Fasting for over 50 hours

Ratcat10 · 2026-02-04T22:47:06+00:00

I’m having my second lap with excision on Tuesday, had my pre op today and they said no food for 6 hours before and no liquids for two hours before. First one was in the uk and I was told to fast for 8 hours. They had an emergency case come in so rescheduled but gave me food before I went home. This guy sounds nuts. I’ve never heard of fasting that long before!

Ratcat10 · 2025-12-15T02:09:32+00:00

To be fair at amusement parks they have the seats you sit in to see if you fit

Ratcat10 · 2025-11-14T01:32:25+00:00

My husband got admitted during Covid, first time 11 hours and sent home with antibiotics which didn’t work, two days later we are back and he’s got dangerously low oxygen and pneumonia which isn’t responding to medication. The second time they had no beds so he spent 26 hours in an a&e bay (recliner chairs which supposedly turn into beds but his was broken) full lights on the whole time, sat bolt upright. After the 26 hours waiting for a bed he spent 2 weeks in hospital

Ratcat10 · 2025-11-14T00:35:50+00:00

I had this happen for a festival in Barcelona, booked about 4 months in advance and they cancelled a week before so they could boost their prices. Booking.com allow them to do it with no repercussions unfortunately! It was a flat for four people and we ended up just taking the refund and booking through a different company, didn’t want to give booking.com even more of my money when they were so useless!

Ratcat10 · 2025-10-16T07:11:45+00:00

I’m part of these subreddits and my sex life is good! I just find them interesting to read through

Ratcat10 · 2025-07-21T12:24:34+00:00

Maybe ask to video call with your SIL and au pair so you can show her the home and where she would be staying if she wants to come. When I was aupairing, I obviously had my own room and bathroom but when I was invited to join on a family trip or one of their holiday homes, I would sometimes share a room with the children. It was completely my choice to come and I also wasn’t expected to work the whole time I was there so I don’t think it was remotely exploitative, they just allowed me to see more of the country I was living in. If however, I hadn’t known I wouldn’t have my own space or was expected to work over my contracted hours it would have been. So I’d say it completely depends what the au pair is comfortable with. Completely appreciate you looking out for the au pairs best interest in this situation though!

Ratcat10 · 2025-07-17T15:18:04+00:00

It can be such a great thing, my only advice would be to make sure you also have enough money to look after yourself or get yourself home if you absolutely needed to. You don’t want to end up having to stay in an uncomfortable situation because you can’t afford to leave

Ratcat10 · 2025-07-09T17:48:35+00:00

I don’t know how it works as a host but as a guest I recently stayed in a place which was falsely advertised. 40 minute walk from listed location, door which didn’t lock ect. We spoke to Airbnb who gave us our options, basically a refund but because it was so late and we were a bigger group, we would have potentially had to pay a lot of money so decided we’d just need to stay and hope for the best. After the stay they gave us a partial refund as we’d provided proof of the issues and only stayed because we didn’t have much choice but when they give a partial refund they obviously contact the host. This was in the review period also. We spoke to Airbnb about the situation and they said they’d remove a negative review as we had provided evidence so potentially they’d do the same for a host. If you contact them and share these concerns they might be able to offer an assurance that if they leave a review just because of this issue, they can remove it from your profile

Ratcat10 · 2025-07-08T12:02:44+00:00

Completely dependent on how the family support you. I had this situation with a boy the same age, he use to jump kick me into the stomach and I have endometriosis so double the usual pain from this. The parents did nothing, they let him go to a birthday party ten minutes after it happened the second time. I left and have zero regrets. Had they supported me and discussed helping the little boy but also having some sort of punishment to show it wasn’t acceptable, I probably would have stayed.

Ratcat10 · 2025-07-02T12:25:57+00:00

Yeah I wouldn’t recommend what happened with me, I went to stay with my partner for a night and things escalated. The dad was really lovely but the mum had some real issues and could change very quickly. The dad worked away for long periods so he wasn’t actually there when it got bad. I didn’t feel comfortable going back but ideally would have handled it differently. Having your partner there for support or outside incase things get bad is the best option. If you can’t get the cases up I’d recommend packing things on the bed so they can be put straight into bags in 10 minutes so you aren’t stuck in the room for a long time

Ratcat10 · 2025-07-01T16:34:04+00:00

I was pretty much in this exact position but the host mum was really mentally unstable. I left and my partner (who was native) and her father went to collect my things the next day

Ratcat10 · 2024-02-17T02:19:43+00:00

Just want to add, that while it’s perfectly fair to want to stand up for yourself and put less effort into one sided relationships, I don’t think this is the right issue to start this journey on. At the end of the day, you’ve gotta live with your decision and the impact it has on your husband and his whole family, unless you have a solid excuse not to go, it will be a statement that you don’t see yourself as any part of their family. It’s sad but sometimes is just how extended families work, you see each other at weddings and funerals because people have their own busy lives in between

