Tomorrow’s the day

[AJLang]

My heart goes out to you Amanda. Is there any treatment that will help with the symptoms and slow the progression?

Thank you very much @silver minion. I think the only thing to slow the progression is tight diabetes control and mine has been extremely well controlled over the 12 years since I went on the insulin pump.

 

[AJLang]

Another "Harumph!" moment Amanda. However I note that 'glorified' Tens devices can be used, some even with implanted sensors to try and relieve pain and to keep the affected parts/organs functional for as long as poss. Good luck with it again. {{{Hugs}}}

Lol Jenny trust me to be awkward but the pain is already under control due to the amitriptylene and ZAPAIN that I’m on for other reasons. My main problem is things like cramping twitches all times of the day, loss of balance, bouts of leg paralysis, tendency to fall etc. I’m doing it in style BUT I will definitely be talking to the neurologist about what treatments are available. Ps goodness knows how bad it could have been if some Brummie hadn’t nagged me to get a pump - thank you for that and all of your other help and advice.

 

[Inka]

So sorry to hear that @AJLang It’s not fair. You put up with so much. I hope it can be controlled in the best and easiest way possible {{hugs}} xx

 

[AJLang]

So sorry to hear that @AJLang It’s not fair. You put up with so much. I hope it can be controlled in the best and easiest way possible {{hugs}} xx

Thank you very much @Inka.

 

[trophywench]

Yeah, okay, but where I come from is usually in not knowing where or when this or that I happen to mention might simply be of help to someone or the other - even if not to you (or any OP) personally right at this minute!

I think by now anyway you are actually a bit more like me, in that we both know it costs us nowt in the overall scheme of things - to just ASK !!

 

[PhoebeC]

Sorry @AJLang to hear this. Take care of yourself

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

BUT I will definitely be talking to the neurologist about what treatments are available. Ps goodness knows how bad it could have been if some Brummie hadn’t nagged me to get a pump - thank you for that and all of your other help and advice.

Sorry to hear about your difficult news today @AJLang

I hope the MRIs in January, and follow-up consultations offer you a little NY encouragement

LOL at the ‘some Brummie’

 

[AJLang]

Thank you Phoebe and Mike x

 

[trophywench]

The Brummie in question would like to point out that she is not and never has been, a Brummie. I did work in Birmingham for several decades but never ever lived there - born and bred in West Bromwich which was (then) in Staffordshire. Birmingham was in Warwickshire. These days they call the place (ie WB) Sandwell and its in West Midlands.

It's bats - they haven't renamed the Baggies (ie West Bromwich Albion football club, aka The Throstles, cos a Thrush is the emblem of West Brom) 'Sandwell Albion', now, have they!

 

[CliffH]

The Brummie in question would like to point out that she is not and never has been, a Brummie. I did work in Birmingham for several decades but never ever lived there - born and bred in West Bromwich which was (then) in Staffordshire. Birmingham was in Warwickshire. These days they call the place (ie WB) Sandwell and its in West Midlands.

It's bats - they haven't renamed the Baggies (ie West Bromwich Albion football club, aka The Throstles, cos a Thrush is the emblem of West Brom) 'Sandwell Albion', now, have they!

Do you consider West Brom to be part of the Black Country? According to The Black Country Museum it is - and I used to work for The Black Country NHS Trust, which had its headquarters in West Brom!

 

[trophywench]

I absolutely do, Cliff! (one's mama would most likely have sighed deeply and said in a regretful tone, 'Unfortunately, yes.' Come on, mother - we're surrounded by steelworks. founders, forgers and Lord knows what else - so how could we possibly not be?) 😛😛😛

 

[CliffH]

The Brummie in question would like to point out that she is not and never has been, a Brummie. I did work in Birmingham for several decades but never ever lived there - born and bred in West Bromwich which was (then) in Staffordshire. Birmingham was in Warwickshire. These days they call the place (ie WB) Sandwell and its in West Midlands.

