So glad you got the hip done before the year end and that you are home safe and sound to begin your recovery @punkdoc. I'm always amused by doctors who smoke! Both my parents were heavy smokers, so I was brought up in a house full of smoke all the time. So of course all three of we children took it up. Both parents died at age 79 of lung cancer and we all stopped. Unlike my bro and sister though I am still addicted to nicotine - and unlike fags, one can suck on nicotine lozenges indoors or out!
Must get on - meeting daughter in town in an hour to visit the art exhibition in the local theatre.
Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts. Â Update here @coccinella
It seems that I have done a muscle in and with the help of anti-inflammatories, today I can put my foot now although can't bear any weight on it. So the agony of yesterday is just very painful today. Â Much better and I don't feel so worried. Â My friend is here to take over. Â He arrived early yesterday evening from Auch where he spent Christmas with his family. Â Just in time to serve me a nice glass of chilled wine and some nibbles!! Â He likes cooking so the meals are on him!!
A boy's best friend is his mother@D0rdogne_Damsel
Lovely day here - bright and sunny unlike yesterday which was like my mood - grey and dismal. Â Shame I can't go out for a walk.
I hope you all have a pleasant afternoon.
Once again this message when posted was missing a paragraph. Â Will rewrite later. Â
My dad smoked from the age of 14, and died of lung cancer aged 49. He spent a lot of time warning the six of us not to take up the habit, and pointing out how he had tried and failed to give up. We all took heed, except for one brother, who didn’t set much store by any helpful advice,( let alone rules or laws). Since then, I have been seething at the big businesses that have profited at the expense of the addiction they have exploited. My dad would have been 92 this year, and would have loved to have met all his great grandchildren. I still miss him, tears in my eyes writing this.
On a brighter side, we popped out this morning to look for some picture frames. Didn’t see anything we liked - luckily, as when we got home, OH checked the measurements he had written down and they were wrong! I’ll consign him to the Eejits thread! I did however manage to get the makings for yet more pigs in blankets, and extra cream for trifle, in the M and S food shop at the motorway services. Loads of people on the move for New Year. Every EV charging unit was in use, with a big queue of cars waiting for a space to become available. Rather offputting, I found myself no longer envying the owner of the rather lovely electric Audi,( £80k plus ) having to hang around in that car park.
Dont overdo the exercises, @punkdoc. Seems to be a bit of a mismatch between the instructions given out, and advice from an actual physio, so the consensus seems to be to take it slowly. Hope the pain meds are working better this time? I have an in date bottle of morphine in the cabinet. I didn’t find it very useful in hospital, but the discharging pharmacist insisted I take it home anyway in case I needed it. I’ll pour you out a dose if you need it!
Afternoon all. tui34, take care, you really are in the wars. Good luck Punkdoc. My late parents were very heavy smokers,then one day,my late mum went cold turkey, never smoked again.it put me off ever starting. To this day,if on the beach,in a park, I can't sit in view of a "dog end" they make me feel sick! She had bowel cancer but died of lung mets. He died of throat cancer. I was looking at the menu the other day Dove. I have never eaten a 3 course meal in my life. The soup would finish me. I find it so filling. When we got out,it's something like the garlic mushrooms,starter,then a dessert. Nearby daughter (5 miles) and family have COVID, one positive test,rest same symptoms. Have dropped tests, and food on her doorstep. Splendid lunch yesterday at other grandparents, they all had gammon, and roasted veg. I had the veg, and a rather special cheese board all to myself, tried truffles for the first. Champagne to wash down.
Afternoon all, had a rude awakening this morning at 5.30 am by the mains operated smoke alarm on the loft landing beeping at us every 40 secs. It had a new battery just 2 weeks ago so we're not sure what is upsetting it. It's happened before intermittently so we've just put up with it but I think we need to ask our electrician to come and have a look at the wiring. Gave up trying to sleep through it so had a cup of tea and then tried to doze - nope! OH has just dismantled the whole thing.
It's wild, wet and windy again although our usual walk was just about dry but very muddy. Gave in to temptation and bought Danish pastries at the bakers - very naughty.
Glad you're feeling slightly better @tui34, I was rather worried about you yesterday.
Good news you're home @punkdoc and hopefully you are getting some sleep.
I think most of our parents were smokers when we were younger. My father actually ended up in hospital with nicotine poisoning when he tried to grow and dry his own tobacco! Probably changed to a pipe smoker after that and lived to 88. Both my brothers were/are heavy smokers, not so my sister and myself. I could never get the hang of it and didn't like the taste. I was only remarking to OH the other day about how much more pleasant it is to go to a restaurant and pub these days without the smoke.
Very sorry for the loss of your parents at a young age @Hostafan1, that must have been tough.
Glad to hear your mother is improving @Badly_Maintained, I marvelled at how steroids made me so much better so quickly when I was diagnosed with polymyalgia in July. I'm gradually reducing the dosage every month as instructed but being watchful of any aches and pains in case it returns.
Stay safe everyone in the forthcoming stormy weather.
