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Post by Moonlight on Mar 8, 2014 17:15:22 GMT
Sorry to hear that you have been so poorly. Hope you feel a lot better very quickly.
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Post by jasmin33 on Jun 12, 2014 17:28:33 GMT
Been absent again as my back has been very bad plus I've had to have a lot of investigative work done like colonoscopy etc. as my doc thinks I have a stomach bleed that keeps making me very anaemic.  Got my front border done at last.. couple from Streetlife came and did it plus stripped ivy off the back wall as it was about to grow over my kitchen window. Had to pay but only a little but well worth every penny. |
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Post by Rosie on Jun 13, 2014 7:54:05 GMT
Goodness me jasmin33, thats sounds bad, hope your on the mend soon. |
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Post by jasmin33 on Jul 12, 2014 14:11:34 GMT
Goodness me jasmin33, thats sounds bad, hope your on the mend soon. Thanks Rosie.. ongoing problem with me unfortunately. Pleased to see that my blueberry bushes have all fruited this year which is very unusual... only trouble is that as I couldn't get down there to keep back that awful bindweed it has choked the back of the bushes so there is very little fruit there! Now hoping that on a good day I can go and clean up the greenhouse a little and put it up for sale. May as well get a few bob for it rather than it standing there rotting. |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 13, 2014 21:27:41 GMT
That's a shame Jasmine. I hope that you get some good lucks soon. Sad about your greenhouse but glad that you have had some help with your front garden. Must help cheer you up a bit, one less thing to worry about.
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Post by jasmin33 on Jul 19, 2014 12:38:22 GMT
That's a shame Jasmine. I hope that you get some good lucks soon. Sad about your greenhouse but glad that you have had some help with your front garden. Must help cheer you up a bit, one less thing to worry about. Thanks Moonlight, Unfortunately aging is worse for some than others isn't it? I do try not to complain too much as it doesn't help and after all we just have to grin and bear it! Better for the greenhouse to go to someone who can use it as I said. |
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Post by Tel on Jul 19, 2014 15:19:53 GMT
You are right jasmin, age effects us all in different ways. Just do what you can.  |
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Post by sweetpea on Jul 19, 2014 15:22:36 GMT
Been catching up with this thread jasmin. Sounds like a very typical Council bit of mayhem. Getting a bit of recompense doesn't really cover the work and effort you put in.
If I were a bit nearer I would pop round and give a hand but I am now starting to struggle a bit with my own patch.
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 19, 2014 20:24:27 GMT
 for you both
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Post by jasmin33 on Jul 20, 2014 10:19:58 GMT
Thanks Sweetpea and Moonlight!
I'm afraid that my gardening days are well and truly over I have to admit. Getting any jobs done in the flat are hard enough these days. I did get just a handful of strawberries and raspberries this year but as the strawbs are in a raised bed and I haven't been able to water them they really haven't come to much which is not surprising.
However, I do enjoy coming on here to see how you are all doing so I'm not going to go away just yet..(-:
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Post by Cherry on Jul 27, 2014 5:56:57 GMT
We don't all do the gardening every day jasmin33. You have the biggest patch of Bergenias I have seen. They will look good in the spring and autumn if they are the sort which change colour. |
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Post by whisker on Jul 30, 2014 5:17:23 GMT
Sorry to hear you have not been well, jasmin33. Great that you got your front border done. The shape is much like mine, except that I have a large copper beech, in the corner where your bergenias are. The beech takes a lot of moisture out of the soil and causes a lot of shade, so I have allowed a sort of "woodland bed" to develop. I have bergenias in the sunny part of mine too. A lot of what I have are "volunteers" - self-sown, such as yellow poppies, which put on a good show in early Spring. Also self-sown is some blue borage, which I find to be a great plant. It seeds itelf all over the place, so you would never be without it. It also puts on a lovely show in Spring, but can be cut back and produces again in late Summer. My garden centre gave me some foxgloves and nemesia for the shady part and they were lovely but have gone over now. The lady in th GC said the foxgloves will seed, so I'm looking forward to a nice display of them next Spring. A lot of birds use the copper beech and have "sown" quite a number of unexpected things. Best of luck and good health, Jasmine. Nice hearing from you! |
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Post by jasmin33 on Aug 2, 2014 14:23:31 GMT
Not that I want to turn my blog into a health story but I thought you might be interested in the amazing info from my doc over the past months... In October last year he called me into his surgery and said without any hesitation that I had cancer and what did I think about that? Being somewhat stunned I didn't comment but he went on to tell me to have a blood test done and come back to see afterwards. That done I went back and not a mention of cancer but I had kidney failure to which I said "yes, I have been told that but it's just age related" Oh no! he says.. you are 2 steps away from needing dialysis! Christmas time I went on a cruise and had a lovely time apart from the ever present worrying about my health situation.. another blood test and back to see him where he promptly says that I have a bleed in my stomach which is making me very anaemic and I need some investigations done... ne'er a mention about cancer or kidney failure so I reminded him of what he had said previously but of course he said that he would NEVER say such a thing! (!!??!!) However he did get quite embarrassed so I think he may well have done and he apologised IF he had said that.
So colonoscopy and gastroscopy having been done I get a phone call to say that my cholesterol is very high and I need to take statins.. no mention about the stomach bleed so I asked him and everything was okay anyway!!... I do wonder what the heck he is up to?
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Post by Cherry on Aug 2, 2014 15:57:03 GMT
Well jasmin33 that news would give you quite a turn. I think you should change your doctor. I take statins and there is nothing to worry about with them. I have no side effects at all. I feel sure that you will automatically feel better knowing you have been checked out and there appears to be no serious problems. Perhaps the fact that you underwent tests ordered redeems the doctor somewhat. Stay well and keep gardening. |
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Post by daitheplant on Aug 2, 2014 18:49:48 GMT
Not that I want to turn my blog into a health story but I thought you might be interested in the amazing info from my doc over the past months... In October last year he called me into his surgery and said without any hesitation that I had cancer and what did I think about that? Being somewhat stunned I didn't comment but he went on to tell me to have a blood test done and come back to see afterwards. That done I went back and not a mention of cancer but I had kidney failure to which I said "yes, I have been told that but it's just age related" Oh no! he says.. you are 2 steps away from needing dialysis! Christmas time I went on a cruise and had a lovely time apart from the ever present worrying about my health situation.. another blood test and back to see him where he promptly says that I have a bleed in my stomach which is making me very anaemic and I need some investigations done... ne'er a mention about cancer or kidney failure so I reminded him of what he had said previously but of course he said that he would NEVER say such a thing! (!!??!!) However he did get quite embarrassed so I think he may well have done and he apologised IF he had said that. So colonoscopy and gastroscopy having been done I get a phone call to say that my cholesterol is very high and I need to take statins.. no mention about the stomach bleed so I asked him and everything was okay anyway!!... I do wonder what the heck he is up to? Jasmin, I would demand a second opinion if I were you. I have been taking statins for about 15 years, they are the only thing to control my cholesterol levels. |
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