It's bats - they haven't renamed the Baggies (ie West Bromwich Albion football club, aka The Throstles, cos a Thrush is the emblem of West Brom) 'Sandwell Albion', now, have they!

I absolutely do, Cliff! (one's mama would most likely have sighed deeply and said in a regretful tone, 'Unfortunately, yes.' Come on, mother - we're surrounded by steelworks. founders, forgers and Lord knows what else - so how could we possibly not be?) 😛😛😛

When I moved to the West Midlands (Kiddy) in 1996, The Black Country Museum helped me understand the history of the area - as did Cadbury World

 

[silver minion]

I absolutely do, Cliff! (one's mama would most likely have sighed deeply and said in a regretful tone, 'Unfortunately, yes.' Come on, mother - we're surrounded by steelworks. founders, forgers and Lord knows what else - so how could we possibly not be?) 😛😛😛

I married into a family of Yamyams. They all live in the Walsall or Bilston area. My husband can remember the noise from the steelworks in Bilston when he was a young lad.

 

[CliffH]

I married into a family of Yamyams. They all live in the Walsall or Bilston area. My husband can remember the noise from the steelworks in Bilston when he was a young lad.

Coming from London (which has tended to merge into one amorphous mass), I was struck by how Black Country towns that are only a few miles apart (such as Wolverhampton and Bilston) can have quite different identities (and accents). I learnt from The Black Country Museum that this is because each town tended to have its own specific trade and so it wasn't easy for people skilled in that trade to simply move to another town.

 

[silver minion]

Coming from London (which has tended to merge into one amorphous mass), I was struck by how Black Country towns that are only a few miles apart (such as Wolverhampton and Bilston) can have quite different identities (and accents). I learnt from The Black Country Museum that this is because each town tended to have its own specific trade and so it wasn't easy for people skilled in that trade to simply move to another town.

There is quite a difference in dialects. I struggled to understand them at first. They talk very quickly and I couldn't keep up with group conversations at family gatherings. One to one was fine, but I think they were being polite to the young southerner.(I was born in Hampshire and although I travelled a lot I mostly lived in the south of England).

 

[trophywench]

I haven't lived there since Easter Saturday (10th April) 1971 cos I got married (the first time) that day and we went on honeymoon then straight into the semi we'd bought in Kidderminster. (Now, there's a learning curve eg I doesn't know how to do that or indeed they doesn't etc either! but I digress) Around Stourbridge (still firmly in the Black Country but famous for glass making hence many Stately Homes, Royal Palaces etc have crystal chandeliers as well as drinking vessels, vases, fruit bowls etc hailing from there.) the accent is kind of more musical and if you thought 'my' bit was bad at dropping aitches better brace yourself! Cradley Heath (weer they use ter mek the chairns an stuff loik ommer eds an axis - ony not the ondles fer um) yo cun still see um chairn mekin sum days at the black cuntry museum in Dudley if yer wonter) correctly pronounced K-raid-lee - people from round there bung an extra R in it, so Kr-air-d-lee. If folk from other bits of the UK need to say Cradley Heath for any reason it can sometimes be mispronounced K-rad-lee.

 

[silver minion]

I haven't lived there since Easter Saturday (10th April) 1971 cos I got married (the first time) that day and we went on honeymoon then straight into the semi we'd bought in Kidderminster. (Now, there's a learning curve eg I doesn't know how to do that or indeed they doesn't etc either! but I digress) Around Stourbridge (still firmly in the Black Country but famous for glass making hence many Stately Homes, Royal Palaces etc have crystal chandeliers as well as drinking vessels, vases, fruit bowls etc hailing from there.) the accent is kind of more musical and if you thought 'my' bit was bad at dropping aitches better brace yourself! Cradley Heath (weer they use ter mek the chairns an stuff loik ommer eds an axis - ony not the ondles fer um) yo cun still see um chairn mekin sum days at the black cuntry museum in Dudley if yer wonter) correctly pronounced K-raid-lee - people from round there bung an extra R in it, so Kr-air-d-lee. If folk from other bits of the UK need to say Cradley Heath for any reason it can sometimes be mispronounced K-rad-lee.

