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Speaker 1: Five Double A Nights with Matthew Pantellas.
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Speaker 2: Tracy Yean, it's here from the pharmacy. Hello, I got it.
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Speaker 3: Right, he did well. How are you, Matthew?
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Speaker 2: Very well? Thank you. Over the last week, I'm having.
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Speaker 3: An insane week. It's so busy at the moment, sometimes feeling a little bit overwhelmed. And I'm sure there's a lot of people out there that kind of get that same vibe. It's the whole deadline thing and setting up new things, completing old things, silly may you know, the whole renovation things happening in the middle, And yeah, it's a bit overwhelming at times.
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Speaker 2: All sorts of things change.
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Speaker 3: Jobs change. I'm glad I don't need to learn a whole new professional Well, I suppose I am in some ways coming in here, even though yeah, I've done a lot of radio. All those shiny buttons I'm getting there.
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Speaker 2: There lit up. You know, they're good. It's good fun, all right. So what we're talking about tonight is preparing for the silly seas, which we're sort of in. This is the silly season now, I don't know where sick of it.
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Speaker 3: And last week we talked about busyness so obviously last week was still the same, and you know, we're getting towards when you think about it, we are so close to Christmas now, and I had this really big wake up call today where it's I've done all my Christmas shopping. I'm very prepared, but I haven't wrapped anything, and I've got boxes and bags of stuff everywhere trying to find what I need because now's the time you start catching up with those people that you're not going to see again prior to Christmas.
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Speaker 2: It's fourteen days tomorrow, isn't it. I've just realized we started Christmas shopping.
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Speaker 3: Hell, it's getting busy out there. Can I just say, but I'm lucky. I'm pretty organized like that, But just this whole okay, I've got to get that ready today because I see them tomorrow for the last time this year type of thing. So just that whole business, and it's nuts getting my head around now or have I purchased all the food and and you know, getting ready for everything. You know, I love cooking, so for me, Christmas Day is about the food. And I'm a typical Taurus. I love you know that food and self indulgent. I think food's my love language. Actually, I just love cooking for people, so I like to be prepared and I like to do the traditional Christmas lunch and yeah, you've got to do all the bits because we only do it once a year totally, but it's just something else this year, just.
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Speaker 2: Add to it all. So okay, mental and physical health and wellbeing tips? Why do we need to keep in mind?
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Speaker 3: I'm going to read these for my own benefits. Well, what we need to do is is you know, I'm going to skip a couple of points here because that expectation of how it should be. We want everything to be perfect. We want the perfect gifts, we want the perfect meal, we want the perfect Christmas functions. Are we putting too much pressure? I mean, Matthew, watch your Perfect Christmas Day. If you could pick the perfect Christmas Day, what would you pick.
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Speaker 2: I've always enjoyed since the kids came along, watching them Open Presence. I love that film.
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Speaker 3: When they're a bit grown up.
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Speaker 2: It is and you know, I mean, you know all along what they're getting, But when they're little, it's really special because they are amazed that somebody's dropped by the house in the middle of the night and left something right.
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Speaker 3: So milk cookies.
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Speaker 2: So you know, just look, it's family. It's all about family, so it doesn't matter what you do. And you know, we always do a family lunch. Usually I don't think we've done a dinner. We might have, but sometimes it's a lot of if we're going over to a cousin's house, for instance, and the family gets together. But usually it's just my mum and the four of us, and then we go round to the in laws and join them for leftovers after they've had lunch. Yes, so we have. I mean, who's hungry, right, But you go over and nibble on something.
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Speaker 3: We managed to still eat. And I think we in our heads we think we actually eat more than we do because there's such a grand preparation and a grand spread, and you do pick at this and that, but we still have those limitations and what we can actually fit in. I think for me, my perfect Christmas Day is something very you know. I like the warmer Christmas days. If it rains to me a disappointment, I love to put the weber on. I can get the whole you know, the turkey, and do a nice baked ham and your veggies and things like that. If it's hot, I'll pick salads. We have gorgeous friends who own this amazing business called Spring Fresh Salads. And you think of all the ingredients you have to buy to make a salad. Oh my god. They make my life efficient, cheap and easy. And I put an order and you pick it up Christmas Eve and you've got enough for about four days. And that goes with the leftovers as well. So they are a wonderful little asset. But on the colder days, I'll do veggies. But yeah, that and you have to have Christmas pudding with the custard and things like that. That to me is Christmas. And you have to have the bon bonds and table set pretty, and yeah, it's just a really nice occasion. But I'm really glad that I don't have to do too much running around that would probably.
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Speaker 2: So everyone comes to you.
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Speaker 3: Everyone comes to me because I cook basically, which is lovely too. If it's hot, we've always had the pool and or you know, the end of the day and we do lunch, really that long slow lunch. And yeah, my perfect Christmas night is sitting listening still to maybe some Christmas musics with a glass of wine, sitting in my spa. Okay, nice, that's my choice. Yeah, but that's just a nice reflection. But like you were saying about the children I love. For me, probably my ultimate favorite part of Christmas is Christmas Eve, that.
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Speaker 2: Whole the lead up. Yeah, the anticipation, that's the word.
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Speaker 3: The anticipation of all things good and happy and nice and well received. And yeah, it's just a nice feeling, I think. So Christmas Eve's definitely my favorite.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is good and the lead up to it, and you kind of feel it the day, even on Christmas Day, towards the end of the day and the next day, that feeling is gone, you know, it's just business as usual now, even though it might be holidays and whatever.
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Speaker 3: Well, we always have a Boxing Day tradition with gorgeous friends that we've been doing for the last what are we twenty twenty five, probably about thirteen years where the two families get together and we don't often get a lot of days to get together because we're all busy, we all have professional lives and things like that, so we have what we call, we joke and call it the hair of the Dog Day. So it's basically whatever leftovers are in those houses from Christmas Day, get brought along and we laugh, drink cheese platter, you know, have a swim by the pool, play some music and really just chill out. It's a really nice.
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Speaker 2: Nice just yeah Christmas tradition.
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Speaker 3: So Christmas Day tradition.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely fantastic. All right, we will take a break, Tracy Yen to see if you've got any health questions for her. Now's your chance. Eight double two to three double oh double ow all advice of a general nature of course.
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Speaker 1: Five double a nice with Matthew Pantellas.
