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Glam

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(Just had argument with hubby as he reckons my travel sickness is all in my mind, after we were given a lift to Stone for lunch yesterday and I felt really ill both ways , while we were there, and for hours after. I didn't exactly want to feel ill! :mad: )
I'm travel sick if I have to sit in the back, and not a great front seat passenger either (I like to randomly squeel and throw my hand up in front of me while the carer is driving..... He drives way too near to the cars in front) , but I don't like to drive anywhere I haven't been before!
I'm perfectly ok if I'm driving myself, that's why I always drive when we go anywhere. I was sat in the back yesterday and soon wishing he had declined the kind offer of a lift for us and driven there myself.

I can't even go on kids swings .
I can't go 100 yards as a passenger without feeling sick. I'm fine if I'm driving. The ex husband used think I was putting it on, using it as an excuse to not have go anywhere, especially if it involved his fkn parents.
 

Lucy

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Kwells. Take Kwells. They are the only thing that stops it for me. If you won't take them only look out of the front window and do not look at your phone.
 

Lucy

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Well, I didn't get to see Nan after all. She's been in 'end of life' care for the last month and dad was even called in to say goodbye last week as they thought she was fading rapidly. Because of that she's been allowed to have visitors at any time with no booking. Even so, dad called this morning to let them know that he, my mum, myself and my sister would be visiting her this afternoon and then we drove over (about a 50 minute journey). We got there, did our covid tests and then dad was called to one side and was told that the doctor had that morning taken her off 'end of life' care and so she was no longer allowed multiple visitors and only one of us could go in. I let my sister go as she was the first grandchild. But she is now only allowed two visits per week from one designated person, which will obviously have to be one of her children. So it's back to not knowing if I'll see her again, now.

I have sympathy for the fact they would have gotten in trouble had they let us in against the rules but they knew we were coming and also, to be blunt, saying she's no longer at the "end of life" stage is ludicrous.
That sounds such a sad situation to be in.
 

littleme

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Well, I didn't get to see Nan after all. She's been in 'end of life' care for the last month and dad was even called in to say goodbye last week as they thought she was fading rapidly. Because of that she's been allowed to have visitors at any time with no booking. Even so, dad called this morning to let them know that he, my mum, myself and my sister would be visiting her this afternoon and then we drove over (about a 50 minute journey). We got there, did our covid tests and then dad was called to one side and was told that the doctor had that morning taken her off 'end of life' care and so she was no longer allowed multiple visitors and only one of us could go in. I let my sister go as she was the first grandchild. But she is now only allowed two visits per week from one designated person, which will obviously have to be one of her children. So it's back to not knowing if I'll see her again, now.

I have sympathy for the fact they would have gotten in trouble had they let us in against the rules but they knew we were coming and also, to be blunt, saying she's no longer at the "end of life" stage is ludicrous.
I'm so sorry that you haven't got to see her. I hope she knows that you were all there and that was a comfort to her. :hug:
 

littleme

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Kwells. Take Kwells. They are the only thing that stops it for me. If you won't take them only look out of the front window and do not look at your phone.
No phones, no books, no map reading for me..... I'll look for kwelks for my trip soon.
 

Lucy

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When I'm on the ferry to Scilly (the first time I went I was sick 6 times but hadn't had tablets) I also go to sleep as that really helps me.
 

Glam

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Personally, I can't take those, never have been able to. I can projectile vomit without warning.
It's a skill! (i share that skill)
Not very good when yr 9 months pregnant and sat at roadworks up Ashborne. I told him I was going be sick, but he said the camp site (where the mother in law from hell was) was only 5 minutes away. It went from the inside roof of the car, down the windscreen,dashboard etc. All over the poor dog who was between my knees, and some poor sod walking alongside us at that moment. The car reeked for months, no matter what we used clean it.
 

staffordjas

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Kwells. Take Kwells. They are the only thing that stops it for me. If you won't take them only look out of the front window and do not look at your phone.
Even the thought and taste of Kwells makes me feel sick. Brings back memories of a school trip to Paris where I took kwells , travelling by coach and ferry. We were only allowed to pack one change of clothes, so I had to wear the one remaining dress all week after splattering the ones I travelled in.

I take Sturgeron nowadays
 

BobClay

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I've got another hospital appointment today to get my eyeballs checked. Bloody awful time, 1620 hours. Sixty mile round trip to Barnstaple.

To tell the truth I'm starting to get a bit tired of all this ... I've done as much driving in recent days as I want to do. I'd try to postpone it, but that would just push it down the road, they're going to come after me regardless.

Grin and bear it I suppose. :(
 

Gramaisc

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I've got another hospital appointment today to get my eyeballs checked. Bloody awful time, 1620 hours. Sixty mile round trip to Barnstaple.

To tell the truth I'm starting to get a bit tired of all this ... I've done as much driving in recent days as I want to do. I'd try to postpone it, but that would just push it down the road, they're going to come after me regardless.

Grin and bear it I suppose. :(
Turn it into a 'trip' - call in somewhere pleasant on the way.
 

littleme

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I've got another hospital appointment today to get my eyeballs checked. Bloody awful time, 1620 hours. Sixty mile round trip to Barnstaple.

To tell the truth I'm starting to get a bit tired of all this ... I've done as much driving in recent days as I want to do. I'd try to postpone it, but that would just push it down the road, they're going to come after me regardless.

Grin and bear it I suppose. :(
So, how are your eyeballs? Still working? They actually let you drive home?

I never forget having my first retinopathy, they told me I wouldn't be able to drive after it... I didn't believe them as the often over-react... How wrong was I?! Now I know that retinopathy means not being able to see for the whole of the rest of the day!
 

BobClay

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My eyeballs are stable apparently. Ended up with several tests including a sort of latter day Space Invaders where I had to chase a circle around the screen with the mouse. (F****** aliens never did get past me ... blew em all away .... :P) Opthalmist seems happy with my efforts and sent me on my way. Yep I drove home, through Barnstaple rush hour .. slow slow quick quick slow.
Now utterly spent shagged and knackered after a long squawk. This year ... I'm going to have my holidays on the back lawn. (Although I've got a reunion piss up booked in Portsmouth for late September.) Traffic should be less then.
 

BobClay

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Walked around Tamar Lake on a rapidly warming morning. Then went into Bude the back way, main road is nose to tail, a mile long queue to get into Bude (I went back that way, going out the road was clear.) Got home and mowed the lawns. Full of Vim Piss and Vinegar today. Might go for a 10 mile bike ride I told myself. Fortunately my other self said "F*** that, get the beer and the deck chair out."

My other self is quite a sensible fellow, if not a bit crude. :heyhey::pint::heyhey:
 

Thehooperman

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So, how are your eyeballs? Still working? They actually let you drive home?

I never forget having my first retinopathy, they told me I wouldn't be able to drive after it... I didn't believe them as the often over-react... How wrong was I?! Now I know that retinopathy means not being able to see for the whole of the rest of the day!

Just had my diabetic eye test and remembered the reason why I usually have it in February. Came out of the Civic centre into bright sunshine and couldn't see a thing.

Decided to recuperate in a hostelry and try to balance the eye drop blindness with alcohol blurred vision in the hope that my brain will be able to adjust itself once it's in my usual state of alcoholic numbness :)
 
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