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[Aileen]

I'm relieved my bathrom scales turned out to be faulty.  I hadn't put on 15lbs after all. 

 You deliberately tampered with them ...  

[Aileen]

I never weigh myself - can't handle the truth! - but just go by how my clothes feel.  Then my doc weighs me once a year ...   Fortunately I'm not grossly overweight, just a little on the tubby side.

[Aileen]

Shell-shocked ... the sun is shining!!  Almost forgotten what it looks like.

[Clydey]

This is f**king with my head.

Yeah, ****** with mine too. I thought it was obviously spinning in one direction, and then it suddenly looked like it was going in the other direction.

Pissed me off.

[Aileen]

This is f**king with my head.

Yikes!  Makes me feel dizzy.  What is it anyway?  One of these optical illusion things?

[teejay1]

Yikes!  Makes me feel dizzy.  What is it anyway?  One of these optical illusion things?

I'm sure I shouldn't be looking at that really. I wonder if these optical illusion thingies (thingy being a technical term) can trigger migraines?

Seriously, you would not like me to get a migraine. It is gross and then it makes me stupid for days after. Well, more stupid than usual lol. Last time I had one I was on the PC a few days after and couldn't remember how to spell the word 'soon'. I couldn't even visualise it in my mind! Scary, and very stupid!

I'm prone to laryngitis (sound like a hypochondriac now, huh?) too and I think I'm going down with it again. I had it once and complications from it made me lose my voice for six months. My family thought it was hilarious!

[teejay1]

Hi Aileen and all,

I'd best not look at it again then. It wouldn't be pretty  . Last year staying awake to watch a couple of Andy's matches at the USO brought one on. I thought I was dying! I followed that by having another one a couple of months later, and that was worse. I got very up close and personal with a bucket for two days and was ill for over a week. Gross.

Thanks, I hope the laryngitis doesn't develop too. I just have a feeling it might. I feel a bit yuk today, sore throat, tired, all that, and it usually starts like that. I just don't want it through the Olympics really. I mean, how would Andy manage without me shouting at him??????

[Emma Jean]

Hope the dentist can cure your toothache quickly.  Hate mammograms - only ever had one, but my boobs are small and that made it all the more uncomfortable.  I had bruises all over too.  I'm trying to pluck the courage to go to the opticians for retinopathic eye-screening as I have type 2 diabetes.  That is mega-misery for at least half-an-hour as they flash lights into your eyes with your head stuck in the most uncomfortable position imaginable, and then your eyes can't focus properly for a while afterwards because of the drops they put in to enlarge the pupils.  But ... I have to go each year because there are signs of early problems, which can be treated, and I'm not about to mess with my eyesight.  Far too precious.

Toothache is completely my fault. I needed a filling but I got so lazy instead. I do go for clean ups like a religious person but this filling I wasn't very looking forward to. Unless my back is really against the wall, I don't like going to the doctors.

Anyway, I didn't know small boobs are a problem? I have no idea how this all works, really but lately I feel I should get it done again just in case.  I just don’t like the idea anyone touching me unless I allow them to. It’s a very uncomfortable feeling, isn’t it?

Good luck with your eye exams! The whole process sounds terrible, really but what can you do when you have to do it. My eyes are okay for now but I can’t read really small letters.