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Well after yesterday l feared it would be even more nevertheless if things keep going wrong which they have been doing this year then there comes a point when one would be throwing good money after bad but we ain't at that point yet.

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Flashing blue lights and a ruptured appendix, not my normal Saturday night entertainment. 9 days later and I have escaped hospital feeling very battered and bruised.

Sorry there have been too many posts since my last visit to the forum to comment on individually but please know that I was here in spirit.

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l am sorry to hear of your terrible health ordeal jo and l just hope you will feel better soon as my thoughts are with you.:ghugs:

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Welcome back..You really must stop all this gadding about..:hugs:

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Jo

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That was terrible Den, I hope your Dad settles down everything is ok , Nash

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I hope you are ok JO

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Glad to have you back Jo. Here's a gentle hug from Heero. :hugs:

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Its good too see you're doing ok :)

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Hope you'll soon be teetering around on your big red high heels Jo lol!

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So it turns out the reason I was admitted was a reaction to a pill (antibiotic) that the hospital had prescribed. This is the one that I was told previously not to take but I missed it and Natalie was at work. Although not a fatal reaction (obviously ;) ) - it did end up with me needing to go to hospital and being very shook up. Still at least it's another experience for me to have and know that taking it is definitely /bad/ :)

on the plus side I feel like I know what it's like to have Titan mushrooms now :)

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What antibiotic was it dilli?.

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Ciprofloxacin

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I planted two rose bushes in the garden that I got from the Daily Mail promotions and I was delighted when the started to bloom lovely red colour, however this morning all the petals were scattered all over the place, The kids above bring all their friends round and they had been in the garden last night and done this, I am furious,

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Yes l have had those and luckily l had no side effects but as we know each patient is different and sadly for some there are severe side effects from it as you know only too well.

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No wonder nash, I would be to.

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I had to put a notice up today stating that Black Rubbish bags should not be put in other peoples blue bins, It is unbelievable what they get up too,

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I know. My council says not to have your bin lid open on collection day or the bin will not be emptied. There is one neighbour, who every week the bin is anywhere between 45 and 120 degrees open. And still gets emptied. Winds me up, and council refused to believe it. Even with photographic and video evidence of it.

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We used to have the best close in the area. Then in comes a gypsy family who make up their own rules children do not go to school and the place is like a tip.

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Plenty of breaks, mainly in the feet though sadly :(

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Glad your okay now :)

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My CCA course is making my brain hurt and it was only day one today :(

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Had to give in today, went to GP and said about not being able to sleep. Given me a sedative for a few nights to see if that helps. Last night I only got 90 minutes sleep. So grumpy today.

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Not surprised Mark, lack of sleep makes me a poor company. Hopefully the pills will kick in tonight. :hugs:

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Apparently l read something yesterday and they said 28 million of us have problems sleeping.

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Could someone tell me if Virgin Media are putting their prices up in September ?

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Well, last night was an adventure. I spent all night in my A&E department attached to an ECG machine. When I got home yesterday, my heart was racing so much. Got a relative to take my pulse and it was 130. I got chest pains and was sick twice, called 111 who said based on symptoms they would send an ambulance to me. Had a thorough checkup at home before being taken to hospital.

Doctor there thinks I might have the start of a fast heartbeat, but couldn't find anything to suggest why. Discharged with the advice of keeping an eye on it, if it happens again call 999 straight away and come back to hospital.

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OMG Backups. I've only just finished clients work and need to run system backups before going away. :(

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I Don't why but the PC has decided that all the files need backing up even though I set to freshen. :mad:

Looks like Brian Ferry's going to playing for a while longer. Can't be bad. Avalon

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I'm just so hyper :hyper::hyper: I can't shut down. :( I'm going to be (that s word we can't use) Tomorrow.

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Oh no I've put Scooter on. Hyper or what?

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I picked my sister up from the airport, and got robbed at the car park.

£2.50 for 10 poxy minutes, and £2.50 per minute there after, and if you return within 30 minutes £20.

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......being tired and grumpy. In fact I've been asleep much of the day and am still tired. My creatinine has also risen 100 points in he last week. Pah!!!!!

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Must have been a scare for you Marc, Take care , Nash

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My thoughts are with you so try to keep your spirits up dilli.

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Compared to many people's problems on here, this might seem small, but it has made me apoplectic with rage.

My aunt (who is an older lady), has sky multiroom, and asked me to come over as the second box (an ancient Amstrad unit) had stopped working.

What I found when I got there was positively shocking. It seems that when the multiroom was installed, the sky "installer" decided rather than running a cable from the dish to the upstairs bedroom (it's a small house and the dish isn't overly far from the bedroom window) he decided to run a cable in to my aunt's living room, then splice in to some 30+ year old, thin as wet string, unshielded coax cable that was left over from the previous aerial installation.

