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Hi Bridget, I told Joyce the same yesterday when we spoke on the phone, I said have a glass of water every hour.

Hope you are ok.

Lizx

Carol, that's naughty, you shouldn't have opened it yet!

Still haven't found the right venue for hols, and we should be away two weeks today lol

We will go through a shortlist tomorrow and sort something, otherwise it means staying home all week and him pottering and driving me nuts. I would like a change of scene and routine, and no cooking, meals out all week lol

Spoke with Joyce on Thursday evening briefly and she was coping, altho the cramp and pain in her feet is still awful.

Lizx

Liz, if you have to stay home for your hols, tell OH that you expect to be taken out for meals every night, and go on excursions by bus or train (if there are any suitable ones for you) as you will not have to spend money on accommodation. If he doesnt want to then do it by yourself.

Huia.

Good idea, Huia, I could always leave him home alone and take trips out but wouldn't trust him not to cut down the hazelnut tree he is threatening to lop or turf out some of my plants from their tubs lol He is lethal when left to his own devices too long. One year I went to stay with my cousin in Buckinghamshire, he had with my help and that of the neighbour erected a new garden fence which he wanted to paint while I was away. He duly reported by phone how well he was doing, but I was heartbroken to get home a few days later to find that during the heatwave the paint had dried well but so had all my favourite plants I had left outside for the summer. Two beautiful red hibiscus plants with great sentimental value were withered and died and other plants needed emergency tlc. Oh well you didn't expect me to water and paint the fence, did you? was his response.
Doh!
Now he is diabetic it's important he eats regularly, but I have known him get engrossed in a project or job outside and forget to eat. He will do jobs necessitating the water being turned off but never fills the kettle and jugs before he starts so he can have a drink or whatever. Hopeless he is!
It was ok when he wasn't diabetic but now he is, he would be in a real state when I got back.


We are going to go through the shortlist later today when I get up. He was at work for 12 hrs on Saturday so too tired to do anything when he got in except eat his dinner and sleep in front of the tv. We also plan to do some reccying on Monday to check locations out, as there is one house we like the look of but it appears to be on a main road which would be very noisy so we will go and look as it's only 30 miles away and we can make an outing of it.

Will keep you posted!

Lizxx

Well I am still on the computer, with my head and eyes spinning! Have looked at so many late deal/availability sites and sent details of several hopefuls to o.h. to read when he gets up, he can do a short list of his choices and I will see which ones he likes.

As we are only taking a week right now he won't want to drive far but there is one nice place in Devon and with the reduced price it wouldn't cost much more including the petrol than taking a place locally, it's just the length of time driving and he's not too keen on driving far these days. Sheffield was far enough he said the other day, oh dear, this place in Devon is twice as far!

Lovely morning but I need sleep.

Oh by the way, I have a visiting hedgehog again, been coming for most of the week so I started putting out peanuts and dog food (purchased especially) but really I shouldn't get it reliant on me for food if I am disappearing for a week. I do love them tho. The blackbirds have just finished off the few bits of food the hedgehog left behind.


Off to bed now, night all lol
Lizx

Hugs to joyce and hoping she is feeling a bit better.

Devon is lovley liz, we are in Essex and it is a bit of a trek.

How sweet about the hedgehog, we had one on our drive last year. The local infact school is just across the road and I heard little voices outside. I popped out he front and a couple of Mums and thier children were gathered onthe drive very worried about a little hedgehog who they thought was dead. It wasnt, just a bit scared I think.
I got some gardening gloves and picked it up while they all had a look and took him to the back hedge in the garden where he wandered off.

Teresa x

Thank you Liz for putting this thread up for me and thank you all for your messages ,still in alot of pain with my spine and feet and have been drinking more even water going to the diabetic clinc on the 14th june wonder if i have lost more weight as i have gone from 97 kilos to 82 kilos now,clothes are to big for me but will just be poping on and off as cant sit for long take care all
Dutchxx

You are welcome Joyce, keep drinking the water and eat less sugary stuff and you might feel a lot better. You may well have lost a bit more weight, but will be easier for your legs and feet perhaps. I haven't lost much but hope if we sort out a holiday I can do a bit more walking and lose a few pounds.

