Val's Cafe

Started off dull, but now the sun is out.

All the Halloween food (and non Halloween food) is for anyone who fancies it Toni. Help yourself before the monsters eat it all.

:zombie-cat: :zombie2: :vampire: :horror-movie: :monster: :trick-or-treat: :zombie-mummy:

Christine I sleep with a sock on my left foot, but my right foot has to stay unclothed and with my PJ leg rolled up on that side. Also have to keep the duvet off it, as it gets very red, hot, sore and itchy. Not sure if it's the Vasculitis or the Nodular Prurigo or Lichen Simplex. I just keep putting lots of cream on that side. I've also wondered if it could be Cellulitis as it is only on one side. :?

:skull:

Elizabeth, I can sympathise with you about the itching. Mine isn't quite as bad as it was (mainly on my right leg now) but I'm not out of the woods yet. :roll:

Joan, I hope you and Sue have a nice quiet evening. Hope the trick or treaters leave you alone - hope they leave us alone too.

:pumpkin:

Toady, thank you for the fudge.

Thinking of Cate, and anyone else I haven't mentioned.

Hello Elizabeth Christine Toni Barbara Kathleen and anyone else I missed.
Elizabeth the man backed out of his drive into the road he did not see sue. I hope you have a good weekend.
Christine it takes a while to get over things her wrist will take 4 weeks.
Toni the man came around to us with a basket of flowers to day.
Barbara I hope you have a good night and aa good weekend.
Kathleen we don't do trick or treat have a good weekend.
take care all and thank you
joan xx

Morning all foggy here..
toady I seem to have started a myth that you have cold feet..the proper ones.. :oops: glad to see you got lots of advice off LWA.its so good to talk to people on the same meds..hope they have put your mind at rest..I hope the glue worked...
Kath sorry the itching is still there ..and you are keeping at least one foot warm in bed..my feet are always roasting...
Joan thanks... thinking about you and Sue and hope that wrist heals well...
I have a bucket full of sweets here..the only trick or treaters were from next door and there mums sends them with treats for us... so got even more sweets..
It is quite thick fog here..dont know for how long but looks like we are stuck in for now..
If Elizabeth pops in what a brilliant end to the mens Gymnastics..gold and silver...I really enjoyed it..and what about 4 of the women tying for gold...
Hope everyone has a good day...xxxxx
Mig I just spotted you there...seems like we are both stuck with sweets..steak sounds good to me...

Morning Café dwellers!!

Lovely day today sunny after last night fog - perfect for Hallowe'en wasn't it?

Thank you Kath I have been helping myself anyway. The monsters were so full-up on Emily's goodies they were sleeping on one of the sofas!!!

I hope that foot isn't cellulitis :shock: I'm sure you have 'shown it' to someone who know though.

Joan. That was nice of the man to bring flowers. I bet he is really feeling awful and can't stop thinking about what happened. Still so long as Sue is on the mend.

Christine I often wonder the same about warning employees of impending trouble. They can get ready and save a bit then, but imagine they are really trying hard for it to not come to that??? :?

Your Dad had a great birthday!! I think it's great he kept a hat - bet he did wear it to make the staff laugh

Barbara How did the baking go in the end?? Even if they did make a mess I reckon you did ok so long as the party wasn't at yours!!

No trick or treaters here either. Wonder whether it really was the potion we concocted in the cauldron??

Toady I hope the new footwear does the trick Like you I often delay making decision till it's too late.

As for herbal teas. Thing is you don't know what they are like till you try them do you and often they are a bit vile!!! hehehehe!

mig these are for you!!





best I can do


I hope you feel better soon


Love to everyone and hope cate is ok.

Toni xxx

Morning all very foggy here..it didnt really clear yesterday...
I had probs with the forum this morning..the first page of the cafe kept coming up when I pressed the last one...anyhow I'm here...
Christine hope your Dad had a lovely Birthday ...and you are right its awful to make redundancy's any time but Christmas with family is terrible for them...the government are so short sighted shutting down all our industry's..hee you made me laugh dressed has a with waiting for a knock..what a shame you couldn't scare anyone... :vampire: they did clean my kitchen..mind you there was 4 of them..I am embarrassed to say its cleaner then its been for a while :oops:
Toni ..yes got away lightly ..but didnt get any cake... :roll: hope all is well in your household ..suppose its back to driving more now half term is over with.... :roll:
Kath will try and update my brain later..its in morning mode... mind you that is normal for me... :shock: I hope your appointment goes well this morning and they can offer some help for the itching..
A cuppa and cheese on toast I think..anyone want to join me...