He's even used bloody aerial plugs rather than F connectors to bodge the cable together, and he's then stuck a short length of proper shielded coax on the other end to try and hide what he's done.

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That's the trouble with some installation companies. They give their installers a list of jobs as long as your arm, so a lot of installers bodge something that works rather than do a good job.

They don't even care if it works reliably, as if it's not, that's someone else's problem.

It's not right though, from a consumer or commercial point of view. How much money are Sky, Virgin, BT and all the other providers wasting because they are having to send technicians out to fix installs that were bodged in a hurry?

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I will say that in my experience VM are better regarding the technical standard of installs, as cable systems are interconnected and interference from one dodgy install could theoretically impact quite a few customers.

The basic problem is the piecework system the "installer" teams work under. As you mention the installers are required to do x amount of installs per day, and the system encourages corner cutting and rushing. I've heard of others being told by openreach installers that they could only have the master socket installed in a hallway (basically because the bloke didn't want the extra work of running some cable to where the customer actually wanted it)

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Neighbours well one in partially.

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Appalling bad weather. Bookies offering evens on the wettest August on record.

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Happens every time I go and do a big shop when it rains..Everyone parks in the spaces outside my house and I have to lug everything half way up the road..That's it.The witchdoctor beads are coming out..

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Hope not. I'm supposed to be on a day trip to the Isle of Wight.

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Well if its on Fri/Sat or Sunday Maggy you might be lucky with the weather.

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Hope you get good weather Maggie. Dreadful work from whoever installed your aunts installation . rhyds

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Tomorrow I've got four separate appointments at Addenbrooks - I wonder how well it'll all work out. I must admit it's nice to get it all in one day for a change :)

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Christ that's is a fair amount to handle dilli so l hope all goes well..

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Hope all goes well for you Dill

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Never really had a problem with Virgin's installs. Their fault reporting can be a different matter (had a few occasions when I've had to report a fault and almost ended up in an argument when I had to try and persuade the guy on the other end that the fault was not in my equipment), but their installs have always been professionally done.

I think the problem with Sky is that, as you say, if a VM installer bodges and install (at least outside the house), it can mess up the connection for other people. A Sky installer can do what he wants, but there is no way on earth he can do anything that will affect anyone but the customer whose install he is working on, unless he manages to bodge the install so badly it takes out one of the transponders on the Astra satellite, in which case I can think of a few government agencies that might want to employ him. :)

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The doctor 'doesn't know' what's up with my leg so is going to speak to his boss tomorrow. I hope they can sort it out. Oh and my createnine levels have gone up again.

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l hope they sort it all out for you dilli as you seems to go through so much every day of the week and still smile at the end of it..

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:(

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So sorry dilli. I'd swap for a day so you could have a relatively healthy day.

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Any day I don't peg it is a bonus :)

I just wish I had painkillers that actually worked! :)

Looking on the bright side it cant' last forever right ;)

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Hope things improve for you mate. You truly deserve a break from all the crap you're having to endure! :tu:

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Do hope you get relieve from somewhere Dill

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vehicle tax £269 for 6 months:mad::mad: i hate tax especially this one its such a rip off.

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Change the car. ;)

What car do you drive?

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Got a phone call from the gastro consultant regarding a recent colonoscopy. The biopsy confirmed that some anomaly they found was an endocrine type of tumour. So now waiting for an MRI and a full body CAT scan to see if there are any more, the usual blood tests (that need to be sent to London for some reason) and 24-48 hour urine tests. Also found that the stricture is worse than they thought.

And on top the iron infusion is causing some probs.

Peed off.

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l wish you all the best as my thoughts and wishes are with you peanut.

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Hope they get it sorted out for you peanut. Take Care

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That sucks. Good luck.

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<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<HUGS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Hyundai sonata v 6- 3.3 ltr petrol auto -shiftronic

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For a car like that the tax is terrible, I thought my VXR was high at 265-290 I forget which.

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A water pipe is leaking underneath the kitchen sink.:(

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i hope they sort you out!

My moan today is morphine, i was hoping it was good stuff but after another night in a&e where they put me on it I'm in so much pain it's silly :(

Looking on the bright side at least I'm home and in pain now.

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Sorry to hear that peanut. Love & best wishes to you (hope they can get it sorted soon pal) :hugs:

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I hope they can get the pain you are in dilli sorted for you real soon as their is nothing worse than being in pain especially when nothing you are given eases it :( Hugs & best wishes to you and Natalie dilli take care :hugs:

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If it's the stop cock leaking at the shaft (Stop sniggering at the back!) snugging up the packing nut can often do the trick.

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They found out that one of white pipes underneath the sink was not properly secured and needed tightening up.

How is your Mum Heero?.

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Glad it was an easy fix.

Lots better thanks Den. She's going to need some home visits but hopefully not too many. I did manage to get her to go on the free Morrisons shopper bus on Monday and push the trolley round the store and also sit out in the local's beer garden with a shandy on Tuesday.

