Re: Pet Peeves?
 

Well, the doc's going to have a fun time, isn't he? :p

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Hope it goes well - been there, done that, got the t-shirt etc. My GERD is apparently due to a small hiatus hernia.

I expect you will get the same advice I did. Cut out caffeine, chocolate, spicy food, greasy food and alcohol as they all make it worse. Although with me, citrus fruit, my dad's bacon sandwiches and fresh baked pretzels seem to be my triggers.

I was on a PPI for over 15 years, until I weaned myself off them (long story) and now I can manage on eating sensibly and the odd Zantac if I have a blowout.

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Washing and drying machines, where you've got to spin the dials all the way around again if you go past the setting you needed.

It's only a small annoyance, but it grows on you....

Bit like the beep that they're both supposed to make when they're finished, yet half the time they don't.

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Bob's beep comment reminds me.....

Cooker timers that beep just once, if you miss it, you miss it and get burnt dinner.

Microwave that beeps till you open the door. I heard it the first time, I am busy doing something, just stop,

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It gets worse when you go past it again the second time. After a while you start to feel like a safe cracker. A bad one, at that ...

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Nobody will want to be near you if the doc says you have to give up coffee altogether! It's very hard on your stomach, so hopefully they can sort it out without resorting to making you give up coffee. :fingerscrossed:

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Yes, the blood pressure starts to rise at that point :D

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Should try using a stethoscope. :nod:

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Or a washing machine with a more user friendly control interface, I suppose :D

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Now, where is the fun in that?

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Nowhere - you're correct.

Can't afford a new washing machine anyway, so safe cracking it is :D

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Just need some Mission Impossible music and you will be all set for laundry day. :D

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I'm getting better though, nowadays I only go 'twice round the clock' once every four loads or so :lol:

Yesterday was laundry day. I forgot to do the laundry ...

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They put me to sleep pretty much as soon as all the paperwork was done, do ya think they knew?:lol:

They found ulcers in my esophagus (sp?) and also sent off a snippet to pathology, no idea what they found if anything, Jay was in charge of getting the info from the Dr and errrrm, well, at least I go back in 2 weeks to see him! Have to have another endoscopy in March, I do have a script for meds that have to be gargled before swallowing, will see how they work. The lab work I had done before the test showed high creatinine levels in the kidney (so the paperwork says) so have referral to see what's up with that, also some swelling in the bowel area? Wish I had been more compos mentis when the Dr came to chat, but i'm sure everything will be fine:)
huggies kim x

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:amen: