General Chat

Jean. good news about J I am so pleased for you both.
Sallie good luck to Jennie tomorrow. I am pleased today went well. Hopefully if she an clear out your mind for you it will help you start again, with a clean sheet as it were.

Hi Sallie.
I am glad that today was a little easier for you. I am sure that given time,you will open up lots off doors to your past,and with the psychiatrists
help you will be able to face them. Nothing in this life is easy,is it love.
I hope that everything goes well for Jennie tommorrow. And you stop worrying,the nurse will be with her,and god willing she will not have a reaction to it.
Still no news on my nephew. When we tried to ring my niece,she cut us short and said she had to go out. I think they are all so worried,that they cant see we are worried to. It does hurt,but what can I do if they don't want to talk about it.
My grandaughter is not to bad,but still waiting for her results. But no news
is good news. At least I pray to god it is.
If we dont hear from Marie by tommorrow,I will p.m her to see if she is o.k.
Night Night God Bless. Love Mo xxx

My tooth has now been fixed, $190. I did ask if it would be better to take it out and put a new one on the plate, but she was happy to just repair it. It was a different dentist, but still Chinese. They seem to be keen on dentistry, and I find them very good. And at least I dont have to look up a hairy nose which I hated years ago with a male dentist. But then I usually close my eyes anyway.

Huia.

Hello to all my Buddies,and thank you for thinking about me,my Daughter Kathleen & I stayed in Sydney at the ST.George Hospital Cancer care unit for Family and Patients, it is nice & clean & Homily.Yesterday was very long and I was tired and in Pain so we stayed the night .
The doctor said I had a dark spot which he removed ,hopefully it will be negative, I have to see him in 3 weeks time.
Jean how is D? and very pleased Jeff is OK.
Sallie , good to hear your appointment went well. Your daughter is a fighter and with her strength she will cope also we will be praying for her .
HUIA anything in the mouth seems to cost the earth,but of all the Health professionals
Anaesthetist seem to be the dearest here in Aus, my Urologist doesn't cost as much as the Anaethetist.
Dear Mo I cannot understand why it takes so long to have a specimen tested and results sent to the local G.P. Your hospital and in paticular your Pathology services must not be very good.I feel for you not knowing about your nephew.
Hello to Liz, Marilyn (( Sylvia of noooooooo Snow. ))
Marilyn are you coming over to Sydney when you to come to Aust.??If you are let me know as I may be able to get down to Sydney to Greet you.
Love & ((((Hugs))))) to you all, ****** Marie*******

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Love Marie

Hi, Marie,we will be praying for a good result , you did the right thing staying overnight, when J had to go for radio therapy 16 days , he came home every time he too was exhausted...its good news for us 12 months visits, but I think it is very good way and aftercare, at least he is being monitored...
D is doing o.k. thanks, she seems to be managing her diabieties well and the m.s. is also under conntrol, she always remains very positive....

Huia, we are always wary of our teeth, the cost goes up every time we visit...
sometimes I wonder if we woiuld be better with false !!

Mo, I know what a bind it is waiting for results, and wonder why it takes so long I do hope your relies let you know the results too..my grandson, has just had what we call an m.o.t. ever since his friend who he worked with died suddenly, so now he waiting for all the tests to come back too, one good thing is the doc has give him a 12months free gym ticket and if he loses a certain amount he will get another 12 months free.... he is a big guy and like all manual workers of his age eats on the run and its junk food, so good will hopefully come out of a tragedy....

Sallie, I am sure you will benefit from the help you are getting now... I had a very bad time many many years ago, and there was no one to help me, only pills that made me walk around like a zombie , until I chucked them away and just coped each day as it came, so hang on in there,love, we will soon be hearing good reports from you....

~~~~~~~~ to everyone else hope your weekend is a great one~~~~~~~~

Love Jean xx

Hi Everyone,

Marie, hope you get good results when you visit your doctor in three weeks time. I hope and pray that the tests will come back negative. Hope all the family are well. Jennie did her first two injections today, she was absolutely fine, thank goodness. After all my worrying!

Huia, so pleased that the dentist managed to repair your tooth, although it cost you a fortune. It's so expensive for any dental treatment here in the UK, that a lot of people just can't afford to go on a regular basis. I haven't been for a long time, had a bad experience with the dentist a good few years ago, and been frightened to go since then.

Mo and Jean, our internet is working fine today, I don't know what was wrong with it yesterday. Speak to you all later on.

Love, Sallie.xx

Our $190 might sound like a fortune to you all but it is only about 80 or 90 of you English pounds I think. Not too bad, although there are some people who would struggle if they had to pay that, but at present I am not too short of money. Not enough to take a trip to England, but enough for the basics plus one or two other things.

Best wishes to all of you with your health problems - Sallie, Marie, Jean, and your families. I have probably forgotten some but best wishes to all anyway.

Huia.

Hi again, Jean hope all your grandson's results will be okay, I'll be thinking about him. I'm sure I will get right one day, she told me yesterday that she thinks that my sub-conscious is ready to deal with it now, because of what I've told her. It's amazing that I've come to realise some things from the past that were still troubling me, even though I hadn't thought about them for a long time.

Love, Sallie.xx

Evening all.
Huia £80.00 to £90.00 is a lot off money for a filling. The last time I went to the dentist,it cost me about £16.00,for the check up and a scale and polish. I will let you know if it has gone up,when I go again soon.
I am glad they managed to sort you out though. It does matter doesn't it,if you have confidence in your dentist. Mine is a lady as well,and she is lovely.
Oh Marie,I am sorry you had so much pain afterwards. I pray that your results are going to be good.
Our NHS is absolutely rubbish,when it comes to waiting for results off test.
The amount off samples that go missing is unbelievable. The hospital lost my daughter feacal sample,my grandaughters blood results,just before her operation.
The biopsy result,will be given to her when she see's the specialist next time. Her mum and I have not even been told when she is to go and see him. My grandaughter is the type off girl who keeps eveything to herself.
With my nephew,it's his own family that are shutting us out. But tonight I am going to ring my brother,and get to the bottom off it.
Thank goodness your internet is back working again Sallie. We miss you when we dont hear from you.
I am glad Jennies injections went well. Fingers crossed now that she does not get any reactions. She has suffered enough setbacks bless her.
Liz is out for her meal tonight isn't she. I do hope she enjoys herself.
I hope Sylvia if you are looking in,that alls well with you,at your end off the world.
Where is our Jean tonight then I wonder. I do hope your grandsons results are good Jean. I have forgotten how old he is. I do remember about him losing his friend,and about how much it had frightened him.
How much weight does the doctor say he must lose.? Going to the gym
will definately help him though. My daughter and SIL,are both members off a gym. But my SIL has had to give up for now,as he had the big operation on his spine just before christmas. But he cant wait to get back to it. But he has to put up with his physio for now.
I am pleased to hear that D is getting on o.k. She is one strong lady. She must get that from her mum.
Love to all. Mo xxx

Hi all.
I thought I would update you on my nephew. I phoned my brother last night,and after giving him a good roasting,I found out,that they had phoned
Kings College Hospital,and the local oncology centre,to try to find out what the prognosis is,for my nephew. And,understandably,they were told that they could not be told anything,because off patient confidentiality. And that they should ask when he start his radiotherapy. But, they do not want to upset my nephew,by asking questions in front off him. It's a catch twenty two situation I'm afraid.
Liz,I really laughed at your night out,when I read it on the friendly thread. You must tell it to the girls on here. And yes I do believe we are very much alike,where our OH's are concerned. The frying pan was no good,
nor the rolling pin. And as for the sauce bottle,well it was only a dream,but
oh what a dream. lol

So no further forward with your nephew then Mo. No doubt you will find out sometime. Maybe he has been told but requested nobody else is told until he tells them.

Huia, I think here it could be about £60 for a filling but it depends what sort. root fillings cost more.

I had an extraction and at the same time had the teeth on that side (upper jaw only ) deep cleaned with the drill like machine and that cost £88.

Evening all.. just had scampi, jacket, tiny plum toms,salad, bootiful D and J had steak, I am not much of a meat eater.... special offer at M*******ns on scampi,,, I have been looking at lots of recipes too,
so going to bake tomorrow , dont know what yet but will do something.
probably a victoria sponge ,and some mini quiches, btw I did get my K-chef, knew I would....lol...

we have to pay for dental work, I had a check up recently £35, no work...
J had a tooth built up £60...cheaper to have false.....

Mo, you just have to keep on trusting, all will turn out for the best, heres a hug (((((((((( X ))))))))

come on Liz spill the beans...lol.....what was your evening out like?


Sallie I will post the mags on tues next week...hope Jennie is managing with the new medication,

