Goods news on Elna

skezier

hi Elna,

badly neglected you but hopefully the hug bucket is still working and i just dropping in a top up hug and a so glad your doing so well smile

just go a bit easy though and rest is also important love and a cuppa Cris xx

skezier

hi Elna,

badly neglected you but hopefully the hug bucket is still working and i just dropping in a top up hug and a so glad your doing so well smile

just go a bit easy though and rest is also important love and a cuppa Cris xx

elnafinn

ironic wrote:

Hi Elna,

Glad you enjoyed your day out with the family, my mum is 93 and thankfully still going strong so there is hope for me yet!Lv, I x

Dear Ironic

You may not believe this but I awoke in the night and immediately it came into my mind that I had not congratulated your mum on being 93 years of age and still going strong. It could well be in your genes. Do you live fairly close to each other?

The sun is shining here but feels a tad chilly but I suppose that is to be expected at this time of year. I hope your weekend goes well,

Love
Elna x

elnafinn

Thank you to both Mig and Cris for thinking of me. It is very kind of you. What to you mean neglecting me, dear Cris, you have so much to contend with that I do not expect you to be looking out for me but thank you for the cuppa and hugs.

Love to you bth
Elna x

dreamdaisy

Hello elna, how goes things today? I'm supposed to be compiling a shopping list: I HATE doing the shopping list! I hope you are feeling as well as you can and that you have a good week-end. DD

elnafinn

I am ok thank you DD. I am so pleased that Julie has or very nearly has an op date and will be in a private hospital which will be so much better in many ways for her. More to the point, how are you? I am not quite sure when you mother will be with you. You are a good daughter whatever she says. Mmmmmm shopping lists, they are not at the top of my "like" list either. I tend to add onto a list, as and when I think of/run out of things. This list is on the pegboard in the kitchen, otherwise there is no hope that I shall remember everything that is needed. I hope the sun is shining with you as it is with me.

I hope your weekend goes well, too.

Love
Elna x

dreamdaisy

I keep meaning to be organised and write things down during the week but I am still in the stubborn stage of thinking 'I'll remember that,' when in fact, nine times out of ten, I don't. :oops:

I've been plodding round and round today, up stairs and down stairs, beginning to get things organised. Mr DD and me decamp from our bed and go to separate chambers on the top floor. Mum has our bed, I worry about her doing the first flight of stairs, (no way could she manage the second, it's enough of a struggle for me!) - in fact one year we put a single bed in my office so she wouldn't have to do the stairs at all but I won't make that mistake again.

She arrives tomorrow, Mr DD will leave here at about mid-day, they should be back by five. I tested the heating today - it works. The lack of steroids is tellling but no matter, I can and will battle through. It is beautifully sunny here today, lovely and fresh too. DD

hileena111

Hi Elna
How are things today??? havent been on a lot this past few days.
Sending (((())))))

Love

Hileena

elnafinn

Hi DD and Hileena

Just realised I have not been on this thread for a couple of days.

I hope you are getting on okish, DD with your mum being with you. All that preparation you have been to, to make your mum comfortable, I hope she appreciates it. You are a good daughter, don't listen to her if she goes off on one.

Hileena, I am not at all surprised that you have not been on this thread lately - you are kept so busy "chasing" scans, phoning up people to see what is what and why not, plus attending your appointments.

I had a good weekend, pottering on Saturday and yesterday afternoon enjoyed time in the garden, doing a spot of raking, hoeing, sweeping - it was lovely. Hope I did not overdo it. I slept well so that was great.

Lucie's mum is calling in for a cuppa shortly so will be good to catch up with her and hear more about the Lanzarote holiday, with her two grandchildren, Lola and Zoe.

The sun keeps trying to shine but is overtaken by dullish clouds but no as rain yet.

Love
Elna X

tjt6768

Hi Elna, glad that you were able to do the pottering about without too much pay back by the sounds of it
Wonderful..

I hope that you keep getting stronger each day mi dear

elnafinn

Hi Tony

Many thanks for taking the time, it is especially kind of you, when you have been so unwell recently. It is good to hear that you are feeling a little better today. Long may that last. Try not to stress regarding the ATOS appointment, easier said than done, I do appreciate that. Liaise with your gp and I am sure he will help you out with it by writing the necessary letter or whatever they require.

