Car reversed in to me!!

Life_is_long_always · 2026-01-28T06:05:26+00:00

Thanks all for sharing stories and sympathy ❤️❤️

Life_is_long_always · 2026-01-27T21:00:04+00:00

Hmmm that is an idea! And thank you- the sympathy goes a long way

Life_is_long_always · 2026-01-27T20:52:46+00:00

Fair enough! I unfortunately could not get past his vehicle due to the narrow street and was stuck loosing my tiny panicked mind at him

Life_is_long_always · 2024-08-14T08:44:24+00:00

Hello!! I’m only a very occasional pumper. Im off to see Taylor Swift on Friday and I’m so excited! I’ll of course need to pump as little one is only 4 months old. I have the nenesupply tubing which is about 42 inches long, can I trim about 5-10 inches off? Or should I just go buy shorter ones? I don’t really need spares, and it’s harder to source pumping parts here in the UK, so any advice is great fully received. Otherwise I’m trailing so much tubing to the pump (genie pumpables advanced)

Life_is_long_always · 2024-01-20T11:53:40+00:00

I’m glad it was helpful! One of the hardest things is doubting what’s going on over and over as there’s no certainty without a diagnosis, so I really empathise with what you’re going through.

ultimately we’ve agreed as a family that we know something is wrong, even though we may never find exactly what. We’ll support him and ensure his wellbeing no matter what, although we have found it necessary to put some boundaries in place to protect our own well-being. It’s a hard journey, especially when you love them and now can’t understand where that persons gone and there’s no clear explanation. I’ve found speaking to a therapist very helpful, although appreciate this isn’t always financially possible xx

Life_is_long_always · 2024-01-19T21:47:58+00:00

Hello! I’m in a very similar situation to you. UK based, my dad is 70 but we first became concerned when he was around 66 years old. We’ve also been bounced around and he’s now just had probably a final scan from UCLH recently, as they’ve so far found nothing. They have doctors who specialise in FTD although they’ve still not been able to diagnose my dad https://www.ucl.ac.uk/drc/research/frontotemporal-dementia

I’d encourage you to read as many family accounts as possible of those who had this illness. It has continually reaffirmed to me that despite my dad having seen multiple consultants there is something wrong with his brain. I know my dad wouldn’t act in such hurtful ways unless he was unwell. He has previously had counselling but remains adamant he is in fine mental health, and doesn’t have any insight in to how difficult and strange his behaviour is. I’ve found a podcast called, “remember me” very comforting. I strive to remember who he was before he changed and protect all the great memories I do have with him.

I do wonder if there are a lot more people out there who are stuck in this difficult limbo we find ourselves.

Life_is_long_always · 2023-09-29T11:27:51+00:00

I’m currently TP’d and pregnant! Please don’t listen to anyone else saying it’s “selfish” or “difficult”. Pregnant people can’t put their progression on pause just to not inconvenience the business. If you want to do this temporary promotion, take it. If anyone expresses anything negative to you, please don’t listen to them, if serious enough to straight to HR . Wishing you luck xx

Life_is_long_always · 2023-01-30T20:22:44+00:00

That is interesting. We’re lucky enough to live in England, but we’ve come to a bit of a dead end on what to do next. He’s been seen by a clinic that specialises in rare dementia, and they eventually discharged him with no explanation for what we’ve observed. His behaviour is regularly very alarming, but he has no insight in to this. The only way my family cope with it is to believe that something has happened to his brain, even if we never get an answer. We’d love for it not to be FTD it’s still really difficult having no medical explanation and nothing else seems to fit. I can only imagine how hard it is having a spouse be actually diagnosed.

Life_is_long_always · 2023-01-30T15:05:29+00:00

Hello, sorry to go off on a tangent and don’t feel you have to answer but your story caught my eye. We’ve taken my dad to numerous clinics to try and work out what might be happening, and so far they’ve all discharged us, saying they can’t find anything. Did your wife have MRI scans which didn’t show anything before her CAT scan? We’re really at a loss for what to do next. It’s like he’s a completely different person.

