Unseen Academics - Book Signings ????

[quizgeezer]

Has anyone heard any rumours about any signing dates in the UK ... having a collection of nearly 200 1st/1st's still awaiting a signature, I would be interested in any future dates.

And before anyone mentions it .... NO ... I won't be taking them all at once.

Iain Clover aka QuizGeezer
"Quizgeezer@aol.com"

http://www.quizgeezer.co.uk/index.htm

[Tonyblack]

Sadly I think you can expect less signing tours. Not only the alzheimers, but Terry also suffers from R.S.I. that causes him a great deal of pain.

But check out the Transworld homepage HERE - there may be info of tours there.

[Who's Wee Dug]

Or go to one of the Discworld Conventions.

[Tina a.k.a.SusanSto.Helit]

Sadly I think you can expect less signing tours. Not only the alzheimers, but Terry also suffers from R.S.I. that causes him a great deal of pain.

R.S.I. ?? what is that? and I can understand that with my Graves/Fibromyalgia and complete top to bottom spine issues.

[Lady Vetinari]

You have Fybromyalgia? I have that too ... my sincerest sympathies to you hun! what is graves?

R S I - Repetitive Strain Injury, you get it if you use your hands a lot - eventually the pain is so intense you can't use them but it's not like arthritis. Knitters, writers, and secretaries tends to be the most mune to it. (Well you have immune!)

[Jan Van Quirm]

It's CTS in American - carpel tunnel syndrome, the curse of the regular keyboard user...

[Tina a.k.a.SusanSto.Helit]

OH!! Ick, I have that in both hands/wrists, I play guitar and used tools on robots and factory lines. Graves is when a part of your brain decides that the Thyroid is the enemy. It tends to run in families and is brought on by EXTREME STRESS. My stress over the topper was my apprenticeship in a "man's world". It sends out antibodies to try and kill the thyroid and the thyroid fights back by becoming "SUPER THYROID" making your metabolism run amok and the antibodies attack every part of you from head/hair to toenails.

I would not wish this disease on my worst enemy. He is Dead now, and i still would not wish it on him. I had a really bad doctor who did not diagnose me properly for over 11 years and by then I almost died. I had a heart attack and went to another doctor. He walked into the room and shouted "My God Woman, There's Something Wrong With Your Thyroid!!!" He asked why I didn't think something was wrong when I could eat whatever I wanted and not gain weight and my boobs got bigger. I said, and this is an exact quote..." I Thought It Was a Gift From God, You Fool!"

My eyes were bulging out of my head and had a goiter the size of a big sort of flattened out Peach on my neck. I was partially blind in both eyes and had to have about 25 hours of surgeries, 4 different ones to save my sight. If they had an olympics for the worlds largest eye muscles, the specialist said I would come in at First or second place in the world. Most people just die when they get to where I was. My Dad died from it.

I "should" be ok as long as I don't stress more than usual LOL and keep taking the proper meds at the exact same blasted times every single day for the rest of my life. "It is, what it is" and "you have to be able to laugh at yourself or you will just cry" are my new mottos.

[poohcarrot]

Not sure about that first motto. It's a bit like the "thankyou for being you"
And the second one's a bit too long.

[Lady Vetinari]

Yikes ... erm ... I have an underactive thyroid ... so definitely my sincerest sympathies. I am on 75grams of thyroxine everyday for the rest of my life too ... I hate my health issues but I am getting over my Agoraphobia though but I still have things wrong with me that won't go away.

[Tina a.k.a.SusanSto.Helit]

Not sure about that first motto. It's a bit like the "thankyou for being you"
And the second one's a bit too long.

how about..." Oh No, not I, I Will Survive, As Long as I know How To Love, I Know I'll Stay Alive, 'Cause I've got All My life to Live, and I've got All My Love To Give, so I'll Survive, Oh I'll Survive.... I WILL SURVIVE!! "

[Who's Wee Dug]

Three's company then I had mine taken out or most of it 20 odd years ago seriously overactive,I went down to 8 stone in weight I was told they take out more than they need just to make sure or it will grow back again,I have one the size of a teaspoon now,thyroid that is. now on a very low dose 0.05msg daily,still get a little hyper but not a lot when stressed.

[Polly]

i'm a fellow sufferer - was diagnosed 2 years ago after coming home from work and falling asleep on the sofa! - do you now how hard it is for some one with a bad memory to remember to take tablets !! going to the doc's tomorrow morning for my blood tests to see how stable I am ...thyroid wise that is...

[Lady Vetinari]

Sorry for that Polly ... me is thinking we should rename this Thyroid Anonymous!

[Who's Wee Dug]

i'm a fellow sufferer - was diagnosed 2 years ago after coming home from work and falling asleep on the sofa! - do you now how hard it is for some one with a bad memory to remember to take tablets !! going to the doc's tomorrow morning for my blood tests to see how stable I am ...thyroid wise that is...

Glandular fever does that to you as well remember falling asleep sometimes at work then I worked in a hospital in admin but it was a private one so I could not be treated there,that was before I had developed Hypothyroidism.

[Tina a.k.a.SusanSto.Helit]

Sorry for that Polly ... me is thinking we should rename this Thyroid Anonymous!

LMAO yes, unfortunately, it is the MOST under/late diagnosed part of the body, they called it "The Trickster" by one med book article.