Happy Birthday, Mel!

All the best,

B&H

 

Happy Birthday, Tom - sorry the greetings are late but still sincere. Have a great year ahead.

B&H

 

Don't envy you cia but glad you got a quick diagnosis.  I too have just been diagnosed with this and it absolutely mimics the symptoms of a heart attack though minus the tingling in the left arm, and is frightening and crippling - it is so difficult to breathe and move.  I have had these attacks for a number of years and been frightened for a long time especially as my Dad died of a heart attack.  It has previously been diagnosed as a panic attack and invariably severe indigestion.  I do suffer from these and acid reflux regularly in any case, and they have similar symptoms but are not the same and it is so difficult to get the right diagnosis despite acute descriptions of pain and effect.  I have read that there have been many cases where chest pain in men is examined and treated as being a possible heart attack from the outset but invariably with women severe indigestion is diagnosed first and yet, I believe, heart attack is responsible for the highest, or amongst the highest, killers of females in the UK. I have also read that heart attack symptoms can be slightly different in females but alas, I don't know the differences!  But whether you are male or female such pain is really frightening but fortunately Costochondritis is not life-threatening.  Look after your hearts as best you can, folks.

(Oh dear, Harmony is being serious yet again...)

Have a great day, Techno.

All the Best,

B&H

 

Happy Birthday wishes from Bainn & Harmony.

Have a great celebration.

 

Thinking of you and Roxeanne and wishing her a good recovery and benign results.

Congrats! wp!

B&H

nice one, Tikay,lol

Delighted to hear this.

All the best to you all.

B&H

Birthday Greetings from Bainn & harmony.  Have a good time.

 

Make sure you get an alarm fitted, which you can also alarm the doors / downstairs with when your upstairs asleep.

If possible have an alarm system which is linked to the Police though this obviously incurs a higher outlay. My alarm has a system whereby it calls my mobile (then Christians, my son and my Mum, if i am unobtainable) if it is activated.  It also has a panic button system. I was burgled a few years ago living alone and it is a frightening and highly-invasive violation.  The police were great and tried to get the jemmied window (all windows had locks on them which WERE locked at the time) repaired that night - alas this did not happen until next day and I sat up all night watching that broken window.  The burglars ransacked every room and I slept downstairs in the front room for three weeks before venturing up to my bedroom again. I was advised to visit second-hand shops, jewellers and a pawnbrokers to see if I could trace any of my stolen property. No luck. I did so but it was really unpleasant and unsettling, especially visiting jewellers to try to trace my very unusual, individually designed white gold engagement and wedding rings on Valentine's day and coming across couples buying engagement and/or wedding rings...somewhat upsetting - I was newly divorced and did not wear the rings but was hanging on to them for investment purposes.  I was livid someone had stolen that "security", amongst everything else, from me.

It does take sometime to settle down and if I could I would move but I can't.  The police were very kind but  we all know their resources are overstretched.  It is possible to contact Victim Support for advice and I was visited by the local Police Representative who could advise me on further safety precautions to take including additional door locks, preventative measures re: my back gate, additional lighting,etc.

I still dread coming in on a dark winter's night, if I am alone, but in the end you just have to get on with it.

I am sorry to hear this happened to you and wish you well with coming to terms with the memory and dealing with the practical "aftermath" as it were.

All the best.

Gd post!

"Eulogy" is the word you are looking for...Tikay (re: Tom's heartfelt speech)

Birthday greetings.

 

B&H

Sorry to say I have only just seen this. Hope news continues to be more positive.

Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.