Val's Cafe

Really cold, not much fun warming cold muscles everything aches.

Hi Reshmi and Toni thanks for the welcome back.
I take 7.5 mg of MTX on a Tuesday and the folic acid Thursday and Saturday. I only took 5mg last week and I was fine. No side effects and a big difference in inflammation and no bad heads at all.
This week I took the full 7.5 (supposed to be 12.5 in two weeks time) and I feel like death. Couldn’t breath in the night and would have foned 111 but I need to be here for a delivery at 8:30 so held off as last time I ended up in hospital.
Does the breathing thing pass or am I one of the 1 in 200 that can’t take it due to lung inflammation do you think???

my doc just foned me as i emailed his secretary this morning. He said just take 2 next week and see how i get on. Sounds like a plan.

Thanks for the warm welcome back 🙏

hi lovely ladies and gents

Or more specifically Toni toady Stuartknee and of course Skinny Keef

Sorry for the late post

How are you all?

Been a bit of a sluggish morning with heating blaring etc

Also mum had very low blood sugar just now, but dad and I helped her and it’s normal level now thank G**

My blood test is in roughly an hour and a half’s time

Then I have to come back and inject our “friend” mxt

As there’s a lunch with EF on Sunday

What gastric fun

Toni I cried a lot yesterday but ultimately it was good, even though it blocked up my nose, as I got the emotions out and also got some proper rest

Yes you’re right, dad waking me up on purpose by shouting really isn’t helping matters at all

But today I feel ok thanks

Yes dads driving me to the hospital- the dreaded grumpy dad lift lol

Lovely card for Joan

I thought of something to write here but it’s left my sieve of a mind lol

You take care in the cold, don’t walk on the ice

Ok bye everyone need to get ready for non - phantom phlebotomist

Tc xx

Ps Ood - type fashion, I blame that toady lol xx

Hi folks 👋 thinking of Joan and hoping she's doing as well as can be today 🤞.

Super choice of card frog 😊 yes that should get there in a trice - sorry she hasn't got her iPad, if she did she would no doubt be in here as soon as she could & thinking about everyone else not herself as usual. She will be glad to see SK's name there 👍️. Thank you for sorting it out 😊. Hope all ok with you today, it has been so bright & sunny mostly but didn't seem to put a dent in the cold really, yes bird bath still solid even by midday - but any lying ice/snow is definitely going. Have put out bin and hope for the best I can get it in again - especially past a road full of gas worker vehicles and barriers - they were working late last night which is not permitted in residential area barring emergencies, that's what I always understood, so I had to hope there wasn't one! Not unheard of for one lot of repairs to cause other problems in the course of what they are doing, is it. Quiet day today thankfully so have started the 'advanced level' bathroom cleaning for possible plumbers 😬 and will see how the next few days go maybe at least contact someone. Other than that Sleek and I have just been keeping warm, polishing off the doughnuts and passing on any gossip. Good thinking with the cat treats on her present we'll see if she just snatches them or hangs about for an explore, you will know by telltale cat wool won't you. Hope everyone else well and your lovely neighbour, as Joan would ask without fail. Take care, warmer on Sat apparently but only by the usual price, rain 😕 ah well sun tomorrow at least :) xx

Leaving a 😘 and a 👋 in the slot where Joan ought to be xx

Hi to bosh, thank you for goodnight wish and the robin last night, what a beauty 😍 I have seen my own robin today and been out with food for him including cheese, yes cheese 🤫. It's all go with you isn't it I am behind the times wishing you good luck for your bloods etc, hope they were ok - sorry you had to miss group but you got some shopping done any macarons? 😄I did think that was clever. Yes the teamaking is in full swing round the clock here, won't be long til next pot the dark comes down so quickly, you need something cheerful. Hope your mum has been steady the rest of the day, credit where it's due to grumpy dad doing (some of the helping) I guess and yourself as always obvs. The threat of a MH meal rides again then does it, oh dear, well your turn on the gastric rota should have passed safely by then I hope. Glad a good cry helped you too. Ooh, nice fashion pic which for bringing the bin in tomorrow do you think and which for seeing the phantom plumber in? The dinner jacket ensemble looks quite good for that with a built in germ filter maybe, so the frock for the bins I think 😂. Have a good evening :) xx

Woohoo Keef 😀 hello stranger, sorry the mtx is not going down too well but sounds like scaling back is a good idea, maybe hadn't had time to acclimatize quite 🤔 glad it's doing it's job with the inflammation anyway, that's good. Hope family well 👋 :) xx

Hi Stuart, yes the cold is no joke at all with arthritis 😕 I find that if my worse hand gets cold even from say being outside in this for a few mins, I sort of lose the full use of it until I warm up again - not like numbness, more like the right signals don't get to it, v odd. Had it last year and totally forgot til now. Hope your achiness improves when it warms up again a bit like they forecast 🤞.