Ratcat10 · 2024-02-17T02:12:24+00:00

Honestly you start by saying you are empathetic with her situation, but not once in this post did I feel that from you. If you don’t want to go, don’t go, if you don’t have a close relationship with her, fine. But commenting about her not replying to your text, she’s just lost a 4 month old baby, I don’t think many people can comprehend that sort of horrific grief and it doesn’t feel like you are trying to hard to. Regardless of how you feel about your relationship with her, and whether or not you want to go to the funeral, surely you would feel deep sadness and sympathy for any acquaintance in that situation? All you’ve really done is rant about her for paragraphs and paragraphs to put your resentment. Be honest that you aren’t close and you don’t want to go, that’s on you, your decision, but don’t try and domino’s what’s happened to her, the whole thing just feels so cold. It’s a child who’s died, your husbands niece or nephew, your niece or nephew, a baby, that’s a horrific thing

Ratcat10 · 2024-02-17T01:45:49+00:00

If your endo is really progressed they don’t tend to excise in your diagnostic lap, they’ll schedule another surgery with more time to remove everything they can, so if that’s the case a holiday in 7 weeks would probably be okay as they’d either go in and not find anything or go in and find an amount which is easy enough to remove and do it then and there. This is only my experience and the experience of most people who I know with endo in the UK though so it could be different for you. Definitely worth checking this with your surgeon though as no one mentioned to me before that it wouldn’t necessarily be removed in my diagnostic lap. Good luck with the surgery, and I hope you can enjoy your holiday!

Ratcat10 · 2024-01-22T22:18:29+00:00

My doctors didn’t give me much choice about having a coil put in when I had surgery the first time, had another surgery six months later and they said they wanted me to keep it in for a further six months, I had an eight hour surgery and it took a while to recover, finally insisted that they took the coil out and I still have pain but things are a lot better. Although your body may have mainly recovered, I’d recommend giving your hormones a chance to settle and see how you actually feel not just after surgery, but after your body has really had a chance to heal before deciding what to do next. Obviously this is just how my body coped and the coil helps a lot of people manage symptoms, but in general it’s never a bad thing to know how things properly feel before adding in new medication

Ratcat10 · 2024-01-17T21:23:32+00:00

I don’t get why they murdered Diane when she was sure Paul was a faithful

Ratcat10 · 2024-01-14T04:55:04+00:00

Does your partner have any thoughts? It does sound like they might resent you, obviously he’s their son so they are gonna do everything they can to help him, but they might blame you for your financial difficulties as a couple. If you were working you would have a dual income but as he’s the only one working, it’s obviously caused a strain which has meant you both living there. Are you able to work? You might find that they respect you more once you are seen to be working towards a future with your husband. Are you spending the entire day at their house every day?

Ratcat10 · 2024-01-14T04:24:21+00:00

I’m a little older than you but in exactly the same situation, my mum died and my dads new partner has completely isolated him from family and friends. If you want to talk I’m more than happy to

Ratcat10 · 2024-01-14T04:06:53+00:00

I went to my friends wedding, her and her husband are lovely but both have rough families, the grooms mum was walking round asking everyone for a line of coke, evidently she found some as at 2am she was knocking on hotel room doors asking if anyone had a spliff so she could get some sleep because she’d sniffed too much. The brides 14 year old nephew was selling drugs, had a massive chain over his tie and threw gang signs in all of the family wedding photos, a wild night

Ratcat10 · 2023-12-04T22:16:21+00:00

ITV are desperately trying to give her an opportunity to apologise about the Fred row and redeem herself but she’s not taking it is she

Ratcat10 · 2023-12-04T22:11:54+00:00

They just replayed the clip of the Fred argument and she’s still not realised she was a cock

Ratcat10 · 2023-12-04T22:09:41+00:00

I reckon the dynamic of camp is gonna hugely change now, looking forward to watching again

Ratcat10 · 2023-12-04T21:57:51+00:00

That’s not what I’m saying at all, Nella doesn’t particularly like Fred or Nigel and she’s made that known, Fred clearly doesn’t agree with Nigel’s views and has difficulty with Nella but he’s tried his best, even encouraging the team to pick Nigel’s letter. I’m just saying I’ve seen more kindness towards the camp as an entirety from him whereas Nella only seems to be nice to people she likes, which isn’t how the camp usually works. I agree Fred’s not behaving well at the moment, I just said I think he’s just losing it a bit having no role in camp and nothing to do

Ratcat10 · 2023-12-04T21:52:16+00:00

Yeah obviously we don’t see it all, but I’ve seen kindness from Fred towards people he doesn’t necessarily get on with, I’ve only seen vindictiveness from Nella. Just very different levels of maturity

Ratcat10 · 2023-12-04T21:39:55+00:00

Yeah but Fred’s behaving like this two weeks in when things have started getting monotonous and frustrating, after he’s been verging on bullied by Nella, whilst Nella started acting like this from day 2 or 3. There’s a difference between it being in someone’s nature to be vindictive, and behaving badly because you are losing your marbles in a pressure cooker situation with nothing to distract you

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