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Still no joy, so I got onto Twitter to say my piece, got a reaction straight away to refer it onto the relevant department, maybe a complaint from this end might just help......sometimes big companies need to be named and shamed! 

Spoke to son today, they have an Indian SIM card in an old phone so it's cheap....he is gradually recovering but still finds it hard at night 'everything closes in' was how he described it. 

Travel insurance? Memo to self, do NOT go with AXA, I had trouble in 2013 with them.....

Hugs to you all, I know it's late but there's some chilli in the slow cooker.......might help someone who is peckish for a late supper. 

xxxx

Chili!; that is waht I made tonight for W and I!; an aweful lot of it, in my massive double handed pan... - W and I have enough for at least two more meals each from it!


Really hope that gets sorted soon, moomy....

"travel insurrance"? - ahh, knew there was somethign I ment to look at before my trip to Sweden over Christmas... - Actually I think I just figured it would be too expensive, so risked not getting any... I know... my Bads....

Things settling down here a bit, not least my testosterone levels after the last injection... - I can see that getting a bit tedious, having to let my testosterone go so low I enter the female menapause and then getting such a massive shot of testosterone, I get hot flushes from that, as well as very differnt mood swings to which the lack of testosterone gives me... - basically bouncing all the way to one end, and then up to the other, over every two month period, - the injections are ment to be only every three months, but I 'eat' up the testosteron  quickly I guess, and so at the moment even on 2 monthly injections I find err, I've insufficent testosterone at the end of that two month period for normal male things to work as they oughta... - May suggest to endocrinology going to one monthly injections, but just a lot lower dose of testosterone, to attempt even it out a bit...

Have another endocrine appointment soon anyhow, in a couple of weeks, so maybe can raise that then, along with the perpetual question of why I'm not on thyroxin despite being totally hypothyrod now (maybe accounting for most of what I still put down to chemo-fatigue...) Starting to think the endocrine problems are worse than the cancer, as they don't seem to have a solution as such ... as odd as that sounds to say (and perhaps my already forgetting how horrid the chemo etc was back last year).

Lodger now well underway with moving out; may have a de-lodgered house by the end of the weekend!; though I suspect a few dozen bottles of cleaner fluids, multiple packs of disposible cloths, and a lot of black sacks to then be needed to truely regain the house back; once clean, and tidy, first job is quote for new bathroom, then front door, and retiling downstairs hallway and staircase, and then can get on to the prime interest item of replacement to me; a new kitchen and utility/laundry room! (yeh, and then decorating the entire house, replacing all the internal doors, re-flooring everywhere etc) - all to be done, and finished, by the end of may to have a clean tidy, shiney new inside to the house, in time for the wedding. Fatigue? pah... oh... yeh... this might be painful to achieve! (if a bit exciting too)...

hope everyone else is OK this evening

 

Morning all. I hope your boy is soon on his way home moomy. 

Your renovation plans make me dizzy mark. We have had the decorators in for nearly two weeks and thats been enough. 

Got a busy morning ahead, off to see the nurse for an inr, then to church then taking a friend out for coffee. The sun is shining but it is bitterly cold.

Hugs to everyone 

Gillian, hope the INR is at a good level, and you enjoy your day. 

Mark, like Gillian, your renovation plans sound so busy! 

Today's news, they are going to move to a cheaper, quieter hotel nearer to the airport and are just going to try to enjoy the last couple of days, there are seats on Sunday's direct flight, which was the one they were to fly on last Sunday, so they hope to be able to book those 24 hours ahead. It's the cheapest way of getting back. 

Till then we have to look after dog, at least, poor hubs will have to cope from tomorrow morning till Sunday as daughter and I are off to meet her donor in Berlin. So he's now off shopping for his essentials! More bad news, my cooker is dying (grill dodgy, no heat in fan oven) it's a good 20 years old, so we are going to cut losses and spend some pension on a new one. Never rains but it pours, eh? 

Fresh coffee, fresh croissants and home made jam here, please help yourselves! 