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Speaker 2: Tracy Yenda's here and Marge's called in from Hampstead Gardens, cra see hello March.
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Speaker 3: Hi Marge, oh.
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Speaker 4: Hi, I'm waiting for a hit replacement. I'm just you know, the what do you call them, the.
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Speaker 3: Long lasting one, the pando osteo.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, And I just want to was taking Targeant or something. I think it's called Targeant.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a bit higher up sort of pain relief. Yep.
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Speaker 4: I don't really want to go down there. I did try the money took me for about three days. I did bloody work.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, what did you try them?
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Speaker 4: Targeant?
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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, it was the targant. That didn't help.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I didn't really want to go down that oil, you know, because you can give it them things. I think, Well, the.
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Speaker 3: Problem is where does it stop? I mean it comes down to you. How long are you waiting for this hip replacement? Are you on a private list a public list?
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Speaker 4: Are you public then? Sixty three months?
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Speaker 1: Wow?
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Speaker 3: And what's the what's the projective? Have they giving you a bit of a timeline?
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Speaker 4: Well, they just keep they just keep giving you appointments. I've been on to the clinic, you know, for the age. It's sat at Modbury. You know that's I think it's called the Age Clinic or something right, and I've think I'm there for I don't know. They just seems to pray along it all the time. Yes, they do help you there. They're very good, I think if you're am. I can't think of the word ambulant tree or something. It's a clinic. It's run by the North by the hospital there, and they seemed every a couple of months and weren't you to go in And I think it's just as if you can get in and out of bed and all that sort of thing. But they don't seem to do anything, you know, give you any idea when you're going in or anything like that.
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Speaker 3: No, it's really sad some of the wait times for some of these bigger operations unfortunately.
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Speaker 4: I mean I can still get around, you know, pretty well on the walker, but I'm certainly SICKX. But it's just it just goes on it and the pain is excruciating, you know.
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Speaker 3: That's it. But it affects your quality of life. And the problem with things like kIPS is you start limping and then then you compensate with the other leg and then your knees are affected and your ankles are affected, and it kind of just is you know, ongoing. And look, paracetamol that osteo is pretty good for having, you know, if you have the regular doses, but you can't exceed more than six and twenty four hours and you can't take over paladole like paracetamol with it because you it's quite a nasty drug in excess, so you've got to be really careful. But do you know what I would have a look at. It's something that has clinically blown me away over the last few years, is what we call pete is the palmatoil ethanolamide, and it's a natural fatty a mind that our bodies were generally make them break down in response to trauma and injury, but as we age or pain becomes chronic, our bodies can't make enough. So by you know, potentially giving this back to the body, it can help reduce that inflammatory process and hopefully lower the pain. And I did a bunch of surveys on people after taking your stuff for twelve weeks, so it's not like taking your panta like your parasede my way, your pain goes away for a few hours and then you take more umuls.
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Speaker 4: W you're taking that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the good thing is is it doesn't interact with any of those pain relievers, so you can still use pain relief. This also doesn't affect your cognitive function like some of the bigger pain reliefs, so it doesn't make your drowsy, it doesn't make you more unsteady on your feet. But you need to be consistent with it for a good couple of months to get that loading dose in and then you just maintain it. But certainly after that twelve week mark, I saw some significant results in it'd blow me away a bit the results people were.
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Speaker 4: Getting and a natural thing. I didn't want to take anything.
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Speaker 3: It's not it's completely natural, doesn't interact with anything. It doesn't have any you know, unwanted additives in it, and what it The only time you wouldn't take it is if you had sort of severe stage of kidney or liver problems.
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Speaker 4: I'm a dog BETI I haven't anything.
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Speaker 3: There's no issues with that with diabetes at all. So but I'll leave my number at the end March. Give me a call and we'll have a chat and we'll work out how to get your set up.
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Speaker 4: Oh good, Yeah, it didn't want to take anything that was like you know, because the first one they gave me was a load. She gave me another one. I said, look, I'm not taking him anymore.
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Speaker 3: Well, the problem is where does that end? I mean, if you're on them for a really long term and you're waiting, time keeps blowing out, they're not you know, it's not an ideal solution, it's a it's a a cute you know, a cute pain solution. I think. So if we can come up with a better plan that won't put you at further jeopardy of things like fools or you know, won't you know, take you over any limits of what you're taking and things like that. Then I think it's a really positive additive to what you're doing.
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Speaker 2: All right, Marge, get ready at the end. In about half an hour or so, we'll give out Tracy's number. So be there with a pen and paper. Jenny at Allen b guard inside, Jenny, Oh.
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Speaker 5: How messew? And how I tracing?
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Speaker 3: Hi? Jenny, I'm well, thank you? How are you? Yes?
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Speaker 6: Some good?
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Speaker 5: Thank you? Well, I'm going to myself very unpopular now. The thing I hate about Christmas is the animals are so many, thousands of animals so killed. And look people will say, oh no, no, they don't do it the way they used to. That isn't true.
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Speaker 2: But Jenny, they're delicious.
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Speaker 5: Oh for you all, you're abong room. I have a very weird watching babe. And I said, I cannot understand how anyone can kill that little pig.
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Speaker 7: And he said, well, it's.
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Speaker 5: Making me hungry. So I gave him the thing in the ribs because oh, I said, you're horrible man, because I know I look seriously the poultry that these animals are, some of them are more intelligent than human beings, and they also show love like cows. Yeah, well, I look, I'm sorry. I just will never eat anything comes off of pig or a cowel or and I get rubbished about it, and you know, just because you're doing this doesn't stop them being killed.
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Speaker 7: But look, I can't.
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Speaker 5: I just can't deal with it.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you've got to stick to your beliefs. That's what you think. Well, that's great, that's fine.
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Speaker 3: I don't think Jenny's alone. I think our upcoming generations are so much more educated and have these wider views on issues like this. Where there and the beauty is there's much more sustainable options and alternate options for people these days. So you're not just at the.
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Speaker 2: Same you don't want to eat an animal.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's fine, thank you.
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Speaker 2: Jenny, will leave it. They're Bessie at Ross Trevor. Hi, Bessie, good, thank you.
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Speaker 3: Hi Bessie. I'm good, thank you. How are you well.
