrrrr'.............well if there is anyone up there watching me please let me win the blue suit as its cotton and has no sleeves and I can flap around in it and keep cool, yet still look the part .............also please dont let me pass out until after the ceremony ..........or preferably not at all!!!! Willows...........unable to keep her feet flat.

Hello Dano again My own doctor is brilliant , as I was sweating long , long before my hormones went 'bye-bye ' she doesn't think its just the old menopause with me, she has had me sitting 'dripping ' on her floor since 2000 . My sweats got worse in early 2006 when I bottomed out on the hormones, so I was put straight away onto HRT which doc thought would stop the excess sweats , but not a thing has happened , so as well as the HRT I'm on the 3 x2 clonidine and still..........sweating like a boxer it doesn't make sense to me ! We have a thing called a de-humidifier upstairs......this takes the water out of the air and you have to empty a big bucket from the unit ( about a gallons worth of water at a time) its not an air conditioning unit , I have a massive 3 feet tall fan which moves around to keep me cool when I'm on the bed upstairs. Sometimes if I try to eat something hot ( not Curry's just foods in general ) or even warm foods , I sweat so much I cant eat it anymore and just have to stop. The hair on my head 'prickles ' with the heat from the sweat............. and as does my back ...........its the 'pits' . The only way I have found to stop this in its tracks is to eat a water ice ( kids fruit flovoured lolly) so now we have half a freezer full of the things for me and the family is getting used to me stopping my meal and eating a lolly while they finish !!!!! Willows.............thinking of moving to the north pole in a bikini .....ah , thats better

Ah , now I'm a mixture of different colours in different places! I have one scar that is at the top of my pants level 3/4 way around my body that is so white isn't almost invisible. Yet I have another one 8-9 inches down my chest that is huge and almost 1/2 inch wide and very pink/red ( 14 years old) and so visible. A mauve one on my eye lid and a white one on my eye lid as well . Is marks on me that stay purple ............I have on both of my arms ( lloking at my arms hand side down) from the wrists to the elbows bright red flat spots and bright red/ mauve marks , what ever I do will not go away! Very strange and not very nice looking . Willows.

Thank you SO much guys for the come backs ............especially to DANO.....I have been keeping my fingers crossed that a man had this to and it wasn't just us girls. Armed with this I can now cause 'havoc' with my consultant who in his great wisdom is convinced that it is to do with female hormones and the jolly old menopause................ Ha ! another one bites the dust . I get waves sometimes and its most alarming , I can feel the heat + sweat rising from my lower back ........and flushing up and down my body like a huge wave ,then the water starts , lightly at first , but after 30 seconds it runs off me. Cooking at this time is not a good idea as the drips go onto or into everything ' Yuck'!!!!!!!! The chilly pillow is a good idea , but as I sweat all around the house ' horizontally and vertically ' I'd have a bit of a problem with it standing up unless I strap it to my head with a huge hair net!!! Sorry if I sound rather stupid or slightly crazy over this and I do take your suggestions seriously..........but if you have been sweating as much as I have for 6 years you start to go 'ga-ga' and find life rather silly at times ( and that's my excuse....well and old age .........) The bandanna sounds great but as we are in the UK I'm not sure if I could get one in under 3 weeks ( until the wedding ) and this is my worry, what with these sweats and now I've taken to 'the faints 'as well I am getting worried. I'm just about to email my step daughter to tell her that I will not be standing up for the ceremony becuase of the sweats and passing out...............................AAAAHHHHHHH! Any other suggestions ??? Brilliant so far..........Willows

