Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

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  1. Upsydaisy

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    Boy its hot outside, poor hubs is out there cutting the really long hedge!!
    I'm in the shade cooking some fish...think I have the better job today!!

    :yikes:Definitely don't want anyone else to care for @Logan I can ensure you !! :nonofinger:
    I've only ever cared for family...that's what families do.....isn't it :scratch:.

    My brother is physically disabled and has Alzheimer's and lives alone....goes without saying that I will do everything I can for him.

    But yes I have to admit to not being good at just sitting around, found it very depressing last year when my knee/ leg was at its worst. I like to keep busy and don't like it when my body says...'no' :heehee:.
     
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      Hi @Flumpy , sadly I think lovely Marion from Bristol must have passed away.....what a true inspiration she was!!:love30:
       
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        Bella's gifts I can do without @Upsydaisy ! :nonofinger: :heehee:

        I haven't put anything back in place yet, I thought being in the garden making the most of the weather was more important :dunno: :spinning:

        Bella was called that when we got her from the cattery. I wanted to change it to a Welsh name like we did with the previous cat but I never got around to it, and Beryl didn't speak Welsh anyway (although she understoon a bit) ... and Bella doesn't care lol she just ignores me whatever I call her :heehee:

        I hope your backs are all right today @Upsydaisy and @Logan it's difficult to do things when you're in pain.

        I have spent most of my life caring for people @Upsydaisy , grandparents both sides, Beryl's mother, my own parents, and then Beryl when she was disabled ... and I was also a social worker for elderly and disabled people for many years. I'm fed up now and don't want any more people to look after ... I only want to look after plants now :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

        Yes I think that's what families should do but it is not always so. You are doing well ...
         
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          No she lives in Worcester and she doesn't do forums or anything like that.

          @Upsydaisy I know it will be family that you'll look after, that's what Marion does.
           
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            Thank you Michael all i have to do is not to over do things and have a rest in between.
             
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              Awe no :cry3: last year I was told she was alive and well and all the family where looking after her :noidea:
               
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                Oh Ok ...that's great then. :) Last I heard ( a couple of years ago now admittedly) she was having lots of hospital apps as she wasn't feeling too good. And being in her 90's........:sad: But sounds like good news then:hapydancsmil:.
                 
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                  Yes unfortunately I’ve lost the email that someone sent me, it was off someone on GW, I’m annoyed with myself for loosing it, hope your enjoying the weather?, I wanted to send you a video of my garden but it keeps saying it’s to big :rolleyespink:
                   
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                    Lets keep positive and our fingers crossed that she is OK. Such a knowledgeable lady , she was still actively involved at Bristol University 's Botanic Gardens even in her late 80's!! :love30::love30:
                     
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                      Yes thanks @Flumpy , really loving this weather. Been out in the gardening since 8:30, too good to stay indoors. We've just had our dinner out here too!

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                        Well Mother Nature has spoken!!
                        After heeding the warnings yesterday of the Osteoporosis in my lower spine and hip arthritis I duly medicated and rested up. I woke this morning after a good night's sleep with only the normal ' early morning twinges' and praised myself for catching it early.

                        Couldn't have been more wrong!! As I took a stroll around the garden first thing this morning I slowly became aware that I couldn't feel and control my spine and right leg (my current dodgy one). I must've looked as if I was very,very drunk...

                        Couldn't find hubs but somehow I managed to crawl back indoors, accompanied by a lot of screaming and ( ashamed to admit now) some bad language.
                        I didn't want to burden 111 or the 999 services, much to hubs annoyance when he found me, as what would I say.....I have bad backache/ sciatica, arthritis..?? Not exactly an emergency!!
                        In the end my GP' s triage team got back to me , saying that really I should've rung for an ambulance. After reassuring them that I wasn't alone they agreed to me staying put for now as long as I had someone who could collect some stronger meds straightaway.
                        Hubs was gone for 45 minutes and I was so scared and in agony .Giving birth 3 times without any pain relief was a doddle compared to what I experienced this morning!! I nearly phoned 999 as I feared I might have been becoming paralysed, but then I thought...if hubs wasn't back now would they get in??

                        Anyway I am still here and the rest of the day I have been completely zonked out and oblivious to the world... GP has checked in on me. Even now I can't walk straight, I feel like I'm floating in space...really weird sensation, but it's down to the medication this time.
                        Not sure what the real cause was... I haven't been lifting anything or doing heavy duty jobs out in the garden ... planting out little baby plants isn't exactly strenuous work!!
                        Dr said it could even be stress related . As I haven't heard back about my recent x-rays ( no news is good news) I take it that this is unrelated.

                        Never ,ever want to experience that again !!!
                        Thought I would post this before I get drugged up and sent back to La, la land again at 9pm.
                         
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                          Aawe Upsydaisy I’m sending my healing hugs :grphg: that sound excruciating pain...... awful I feel for you, I can see how my dad feels now, he had a slipped disc about ten years ago but also suffers from sciatica on and off, talking of my dad, his eye op went well, he’s got to go back after 5 weeks to have the other eye done :dbgrtmb:. You rest up now Upsydaisy and I hope you feel much better in the morning :spinning:
                           
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                            I'm glad to hear your father is okay @Flumpy :dbgrtmb:

                            @Upsydaisy :yikes::yikes::yikes: Hope they find the cause and get rid!
                             
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                              :thankyou:Lori, hope your not working too hard, are you still baking?
                               
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                                Just read this Upsy and will be writing you later. In the meantime, rest and do what the doctor says, ya'hear? :imphrt: Vxx
                                 
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