How many of you get annoyed when you are unable to go out on
Station Master
2010-02-24 16:14:26
How many of you get annoyed when you are unable to go out onto the more due to health? I have had most of the Winter like it and I am only 38. I hope to get out more often soon. Its awful when I am fit but the inners let me down.
Sowerby Streaker
2010-02-24 17:26:13
:( Sorry to hear you have not been well. I get very annoyed when I can't go out, I am nearly twice your age but suffer from Angina, so have to be careful. I can't go out when its freezing cold, but neither do I like to go out when its very wet and foggy. Stamps get wet, books get damp etc... Oh well, roll on the spring and summer (if we get one!!!)
Nik - KOTM
2010-02-25 06:59:50
It really cheeses me off when I actually plan a trip down to Devon and the rest of the family plan other things without my consent, I manage to get down to the Moors perhaps two or three times a year. Or I get all the time I need and the weather is bloody awful and makes it dangerous to get out there.
Or something happens that curtails my trip out there. Even as I type I am pining to get out there instead of painting a wall or something like that... my feet are itching
green sleeves
2010-02-25 23:37:27
Hi Nik know what you mean i to am desperate to get down to Devon, and get out on the moors, hopefully soon for us both :roll:
Nik - KOTM
2010-03-30 19:44:29
I came across a slightly worse scenario - getting down here for an extended periodof time and the weather is bloody awful...
However I have managed to sneak in a couple of hours this afternoon around Hound Tor between the showers and hailstones
The_Tailchaser
2010-03-30 21:28:17
There are some nice boxes in the New Forest if thats nearer for you.
Nik - KOTM
2010-03-31 20:58:39
Sadly - not really
Fulchet
2010-06-06 20:45:59
Sadly I know that feeling very well Station Master. It is certainly very frustrating. I went out on the moors for the first time this weekend following a break since last February due to ill health, the last six months of which were quite horrid. However, I have now had a proper diagnosis and have started a new treatment, and, although no cure, can at least enjoy a few more years with medication and a very restrictive diet. But the main thing is I'm back out on the moors, and although extremely tired, have thoroughly enjoyed this weekend.
Here's to the precious moments when we can get out and about and take in that wonderful Dartmoor air.
Nik - KOTM
2010-06-07 06:09:45
Glad to see you back on the boards Fulchet - I'm sorry to hear you have not been feeling perky enough to venture out due ill health though by your description I think I can guess what ails you.
I always found just setting foot on the moor revitalises me in more ways than one and when I had ten days of it I felt terrific for it.
I suppose I shouldn't really complain about not being able to set foot on the moor too often with distance being the only obstruction when ill health stops you dead in your tracks. Though about 12 years ago I couldn't walk anywhere for about 18 months due to tendonitus of the achillies - never was I more miserable
Fulchet
2010-06-07 16:35:41
I have diabetic gastroparesis - basically, my stomach can't process food properly, but it took a long time to get the diagnosis right and unfortunately a lot of discomfort and rather intrusive tests in the meantime.
Luckily, I'm improving daily now and so can start to enjoy my hobbies again. I'm hoping to get back to playing in the band next week, so my most two precious lifesavers are back in my life again and things can return to some sort of normality.
Apologies for abandoning you over the last few months, but Nik, I really was at such a low, I couldn't face it. I kept in touch with some of my letterboxing friends though who were absolutely fantastic at keeping my pecker up.
Nik - KOTM
2010-06-08 06:26:37
Apologies for abandoning you over the last few months, but Nik, I really was at such a low, I couldn't face it. I kept in touch with some of my letterboxing friends though who were absolutely fantastic at keeping my pecker up.
No apologies necessary even though you would have been surprised how much support you would have found on here... but I am glad to hear you are on the mend - diet of baby food perhaps?
Anyway I am off to see Bon Jovi tonight at the O2 with tickets I won yesterday from the station I listen to for day after day the only PLANETROCK
Fulchet
2010-06-08 07:15:57
Thanks Nik. Yes, baby food indeed - especially the fruit.
