How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

There’s lots of mad bugs going round at the moment. I’ve been offside all week, coming back from Blackpool on Saturday I started feeling nauseous so went to bed. Woke up on Sunday and was sick as a dog but rallied in the afternoon and though I went to work on Monday I still felt delicate and all week I’ve been a bit tickle stomached. I’d chalk it up to life, but my it was my 3rd stomach bug since October last year! I don’t know what gives, it’s like I’m 4 years old!!

Best. Day. Ever.

I’m sat outside a clinic waiting to have my Covid booster- I have my flu jab booked in for later next week. Feeling very grateful right now!

I also got double jabbed today . Great minds and all that eh @stevea ?

Thats the culprit!
Well they are "very" early.

Hi! It's been a while. So life's been hectic lately, as usual! Had some bad news last week, which has floored me tbh. I hope you don't mind me sharing, sometimes it's easier to speak with people who don't know you personally.
My lovely lovely Dad, after his heart problems last year, has been diagnosed with very very early stages of Alzheimers. It wasn't a massive shock as his short term memory has been not as good as usual for a couple of years, but he's otherwise OK. It's just really upset me cos I keep worrying about the future, imagining him in a home and all that stuff. People keep saying to enjoy time with him now and not to worry about the future but finding that really difficult atm! Just one of those horrible facts of getting older and having ageing parents. I keep veering between floods of tears and being really motivated about sorting his diet out and getting him fitter and doing what I can to slow the progression, its just horrible not knowing what to expect. So yeah, thats my life at the min!!

Sorry to hear your news, horrible disease. My Mum passed away two years ago after suffering with dementia. Just not fair. Echoing Alece's words really.

Apart from the usual practical advice that there is lots of lovely people out there with lots of help so do use it. Look and see if there any devices that you could implement now early in diagnosis. Have you power of attorney and wills set up? That could be useful. And lastly, never underestimate the power of music and the memories it installs for everybody

Thanks everyone. Sorry to hear about your mum glen and brother ian. I think its just hit me hard cos I'm such a Daddy's girl! My parents have a bit of money so are getting financial/legal advice how to protect that and they have a will already. Gonna look into power of attorney's as well. Maybe between me, my brother and my mum. Only problem is me and my brother don't get on v well but I guess we'll have to start!! It's not knowing what to expect as well as things get worse. It's just awful and it's blindsided me!

Some of us here in the States allowed ourselves a brief moment of hope that the week's legal decisions portend our former President may finally face his day(s) of reckoning and be held accountability for his actions both as a CEO and as President.

Had a really lovely day in London yesterday with theatre buddy I hadn’t done theatre with since before the pandemic. Felt a bit like coming home to be back walking to Hampstead theatre and, of course, the weather was lovely, so that helped.
Still feel a bit like life is not back to “before covid” as out of practice and so much has changed, mostly me!….it’s funny how in life we really can’t go back to how things were..only forwards making a new reality! It does make me think about history and how life must have been with the plague, after World War I with the horrible Spanish flu pandemic and even after polio outbreaks our parents would have been around for. It also makes me more sympathetic to refugees, immigrants of all sorts….we can see how fragile situations are, and that things happen when you don’t expect them to.

Less sympathetic that I used to be about the flash cars and big houses in London….give me long enough and I may end up a communist!