Well I know this isn't any help to you either , but I'm glad I'm not the only one I have been sweating since Jan 2000 , my hormones have been checked every 6 months or so since then and have been 100% , but about 5 months ago now the sweats went wild..........and I do mean wild , every minute or every day almost I was so drained all the time. My wonderful doctor checked and I'd gone straight into my menopause from 100 % hormones to almost NIL she was surprised , so I take HRT............but this doesn't stop it neither nor do the 3 clonidine every morning and evening now. I get used to drugs and especially this clonidine , but have only just come off it for about 4 weeks and re-started it again..............its just as if I haven't done it . I sweat on top of the bed, with sheets, without sheets , starkers!!! summer, winter, spring , fall ,morning, noon and night , drip, drip, dribble, dribble..........ah ! an idea???? We are getting short of water here and am wondering if the local water board could link me up to the mains as I must be losing enough water from my system each day to run a washing machine on I would give anything to stop this and am getting very worried as this wedding I'm going to is just under 3 weeks away and I dont want to look like a ground rat for the pictures So me thinks its mini fans and ice packs down my back at the church !!!!! And more ideas or 'why we poor guys are doing this' gratefully received ....... and no I cant go and live in a fridge although its tempting !!!!!................willows.

At long last I found my poems............. The first was for my son aged 7 who was desperate for a dog and would say anything to get one.........! Can I have a dog mum? I'd look after it , honest I would You'd never have to do anything mum And I'd make sure it was good. It wouldn't doodle on the carpet Or widdle on the chair It would never chew your shoes mum Or leave teeth marks anywhere . It wouldn't sleep upon your bed mum Or walk mud on your clean floor And I'd never feed it tip-bits So it would never ask for more. I'd walk it every day mum And brush its coat to shine If I could only have a dog mum A little dog thats mine. We got a cross collie puppy soon after this ......but we didn't quite know what it was crossed with until it was 6 months old............a Newfoundland !!!! B.C. grew to be 8 stone plus (about 110 lbs) but we loved him. This next one is in memory of my dogs TOR and GOLDIE who were both rescue dogs and who I loved to bits. Dont read it if your a bit on the weepy side !!!! THE STRAY. Alone I cry out in the night So cold, so wet and covered in mud Yours eyes look down but do not see This faithful dog inside of me. You see a stray A filthy thing You do not see this love within. I cannot speak to tell you why But wait in filth , alone to die . Dont tell me you have not time to care Just walk away and leave me there Dont look back with tearful eyes I cannot take another's lies. Just leave me here as others do I will not try to follow you I dont have the strength to say goodbye And so I sleep and hope to die. By me .................willows.

Right , this is starting to drive me mad. Is there anyone out there who can find out why I sweat like I'm in the boxing ring WHEN I LAY DOWN....... and I dont just mean at night . I am on HRT for the menopause which came on full in about two months , missing out all the pre-menopausal stage and went 'BANG' ........... BUT I have been sweating since 2000 really badly , but mostly when I see or smell food...........eat food ( I dont know what to do with myself then ) But the worst problem is laying down. If I get tired in the afternoon ( ha ! if .... thats a good one ) I go and lay down on the bed........sweats start. If I get tired early evening .........lay down.........sweats start. Bed time.........lay down.......sweats start. As I drift into sleep at night and wake up again...........sweats start. In fact I think I sweat on and off most of the night because I'm so thirsty when I wake up its unbelievable how much I can drink. If I wake up and am unwell and so have to stay in bed .........sweats start. Why , Oh ! , Why do I sweat when I lay down??????? Cannot find anything on the net .................come on guys , you are clever , give us a hand or point me in the right direction................ Willows.

Hello Hopeful girl..............yep, pain management is a 'nasty one' I to take oxycodone at 20 mg ..........BUT and this is where you need to speak to you doctor ..........I take it every 12 hours on a slow release !!!! its SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better like this as you dont get the 'up's and downs ' , which is possibly why you feel you need to increase your dose. The reason your doctor is worried about your weight is that Oxycodone is a 'controlled drug ' and can make you anorexic or bulimic its a derivative of opium ( I think) not a drug to play with as its very addictive , as for the skin crawling, I'm afraid its all part of not getting the drug ............ you may get sweats, dry mouth ( even more) and shivers , possibly seeing things as well and anxiety ............lovely inst it ( NOT ) what you also need to do is when you do to the doctors tell them that you would to have this painkiller as it is the only one at this time that controls your horrendous pain.............dont say 'I need it' because girl you will sound like you have to have it because you are 'coming down' and cant stand the side effects. Try explaining to your doctor that taking it every 4 hours isn't enough and ask if you can have some slow realise ones at 20mg to try them, you have nothing to loose. I know how hard it is to get on with everyday things when all you can .........see hear and think about is pain, pain, pain, but it can be done. Dont let the pain over take your life, its your body and it is just an annoyance to be pushed away to let other more important things in.............I know , I suffer like you . I hope you can get this sorted out soon, thinking of you, and wishing I could give you a big hug , sit down and have a coffee and a natter about putting the world to rights ............that will take your mind off it , or make you laugh at my crazy attitude to life .................Willows XXXXX

