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• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 8 hours ago
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  Mr U 12 hours ago
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  Former Member 3 days ago
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Latest blog posts

• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  Did it, bloods successfully taken. Getting to the car and back in the house was awful painful but doable. Being in the car and in my chair was ok.  This has reduced anxiety about how I am going to manage to get to appointments and deal with it a...

  Rowan8a3264 2 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 550: A day of tv and showers.

  Post 550: A day of tv and showers. The was little to do on my Darlings birthday and with the choice of what to do in her hands it was a day of tv and snacks. But first I had an early start at the Hospice for session four of counselling. These are g...

  Mr U 2 days ago
• Pedalling through this journey

  Let's start

  For a long time, I’ve been looking for a community I could connect with. Unfortunately, where I live, people speak a Slavic language, and after 13 years as an immigrant, I still don’t feel as comfortable expressing myself in a Slavic lang...

  Former Member 3 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  The leccy supply is not quite as secure as I thought when I woke up yesterday. I slept through some outages and we are still going off for a while. It's a big clear up out there. The wind is still very strong. Original back pain has toned down. Yeste...

  Rowan8a3264 3 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Second Dermatologist

  The next NHS letter I received came as quite a surprise. It hadn't come from the bots. Instead, I'd been given a Dermatology outpatients appointment, where presumably I might even encounter an actual dermatologist. Things were looking up. Was...

  dolphin99 3 days ago
• 

  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 549: Let’s talk it over a pint of mild.

  Post 549: Let’s talk it over a pint of mild. The bumps on the way to the pub made the journey very uncomfortable but the warm welcome from er, Brian and Lorraine was enough to ease any pain I had, and the table we reserved for dinner became al...

  Mr U 3 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  Quite a wait, but not the worst given the clock going back. My only options for pain and nausea now is codeine and the oil I get on private prescription. I tend not to take these together but today needs must. I' m not too wobbly on my feet and m...

  Rowan8a3264 3 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  So my phone call on Thurs will be the results of my bloods, which I do fret about, and then check list of has anything changed or been different since the last time, of which there has been quite a lot.  Mandy is blunt and she steam rolls throug...

  Rowan8a3264 4 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on some more

  The leccy came back after a couple of hours or so and so far has stayed on. Not counting any chickens yet still a few more hours to go. I felt quite rough this morning, I decided that as it was already ropey and am grounded anyway I'd take a bigger h...

  Rowan8a3264 4 days ago
• 

  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 548: Weeeeee’re all going down the pub…

  Post 548: Weeeeee’re all going down the pub… With the only really useful thing I did today being a phone call there was a real feeling of hiding from the storm and resting to get out and about later, I didn’t like it but it had to...

  Mr U 4 days ago