Wonderful Wednesday

can't believe I'm first today! Beautiful sunny morning, the birds are singing - I do like spring!

Waiting for Charity shop to come and collect some furniture this morning. Roy is off to the opticians at lunchtime then we are going to try and put some new webbing on Michael's settee! Should be interesting! Got a special tool to do it - looks like an old fashioned childs toy! Also going to try and get over to Aldershot to the American supermarket as Roy wants some saltine crackers.

Beautiful here too. Very warm outside. Even did my front garden yesterday. I have no internet this morning so trying to do this on my phone. Lost tv and phone too but they are back on. Molly is being groomed at the moment. Had to get on here to send huge hugs to Karen. Took me a while to log in.

Morning girls... hope it's as lovely there weather wise as it is here....

Jane have replied to your PM hun x

Sorry I didn't show my face yesterday but believe me you sure wouldn't have liked to see it...... It was my nephews 17th Birthday yesterday and it hit me real hard that he's not here..... worse than it has for a few years now... maybe its to do with he would have been a 'young man' now.... whereas he will always be forever young to me. I had a fair few tears first thing and usually I try and control it in front of the kiddies but yesterday I just couldn't

Was just glad it coincided with Adys day off...he thought he was gonna be fitting Emily's new bedroom carpet yesterday and he shoved her bed and matress in our room, I wondered what all the banging was and then asked him to put it all back cos I just didn't wanna sit moping in the house all day and it was a stunningly bright day too....

So we went down the town and had a nice cooked brekkie (tradition on a Tuesday) and then we picked his mum up and went to a few garden centres. Then we went down the cemetary...we took my other nephews grave name marker (cos they don't have a headstone ... long story) as it got broken about 6 weeks ago and I had told my sister but she didn't do anything about it, so last week when we went up there I bought it home with me to mend it. So then I gets a phone call from my sister yesterday afternoon saying she now knows (cos I informed my mum) that I have it and WHEN EXACTLY was I gonna put it back.... cheeky cow I told her I was taking it down that afternoon when I visited the boys.... she made a point of telling me how she had taken the glue down AND EVERYTHING so that she could mend it.... too little too late me thinks! If I left it there any longer it would have been destroyed by the strimmers....

Anyway at the garden centres we spent a flippin fortune buying new plants for our pots and hanging baskets and I then spent the rest of the afternoon planting whilst Ady strimmed and mowed both lawns, only after having to go buy a new strimmer cos neither of our old ones wanted to work yesterday so they have gone down the tip!!!

So the day ended quite nicely I must admit....

Then this morning at 8.40am I had my appt with Dr Menon the rheumatologist to discuss the MRI results.....

Not great news.... but I suppose not totally unexpected.....

The operation last year was a failure... no sh** sherlock and in fact it has made matters worse (he gets the award for stating the obvious does my darling Doc Menon!) ... he said trust me to be the awkward one ending up in the 1% of the stats that get made worse by the back surgery . He always knew I was trouble he said Basically the op they did involved removing the soft nucleus of the prolapsed disc and apparently the whole they made to get it out just leaked more of the nucleaus out of it... more than before! Hence my trouble with sitting, less feeling in my foot etc. So he wants me to have it done again, I don't wanna..... so he has arranged for me to be referred to the pain clinic for an injection which is put right into the site of the problem , he says it should help more than an epidural to see if that helps.... he also says the MRI shows thinning of the bones in the hip and inflammation consistent with Arthur and after manipulating my shoulder (ouch, groan, crunch, grind ) he says he reckons its in there too.. SO he wants me back in for more REHAB....... I said I will go in after the summer holidays at which he calls me a stubborn young lady and tells me to just phone when I can fit REHAB in! They will be waiting for my call apparently!!!

So there ya go....... my last two days in a (rather large and boring) nutshell!!!

Oh by the way ignore the daft thread I put that says its Thursday... am gonna go try and delete it if I can!!!! I have an excuse .... I've had a rough couple of days!!!

Yeah I managed it!!! Aint I clever!!!!

LoopyLou wrote:Yeah I managed it!!! Aint I clever!!!!

We would never have known if you hadn't told us

Sorry to hear you have had a rough couple of days Lou, big hugs to you. Just goes to show these Docs or not always right Glad you got out and about yesterday.

Molly had her hair cut this morning, it had really got overgrown as she is developing little wart like things all over her and last time she was cut I asked the groomer not to cut so short as she starts to lick them and irritate them, which seems to have worked. The only trouble was I kept putting off making the next appointment for one reason or another and then when I did she couldn't do it for 3 weeks (usually it's a couple of days). She looks lovely again now though. Only just got my internet back, was really lost without it first thing this morning, but I got a lot of housework done

Oh dear Jacky..... if I tell Ady that he'll rip the modem outta the wall!!!! Housework.... eeewwww scary

Glad the poochie aint a sight on legs no longer!

LoopyLou wrote:Oh dear Jacky..... if I tell Ady that he'll rip the modem outta the wall!!!! Housework.... eeewwww scary

Glad the poochie aint a sight on legs no longer!

I will keep it quiet if you do Lou, Martin won't notice that the floor has been vacuumed and the dust has gone from the sides.

Bye the way Jacky - shouldn't you be wearing your sun hat rather than the Christmas one?

poppytree wrote:Bye the way Jacky - shouldn't you be wearing your sun hat rather than the Christmas one?

Mmmm shows how much I notice