Hi, everyone
This is my first visit to the cafe so I hope there's room for one more. I've been having a read through the posts.
We all seem to have had a quiet Halloween, The last time I was at the hairdresser the (young) girl shampooing my hair said that she liked Halloween better than Christmas!
I'm signed off work at the moment. Haven't been at work since my rheumy appt on 5/10 and my sick line is until 21/12! Just wish I'd get peace to make proper use of it but seem to be going to this appt and that.
My work is sending me to the OH again and waiting for appt for that. Just know/dread that they'll want me in early next week. Next week was going to be a leave week for me and me and hubby are still going away. We're going to visit our sons neither of whom we've actually seen since April... much too long.Yet somehow I'd feel guilty trying to explain that to OH or my manager. Ho hum.
anyway I think I'll pop round to the chemist and see if they've got some little tubs to decant my body lotion into, I can't find any at home at all!

Kathleen you mentioned vasculitis in a previous post. I don't think I've seen anyone mention that before. What kind do you have? I was diagnosed in July with large vessel vasculitis and inflammatory arthritis and that's the reason I'm off work just now as the rheumy is trying to get my steroid dose sorted but its basically messing with my head at the moment and if sleeping was an Olympic sport I'd be up there on the podium!

Anyway, nice to finally get to the cafe, all the best to everyone and enjoy the rest of the afternoon

slomo

Hi Kath

That link made interesting reading. I had urticarial vasculitis a few times and thought it might be similar - nowt like it!!

Shame about coming of the MTX for a while

Let's hope it helps :roll:

Hello SLOMO big welcome to the café from me Always room for one more. While you are off sick you might enjoy hanging out in here. Food is calorie free so cakes cream and Kath's Emily's goodies can be freely consumed

Joan - I am glad to hear the driver is now driving out forwards. He's learnt something, but I should think he won't forgive himself for hurting Sue I know I wouldn't

Barbara I am sorry you got no cake the meanies!!! Maybe there's some of Emily's here somewhere??

Back to driving as of tomorrow. This morning I had some fillings replaced in my front teeth....big ouch! I'd had them about 20 years and they were proper discoloured :oops:

I used to smoke :oops:

I hope everyone is well

Love

Toni xxx

Afternoon all ..the fog has gone thank goodness..
Hello Slomo all are welcome in the cafe...how rotten for you wanting to work and not being able to and having to try and make other understand..it cant be easy..good luck I hope you can stay off a bit longer...
Joan I hope that Sue is not in too much pain..you will both have to be extra careful from now on there are some mad driver around..umm **** my mum used to buy those..
Kath so glad to hear your chest appointment went well..now for all the others.. I hope stopping the meths doesn't cause any probs..its a no win sometimes..good luck with scan
Toni glad to see you have the fillings over with...
just has your neck was easing...back to driving more, but I know that Lucy is sooo grateful..hopefully very soon when Lucy is stable on her meds she will be driving you around...
Mig good luck with the bloods and your appointment..
Its been dark here most of the day but mild again..so we has a little ride to get some shopping..all the rest for Christmas is being done on line..
Hope everyone has a goodish day xxxxx

Hi everyone
I'm back for more calorie free food!! Actually I'm looking for my original post which may or may not suddenly appear but is probably floating in the ether somewhere so this is the 2nd edition and likely to be shorter partly cos I can't totally remember what I said !!
Kathleen - I've looked up your vasculitis, not nice, I think I'll stick with mine even though it causes inflammation in the aorta and femoral arteries. Obviously if they should get so bad they burst then its goodbye time pretty quickly. The steroids are definitely reducing the inflammation although messing with my head I think.
Toni - I must look up your vasculitis and see what it's party tricks are.
Barbara - I believe I was having a moan about my managers lack of understanding of my illness when my post vanished. I've explained everything to my manager and when I had a OH appt in August (pre steroids) they even included website addresses in their report so he knew where to find more info. Now in this OH referral he has mentioned that I'm sleeping to 10 in the morning but no mention of my high stress and anxiety or my very rapid heartbeat when I walk or go upstairs. So I really quite despair of him.