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Sorry about this news of peanut, Hope he gets better Nash

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Glad it is not too bad Den. Hope Heero.s mum is O k Nash

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Trolls on Twitter. Someone I follow tried killing themselves last week, and they came on today to say that someone had sent them a message saying shame they hadn't succeeded. Some absolute vile **** in this world.

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I certainly don't agree with that type of disgusting trolling or making fun of mental illness and certainly nobody deserves such attacks but there are certain things he/she could have done to help prevent such abuse....for example not telling the world they tried to kill themselves.

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Someone not paying the full postage on a item again.

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Thank you kindly for your comments, I haven't ignored them. Not really been up to replying as not been with it now for some time.

Just back from the full body CT scan, done the bloods and urine tests, now just the MRI next week to do. I hate being in limbo, the anxiety of it all is hard going.

Thank you.

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What gets me is the time to wait for the results!
Last time was told I needed certain tests, waited 6weeks for tests then another 6weeks for consultants to confirm results.

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When I tried to get my emails on my IPad or PC this morning ,there was no internet. Then I received an international call telling me he was from Windwx and I had a problem with my connection, I just hung up the phone as this must be a scam, Still no internet, I went into town and came back in and everything was ok, Can these people really interfere with our internet . Very worrying.

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No, they can't.

Just coincidence - worst possible case, they knew there was an outage in your area, and were cold-calling for effect.

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Thanks Hugh , That puts my mind at rest. Was it a scam or a genuine call

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They are usually scams...

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There was a woman on facebook (Bekah Miles) who suffers from depression and has a tattoo on her thigh that reads "Im Fine" but from her point of view it says "Save Me".

She has had a massive response which has gone global, mostly positive, but a few idiots post crap.

Trolls will be trolls and you will never get rid of them.

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The women needs help. Depression is a terrible thing, How can people be so cruel

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Sadly there are some in society who have no understanding of mental or physical illnesses as it can affect anybody at anytime without much notice.

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It's a combination of the troll wanting attention (good or bad), and being able to hide behind anonymity when they get called out on it.

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You should see some of the abuse a member here receives just for being ill, makes me sick that the perpetrators then go about interacting with others on here as if butter wouldn't melt

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I know exactly what you mean TD.

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If I could get hold of some of them I would shake them a bit. Or ask them how they would feel if it was someone in their family getting that kind of abuse.

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Online banking systems. I was just trying to find out what my overdraft limit is so I went to the section where you can look at statements. So I ask it to display a statement and then it just sat there. I noticed at the top next to the website address a little circle with a slash in . Hovering on says that some content has been blocked. Fiddling with this got nowhere.

Eventually I realised what was happening. The statement saying click on this to read selected statement (ugh now the cat is getting in the way just because it wants breakfast !) is right at the bottom of the page and so not visible on the screen.

To cut a long story short and before cat tries some other tactic to get breakfast. If want to know your overdraft limit you have to phone them or go into a branch.

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Assuming you have no pending transactions and your account is in credit, it will be the difference between your balance and "Available Funds "

That's how it works on mine. :)

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Yes that's correct but I wanted to find out if a cheque had cleared and I wasn't certain what the limit was. However it be nice if they did have it displayable. I assume the reason for that is to make it easier to go overdrawn. :D

I have now looked at my other (Santander) and they do tell you what your overdraft limit is.

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Last victim of the Shoreham air show accident is named Graham Mallinson who I used to work with at West Instruments. Draughtsman. Wife and family. So sad.

R.I.P. Graham.:(

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So sorry to hear that sad news heero and my condolences are with you.

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Had to put the heating on and the winter duvet!

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Not that cold here in Stevenage thankfully. I am still using the fan to keep me cool. I seem to be feeling hot all the time. In fact, it wasn't until about February this year before I felt cold for the first time.

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Was planning another trip to Tenerife with Mr T and sis in law, could be our last foreign holiday. Insurance for the three of us £1659.50..............eh?:(

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Bloody hell! mine is usually around £30.

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Yikes, I can only sympathise.

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Not good is it, probably costs more than the holiday, Paignton here we come!

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Yes sadly those with ongoing health issues have to stump up astronomical amounts as my Mum and Dad were quoted £900 to go on a 2 week cruise.:(

Try to shop around Tinky as you might get it cheaper then that.

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Can I suggest that if a CF member feels they are being constantly negatively repped unfairly, that they report it to a Moderator or one of the Site Admins.

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Just had an assessment about my degraded thumbs..seems they will require surgery..:(

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Need to get my eyes tested as i have just realised i am having trouble reading or looking at close objects, so time to get new glasses and wear them all the time instead of just driving and watching TV!

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Birthdays. Not in the mood to celebrate mine tomorrow. :(

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Just switching it off is the easiest way...

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Well l will celebrate for you Mark.:beer::juggle::naughty:

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