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Speaker 8: I'm very pleased to say I'm recovering slowly. Not a very good year with myself. I've had too many testing this year. I'm on the way to climbing up the slippery hill, and I'm getting up slowly, so I'm going.
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Speaker 3: Well, which is good. You had COVID quite badly earlier in the year. I remember not long after your birthday.
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Speaker 8: That's right when I went down with that, and then I went down with a chest infection and it didn't clear up when we thought it had and and then it came back with rsv M or something off for get what's called now.
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Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, and that that really set me back.
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Speaker 8: So I'm on the way to recovery now. So I'm fine now, but I'll have a nice Christmas and sit back and with everybody do the work.
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Speaker 3: Are you catching up with your family and your sister, Bessie actual me, No, I.
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Speaker 8: Probably want to join them, my sister. But going out with my youngest daughter and her partner for lunch on Christmas days that will be nice, lovely. Nobody has to do any work. But it reminds me a little bit of one of the moves we had from one down to another many many years ago, and our children were small and we were moving out on Boxing Day, so we had to have everything packed up on Christmas Day. We couldn't have Christmas tree up or anything like that because we had to move out. You know as early as possible on boxing to move to the next town.
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Speaker 6: So we sat on sat.
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Speaker 9: On packed boxes in the kitchen eating Fritz.
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Speaker 8: Pritsonton March, I saw sandwiches, and I'll never forget that. It was one of the best Christmas lumps as we ever had. There was no work, that's sure, but what we did was kept all We opened our Christmas presents, but we kept all the decorations until we got to our new home, and then we put them up there and celebrated Christmas a few days like that didn't happen.
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Speaker 9: But it was really lovely.
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Speaker 8: Lovely family in the township where we invited us to their home for the evening move along Christmas Day, so I didn't have to do anything.
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Speaker 6: It was lovely.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's lovely and so good to hear your voice, Besci. And I might have a conversation with you offa at some point over the next week or two, because there's a really good antioxid and I used four lungs that can help them repair a lot quicker.
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Speaker 9: Oh okay, and it might.
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Speaker 3: Help prevent you from getting some more stuff down the track, so it might. I believe you have my new number. Beautiful genre in you and told you where I shifted to hair. I'm so glad you do.
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Speaker 8: Would you like me to renewald it? The betterf you roun me went up through to Jews because I don't know what.
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Speaker 3: Let me just check. I'm pretty sure I got you plugged into my phone these days, Bessie, after your big Bertie, I.
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Speaker 8: Haven't had yours transferred into mine at the moment on having trouble with all my electronics, and I'm terrified that someone's going to do something with's not done and upset.
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Speaker 2: You've got it.
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Speaker 3: Oh good, I've got you, know, Bessie. I'll give you a call over the next few days.
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Speaker 2: Good on your Bessie, Thank you for calling. Have a great Christmas. It is news time on five double A. Tracy Yender's here and Marge's called in from Hampstead Gardens. Cracy, Hello, Marchi.
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Speaker 4: Marge, Oh hi, you chase you look I'm waiting for a hip replacement. Just I'm just pan. You know the what do you call them?
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Speaker 3: The long lasting one depended old osteo.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. And I just wanted was taking Targeant or something. I think it's called Targeant.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a bit higher up sort of pain relief. Yep.
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Speaker 4: I don't really want to go down there. I did try the money took about three days. I did bloody work.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, what did you try them?
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Speaker 4: Pageant?
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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, it was the targant that didn't help.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I didn't really want to go down that or you know, because you can give it them things. I think, Well, the.
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Speaker 3: Problem is where does it stop? I mean it comes down to you. How long are you waiting for this hip replacement? Are you on a private list a public list?
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Speaker 4: Are you public then? Sixty three months?
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Speaker 1: Wow?
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Speaker 3: And what's the what's the projective? Have they giving you a bit of a timeline?
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Speaker 4: Well, they just keep they just keep giving your appointments. I've been going to the clinic, you know, for the age. It's sat at Modbury, you know that's I think it's called the Age Clinic or something right, And I've been going there for I don't know. They just seems to pray along it all the time. They do help you there. They're very good. I think. If you're ambulance if I can't think of the word ambulance tree or something. It's a clinic. It's run by the north by the hospital there, and they seemed every a couple of months and w't you to go in. I think it's just as if you can get in and out of bed and all that sort of thing, but they don't seem to do anything, you know, give you any idea when you're going in or anything like that.
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Speaker 3: No, it's really sad some of the wait times for some of these bigger operations unfortunately.
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Speaker 4: I mean I can still get around, you know, pretty well on the walker, but I'm certainly six. But it's just it just goes on and the pain is excruciating, you know.
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Speaker 3: That's it, but it affects your quality of life. And the problem with things like kIPS is you start limping and then then you compensate with the other leg and then your knees are affected and your ankles are affected, and it kind of just is you know, ongoing. And look, paracetamol that osteo is pretty good for having, you know, if you have the regular doses, but you can't exceed more than six in twenty four hours. And you can't take the palidole like paracetamol with it because you it's quite a nasty drug in excess so you've got to be really careful. But do you know what I would have a look at. It's something that has clinically blown me away over the last few years, is the what we call PETE is the Palmertoil ethanol. And it's a natural fatty a mind that our bodies would generally make them break down in response to trauma and injury, but as we age or pain becomes chronic, our bodies can't make enough. So by you know, potentially giving this back to the body, it can help reduce that inflammatory process and hopefully lower the pain. And I did a bunch of surveys on people after taking your stuff for twelve weeks, so it's not like taking your panalta like your parasede my way, your pain goes away for a few hours and then you take.
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Speaker 8: More while you're taking that.
00:23:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, the good thing is is it doesn't interact with any of those pain relievers, so you can still use pain relief. This also doesn't affect your cognitive function like some of the bigger pain reliefs, so it doesn't make your drowsy, it doesn't make you more unsteady on your feet. But you need to be consistent with it for a good couple of months to get that loading dose in and then you just maintain it. But certainly after that twelve week mark I saw some significant results in it. It did blow me away a bit the results people.
00:24:07
Speaker 4: Were getting and a natural thing. I didn't want to take anything. It's not.
00:24:12
Speaker 3: It's completely natural, doesn't interact with anything. It doesn't have any you know, unwanted additives in it, and what it The only time you wouldn't take it is if you had sort of severe stage of kidney or liver problem.
