Installing Indoor Cat Tree

[buffie]

Well it's five sleeps so here's the start of the countdown

 

Thought we could post tips for all things festive and remedies for hangovers etc.

 

Nux vom is good for hangovers, homoeopathic remedy (also over indulgence on the food front)

 

 

BBx

[bracken]

Milk thistle to help your liver detox.

[buffie]

Yes good one bracken!

 

 

 

BBx

[Lesley]

Fruit and plenty of water!

 

Not a problem for me as I don't drink alcohol, but I do have to remember to keep drinking water as I forget when things get hectic .

 

I make a big fruit platter on Christmas Day and have fruit for breakfast. If the fruit is there, I find people will pick at it all day

[Mrs Frugal]

Moderation in all things !

[Cate in NZ]

Oh, what the hell, it's once a year and my liver can cope .

Loads of water and Nurofen

[Mrs Blue Sky]

Peppermint tea for those dodgy tummies...

[buffie]

4 Sleeps!!

 

Banana's are full of potassium so a banana smoothie is great!

 

BBx

[Mel (& Paul)]

Stay drunk, that way you dont get a hangover that's what I am planning to do (but only because this time tomorrow MIL ) will be here - help me please

[Mrs Frugal]

Oh Mel, you have my deepest sympathies!! Alcohol is a very good escape in such a situation!! Lots of medicinal chocolate too should help you through the ordeal !

[buffie]

Go for long walks to escape and also send others for walks to give you a bit of peace. Become veggie and refuse to have meat in the house that'll chase her away!!

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[Mel (& Paul)]

I am DETERMINED to be the perfect daughter in law this year. I will listen to her moans and groans about her aches and pains and how short of breath she is. I will not say (outloud) well, most of it is in your head. There are loads of people worse off than you, and if you smoke what do you expect?

No, I am going to be good

I am going to be good

I am going to be good

I am going to be drunk

[buffie]

Of course you'll be good! and drunk!!

BBX

[Mel (& Paul)]

[Cate in NZ]

Give her the facts about smoking and shortness of breath Mel. I spend a lot of time working with people with COPD ie emphysema & a few other mainly self-inflicted (by smoking ) diseases. A few smokers can smoke 40 a day all their lives and get away with it-lucky them, but they are the minority. I wouldn't wish Emphysema on my worst enemy. nor on someone who plucks and roasts live chickens . It's a living hell, and torture on family and NHS resources, yet still they smoke . If you STOP when breathless symptoms kick in you stay the same, not better, not worse, keep smoking and you go downhill, slowly, but steadily until you end up on oxygen and entirely dependent on others. If you're lucky you get lung cancer, also part of the COPD spectrum- at least that one kills you rather than drowning in your own secretions with baggy, ineffective lungs for years as happens with emphysema. (My Dad died of lung cancer- but it really is the easy option in the range of smoking related respiratory diseases). Sorry, that all sounds harsh, but it is true. Some smokers WILL escape, undeniably, but if you get an onset of symptoms you are NOT one of the lucky ones- time to stop

[Cate in NZ]

Sorry, was that a bit heavy, booze talking- lunchtime drinking and I'm definitely the worse for wear. That said I only posted facts I promise, and I've nursed too many people with emphysema (and my darling Dad with lung cancer- amongst others), to take smoking and respiratory symptoms lightly.

Time to lighten the mood. I think I can remember a terrible joke from lunch- off to find the jokes thread

[buffie]

I hate smoking... Stopped this feb. Always knew I had to stop and age 40 was my no go area. Stopped a year early and feel great. No cough and no stink!! Used my techniques I use with clients.

 

Saved money and enjoy the taste of things so much more, people are surprised I smoked (they say don't look like a smoker ) well now I don't and just in time to stop the obvious signs of premature ageing.

 

No smoking in our house!!!

 

BBx

[Mel (& Paul)]

Dont even get me started. Paul's dad died from emphasyma in January this year. She just has no will power, Paul and I have given up trying to argue with her and there is always some excuse that she cant give up (too stressed, all her friends smoke, blah blah blah). I have to say one thing I hate is that our woggles smell all smoky when they have been with her

Perhaps I will just print your booze laden post (sounded fine to me ) and leave it somwhere for her to read.

D-day and counting - she should be here in about 11 hours..............

[buffie]

Sounded fine Kate, Mel the big problem is that people really do try to forget the health issues and think smoking helps with stress. I would turn the TV over when the ads came on. When the time came I believed I would stop, it would be hard but I planned it and accepted I needed to fill the time with other things. You actually get flashbacks! Also tell yourself over a period of months how much you hate it, smell, taste, skin ageing whatever.

 

I have friends who say it's not the right time and they like it. No it's an addiction. Nothing you can do but the smell on everything is disgusting, you don't notice when you smoke. The NHS service is good to motivate but your MIL pro bably feels that she has nothing to lose having lost her husband.

 

It's frustrating but she will just dig her heels in, my parents friend smokes and is in so much pain at times he can't move but hey he still finds a way to smike. Sad really

 

BBx

 

Promise to lighten up!

[Mel (& Paul)]

Yup. Postive thoughts everyone

[buffie]

Hey the countdown is really happening or am I nuts!! Did santa change this thread to 3 or....was it a super pant waver or a fluffy elf!!

 

Going to the pub tonight, so I'll be poop free. Nice for a change

BBx

[Mel (& Paul)]

Have a pint for me (and think of me getting up for work at 5.15am tomorrow )

[Lesley]

It was a fluffy elf

[Mel (& Paul)]

[buffie]

Well done that fluufy elf!

 

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