~~~~~~~ to everyone else~~~~~~~~

Love Jean xx

Hello girls.
What a day for our family. My daughter has had her bank card cloned.
Someone phoned her to say that it had happened,but because off all the problems there has been with cloning,she did not take his word for it.
She went on line,and then phoned them. Apparantly, they had done two
phone top ups,on a company she does not use. And then they tried to buy things on line.
The bank became wary off it,because thats the way they normally start these scams,and phoned my daughter.
They put a stop on the card,and will be issuing her a new one.
Apparantly the card could have been cloned up to a year ago,but they have only started using it this weekend.
What sort off scumbags do this sort off things,I shall never know the answer to that.
I hope you have all had a good weekend.
Bye for now. Love to you all. Mo xxx

thank goodness for Credit card security. yesterday OH put £5 on a new mobile card (he fixes one sort of mobile and sells them on so this was different to his usual). Almost immediately he had a text alert saying to phone a number. Not believing it he phoned his card people and they said it was because he had put money on a card and was an auto alert.

About 18 months ago I came home to a message on the answer machine from security at our credit card company, please phone them

Thinking it might be a scam, I did a bit of a dance around with them, but after 2 or 3 calls back and forth, and on other numbers etc, realised it was genuine

They wanted to know if I had been out of province in the previous week.

About $1500 (over £700) had been charged at 3 stores to the card in Quebec

They had caught this, and thought it "unusual activity".

They cancelled the card, and sent me a new one.

I had to then fill in a couple of forms for them, just to prove that it wasn't me ...... but they removed the charges from the card.


They didn't know whether the card had been cloned, or whether the number had been taken from a transaction that I had done and then used in a phone order.



BUT

...................... if you are going out of country, or even to another part of the same country, and think that you will be using a credit card, you should phone the company and tell them that you will be in such-and-such a location from such-and-such a date until xxxx.

Otherwise, they can spot "unusual activity" in France for example, and put a stop to your card.


Very embarassing if it happens to be the hotel you're staying in ............ or the restaurant where you've just had a super meal!



sylvia

Hi All,
I think I've probably told you before, that someone had used my debit card number to buy a computer over the phone, took nearly £1,800 out of our account. I was staying with Richard for a few days so had to borrow some money off him because the bank had to cancel my card. The bank put the money back into our account.

Hope you are all well, speak to you later.

Love, Sallie.xx

Dont know if you remember but D had her card cloned a year ago, £1000 was taken, and only last week it happened again, the bank was very quick and only a small amount was taken, so she had new cards, it seems to be happening more and more these days. it is imperative to check your statements, and if there is any doubts get in touch with your bank, we had such a entry on ours this week couldnt recognise the name, we rang the bank and found out it was our transaction, but the name was slightly different to the one we used, so all was well.... but its a pain when it happens,waiting for new cards etc;she got her money refunded btw.

best to keep it under the mattress....lol....

love Jean xx

Helloooo where has everybody gone. This is such a lonely place without you all. Love Mo xxx

Hi Mo, sorry didn't realise I had not been on for a couple of days.
Sylvia, we always notify our CC company when we are going out of the country. I think it is happening more with internet sales. I have a feeling that even the so called secure sites are only as secure and honest as their employees make them..