How are you all doing?

[SB2015]

Enjoying being in the garden this morning. Tidying, edging and fishing out oxygenators from the pond for friends with a new pond. Plants left for collection on the doorstep as they are self isolating.

 

[SB2015]

Thankyou all for your kind thoughts.
Angela went to the GP as she was worried about being out of breathe and heart failure runs in her family. She went for a scan and was later contacted the same day to say her heart was perfectly OK but the scan indicated a mass on her lung. Further PET and CT scans and endoscopy confirmed the worst outcome : aggressive form of cancer..
Due to the present crisis we are all in we were given the results over the phone.
We have been called in first thing Monday morning to the Royal Cornwall to start immediate treatment (Kemo). They have said the best they can do is try and slow down its progress.
We have two sons up in Bedfordshire and a 26 year old daughter who lives with us down in Cornwall who is very close to her mum and I have no idea when we are going to tell her as Angela doesn't want anyone to know yet. But time is short.
It must have been a year+ since I last posted on this site and it's good to recognise many familiar names.

Sorry to hear your news Davein.
Take care.

 

[SB2015]

No fever thank goodness, but chest has got worse, going to have to contact the GP now, wanted to avoid as I know they're gonna be rushed of their feet.

Take care Megga

 

[StephEllis]

Hi everyone. I'm new to the board. I've decided to join as I'm worried sick over the situation. To the point I have had an upset stomach, my glucose levels are high, feel sick to the stomach, heart is pounding constantly, feel light headed all caused by extreme anxiety. I am 47 with type 1. I'm ok with the isolation. Whats causing the above is that my 3 year old had a cold and chest cough the week before last, this Thursday he woke with ear ache and a temperature. Yesterday his ear drum burst so we hot him to the doctors and hes on antibiotics. My fear is that its related to the virus and that I will get it and then my mind spirals to the worst scenario. He has had the ear problem around 4 or 5 times as a child but the doc says as its caused by a virus they are advising us to household isolate but unlikely its from virus. As I say that I can cope with the isolation. I need to calm down but just can't! Sorry for the rant! Hope everyone is doing ok xx

 

[mikeyB]

Managed to get a delivery from Tesco organised for Wednesday. Never mind toilet rolls, why do folk want to stockpile Tinned Tomatoes and Tomato Purée? None available. Jelly Babies not available - I know who to blame for that.

I’ll have a go at amending the order on Tuesday, see if they’ve restocked. Meanwhile, you lot, stop buying up Jelly Babies.

 

[Ditto]

Hello and welcome to the forum StephEllis. I'm sorry for your trouble and can understand your anxiety. The forum is a good place to offload your fears and hopefully a trouble shared is a trouble halved and all that.

mikeyB I think people are stockpiling anything that won't 'go off' and it's pathetic. We need rationing! I remember rationing, I wonder if they'll bring back dried egg?

 

[eggyg]

Managed to get a delivery from Tesco organised for Wednesday. Never mind toilet rolls, why do folk want to stockpile Tinned Tomatoes and Tomato Purée? None available. Jelly Babies not available - I know who to blame for that.

I’ll have a go at amending the order on Tuesday, see if they’ve restocked. Meanwhile, you lot, stop buying up Jelly Babies.

We also couldn’t get tomato purée, weird! But my eldest daughter managed to get me some passata yesterday. Can I also ask, why do people need to stock pile mango chutney? Mr Eggy has quite the penchant for it and I do make lots of curries. Our girls have tried Asda, Tesco and Aldi, which incidentally sells his favourite. All sold out. Not that’s even weirder!

 

[eggyg]

I’ve been practicing with my new camera this morning, filled all the bird feeders ready for action. Who pops along for the first time in weeks, but Mr Woody. I was chuffed to bits, fired off a few shots and up/down loaded ( don’t know the difference) to my iPad and noticed this. Mrs Chaffinch to his left giving him the evil eye! It did make me laugh. I hope it does you too. 🙂

 

[eggyg]

Managed to get a delivery from Tesco organised for Wednesday. Never mind toilet rolls, why do folk want to stockpile Tinned Tomatoes and Tomato Purée? None available. Jelly Babies not available - I know who to blame for that.

I’ll have a go at amending the order on Tuesday, see if they’ve restocked. Meanwhile, you lot, stop buying up Jelly Babies.

