Don't really feel like going on holiday.....

Hope you get chance to relax Mishap good luck

Bon voyage Mishap. A gentle pootle down to Morbihan from Roscoff should be fine, so try not to worry too much about it.

Good luck Mishap. SO hope you have a lovely time!

Number - sorry your back is playing up. It's no fun gorwing older!

We are hoping to catch the night ferry at Plymouth tonight; having to change route as Severn bridge closed. I have decided not to call in and see my Dad in Devon on the way - they all have colds there, and it is just one more emotional challenge - enough, enough! We will see him on the way back when we plan to spend 2 nights in his bungalow and will visit him in the home then, after sorting his belongings ready for the bungalow sale.

Good luck with hyperactive hubbies! - perhaps they could come and ginger mine up!! His main desire will be to lie around indoors - what go out???!!! Heaven forbid! I shall see what I can do!!

Hope mishap is ok and feeling a bit better...

Mamie thanks, that tipped the balance and he has given in gracefully, we did have to wait a few times last time and I think we had both forgotten that.

Yes gagagran. The morning run to the bakery usually buys me a few precious minutes in which to gather my wits about me and do a little plotting re how to get out of various things.

number Have PMd you re sciatica! x

Oh alright then Janerowena I'll keep him here. Another good idea bites the dust!

Have a lovely holiday! Find "missions" for DH to go on (sometimes works for me when I come up with a good one) and find a really quiet cafe to hide away in.

Janerowena, point out to him that he would get the telepeage charge back in petrol the first time he got stuck stuck in a major jam without it. The queue for some of them can be half an hour in peak holiday times. You also get a great deal of satisfaction when someone charges past you and you then glide away from the booth before they do!
Have a lovely time Mishap, we are spending a couple of days in Brittany for our anniversary next week. (The joy of living here, you just get in the car and go.)

Mishap, have a lovely holiday!
Yesterday was the day we should have gone away, but after the way my body`s behaved after a disastrous trip into town this morning, I`m so pleased that we cancelled.

Instructed OH to buy a telepeage tag, asked why we hadn't bought one before, he shuffled about a bit and said he resented the charge! Ye Gods. One of my major annoyances and he begrudges the fee. Men. We are having one. Reminded him that I was the one frantically sorting euros into small piles lined up in the correct order along the dashboard to hand over and praying I wouldn't drop them, and threatened to go on strike.

Gagagran, no. Just no. It would be like taking two overexcited toddlers abroad. Mine never knows how to pace himself and gets irritable. By the time he accepts that he is no longer 30, it is too late. My friend near Nantes is getting a bit anxious, she remembers our last day trip there - a trip to a massive garden, followed by a tour of the cathedral, then lunch, then shopping at a vast indoor food market followed a visit to the Ile de Machines which took three hours. I have promised that we shall find a quiet cafe and hide for a few hours.

janerowena have you got room to take Mr Gaga with you? He and your DH could go off and do their activities whilst you relax. You are welcome to borrow him! He is house-trained and quite a good holiday companion really - just can't chill!

Have a happy and relaxing time Mishap
Good luck with the new meds, I hope it does the trick. It's depressing that as we're getting older the box of pills and potions that accompanies our trips is getting bigger each time!

Take care

kitty I would love a husband like yours. Mine is quite happy to do b****r all when we go away.

My daughter's friend was once engaged to a pharmacist and he was VERY useful. She used to run all her prescriptions from the GP past him and he would tell her if it was safe to take. The best one was when the GP prescribed a drug for her bad back. She was a bit worried, because the listed side effects included vomiting blood and death, so she asked the friend and he told absolutely not to take it because it was a very strong drug for rheumatoid arthritis which she hasn't got! He said hospital doctors were the worst - always combining drugs that shouldn't be combined.

Mishap have a wonderful time.

I think I've done my husband a disservice! I like going on holiday with him EXCEPT when he is determined to see and do everything! It's particularly bad if we go somewhere for a couple of days!

Mishap - I can't convey how much I sympathise. Already on this trip my first priority is how much medication to take with me, in case of delays in getting home. What a pessimist I must seem.

Mamie you are a star, thank you for the link.

And gaggagran and kittylester - well, I found myself fantasising about sending our OHs on holiday together while we do as we please - I have just had an exhausting week trying to book one week of our holiday after a booking fell through. French holidays must be taking off again, but unfortunately if houses are taken, often you don't get a reply, so waste nail-biting days until you finally give up and look elsewhere. This last week had to be very area-specific, as we are taking books and provisions to an elderly friend who lives alone south of Nantes. We could find houses in the city, or on the coast, but there is very little in the countryside. We found somewhere only this morning, so now perhaps the stress will have eased a bit by the time we finally depart - after having sorted pet carers, cleaning up before the house-sitting guest arrives, hoping that Son's new passport arrives in time (forgot that he would need a new one at 18 even though his old one is only 7 years old) and all the myriad of other things that mean that a holiday is needed both before and after a holiday.

Have a lovely holiday.

You are so right Stansgran - cobbler's children and all that. My children had to be prostrate before any flicker of interest from OH emerged!

I remember DD2 being ill for ages and OH vaguely saying - "Oh it will just be a virus of some sort." After about 6 weeks of this very poorly child I suggested to him that she might have glandular fever, at which point he felt her belly and said she had the biggest spleen he had ever felt on anyone,child or adult. She did have glandular fever. He started to cosset her a bit then and to keep her from rough activities to avoid her rupturing her spleen.

But he is very twitchy about drug side effects as he has experienced so many himself with his PD cocktail of drugs.

Latest on the holiday is that we are taking the night ferry tomorrow and arriving on Monday morning. I feel less fraught about it now - partly because it will be a slightly shorter holiday and OH has begun to take on board those things that make it difficult for me. We will just have to hope for the best.

My big migraine has settled and I have to hope that it does not return at an inopportune moment - that is what makes travelling so problematical as I do not know when it will strike, and the stress of it all makes it more likely. I have decided not to embark on new medication immediately prior to the journey, and will try it over there or when I come back.

If only life could be simple!

How long has your DH been retired Mishap? Doctors generally are wary of drugs and believe in keeping the big guns for when needed. Sounds as though you need the big guns. Doctors families are not supposed to be ill or need medication.

This is just adding to your long list of worries.

Personally I would take my mobile phone, wander to a quiet spot with good reception when OH is absorbed in something else and doesn't know what you're up to, ring a pharmacist, doctor and NHS Direct and go with the majority!

Mishap Can I advise you to trust your doctor? Take the tablets exactly as he told you to. That little bit of dosulepin is nothing. You will be fine.

All interactions come up on the pooter when the doctor prescribes something [or should do]. Perhaps a call to NHS Direct would be easier that a trip to a chemist.

Re mishaps medication dilemma. Before I saw this I had just posted a rant on the "Today I have been mainly thread" about the lack of proper useful information given with the pack of medication I got on Tuesday. It took me bit of Googling to get what I wanted to know.

I would suggest a Pharmacist is the best bet. Knowing dosage, keeping updated info on drug interactions etc is really their specialty.