Hi folks, about 15 years ago a former friend came to visit his kids in our avenue, and he had a medium sized sticker on the van driver’s door which said the following:
‘Same sh!t different day’.
No offence intended to anyone but it’s how it seems to be to me regarding the real life stories of the new posters that find themselves here on the MLC forum.
I don’t know, but do any of you still live in the same place you were born in? I do. Well the stuff that’s gone on around here is unbelievable! Even more so since my last update now nearly 5 years ago.
Most of it is too morbid to go into. But if you want me to do so, I just might.
My health:
I’ve been to see a Neurologist and I swear if she’d smile her face would crack! Her diagnosis of me: Chronic back pain; Chronic fatigue: The Brain scan I had later came back normal or so she says! So they managed to find a brain in Delboy then!
The pain and fatigue had been getting worse over the past 5 years. And the day after my 53rd birthday (and after a lot of research on the net) I finally went to the doctors and I’ve been off work since late January of this year. And in late March I was made redundant. So I bought the firms van and tools out of my redundancy payment but I haven’t been able to do hardly any work at all. So I’m effectively ‘Skint’. So with this health thingy I also have to be careful in what I do. So I’ve cut down on all my activities.
Most of the Dr’s including the neurologist things it’s in my head! On the 17th Jan, Doc said (after I had said I’d done research on pain and fatigue) you can call it what you like but we treat it all the same with antidepressants! I ain’t going back to him. I’ve nearly done the rounds in the local surgery. I finally got one to prescribe Amitriptyline 10 mg one at night. Which helps with the length of sleep but does nothing for the fatigue, pain or the sometimes lacks of energy or the sometimes washed out feelings.
Other than the above life’s ‘Hunky Dory.’ (Also it’s the title of the best album I‘ve ever heard and it’s by ‘David Bowie’ 1971). Incidentally I had about a 10 minute talk with the keyboard player (Rick Wakeman) who played on this album, back in 1987 when he came to a charity (SPARKS) golf tournament at the Hill Valley Golf course. He’s a tall bloke! And he is great to talk to. Me and my dad spent most of this day going around the course with Norman Wisdom.
