Tell us something nice.

[flynny]

My new pup got in my truck( first trip in it)

 

Didn't whine ,fidget, chew anything etc,

 

Just fell asleep as content as a sleeping baby,

 

Made me smile to see him so chilled,

 

Told him to go and do a wee , he pawed the back door and went and did the deed,

 

He's settiling in nicely , the bonding and potty training/ socialising are going well

 

Flynny

[Good shot?]

My son and his wife with our two grandchildren (5 years and nearly 4) are visiting for a couple of weeks in September. We haven't held the children since our 8 month visit to them in Australia 3 years ago, when our grand daughter was seriously ill but now recovered.

The children will be in our care for a few days whilst their parents visit France and the youngest little boy will have his fourth birthday with us.

 

Cannot wait but don't know how I will cope at my age.(70 ) It's ok for an hour or two but...

 

As an extra bonus I saw my first Roe deer on one of my permissions and have just got my first centre fire rifle. For Fox and not for the Roe I should add. .

[nobbyathome]

on Saturday my he son took my grandson to the zoo and they had a lot of life size dinasaurs on display yesterday they came round and my son said to him tell grandad what you saw yesterday dinasaurs granddad he said so I said how big were they Sidney and he said with all eyes ablaze massive grandad I then said what do dinasaurs eat sid and he said children I nearly wet myself such innocence how lovely to be at that age eh??

[wymberley]

Let a group of girls go through the supermarket door in front of me. Usual for nowadays, nothing from all bar one young lady who turned, smiled sweetly and said thank you.

[nobbyathome]

I'm due to be a father for the first time any day now to a son, I'm very nervous and excited at the same time. It hasn't been an easy 9 months for my wife, so much you can't control but I'm in awe of her and the way she has grown and protected him and now we finally get to meet the little one. It truely feels like the greatest gift one could give.

congrats Jason everyone will tell you to make the most of them because they soon grow up but like most people that have children you do your best and real life keeps you busy and you don't enjoy them as much as you should and before you know it they are teenagers try to take a step back and treasure all the hours you can with them there is nothing as good as a happy family life

[mel b3]

i had two more toenails removed and i didnt feel any cutting at all , absolutely made my day .

[Mice!]

So what did they do different to your feet then??

 

Some nice comments on this thread especially when your just starting a 12 hr shift with it seems not a great deal to do☹ long night ahead.

[flynny]

So what did they do different to your feet then??

Some nice comments on this thread especially when your just starting a 12 hr shift with it seems not a great deal to do☹ long night ahead.

It's only work r kid, it pays for the stuff that puts / enables a smile on our faces( I don't mean fancy cars etc etc, unless that's what makes some of us happy????/ not meaning you Mice)

 

Great thread this ,

 

I'm in work tomorrow after 2 weeks off work , 1st week abroad with the family and the second week welcoming our new pup "Mack" into the tribe, the 2nd week has been great with my daughters and Mack,

 

I've been smiling For a fortnight

 

Monty Python , Allways look on the bright side of life Da da da da da da da

 

Flynny

[Benthejockey]

Step Daughter has been at the pony club champs today doing the Musical Ride championships. Calling it a championship is dressing it up a bit - there's no heats or trials but it's still open to 20 teams nationally. They finished 6th in the country which is unbelievable. They've only been practising for 3 weeks and none of them ride brilliantly! And the step daughter suffers terribly with nerves! We took her out to a mini competition yesterday where there was about 3 people and a goat and she had an absolute melt down so to have done so well today at a national 5 day show is quite incredible. She's now tired and very naggy 😂 But it's still been nice today.

[Ollieollie]

i had two more toenails removed and i didnt feel any cutting at all , absolutely made my day .

Can I have my disc cutter back now then Mel?

[Walker570]

I woke up this morning and the sun was shining. The shining sun was the bonus

[mel b3]

So what did they do different to your feet then??

 

Some nice comments on this thread especially when your just starting a 12 hr shift with it seems not a great deal to do☹ long night ahead.

