General Chat

The dentist did go well, thank you Sylvia. He took the temporary bridge off and did impressions for the permanent one. They use a hand held 3D scanner instead of using the pink stuff you used to bite into. The dental implants are looking really good thank goodness. The temporary bridge has gone back on for two weeks, when it will come off and the permanent teeth will go on. I had been worried because the gum was a bit red, but it turns out that is because I should be poking an interdental bush over the top of the bridge. He showed me how to do it, so I bought some .

I hope that you are OK Florence.

We've just had the first snow of the winter ............... sudden drop in temperature last week, but sunny. Now it hasn't got above 0C today, and we had (EDIT) 10-15 cm of snow in about 5 hours here at the residence! It's going to get chillier for at least a good part of the week as we have an Arctic Outflow stalling over us!

Florence .............. I have never driven, but it was a very rainy day when I had my first (and then later the second!) cataract done, so the street lights were on, and the cars had high beams, which were extremely bright to the "new" eye! It was extremely unpleasant being driven home with those lights, because no-one had warned me about the need for sunglasses even if it was raining.

Have you tried looking at the difference in colour of a sheet of white paper, or white linen, between the operated eye and your other eye??

It might take a few days for your eye to settle down, and for it to be comfortable to read, but maybe keep off your phone for a bit. You might also want to phone the nurse if that "bit stuck" feeling persists, just to be cure.

Linda ............ hope the visit to the dentist goes well tomorrow. It's a long job you're having done!!

Good luck with the dentist Linda hope all goes well

Brr, it is really chilly today. This afternoon, we called in on the girls for a little play before we went to the supermarket. I have to go to the dentist tomorrow morning, so I wanted to get the shopping out of the way.
The dental appointment is to have impressions taken for the permanent bridge to go on my implants. I am a bit worried because my gums are very inflamed over the temporary bridge despite my best efforts. I hope it hasn’t all gone wrong :-(

I hope your eye has settled down Florence

Joan I was waiting for your snowdrops to flower so now I.can think Spring is a little bit closer..

Florence hope your eye heals soon, it must be uncomfortable if it feels gritty.

Hi t,o you all.
Florence so sorry to hear about your eye problem, must be annoying,I hope things clear up soon .

Glorious sunshine once again for us here but it is still really cold so no going outside yet, I can see from the window that the Daffies are coming up, & lot's of Snowdrops are putting on a lovely show.
Just wish I could get out & trim back the various shrubs that never got done back in Oct / Nov due to the many rainy days we had back then.

Spending most of my time doing household tasks, boring but neccessary.

Joan.

Florence - hope the eye settles quickly.

Linda - at a pre op I was just given the narrow tube to use. Impossible to use normally but as I had gone when I arrived it was a joke trying to catch anything at all. Luckily there were some of this little water cones left and I manage to dribble into that.

Morning all
Blowing a gale here with rain so not a nice day and I have a Tesco delivery this afternoon!

My eye feels griity and also feels like something is stuck on the white bit??Im putting in the drops but finding it annoying as i cant read text on my phione very well!

I know its early days but....

Linda, sorry you are unwell but hope you feel better soon.

Ann, sorry to hear about your computer problems. Hope you get a new one all sorted out soon. i did buy Office 365 but it wasnt too expensice and my new PC which is a large tower cost about £360 so well under 1K. I have the latest windows 11.

Sylvia. thankfully I dont drive anymore and mostly at home so car lights dont apply to me and we def dont have sun just now!

Hope everyone else is safe and well today

Florence i9n the hebrides

PS Excuse my typos!!

Ah, you said you didn’t feel right the last time you were on here Linda hopefully the antibiotics will do the trick. Hope you feel better soon.

Unfortunately mt had drive is ‘dead’ as well as several other things so is beyond help.
So this is going to be an adventure/ long learning curve. Not to say frustrating.
Computer is done for, hard drive is also done for. Although Dad’s fired up when Dom looked at it, it is too old to replace mine as likely won’t easily take W11 not having been used for over four years.

Soo Dom is sourcing me a new computer, almost as slim line as the one I have. The one he is getting is one he has put in for a lot of people it is a Xenta. No I have not heard of it, apparently it is British from a small British firm. He will also organise new office for me (ours is out of date now) He will order it and Office and hopefully have it next week. He is going to send me the estimate with his work today (about two hours)
And all the rest. I am estimating about 1K. I opted for buying office outright personal me only. He is very reliable and, as he is the one I call when things go wrong, I have to trust he would get a good one.