Hope you enjoy your concert this evening.
rowan
2010-09-12 18:07:34
Hi everyone, I see I'm not the only crock here, I'm sorry to hear others are ill too :(
I do get annoyed that bad health stops me getting out on the Moor and what makes it even worse is that I live on the Moor! I moved to Bodmin Moor 6 years ago when I was medically retired and then moved to Dartmoor 2 years ago, fulfilling a life-long dream, so yes, it is annoying that I can't enjoy it properly now I'm here!
I can usually drive, but just can't walk very far when I get anywhere, so it's a good job there are such lovely place to just sit and look - I've taken loads of gorgeous photos from no more than a few yards from my van :)
I have several chronic illness and strong meds with bad side effects too (I'm on a permament weekly chemo drug that leaves me wiped out most of the time), but the thing that stops me walking more than anything else is pustula psoriasis on the soles of my feet. Most of the time my soles are covered in either extremely painful pustules (like blisters but they come up from deep under the skin), or when they start to dry up it goes extremely dry and my soles crack, split and bleed, so every step is agony.
Because of that I can't wear walking boots any more, or any proper shoes/boots come to that. I've spent the last few years in padded slippers but have now got some 'boot's' from the hospital that are more like slippers than boots and although they are waterproof to a certain extent they're no good for rough moorland walking or muddy conditions - I think they're meant for getting to and from car/home/shops when it's wet, that sort of thing!
There is no cure but it is possible to get a remission, so I live in hope! :wink:
Rowan- are you a pub boxer now? I was surprised how many pubs on the edge of teh moor have a box or at least a stamp.
rowan
2010-09-12 20:34:14
Hi UniS, I'm not any sort of boxer yet, I've only got one stamp and that was from near Wistman's Wood around 10 years ago, but am hoping to get started very soon :wink:
The Bearslake Inn ( between Okehampton and Lydford) have a rather Posh Letterbox and a nice stamp.
Finch foundry in Sticklepath have a stamp ( if you ask at the shop, no need to pay to enter).
Nik - KOTM
2010-09-13 16:07:24
Didn't I see that diagnosis on Channel 4's medical thing where this poor girl had it all over her legs for years and none of her local quacks or hospital could diagnose it until she went on TV, none curable but treatable to make it very bearable.
The Devon Steamer
2010-09-13 16:26:07
do any of you guys live in devon i thought all of you lived down here,im lucky i can see the moors from our house
rowan
2010-09-13 17:46:04
I don't know, I didn't see the programme, but Treliske and Derriford don't know what else to do with me so they transferred me to Guy's in London - and they don't know either!
Mine is palmoplantar pustula psoriasis that 'only' affects the soles and palms, but I also get Erythrodermic and Generalised pustular psoriasis that both affect the rest of the body from time to time, and then I have to be in hospital as they can be life threatening.
The usual types of psoriasis are more common and although incurable are often treatable, but I'm what the doctors call a 'challenging case' with only the rarest, most dangerous and most difficult to control types.
I just have to be bloody awkward and get the most severe forms of all the rarest types - I like to keep the doctors on their toes! :lol:
rowan
2010-09-13 17:48:32
Yes I do, aren't we lucky? 8)
Yep, I live with in the national park. Can't see the top of our nearest hill from our house as we are so close under its looming bulk. BUT, I'm onto teh moor with having to cross any roads. Could probably walk to Princetown with out crossing any roads, but its 20 miles, so I havn't done it yet.:-)
MANY MANY locals, will never have been boxing, may never have heard of boxing.
moorland wizard
2010-10-11 14:33:57
Im in the navy and been away for the past 7 months, missing all of the summer and going to miss the meet, due to be getting back in december with the boghoppers on the jetti to see me in..lol
no sign of the moors, and no sign of the rain just blistering hot weather, can not wait to get on the moors, might just have to swing past cox tor to bring a stam in on the way home.......
think i need a lottery win then i can buy a house on the moors....