00:24:27
Speaker 4: I'm a dog betig, I haven't anything.
00:24:30
Speaker 3: There's no issues with that with diabetes at all. So but I'll leave my number at the end March, give me a call and we'll have a chat and we'll work out how to get your set up.
00:24:41
Speaker 4: Oh good. Yeah, it didn't want to take anything that was like you know, because the first one they gave me was a load. She gave me another one. I said, look, I'm not taking them anymore.
00:24:54
Speaker 3: Well, the problem is where does that end? I mean, if you're on them for a really long term and you're waiting time it's blowing out, they're not you know, it's not an ideal solution. It's a it's a cute, you know, a cute pain solution. I think. So if we can come up with a better plan that won't put you at further jeopardy of things like fools or you know, won't you know, take you over any limits of what you're taking and things like that, then I think it's a really positive additive to what you're doing.
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Speaker 2: All right, Marge, get ready at the end, in about half an hour or so, we'll give out Tracy's number, So be there with a pen and paper. Jenny at Allen b Garden side, Jenny, Oh.
00:25:32
Speaker 5: How Matthew and how?
00:25:34
Speaker 3: I try to Hi Jenny, I'm well, thank you? How are you?
00:25:38
Speaker 6: Yes?
00:25:38
Speaker 5: Some good? Thank you? Well, I'm going to myself very unpopular now. The thing I hate about Christmas is the animals are so many, thousands of animals so killed. And look people will say, oh no, no, they don't do it the way they used to. That isn't true.
00:25:59
Speaker 2: But Jenny delicious, oh.
00:26:02
Speaker 6: Pro for you all.
00:26:04
Speaker 4: You're abound me.
00:26:05
Speaker 5: My husband very we're watching Babe, and I said I cannot understand how anyone can kill that little pig. And he said, well, it was making me hungry. So I gave him a thing in the ribs because, oh, I said, you're horrible man, because I know I look seriously the poultry that these animals are. Some of them are more intelligent than human beings, and they also show love.
00:26:39
Speaker 3: Like cows beings.
00:26:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I look, I'm sorry. I just will never eat anything comes off of pigs or a cowel or and I get rubbished about it, and you know, just because you're doing this doesn't stop from being killed.
00:27:06
Speaker 7: But look, I can't.
00:27:09
Speaker 5: I just can't deal with it.
00:27:10
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you've got to stick to your beliefs, that's what you think. Well, that's great, that's fine.
00:27:14
Speaker 3: I don't think Jenny's alone. I think our upcoming generations are so much more educated and have these wider views on issues like where there and the beauty is. There's much more sustainable options and alternate options. It's for people these days. So you're not just at the same you.
00:27:35
Speaker 2: Don't want to eat an animal.
00:27:37
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's fine, thank.
00:27:39
Speaker 2: You, Jenny, will leave it. They're Bessie at Ross Trevor. Hi, Bessie, good, thank.
00:27:45
Speaker 3: You, Hi Bessie. I'm good, thank you. How are you well?
00:27:54
Speaker 8: I'm very pleased to say, I'm recovering slowly, another very good year with myself. I've had too many chest infections this year. I'm on the way to climbing up the slippery hill and I'm getting up slowly set so I'm going.
00:28:17
Speaker 3: Well, which is good. You had COVID quite badly earlier in the year. I remember, not long after your birthday.
00:28:26
Speaker 8: That's right, I went down with that. And then I went down with a chest infection and it didn't clear up when we thought it had, and and then it came back with rsv M or something of for get what's called.
00:28:41
Speaker 3: Now, Wow, yeah, and that.
00:28:44
Speaker 8: Really set me back. So I'm on the way to recovery now. So I'm fine now. But I'll have a nice Christmas and sit back and with everybody do the work.
00:28:56
Speaker 3: Are you catching up with your family and your sister, Bessie action.
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Speaker 8: We No, I probably won't to join them from my sister, But going out with my youngest daughter and her partner by lunch on Christmas.
00:29:13
Speaker 3: Dater, that will be nice, lovely.
00:29:17
Speaker 8: Nobody has to do any work. But it reminds me a little bit of one of the moves we had from one down to another many many years ago, and our children were small, and we were moving out on Boxing Day, so we had to have everything packed up on Christmas Day. We couldn't have Christmas tree up or anything like that because we had to move out, you know, as early as possible on Boxing Day to move to the next town.
00:29:46
Speaker 9: So we sat on sat on packed boxes in the kitchen, eating Fritson Princeton. Mar I saw sandwiches, and I'll never forget that. It was one of the best Christmas lumps were here.
00:30:03
Speaker 8: But there was no work of fact. But what we did was kept all We opened our Christmas presents, but we kept all the decorations until we got to our new home and then we put them up there and celebrated Christmas.
00:30:20
Speaker 6: A few days late.
00:30:21
Speaker 8: But that didn't happen. But it was really lovely, lovely family in the township where we invited us to their home for the evening we along Christmas Day, so I didn't have to do anything.
00:30:36
Speaker 6: It was lovely.
00:30:37
Speaker 3: Oh that's lovely, and so good to hear your voice, Bessy, and I might have a conversation with you off air at some point over the next week or two because there's a really good antioxid and I used four lungs that can help them repair a lot quicker.
00:30:51
Speaker 9: Oh okay, and it might.
00:30:52
Speaker 3: Help prevent you from getting some more stuff down the track, So it might. I believe you have my new number, beautiful genreng you and told you where I shifted to her. I'm so glad you do.
00:31:07
Speaker 8: Would you like me to renewal it betterf you rang me?
00:31:11
Speaker 6: When?
00:31:12
Speaker 3: So to you?
00:31:13
Speaker 8: Because I don't know what.
00:31:15
Speaker 3: Let me just check. I'm pretty sure I got you plugged into my phone these days, Bessie, after your big Birdie.
00:31:22
Speaker 8: I haven't had yours transferred into mine at the moment. I'm having trouble with all my electronics and I'm terrified that someone's going to do something with my son and upset.
00:31:35
Speaker 2: You've got it.
00:31:36
Speaker 3: Oh good, I've got your number, Bessie. I'll give you a call over the next few days.
00:31:39
Speaker 2: Good on your Bessie, Thank you for calling. Have a great Christmas.
00:31:43
Speaker 1: Five Double A Nights with Matthew Pantellas.
