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Oh she is Suse...she used to live with her elder sister who died three years ago at the age of 96...and they had another sister who died last September age 99 years and 11 months...sadly not quite making her 100th birthday...but thes other sisters were no trouble at all and quite a pleasure to be with....and it looks like remaining auntie might have a good few years in her yet…

I’ll start a campaign for those positive vibes.
Come on girls,
pleasant thoughts to Oma,
pleasant thoughts to Oma. 
pleasant thoughts to Oma.

and it looks like remaining auntie might have a good few years in her yet…

ah well, just means you’ll have to knit more as a form of meditation.

knitternicky - 14 April 2008 07:18 PM

I’ll start a campaign for those positive vibes.
Come on girls,
pleasant thoughts to Oma,
pleasant thoughts to Oma. 
pleasant thoughts to Oma.

THERE COULD,NT BE ANY OTHER SORT. I,M WITH YOU

Oh - in-laws!  What wonderful inventions!  I’m not even with my husband any more and I still have the MIL to deal with!

She’s a sweetie, don’t get me wrong, but she panics every time Aston puts anything in his mouth that’s a little too big cuz she’s convinced he’s going to choke all the time and goes into a blind panic.  She also seems to think that my M.E. will be cured if I just ‘work through it’.  Not got a clue!  The worst thing though was when I was expecting Aston and I had to put up with months of her telling me what her daughter did when she was expecting her 2nd and telling me what I should be doing.  I was so angry about it all.  It really got to me and I had to ask DH to have words!  Felt like I was having a baby to please everyone else!

Mind you, my own family aren’t that great - my nan thinks I’d feel better if I got out more and got some more exercise (I have M.E. - I can’t DO exercise!) and my dad thinks I’m attaching a stigma to myself by calling myself disabled!  And of course my younger brother knows everything there is to know about everything and is always telling me how to live my life and bring up my child.  He was the one they referred to when they said “Employe a teenager while they still know everything”!

Anyway, we all have our crosses to bear!  Seems it doesn’t go away even as you get older! hehe

you are right about that....Granny GILLxx

(I have M.E. - I can’t DO exercise!)

I can sympathise Rowena, I have it too, but I don’t think I understood what it was like before I had it.

Starting to knit is quite an acheivement for me because it means I’m concentrationg more and can spend longer than 1/2 hour doing something. I used to make a lot of cards because that was about as much as I could focus on.

My family ( not OH, he could see what was up) were a bit perplexed by it as I used to be so fit, swimming, riding, walking, I worked parttime, ran a Rainbow troop, did a Sunday school class and studied childcare at college. I had to give all of those up. But one time, we went to see my folks, OH did the drive there (3hrs), I seemed fine to my family, but after a couple of hours when it was time to come back they could see I could hardly stand and they finally realised how bad it was.

My GP thinks its more widely spread than people realise, as its only the busy people who notice the difference, if you were fairly lethargic and dimwitted before, you would hardly feel any change!!
My Gp is great, she’s kept me going for 4 years.

Well done Suse...and I hope you manage to keep on doing the things your are managing to do...I have a friend with ME and I know how bad it can get for her....so you have my admiration for carrying on despite the setbacks this illnes brings.

And you too Rowena...keep your chin up girls.

thanks nessa, its the most boring illness in the world, but its not life threatening, so I keep my spirits up doing what I enjoy ( nattering on here for a start!) and hubby is a great help.

We think this is what No1 has got but the GP is a patronising.......! Told her to exercise!!!!!!!  and implied that it,s all in her mind!!ggrrrrr.

So many people even among doctors don’t take ME seriously but when you have seen someone with it...it is very real.  There are so many different symptoms with it..and that probably makes it hard to diagnose...but it’s not so funny for the people with it trying to make themselves understood.

GOOD MORNING OMA.....you have got it in one....No1 daugher has had problems for years and got absolutely nowhere with the doc. The GP put No1 on antidepressants but she(No1) stopped taking them because they made her like a zombie in a dream. Now, when she is having a bad day she goes to bed and tries to struggle through it but I get so angry when people say that its not a real illness and she should pull herself together.

the antidepressants can be useful for regulating sleep, so that your sleep is more productive, rather than sleeping tablets which can prvent you from dreaming and make you edgy.

Planned regular rest is the only answer for ME, chronic fatige, TATT syndrome, post viral fatigue whatever you want to call it. 

It’s a shame her GP is so unsympathetic, as I know a GP who has it and is unable to work.

Suse...I’ve just had a look at your blog...great stuff