Hello everyone
I’ve been off the grid for a little while whilst not feeling well and am just coming on to let you know that I have an appt with a Head & Neck Surgeon at Manchester Royal on 7th October. The dental hospital declined the urgent referral and suggested it be sent on the fast track pathway to Max Fax. I have an appt to see my GP on Wednesday to inform him of my referral and to ask him to check my bloods as I don’t feel at all well. I think a two pronged approach might be a good idea. Yesterday I even lost my appetite!! A sure sign of being unwell- it never happens! Anyway, thank you for your kind thoughts everyone and let’s hope it’s something simple and treatable.
Yowser, I hope you soon start to feel better. Hopefully your blood tests will enlighten the doctor as to what is going on. This cruise hasn’t been too kind to many of us. I think we will all be needing a good holiday when we dock in December.
Hope everyone is doing what they can.
Dawn, any news on your surgery date?
Lots of love to you all. I know you will have been wondering what’s going on. I’ll keep you posted after my appt on 7th
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Cathy good to hear from you. I’ve been wondering how you are doing. So sorry you are feeling unwell. I hope that your GP and hospital appointments can identify what the problem is and the most effective way to deal with it.
We’re all thinking of you and wishing you well, and I really hope that you start to feel a bit better even before the appointments. Sending love and prayers X -
Just echoing DCT. Wishing you all the very best CATHY. I hope you feel better soon, and they find out what is troubling you. x
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Hi everyone. It has gone a bit quiet here. Perhaps we have all been blown away by Autumn gales!
Sending best wishes to CATHY for Tuesday’s appointment, and continuing get well wishes to shingles sufferers, Mariet and her hand, and to Dawn for pre-op health campaign. ArcticFox how are you getting on? Your last post was very upbeat, and I hope that all is well.I have been a bit quiet too. My father is still in hospital, and then last week my mother was also admitted to a different hospital with pneumonia. Thank goodness my brother lives locally and has been a huge support for them. This has been a real exercise for me too in being clear on where I can actually make a difference, (supporting my husband), and trying not to get upset since it doesn’t help anyone.
Eating healthily and trying to get a decent amount of sleep have both been a godsend. I haven’t been able to start the exercising yet but that will come. But I have managed to stay eating sensibly – with only a couple of blips. I am bouncing round in the same kilo, despite all the worry, and I’ll take that! 19 weeks of healthy living. 14 kilos discarded.
Have a good week and I hope for good news for those who need it. xx
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Hi, I’m not sure where to post this question. I want to favourite some recipes for later but can’t see that this is an option? I’m not a fan of cooking and any small hurdle will just put me off! If I can get organised now with my favourites then go shopping hopefully I can start the week on the right foot in the kitchen!
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Hi mrsmmf and welcome! I’ve just had a look through the recipes and can’t see a way to favourite them either 🤔. Does anyone else on here know? All I can suggest is either taking a screenshot or maybe adding the link to the favourites / bookmarks in your browser. Sorry, that’s probably not much help! But good luck with your journey and it would be great if you posted on here how you are getting on. Food planning definitely helps. I tend to use the recipes in the books which always seem to work well.
Heidi good to hear from you but I’m sorry to hear about your mum. You’ve got so much on your plate at the moment, and it must be even more difficult hard being in a different country from your parents. You are being very wise about prioritising your time as you obviously can’t be in two places at once but I know you must feel pulled in different directions. Well done for staying on track through all this, and I hope there is some improvement in the respective situations soon.
You are right in that it’s gone very quiet on here! How is everyone doing? I echo all Heidi’s good wishes to you all, and Cathy I’ll be thinking of you on Tuesday.
I’m going ok. Plodding on and gradually managing to get back into better eating and exercise habits. Hope that everyone has a positive week X
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Hi folks,just want to wish CCATHY all the very best for Tuesday 🙏
Im just staying quiet in my cabin,curled up in my bunk,til I start to feel a bit better.
Leaving love n hugs for everyone,specially those struggling with one thing and another these days.
What a year it has been so far,stormy waters for so many of us.
Hang on in there…things can only get better! XXX
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Good luck with your appointment tomorrow Cathy, and best wishes to everyone who is struggling with personal or family ill health and the issues surrounding that.
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Cathy, just wanted to say that I hope your appointment went well today and the Head and Neck surgeon has been able to give you some clarity and support.
Thinking also of everyone else who is struggling with difficult times for themselves, their families and friends.
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Hello everyone and thank you for thinking of me.
The dentist who I saw this morning in the Max Fax clinic thinks I’ve got a periodontal abscess and has asked that I get my dentist to do a deep clean and she will see me in four weeks. She said if things are no better in four weeks she will take a biopsy. Ive see two dentists at my practice who both told me I didn’t have an abscess. Why was it beyond my dentist to diagnose this? Why did he tell me he thought it could be cancer? I am angry. I’ve felt unwell for weeks and I had the trauma of a cancer referral. I don’t feel confident about my appt on Thursday and I will have to have an anaesthetic before he goes anywhere near my gum. It’s incredibly painful. For the time being this is good news and hopefully it will heal very soon. This started in July before my cruise! I went telling in them I thought I had an abscess!