00:31:46
Speaker 2: Tracy yindis here in the studio. She's taking your calls. We've been talking about preparing for the silly season and the big Day, which is only thirteen eleven days away. What's today? I don't know. It's our tenth to day, so it's fifteen days away. Thursday's two weeks tomorrow. That's said two weeks tomorrow. Well that's fifteen days. There we go. That's right, Thank you, Tracy. It has been a boy. I can't believe it's the tenth of December. It feels like the eighteenth of January. Still, you know what is here? You got?
00:32:21
Speaker 3: It has flowed, it has, hasn't it? And I honestly think the last three months have just rated totally totally.
00:32:30
Speaker 2: Maybe they have. Maybe we're in a time thing, and you know, I.
00:32:33
Speaker 3: Think as we get older, like when we were kids, the days felt like they lasted forever, and now they feel really quick.
00:32:41
Speaker 2: Really, what is going on?
00:32:43
Speaker 3: I don't know.
00:32:44
Speaker 2: Faye windsor Gardens help us out.
00:32:46
Speaker 10: Hello, Faye, Yes, I am going to help you out too. And this is with relation to an earlier call you had with regard to talking about panadole and for the pain that they were in have can I reflect on the person for the good place this is for? I think it was Marjorie from Hampstead Gardens, and I wonder if she has tried ever using panidole rapperds. Have you ever heard of those?
00:33:20
Speaker 3: Yes, we have, yeap, what do you think of them? Look, it comes down to personal preference. So a lot of people with pain are recommended, like long term chronic pain, particularly that of osteoarthritis and things. You know, it suggested that they use the parasitam or osteo, but it's slightly higher those. It gives you a bit better coverage, but you can only take six in twenty four hours.
00:33:46
Speaker 10: The fact I've had them myself, yeah, when I've needed them obviously. And also another thing she might like try if she's got a hot signment of any kind, the warmth, wrap it up in a towel or a hot water bag. She's got one, wrap it up in a towel, and that I found don't help me too.
00:34:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're right. And just to clarify the paracetamol, so if you're using something like the wrapperds, you can actually take eight in twenty four hours as long as you're not taking osteo as well as you know, cold and flu tablets have paracetamol, so you've got to be really careful you're not doubling up there. But the recommendation so for something like your normal paracetamol or your paracetamol WRAPID is no more than eight in twenty four hours, but the osteo is no more than six in twenty four hours. And they can't really mix them up.
00:34:45
Speaker 10: No, no, if you do well, they fight each other anyway anyway.
00:34:49
Speaker 3: Well, they don't fight each other. You're just possibly going to end up over your quota. And you know, paracetamo like any good drug is not great, or any good anything, even natural stuff not grade in excess.
00:35:00
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, so I thank you very much, but I thought that might help. That might help a bit as well. There's nothing worse than being in a lot of pain, that's for sure. What the public system is like, as we all do. Matthew, you're going to be on tomorrow night.
00:35:16
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll be here tomorrow night.
00:35:18
Speaker 10: Okay, I'll talk to you then. Okay, Okay, I'll see you then. But Merry Christmas to the both of you for now.
00:35:25
Speaker 3: ITAs to you, Taylor.
00:35:27
Speaker 2: All right, we'll speak tomorrow. Sally at Birkenhead.
00:35:30
Speaker 6: Hi, Sally, I'm I'm gonna call you Paul.
00:35:35
Speaker 2: Don't call me Paul, Tracy.
00:35:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just wondering. It's not about myself, or I do have a question about myself. But Tracy, I'm on a committee for a community radio station down here at SEB before we go out and try to raise funds and organize things to raise money, and we got a lot of requests for a band called the Mavericks and the lead singer Paul Marlow or we call him Paul, but his real name is r u L. He's just passed away. To these days ago.
00:36:17
Speaker 3: I've read that today. To hear that, yeah, I did.
00:36:22
Speaker 6: And I'm a bit devastated because I used to ring from time to time to find out how he was going. And three weeks ago I did ring the number I'm supposed to ring, and they said the cancer had gone to They did tell me a name, but it meant the lining before it gets to the brain, but around the brain. And it said that at Paul or Raoul whatever you like to call him, had a very positive outlook and he was hoping he would recover. And now he's passed. How can that happen in three weeks when somebody's got a positive attitude.
00:37:01
Speaker 3: I don't know. I certainly have seen changes in health over the last few years.
00:37:08
Speaker 6: Tracy, do you know that the name of that what I mean where it said the thing around the brain before it gets to the brain. What do they call it?
00:37:17
Speaker 3: Cool? Good question, A good question.
00:37:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it was just so devastating because we used to get such a lot of calls. They always used to bring up for a song called You're Always Bringing Me Down, and we just loved it. And I just couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it when they said three weeks ago to me that he had a positive outlook.
00:37:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, there's there's been a lot of research over the years that shows that people with a positive outlook do it actually have in a lot of cases a better prognosis. But not knowing him or what type of cancer it was, or you know, was it a late stage when it was picked up, or there's so many factors involved in that, it'd be quite hard to comment on that. But very very sad because he was really quite young, wasn't he was only sixty sixty two or something, just sixty.
00:38:13
Speaker 6: Two he is. Yeah, Oh, and I used to love it. You know, my husband just passed away in July.
00:38:18
Speaker 3: And we're really.
00:38:20
Speaker 6: Country, we're really country music people, but they the Mavericks went really traditional country music. They are what you called crossed over.
00:38:29
Speaker 7: That I can tell you.
00:38:30
Speaker 6: Now, Tracy. My husband and I didn't cross.
00:38:32
Speaker 3: Over dress oh bless.
00:38:36
Speaker 6: But we liked all music. But Tracy, if you've got time, I'd like to ask you a cook question about myself.
00:38:44
Speaker 3: Certainly, I've got a.
00:38:46
Speaker 6: Blood pressure problem and I've had it for quite some time, and it goes up and go very low, and then it can go very high. And I have noticed I do go and see a cardiologist from every so off about twice a year excellent. And I have noticed if I have a meal in the middle of the day, my blood pressure drops down very low to about ninety seven, and I feel very unwell like and going to fake. That doesn't happen to me. If I don't eat through the day, but I eat my meal at night, it doesn't happen, can you. And I've told the GP, I've told the cardiologists, and they say to me, oh, I don't know why that happened.
