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Our bloke just loves everyone. His best friend is our neighbour's 120-pound rottweiler. He wants to be friends with our cat but she's having none of it. I didn't know cats could growl.

We're trying to train him to use the stairs. He's getting a bit big for Souvette to carry and I don't have the strength these days to carry anything.

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What's happened to you?

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Not sure.I'm always tired and lethargic, have no strength whatsoever, get dizzy and uncoordinated, and my mood is a bit iffy. My SIL (a nurse) reckoned it could be anemia. I did some research an vitamin B12 deficiency came up. I've got pretty much all of the symptoms. I've just started taking industrial doses of B12. We'll see if that does anything.

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Had your blood pressure checked recently? Some of that sounds like it could be hypotension - I'm just coming through that, took my eye off the ball as it were, dizziness, feeling weak and uncoordination all featured.

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My first one (Chrissie) was a blonde with apricot ears, she was quite tall for a cockerpoo, came to my knees, and weighed around 45lbs. The one I have now (Abbey) is chocolate/sable, half the size, comes to mid calf and weighs around 23lbs..

One thing I absolutely hate is that breeders here like to chop their tails - doc them, which is just so unnecessary. Abbey's tail was docked far too short resulting in issues. Other problems they can have are hip issues.

One of the biggest pain in the bum things about them is the double coat, which depending on the 'type', mattes very easily, right down to the skin, once it gets past a certain length - it can literally go like wool if you don't catch it early enough and results in having to cut the fur ultra short (and shaving them makes it worse in the long term). Lovely dogs though and would be my first choice every time. Calm, loving and loyal.. both of mine have been devoted, never leaving my side.

:)

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Sorry to hear of everyone else's malfunctions.

I had something similar last week, got dizzy, fell over, had to attend a series of meetings with people from out of town with a fat lip and carpet burns all up my face. A number of ribald remarks about rug burns ensued. Went to the doctor on the weekend and had an EKG, a cat scan, blood work, a heart monitoring session the whole business. Best to get it all done before Doug Ford abolishes hospitals.

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We have still got Daisy, so we're not completely berift, we have been amazed at how quiet she is though. She is being spoiled. I picked up Henry's ashes on Friday and have a urn on order. Didn't want to bury him as we're not staying here.

I've been saying no more dogs for a while, OH wants an old English Sheepdog but I think they would be too rambunctious after having chows.

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Can all you dizzy blokes just sort yourselves out, sheesh, do as your missus's say and see a doctor and then take the medication please!

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There's an Old English Sheepdog / Poodle cross that might be interesting - either standard poodle = large dog - or miniature poodle - small dog! (Sheepadoodle!)

https://cranbrookfamilydogs.com/
Oooh and tiny sheepadoodles! https://cranbrookfamilydogs.com/tiny-sheepadoodles/


:D

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They are super cute!

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On it, honest! :thumb:

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Funny you mention that. I was outside with the got one morning a couple of weeks ago. I sat on a low wall next to a flower bed. When I went to stand up, I simply flopped backwards into the flower bed. It took me five attempts to pull myself upright.

Someone mentioned hypotension. I don't think it is that. I am more likely to have hypertension. I develop it when you put me in front of a white coat. That was proved at an insurance medical several years ago. The blood pressure test was the first thing to be done. It was off the scale. The doctor had the patience to keep taking the readings throughout the medical, as I became more relaxed. They went down and down and eventually hit textbook normal.

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Hope the results are good ones - well done for at least going and getting them done!
;)

That doesn't sound good. Do please get checked out, something definitely isn't right! Could you be hypoglycemic?

They have a nifty machine now that takes your blood pressure 3-6 times and they average it out.

:sneaky:

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Liar. You're as bad as me!

Why is it that blokes won't go to the doctor?