Mike, I have loads of black ones you can have! I will swop for green or yellow! 😉

 

[Robin]

I’ve been practicing with my new camera this morning, filled all the bird feeders ready for action. Who pops along for the first time in weeks, but Mr Woody. I was chuffed to bits, fired off a few shots and up/down loaded ( don’t know the difference) to my iPad and noticed this. Mrs Chaffinch to his left giving him the evil eye! It did make me laugh. I hope it does you too. 🙂

Mrs. Chaffinch. 'Get off my feeder!'..brandishes imaginary rolling pin..

 

[m1dnc]

I'm still overseas in our tropical island 'paradise' (pop. 80,000). We've had just one confirmed case so far, but nobody really believes that. No testing here yet - samples have to be sent to another island. Everywhere is very quiet and all the tourists are going. We've been socially distancing. No problems with food supplies at the local supermarket, and that should continue as long as the port stays open. I have enough insulin to last to about September. The planes are still flying to the UK at the moment, but no idea how long that will last. We're due to return to Blighty in May, but everyone is saying 'stay where you are'. The island medical facilities are pretty basic and likely to be overwhelmed if it gets bad. Trying to keep busy around the garden and I've started re-learning my photo editing skills. Plenty of books on my Kindle and the Netflix account is up-to-date. Got to go wash the car....

 

[AJLang]

I’m trying to recreate the feeling of being in a pub garden even though it’s freezing cold

 

[mikeyB]

Good for you, AJ, keeps up your spirits, even though the wine is diminishing

 

[grovesy]

I’m trying to recreate the feeling of being in a pub garden even though it’s freezing cold

The sun here in Essex is giving false hope. It is very bitter bite to the air. I have just sown my Tomatoes and Cucumber seeds. Realized I only had just enough small seed trays. Other half has just gone to Garden Center to get more he wont let me go.

 

[Cazzablanca]

I am having really high anxiety too. My husband is off work for couple weeks but I am dreading when he has to go back to work. We are isolating by choice but went for a walk to our normally quiet country park this morning but there were a few more people than normal and a strong wind and I found myself getting really anxious that the virus might carry on the wind, although we managed to keep a distance from people. Most thanking and acknowledging the distance. The only ones that didn't were the young parents with kids. It probably does cross their minds that people may be trying to isolate. As nice as it was to get some air, I won't be doing it again for a while. Hope everyone stays well.

 

[Cazzablanca]

I am having really high anxiety too. My husband is off work for couple weeks but I am dreading when he has to go back to work. We are isolating by choice but went for a walk to our normally quiet country park this morning but there were a few more people than normal and a strong wind and I found myself getting really anxious that the virus might carry on the wind, although we managed to keep a distance from people. Most thanking and acknowledging the distance. The only ones that didn't were the young parents with kids. It probably does cross their minds that people may be trying to isolate. As nice as it was to get some air, I won't be doing it again for a while. Hope everyone stays well.

Doesn't cross their mind I meant

 

[Cazzablanca]

The sun here in Essex is giving false hope. It is very bitter bite to the air. I have just sown my Tomatoes and Cucumber seeds. Realized I only had just enough small seed trays. Other half has just gone to Garden Center to get more he wont let me go.

We normally grow plenty of veg but we weren't going to this year as my other half was going to retire asap and we were planning to go off caravanning for the summer. Well the pension has dwindled and obviously we won't be going anywhere so we've just ordered loads of seeds online and I'm going to be his gardening assistant this summer. At least we will get some fresh air. I appreciate his lucky we are to have a garden.

 

[AJLang]

The sun here in Essex is giving false hope. It is very bitter bite to the air. I have just sown my Tomatoes and Cucumber seeds. Realized I only had just enough small seed trays. Other half has just gone to Garden Center to get more he wont let me go.

I’m hoping to plant up some seeds when it gets a bit warmer...but our squirrels seem to like seedlings!

 

[AJLang]

Good for you, AJ, keeps up your spirits, even though the wine is diminishing

You too MIke. Fortunately I still have alcohol supplies from Christmas

 

[grovesy]

You too MIke. Fortunately I still have alcohol supplies from Christmas

Alcohol is the next shortage, other half has trouble getting beer. I should imagine another knock on from pubs closing down.