 

it was done by the senior toenail remover this time , ive been taking paracetamol and ibuprofen , and kalms for two days to build them up in my system , he also used much more anasthetic , and had them off before the anesthetic had worn off . the anesthetic only lasted for a couple of minutes , and it had worn off completely by the time he had dressed my toes.

 

 

 

Can I have my disc cutter back now then Mel?

he didnt use it , they came off just fine with the stanley knife and pliers .

 

i asked him to show me the nails that hed removed , they were all shapes and the big one had been growing through my toe , no wonder they were so sore lol.

[Mice!]

We'll glad someone listened to you and there sorted now but yuck 🤢

[clakk]

Well Mel you,ve let the secret ingredient out now everyone knows what goes in black country pork scratchings

[mel b3]

The whole experience has certainly stopped me from biting my toenails 😅

[team tractor]

I lost my cabinet keys 2 days ago and have been panicking all over the weekend. I found them last night in the place I first looked. They'd slipped into the corner and I feel stupid but happy.

[Pistol p]

I took my boy to brands hatch on sunday for the german car show. He's 9 and loves cars and racing games. We've been down to brands many times and its a place that we both love. But this time was different, we were able to go onto the track for a grid walk.

Over the years we've "played" the track on various game consoles and simulators and ive described the complexities of the track to him.

So onto the grid walk we go, down the main straight towards the cars and drivers. But my boy is suddenly off to the side of the track. Then I realised that what he's doing is picking up the rubber marbles and pieces of discarded race tyres. Then its over to the crash barriers and he's pocketing parts of the wrecked touring and saloon car bumpers and spoilers. It made my day because it showed to me that he is that much more enthusiastic about his motorsport than I thought.

We got some signed posters and sat in the cars.

It was a great day.

Edited August 22, 2017 by Pistol p

[serrac]

13 Months without a seizure for my lovely daughter Debbie.

They started at 14 and she is now 34 and in the last few years had been having ~30 seizures per month

Believe me it's been hellish - injuries, side effects of medication, psychosis, suicidal thoughts, prejudice & harassment - we could write a book and probably will.

After two decades of having to watch her 24 hours a day, she's now living in her own house 5 minutes away from us.
Praise the Lord for vitamins and CBD Oil... :-)

Mike

[team tractor]

13 Months without a seizure for my lovely daughter Debbie.

They started at 14 and she is now 34 and in the last few years had been having ~30 seizures per month

Believe me it's been hellish - injuries, side effects of medication, psychosis, suicidal thoughts, prejudice & harassment - we could write a book and probably will.

After two decades of having to watch her 24 hours a day, she's now living in her own house 5 minutes away from us.

Praise the Lord for vitamins and CBD Oil... :-)

 

Mike

I don't know about praise the lord but I'm happy for you. I lost my sister through it 19 years ago at 19 years old.

Glad it's working out for her

[general grievous]

 

 

13 Months without a seizure for my lovely daughter Debbie.

They started at 14 and she is now 34 and in the last few years had been having ~30 seizures per month

Believe me it's been hellish - injuries, side effects of medication, psychosis, suicidal thoughts, prejudice & harassment - we could write a book and probably will.

After two decades of having to watch her 24 hours a day, she's now living in her own house 5 minutes away from us.

Praise the Lord for vitamins and CBD Oil... :-)

 

Mike

 

That's a great post Mike but I think you are missing a really important part ... How and why did Debbie's treatment change so that she is now doing so much better? If that's too personal, please ignore this question but for me and I'm guessing, other followers of this thread, your post is both uplifting and intriguing.

 

Have a really great day.

 

GG

[grrclark]

I think nice things happen all the time if we care to look for it.

 

This morning i had a good giggle at two chocolate lab pups tearing around like lunatics when i had my two beasts out for a walk, absolutely not a care in the world except having a romp around.

 

I also learned today that a good friend has been offered a new job after being made redundant at the end of May.

[TriBsa]

Emailed RCBS in the US yesterday, asking if I could buy a Pin and Circlip for my Reloading Press that I got secondhand. Just received the reply that they've popped one in the post FOC. Great service, which I will remember next time I want some reloading equipment.

Edited August 22, 2017 by TriBsa

[serrac]

team tractor

" I lost my sister through it 19 years ago at 19 years old."

