oldandgrey's blog

  • Can you catch cancer from this site?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I joined ths site in June 2007. I was caring for my terminally ill wife who died in the September of that year. I found friendship and support in this place from fellow carers, family and friends of sufferers and from patients themselves. I have stayed a member of the site since joining, though have often looked for a convenient time to slip away unnoticed. What has kept me here has been the spirit of understanding that…

  • What is LOVE?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I particularly like this description:-

    "Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even mighty death could not tear it, a garment that could not be frayed by use, that brought warmth into what would otherwise be an intolerably cold world. But at times love could also be as heavy as chain mail; bearing the burden of love, on these occasions when it was a solemn weight…

  • Navigation. Help Required. Stuck on Groundhog Day.

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I just want to know how to move from one page of replies within a thread to another page.

    I start to read someone's experience and the current page of replies. I try to move backwards through the thread to previous pages and am either thrown out completely or find myself stalled on the page I started on.

    Am I the only person this is happening to? It really is quite frustrating. It reminds me a little of Groundhog…

  • I must be extra thick!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I cannot find an easy way to report inappropriate posts. I have read Admins guidelines, which say Do not respond just report, but I am at a total loss to know how to do this. I have searched high and low or an easy way but cannot find one.

    If anyone can tell me how to do this I will be most grateful.

     

    NB Please note I will be grateful but not as effusive as that promised by Hakam00 who is still squatting on the site…

  • Elsie has dissappeared!!!!!!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Once upon a time we had Share, and then we had What Now and the two were married. There was a period of time when they went off on honeymoon together and we all waited for them to return. They were very different when they returned and quite distant from their old friends. But the officiate who conducted their union ceremony, was convinced we would all get to love the newly weds and their changed demeanor. They did immediately…