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The most annoying thing is that I know piggy daddy popped to the supermarket at 8.30pm last night to pick up "some essentials". Washing up liquid, salad... pizza, garlic bread... beer and wine?! But no bin bags, even though it seems he'd emptied the kitchen bin and left it with no bag!
 
I am itching all over, I am using moisture & cortisone cream, and it still won't settle. Depressed about it all. Had blood tests Monday & Tuesday. Turns out a lot of them are abnormal, my Thyroid is almost nil. What's the point of having 3 monthly blood tests if they are showing abnormal & no-one is calling me in.
PigglePuggle I don't think men can multi task. I'm the only one in this house who changes the Toliet roll.
Jobs in the house the piggy daddy says not enough room, can't do it. Grrrrr my son goes to his girlfriend & puts load of shelves up, here nothing. That feels better now.
 
Poor men, they can only see/do one thing at a time! Mines the same, he decides he’s baking, then complains that half of the ingredients aren’t there despite the fact I asked him what he needed two days before, to add to the shopping list of which you get blanked because he is busy doing something else at the time and to stop nagging him!

But love him to bits really ... just wish he could multi task a bit more 💕
 
Blah. Went to the donkey sanctuary yesterday. Two volunteers I get on with still not there...but also three donkeys weren’t very well. One has what looks like an abscess on his muzzle, one had colic and one old boy (in his 40s) seems to have heart failure. The two youngsters will recover, but not sure Lonely (the old boy) will. He’s such a big character and I know he’s going to leave a massive hole in everyone’s heart when he goes. Why can’t animals live as long as we do?
 
Aw, such a shame, poor old Lonely, hope he pulls through x Mind you 40 sounds like a grand old age although I’m not sure how long donkeys usually live to?
 
Aw, such a shame, poor old Lonely, hope he pulls through x Mind you 40 sounds like a grand old age although I’m not sure how long donkeys usually live to?

Considering he was found dumped on a rubbish tip, 40 is a good age to get to. Donkeys can get up to late 40s or maybe 50 (if they’re very lucky). Average lifespan is 30-40 years. So Lonely’s older than me! He might pull through, but the outlook is a bit grim.
 
Aw poor Lonely :( how can anyone dump a donkey on a rubbish tip! I hope that he can pull through but 40 is a great age

Wasn’t in the UK. Somewhere in Europe, I think. Unfortunately animal welfare standards aren’t the same as ours. When a donkey has outlived its usefulness, it gets dumped. Still a horrible thing to do though, I agree. Also hoping he’ll pull through.
 
Wasn’t in the UK. Somewhere in Europe, I think. Unfortunately animal welfare standards aren’t the same as ours. When a donkey has outlived its usefulness, it gets dumped. Still a horrible thing to do though, I agree. Also hoping he’ll pull through.

That’s awful :( I went to Morocco on holiday in 2017 and although I enjoyed the holiday, I was horrified by what I saw reguarding animal welfare. It was over 40 degrees yet there were horses and donkeys ‘working’ :( There’s a lot of abandoned horses and ponies at the horse sanctuary I volunteer at too
 
When I went to Egypt I was upset by the way horses and donkeys were treated too. There was a charity there that we visited who looked after “dropped horses and donkeys” and saved them from slaughter and gave them sanctuary which was brilliant. It’s worldwide I’m afraid and not getting any better here either, so sad
 
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When I went to Egypt I was upset by the way horses and donkeys were treated too. There was a charity there that we visited who looked after “dropped horses and donkeys” and saved them from slaughter and gave them sanctuary which was brilliant. It’s worldwide I’m afraid and not getting any better here either, so sad

It really is sad :( We didn’t leave the resort in Egypt so we didn’t see it there but I saw horses pulling tourists around the city in carts in Morocco and they were so thin you could see their bones and it was boiling hot, even my dad felt sorry for them and don’t get me started on the donkeys :(
 
We were cleaning out my son's room over the weekend and found some old epipens (adreneline injections for anaphylactic shock). My son, happily, grew out of his peanut allergy. I know you just can't chuck used epipens in the bin as they are counted as "sharps". I used to be able to hand them in at the pharmacy. So I went to the pharmacy. No can't hand them in there as they are sharps. Told to go to the Doctor. Go to the Doctors who tell me to go to the pharmacy! I tell them the pharmacy won't take the epipens as they are sharps. The Doctors say well they should take them. I say well they won't they said you will take them. :hb:. Receptionist goes and checks with Head Receptionist who comes out to see me and says that the Council will take them as it is "Clinical Waste". I reply that as they (the surgery) has sharps bins so they should be able to take the epipens as they are sharps. I get the reply that as the epipens have out of date adreneline in them they have to be disposed of differently. The Head Receptionist then said that she would fill out the form online for the Cinical Waste Team to come to my house to collect the epipens. Now I have to wait to be contacted by my local Council so that they can come round (probably in full hazard gear) just to collect 10 epipens! What a waste of time. Just as well I am a responsible member of society - it would have been so much easier to chuck them in the bin!
 