00:39:29
Speaker 3: And I'm sitting there in that bed on the way and going I don't know what's going on there. So there's definitely something going on that depends what i'd say too. Potentially depends on what you're eating. Are you well hydrated? Yeah, it sounds like, well that that would make your blood sugar livers higher because you're eating in the middle of the day. And yeah, but usually people feel a bit whoop see when their blood pressure, well, sorry, when their blood sugar drops more so than other of it. No, that doesn't make a lot of sense in respects. But yeah, the heart's obviously working harder. I I gather you're not eating excessively salty food or anything like that.
00:40:17
Speaker 6: No, I'm about I think I'm about five foot one and I weigh.
00:40:21
Speaker 3: Sixty three to so you're very healthy. Way are you well hydrated?
00:40:27
Speaker 6: Depends what you call. I do like the bubbly.
00:40:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, that probably wasn't on the list, but like you know, I life. Sure, I enjoy the bubbles. But but you know, like the funny thing is is, you know, I sit there and I heard my mum say to the cardiologists the other day and I say, do you you know, do you drink enough water? And I was about to chuckle because I know what she does and doesn't do, and she goes, I drink plenty. I said, let's let's talk volume. How much in a day is your actual volume? Oh, I can't drink more than that, but it wasn't a lot. And the problem is we do need that because dehydration will make us feel not only wobbly, but it will also make us very unwell and put our blood pressure up. It can play around with our electrolytes, which can both put it up and down. So yeah, it'd be really interesting to have a much longer conversation with you, Sally, to see if there's any other factors in that. Are you taking medication at a particular time? So are you taking your blood pressure medication late morning and then eating and then your blood pressure you know when that medications in full action? Is that what's dropping at or something like that, So there's other factors.
00:41:42
Speaker 6: I do take blood pressure medication at night and then in the morning as well. But I'm just to wonder whether it's lack of confidence when I go and do things with this organization I'm involved with. I'm okay, but then when I go to a shopping center on my own, I feel if I'm becoming just orientated. The day I will went out to the shopping center with my fourteen year old granddaughter, and I feel wonderful. No wobbly, no disorientation, no nothing. Yeah, but don't forget I hadn't had a bubbly then either.
00:42:19
Speaker 3: Well that'll give you false confidence. But do you know what, it's not an uncommon phenomena as we age that we do lose confidence. And it sounds like while you're busy, distracted with company, you're absolutely fine. But when you're on your own, you know, it's not uncommon for people to second guess themselves and wherever I part, where am I going, what am I doing? It is just an unfortunate thing as we age. I think we do lose confidence in a lot of things. But yeah, I think the key to that is keep busy, keep your purpose, and keep your company.
00:42:51
Speaker 6: Well, I wouldn't mind coming to see I've got one of my daughter in laws is and ire in aren't just wondering when she's on the ranch shoe in The next will probably be after Christmas there if I could come make an appointment to.
00:43:05
Speaker 3: Come and see you, certainly can give us a call and we can work out a time for you. And that suits her as well. So that's my kinship because that's my background. Is a registered Inness registered midwife. Okay, but I think there's something else going on there, and whether it needs to be like an adjustment of your medication or the timing or something like that. But it might be worth run it past your pharmacists as well and just see what they kind of say about that that timing.
00:43:36
Speaker 6: I've asked them that it couldn't square house and they said, oh, I don't know. You have to ask your doctors.
00:43:44
Speaker 3: Well, let's see if we can pull it apart a bit more and come up with a plan.
00:43:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, looking after yourself. A couple of texts, Sylvia, it says Tracy and Matthew have been taking pea for nearly two years now. How long can I take them? Please? I'll miss you if you've shifted from Blackwood, Merry Christmas to both of you.
00:44:04
Speaker 3: Stay safe, Sylvia, Oh, Sylvia, that's so beautiful. The beauty of pa is you can take it safely long term.
00:44:12
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:44:13
Speaker 3: I haven't shifted out of the area, as I'll read out at the end of the show, I've just moved up to the Malair pharmacy.
00:44:21
Speaker 2: Just down the road, just down the raid, all right, next to the Banana Boogie bakery.
00:44:26
Speaker 3: Oh is in that criminal They are so lovely, they're so clever. That's a treat food everybody not in every day.
00:44:36
Speaker 2: This text says for Matthew, Tracy and Jenny who called before, it's an undeniable fact the majority of vegetarians fail and return to eating meat because of the beautiful, amazing smell of fried bacon. Marty, the carnivorous. So good on your Marty, carnivorous.
00:44:55
Speaker 3: You know what. I think that's the key is to we all have our different thoughts, systems, opinions, et cetera. And it's about respect that we are a moderation too. And to you know what, if you eat Christmas ham one day every year and that's something you really enjoy, enjoy, and if you choose not to.
00:45:13
Speaker 2: That's fine, exactly totally right. Twenty three past nine. Will take a quick break this one too from Luke. Maybe we'll reflect on this when we come back. Tracy, he says, Matthew. Remember not everyone has a happy Christmas. Some of us are alone for Christmas. Tracy, yenis here in the studio. She's taking your calls. We've been talking about preparing for the silly season and the big day, which is only thirteen eleven days away. What's today? I don't know. It's our tenth today, so it's fifteen days away. Yes, Thursday is.
00:45:47
Speaker 3: Two weeks tomorrow.
00:45:48
Speaker 2: That's it. Two weeks tomorrow. Well, that's fifteen days. There we go. That's right, Thank you, Tracy. Such a bad it has been a book. I can't believe it's the tenth of December. It feels like the eighteenth of January. Still, you know what is he got?
00:46:02
Speaker 3: It has flow?
00:46:03
Speaker 2: It has, hasn't it?
00:46:04
Speaker 3: And I honestly think the last three months.
00:46:07
Speaker 2: Have just totally totally. Maybe they have. Maybe we're in a time thing, and you know, I.
00:46:14
Speaker 3: Think as we get older, like when we were kids, the days felt like they lasted forever, and now they feel really quick.
00:46:22
Speaker 2: Really, what is going on?
00:46:24
Speaker 3: I don't know.
00:46:25
Speaker 2: Fay Wins the gardens help us out.
