HOORAH! Winter Is Coming!!!!

Dig out your dad's pen Twassthey are a joy to use, before using run warm water through it for a while to dissolve any old ink that may be blocking the flow!

My brother was told about the magnesium spray by his oldest friend, who, when younger, had had his foot totally crushed and as he got older he got more and more problems with it. It got to the stage where when he woke up he couldn't walk. He now sprays and massages it in every morning when he wakes up and he is good to go!

I'll be really interested if you have success with it.

I'm always willing to try out things to help it. I did a bad tendon injury when I was 21 and have sprained it constantly since then due to the weakness I was left with. Unfortunately turned the foot over last weekend on a tussocky bit of grass when out with my son and DIL and it's got progressively worse all week until now I can just about hop about with a stick This time the flexiseq which I had success with previously hasn't touched it. So hoping very much for improvement with the magnesium spray I got some tablets as well as I thought, a two pronged approach!!

I used to write letters from Santa in ink using dad's old pen when my kids were small. They kept them, they will be somewhere in my ex husband's house I guess.

Hello all, hope you're all well. Just had a roast beef dinner, cheated because just the two of us, sliced beef from our local deli/restaurant with loads of buttery mash, peas and gravy.

Fascinated with magnesium chloride stuff planets, when my feet are driving me mad after a hard day I swear by a footbath of Epsom salts, magnesium sulphate, are they close?


Fingers crossed for good weather tomorrow, if so I'm having a day out!

The forecast for here is NOT good tk...but I am many miles away and quite a bit south!

It looks ok, umbrellas might be needed (when are they not here) finger crossed xx

Ooooo that sounds nasty
I don't know anything about the tablets but if you are on any medications i'd check with the doc before taking tablets as there might be some issues with interference with your meds. (there's a proper word for it but my brain has died )
You can also take too much if you ingest it whereas you can't OD or do any damage if you apply it topically in the oil or have a foot soak.

ETA i remembered the word for the bad drug interactions!!!! it's contraindicated!


Roast beef sounds yummy!! I've been craving meat sandwiches!! alll i want to eat ismeat sandwiches and crisps....it's making my veggie chilli inedible ended up having beans on toast last night cos i couldn't face veggie chilli!

I've had a wee scan of google and the main differences i can see that epsom salts are rapidly excreted through the kidneys which means it doesn't have as long lasting effect. Chloride also helps you absorb Vitamin B12 better (weird!!) there was a lot of complicated sciency stuff about the different molecules interacting with cell membranes..."In September 2005, J. Durlach and co-authors demonstrated that magnesium chloride has considerably better pharmacological properties including its absorption and cell membrane penetration, and also possesses less cell toxicity than commonly used magnesium sulfate."

i did see epsom salts are used to treat pre-eclampsia which was

Magnesium chloride is also used in fireproofing wood so we will all be fireproof

It's interesting stuff if you can't sleep have a google i've been stunned by what i've read, i'd have been using it for years if i'd known!

Afternoon planets!! It is all very interesting, and I will make sure I am ok to take magnesium.

Son and DIL are taking me to the walk in centre at the local hospital later to see if I can filch some crutches and hopefully they may do an x ray and give me painkillers! I decided it was pointless making a GP appointment, waiting a week for it only to be told to go for an x ray. Besides I can barely walk and that needs sorting out!!

Fingers crossed for you x Let us know what they said.
Just back from a chest x ray myself!

Well, back and thankfully no stress fracture or other bone issue. Thought to be tendonitis which should sort itself out with sufficient rest. I am not good at resting. Plus I live alone so I have to do everything meself. Son is threatening to make me live at his house LOL

I have some painkillers and some gel, but doc would not lend me any crutches as I would then do too much!!! Very relieved the bones are OK though

How was your chest x ray? All good?

That's good news that nothing is broken.
hmmmm let's hope my brother sends Game of Thrones early then we can binge watch while you rest your foot!!!

Dunno they didn't tell me the results it was organised by GP so i assume he gives me the results when he gets them...*looks a bit tense*

Yes, get him to give you an early present!!

What was the x ray for...to rule out stuff?

*dons very large lead lined apron and hard hat* gosh the radiation in here would knock a horse over.

Hope you two are ok, flipping heck, we need an ambulance on standby!

Back from a lovely day out, at an agricultural show we go to every year. Set on 200 acres, with pedigree cattle and sheep shows, show jumping, sheepdog trials, vintage cars and tractors and huge cabbages and onions, fab baking tent (smells delicious) etc etc. Then fish and chips on the way home. Couldn't ask for anything more.

hehehehehhe

about ten days ago i woke up with a massive lump in my neck the size of a golf ball (my dad died of throat cancer)
The doc did a blood test for glandular fever which came back as "you don't have it"
so he just sent me for an x ray whilst organising an ENT referral. (i'm hoping it's a gland that will just go away on it's own) it's probably just another weird side effect of all the shit that went wrong when i had my op!!!!