Anyway enough of that or this post might head for the hills too!!
We've had a lovely autumn day here today and I managed to go out for a short walk to enjoy it and to find a nice big pile of dry leaves to kick my way through. (That's a throwback to my childhood when we lived in a street with big trees down it)

I'll love you and leave you now and maybe next time I'll manage to get my post on properly first time
slomo

Toni, I hope that cold isn't trying to make up for you not having one for a while. Glad your fillings are over. I'm going for one on Friday. Hope your neck doesn't get painful now you're back to driving.

Hi Slomo. Welcome to the cafe. I think we've all lost posts for one reason or another. It's so annoying. I;m glad I'm not the only one who loves kicking the leaves as I walk through them. The ones here are a bit wet after the rain so don't make much noise. I hope you manage to get your boss to understand.

Kath, my rheumie wasn't to happy with me when I questioned him about something but I think we have a right to find out all we can. Glad your chest appointment went well. Hope the rest do too.

Barbara, I don't blame you getting your Xmas shopping online. I do too. Used to love wandering round the shops but really don't like it one bit now.

Joan, don't think I'd dare wear my witch's hat to go to the shops. Ha ha. At least the man will take more care now driving out forwards.

Saw the dentist yesterday. She told me x-rays show I need a filling. Going on Friday for that. I've read through the second module of my course. Still got the questions to answer. And put some more photos on FB. it's taking me ages to do that as I can't stay on the computer for long. Looking after my youngest GD tomorrow while mum goes to work.

Ok Mig - leave the bottles do NOT touch the bottles. In event of explosion leave the building ASAP

I am glad your rheumy is lovely - mine is too, but a chap.

Poor Christine - a filling I hope it's not painful. I'm glad mine are done now.

I think the cold IS making up for not having them normally!! Bad news is Lucy has caught it! This is despite me wearing a mask whenever I am near her and multiple handwashes.....antibacing of lapt top etc :roll:

Off to Brum later to meet up with one of Lucy's chemo-crew and her Mum.

Love to everyone!

Toni xxx

Hi everyone
I'm here quite early today. OH has ordered me a new mobile phone and according to the order page it has been despatched so thought I'd better got myself decent in case it comes this morning - which it probably won't now!
Tomorrow I've to get a blood test and my 1st ever flu jab, hope there are no side effects. Friday I'm getting my 1st ever bone scan, so busy couple of days coming up. At least the bone scan is in the local hospital which is only about half an hour away and not where my rheumy appt are which is about 2hours away from me.

Speaking of rheumys Applerose, mine is tall dark and handsome, understands that I like to know the 'workings out of things' and has a particular interest in vasculitis. I'm really lucky to have him, I think. As for getting my boss to understand my condition! I think I'll have retired before he does. Now his boss - she's a lovely lady, but one must go through the proper channels, I suppose.

Toni, thanks for the extra leaves to play with. My boys always used to try to disown me when they were younger and I was leaf kicking and scrunching.

Barbara, well done getting on with the Christmas shopping. I've no ideas about any of it yet but I suppose I should really set my to thinking about it.

I'd best be off now I suppose and get a bit of housework stuff done. No mobile has arrived although a parcel van did stop outside but it was a false alarm, was for across the road. I'll just have to be patient.

Take care everyone
slomo

ecky thump the sun's shining.

Feeling a bit fed up. I told you about the heart scan and spirometry. Well, rheumy wants me to have a liver scan or fibroscan. Wish I could just remove the necessary bits and parcel them off for the tests while I had a good kip in one of the cafe beds - which reminds me, hope Cate is OK. :?

Barbara, I have all family presents thanks to the long river in South America. Next day delivery - mainly foody type gifts.

Slomo, hope your scan and flu jab goes OK. The worst I've had with my flu jab (not this year though) is a sore stiff shoulder for a few days. When you say bone scan, do you mean a DEXA or a different type of bone scan?

Joan, glad you managed to find the right page today. Getting used to a new forum setup can be a bit tricky.

Toni, I'll stand in front of you to protect you should mig's concoction explode. :shock: Enjoy your trip to Brum. My chemo group often have meet ups even now, I've never been to one though.

Christine, I hope your filling goes smoothly.

I've just had a peep at some of the food Emily is delivering tomorrow. MMMM.
Vegetarian Shepherds Pie with Champ topping (no that's not champagne, but it does have red wine in it.
Italian style chicken casserole
fish fillets with grilled red pepper sauce
Baked apples with spiced sultanas.
Pumpkin pie and.......
All your favourite cakes, chocolate, ginger, banana, carrot, scones, homemade jam and lovely crusty bread.

Can't wait.