Elna x

julie47

Hi Elna

how lovely that you have been able to potter in your garden and with the gentle exercise you were able to sleep well. You must be soooo proud of yourself (I am proud of you) Hope you enjoyed your cuppa, and catchup with lucies mum.

Take care
Love & hugs ((((())))) Juliepf x

hileena111

Elna
Thats so good that you were able to potter in the garden
I'm finding that this wet and colder weather is starting to affect me.....havent had the wheat bag out for a long time but I dont think it will be long now
You take care
Love
Hileena

elnafinn

Dear Hileena and Julie

Good to hear from you both. I did have to warm the wheatbag up in the middle of the night recently, Hileena. My toes felt really cold although they were not, when I touched them. The heated wheatbag wrapped around them and I was soon fast asleep again. My electric blanket has given up and I have had the A*g*s catalogue on the worktop for some time now, to choose another one. Methinks I had better hurry with finding what I would like, pretty soon.

I really enjoyed being in the garden on Sunday afternoon, Julie. Considering it will only be three weeks post op tomorrow. I also enjoyed having a cuppa with Lucie's mum this afternoon. In the end she drove me to the nearby Garden Centre, we had a look around and then had tea there. Now I have also sorted her 60th birthday pressie, in December. I have booked seats at our local theatre to see Swan Lake. We both like ballet and neither husbands would sit through a ballet. :shock: So we have this to look forward to in early February. I shall pm you very soon, Julie.

Love
Elna x

hileena111

Hi Elna,
Glad someone else is thinking about wheat bags
I get that feeling in my feet frequently....they feel freezing but when I touch them they arent :?:
I'm debating what it is that causes that.....is it the accident i had a few years ago when my ankle was smashed, tib and fib...still got plat, screws and pins in it , but its both feet :?: :?:
Or is it the scoliosis :?:
Could be something completely different
Glad you had a good day
Love
Hileena

skezier

hi Elna,

glad you found some time in the garden and i think your dong very well cus with my spine they had me in hospital all but a month (29 days to be precise )

know what you mean about electric blankets.... mine as become intermittent and a bit ht and miss as to if ti will work..... i hope its on just now but i wouldn't put money on it being so....

the over blankets i love but would not have the make again cus its only lasted a year.... mind its been used all but 6 mights all the year cus i get cold ever so easy.

hope you get a good nights kip and really glad your doing o well. hugs and a cuppa Cris xx

dreamdaisy

Morning Elna, it's lovely to catch up with you and see how well (and busy) you have been! Mum arrived on Sunday and immediately confessed to a nasty fall on the Saturday (as usual it was not mentioned when it happened.) She is bruised and very sore, so I am feeding her up (she re-discovers her appetite when someone plonks food down in front of her!) and letting her sleep all she wants. Seems like a plan. She was never a great fan of cooking when she was younger and since Daddy died it's become more and more of an effort for her. The nett result is that she has lost about five stones in weight and she is very tiny now. She will be 88 on Friday. DD

elnafinn

Hi Hileena

I have no idea why my toes feel really cold sometimes, but they are not. Another of life’s little mysteries!

Hi Cris, it is good of you to call in, I do hope that your electric blanket is working for you, you look after yourself and try not to overdo things. I know you will though.

Sounds like you will be Nurse DD for a while, then with your mum. At least if she is sleeping a lot, you will get some time for “you”. She is probably feeling very sorry for herself. Perhaps she did not tell you because she is not always too kind to you about your health issues. You are right, it happens quite often, ask someone on the elderly side, what they would like for their dinner and they say, oh nothing much, don’t go to any trouble, plonk a plate of food in front of them, and it magically disappears. Another of life’s little mysteries.

Not sure what mischief I shall get up to today. I do have an appointment to see the GP this afternoon about my BP.

Hope you are all as well as can be. Looks like another bright day here looking out of the window, but perhaps a tad chilly outside at the moment.

Love
Elna x

tkachev

Hi Elna,

Good luck at the Docs this afternoon. You have reminded me that I must check my BP again as mine was up when I had my jabs and nurse asked me to come back in a few weeks. I think I will go back after half term next week.

