It’s Tuesday and I have a few grumps

I do not like being sent messages by NHS telling me to go for blood tests and check ups etc. I'm 70 now I am grateful to the service we are offered. However I am not a child and don't like being told what to do I never have and never will.

Well my grumps are today
I lost a screw from my glasses but I had a glasses repair kit but couldn’t see well enough to put the spare tiny screw back in so now need to pop into town to Specsavers for a repair.
My son hasn’t bothered to reply to a simple question I asked a week ago.
Small gripes I know

Having to think about heating the house as it gets colder.
Arthritis in hands and tiring too quickly.
Lack of interest in preparing food.
Backache.

Message from Electrician - hopefully still coming, but much later than expected.
Worse things happen at sea!

To Crazy H: Have been given two large bars of Cadbury's Wholenut but can only eat two small tabs at a time because of fat digestive issues. Oh, woe is me!

Grumps for today. My DHs meds aren’t ready because Boots has a delivery issue.
My arthritis is flaring.
A dog a couple of doors down barked so much last night I didn’t get to sleep until the early hours.

Finally managed a decent sleep after being wide awake half the night - then DH rudely woke me to say the painter was starting at 8!

Well, where to begin…

Not sleeping well as two of DD mini sausages keep creeping up to our room and getting into our bed and they are tiny, but they sneak under the covers, and wiggle a lot! However, they are also very warm, a bit like living bottle water bottles.

Also my GP receptionist appears to have cancelled an appointment I had today, which as “non urgent” I waited three weeks for grrrrr

Arthritis in hands, particularly in my thumb areas, and knees and hips so much worse now it’s getting colder.

Hey ho!

hollysteers

Having to think about heating the house as it gets colder.
Arthritis in hands and tiring too quickly.
Lack of interest in preparing food.
Backache.

I agree in the loss of interest in preparing food, and I do wish I could lose interest in eating

CrazyH 👍👍👏👏 😂🤣😂🤣

Went to use my electric drill this morning to fix a key safe to the front of my house, and found that DD, who borrowed it 3 years ago, still has it. I have a spare old drill, but found the bits are missing, so also at DDs.
Items I have lent and never seen again include: 4 brand new pillows, a blow-up mattress plus electric pump, all of which I have had to replace.

Cossy

Well, where to begin…

Not sleeping well as two of DD mini sausages keep creeping up to our room and getting into our bed and they are tiny, but they sneak under the covers, and wiggle a lot! However, they are also very warm, a bit like living bottle water bottles.

Also my GP receptionist appears to have cancelled an appointment I had today, which as “non urgent” I waited three weeks for grrrrr

Arthritis in hands, particularly in my thumb areas, and knees and hips so much worse now it’s getting colder.

Hey ho!

You can imagine the daft picture i have in my mind of two little sausages (chipolatas ?) creeping up the stairs and into your room 😁
Thank you for cheering me up.

I've just developed a bunion and can't get half of my shoes on! I'm small and want the extra height of wearing heels, but the bunion has put paid to that. 😪
Having to dig up the remains of my lovely camelia bush which died during our hot spell.
After years of loving to cook, I really find it a bind now, I still do it, but wish I could get my enthusiasm back.
The lack of high street clothes shops - fed up of ordering things online, then having to send them back when they don't suit me (which is most of the time!).
But the biggest gripe - not sleeping well - oh, I so wish I could get 8 hours uninterrupted sleep like I used to, not a chance.

Got up this morning with a bounce in my step feeling slimmer and fitter.
Stubbed my toe on the bathroom door, jumped on the scales and I’m 2lbs heavier. 😫
Thought I’d do the hoovering in my pyjamas then enjoy a late breakfast.
Fat chance…My black bin has just been emptied and the wind is blowing it along the pavement. 😫😫
Ho Hum!

To Crazy H: I have not been able to eat any chocolate for decades because of migraines! - I just sniff it!!

Grump for today (and yesterday and tomorrow .......) - blooming hopeless health!! - bring back my normal functioning body! - which I took entirely for granted .... sigh.

Another dog issue.

Fairly new next door neighbours, 2 dogs, not usually too bad, but this morning one of them sat outside their back door, barking away for ages.