Hugs xxx

Goodness me,all this decorating & suchlike is wearing me out just reading about it,i do hope all will be pleased with the final results

Moomy,i do so hope your lads are on that flight home on sunday,hope you & your daughter have a fab time,it's bound to be very emotional for you both,i look forward to hearing all about it

Did you have a nice day Gillian,the weather has certainly been good for you

Well i had some wonderful news today,the neighbours from hell are moving & have to be out in less than two weeks,think that deserves a shot of JD tonight befor bed

Hope everybody else is doing as well as can be,i'm sending special hugs to those who need them

Love & hugs to all

xx

I am so really not looking forward to all the decorating here!; probably is, I've basically done  nothing to the place since I moved in, in 1999; at that point I had it painted and decorated, and a few years after had a new bathroom put in (they did a terrible job, thanks B&Q), - the last four or five years I've had the boiler replaced and central heating radiators, had all the windows (but not front door) replaced, and had the roof re-tiled, re-felted and re-timbered (and cavity wall and loft insulation); so, basically got a really  nice solid sorted 'shell' to the house; just the insides are... well, a tip!; Some nice "origional features and fittings"; visa some of the tiles on the floor date to the build of the house in 1969!- the kitchen I think looks 1980s to me, so, with lodger moving out, my fiance moving in, and our wedding in May; just gona get as much of the place sorted before the wedding as is possible!

Oh. yuk! - lodger is really starting to get ready to move out now (he's been here over a decade).

Well. turns out he's not cleaned his bedroom in that time. - dust. dust. dust. - I've a sore throat and a headache from the dust. - today 12 large black sacks of old books matterialised out of his bedroom floor, and went off in a van to a charity shop (I'm baffled by why he hasn't got rid of them years ago, as I recall him bagging them up, at least 7 years ago, and just figured he'd dumped/thrown them out).

I've been in ... a very odd mood all day, and just about figured out I think my hormones are to blame; I think all this upping and downing in my testosterone levels, and periodic entering female menapause when my testosterone drops really low, may have just about confused my brain enough to convince it that its a 'pregnant' brain. - and I thought my life couldn't get any weirder!- going to make up a pan of rice n peas (well kidney beans, red pepper diced onion etc with basmati), to go with the massive pot of lefover chili, for dinner for W and I tonight... then... - I think a trip to the pub is called for and for me at least half a dozen pints (William doesn't drink anymore)...- gonna have to keep reminding myslef the next few days, that soon lodger will be gone... and soon after, after severl days solid constant clenaing, I might at last, at least, have a clean house!

Hope everyone else is OK, or as OK as possible, hugs to anyone who needs them (nad you can help yourself to the chili and rice N peas I'm making, as there will be far too much!)

A brief update, I have been busy embarrassing the insurance company on Twitter, not sure if that has had results or not, but AXA are taking a bit of notice. 

Plan is for them to travel back on the same flight a week after they would have done. They've moved hotels and are almost on the beach with lovely peaceful views. So it has a plus even now. It's a good bit nearer the airport too. So poor disabled hubs will have to cope with dog, just hoping he will 'do' in the garden instead of going out for walks. Daughter will be herelate tonight after Anton and Erin in Nottingham, then the car is booked ( thank goodness we made that decision a couple of days ago) for 4am to take us to the airport to fly to Berlin, to meet her bone marrow donor.  Excited and nervous all at once. 

Biscuits (assorted) in the tin, please eat......

Hugs to you all xxx

Hope everything gets sorted with your son very soon, and you and your daughrer enjoy this trip to meet a very special person in your lives.

Hope your new neighbours are really nice and you can settle down to some peace and quiet.

pleased your holiday is going well Lynda.  Hope you are enjoying the sun, we actually saw it here today, but it is very cold.

Hope you are ok Christine.

Mick is getting weaker, but we cope day by day.

Love and best wishes to all  Jasmin xx

Best wishes Jasmin to both you and Mick.

Just checking in from the sun.

Holiday is still going well, although the diet is not! It was probably a mistake to go all inclusive........ I have very little willpower. But I have been for a 3 to 4 mile walk every day in an attempt to get rid of some calories. 

Jasmine, hope you are ok.

Moomy, sorry to hear about your boy. I'm sure you will have a very memorable weekend meeting your daughters special donor.

Christine, sending a big hug. 

Mark, wears me out just reading about your busy life.

Love to everyone else.