Been to Dudley a few times. Hubby says the most obscure accent and dialect when he was growing up was Gornall Wood. Even black country locals couldn't always understand the old boys after a few pints.
Kipper Tie? That'd be bostin. Milk n too sugars playse

 

[CliffH]

I haven't lived there since Easter Saturday (10th April) 1971 cos I got married (the first time) that day and we went on honeymoon then straight into the semi we'd bought in Kidderminster. (Now, there's a learning curve eg I doesn't know how to do that or indeed they doesn't etc either! but I digress) Around Stourbridge (still firmly in the Black Country but famous for glass making hence many Stately Homes, Royal Palaces etc have crystal chandeliers as well as drinking vessels, vases, fruit bowls etc hailing from there.) the accent is kind of more musical and if you thought 'my' bit was bad at dropping aitches better brace yourself! Cradley Heath (weer they use ter mek the chairns an stuff loik ommer eds an axis - ony not the ondles fer um) yo cun still see um chairn mekin sum days at the black cuntry museum in Dudley if yer wonter) correctly pronounced K-raid-lee - people from round there bung an extra R in it, so Kr-air-d-lee. If folk from other bits of the UK need to say Cradley Heath for any reason it can sometimes be mispronounced K-rad-lee.

I found the Kiddy accent interesting: it sounded to me at the time like a mixture of Worcester and Brum, although now I can distinguish it as its own accent. You're making me smile remembering the Cradley Heath accent .

 

[trophywench]

Not forgetting of course that the word Heath also has a sort of pause between the heee and the th. Sort of a bit kind of hee uth but without the u. (Is it a local version of a glottal stop, I've always pondered?)

Gornal was always said to be the place where "they put the pig on the wall ter see the bond goo by!" But we're referencing here back to when folk used to keep a pig in their garden, which they happily fed and looked after cos it was such a useful animal - ate the scraps, provided manure to grow the veg, the kids could interact with them whilst they were younger, then when once they got fat enough theyed disappear when the kids were at school and a bit later ham and bacon would happen, apart from some lovely joints of pork! And anyway - always a silly phrase cos everybody knows you wouldn't keep the pig in your front garden where the wall is, would you? and it would only be his front feet on the wall, to make him tall enough to see the band over it as they march by in any case. Same as you would with your dog!

Turns out there are/were some very nice houses in Gornal - not the 'dump' one might be inclined to believe ! but that's most likely why such comments proliferated, because it was known, locally, to be posh!

 

[CliffH]

Not forgetting of course that the word Heath also has a sort of pause between the heee and the th. Sort of a bit kind of hee uth but without the u. (Is it a local version of a glottal stop, I've always pondered?)

Gornal was always said to be the place where "they put the pig on the wall ter see the bond goo by!" But we're referencing here back to when folk used to keep a pig in their garden, which they happily fed and looked after cos it was such a useful animal - ate the scraps, provided manure to grow the veg, the kids could interact with them whilst they were younger, then when once they got fat enough theyed disappear when the kids were at school and a bit later ham and bacon would happen, apart from some lovely joints of pork! And anyway - always a silly phrase cos everybody knows you wouldn't keep the pig in your front garden where the wall is, would you? and it would only be his front feet on the wall, to make him tall enough to see the band over it as they march by in any case. Same as you would with your dog!

Turns out there are/were some very nice houses in Gornal - not the 'dump' one might be inclined to believe ! but that's most likely why such comments proliferated, because it was known, locally, to be posh!

I'm back in the Black Country on Thursday: I'll have to see if I can work out where people are from by their accents!