We were cleaning out my son's room over the weekend and found some old epipens (adreneline injections for anaphylactic shock). My son, happily, grew out of his peanut allergy. I know you just can't chuck used epipens in the bin as they are counted as "sharps". I used to be able to hand them in at the pharmacy. So I went to the pharmacy. No can't hand them in there as they are sharps. Told to go to the Doctor. Go to the Doctors who tell me to go to the pharmacy! I tell them the pharmacy won't take the epipens as they are sharps. The Doctors say well they should take them. I say well they won't they said you will take them. :hb:. Receptionist goes and checks with Head Receptionist who comes out to see me and says that the Council will take them as it is "Clinical Waste". I reply that as they (the surgery) has sharps bins so they should be able to take the epipens as they are sharps. I get the reply that as the epipens have out of date adreneline in them they have to be disposed of differently. The Head Receptionist then said that she would fill out the form online for the Cinical Waste Team to come to my house to collect the epipens. Now I have to wait to be contacted by my local Council so that they can come round (probably in full hazard gear) just to collect 10 epipens! What a waste of time. Just as well I am a responsible member of society - it would have been so much easier to chuck them in the bin!

And then they wonder why people fly tip etc 😐
 
I just give up. Not enjoying going to the sanctuary anymore (went home really early today), and the lack of anything resembling a job is getting to me. Just want to work with animals, but to do that down here, I’d have to drive. Can’t afford lessons right now, so I’m stuck. On various “work” programmes which suggest either work placements (had enough of those to last a lifetime) or send me links to jobs I’m not interested in (retail/care etc). If I do apply to anywhere, I either get no response, or a rejected email. I’m in my early 30s, and haven’t had a proper job since I left school 13 years ago. Volunteering is all very well, but it’s not paid.

Sorry, just ignore this if you want. Just had to vent.
 
What a shame @Sonnet, is there a zoo or something nearby you could work at? (Since you want to work with animals)
 
I just give up. Not enjoying going to the sanctuary anymore (went home really early today), and the lack of anything resembling a job is getting to me. Just want to work with animals, but to do that down here, I’d have to drive. Can’t afford lessons right now, so I’m stuck. On various “work” programmes which suggest either work placements (had enough of those to last a lifetime) or send me links to jobs I’m not interested in (retail/care etc). If I do apply to anywhere, I either get no response, or a rejected email. I’m in my early 30s, and haven’t had a proper job since I left school 13 years ago. Volunteering is all very well, but it’s not paid.

Sorry, just ignore this if you want. Just had to vent.
Have you thought of returning to studying @Sonnet ? Doing a degree in animal behaviour or zoology, with a foundation year?
 
I feel for you @Sonnet Mine is for health reasons but I lost my job last April after there since 2006 (I first became ill in 2010). I hated it but I was bringing in a decent wage and I miss that. I have a degree and an animal assistant certificate which I qualified in 2013 but nobody gave me a chance ad I found that the positions are usually offered to people who are already working within the vets.

I was volunteering at a horse sanctuary with the help of a support worker but I’m now struggling with that and she feels I need to take a break.

I was declared unfit for work by Occupational health at my workplace and doctors which is why they made the decision to let me go but I feel so defeated being out of work :(
 
I wasn't quite bad enough to be medically retired from my job years ago so they made me redundant instead. I was stuck between a rock and a hard place though. I couldn't do my job because the job caused me not to be able to do my job! I went to see Occupational Health and I had the Union involved and everything. I was put in one dead end role after the other. Given all the jobs nobody else wanted to do and when I had done all of those and tidied everybody's mess up I was made redundant. I think they were hoping that I'd hand in my notice but I knew what they were doing. The only way to get rid of me was to sack me (but they couldn't as I was good at all the jobs nobody else wanted to do as well as my own job when I could do it) or pay me off with a nice redundancy package. Oh and I had come back from Maternity Leave so I was on firm ground where sacking was concerned. They couldn't or else I would have taken them to the cleaners.
 
That's terrible @Betsy, bloody horrible civil service boss people!

I was in care work, a Support Worker with people with learning disabilities/severe disabilities. When my seizures started causing loads of trouble I had to go to loads of meetings, couldn't work alone without another member of staff etc.

Had bosses kind of 'hinting' that I might be better at home and looking after myself etc. Basically wanted to fire me but knew they'd get in trouble too! Equal opportunities and all that! I needed the money and wanted to carry on working but after months of meetings and crap I was signed off for health reasons.
Really enjoyed my job after years of working with the same people. Hope I can go back when brain under control but don't know if they'd hire me as I prob cause too much trouble for them! Too many forms to fill in and grief!
 
I feel for you @Sonnet Mine is for health reasons but I lost my job last April after there since 2006 (I first became ill in 2010). I hated it but I was bringing in a decent wage and I miss that. I have a degree and an animal assistant certificate which I qualified in 2013 but nobody gave me a chance ad I found that the positions are usually offered to people who are already working within the vets.

I was volunteering at a horse sanctuary with the help of a support worker but I’m now struggling with that and she feels I need to take a break.

I was declared unfit for work by Occupational health at my workplace and doctors which is why they made the decision to let me go but I feel so defeated being out of work :(

Aww. Yeah, I did put myself forward for a paid position at the donkey sanctuary, but it got given to someone else. It’s just annoying, really. I’m waiting to hear back/under investigation as to if I might have ASD, but in the meantime I really want to start working.
 
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