LT - I am so sorry, I too have been a displaced worker due to a recession. There is nothing to help make it better, other than a new job. I will be thinking of you and the LT family hoping for the best.
Right back atcha Smarx. Thanks and good-luck yourself.
(Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming…)
Minor moan - I did not know about the other Frak parties that were going on tonight. I am falling asleep and BSG has not started yet.
This weekend is teh suck for me - I need to have (well my goal is) 40 pages written by Monday and as of now I have 9. I may be scarce the next few days… 
'talos and LT, I am sorry to hear about your news. I hope speedy recoveries and new opportunities are found for you both.
Much appreciated Solai. Thanks.
Well said, so I say that again.
A little over a week ago I woke up and couldn’t feel or move my legs, in fact anything below my hips was just gone, and below my waist felt like it was reacting through a cloud.
As I’m recovering from spinal surgery, I knew that something wasn’t right, see I’m perceptive like that, what I didn’t know was how I was going to reach the phone to call for help.
Living alone is fantastic for the most part, you can do what you want, when you want to, if I want to play Super Mario naked I can do, but it does mean in an emergency I’m dependant on contacting other people, and both my phones were in the lounge, because I don’t like to be disturbed by ringing phones while asleep.
I was too scared to try and drag myself to the phones, I might do more damage to myself, and frankly I have no upper-body strength, hormone therapy’ll do that to you boys!.
I had to lay there for 6 hours until someone realised i was uncontactable, and called round to see how I was, and then phone an ambulance for me.
So a week later, I’m back home, my new flat-mate has moved in and I can move my legs again, the problem was slightly serious, but was fixed and should hopefully not re-occur.
The worst part is, the flat-mate puts the GODDAM KETCHUP IN THE FRIDGE! It’s MADDENING!
I hope all is healing better now. This is probably an understatement but keep a phone with you at all times. If need be keep it off and only turn it on when you want to call. My house-mate (husband) would not always hear if I just yelled. I was under order to only be out of bed at 30 minutes at a stretch. The phone gave me the feeling of security I needed to get up and doing and not freak out when my husband left the house. I was walking the day after surgery and was afraid of falling as I did before surgery.
So what I am saying is keep a phone with you and let the ketchup in the fridge go. I keep the ketchup in the fridge is that wrong? 
Feel better and rest up with a phone within reach.
Now I will stop playing your long distance mom.
Stupid flatmates! It’s harrowing what you’re having to put up with. Ketchup in the fridge. Seriously!
(In all earnestness, I hope everything continues to improve, TNM. That sounds frightening as all get-out. I’m glad you made it through okay.)
I now keep the phone with me at all times, bit too scared not to! Ketchup shouldn’t go in the fridge, it makes it too cold and doesn’t pour right.
Wee bit of OCD there eh?
Totally, it’s just madness.
Why not compromise and have a bottle of Ketchup in and one out of the fridge. That way you can both have your way. Less stress helps you feel better. How long are the doctors saying you need bed rest?
Thanx Solai and all. Mom is home and doing much better. She’s always busy so a hospital stay was driving her loco. Her husband (my parents are divorced…long story) threatened to tie her to the bed which I said she might like, negating the threat. My mom got it…she hip, yo!
Yeah for Mamma Talos!!! Happy to hear she is out of the hospital and doing so much better.
It says, “Refrigerate after opening” right on the label. I didn’t know this was a debate. How much Ketchup is being poured to make this a problem? Unless there were like five people in the family using it, the expiration date would pass long before it was empty and leaving it out would make it go bad faster. Leah is right, two is a good plan and Ketchup is cheap. 
Glad to hear everyone’s situations are improving. 
If I may weigh in on the debate. I prefer my tomato sauce (or ketchup if I buy it - not nearly as commonly eaten here) warm but usually follow the instructions and fridge it.
Madness I say! We don’t need 2 bottles… unless i start putting it on more stuff… yum!
6 weeks! I’m barely allowed to move! I’ve not managed to shave my legs since the operation. VERY ANNOYING!
True, I suppose, but I burn through the 250ml bottle in 2 weeks, I like ketchup… and my own way!
Two bottles it is then!
Fight the power! Damn the man! Save the Empire! Keep ketchup room temperature! WOO!
I think you are still not sure about the ketchup but do not worry life will go on however you work that out. I had 6 weeks of prison. No car drives even if someone else drove until the doctor appointment. 30 minutes out of bed at most for several weeks. The lack of showering about killed me. I never enjoyed a shower so much as that first shower. I am off painkillers and can do most of everything I want. I just have to be careful not to get to carried away when doing physical work or playing with large shelter dogs. You will sometime look back at this and realize that it was worth the aggravation. I knew I had to get back to work when I started to watch Bridezilla on a regular basis.
My wife and daughters are all sick (Elena is particularly miserable).