 

I'm very sorry for your loss - epilepsy claims far too many lives, very often otherwise healthy young people with their whole lives in front of them.

 

general grievous

"That's a great post Mike but I think you are missing a really important part ... How and why did Debbie's treatment change so that she is now doing so much better? If that's too personal, please ignore this question but for me and I'm guessing, other followers of this thread, your post is both uplifting and intriguing."

 

Happy to elaborate with the caveat that this is strictly our interpretation of the situation.

 

I did actually answer your point :-) - Vitamins and CBD Oil

 

Debbie is among the the 30% of epilepsy sufferers who are considered "refractory to treatment" - non of the conventional drug treatments have worked for her. Her epilepsy is also described by her doctors as idiopathic, as in "we don't have a scuby what's causing your seizures".

 

We'd even considered brain surgery but were told she wouldn't be a candidate as she hadn't demonstrated that her seizures weren't controlled at the maximum dose of her medications. The problem with that is she starts becoming emotionally disturbed and/or psychotic at anything over 10% of the max dose. She has attempted doubling and even trebling her dose but always ended up dropping down to a level she could tolerate as the side-effects were horrendous - and with no reduction in the frequency or severity of her seizures. One medication actually made her seizures much worse at the higher dose.

Her GPs started using the term "non-compliant" and became increasingly dismissive of her epilepsy related issues, as if she was bringing the seizures on herself by not maxing out on the medications as they suggested.

 

As an engineer the term "idiopathic" didn't sit well with me - I couldn't accept that her seizures were an "un-caused effect", so I started to research less mainstream ideas about epilepsy and it's treatment.

 

I soon found there were a number of nutritional deficiencies which could provoke seizures, either directly or indirectly - i.e. Vitamin B6 supplementation is the only known treatment for pyridoxine dependent epilepsy (surprise surprise pyrodoxine is a posh name for Vitamin B6).

 

At the end of 2013 I compiled a shopping list of vitamins and minerals that were suspected to be of potential benefit and Debbie started to take them in addition to her medication.

 

Now 2013 had been a horrible year, culminating in her receiving skin grafts on her arm three days before Christmas having clamped her hair-straighteners on her arm during a seizure - but from the week she started taking the supplements and for the next seven months she was seizure free. Then, she had a single cluster of seizures lasting a few days followed by another 6 months seizure free before the seizures started up again and fell back into their old pattern of two or three clusters per month, and 7 - 15 seizures per cluster.

Shortly after that my wife and I were away on holiday and Debbie was staying with her boyfriends parents, his mum took her to an appointment with the epilepsy nurse at the local hospital. Mark's mum had seen all the bottles of vitamins and insisted she show them to the epilepsy nurse - who demanded that she immediately stop taking them: "we don't treat epilepsy with vitamins". So she stopped all the supplements.

 

One day she collapsed with a seizure while talking to her GP's receptionist and was taken to see a GP - she was put under a lot of pressure to max out her medication again.

They also told her to stop taking advice from me as I wasn't qualified to give medical advice.

They tried her on a new medication which just made her so emotionally messed up that her boyfriend (and his mum) couldn't cope with her so he finished the relationship.

 

The next year was very difficult - both from a medical point of view and because her employers began to put her through disciplinary procedures for absenteeism - despite having assured her this wouldn't happen as they had made a "reasonable adjustment" to accommodate her epilepsy.

 

She decided to jump before she was pushed and was offered a job with Fife Council - who to their credit, when advised of her epilepsy immediately put procedures into place to ensure they could take good care of her.

 

A couple of weeks before she was due to start she told me she wanted to give the vitamins and minerals another try since they seemed to have helped in the past.

 

I was concerned what her new employers would think when they saw the extent and frequency of her seizures and was desperate that she would have at least a couple of weeks clear of seizures so they could see that she was a capable worker before they had to deal with the down side. As it turned out she was seizure free one week, two weeks, a month, two months.

 

Then, a man at work with a daughter who also has epilepsy told her that his daughter had started using CBD oil (cannabidiol) and it seemed to have significantly reduced her seizures.

