Matt posted this on his wallpaper blog recently and I thought it was hilarious. I have a thing about toilet paper and to me this is a nightmare!
I had a nice lunch with an old friend yesterday. She suffered a stroke a few years back and I had not seen her for years. She is able to walk but not comfortably down stairs. She never had any health problems prior to that, it was an aneurism that started in her neck and then a blood clot travelled up to her brain and she suffered a stroke. It was the year her husband retired. They had just moved into a lovely new home and were in the middle of renovations. She still suffers from an unexplained dizziness. M is going to get her the name of a new nerve medicine that has helped his mom for a different problem. It may be worth a try. She now remembers that she suffered mysterious headaches on the right side of her head where the stroke was, for about 6 months prior. They told her it might be menopausal symptoms, etc. But if you complain about headaches, there is not much the doctors can do, or know about it.
So I get the odd backache, and various aches and pains when the weather is humid, etc, but suddenly it doesn't seem like a lot to complain about. And my friend is a lot better off than many others.
In other news, I needed a new non-stick frying pan and got one that says it is PFOA free. I had no idea what it meant, but from what I can google, it means it is TEFLON free and made with ceramics. There has been some controversy on the safety of TEFLON.