I was so tired after looking at so many sites so slept in but o.h got up yesterday, went to see his dad and came back, and instead of waking me or looking at the places I had sent details of, he went out and did some work on a wooden box that was rotting in the garden, he uses it to store some gardening stuff. He cut a good bit of ordinary mdf into a new lid but managed to make it barely fit so the water will run down inside the box, and the mdf isn't waterproof so it will soon rot anyway. What a waste of a sheet of mdg and of his time. He had a look at the places I picked out and knocked the idea of Devon on the head, said it's too far to drive, so it will be one of the local places. We are supposed to be going round to look at some this afternoon to get a better idea of their locations then we can ring the chosen owner and book. The forecast today is rain and more rain, lovely! I might manage to persuade him to buy me dinner out tho so will save me cooking and washing up lol

Will keep you posted.

take care Joyce, and hope the clinic are pleased with you

Lizxxxx

Oh Dear Joyce

You really must look after yourself coaches are not for lurching around in... and yes we need to keep our fluid intake up, I am the same.... I had my first trip in an ambulance last Monday - ever such nice young paramedics worth having an asthma attack for. I could breathe in I just could not breathe out again... it was bleedin' awful. So the hospital gave me xrays, ECG and blood tests and as I was there through lunch time they gave me some food as well.
So dear Joyce drink more water, stop lurching and massage or get someone to massage your legs for you. You have got to stop these cramps so as to keep yourself mobile,

Liz he should have a box with a corrugated iron lid... they last for ages.

Tell him Persie said so.

P xx

Persie, I had visions of him being in a box with a corrugated iron lid lol
Funnily enough he works at a factory that makes corrugatged cardboard, he maintains and repairs the computerised machines that make the board.

Well on Monday we went to look at the outside and locations of several holiday cottages, and have booked a fairly new house for a week in a small seaside town around 20 miles away. It's somewhere we go sometimes for an afternoon out but to stay there and eat at the various pub restaurants or other eateries will be really nice and an old work colleague of mine from 30 years ago, living there, who I keep in touch with by Christmas card and who is in her 70s now, will be a port of call too. We say every year in the card that we must meet up so I can put that into practice at last. We just never made the time or the arrangements before.

The house is lovely, four large bedrooms all with tv, a lounge and a snug and nice gardens front and back and only a few minutes walk from the sea or the shops etc but should be quiet as in a culdesac and not near a busy road. Nice kitchen but I don't plan to spend much time in there! Some of the ones we looked at had no parking nearby and were poky and near busy places so we plumped for the nice one and when I rang to say we wanted to use it I asked if the price was the best he could do, so he said he would let us have the whole week for the 4 day price and knocked £100 off. I still think it's a lot of money £400 a week but some places are more expensive than that. The owner has several in the town and other members of his family own some holiday homes too, his cousins have the houses either side of the one we booked - they are in a terrace of three in a little culdesac off another culdesac so pretty private and quiet and hopefully no noisy families booking either side while we are there lol
The owner actually lives opposite a woman I worked for for a few years, in a village not far away so will be more or less on hand should any problems occur.
It's £2.50 each extra for a bath towel and a hand towel per week and £11 each for bedlinen but it saves me having to make up beds or have extra washing when we get home!
It will be so nice to be away from these four walls and I will have a bedroom and big bed to myself so will be getting to bed earlier as no computer to play on and therefore getting up and out in the fresh air, so exercise and vit d for me that week. Just hope the sun shines, it was very cloudy when we got there yesterday and then it poured with rain as we started for home so will order better weather for week beg. 11th June and you will all have to behave so I don't miss anything lol as I will be out of touch unless I can sneak off and find an internet cafe!

One of the places we looked at in the next town was a little cottage I fell in love with a few years ago when I had a yen to move house, but couldn't sell mine to get it. I was tempted to say we would take that one but I am not sure I would feel right about being in there for just a week and it was very small too and I prefer the town we are going to as well. Lots of nice little quirky shops as well as the usual shops for any town, a small Sainsburys where the old Woolworths was when we last visited about three years back. Hadn't realised it was so long since we were there so new places to see and plenty to do in the area or just a few miles drive along the coast, a theatre at Cromer, a Zoo which I have never been to even tho I have lived so close most of my life and lots of other things so won't get bored. Oh and the house apparently has lots of books for rainy days so I am sure I will find at least one to keep me occupied.