Let us know how you get on,

Elizabeth x

ironic

Hi Elna,

Well we managed to get to see my mum this weekend and I am glad to report that she is doing really well and had spent the last few days having a clear out and is planning to replace a couple of side tables to go with her new high tech electric chair which reclines with a touch of a button.

We live about 2 hours away so it is not always easy to get to see her but she stays fairly often at my brothers so we usually get to see there and have a trip out.

The weather has changed for the worst here and we have had hailstone so the garden will have to look after its self for a while.

I hope the BP results have improved for you, and your tooties feel warmer soon. I have rediscovered socks and cosy slippers. Who would have thought eh!!!

You are doing so well Elna and I am so pleased for you. How are you doing with the pins and needles, any sign of improvement yet? Perhaps it is still too early to expect any change anyway.

Lv, I x

elnafinn

tkachev wrote:

Hi Elna, Good luck at the Docs this afternoon. You have reminded me that I must check my BP again as mine was up when I had my jabs and nurse asked me to come back in a few weeks. I think I will go back after half term next week.
Let us know how you get on, Elizabeth x

Dear Elizabeth,

Trundled off to the gp and took my homework with me of BP readings and also our home BP monitor to check that it tallied with the one he uses.

Top reading on mine when done at the surgey was 95 over something or other and when he did it, it was 200 over something or other. :roll: Yes, we discussed white coat syndrome and I agreed it probably did affect me, but my reading were mainly on the high side that I took at home over the past three weeks and a couple of times rather low in the evening.

He decided that I should keep on with the daily morning dosage of Bendroflumethiazide 2.5 mg and add a Lisinopril 2.5 mg and continue to take readings, morning and night and see him with my homework in about three weeks, along with my readings that I took to him today, so that he can compare. Aren't I a wonderful patient?

Met a couple of people at the surgery that I know from a little job that I was doing and they are missing me dreadfully. The person who has taken my place is nowhere near as thorough, they said. How kind. Bless them I told them that I really do want my little job back asap.

Elna x

elnafinn

Dear Ironic

So pleased you went to see your mum at the weekend.She really is doing so well. We have quite a journey too to get to my mum, it takes one hour each way on a good day, but so often it takes much longer. We are going to see my mum this weekend. My mum who will be 88 this year, went off to visit friends in the day for two days while she had her wooden floors re-sanded. I am amazed that she wished to do it at this time in her life but I look forward to seeing it. She is very pleased with it. She did return home to sleep those two days, She got minicabs both ways. It is funny how at such an age they suddenly get a bee in their bonnet about something that they must get done. She and my dad lived with those floors like they were for 35 years!! Of course the marks increased on the floors in time, but even so! Oh well, anything that makes them happy! I think new curtains may be on the cards too. She mentions them, every now and again, as she used to do with the flooring.

I am sorry to hear that you have had hailstones. Today here has been sunny, with a bit of a chill but dry.

Look after yourself,

Love
Elna x

dreamdaisy

Morning elna, it's good to hear you sounding so bonny. I am on Bendro too, a 2.5mg dose but have now upped the Ramopril to 10mg (I have high BP as a result of taking humira but oddly enough don't class it as a side-effect, probably 'cos it doesn't hurt! Yup, I know, flawed thinking. :roll: ) Mum and me are going to have another quiet day today as her right knee is playing up summat awful. She swears it's because she hasn't been taking her supplements (she left them at home) and I say it's due to the fall. DD

elnafinn

Goo morning DD

Would you say that so far, early days yet, I know, that your mum's visit has not been quite as bad as you thought it may be? Another quiet day at home - well it seems that she does not feel too good then? Perhaps she may understand more how you feel day to day now or would that be too much to ask? I agree with you, it is the fall that has shaken her up and of course she will he hurting, it is not the lack of supplements which she did not bring with her. She probably fell onto that knee so it will be very sore.

It looks like another dry, bright day here again today.Is it the same with you?

I hope today goes smoothly for you.

Love
Elna x

dreamdaisy

We have another lovely day here too, bright and crisp. As for the visit, well, you are receiving the edited highlights. Right, time for a shower and an injection! Wow, let the good times roll! DD