Hello Anna.............when I had my bad fall about three years ago I was appointed a OT via the SS, she came and assessed all my needs and I was fitted with loads of stuff like; bath chair, bath/shower rail, loo rail ( so I can get up when my hips lock ) a wonderful bed side that I can use to turn over with at times .........other bits and Bob's for about the house ..........but the main thing was and this is after she caught me crawling up the wet front steps with my leg in plaster !!!! A stair lift for out very step outside steps to the house /garden and one for the very step inside stairs to upper floors...............ha ! As I said in the above post , three times I've filled all the forms in, send copies of everything they have wanted and three times we have been told.............'sorry try next year , we are out of money'. So now I've given up. As for a cold or virus , nope nothing , I dont get vertigo from heights either. This passing out came on 'out of the blue' one minute I was fine OK normal ( ha ,thats a good one) and the next walls, floors and ceilings on the move and then .........................the next thing I recall is finding my forehead pressed against my husbands belt buckle !!! nice imprint of a flying eagle on my head for a while !!! Thank you for your help , I'm now waiting until Monday as I sent my doctor an email , so she is brill at coming back to me as I have the honour of being the most difficulties but interesting patient ( health wise that is ) in the whole practice . Kind regards to a fellow Devonian ...........Willows.

I've come on tonight instead of tomorrow morning for a change. As from tomorrow we have just 21 days left to 'the day' Mike ..........loud applause has now lost a total of 15 lb's and he reminded me that he started before I logged onto here ,so in fact his start weight was 13 stone 3 lbs!!! Making it a grand total of 1 stone 4 lbs he's lost in all and not what I keep quoting ..........men , must be accurate . So Mike now weighs in at 11 stone and 13 lbs. Well me , thats a bit tricky , I feel a bit of a wash out because here is my son losing much more than me, though if I think about it he's 200% more active so I must not think so badly given what has gone on in the past few days . I have now lost just under 1 stone in all...........start weigh was 11 stone 11 lbs ..........I'm now 10 stone 12 lbs and holding.............still battling on . I thought I would tell you all , who ever you are who read this post but never speak to me what I'm doing for my daughter + son in law as a wedding present . ...........we have decided to give them some money to do what they want with but.........in a special way. I have bought a bottle of champagne and two tall 'ribbon cut ' crystal glasses ( in a pretty gold box) these will go into a larger box with gold tissue plus sprinkles of white confetti all over ......then another gift , wrapped in gold paper is a box containing a wonderful silver 3 tiered wedding cake that pulls apart ( a trinket box) in which we will try and push all the money into, this will have a funny label on about the contents .......then a beautiful gold/pink /white large square perfumed candle ( wrapped) ........a large box of rather delicious champagne truffles .......all prettied up............a huge box of bath goodies like; bath oil, massage oil, soaps, talc's, candles..........all sorts of stuff.............all wrapped and make pretty with confetti. This box will be wrapped in gold and made as pretty as I can with bows ad silk flowers all in gold and cream ( her wedding colours). As the couple are not going on honeymoon ( funds wont allow) but staying in the honeymoon suit , I have given them strict instructions to open this box on their wedding night ASAP ...............so they will be able to sit in a wonderful bathroom all lite with perfumed romantic candles while drinking champagne and eating chocolates..........(must remember to put a lighter in the box as well) now isn't that the most romantic way to start married life ................ Willows.

