Neither the flu or Covid jabs give me any trouble. Is anyone on here a regular blood donor??
Did 40 pints over the years then got out of the habit.
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I have made 63 donations and since I turned 70 my iron levels take months to recover after donating. The GP has advised me to stop donating, just wondering if anyone else had the same experience.
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Each night? 
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I stopped at 50 donations.
‘Sharp scratch’
No problems with needles for this old lad, regular blood tests for prostate (when my lovely phlebotomist Rebecca can’t find a vein it gets interesting) we’ve had our 'flu and covid boosters. Another PSA next month
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Just psa test at 11 am tomorrow , shoulder done in again , not sure if new bed , bike or pulling curtains has done it , just a shame I’m not 20 as it would be ok in the morning , old age slightest thing sets it off .
Sat was meant to take down a old shed at aunties but that won’t happen now , dreading sitting down chatting with her as she chain smokes while drinking her 1/2 bottles of sherry a day , can hardly breath in her living room , grim , love her to bits but she just doesn’t care , I guess when your in your late 80,s it doesn’t matter , but can understand why doctors etc have given up on her.
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Good luck with the PSA test. I know what you mean about things taking a while to get better, I got an email from the NHS to take a lung & heart CT scan health check a short while ago, Now it’s over 40 years since I smoked & my CT scan lung test said no sign of lung cancer, but there was evidence of smoking related damage called emphysema, I wasn’t even a heavy smoker back then.
My heart CT scan showed signs of coronary calcification but it said this is common in males of my age, probably all the black pudn I’ve eaten since a kid. 
The next health check is in 24 months time.
Thanks lancpun , hopefully not the usual 6 attempts at getting blood , it’s creeping down so hopefully continues
I know what you mean , had this shoulder for years & just can’t get rid of it ,as for the rest of the health stuff I’m having a break , apparently doctors need to see me urgently but it can wait , you’ve got to have some kind of life , believe it’s diabetic related so another lecture no doubt .
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Just landed at Schipol, left Toronto last night. 3 hour wait for connection to Newcastle then home.
Checked mileage on hire car did 2000 miles over 23 days.
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Looks like a good start to the weekend with a case of cider & some half price electricity from British Gas. 
I’ll be on laundry duties & charging the car today.
Is that Geordie dialect? 
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There are some lowlifes thieving gits around here 
I filled one of those big charity clothes bags with clothes that I don’t wear, or they don’t fit me any more & left it by the front door for collection.
Someone has rifled through it last night & took some & left the bag open, so the top ones are now wet, I’ve just had to tumble dry them & have been to put the bag in the ASDA clothes charity box in the car park.
We are both in our mid eighties, the doctors haven’t given up on us (and we;re getting our moneys worth. Mrs GOM has very recently had a new pair, top of the range, Phonak hearing aids courtesy of NHS. 
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My missus got some help in paying for her hearing aids, I don’t know the brand they are but she rarely wears them & I have to sit listening to a TV turned up to 10. 
Well I don’t really as I go on another PC in another room but can still hear her TV over what I’m watching, deaf bint. 
I wondered where you were going with that,.I was gonna ask if she did it for yer birthday.
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What you suggest would certainly be an improvement, although in her younger days people were of the opinion that she was at the front of the queue when god was giving ‘them’ out. However, gravity hasn’t been kind to the poor old soul and ‘they’ are a dim distant memory. Perhaps as well, she’s only small and slightly built, at the last weigh in she was 5ft. tall and 6.5 stone weight. She’s one of a rare breed of wimmin who CAN’T put weight on…and she does try.
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Got home about 2pm , walked the dog , had a shower, 2 loads of washing done
Just had a cuppa and biscuits
Also got to unpack my power pack
