General Chat

Good Morning Perse,
Hope all is well with you today

Yes I'm back and taking notice - can't keep me down for long - I keep taking the tablets, and puffing stuff under my tongue, and usually bounce back to torment you all - I blame a mis-spent youth lol

Tec

Tec

When we lived in Cleethorpes in a sburb called New Waltham we were on the flighpath for the Lightnings statione at Binbrook in Lincolnshire.

I think that it has now closed as an airbase, but we had planes over at all times of the day and night. About twice a year NATO would hold war games at the base and then it got very noisy with the mock dogfights!

Now in SW of WA its only small aircraft that we see. RAAF Pearce airbase is north of Perth so we are undisturbed by jets unless they are doing a flypass for some event....which isn't very often!

Allan

Sorry, Persey, we will now get our heads out of the clouds :0))

Allan

Persey, when I say expendable I mean expendable.

Lets just say that my units chances of surviving a chemical attack, which was the main worry at the time in Europe, were somewhere between zero and zilch.

Allan

Just had a text from my daughter - the family flew ( ordinary airplane) to Christchurch this morning and she says it was 10 degrees there and feeling the cold after our humidity. It is crispier down there.

I have been on one of those little planes - where you practically have to crawl to your seat. I was fine going up the coast from Greymouth to Westport and then we went overland to Nelson and my ears were the worst I have ever experienced. It was in the sixties so they have probably improved things since there.

One of our aerobatic pilots died the other day - it was all very sad - he is so young with a young family. His brother was on TV talking about him last night.

Pxx

Yes it is good to see you back to yourself, Tec.

I've just been on F/Book looking at some lovely old photos that my OH's cousin's daughter has put up. She's asked some questions regarding who is who on some of them. She has a photo of her grandad and another man in a backyard. They are very young. OH took one look and said "it's my dad". We had a good look and sure enough there they are - the two brothers in their mother's backyard. So exciting. Also a photo of OH's uncle's wedding and various other photos with OH's grandmother. Unfortunately not his grandad.

Sue xx

Edit - I saw that on the news about the young pilot Persey - very sad.

good evening/morning all. Just want to add my little bit to the 'flying' stories.
Small planes remind me of the trip we did into the Grand Canyon. It's a strange sensation - to lift off and fly upwards for a little while, then when you get over the Canyon, you gradually fly lower and lower until you are actually below ground level (in the Canyon), but high enough for the river to look like a very narrow creek....Then, to return, you fly upwards again, passing ground level and going higher again, to be able to land back on the ground! I don't think I have explained this very well - about as confusing as I felt at the time!

Perse, 10 c is only 1 deg above what it was here today, and we thought it was very warm lol
Sad about the acrobatic pilot - they take chances with their lives.

Sue, That is exciting re the photo's, isn't it good to see old photo'sthat you didn't know about.

Tec

Good Morning Berona,

How are those legs,any better? I do hope so.

That flight through the Grand Canyon sounds exhilerating - I would love that - quite an experience I would think

Tec

It was wonderful to see them Tec. When we went over to the UK in 2008 I made up an album to give to OH's cousin. We had photos they hadn't seen and vice versa. It's a long story but OH's paternal grandparents were estranged from the rest of the family and a few years ago I made contact - through GR - with a man who's grandmother was the sister of OH's grandfather. He knew nothing of the family and we knew little of his. He was able to supply me with a huge number of photos and info. and we were delighted to have a photo of OH's great grandfather.

Sue xx

Hello Tec. Yes, it was an amazing experience - and as you can see, very difficult to explain!
My legs are still weak but with a slow sign of improvement. Doc rang me yesterday to say she has secured an earlier appt with my specialist - late January - and she said that when she dropped the dosage of my medication from 150 to 100mg, that could have been the cause as the "withdrawal symptoms" of reducing dosage can cause muscular weakness. I'm impressed!...Withdrawal symptoms!!! Me!

Good morning Berona.

Allan

Withdrawal symptoms - oooh you junkie, Berona. One to tell the grandchildren - they will be impressed:-))

Sue xx

Sue - that's the first thing I thought of - "how do I tell the grandchildren?"

I understood you perfectly Berona - flying down in the Grand Canyon - they do it here in between the hills along the rivers - it is amazing and one has to admire the skills of these pilots.
I often wonder why doctors don't tell us that there is a change of dosage and we could have side affects. Maybe they worry about the power of auto-suggestion. I am allergic to Sulfa drugs but did not know until a locum gave them to me - I rang him to tell him I felt like a wind-up toy, I was flat out could not keep still. He said keep taking them must finish the course - the day before the final tablets I came out in a rash - and he said oh stop taking them - usually you get a rash straight away if you are allergic. Result - the damn things affected my thyroid - so have to have medication permanently for that.

Persey xx

Berona,
All jokes aside, withdrawal symptoms from any drug can be quite serious. I was once put on cortizone steroid tablets over quite a long period. These were stopped quite abruptly by a hospital doctor - within two days I was in a terrible mess - it wasn't nice, I was put back on them at a lower dose, and weaned off them gradually overabout six weeks.
Doctors should take more care when they reduce or stop certain types of drugs.

Tec

My son was on anti-depressants for awhile and he wasn't told to wean himself off them when he felt ready to stop taking them. He came off them "cold turkey" and it was very worrying for awhile until he told us. He was in his early 20's at the time but I went to the doctor's with him to find out what was going on.

Sue xx

Sue, been there and done that with antidepressants just after my mum died.

I had an allergic reaction to one particular one I was on and it is the only time in my life when I could have cheerfully committed suicide due to the symptoms. I have never taken antidepressants since.

I see there are a few interesting Threads on the other Board tonight!

Allan

Well I must away to my bed,
So enjoy Saturday Downunder,
and sleep well up top,

Hello to Diane, and all others who may come on when I'm in slumberland.

Goodnight my friends

Tec

There are indeed, Allan. I was called an anal-retentive PC brigader by someone who didn't like me saying that I was offended by the term "multi-coloured children" . I was also accused of reporting the post which I didn't. I thought I'd settled it by PM with friendly words spoken by both of us but then the person in question came back to stir trouble it would seem. Never mind. I've just figured out what AR is:-)))

Sue xx