Thank you all for you helpful replies..............its maddening really For about three years we have been applying for a local grant for inside and outside chair lifts to be fitted, its not for just myself , my hubby has terrible walking problems to. I get so short breathed going upstairs that I now go up on all for paws!!! and have to stop half way to re-charge and get breath. I fell down the stairs a few weeks ago , which shook me up no end and I then had two days on my back in bed. Three years ago ( when they said we must have the lifts) I feel down the front steps and broke my ankle so badly I was in plaster for 10 weeks followed by months and months of physio. I've broken my wrist when I fell and caught my sleeve in the banister and taken the skin off the front f my face when I slid face down from top to bottom.............so there is plenty of history. This grant for disabled fitments within your house /garden is something you can apply for in the UK of you are 1. disabled 2. your occupational therapist feels you are at such risk . 3. you have had falls down the stairs before ...........I fill all of the above 3 times now . For three years running I have filled all the forms out , sent copy after copy of all hubby's and my income , copies of bank statement .you name it and I've copied it , it almost come down to asking what colour underwear you have on that day .................so intrusive . I do try to come down on my bum sometimes , but this causes me to sweat like I've been in a rain storm, so walking VERY carefully and slowly holding in is the best answer................but not anymore it now seems. Hope to speak to my doctor Monday and see if my meds are out of sync. Willows.

Thank you for your reply Taylortotmum. I am not allowed to have to much salt ...........my kidneys have been in failure before and I had to be put on dialysis , which was not much fun I can tell you while they were getting themselves sorted ( due to horrendous septicemia ) ......so saline drips and such are a no-no for me . I do get out of bed slowly, cant do anything else but do it slowly as 'm riddled with arthritis, especially my hips, knees and hands...........so I'm a bit like a snail at times , except I dont leave a trail ! I'm hoping to speak to my doctor soon, its hard getting an emergency appointment as I'm only allowed to see two of the doctors out of the whole practice, and one is off on holiday and the other is so booked because she really knows her stuff . I've been a 'bit out of it ' again today ..............sort of not quite there all the time, if you know what I mean. Never mind I'll try the doc's tomorrow and see what happens, I'm just hoping its a drug and not something else. Thanks again .............Willows.

Because I am bradicardic I dont get dizzy spells as such, just lightheadedness I'm not to sure whats going on. I was laying on top of the bed last night watching TV and decided that I wanted to speak to my hubby who was downstairs at the time , so getting out carefully ( as I always do ) I made my way slowly to the top of the stairs , reaching for the banister I started to walk slowly down , just pass the very tight curve of the stairs ( 3 steps down) I noticed that the walls and ceiling didn't seem to be 'normal' . Suddenly I felt my knees start to go ...............and the whole staircase spin..........I managed to scream out 'anybody'!!!! Next thing I knew I was sitting on the stairs with my head pressed against my hubby's waistband ! Apparently he had heard me coming down the stairs and came to see what I was doing, saw me standing about 1/8 of the way down looking like I'd been seeing fairies and as white as a sheet. He said he had never moved so fast in his life when he suddenly saw me 'drop' and his one concern was to stop me falling head first down the steep stairs . It took me a number of minutes to come to and even when lead back to bed by my husband the room still spun and I couldnt sit upright Is this the norm???? I've never had 'high blood pressure' except when pregnant and in fact I'm low because of the Clonidine I take for my sweats. If anyone can help me or give advice as to what I should do I'd be very grateful. My next check up with my doctor is in 10 days time. Thanks ever so .............Willows.

Well............dont make me cough.......laugh ........or sneeze!!!!! Eating fruit for 3 days none stop has had some unwanted side effects...............no.........dont say 'we told you so' ........one has to learn the hard way , but in this case 'not the hard way' !!!! So having spent most of last night 'forging' a track to the bathroom and back to bed and to the bathroom and back to bed ...... ......... .......... . I'm not eating much at all today, my own fault I will admit , a vast mixture of fruit, excessive hot weather and a digestive system that been laying 'dormant as a dormouse ' for years been woken up so violently is NOT the quick answer to my predicament it seems, more likely a way for the soft tissue manufacturers of the worlds to increasing there sales quickly Yep............I did loose 3 lb's in this short time, but the pain........... and soreness I have suffered all night cancel out any weight loss I may have achieved, and I've spent most of the day trying to get my drugs back into my circulation without my doctors intervention . Never mind , that will teach me that 'sure and steady if the only way ' . Back to the drawing board I'm afraid ,sitting on a cushion ( dont you dare laugh !!!) Back again on Sunday with another weigh in and hopefully a lot less soreness..............am I am idiot or what ? Willows...............