Better get to bed now, the computer froze a while ago so had to wait till o.h. got up to sort it out for me before he went to work.

Take care everyone

love
Lizxx

Liz, I am so glad you found a place you like. Perhaps if I win the Lotto before you go I can come and stay with you for the week?

My computer sometimes freezes, so I usually just unplug the power supply and then after a pause plug it in again and start it up again.

Huia.

Huia, yes of course, you can come and save me from the boredom of a week with o.h. lol That's why I am glad there is plenty to do around the place we are going to, so I can take an afternoon to myself if I want and browse the shops and chat to people. Hopefully my son might come one day and stay over, I will take a sleeping bag with me in case and he can sleep on one of the unmade beds in the two spare rooms or on the sofa. He is unlikely to have found a job by then so will be a chance for a little change of scene for him as well.

I will try your unplugging suggestion if the computer freezes on me again, am so scared of messing it up tho as it would be all my fault and life would be so miserable if I didn't have this to play on lol

Oh I hear noises from upstairs, he is obviously getting up for work so bye for now

love
Lizxxx

Sending hugs to Dutch, i hope she can get sorted out ASAP. If she is retaining fluid from kidney issues, it certainly would put pressure to heart and lungs and compromise her breathing. When my daughter had terrible leg cramps, we found that drinking tonic water (as it contains quinine) helped a lot. Taking ones daily calcium tablets at bedtime rather than in the morning also helps reduce nighttime cramps.
If you check in Joyce, we care about you. Try and behave!!
Love,
Mary

Morning Ladys
off to the docters in at 10,oclock see what he has to say ,well not to me as he dos,nt speak any english but as Jan is off for few days he will tell Jan,then he tells me Mary have emailed you some photos hope you like them will let you know what docter says take care all
Dutchxx
ps Liz glad you got holiday sorted out at last might just pop over LOL

Well ladys went the docters he has put me on morphine tablets for the pain already on morphine patches among other tablets ,take sleeping pills to well you think i would be asleep ,no im up with cramp again so thought i would just add on about docters ,and now going back to bed to see if i can catch some sleep as its now 1.30 here
Dutchxx
sleep well everyone

Joyce, I sometimes wonder if your doctor knows what he is doing? Surely you need things investigated more instead of just dishing out more and more medication and pain relief.

Are you drinking more water still or have you forgotten lol

Hope you are sleeping right now, talk to you soon

love Lizxx


I was checking something on the site for the 'cottage' we are renting and think we got a bargain price, as it was already a special offer of £499 for our week and I got him down to £399. In August the one remaining week is up for £999 !!!!!!! I know the place sleeps 8 but for heaven's sake. This isn't the only place he rents out, imagine the money coming in if it's booked up most of the summer and beyond. I know there are outgoings but even so.......
The houses are 1970s built but look newer to be honest so will be staying in some luxury.


~~~~~~ to Mary, Huia and all

Hi Liz,
I guessed where you were going, and the Sainsbugs confirmed it.

OH born there, we used to go up evey Saturday when M.I.L was still alive, we should go more often as OH stil has rellies there and we're just over an hours drive away. We went there last year when I was looking for a wedding outfit for my nephews wedding,( in the land of Mau..xx)

I often used to say to OH it would be nice to stay in one of those old fishermen' cottages for a week (he and his mother and siblings could name all of the families who lived in them) but no response so I will think of you, because come rain or shine you will find plenty to do.

Sylvia C.
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:-)

Liz, I got so carried away thinking of your holiday, I forgot to send best wishes to Joyce and hope she soon feels well again.

Those long journeys to see family and friends can take it out of you, especially if like Joyce you have medical problems. Airports are a nightmare these days, but I bet she thinks it worth it when she recovers.

Keep smiling Joyce!

Sylvia C. :-D

dutch.you said that you are on morphine patches and morphine tablets and take sleeping pills?please be careful that is a bad combination,did your dr prescribe them?x

Dutch....l was wondering this aswell, it seems way too much, can't you see another Dr ??

jude
xx