00:46:28
Speaker 10: Yes, I am going to help you out too. And this is with relation to an earlier call you had with regard to talking about panadal and for the pain that they were in have can I reflect on the person for the good place this is for? I think it was Marjorie from Hampstead Gardens, And I wonder if she has tried ever using panadole rappers have you ever heard?
00:47:00
Speaker 3: Yes, we have, yeap, what do you think of them? Look, it's it comes down to personal preference. So a lot of people with pain are recommended, like long term chronic pain, particularly that of osteoarthritis and things. You know, you suggested that they use the parasitam or osteo, but it's slightly higher dose. It gives you a bit better coverage, but you can only take six in twenty four hours.
00:47:27
Speaker 10: The fact I've had them myself, yeah, when I've needed them obviously. And also another thing she might like try if she's got a hot sigment of any kind, the warmth, wrap it up, wrap it up in a towel or a hot water bag. If she's got one, wrap it up in a towel. And that I've found those helped me too.
00:47:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're right. And just to clarify the paracetamal, So if you're using something like the Raffords, you can actually take eight in twenty four hours as long as you're not taking osteo as well as you know, cold and flu tablets have paracetamol, so you've got to be really careful you're not doubling up there. But the recommendation so for something like your normal paracetamol or your paracetamol rappid is no more than eight in twenty four hours, but the osteo is no more than six in twenty four hours. And they can't really mix them up.
00:48:26
Speaker 10: No, no, if you do well, they fight each other anyway anyway.
00:48:29
Speaker 3: Well, they don't fight each other. You're just possibly going to end up over your quota. And you know, paracetamo like any good drug, is not great, or any good anything, even natural stuff not grade in excess.
00:48:41
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, so I thank you very much, but I thought that might help. That might help a bit as well. Yeah, there's nothing worse than being in a lot of pain, that's for sure. What the public system is like, as we all do. Matthew, you're going to be on tomorrow night.
00:48:57
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll be here tomorrow night.
00:48:58
Speaker 10: Pay yep, I'll talk to you then. Okay, okay, I'll see you there. But Merry Christmas to the both of you.
00:49:05
Speaker 3: For now, its to you, Taylor.
00:49:08
Speaker 2: All right, we'll speak tomorrow, Sally at Birkenhead.
00:49:11
Speaker 6: Hi, Sally, I'm oh, I'm gonna call you Paul, call me Paul, Tracy. Yeah, I'm just wondering. It's not about myself, or I do have a question about myself, But Tracy, I'm on a committee for a community radio station down here at semb before we go out and try to raise funds and organize things to raise money, and we've got a lot of requests for a band called the Mavericks and the lead singer Paul Marlow we call him Paul. Beddy's real name is rau R a U L. He's just passed away. To these days ago.
00:49:57
Speaker 3: I've read them today.
00:50:00
Speaker 6: To hear that. Yeah, I did, and I'm a bit devastated because I used to ring from time to time to find out how he was going. And three weeks ago I did ring the number I'm supposed to ring, and they said the cancer had gone to They did tell me a name, but it meant the lining before it gets to the brain, but around the brain. And it said that at Paul or Raoul whatever you like to call him, had a very positive outlook and he was hoping he would recover. And now he's passed. How can that happen in three weeks when somebody's got a positive attitude.
00:50:42
Speaker 3: I don't know. I certainly have seen changes in health over the last few years.
00:50:48
Speaker 6: Tracy. Do you know that the name of that what I mean where it said the thing around the brain before it gets to the brain. What do they call it?
00:50:58
Speaker 3: Oh? Good question, A good question.
00:51:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, But it was just so devastating because we used to get such a lot of calls. They always used to bring up for a song called You're Always Bringing Me Down, and we just loved it. And I just couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it when they said three weeks ago to me that he had a positive outlook.
00:51:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, there's there's been a lot of research over the years that shows that people with a positive outlook do actually have in a lot of cases a better prognosis. But not knowing him or what type of cancer it was, or you know, was it a late stage when it was picked up, or there's so many factors involved in that, it'd be quite hard to comment on that. But very very sad because he was really quite young, wasn't He was only six sixty two or something, just sixty.
00:51:54
Speaker 6: Two he is. Yeah, Oh, and I used to love it, you know, my husband just passed away in July. And we're really country. We're really country music people. But the Mavericks went really traditional country music. They are what you called propped over. But I can tell you in now, Tracy, my husband and I didn't crop over dress.
00:52:14
Speaker 3: Oh bless, but we liked all music.
00:52:20
Speaker 6: But Tracy, if you've got time, I'd like to ask you a cook question about myself.
00:52:24
Speaker 3: Certainly, I've got.
00:52:27
Speaker 6: A blood pressure problem and I've had it for quite some time, and it goes up and can go very low, and then it can go very high. And I have noticed I do go and see a cardiologist from every so often, about.
00:52:41
Speaker 3: Twice a year excellent.
00:52:42
Speaker 6: And I have noticed if I have a meal in the middle of the day, my blood pressure drops down very low, to about ninety seven, and I feel very unwell like and going to faint. That doesn't happen to me if I don't eat through the day, but I eat my meal at no, it doesn't happen. And I've told the GP, I've told the cardiologists, and they say to me, oh, I don't know why that happened.
00:53:10
Speaker 3: And I'm sitting fir in that bird on the way and going I don't know what's going on there, So there's definitely something going on that depends what i'd say to potentially depends on what you're eating. Are you well hydrated? Yeah, it sounds like well that that would make your blood sugar levels higher because you're eating in the middle of the day. And yeah, but usually people feel a bit whoop see when their blood pressure, well, sorry, when their blood sugar drops more so than other of it. No, that doesn't make a lot of sense in respect, but yeah, the heart's obviously working harder. I gather you're not eating excessively salty food or anything like that.
00:53:58
Speaker 6: No, I'm about I think I'm about five foot one and I weigh.
00:54:02
Speaker 3: Sixty three to so you're very healthy, wight. Are you well hydrated?
00:54:08
Speaker 6: Depends what you call. I do like the bubbly.
00:54:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, that probably wasn't on the list, but you know, life shure. I enjoy the bubbles. But you know, like the funny thing is is, you know, I sit there and I heard my mum say to the cardiologists the other day and I say, do you you know, do you drink enough water? And I was about to chuckle because I know what she does, and doesn't do, and she goes I drink plenty. I said, let's talk volume. How much in a day is your actual volume?
