Daily whinge please?????

[Hippychick]

I know we had a daily whinge section in our old forum so PLEASE can we have one here too?

I really need to let off some steam just to get it off me double d's this morning!!!!!!!! I was drifting into whinging on the thread on the Welcome section just now and THAT will never do!!!!

So peeps.....apart from allllll the usual bog standard daily aches and pains I have to have a rant about the latest annoyance that started about couple of weeks ago, (may even have been longer but ya know what our memories are like), and while I've been having more pain than usual in me left knee since the beginning of what we laughingly called 'summer' this year, THIS pain now is bl**dy 'orrible!!!!! It's sort of shooting pains going from behind me left knee, round to the inside of it and going UP me leg into the inside of me thigh and ending in me groin big OUCH has to be yelled! It's agony all night in bed with it, (and everything else natch), and that's without the shooting pains I've been having in BOTH calves for quite a while too! I tell ya what peeps.........it's AGONY!!!!!! Sorry for shouting......it kinda helps Can't even find ONE iccle bit of me that don't hurt today either, so that's not helping.......

BOY that felt gooooooooood, ta muchly for listening, even though I know it's the weekend when we all seem to disappear off

Got soooooo much I wanted to do today, but fear it's all gonna be shoved to the back of me mind yet again as sitting with me legs up in the recliner is looking more appealing, (as I'm doing now),.......but I really do HAVE to try and at least paint one rum tumbler for a chap's 50th birfdee that one my nephew's wives  has asked me to do for her brother and I hate letting peeps down. Be an effort to even lug me equipment out of the cupboard today though, (even though I won't need much of it for this job), and if I can manage that, I reckon I'll have to do me painting upstairs in the back room instead of lugging it down the stairs today. Should've got me hubby to bring it down for me before he went off to our diving club....dagnamit! Or.....maybe it can wait till tomorrow and I'll get him to lug it downstairs before he goes out in the morning p'raps? Haven't even made a start on me Ch*****as cards yet....shocking I know

Well peeps, ta humungously for letting me get this all off me double d's this mornin;, it's really helped me mood, if not me pain.....

Gentle hugglies OUCH!!!!! The pain's shooting again!!!!!! I'll take away it's bl**dy bullets in a minute!

[Hippychick]

Sorry about this peeps but I just need to do summat............best ya put some earplugs in before ya go any further though.........WARNING THIS IS GONNA BE LOUDDDDDDDDDDDDD

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ohhh that's so much better.

I just had to get summat off me double frontage coz it's been a real mare of a week with the dozy woman, (aka me Mum....bl**dy Alzheimer's), AND with the fibro really giving me a hiding with soooooo many cra**y symptoms worsening and that darned diccifoolty with the swallowing is sooooo scary and getting worse. Frightens the life out of me sometimes, especially at night in bed. I worry that one night I might honestly not be able to swallow at all and pop me clogs without hubby even being aware of it till morning! Daft I know, but you know what it's like when yer feeling like total poo.

And now today I've finally got me date for admission re me nose job. Not that it's a real 'nose job' just an op to correct the damage done when it got broken the day before Mother's Day this year when I was raked. The hospital rang to tell me while I was hobbling around Tesco, (trying to keep me mind off the fact that me iccle pooch was undergoing his op at the v...e...t at the time with a bit of retail therapy), but hubby was in and took the message and thankfully he had his wits about him for a change when it dawned on him that the date they'd given him was while we're still going to be in Cornwall! Honestly, I gave the surgeon my holiday dates and he duly recorded them but they've obviously not taken any notice of them because where he put NOT to be admitted for the LAST three weeks in August, (we're only away for two but he said he didn't want me having it done the week before we go as that would also scupper our plans coz I have to stay away from crowds for 2 weeks after it), they 'thought' it said the FIRST three! Ho hum. Hubby's sorted it anyhoo so my new date is now 7th September with the pre-assessment clinic appointment the week before and they're sending me the confirmation in snail mail. I'll be honest, I know it's ONLY a nose job which is minor in comparison with ops that many of you have been through, especially our dear Heather, but it's MY NOSE and I'm......chicken! I soooo wanted it done while I was awake because of me not being good with general anaesthesia and try to avoid it at allllll costs, having had two carpal tunnel ops under local and an arthroscopy on me knee done with a spinal block anaesthetic and I REALLY do prefer to be awake unlike most peeps who'd prefer to be out of it. I've always joked with any surgeon that they can do whatever they want to me so long as I'm awake but for this op peeps....that aint gonna happen. Me asthma's been playing up too and this morning I had to come downstairs at 2.30am coz it kicked off, (hubby slept through me coughing and spluttering totally oblivious to that fact I was having an attack!!), and me inhalers were downstairs of course. As it was, I hadn't been to sleep at all coz I was worrying about Otto's op today, (with his heart murmur anaesthetics are dodgy), plus that fact that Mum had been doing another one of her constant phone call evenings in various panics and that always winds me up and raises me blood pressure, so I'd been lying there reading till 1.30am before trying to get off to kip and then the chest started! Bl**dy typical. I decided to stay downstairs at 2.30am, let Otto out for a tiddle, made meself a cup of delicous Whittard Dreamtime tea, (I'm an addict), and settled on the recliner with me snuggle sac over me legs, book propped up on it's bookchair on the arm of me recliner and Otto snoozing on me lap and hoped that this would allow me to nod off.....it didn't! 6am I took the first of today's pain killers and another mug of Dreamtime and still.............. nowt! So I shant be long out of bed tonight and hope to get some half way decent shut eye that might possibly help me demenour....or not

This is only a fraction of what's making me wanna yell but hey....it'll do for now,. I think ya've suffered enuff peeps.

