General Chat

It seems that you are making progress slowly. Those little explosions are the nerve ending repairing - I envisage you going "ouch" and flinching, getting funny looks off the cat.
It is stressful having to keep appointments with this one, and that one. I get very irritable when that happens to me, and have to write it all out on a wall calendar to keep track.
I take 3mg of warfarin for five days, and 4 mg the other two days, am due for a test on Monday. Should have gone last week, but forgot.

Well, would love to stay and chat, but as it's gone midnight, I'd best get to bed, the Duchess went up some time ago.
So enjoy your day Berona, and Allan.

~~~~~~~~~~to Diane who is already in bed LOL,

Goodnight,
Tec.

Good night Tec

Sleep well

Allan

I keep missing you Berona, but I am glad that things are coming along, although more slowly than you would like them too. At least if the rash is gone, people won't give you such a wide berth when you go out.....

Another warm day coming up here, but it is cloudy,so not as sunny as yesterday

Hi Linda, Nice to talk to you again....No, my rash wasn't visible - it follows a vein, and can strike any part of the body. Mine ran from the centre front, across just under my collarbone; my underarm, and across my shoulder blade to my spine - and it was only 2 to 3 inches wide. No other part of my body was affected, although when it was at its worst, most of my skin (everywhere) felt like it didn't belong to me - it was all tender - but that only lasted for about a week.
My SIL now tells me that she has had it twice - once in the leg and once in the arm, It also only affects people who have had chickenpox, and although it affects mostly aged people, it can attack anyone of any age as long as they have had the chickenpox. Apparently, after having chickenpox, the virus lies dormant in the body for the rest of our lives and will strike if the resistance is low. I didn't even know that my resistance was low! It can be contagious, but like most of those childhood illnesses, it is usually passed on to others when germinating - before we even know about it.

Hello all,

I haven't been around much because I have a very busy time at work at the moment. Worked all day yesterday, Saturday, then all day today and will be there again tomorrow from 9am to 8pm. Then we have to do a recap of what else needs to be done to comply with our contract. It's a bit of a messy job this one. Not as straight forward as they mostly are. Still it's money and I need it. So there ya go. I do like the work though.

Cheers to all. Will be back in again when time permits. Love reading up on all the posts. This is much better than a chat line, eh?

Pam xx

it is indeed Pam because we can dip in and out as we pass the computer. I am sorry that you are having to work so hard, I must say that being old enough to not have to work does have it's compensations.

I had chicken pox when I was sixteen Berona, a really bad attack and very embarrassing at that age to have what I considered to be a children's ailment. I shall look forward to having shingles at some stage in the future.

CC your garden is immaculately manicured. mine is more free form lol

Sounds like a few of us are having problems with the weather so I will also moan, although its OK now. I had to work this morning (Sunday) as the job had to be done at the weekend while the manufacturing plant was shut down, Not a big problem. The 6am forecast was a shower or two near the coast early but mostly fine. So they said.
I was ill-equipped for the continuous rain. It rained much of the day in the Botany-Matraville area, although I wonder if there was any rain away from the coast.
Berona, I am pleased you feel that you are getting better. You sound chirpier, and will soon be back on form, and keeping us blokes on the straight-and-narrow. I had chicken pox at age 6 so I need to stay not run down. It ties in with something else I have noticed. I get cold sores sometimes and it also seems to be when I am run done. The viruses that cause chicken pox & shingles are supposedly related to the one that causes cold sores.

Hello Allan and Tec. I don't think I have ever eaten leeks / leaks but I hear potato and leek soup is very warming.
Pam, I understand what you mean about long sleeves. Presumably when it gets down below 25 (77F for our northern friends) you need a fur coat. But I don't think I could cope with your weather, although as I said a couple of days ago I have been to your part of thee world only once. I imagine Kuranda weather is nicer than Cairns.
Time I was thinking about a shower and bed so will away.

What made you feel embarrassed about having chickenpox, Linda? I had them when I was 14 and I was worse than my own children were. It didn't seem to bother them much, but they were much younger. The worst case I have seen was my husband. He was 32 when he caught them from a friend's child. He bled from the ears and nose with it. The older the patient, the worse those illnesses seem to be. I had mumps at 16 and german measles at 20.

I was working when I caught the mumps and the place where I worked had a staff of 400 and 250 of us were off at the same time. I had my 17th birthday while I was off work and I had a lovely party - all of my friends were off work with the mumps. When I told my best friend that the party was on, she insisted on coming to it - because she was tired of doing all the extra typing at work. - So she came to it - but didn't catch the mumps.

My daughter was 16 when she had chickenpox. I was on leave, and we'd rented a cottage in Cornwall for a fortnights holiday. Three days before we were due to leave the spots appeared, by the time we left, her face was covered in spots and blisters. That was a particularly hot summer, and all she could bear to wear were very loose fitting cotton frocks.
Vanity kicked in, and we weren't allowed to go anywhere where there were other people - "Someone might see me" so we spent the entire two weeks "hiding" from other people - Great holiday.

Tec.

There you go Tec, your daughter understood. At sixteen, it simply wasn't cool to have a children's illness

Down on page 2 again, Sue will be so cross when she comes back. I assume that her computer has been taken away for the weekend to be repaired. I wonder if she has severe withdrawal symptoms?

I'm sure Sue will have withdrawal symptoms - she probably thinks were're all running amok. Allan screaming about the threads causing chaos. Berona hitting the night clubs in Kings Cross. Linda arrested for running a cannabis farm down on the allotments. Perse heading a military coup of Tasmania. Me thrown out of the vicars strawberry tea for inappropriate behaviour. CC Being pursued around the streets of London in a stolen fire engine, flashing lights and sirens.
Mother will be so relieved to know we've all been terribly well behaved.

Tec.

Cannabis farm? Not me Tec, I don't approve and as for smoking....

It is still very hot here, i will be glad if it is a bit cooler tomorrow

Yes Linda, it was too hot for comfort, so I hid all day indoors. It is supposed to get cooler this week.
There was hardly anyone on the beach today, must have been baking down there.
My poor dog didn't know what to do with himself.

Tec.

Hello everyone - I'm back. My nephew sorted the computer out. He's 24 and very knowledgeable but please don't ask me what he did. He just fiddled for awhile and here we are. It was back on by yesterday afternoon but having gone to a boring fund-raising luncheon with mediocre food and dreadful entertainment I couldn't face anything but an early night.

However all was not lost on the weekend. My daughter's partner proposed to her on Friday night after he visited us earlier to ask her dad for his blessing. So they are now officially engaged. After what she has gone through she deserves to be happy and we are all so pleased for her and her fiance. They celebrated by buying a puppy for the children so there was great excitement all round. Of course the children don't understand.

You have all been remarkably well behaved so give yourselves a pat on the back:-))

Sue xx

Pats back

That is lovely news for your daughter Sue, you will have to start looking for a new hat

You should have treated the dog to a hair cut Tec, just like shearing the sheep

I can't believe you're all moaning about the heat. Which isn't in fact "heat" but "warmth". Come over here in summer and I'll show you hot weather:-))

Sue xx

No one in their right mind would go to Oz in the summer,so as I am sane, I will pass on your kind offer Sue

We had family friends come over in January a few years ago. We advised them to wait until around April/May but they insisted. We had the hottest and most humid summer and they complained constantly. We spent a good deal of time sat in the house with the air-conditioner on. OH was very grumpy by the time they left.

Sue xx