Sharing my life with Ms Sophie (Bipolar II)

glad to hear you are on the right antibiotics and you are finally feelinf a bit better @Sophie1 , it sure takes it out of you when you are not well

hope Ms S gets rid of her headaches soon

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Wow @Former-Member I will have to get my carving tools out lol

@Former-Member, @Sophie1 , have either of you ever come across a Viola da Gamba? I've seen one (at least?) being played by a Baroque ensemble. Essentially a 7 string cello. I don't know if the picture is the same one, but the one I saw had a man's head carved into the scroll.

Have not heard of that before @Smc .

Hope you are feeling a lot better now @Sophie1.

@Smc @Former-Member Wow I have never seen one of those - I had heard of 5 string cellos tho and often long for a lower string as I love the bass sounds ... but don’t quite see myself wrangling a double bass ... the viola da gamba looks beautiful .

i went back to work today and still not 100% but steroids helping me

got home and MsS has shocking light sensitive migraine - I encouraged over an hour of getting home to let me take her to gp for pain relief as she had none left and I could see she was not coping with pain at all ... so a 1.5 hr round trip later and all done ... now for bed ahhhh ...

hope you are both both well and sleep well

@Sophie1, I decided I'd love a viola when I got carried away by some music that I was playing an impromtu alto line for on my violin, and I tried moving over to a lower string that wasn't there. 🙂 I think I'd find it a bit challenging learning the different stance for playing a cello, plus I've got a musician's ear but not the hands to match. Short fingers... I think the viola is as much of a stretch as I can do.

Sleep well, hope Ms S is better tomorrow.

How are you going @Sophie1 ?

Hi @Former-Member ... just worked late fir a deadline and over tired ... have an early start too eeek ... at least I finished my work ... MsS has to go to gp again for pain meds for migraine but at least we were lucky and osteopath at clinic had a cancellation and asked if she’d like it ... MsS accepted and got some relief yay !!!! I am so happy when she has some relief ... my chest nearly better just a bit rattly still ... anyway must try to sleep ... oh I sorted out my jewellery on weekend - all in neat plastic containers now I got from Bunnings - they were only $5ea - designed for tradies for nails lol

Hi @Sophie1

Checking in to see how you are going. Hoping your infection is a lot better.

Any relief in sight for the migraine situation?