The husband had gone out in his work van, I suspect wifey still in bed and just ignoring the barking.

I was cleaning the bathroom, window open, and bark, bark, bark all the time.

🤬

(Finally the d..n dog has been let in).

Redhead56, I know what you're saying! My surgery used to absolutely pester me with phone text messages multiple times. ''You need a jab for this, an injection for that, tests. Make an appointment for bloods'' blah blah. And the same boring, BORING questions over and over again. I'm 61 and don't normally have serious health issues; I'm quite fit!

They were literally ... and I'm not exaggerating... ringing and texting me up to 5 times a week. I honestly felt like I was being stalked and harassed. One day I got another text from them about 5 minutes before they closed, when I came home from work, which was about 6 am after a 18-hour shift, demanding I make an appointment immediately. I know they sent the text a few hours before I received it, but I burst into tears.

From that tearful moment, I refused to keep having to bend down to worship them and wouldn't make any more appointments. A friend in her 80s had the same problem too, and apart from a mini stroke, she's reasonably fit and active.

So I came up with the idea of going to the surgery, and the receptionist snottily wanted to know why I'd not been replying for several weeks, not keeping appointments they they had ordered but I didn't consent to, so I told her I no longer have a phone, so I didn't know they were trying to contact me!! Which I do actually still have it, but they don't know that!! She was horrified! ''You no longer have a smartphone? How are we supposed to contact you?'' I asked her how they did in the old days before phones of any sort were invented. She looked blank! If they want to contact me, it's by post now, which I can ''accidentally'' not receive!

My little grumps of today are:

1 - Not being able to get the lid off a bleach bottle, no matter how much I press down and twist it! Even though I'm very strong!

2 - When putting on my shoes and the back of one of them flattens, and I just CAN'T get it on, so I have to use a metal straw as a shoehorn!

3 - When the menopause forces me to the loo a whopping 7 times in the night, and I'm utterly exhausted from the lack of sleep it causes, so I'm at work looking and feeling like a zombie!

No gripes from me this morning but the week is yet young😁
For those annoyed with their GP surgery for pestering them, they are doing it for your own benefit not theirs you know.
If there’s any action you don’t want let them know, don’t just ignore it.

merlotgran

Got up this morning with a bounce in my step feeling slimmer and fitter.
Stubbed my toe on the bathroom door, jumped on the scales and I’m 2lbs heavier. 😫
Thought I’d do the hoovering in my pyjamas then enjoy a late breakfast.
Fat chance…My black bin has just been emptied and the wind is blowing it along the pavement. 😫😫
Ho Hum!

That made me laugh 🤭

I have posted about my grump-gripe already on the Good Morning thread but I am still niggled by it.
Yesterday I went for my 6 month check up at the dentist.
I have been with this practice for about 40 years.
I walked into the room to be greeted by a new young dentist.
No warning, no heads up by the receptionist.
It appears my original chap who I have been with for certainly more than 28 years is stepping back as he is coming up to retirement age, fair enough , but then I was told this happened two weeks after my last appointment.
We were on Christian name terms as we knew each other so well and I felt sad that he didn’t say anything then. I am still a NHS patient as when they went mostly private the remaining NHS folk were kept .
He apparently is still seeing his private patients for now.
I felt like a poor relation but not enough to be asked to transfer to his list and pay.
The new chap was good and efficient and said my teeth were fine.

UTBB

I can see why you were put out, but the good thing is his replacement sounds fine, and being young is a bonus, hopefully he’ll be there for years.

🦷

Thatweirdoagain, 7 times a night! I recognise that. Vagurux vaginal tablets put a stop to that. I was even having trouble walking , each step felt like someone bouncing on my bladder! and always looking for a loo. I still need to get up in the night once and sometimes twice- massive improvement!
I am considerably older than you so been appreciating the benefits of Vagurux for a number of years. Might be worth speaking to your GP, he/she won't know if you dont tell . Good luck.

hollysteers

Having to think about heating the house as it gets colder.
Arthritis in hands and tiring too quickly.
Lack of interest in preparing food.
Backache.

Apart from the Arthritis, that sounds like me.

I had my flu jab on Saturday and now I feel like I've got a "mini" flu - sniffle, headache etc.