Hello Lindajoy, I to have problems with swallowing, I get it when I have a bad session and when I lay down at night sometimes I feel like I'm being strangled I was told that it is part of one of the conditions I have bit I cant remember which one, after all these years I have so many that have joined in having a 'nibble at the bod' its not very nice when I try to eat and the food gets stuck , eye's watering, red faced trying to swallow , especially when I'm out I dont think there is any help , I've never had anything for it, it is a case of slowly and carefully and watch for the signs I'm afraid. I to sleep like I'm dead, that is when I do get off to sleep, and on many an occasion my Hubby's actually woken me up because he was so worried..............mmmmmm thanks a lot dear ! My hubby has also noticed that I am snoring slightly but I put this down to ..........not singing in the car as much as I normally do ! Yep I know it sounds mad, but if you sing ( I do classical or opera ...i.e phantom of the opera stuff) this stretches the bits at the back that apparently make you snore, it has been proven in the UK that singing for about 10-20 mins every other day works!!!! But as I've been unwell on and off for sometime now and not been able to get out ..........so not been singing , I'm snoring ..................right out with the Cd's and away I go .........earplugs anyone ? Willows.

Right , I'm back with my strange , well not that strange really way of 'kick starting ' the diet again................it is a follows; FRUIT SALAD. I am going to eat fruit salad for 5 days only , But remember I take multi viamins ( a-z and 100grams C-vit ) each and every day so I am now worried about lack of all the essential vitamins and minerals while I go 'veggie'. The salad is a bit off the old scale as well and I have given you the recipe below , you may want to try this as an after dinner dessert or a 'one day drop off'. YOU WILL NEED; 1 pineapple. 2 large plums. 2 large peaches, 2 apples. 2 pears. 1/2 tub strawberry's. 1 pomegranate. 1 large orange. 1/4 small cup f lemon juice + 1 dessert spoon of sugar substitute. First; peel pineapple and store 1/2 in the fridge for another day ( cover in cling film ) chop the rest into even size squares and place into a large bowl Then; half the plums , peaches and pears discarding all stones and cores , slice these evenly and place in the bowl. The; hull the strawberries and cut into half , add to bowl. Then; 1/2 and 1/4 apples taking the core out of them and slice thinly into the bowl. Then; half the pomegranate and 'pop out' the seeds straight into the bowl ( now filling up nicely) try not to get the pith with the seeds as that tastes really dry and yucky Right last thing; squeeze the orange into a small dish or jug add the lemon juice and the sugar substitute and mix well, then pour the whole lot over the fruits in the bowl and with q big spoon carefully mix it all around ( I put on disposable plastic gloves and use my hands for this .....very satisfieing ! ) Your fruit salad is now ready to eat ...............I covered mine with a foil lid and put it in the fridge for an hour to chill , it keeps for about 24 hours as the lemon orange/juice stops the fruit going brown. So far I've had salad for breakfast .........lunch and now dinner as well as this I'm drinking like a fish , thats coffee, waters and low cal drinks. I do not suggest you try this unless you have asked your doctor or specialist first and have there full approval. My own doctor is well aware of my 'fruity days ' and has said as long as I stick to my vitamins etc she doesn't have a problem, in fact given the high cholesterol I have she doesn't mind at all. Also the more weight I cans shift the less likely I am to suffer a heart attack again or what I think is worse for me, heart failure again............no thanks not again . So with Mike having lost his Stone now and looking SO good, I am now going 100 % fruity Sunday I will post in again and tell you how I'm getting on, have I spent days on the loo wishing I hadn't done it and the big question will the inches burn away in time ..............its now just 27 days to go and counting If , as I'm sure a number of you who read my posts are wondering why I'm so adamant that I have to look 'the bis' well come on guys its obvious isn't it ???? I'm the second wife ..........his first will be at the wedding along with the grandparents and the rest of her family , we do get on , but come on guys , I'm sure she will be doing just the same, neither of us want to look anything other than , slim, immaculate, totally 100% beautifully turned out at our best.............my problem is I have the condition, the first wife is what I'd call normal..............now do you understand why I'm trying my hardest to look my best? I dont mind normally what I look like ( well up to a point ) but no way am I going to look anything other than ............wow !!!!! I did it before for a wedding last August , so I can , I will do it again. It isn't just a case of letting my husband , son and step-daughter down...............but myself . Willows................chomping away on fruit salad each and every day this week ..........and loving it.

