Oh dear @tui34. The best thing you can do is take decent pain killers to ensure that you can breathe in deeply. The most common complication of bashed ribs is a chest infection caused by not being able to move/breathe/cough. Take care.
Ooh dear, Tui34. One of the reasons I don’t ride a bike. Fine until I hear a car, and then I just somehow run into the nearest ditch, telegraph pole etc. Bit like that scene in Frasier when he was trying to take part in a bike race. I have horrid memories of a camping holiday in France, where we had to bike down to the beach. I spent my time covered in scars from the bicycle chain, and bruises from contact with the pine trees. Hope you haven’t broken anything. Just finished eating a home made turkey and bacon pie, on my second glass of Prosecco, Dad’s Army film on in the background, but I’ve also got my head in a book. Hope you all had a suitably relaxing Christmas. I’m going to enjoy the final hours of Christmas, before making a big effort to ignore New Year, which I find truly depressing.
Thank you @Dovefromabove and @AuntyRach and @Ergates Yes. I have codeine and can breathe freely - depending on the position. I have made an appointment to see my doctor but the earliest was the 5th January. I will try and concentrate on the breathing. I must point out that I had actually stopped and tottered - and stumbled and then went down sideways!! I will be more careful in the future.
Hello again folks, we did get to see the sea but by heaven ,it was blowing a hooley, huge waves breaking closer to the promenade than we've seen before. A big stretch of beach was cordoned off because they're having to replace the wooden groynes. Quite busy though despite the blustery weather. I drove us home this afternoon, not a very nice drive, wet, misty/foggy/dark/quite busy so glad to be back in the warm and dry.
I'm so mortified though, I got my wires crossed and thought my son was going to order their Xmas present at the same time he ordered his children's presents from us. They thought I was going to order theirs - end result, no pressies! All quite complicated. Oops, wicked mother-in-law.
@tui34, oh dear, you're the third person I know to have hurt their ribs recently. Over here they don't seem to treat them any more and just advise painkillers and rest. Do hope you feel better soon and all other poorly people of course.
I really don't feel like getting up and cooking dinner, still quite tired from the driving so we may just snack on whatever's in the fridge. I do know there's far too much left-over turkey than I know what to do with. Probably I'll end up freezing most of it in small portions for future meals. DIL cooked a lovely whole salmon yesterday, washed down with Louis Roederer champagne we took down to celebrate being able to meet up for Xmas after all and surviving a very difficult year.
It's fine @Busy-Lizzie, they know I'm easily confused! My son related the tale to his children of when he had had appendicitis aged about 9. I thought the nurse had told me to take out his stitches in ten days time. I was a bit dubious about this doing this but gingerly cut the first stitch, whereupon the rest kind of disappeared. Of course, the inevitable happened, they got infected, he went back into hospital to be re-stitched and ended up with two scars! He's never let me forget it.
Hopefully it's the vets sometime today. Wee Uff hasn't been well since Christmas night/Boxing day morning so he needs attention. Limited hours I expect today though.
Oh poor Wee Uff … hope he’s feeling better soon … had he got hold of something that disagrees with his tum?
Picking up something unsuitable is a danger around Christmas when folk aren’t careful to dispose of giblets carefully … I’ve known seagulls get them and then drop them in flight when others are squabbling over them.
Hope the vet sorts him out PDQ 🤞
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Just finished eating a home made turkey and bacon pie, on my second glass of Prosecco, Dad’s Army film on in the background, but I’ve also got my head in a book.
Hope you all had a suitably relaxing Christmas. I’m going to enjoy the final hours of Christmas, before making a big effort to ignore New Year, which I find truly depressing.
I'm so mortified though, I got my wires crossed and thought my son was going to order their Xmas present at the same time he ordered his children's presents from us. They thought I was going to order theirs - end result, no pressies! All quite complicated. Oops, wicked mother-in-law.
@tui34, oh dear, you're the third person I know to have hurt their ribs recently. Over here they don't seem to treat them any more and just advise painkillers and rest. Do hope you feel better soon and all other poorly people of course.
I really don't feel like getting up and cooking dinner, still quite tired from the driving so we may just snack on whatever's in the fridge. I do know there's far too much left-over turkey than I know what to do with. Probably I'll end up freezing most of it in small portions for future meals. DIL cooked a lovely whole salmon yesterday, washed down with Louis Roederer champagne we took down to celebrate being able to meet up for Xmas after all and surviving a very difficult year.
Enjoy the rest of the evening everyone.
Oops @Lizzie27, I hope no one minded. Salmon and Champagne sounds good. Horrid driving in dark, wet fog.
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🥱 OH is back to work today …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.