the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

This is a thread with no particular

Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂

So if anyone out there has something 

To say about anything you like now

Is your chance

Keep it clean 

And be nice 

See how long that lasts

Can we keep politics and religion out 

Of the conversation 

[ecar3483]

It would've made a good photo...

The old man bird sitting in the sun at the bottom of the bridge, and some five feet above him the girl possum sprawling in the doorway of the possum house, ha ha.

The problem is that by the time I'd stepped back far enough to get them both in frame, I would've been half way back through the house...

"Here's a picture of an internal wall, and you'll have to imagine the old man cockatoo sunning himself while the possum lies sprawling in the heat, on the other side..."... ha ha...

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[ecar3483]

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[ecar3483]

The old man bird had a great afternoon...Spent wandering round the garden, sitting in the sun, sitting in the shade... hiding under one of the bushes and suddenly jumping out and running away from me when I came past...

I reckon he scared five years' worth of growth out of me... ha ha...

In the evening he perched on the fence, as the darkness grew... And I started to grow a little concerned about where he might be spending the night...

The fence is not the most ideal of places for him to perch...

I was quietly calculating how long it would be before I heard the agonised shriek of a cockatoo confronted by a possum...

Of course if I was silly enough to go outside to see if everyone's alright, there'd be a possum sitting off to the side with a butter wouldn't melt in it's mouth, look, and a cockatoo who would insist on telling me about it's encounter with a fierce and terrible beast... ha ha.

I started to wonder if he was going to find somewhere more suitable than the fence to perch on when one of the possums upset one of the other possums...

She let out a squeal that could etch glass and I believe the old man bird took that as his cue, ha ha...

I didn't see him leave, but I think he got away okay... ha ha...

If wild cockatoos live to be 40, then he's got to be 39 and some months...

He's no Spring chicken, but boy he can put on a turn of speed when he wants to...

The sight of him running away, up the path, got me thinking...

I didn't startle him, so he's not putting some space between us... no, he's running away, deliberately...

I think if I'd listened closely I would've heard him cackling gleefully to himself, pleased with his handiwork... ha ha...

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[martinw-48]

So I'm off to see a Neurologist today.
Symptoms of the idiopathic brachial neuritis have returned as soon as I stopped taking the Prednisolone.
Was prescribed five days of taking it.
Being a diabetic it's had an adverse affect on me except for getting rid of the symptoms of the idiopathic brachial neuritis
I wish my body would read the books and behave accordingly

[imastawka]

Martin, prednisolone is the arch-enemy of diabetics.  It can send the blood sugar rocketing.   But sometimes it's a necessary evil.

What did the neurologist have to say?

Hope she/he helped.

[martinw-48]

Stawka, yes it's been five days of very high sugar levels but because it was only five days I had to give it a go.
Well she said that I have idiopathic brachial neuritis.
That pretty much it's a time thing.
In that I just have to bide my time as it will get better.
I have to take it easy. No over doing it.
She gave me a new exercise.
Told me to keep to the one day of gentle exercises with one day of rest.
She said that I didn't need the test because unusually the MRI had picked it up and that she wasn't going to do some procedure that I forget the name of where they inject antigens from another person because it's very painful and may be too late now.
After all the pain I've had I was happy about that decision.
I feel like it was a bit of a waste of money but I will need the proof of medical condition for Centrelink with my next work capacity assessment in February so that should make up for the extra financial difficulties experienced.

[martinw-48]

I have the worst timing.
Still haven't seen an adult present for what seems like an eternity.
You can see that the chicks are hot today.
Only a couple of days ago they were huddled together for warmth.
Now they're spead out as far from each other as possible

[imastawka]

Well, it's sounding like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, at least.

Follow the instructions to the letter re the exercises. And don't say you can do something if you just can't - no matter what anyone says.

Your main concern now is to get better.  Hopefully it will only be months before it's a distant memory.

[imastawka]

MARTIN...........SHE'S FEEDING THEM NOW

[lyndal1838]

Dad is lending a helping hand (or beak) now.

Love the grumpy look on the chick at the front.....I wonder what is ruffling his feathers.