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Sue.......OK - You've been promoted to Housekeeper - a heavy responsibility. Just don't turn into Mrs Danvers from Wuthering Heights.

Berona will be Management, in so far as she will only be answerable to me, as my Advisor, and IT Consultant.

So long as she knows which way up she is in the mornings she should do very well. She will not have authority over the rest of you, but will be my eyes and ears below stairs, and will be expected to report any mis-demeanours -

You as Housekeeper will have to keep Linda from getting too uperty, and above herself, as I fear this may happen.

Tec.

Morning Allan..

I just take the one tablet at night (when i remember). I have always had high blood pressure even when i had the kids they could not get it to go down in order for me to go home from hospital. Since I have been home from work tho I have become more relaxed about exercise and really should do something about that...maybe tomorrow!!


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Tec your various aversions just reminded me of a Thread I started on these Boards recently

I just happened to say that in doing research into my family history I had discovered that I came from a long line of cowards, which I supposed was better than coming from a very short line of heroes.

The thread was meant to be humorous!

some of the replies suggested that I should be Hanged, Drawn and Quartered for making such a comment.

I'll stick to this thread, I think

Allan

Allan.......How strange, my OH suffers from White Coat Hypertension. Whenever she has her blood pressure checked at hospital, it is always through the roof. Last time they doubled thestrength of her blood pressure tablets. This made her quite ill, so without asking, she reverted back to the old dose, and was fine. She has been diabetic on insulin for 20 years, and now suffers badly. Her Hypos happen suddenly and without warning, so she just hits the deck, anywhere, anytime, day or night. I have frequently had to call an ambulance when I've been unable to revive her.
She had a bad fall down stairs last year, but I didn't find her 'till morning at the bottom of the stairs covered in blood. Not very nice at all. I can tell when she's having a hypo but asleep when the breathing pattern changes.
Not a condition to be taken lightly.

Tec.

Not everyone appreciates our quirky off the wall humour - their loss, not ours.
The other threads frightened me off soon after I joined GR, I only ever post on one other particular thread where I know the people well.

Tec.

Having been a member of Gr for about 4 years there was a time Tec that there was alot of fun and laughter but people have become to paranoid about what they read now..If i am on here i come on this thread and some of the word threads...But i really have little time these days to be on here for a long time...Like someone said on another thread there is little to keep me on the other threads now...


I am really going this time...TTFN...

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Tec,

At the moment mine is controlled by diet and exercise, but I know that it is a progresive condition.

I've known one or two sufferers who didn't take any action to control it, with the inevitable cosequences!

Part of my condition was due to lifestyle, part to inheritance. When I was diagnosed I eventualy persuaded my brother to get himself tested...he was also affected. I feel sorry for his side of the family as his wife is also diabetic so his children are also at risk

Allan

Bye, Janet

Regards

Allan

Bye Janet....Enjoy your day,

That is bad luck with your brothersfamily, lets hope the children are never affected.
They keep saying diabeties is caused by obesity, but my Oh was never overweight, like a stick in fact - also there is no history of it in her family.
It is a real bug bear having to inject every day.

So...........now that you've given up some of the day job, what are you going to do with all that spare time?
NOT MORE WALKING SURELY!

tEC

Plenty to do around the house, Tec, besides my wife suggested that I increase my walking to 20kms a day...that way I would be 140 kms away from home by the end of the week


Allan

Sorry, people. I disappeared for awhile actually doing a bit of family tree work. I discovered the "updates" on the home page and found that a contact whose tree I have access to has added a large number of people to my OH's side of the family. We have been able to give each other some wonderful photos and certificates as well as information and this is a real bonus. They aren't close ancestors but still part of the overall family.

Sue xx

Edit - that's my deletion. It posted twice:-)

You could visit Sue, Berona, and Colin, if you kept going Eastwards.

I also have plenty to do here - planned to finish the house in two years - that was nearly 15 years ago.......but I have done a lot.

Novelty is wearing a bit thin now I have to say.

Tec.

Sue
thanks for your last post to me, I do care a lot about my bosses family I am never treated as an employee but more like a family member, in fact the grand-daughter of his mum, his niece actually said to me only 2wks ago in a conversation I was haveing with her about her grand-dad, that she thought of me as a member of the family, I was so touched by her comment I was in tear's, if that isn't the best compliment, I don't know what is. I have known the family for a number of yrs and on many accasion's like the husband's death last february, friend's and family made a point in telling me they knew how much of a help I have been to his mum and dad over the yrs, it make's me feel proud to be able to help and make life easier for his mum as it is a hard thing she doe's being the age she is and still looking after him. She is 75yrs old and has health problem as well.
Oh my can't I waffle on, I do so appoligise for going on lol

Tec being the Duchesses companion, I guess I am only answerable to her, am I correct in my thinking.

Diane x

Sue, I'm still stuck with my paternal grandfather's early years. He first bursts upon the scene in 1904 when he was in his forties and married my grandmother who was in her twenties.

I have the marriage certificate and all his movements until his death in 1930. Absolutely nothing prior to 1904.

I'm dreading starting on my mother's side. Her mother was married and had three children by her husband and then took up with someone else without benefit of divorce. Two childern from this later union, my mother and her brother. I have both birth certificates but, of course, no father shown

All I know of this grandfather is that his surname was Rooke

Hopefully I get past this hurdle

Allan

Tec, your wife's health must be a constant worry for you.

Sue xx

Diane,

No need to apologise and you certainly do not waffle on. Sometimes it's nice to share things

Allan

Isn't it brilliant when that happens Sue. Inspires you to keep going.
I don't know how much further I can go with mine. Got back to 1556 with one line. T hat was on my fathers side.
Wasn't getting terribly far with my mothers family. Then suddenly a man from South Wales contacted me, it was the breakthrough I needed, and he had connections with that family, and a great deal of knowledge. I had lots of surprises there.

Tec.

Allan, do you have Ancestry? Perhaps I can help if you give me some details.

Sue xx

I have checkups about three times a year and a blood test yearly. Each time, the doc says everything is 'fine'. So, I ask why do I have to take all these tablets daily? and she says - "to keep you that way".!!

I take tablets for blood pressure, osteo arthritis, cholesterol - although none of them are very serious, thankfully - and also I had my thyroid removed, so I take tablets to make up the energy lost by that. I hate taking tablets - they make me feel that I rattle, I take so many - until recently, whilst at the chemist, I saw a lady who needed two assistants to help her sort out the amount of prescriptions she had - I've never seen so much paperwork!
After that, I think I'm not so badly off after all. There's always someone worse off than us, isn't there?

Diane - we have a system here where home carers can have a break whilst the patient is taken into respite care for a week or so just so that the carer can have the break. Do you have anything like that where you are?

Well thank you Allan for that comment.

Well folk's it's that time again when I have to say
goodnight and goodday to you all, time I was going to bed
catch you all again soon

Diane x