Thank heavens we've got this place to have a yell whilst our families stay totally unaware. My dear hubby is a marvel and angel where my Mum's concerned and I really do thank heavens every single day for having him, he's more like a son to her than son-in-law but he never wants to 'listen' to what I want to get off my double frontage. God knows he does more than any SIL should be expected to do, (even washes her hair for her at the kitchen sink), but whenever I try to get him to listen about how my Mum just isn't coping living alone even with the carers going in, (such as they are as Mum won't allow them to do most of what they're being paid to do, not their fault but very frustrating), and I'm terrified how she'll manage while we're away but he just says, it'll be.......FINE......NOOOOOOO it won't! Now, she's even throwing out brand new, unopened bottles of milk, still well in date, (she has no idea of what the date is anyhoo), aswell as other perfectly good unopened food so that sometimes hubby will get her three 2 litre bottles of milk on a Wednesday and by Thursday evening she's telling us she's out of milk? If she had a bath, we'd swear she was bathing in it, but she doesn't have a bath, just a wet room, so that's not where it's all going. Now hubby's discovered some in the dustbin, we do know where it's going at least but gawd knows whyyyyy??? I do wish that the old fashioned home helps were still about because at least they would be prepared to take in shopping for her and keep her supplied with her staple diet, (not our idea of staple), of white chocolate mousses, sweets, cakes and biscuits at least! Hubby just tells me that our daughter will have to do it but she works 12 hours shifts as a senior carer plus she still hasn't passed her driving test so it's not a practical solution as she lives 10 miles away. Her own hubby has just started one of these Snap-on franchise businesses so works all the hours God sends to build up his client base and Saturdays are spent doing their stock so...I'm worried about Mum running out of essentials and nobody being able to rescue her. None of this is helping the bl**dy fibro either coz as we all know, stress is one of the worst things to aggrevate it.

Oh booger it! I've gone this far so I might aswell tell ya the other main problem and be done with it for the night. My latest DEXA scan has shown that I now have Osteopenia, (the stage before full blown Osteoporosis and I was told I was borderline for it when my last DEXA scan was done in 2004), so I've had to start taking the pills that the REALLY OLD folks take.....Alendronic Acid, (one a week), and Adcal, one twice a day and they're pretty revolting too. Taste just like you're eating lemon flavoured chalk...yummy huh? 

And....I've been desperately trying to reduce some of my excess poundage becuase it's just not healthy to have such a high BMI and my dear doc even tells me that he's not going to tell me off as I clamber on to the scales in his surgery when I have my asthma check, because he says he knows that with the fibro it's really hard to shed the weight. But that doesn't help me, so I've been doing my very, VERY best to try and lose some weight with no luck thus far. All I keep doing is losing 4lb and then the next time I venture on the scales, the 4lb is back! I'm awaiting my first appointment, (18th September but it IS still 2009!), for the new pain management clinic as my one closed down but until I've had summat done for my neck/shoulder/arm pain, even my beloved swimming is agony so not really tempting me along to the pool. That way I would at least feel toned up if still blubby. Never just one problem we have is it peeps?

So, there ya have it, I've had me whinge, it has helped so ta muchly for bothering to listen to me waffle on. It is much appreciated. You know how we all have 'those days' and I just seem to be having rather a lot of them of late which is one of the reasons I've not been on 'ere till this past week. Even I get fed up hearing meself gwumble so gawd knows how the rest of ya cope with me whinges.

Gawd bless ya. You lubberly lot of fibrobuddies. I'd be lost without ya.

Gentle hugglies one an' all. I foresee and ultra early night in a feeble attempt to catch up on some of what kip I missed out on last night.

[heather]

Hi Hippy chick moan away, I broke my nose a few years ago and I know how painfull it was.
The problem with the pain in your legs, have you thought it maybe coming from your hipe, I have arthritus it my right hip, and the doctor told me there was some bursitus there, and I get the pain all down my right leg.
As for your mum it must be difficult, I can see how your going to be feeling when you go on holiday, couldn't you get her place in a home for resbitr care while your away ? you will know then someone is watching her. it must be scarey not knowing what she will do, and has you say your daughter works long hours so she cant be there all the time like you and your hubby are, pity you cant get her into the home where your daughter works
Anyway hippy I hope your feeling better soon, oh has you can see the time of the message will be 3am, I have been up since 2am and we have a busy wekend again, hubbys daughter and her boyfrien are come today to stay till tomorrow, the hubbys parents are coming Sunday, and mum in law is staying for the week, it will be ok though.

Take care Hippy
Love Heather
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