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To be fair, it could be considered a £3.5k win given all that transpired in the prior 48 hours.

#positivity

Big Philly style!

I would like to issue an apology.

My wife had no idea what I did when she went to see her mum in Norwich. She of course knew I had found a large sum of money in my jacket but that is all. She was unaware of the 48hr drug-fuelled poker binge, the £10k losses, or any of the other opinions I expressed in this thread. Sadly, Mrs Mantis has now read my post and is rather unhappy, if not a little angry.

So for the record can I state that I DO NOT do ALL the cooking and ALL the shopping. If you ask a person to step into the shops on their way home...to buy say an onion or some parsley...and that person returns with those items...one can reasonably assume that an act of shopping has taken place. Furthermore, and technically speaking the preparation and service of occasional microwave meals could be viewed in some quarters as cooking. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.   

Sometimes I really despair at how rubbish our NHS can be.

Here's the highlights of my conversation with the Practice Diabetic Nurse 2 days ago-

ME-Why have I still not been referred (for 2 years) for my 1st Annual Diabetic Eye Test? My Optician says I now have cataracts and possible optic nerve damage
Nurse. Because you are not Diabetic. Your last reading was 41-that's pre-diabetic
Me: No, it's not. My reading before was 100, and I have been on Metformin, prescribed by you, for the last 2 years
Nurse. Sorry, that's my mistake. I'll sort it. I can see from your notes that you had a reading from a blood test supplied via us in 2024 of 100. Tell me-why did you never action the diagnosis of diabetes via a Reading of 92 from your last GP Practice in 2017?
Me: I'm guessing that is because, before today, nobody has ever told me about that 2017 diagnosis/result? For 9 years! Or told me I was Diabetic for 7 years
Nurse: Oh, dear...

Good job I haven't got high blood pressure

For years I never read the leaflets inside medications, I trusted that Dr's knew what they were doing until I was perscribed something that was new to me and I googled it.

Turned out it was a complete no no to something else I was on and it had a huge chance of killing me.

Safe to say I always read those leaflets now.

I've been on the raspberry express since my mid 20s, so I'm freerolling my way downhill to 50 now

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I turned 60 in December ...
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Well I'm okay then - I only turn 50 next week.

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 can confirm that from 50 onwards is all downhill so far.
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oh.... I see...   :|

Ah an aches and pains thread, I've found my spiritual home.

I turned 60 in December and can confirm that from 50 onwards is all downhill so far. I try and stay active with tennis but physically everything is getting harder (or not, make up your own joke....)
Bruised toenails are an occupational hazard for tennis players, sometimes resulting in lost nails, not a pretty sight. My other half however outdid me last week when she dropped a post rammer onto her big toe, very nasty and her mood wasn't helped when I pointed out that post rammers aren't meant to be dropped on ones toes.
Medications? just an inhaler to control very mild asthma which I've had all my life but both my father and brother died of COPD so it's a concern.
Supplements? Loads - Glucosamine, cod liver oil, turmeric & black pepper, as well as a multibiotic and a multivitamin, both of which have too many ingredients to list here.
I have vowed to try and get fitter when I retire as sitting at a desk for hours a day isn't good for posture, health etc. Fingers crossed for that retirement.

Must be tricky for you lot. All that hope, almost all season, just to bottle it at the end. Every. Single. Year.

Easier for us Spuds. Our hope only lasts until the end of August. Every. Single. Year. I'm 63. League Titles in those 63 Seasons? 0. Times we finished 2nd? 2. And 1 of those was in 1963

And at least we are now bring "entertained" by a new Manager who, in addition to being clueless about English Football, seems to be slightly unhinged

Good luck-on the Blood Pressure. Not the Football, obvs

PS. That Ref in the Arse v Chelsea game was hopeless (whereas we just didn't get the rub of the green with ours, despite the ravings of our Manager). Takes a lot for me to agree with Arteta...

I think high blood pressure is a given for Arsenal supporters of a certain age.

Mine's being reviewed this week.

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Sometimes I really despair at how rubbish our NHS can be.

Here's the highlights of my conversation with the Practice Diabetic Nurse 2 days ago-

ME-Why have I still not been referred (for 2 years) for my 1st Annual Diabetic Eye Test? My Optician says I now have cataracts and possible optic nerve damage
Nurse. Because you are not Diabetic. Your last reading was 41-that's pre-diabetic
Me: No, it's not. My reading before was 100, and I have been on Metformin, prescribed by you, for the last 2 years
Nurse. Sorry, that's my mistake. I'll sort it. I can see from your notes that you had a reading from a blood test supplied via us in 2024 of 100. Tell me-why did you never action the diagnosis of diabetes via a Reading of 92 from your last GP Practice in 2017?
Me: I'm guessing that is because, before today, nobody has ever told me about that 2017 diagnosis/result? For 9 years! Or told me I was Diabetic for 7 years
Nurse: Oh, dear...

Good job I haven't got high blood pressure