Dear Julia59, I have sent you a private message to your box. I hope that this will help you in some way, I am here if you need me. willows.

Hello sonotech............my new emailing friend. See.......... this Post on the chit-chat section did work, because now I have a new friend to, which is just brilliant. If any of you would like to write to me too, that would be nice , that way sonotech , myself and ( may be you) will have emails flying around the world like clouds in a tornado !!!!! Willows............ crazy as a box of frogs!

Well its Sunday, sorry I haven't been back before now but been stuck in bed again. Mike hit the 1 stone off his bod target today he is no pleased with himself, I said that if he could 'loose the bod , I'd buy him an ipod'.............so he's now the proud owner of a 1mb white one. I've been in bed a few days now and haven't lost a thing so this monday I'm going to adopt a new strategy ( tell you in the week what it is ) Also ...............the 'dissolving stitches' in my eye lid wound ...........didn't dissolve!!! they just got tighter and tighter and sorer and sorer and the scar started to bulge with the tightness. I was getting a bit worried abut this as with only that 4 week length of 'sorting my bod out' before the wedding I didn't want to go with a very red angry scar still................called the hospital and lo and behold I've now had them out . Boy, Oh Boy does that feel better!!!! so now I have just a flat red scar on the lid and hopefully with these new scar removal plasters you can stick on the scar to reduce it , in 4 weeks it wont be noticeable ( fingers crossed) So I'm resting today after a bad week , eating loads of fruit and veggies still . Well today its cold salmon for luncheon ( cooked on the BBQ) with an assortment of veggies ( all cut or sliced small ) these include; broccoli, mangetout, green beans, carrots, sweetcorn, mushrooms, peppers, and beansprouts..............these I stir fry in a very hot wok , no oil added just a spoon of soy sauce...........heat wok to smoking add veggies and soy and 'keep moving' you'll know when they are done as they all change colour and do slightly brown ...............so place your salmon on top of this pile ( on a plate please) and 'dig in' !!!!! Keep up the good work if your trying like me to 'shift the weight' ..................back soon with my new strategy. Willows................stitch free and eating veggies by the ton again

Right sitting here on this hot sticky afternoon I was looking around me and thought .....' I wonder how many other pots people use stuff to help them each and every day '???? I have a mobility car, special mattress & pillows , bed pulley, bath seat , bath rail, loo rails ( not loo rolls !) stair lifts, I'm owing up to a zimmer frame at my old age of 50 ( shuffle---shuffle) three walking sticks , and tons of kitchen things like; oven rail, rubber kettle handles, can openers, special knife and fork when I need it, oh ! and two of those tippy lidded cups for my' I'm dying days ' when I cant hold a thing and nearly drown myself trying !!!! I haven't included personal items like wrist braces ( 3 sets) special Velcro shoes/boots or medical items . So its all this in about 35 years from day one until now. So being nosey ( well inquisitive really) I was wondering how many of you have to use these items as well . I was wondering if given the amount of time you have had the condition if you 'stack up the equipment ' as time goes on OR if as for some unlucky ones its help from almost day one . Willows.

It was a flashlight but not the normal sort of flashlight , its on a miners helmet Nadine !!!! You can imagine what he looked like doing it on his hands and knees , talk about a lunatic. Did you see the spider,? horrible man what he wrote , you wait I'll get my own back on him one day, when he's asleep I'll find a nice fat worm and stick it on his forehead ...........nice and cooling for him until he wakes up ...............trouble is what would I get back ????? Well we have rain here guys, big ploppy drops that if you could run you might be able to dodge. Ahhhhhhhh ! cool air, now just wait for the nose to go red ha !!! weather. Willows.