I will tell you a story about smoking. My dad started smoking age 12 probably. In his fifties he was smoking a packet a day. Needless to mention it but I was stealing his fags regularly about age 16. One day my mum who didn't smoke says "there is a guy that can stop this filthy habit of yours. I have made an appointment for you. My father laughed but went along with it (in itself a marvel, he never listened to anyone especially my mother!) So this is what he told us happened there: the guy asked him to hand over the cigarettes my dad had in his pocket. He said you won't want this anymore but handed back the packet. My father came home a non-smoker. For weeks he was rummaging in his pockets, looked at the fags and then put them away again. He never admitted he had been hypnotised. He still bought cigarettes for about a year after this and then stopped. I think my mum saved his life, he died age 86. I stopped smoking because I fell in love with a non smoker and I was aware I stunk.
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Must get on - meeting daughter in town in an hour to visit the art exhibition in the local theatre.
Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts. Â Update here @coccinella
It seems that I have done a muscle in and with the help of anti-inflammatories, today I can put my foot now although can't bear any weight on it. So the agony of yesterday is just very painful today. Â Much better and I don't feel so worried. Â My friend is here to take over. Â He arrived early yesterday evening from Auch where he spent Christmas with his family. Â Just in time to serve me a nice glass of chilled wine and some nibbles!! Â He likes cooking so the meals are on him!!
A boy's best friend is his mother@D0rdogne_Damsel
Lovely day here - bright and sunny unlike yesterday which was like my mood - grey and dismal. Â Shame I can't go out for a walk.
I hope you all have a pleasant afternoon.
Once again this message when posted was missing a paragraph. Â Will rewrite later. Â
On a brighter side, we popped out this morning to look for some picture frames. Didn’t see anything we liked - luckily, as when we got home, OH checked the measurements he had written down and they were wrong! I’ll consign him to the Eejits thread!
I did however manage to get the makings for yet more pigs in blankets, and extra cream for trifle, in the M and S food shop at the motorway services. Loads of people on the move for New Year. Every EV charging unit was in use, with a big queue of cars waiting for a space to become available. Rather offputting, I found myself no longer envying the owner of the rather lovely electric Audi,( £80k plus ) having to hang around in that car park.
Dont overdo the exercises, @punkdoc. Seems to be a bit of a mismatch between the instructions given out, and advice from an actual physio, so the consensus seems to be to take it slowly. Hope the pain meds are working better this time? I have an in date bottle of morphine in the cabinet. I didn’t find it very useful in hospital, but the discharging pharmacist insisted I take it home anyway in case I needed it. I’ll pour you out a dose if you need it!
Orphaned before 30 by smoking.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's wild, wet and windy again although our usual walk was just about dry but very muddy. Gave in to temptation and bought Danish pastries at the bakers - very naughty.
Glad you're feeling slightly better @tui34, I was rather worried about you yesterday.
Good news you're home @punkdoc and hopefully you are getting some sleep.
I think most of our parents were smokers when we were younger. My father actually ended up in hospital with nicotine poisoning when he tried to grow and dry his own tobacco! Probably changed to a pipe smoker after that and lived to 88. Both my brothers were/are heavy smokers, not so my sister and myself. I could never get the hang of it and didn't like the taste. I was only remarking to OH the other day about how much more pleasant it is to go to a restaurant and pub these days without the smoke.
Very sorry for the loss of your parents at a young age @Hostafan1, that must have been tough.
Glad to hear your mother is improving @Badly_Maintained, I marvelled at how steroids made me so much better so quickly when I was diagnosed with polymyalgia in July. I'm gradually reducing the dosage every month as instructed but being watchful of any aches and pains in case it returns.
Stay safe everyone in the forthcoming stormy weather.
Your granddaughter is gorgeous @Hostafan1
Best wishes for your mum's full recovery @Badly_Maintained
I will tell you a story about smoking. My dad started smoking age 12 probably. In his fifties he was smoking a packet a day. Needless to mention it but I was stealing his fags regularly about age 16. One day my mum who didn't smoke says "there is a guy that can stop this filthy habit of yours. I have made an appointment for you. My father laughed but went along with it (in itself a marvel, he never listened to anyone especially my mother!)
So this is what he told us happened there: the guy asked him to hand over the cigarettes my dad had in his pocket. He said you won't want this anymore but handed back the packet. My father came home a non-smoker. For weeks he was rummaging in his pockets, looked at the fags and then put them away again. He never admitted he had been hypnotised. He still bought cigarettes for about a year after this and then stopped. I think my mum saved his life, he died age 86.Â
I stopped smoking because I fell in love with a non smoker and I was aware I stunk.
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Gosh, @Lizzie27, recently there was a chap on this forum asking advice about growing tobacco. I hope he doesn't end up in hospital.
I had a lovely lunch and a good chat. There were 7 of us, one couple I'd met before because they came to my old garden when I opened it and they are in the gardening club here. We had smoked trout with a salmon paté, then a delicious pheasant casserole with a dish of fresh ceps picked in my friends' woods, then cheese, then tarte tatin. I still feel very full.