You would have had to swap to W11 in any case as you say Ann. I always change as soon as a new version comes out, so I have been using it for a long time now. I can’t remember having any problems. Last time I got a new laptop, I paid someone to set it up and to copy the old hard drive over to the new one, so that I didn’t lose anything

I haven’t been very well for a few days with an UTI , the scourge of old ladies. Yesterday morning I felt like a zombie because I had woken every hour through the night to go to the loo :-( It is one of the ailments you can go to see a pharmacist for, but only up to the age of 65, after that, you have to go to the doctor. Rather than ring up, I decided to drive there as I knew that they would want a sample and I didn’t have a tube. The receptionist gave me one and said that if I could give a sample there, she would give it straight to the nurse and they would ring me with the results. My previous surgery used to give you a cardboard thing to collect it in which was really easy to use. Yesterday, she gave me a small plastic beaker, the type they use in the water dispenser :-S That was very difficult and I mainly missed :-(, but I collected enough for them to test. About lunchtime, they rang me to say that the doctor had sent a prescription for some antibiotics to my chemist. I thought that was very good service. I slept much better last night , so hopefully that is sorted. I just have to hope that I don’t get Covid now.

Pleased all went smoothly for you Florence.Today I shall know if I need to buy new PC. That is not a problem. It is the learning everything new I don’t look forward to. I was just about to switch over to W11 and a new one will automatically have that will have to really exercise my brain if my existing Pc is really dead.

I am glad that the op went well Florence. My mum had both of hers done and it made a huge difference
I am pleased that you managed to get through yesterday Ann, it must be so difficult for you ??
I hope you manage to get everything transferred over if you get a new pc. I have a laptop which I now only use for the family history program and the odd bit of banking which can’t be done on my iPad. Everything else is done on my iPad, which I find to be much easier. If I could get my Legacy program on my iPad, I would never use the laptop, but it isn’t compatible

My sister who spent two days with us last week has just rung to say that both she and her husband have COVID. It is the first time they have ever had it. I feel chesty and have a headache, so I have done a test, but it is negative. I hope it stays that way

Thank you Linda, glad that day has passed I still always feel so sad. Both for him and for me.
Now I have a poorly desk top PC so am on my IPad. It is being looked at tomorrow when it will either be fixed or condemned. As it is about 10 years old it will ptobably be the latter,

Good to know it went so smoothly, Florence!

Hi everyone
just to say I'm home and all went well. Bit blurry vision so quite difficult to text!

JustGinnie messaged me to let you all know her subs had expired but she reads all the posts daily and hopes to be back on here soon.

Florence in the hebrides

I am thinking of you today Ann <3 <3

I hope your surgery goes well Florence, it should make such a big difference.

It is my sons birthday today, that is why we met up with him at the weekend

Good to see you Sylvia, I hope things are going well for you

Florence

In case no-one has ever mentioned this to you ................. take a pair of sunglasses with you to wear on the way home after the cataract surgery.

I found oncoming headlights from cars and trucks were quite uncomfortable.

Don't be surprised at the brightness of any white linens!

Morning all
Its windy and bin lorry has been and gone but I cant retrieve the bins as waiting on important phone call grrrr

Was heavy showers earlier too.

Going to hospital at 7.30 tomorrow for my cataract surgery so early to bed tonight.

Keep warm everyone and stay safe.

Florence in the hebrides

Perhaps all the walking will have used up the calories, Linda!

Calm and sunny here, yesterday and today. Almost like spring!
I should take the opportunity to do something in the garden.
So far, all I've done is to pop along to the mobile bank, which visits the village hall carpark for 15 minutes per week.

Good morning Ann,it is grey and drizzly here, but I haven’t ventured out yet.

We arrived back from our jaunt to Birmingham late yesterday afternoon. The house was so cold because the heating had been off for a couple of days.

We had a very nice time , meeting up with our son, he came by train, so we stayed in the Premier Inn at the station, a very convenient location. We also parked in a car park which opened straight into the station complex, so that couldn’t have been better. I hate driving in the very centre of large cities, but luckily the traffic was crawling along, so we had plenty of time to react to the SatNav and we found the car park without getting into any wrong lanes.

We did lots of sight seeing, so my hip was aching with all the walking. We also ate a huge amount of naughty food, so I dread to think how much weight I have put on.