Love to everybody 😘 xx

the first week on mtx I was like YES - got my life back, no headache for a week, less pain, taking less tram, but then this week it’s worse again and I been bad again. Piling on the tram and anti inflamms just to get through the day.

Feeling okayish now. I will stick to 5mg for the next couple of weeks. It’s nice just to have a clear head 😁

they all good thanks Toni. Sucré nursery skool uniform. 😁

Morning everyone. 🤪

Hi all 👋 absolutely nothing going on here, less cold but doesn't terribly feel like it imo 🤔

Thanks for updating us on Joan frog 👍️ lovely to be asked after & wished a good night 😊. Hope her card is there or very nearly, it being the weekend now. She will be missing the dogs 😦 hope everything is going well towards her recovery even though early days. Driving out in the snow and dark yourself 😬 and I bet you didn't even have your Ice Road Trucker snow chains on 🤨 well done though. Snow nearly gone here anyway, yes the rain will be much safer - just could do without the quantities that we're in for and wind too 😕 you forget how horrible, having had a run of dry days. It should clear at your friend's too. Nothing going on here, no noise from workmen, neighbours or roadmen, all quiet as mice! 🤷‍♀️ Long may it last but nothing for Sleek to put it any of her notebooks whatever. She can work on my xmas list if she likes heaven knows I don't see me doing anything to it 😱. Sorry about the total non interest in the present, I wonder if like children, she would suddenly decide she likes it if you talk about giving it to Mabel or Winnie in earshot, maybe possessiveness would kick in 😉. Bathroom coming along, except I keep tidying things like freestanding storage posing the 'good' toiletries etc and remembering he'll have to move them all out of the way anyway 🙄. Airing cupboard, don't let me forget the airing cupboard just in case 😣. Well the lottery ticket was a non-starter, I have one for tonight after that it'll have to be Plan B, when I think of it 😄. Love to everyone keep warm :) xx

Flowers and grapes for Joan as per the card 💐🍇 and I see there is a teddy tucked in so better have one of those too 🧸 thinking of you Joan 😘 xx

School, oh the horror SK 😱 hope he enjoys it more than me, well he couldn't really enjoy it much less 🤨 looks happy enough / looks the part anyway he will be fine 👍️. Hope you're doing ok today :) xx

Hi bosh, sorry it's foul friday 😣 hope the mxt is in one of its better moods especially if yesterday was a bit of a stinker too 😬. Funnily enough I didn't turn any heads bringing the bins in, thus reinforcing my suspicions that all the locals are bots of some sort and in fact oblivious to all things out of the ordinary & otherwise 😉. Nobody appeared to have been in line for the $200 fine at any rate, I really was slightly alarmed that the gasmen had mucked up the electrics as it did have the air of a bit of a crisis that night lights flashing lots of orangeclad workers bustling about, but the next morning the streets were not strewn with frizzled up neighbours so that was nice wasn't it (said with air of innocence 😄). There are new people on the corner of the cul de sac nearby I am just literally waiting for them to dig up the nice front garden for more gravel & cars, I bet you here & now 😠. Oh well will just have to work on one of those spells where vines & thorns & whatnot twine up over their house overnight, that'll teach 'em. Have a good night hope your mum does too :) xx

Hope Stuart as well as possible today 👋 :) xx

Love to everyone 😴 xx

hi lovely Toni

How are you tonight?

That was kind of you to drive the vulnerable people

Mums ok 👍

But in the afternoon her blood sugar was low again but the patch alerted her and dad and i helped her again

But i don’t think it was quite as bad as last time

More to report on this but a bit tired now

BR got a badge for sleeping through the night

He said he slept through because big brudder answered all his questions in the night lol

What queries I don’t know for sure lol, maybe “were jelly babies invented in Reading or Slough? Do cabbages have the same nutritional value in Staffordshire as in Portugal?” 😂

Ok I’m too tired to write anything sensible lol

Have a good night Toni SK S Knee etc tc xx

good morning Toni

Wppl xx

hi lovely Toni

How are you tonight?

Yes the patch alerted her thankfully

She’s ok 👍

That Toni special vegan casserole sounds great and yummy

I don’t why the phantom plumbers didn’t turn off the rain 🤷‍♀️

It was freezing and raining when I first walked today but the walk back was a bit better

I must admit I swigged a whole hot choc at Cost A Packet but it was an extra stressful morning with all the shouting, so it wasn’t the worst crime 👍

LA has a new game in which he pretends to be a green monster who threatens to eat BR if he doesn’t wake up in time for lunch, lol, eating an illegal cheese sandwich is one thing, but a brother? Oh dear, we may need to all ask toady if we can hide in her biccie cupboard in case our siblings skipped breakfast haha

Yes snow must be scary for driving indeed

I think I’ll have to leave it there Toni as EF are coming here tomorrow- slight change of plans- my goodness tomorrow I’ll do my best to report from the front line - it’s every cabbage for herself!

Good night Toni SK and S knee tc xx