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Hi pigale
Do the patches alter your skin in some way? Maybe you could take morphine another way.

I fractured bones in my face in about nine places and didn't have an eye orbit left. So two titanium plates now hold my eye in place. The first time the screws were done up too tightly, so had to be done again. But the nerve damage was done. I'm not complaining, I still have a useful eye.

Wall-to-wall tennis and football! Thank goodness for books, gardening and iplayer.

Glad your dog is OK, elle. Never knew they could get warts!

Hello, Ros.
The vet doesn't seem to think the warts are anything to worry about, so long as they remain benign...any sign of their growing much bigger or changing colour, and they can be removed.
Fortunately ( in a way) the dog has to go every two months to have her anal glands expressed.......so the vet will be able to keep a regular check on the warts, whilst the dog is there.
Fingers crossed there will be no problem.

Hello Elle and Ros,

I did not know that dogs could get warts either; Never heard of a
dog with a wart in my circle of dog-owners.

Yes, Ros, the patches irrite the skin, or rather they make it become
very itchy, and for a long while, the skin feels rough. I have a very
good cream to deal with that, but the main thing (recommended
by Doctors) is, when you take the old patch off, to wash the skin
thoroughly, using a lot of soap; also the old patch is to be put inside
the special package in which the new patch is held secure. So
obviously there should not be a risk of other people being
'contaminated' by the patch.

They are very strict (here at least) for prescription renewal - 28 days
ie 4 weeks, to the day, and if I don't go to the pharmacist within
2 days after the prescription has been written, then it is considered
null and void!
Well, I suppose it is a drug!

If I can't do without the morphine for the pain, then I shall ask
my GP to give me tablets instead, but they don't work in the same
way -

I do not watch TV Ros! Only DVDs of my own choice and I have
hundreds of them, some I watch more than once - in fact the
majority of them.
I've just finished the DVD made of BBC series on 'Elizabeth R' with
Glenda Jackson - catching on my English history in this way, so
long as the films are trustworthy, and BBC serials are generally
very good.

Bump !!!

Well bumped, Pigale!
What a lot of spam!
A pity these perpetrators cannot find anything more worthwhile to do!
I am back from my walk..... and we are are now just about to go out for the day!.
Dull here, but warm......heavy …..hope we - and you ! - do not have rain!

Hi pigale

I see some GP in the Uk is still being investigated for over-use of morphine- and people who need it desperately can't get enough, largely because of Shipman. "They" seem concerned about addiction even if someone has only a few weeks to live. I'm pleased to see that there is going to be a rethink about medicinal cannabis, though. I think it should be decriminalised anyway.
Am back to conservatory glass cleaning now!

Hi Ros,

I hope you are getting the best of your battle with the conservatory
glass cleaning! You would not be able to do it here at present
as there is not a single cloud in the sky (30C) and glass cleaning
and sun don't go too well together!

I too would like cannabis to be legalised - it would stop some bad
stuff being sold by dealers, and prohibition has never stopped
people from doing what they want!

I tend to agree that Morphine can become addictive, although I
don't feel the need for a stronger dosage, and this is why I would
like to reduce and gradually arrive at zero microgram of the stuff.
I am not sure how difficult/easy it is to have it prescribed here,
but GP are under strict control I believe.
Shipman prescribed Diamorphine, didn't he, which is another
appellation for Heroin, which is hardly ever prescribed.

I only read that about Shipman. Time was when, if you had something painful from which you were dying, you could have all the morphine needed to control the pain even if it did shorten your life. Prue Leith described her brother's death which was truly gruesome because he was never given enough.
It was cloudy here when I was cleaning the roof panels- I only did two, and all the front panels. The roof is really difficult as it is so wide. The glass was described as "self-cleaning" but still acquires blobs of moss which stick and leave residues. Inside the roof is even worse, I get dizzy.

Congratulations, Pigale!
I am late looking in, but have just seen that you have won "Clueless"! Well done!