AWAKE.........

 Northerner thanks for that...just hope this works, it's never let ,e down before!

Morning Lacomtekp ! Oh you've made me smile this morning..packing...yes I totally agree medication and extra undies are a must. Also I totally get what you mean about alcohol versus tea bags...talking of which, I'm off to make my morning one! Enjoy your holiday 

Sally

Morning lovely clear view this morning of the Helm Bar cloud above cross fell on the Pennines 

It’s formed by the swirling helm wind on this part of Pennines 

Morning fellow insomniacs...

Actually posting this in the morning as I find it doesn't help getting back to sleep if I get onto my phone!

Thought I'd share what I've recently found helpful in getting through these anxious nights waiting for scan results and treatment plan... I find my mind imagining the worst especially in the small hours, but I have been trying to redirect my thoughts to more positive scenarios. I imagine the consultant telling me the scans are all clear, what a relief! I'm repeating this to myself over and over in the night, and trying to put these thoughts in the place of the horrible fears. I did have a happy instance of it coming true last week when USS showed the suspicious nodules in the left (good) breast to be just cysts, so hoping for a repeat when I go back for the liver/lung/bone scan results. The alternative is just unthinkable...

Doesn't always work but might be worth a try for someone? 

Have a restful day lovely people xxx

 raedd you're very welcome here. Hoping you have another nice day with the grey cat and no tears.

I had x-ray bone scan and MRI years ago now and nothing found except degenerative disc disease, but it's a very anxious time. Hoping you have similar outcomes xxxx

 Grogg feel for you, hard to keep one's mouth shut. Where i live (very rough) you learn to keep your head down and let people get on with it.

I went to Mumbles a few years back, was lovely xx

 MamaG good news about the cysts hoping all the other tests and scans will prove no abnormalities detected. Keep thinking positive  xx

Yes, my thigh hurts all the time, so they're checking it out, blood tests this week and X-Ray next week.

I'll be sure to take LP the guinea pig with me 

Thank you all for such a lovely welcome, I was so surprised at all the notifications! @Karen22 @moomy @Grogg @Daisy53 @LondonLass Lacomtekp 

Another fine day here so I've done a 3,000 steps walk around town and will probably do it again later. Now I'm back off into the garden for more gentle pottering, with the grey cat unless she has something more interesting to do.

Happy Monday everyone xx

Hi raedd ….welcome!!!as you can see you have got a lot of friends here and it’s good to have new ones…

Karen22 I agree with you…and My Motto,since you mentioned it,just lately is…if you don’t know what to do,Go Slowly,or stop altogether.

It worked when I used to drive .I was a bit nervous as only started late.One day on a large town a lorry was coming towards me and it was a tight squeeze.Anyway,I reckoned that other drivers around me knew what to do and so I slowed down and perhaps stopped,can’t remember now.But they navigated around me well.So that was good.

Obviously it Doesn’t work in all situations,(especially on the Motorway!!)so am just saying it worked then,for me.

seaspirit44 I do hope you can get some comfort for your painful knee.It is interesting to see what works.

xxx…not meaning to be trite but it’s what my older sister says.Very British xxx

I like that, fellow insomniac's. I'm sick of 3am, 2am or whatever awakening. I count backwards from 300 Paul McKenna style. It does work most of the time. I read and take 1 paracetamol or whatever I need. Non herbal Nytol or Zolpidem prescribed by the GP. Been like this off and on for 20 yrs, since perimenopause. 

Tired today. Going to have a nap later. Hormone blockers don't exactly help do they?