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Not so! I refer you here: https://britishexpats.com/forum/loun.../#post12501106

Also I had a full scan last Monday - they cheated, I thought that it was just going to be an MRI, it was full on, including drinking a litre of yak piss, intravenous flaming liquid and the obligatory dose of liquid where the sun doesn't shine. :(

Result...clean. :thumb:

One more appointment with a gastro-specialist in two weeks time, but doc reckons that to be just a formality.

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Those new blood pressure machines are a god send, i too suffer from "white coat hypertension", my machine takes 3 readings at 30second intervals then sends the average to an app on my smart phone. My GP does not even take my BP any more i just show him the phone and he can see daily/ weekly/ monthly results and he is quite happy with that.

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Mine was diagnosed with high blood pressure not long after we moved here - in fact I think it was the PR medical that brought it up, I wish he would actually take his medications EVERY day not just sporadically, I try not to nag but it does worry me.

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Sometimes I wonder if there's something in the air in Canada.:(

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We wonder too, there are products he uses at work that were banned in the UK YEARS ago. All the stuff that's pumped into the air is a worry too.

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Sounds like drug addiction. :blink:

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Especially with MS, Canada has the highest incident rate at 290 cases per 100,000 people.

The US is lower at 110-140 cases per 100,000 above the 37th parallel, and 57-78 cases per 100,000 below the 37th parallel.


I find I get more bacterial lung infections in Canada vs when I lived in the US, but could be the fact I am older here vs there so not as young and healthy...




I find I get dizzy often when standing up, vision goes for a second or 2 and I have to hold a wall or something to balance. Doctors can't find no medical problem and doing a search seems somewhat common, but apparently those who experience such symptoms when standing are higher risk of heart failure later in life, but I figure my heart is going to kill me, killed just about every male in the family thus far.

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My balance was off. I had to get it investigated as one seeks not to lose balance when perched on a speeding horse.

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Canada annoys me with how much things cost.

I did some math and our rent in 2018 is 305% higher vs 5 years ago.

Income is higher but only 24% higher.

No woner qol is so poor. So frustrating.

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Germaine Greer has been in the news a lot lately. Does anyone remember the Gerry Anderson puppet series Terrahawks?

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...re-homeowners/

Globe and Mail opinion piece. A couple of key points from it.

"Today, it takes a person in Vancouver, between the ages of 24-34, 27 years to save for a 20-per-cent down payment on a home. Forty years ago, it took five years. Kids aren’t earning as much, when adjusted for inflation, as the boomers."


"“We have an aging population, one that wants and needs more medical care, asking a younger generation to pay more for health care than they did,” Mr. Kershaw told me. “Meantime, house values are disproportionately helping an aging population, while that group is leaving larger bills to their kids’ generation. Is that the legacy they want to leave?”

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The Boomers weren't called the 'Me Generation' for nothing.

That said, there are a bunch of things pushing high house prices in Vancouver, not just selfish Boomers. You've got artificially low interest rates, insane levels of lending, limited supply of land in the areas where people want to live, some of the only half-decent year-round weather in Canada, and masses of foreign money, much of which isn't even taxed.

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Yep, yep and yep.

I read that sales volumes had fallen, so presumably prices should soften a bit too.

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Gotta get these prices to drop 800,000 or more...lol ;) (joking, just our max purchase price for anything would be 205,000 with 20% down........I can dream...ha ha)

Sales have softened, and I am sure prices will follow. I am seeing more price reduced signs being added to the realtor signs in front of houses.

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Well, you'll be in Trumpland in the future anyway, so less to worry about. ;)

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lol...Trump will be out of office by the time we have the ability to move south of the border, so no worries there...

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I wouldn't put it past him to wangle the necessary change. He's already 'hinted' at it and would likely consider it in America's interests.

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Puffer fish artist of the sea.

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All that to disguise an enormous fish fart.

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That was amazing, thanks for posting!

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If we could fart like that, we'd be on a TV talent show.

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You are Pétomane and I claim my £5.

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Don't give them ideas. :frown:

I seem to remember a farter on OTT (TISWAS for adults)....although thinking about it more, maybe it was on the James Whale Show?