I've had a box of penicillan in the cupboard for about 6 months...heaps of pills....4  a day....heavens knows why the doc. gave me so many so I took some yesterday and it seems to be settling a bit.  Will ring the dentist on Monday. Will take your advice freshie and rinse with Listerine too. except the tooth is very sensitive to hot and cold at the moment:-(

that's such good advice Gill, freshwater reminds me of someone I know who still has lovely and all her teeth at our age.

I am thankful I don't have upper teeth any more although it was due to an accident that I lost them, then almost lost my life when the dentist removed them because under a general anaesthetic he accidently puncutred my throat.

Once tha swelled up I could swallow and neither could I lie down if I wanted to keep breathing 😞  I did want to keep breathing and so ended up in hospital where they pumped me full of penicillin due to the fear of Golden Staph taking hold...

Oh what fun 😞  but of course had it happened 30 years earlier I would have died, so I am not complaining very loud.

Get that tooth fixed false teeth might have many advantages, but being kind to the skin on your gums isn't one of them 😞

xxx

I was born in 1947 and still have all my faculties, I ride a spin bike and lift weights almost every day, I walk almost every day, I still work over 40 hours a week in my own business. I am not over weight (65kls and 165ccms) and I am stronger then most women 10 years younger then me. I colour my hair because I don't want to be grey, I look after my skin and have few lines.

So why, when I tell someone my age over the phone or when I have to see someone and my age comes up do they suddenly raise there voice, stick their head on one side and think that I may be deaf ? losing my faculties and about to drop off the perch ?

Very annoying.

The tooth that needs removing..cost me about $600 to "fix" about 3 years ago!:O

Gives me the irrits actually...:-(

yes newstart......bluddy annoying to say the least !

Hi Newstart--what-eh-lol.

Can relate to all you posted..............Richo.

Hi Newstart--what-eh-lol. Can relate to all you posted..............Richo.

Yes I can too newstart.  Welcome here 🙂

I used to work in A&E and one day I was having to admit a woman of 104 to hospital.

I approached her with a smile and bright blue eyes looked up at me.

I started by speaking slowly thinking she might be hard of hearing and wondering if she had her faculties...

She corrected me clearly  "young woman, I am not hard of hearing and I am mentally alert alright?"

My rule?  Never presume :^O

Tomorrow I have to contend with the woodman 😞

He delivered 4 ½ tons of wood last week but because my back has been painful and I have had to give up gym for a while 😞 I didn't think to check the wood!

Well as it turned out it doesn't burn, it chars... thus it is green.

I tried contacting him several times but got no answer so finally text him and he asked me to ring him... (I don't approve!  He should ring me!)

Well he tried to tell me the wood was just wet from rain, and I found myself facing yet another 38 year old who considers elderly people have never learned anything... bluddy hell!

I have said he either replaces the lot or he comes and splits it so it will dry faster... he wanted money for that!

Okay, so to keep things smooth I said I would pay him a further $100.  His wood is much cheaper than I have been paying, so I allowed for that.

For that he will split and restack the wood - all 4½ tons -so the dryer pieces are to the front... AND I will be there watching him all the time as I teach him that elderly does NOT mean stupid X-(

He will also know that either he toes my line or his name will be mud in the area!

I love blackmail and corruption of the young :^O

Pretty exciting morning here.....not!

Today we had an appt with the Memory Clinic for OH and it's pouring down raining non stop all night...That'd be fine except that the drivers side electric window refused to shut so I expect the seat to be VERY wet.....organised early to have a mechanic jam it shut till it could be fixed......Just got a phone call from the Clinic saying they had a black out and had to cancel the appt. Rayyyyyyyyyy....so not going out today after all...We'll get it fixed "when the weather breaks".

Also............

Get to watch our fav. programme 'Monarch of the Glen' at 12.30:-x

Pretty exciting morning here.....not! Today we had an appt with the Memory Clinic for OH and it's pouring down raining non stop all night...That'd be fine except that the drivers side electric window refused to shut so I expect the seat to be VERY wet.....organised early to have a mechanic jam it shut till it could be fixed......Just got a phone call from the Clinic saying they had a black out and had to cancel the appt. Rayyyyyyyyyy....so not going out today after all...We'll get it fixed "when the weather breaks". Also............ Get to watch our fav. programme 'Monarch of the Glen' at 12.30:-x

Isn't it nice when something like that happens gil and you can relax and do nuffin' coz you would have been out anyway.. if you follow me :^O