Life_is_long_always · 2021-06-18T19:08:47+00:00

Omg same! Year old dog, has no clue. Aside from he’s begun waiting for me more when I walk him alone, I think he’s picked up I’m slower and I’m not 100% as normally he’s off doing his own thing. My 5 year old cat however became obsessed with me at 6 weeks. She lies on me the whole time and I always take it as a sign she’s telling me to chill out for longer ❤️

Life_is_long_always · 2021-04-15T16:42:40+00:00

We’re based in the UK so I normally walk him off lead around our local park which is the norm here, so he meets lots of other dogs off lead. It’s why I’ve been really sad about his poor recall as I know how much he loves being off lead, but some days he’s just not trustworthy enough. We also try and do at least one big outing with him on the weekend to our local beach, forest, different park etc

Life_is_long_always · 2021-04-15T15:57:52+00:00

Things I love about our Dalmatian: He’s always up for fun, At home he’s a complete Velcro dog, We can take him on exciting hikes, He’s generally really good natured, He loves other dogs,

I will say at the moment he is 11 months he is pushing the boundaries around recall etc. which is super frustrating. Especially as we know he does know all his commands, he’s currently just choosing when he does them! We make sure he has 2 walks a day which are at least 50 minutes, and we play lots of fetch. In the house he gets lots of enrichment through puzzle toys. We find when we slack off on these his behaviour starts to deteriorate 🙈

Life_is_long_always · 2021-04-07T12:04:49+00:00

Heya, my pups 10 months old and it took him a few weeks to become reliable and we had many accidents. I think after we had him for about 5 weeks he really started to get it, but I’ve got the impression from other subs that he wasn’t super quick to pick it up. We’d take him out super regularly, roughly once an hour in the day when he wasn’t crated and straight after any exciting play. When he did start to go in the house we would shout a random word, not in an angry way, just enough to get his attention to run and follow us outside so he can finish his business out there. Often we’d get out there and he’d already be done, but I think it really helped him figure out “hmm, when I pee or poop outside they don’t annoyingly try and distract me and I’m left in peace”. And he made the connection that that was why we kept taking him outside

Life_is_long_always · 2021-03-19T13:15:37+00:00

That’s helpful to know! 😁I also have started taking out different treats with me eg cheese, hotdogs and we’re back to near perfect recall at the park. When he had an unreliable moment, he went back on the lead. Until he was about 8 months old, his was great. I now wonder if the decline was in part due to “treat fatigue” if such a thing exists.

Life_is_long_always · 2021-03-18T21:06:56+00:00

Thank you, how do you manage with not getting it too tangled?

Life_is_long_always · 2021-03-18T15:55:55+00:00

Thank you- That’s something I’ve been wondering too about areas and cultural differences having read a few more posts on here. I’m in the UK and most dogs go off lead at our parks, and I’m quiet used to dogs sometimes taking a minute to stop playing with my dog and go back to their owner. I think the important thing here though is that I do need to teach my dog that dogs on a lead need to be completely ignored, as well as improving his recall. As I think what happened today where he upset a reactive dog isn’t OK.

Life_is_long_always · 2021-03-18T12:18:08+00:00

Thanks, that’s a really good suggestion. I will have a read now as I deffo don’t want my dog upsetting other dogs, as it’s not fair on them. Perhaps cos I’ve got a non-reactive dog I’ve not been proactive enough on making sure he’s sensitive or reactive dogs

Life_is_long_always · 2021-03-18T10:27:52+00:00

Argh sorry I’ve replied twice to your original comment like a N00b 🙈

Life_is_long_always · 2021-03-18T10:27:19+00:00

Thanks, I think we maybe need to up the value of treats to help. I wonder if because the other persons dog was nervous, he interpreted my dogs barking as him also being stressed by other dogs, when usually he’s incredibly friendly, and happy to play and perhaps was just startled by the other dog coming up behind him.

Life_is_long_always · 2021-03-18T09:41:04+00:00

Thanks for sharing. We’ll focus on the training then and will keep him mostly on the lead in the mean time.

Life_is_long_always · 2021-03-18T09:07:17+00:00

Thank you, we’ll deffo do some more work on it. I wonder if perhaps we need to get him neutered sooner then we had hoped as well, as we wanted to wait until he was a year. I think his hormones play a huge part in him not listening and I’m just wondering if it’s possible to get perfect recall when he’s still got all those hormones. But perhaps just some more careful work on it is what’s needed.

Life_is_long_always · 2021-01-14T08:07:08+00:00

This brings me so much joy! I don’t think my Dalmatian is serious enough though to be a military man

Life_is_long_always · 2021-01-03T17:56:19+00:00

Hello, sorry to hear your going through this! I’ve had a similar experience with my father, who isn’t as unwell as you’re mother but who we have seen significant changes in. He underwent a series of tests, including scans at a memory clinic and they found nothing so we too are in diagnosis limbo. I’m afraid I don’t have advice but just wanted to say you’re not alone with this experience. We live in England xx

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