I had looked into CBD oil only a few weeks before but had dismissed it as too "out there" - after all it's derived from cannabis so I presumed it was illegal to buy and own - and I certainly didn't want her on a drug rap in addition to all her other problems.

 

However taking a second look I discovered that CBD oil was openly sold on Amazon and there were plenty of reviews from people saying it had helped them with epilepsy and seizures. I also found there is a growing body of scientific evidence that the CBD molecule is very special - indeed there is now an experimental drug Sativex - though that also contains the "high" producing cannaboid THC in addition to CBD.

I ordered up a bottle of CBD oil and Debbie added it to her daily routine.

 

So thirteen months now without a seizure - and no discernible side effects from the supplements or CBD oil.

 

So is it the vitamins or CBD oil that's preventing the seizures? We don't know and we don't care!

Indeed the most sensible thing we have heard from the medical community lately was her consultant: "if it's working for you - keep doing it!"

 

OK, sorry to have rambled on so much but hopefully that's given you a better picture of Debbie's situation.

 

(See "Weed" by Sanjay Gupta on Youtube for a fascinating documentary on CBD oil being used to help children with the most extreme forms of epilepsy. )

 

There is one dark cloud on the horizon however - late last year the Medicine Control Agency wrote to the major sellers of CBD oil advising them that they had classified CBD oil as a medicine and therefore they would have to apply for a licence to sell it and put their products through testing costing six figure sums. A similar move was made by the DEA in America, suggesting a co-ordinated effort to remove the product from the market world-wide. There was sufficient push-back on both sides of the pond to make them go away and reconsider, but no doubt they will be back with a new and better plan to get it off the market. Been stocking up but the stuff is *expensive*.

 

Cheers

 

Mike

 

[Aled]

Some nice stories guys, some of which put mine in a very shallow light!

 

My 11year old son and I were fishing on the lake at Centre Parcs Longleat, we are fly fisherman by trade and our knowledge of coarse fishing is low! However by using bread as a ground bait and using sweetcorn as bait we were catching a few fish small fish. I'd tried using bread on the hook but it was not staying on the hook for very long! Anyway an 8 year old boy turns up and asks us "any luck" we told him of our limited success. He then said "put bread on the hook" ...."can't get it to stay on hook I said"....he took the hook twisted the bread at the base, put the hook through it then turned the hook again and pushed it through..try that he said....we caught quite a few bigger carp almost immediately.

I thought that was great, for the first time in a long while I'd met a young lad with a passion for angling who obviously knew a thing or two, and was happy to share it with us coarse fishing beginners. Brilliant!

Tight Lines

Aled

[evolution380]

I go to M&S every lunch, usually with it being busy I find myself holding the door open for some ignoranus/self important idiot who walks through with not a thanks or any acknowledgement, not that I do it for that but it's general manners in my opinion and takes no effort.

 

Held the door open for a little old lady a couple weeks back who was making a b-line for the door, it felt like a lifetime as she wasn't incredibly steady on her feet walking stick in one hand, bag for life in the other but I had nowhere to be but work so I was in no rush.

 

She passes through the door, pauses and says thank you before asking if she could take my arm to guide her down the 4 or 5 steps from the doors into the store to which i obliged.

 

Before letting go of my arm she asked my name and if she may repay the favour by having a drink in the cafe upstairs so she didn't have to drink alone.

 

I thought why not it's 15-20mins of my lunch break that i'd end up wasting staring at a computer screen anyway.

 

I couldn't let her buy me a drink so asked what she'd like as she sat down at the table, had a drink and couldn't get a word in edge ways as she nattered away happy as larry with a beaming smile before jokingly proclaiming to one of the staff that I was her new toyboy.

 

She reminded me very much of my own grandparents who I don't see anywhere near enough of. A few things she said made me click as to how lonely (my own grandmas could be losing their long term partners and dearest friends the same as this lovely woman.

 

It made me realise I need to see my grandparents more whilst I still have the chance, not to take them for granted and to give them company that I imagine they would very much appreciate.

 

Before leaving I asked if she visited often, 'every Thursday lunch' she replied. I was off work last Thursday but will be swinging by the cafe to check if she is around tomorrow and have a cuppa with her if she is