Anyway, I can’t go backwards only forwards. This has totally scuppered my weight loss journey but that doesn’t really matter.
Yowser, sending you lots of love as you convalesce in your cabin. You’ve had a stormy few weeks/months. I hope you’re soon feeling tip top.
Sending good wishes to everyone: it’s been a difficult few months for a great many of us.
I’m looking forward to feeling better and getting back to normal.
Went out on Saturday to a 40th and met another friend who has had a lot of success using Mounjaro! It seems to be the easiest way to lose weight these days! It’s making me think! Seems so much easier for them than me! I wish I had the courage and finances try it. I haven’t weight myself for about two months. I don’t want to face the truth! I can’t cope with the truth whilst not feeling well. When I feel better I’ll get myself back on track. For now my health is more important.
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Cathy so good to hear from you, and I’m happy and relieved that it appears to be an abscess after all. Though I share your anger and frustration about the way this has been handled by your dentist. I’m tempted to ask whether it might be possible to change dentist altogether – a different practice perhaps?
Anyway, good luck for Thursday’s appointment and I hope they finally begin to get things sorted for you.
Once all this is behind you I’m sure, with your determination, you’ll be able to focus on weight loss again. Let’s hope we all see some success in that department over the final few weeks of this cruise 🤞
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Cathy thanks for the update – you’ve been in my thoughts constantly, I can only imagine how worried you’ve been, I hope your appointment at the dentist went well and you start to feel better soon.
Yowzer I hope you are feeling better too!
It really has been an awful year for so many of us in different ways. I had such high hopes for this year, I recently turned 60 and had wanted to lose weight before my birthday, but sadly that didn’t happen and the scales went the other way! I’ve got even more to lose now 🙁 I am hopeful I can at least make something of this year though (diet wise) and am going to knuckle down and try to get back into healthy eating, so I’ll end the year on a lighter note!
Like a lot of you on here, I have a lot on my plate at the moment. My elderly father is terminally ill, so dealing with all of the emotions around that, we are also planning on moving and getting our house ready for sale, I’m also planning on retiring early in the New Year and so work is busy, and to top it all off I’m also dealing with some family issues. At least (fingers crossed!) my health has been generally good, apart from flu during the winter here. The immunotherapy treatment I’m on for RA is really working well, and I’ve been able to cut down on medications. It’s well worth spending a day in hospital every 6 months! The only downside is having impaired immunity but so far that hasn’t caused any major problems.
The one positive thing I’ve done this year for my health is to walk regularly – I walk for 45mlns to an hour 4-5 times a week.
I really need to go back through this thread and catch up on everyone’s posts, but in the meantime take care all x
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Hi Just making my weekly check-in. I hope the Thursday appointment was not too gruesome Cathy. Nice to see you posting SueBlue. There’s still time to make a real difference this year, so good luck with your reboot. ArcticFox where are you?
My week has been a challenge, and I’ve had a few wobbles. Now 20 weeks of healthy eating. Total loss 14.5 kilos. So bumping around the same weight for a few weeks now. I am just about to buy a big sack of dog food, weighing 15 kilos. Sobering and encouraging at the same time to realise that is almost the weight I have lost!
Very best wishes to all for a good week.
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Heidi you are doing so well! Your progress this year is really inspiring 🙂
15kg is what I need to lose to get down to my target weight – it really does bring it home when you pick up something in an equivalent weight.
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Hi everyone, sorry I haven’t posted in a while, I’m just catching up on posts today. Cathy I’m so pleased it appears to be an abscess you have after all and hope you can get it sorted soon. Yowzer I hope you are starting to feel a bit better.
Sue it must be a worrying time for you and you’ve done well to continue to incorporate walking regularly. Heidi well done on your total weight loss, it’s inspiring.
I’m afraid I really haven’t been in the right head space to stick to healthy eating for more than a few days at a time then I undo it all by eating stuff I shouldn’t. It’s now around 15 weeks since I was in hospital with acute pancreatitis and I still haven’t had gallbladder surgery though everything I read says it should be done within 2 to 4 weeks of the attack if it has been caused by gallstones. The appointment which was eventually planned for my surgery (which had to be cancelled because I had a high temperature) was 6 weeks ago now and I still hadn’t heard anything even though I was told they would get me back in within a ‘few weeks’ to have it done. I decided to ring the hospital this morning to chase it up. It took me an hour to get through to the person I needed to speak to and I think I had been forgotten about again as no date had been arranged for the surgery. It has now been arranged for 10th November (if I hadn’t chased it up I’m not sure I would have ever been contacted about it) so at least I have a date now and I will aim to eat healthily and not sabotage my efforts.
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HEIDI a big well done for your loss, despite all that’s been going on in your life. You have done so well. And as both you and Sue said, when you pick up an item equivalent to the weight you have lost it really brings it home!