That sounds like a fab day!!! I hope Giles wasn't jealous although he probably knows already he is more gorgeous than the show bulls Fish and chips *drools* so sick of bloody veggie chilli i keep dreaming about meat sandwiches
i a planning a naughty day where i shall be having a steak

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! You can't have anything else wrong with you. You've got most of the northern hemisphere's ailments already. It's just plain greedy!!! Really hope its just a side effect of all the ailments you have already.

Are you allowed even a teensy bit of meat? Usually you crave things your body needs.

I'll live tk. Sitting still won't be easy though!

Sounds like you had a fab day out! Cor, fish n chips. I had a tin of mackerel and a bit of couscous and salad as it was a bit late to cook by the time I got in. Fish and chips would have gone down a treat

Well really i just had the one thing wrong with me - my bowel perforated. But then the hospital did the wrong operation, pretended everything was fine, when i asked for a second opinion they withheld pain relief and food for 10 days i nearly died and all hell broke loose.

I'm doing an experiment to see if i can control my uric acid levels (arthritis) with nutrition. So have to avoid anything with purines in.
Have my next bloods on the 8th so i will partaking of the meat after then cos then i've got another two weeks before my next bloods!!! should be time to flush out the evidence of meat by then

Well I hope you will sue that hospital for a lot of money Lay in a fillet steak for the 9th

So therefore had they done the right surgery with the correct aftercare, you'd have made a full recovery within a few months?? That's shocking....instead they seem to have ruined your health for the time being

Alas i tried making a complaint via the patient complaint/liaison service and the hospital refused to make any comment in writing. I was too ill to go to the meeting they proposed (being nearly dead at the time and being blue lighted into hospital every couple of weeks) and then they dragged it out until the time period for complaining had elapsed.
Since then i've had 6 more surgeries, and 8 years of being so ill even my GP panics on a weekend. The last surgery i had i was in hospital for three months and it took 22 months for the wound to heal. Basically i'm f***ed. But hey ho.

ETA oh and the surgeon who effed it up in the first place was quietly sacked eventually after killing loads of people and now lives in Amsterdam.

When you are finally back to decent health and able to organise such things, you should certainly look into getting your MP to take up your case or something. This sort of thing should not happen!! And who are they to issue deadlines as to when you can or can't complain? Even if the surgeon was quietly got rid of, the hospital are still culpable.

Well, here's to no more surgery! Do you drink kefir? It's meant to be very good for you Tasty as well!

I just gave up in the end i didn't have enough energy to pursue it and reliving the horrendous things that happened over and over just made me iller. Luckily i was able to gt transferred to the Freeman in Newcastle wh seem to specialise in sorting out people other hospitals have effed up. The woman in the bed opposite me was given too much of something during surgery and all her toes dropped off so it could be worse!!!

Never heard of kefir i drink a lot of green tea though.

Kefir is very nutritious. You can buy it or make your own.

Have a read! http://www.kefir.net/kefir-benefits/

I shall now take myself and my dodgy foot off to bed Sleep well all! xx

Thanks for that Twass i shall have a read!! Hope you get some lovely restorative sleep!!night night xx

Been having a lurk in the BB forum it sounds like a ghastly bunch in there.
Anyone watching? Can anyone tell me who Lewis and Bear are they sound delightful.....no one mentions surnames or what they are famous for.

Hi planets, I'm kinda watching, but having enjoyed the civilian bb, I'm finding it hard going. An obnoxious cast in the main, have never seen Bear (ex on the beach), Lewis (towie), Marnie (Geordie shore), Chloe (x factor, now playmate after loads of surgery) or Heavy D/Boom/Colin (storage hunters???) before. Then you have James Whale, Biggins, Saira Khan (apprentice, loose women) Ricky (Fatboy EastEnders) Grant Bovey (Anthea Turner's ex) Katie Wassail (x factor) Renee (mob wives??) Aubrey (??) and Frankie (bb us), last three team US.

Phew. I've probably missed someone out but hey ho. I'm off out, got to catch the bank and do a shop. Any orders?

Edit - forgot Sam Fox

Oh bless your heart thank you so much!! A lot of stuff makes sense now
I shall rely on your good judgement regarding the shopping although Twass could probably do with some healing cake for her foot and i expect a blueberry muffin might heal my lumpy neck disease