DAWN lovely to hear from you and I’m glad you’ve got another surgery date. Though I agree it does sound as if you’d been forgotten – again! I’m not surprised you can’t focus on healthy eating for long, but just do your best for now and once your surgery is done you’ll have that headspace you crave.
SUEBLUE it sounds as if there is a lot happening for you at the moment and I hope you can weather the storm. Well done for getting your walking in as I’m sure that helps and will stand you in good stead for when you have a bit more time to focus on you again.
CATHY how was your appointment on Thursday? I hope that there is some positive move forward at last.
YOWZER how are you doing? I hope you are feeling a bit better now. You’ve had so much ill health recently and I hope it is now on its way out. Thinking of you x
ARCTICFOX are you ok? I’m really missing your posts and hope all is well. Please let us know how you are doing.
Hope that everyone has something good happen this week X
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Thanks DCT, yes I’m hoping once the surgery is done I will be able to focus properly. I’m also hoping getting rid of the gallstones/gallbladder may reduce my bloating a bit🤞
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Hello everyone
Dawn- thank goodness you called the hospital and managed to secure a surgery slot! As a medical secretary of 40 years I am appalled at the level of poor administration within hospitals and healthcare these days. I used to love my job and I trained for two years for my role. Nowadays they employ anyone and you can tell when people pick up the phone that they don’t care. It’s shocking. I feel for the consultants who have inept secretaries.
I am not doing well at all. I went for my deep clean on Thursday and I requested my dentist give me a huge dose of anaesthetic. He did a deep clean and I have to say I didn’t feel a thing and was relieved but ever since I’ve been on two hourly painkillers alternating paracetamol and Ibuprofen as the pain is off the scale. I have earache too. I phoned today and was advised to keep doing salt water rinses and to call back on Thursday if things are no better. I feel absolutely shocking, I ache and feel fluey and my gums are swollen and hurting a lot. I had to resort to icing my face on Saturday which did help. The hospital said I would be seen In 4 weeks’ and today I got an appt for 6 weeks’. So I’m resting and taking painkillers. I keep hoping I’ll feel better but I don’t.
The year is passing by and I am as big as I was at the start of the year. I feel awful and exhausted. I’ve tried and tried and failed and failed.
I have been offered an exam invigilator job at a sixth form college and am looking forward to a fresh new role. A bit of money and feeling valuable. I enjoy retirement but feel I have potential that is not being used so something ad hoc like this sounds nice and I’ll be glad of the extra money!! I hope I can attend the training day in November when hopefully h to in ha will have settled down.
I’m sorry to be so miserable. I really was hoping for a great year this year. I felt so optimistic like many of us did at the beginning of the year.
I’ll catch up on the posts I’ve missed this last couple of weeks.
Lots of love to everyone. Well done to those who are achieving their goals, I’m very envious. Hugs to those who are struggling with health and life in general. It’s not always easy to navigate the choppy waters. We have been in the Bay of Biscay for quite a while now- let’s hope for calmer seas as we head towards port. -
Hi Cathy, yes I’m so pleased I rang the hospital as goodness knows if I would have ever been contacted. In this instance it has been the secretary who has chased everything up for me both in a July and today and been really efficient and I think it’s maybe been the consultant who has not followed up on things he told me he was going to do.
I’m so sorry to hear of the awful pain you’re in, I do think anything to do with pain in the mouth or head feels worse than anything as you feel you can’t get away from it if you know what I mean. I really hope you get some respite from it soon.
That’s good news about the invigilator job and hopefully you will be feeling much better by then.
I too was hoping for a great year but I feel it has totally passed me by, especially these last three months and I am almost as heavy as I was at the start of the year. As you say, hopefully calmer waters are ahead for us all🤞🤞🤞
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Hi everyone,
I am doing ok. Just really busy as it is prime garlic selling and planting season all at the same time. I have had a friend come and help me with the planting this year as I have a hard deadline next Monday due to my surgery. Only a bit left to do over the next few days and it will be done for this year.
Cathy, sorry to hear you are still having so much trouble and are in a lot of pain. I hope that resolves for you quickly!
Dawn, glad you are getting your surgery date sorted now.
Heidi, well done with your loss. It is a big accomplishment!
I have set aside the fasting for now as I was needing a lot of energy to get through planting at the end of the season, especially as it has very suddenly turned cold. It was -10 C this morning. It was 35 C only 2 weeks ago and I was still wearing shorts. Toques and gloves season now! Tried to get the wood stove in the basement started and ended up with a house full of smoke. Just had the chimney swept last week, so not sure what is wrong. I will have to take it apart to see if I can figure it out and if not, may need to get the sweep back to take a look.
I feel that the rest of the week will be very busy as I am finishing the planting and trying to prep some meals ahead for next week, and just generally getting ready to be incapacitated for a while. So I might not be checking back in for a bit, but will look forward to catching up once I am able.