00:54:39
Speaker 2: Oh?
00:54:39
Speaker 3: I can't drink more than that, but it wasn't a lot. And the problem is we do need that because dehydration will make us feel not only wobbly, but it will also make us very unwell and put our blood pressure up. It can play around with our electrolytes, which can both put it up and down. So yeah, it'd be really interesting to have much longer conversation with you, Sally, to see if there's any other factors in that. Are you taking medication at a particular time? So are you taking your blood pressure medication late morning and then eating and then your blood pressure you know when that medications in full action? Is that what's dropping at or something like that. So the factors I do.
00:55:23
Speaker 6: Take blood pressure medication at night and then in the morning as well. But I'm just hating to wonder whether it's lack of confidence when I go and do things with this organization I'm involved with, I'm okay, but then when I go to a shopping center on my own, I feel as if I'm becoming disorientated. Today I will went out to the shopping center with my fourteen year old granddaughter and I felt wonderful. No wobbly, no disorientation, no nothing. Yeah, but don't forget I hadn't had a bubbly then either.
00:56:00
Speaker 3: That'll give you false confidence. But do you know what, It's not an uncommon phenomena as we age that we do lose confidence. And it sounds like while you're busy, distracted with company, you're absolutely fine. But when you're on your own, you know, it's not uncommon for people to second guess themselves and wherever I part, where am I going, what am I doing? It is just an unfortunate thing as we age. I think we do lose confidence in a lot of things. But yeah, I think the key to that is keep busy, keep your purpose, and keep your company.
00:56:32
Speaker 6: Well, I wouldn't mind coming to see I've got one of my daughter in laws is and I are in except aren't just wondering when she's on the ranch ship in the neck will probably be after Christmas there if I could come make an appointment to.
00:56:46
Speaker 7: Come and see you.
00:56:47
Speaker 3: Certainly can give us a call and we can work out a time for you, and that suits her as well. So that's my kinship because that's my background, is a registeredness registered midwife. Okay, but I think there's something else going on there and whether it needs to be like an adjustment of your medication or the timing or something like that. But it might be worth run it past your pharmacists as well and just see what they kind of say about that that timing.
00:57:17
Speaker 6: I've asked them that it couldn't square house and they said, oh, I don't know. You have to ask your doctors.
00:57:25
Speaker 3: Well, let's see if we can pull it apart a bit more and come up with a plan.
00:57:32
Speaker 2: Yeap, looking after yourself. A couple of texts Sylvia, it says Tracy and Matthew have been taking pea for nearly two years now. How long can I take them? Please? I'll miss you if you've shifted from Blackwood Merry Christmas to both. If you stay safe, Sylvia.
00:57:46
Speaker 3: Oh, Sylvia, that's so beautiful, the beauty of pa is you can take it safely long term.
00:57:53
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:57:54
Speaker 3: I haven't shifted out of the area, as I'll read out at the end of the show, I've just moved up to the Malair pharmacy.
00:58:02
Speaker 2: Just down the road.
00:58:03
Speaker 3: Just down the.
00:58:04
Speaker 2: Road all right, next to the Banana Boogie Bakery.
00:58:07
Speaker 3: Oh, it was in that criminal They are so lovely, they're so clever. That's a treat food everybody not in every.
00:58:15
Speaker 2: Day for this text says for Matthew, Tracy and Jenny who called before, it's an undeniable fact the majority of vegetarians fail and return to eating meat because of the beautiful, amazing smell of fried bacon. Marty, the carnivorous. So good on your Marty, the carnivorous.
00:58:36
Speaker 3: You know what. I think that's the key is to we all have our different thoughts, belief systems, opinions, etc. And it's about respect that we are our moderation to and to. You know what, if you eat Christmas ham one day every year, and that's something you really enjoy, enjoy, and if you choose not to, that's.
00:58:54
Speaker 2: Fine, exactly totally right. Twenty three past nime. We'll take a quick break this one too from Luke. Maybe we'll reflect on this when we come back trace see, he says Matthew. Remember not everyone has a happy Christmas. Some of us are alone for Christmas.
00:59:08
Speaker 1: Five double a nice with Matthew Pantellas.
00:59:12
Speaker 2: Just before we go to Troy Trace see that text of Luke's some people are aligne over Christmas. So you know, there's obviously services to keep in mind. It can't be a tough day.
00:59:22
Speaker 3: It can be an incredibly tough day if people don't have support for people with mental health issues. You know, not all families want to be together in the same room, all at the same time as well. So they are very challenging times and it's working out the things that stress you. What can you know, put some plans in place? What can you do to feel less lonely? Are there groups, services and things that can support you. You know, if it's a family issue, don't do it. Learn to say no. And you know they say you can pick your friends, but not your family. So if it's that traumatic for you, remove yourself from those trauma triggers. So but yeah, my heart goes out to anybody. But that is the beauty of things like talk back radio because there is always someone to ring up and have a conversation with. But can I just emphasize that if it is very traumatic, the people with the skills that are there to help you are very much lifeline. Give them a call on one three, double one one four if you really are feeling the pinch and not coping with the Christmas period.
01:00:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic, all right, Troy in w A, Hi.
01:00:39
Speaker 7: Troy, Hello, Mace, youw and Tracy? How are we lovely people?
01:00:46
Speaker 3: Thanks? Troy?
01:00:47
Speaker 7: How can we help you? You're talking about positive people before? Oh, I'll probably have twols three in my life as family. And you know, the best friends to have people.
01:01:06
Speaker 3: In lightness, the low maintenance ones, they're the best one.
01:01:11
Speaker 2: The four footed ones, four legged ones. Dogs, Oh that too.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, they're good for therapy, expect the golden labradors. Yes, we've got my true questions, Tracy. Uh, is there a connection between antiity presents, which I've been on for the last fifteen years. I start allowed at three hundred and now and down to fifty over that fifteen years. Is there between a connection between the met Parkinson and antisy present medications?
01:01:48
Speaker 6: So?
01:01:48
Speaker 7: You know, but I've lost a couple of friends.
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Speaker 3: Through the right I don't know. They can be really effective for people with those conditions. Obviously, when you're diagnosed with a life altering or life limiting condition, that can affect your mood and stuff as well. Excuse me, I'm I haven't seen any research about causation or links with progression. But like I said, you know, often when you get these chronic conditions, you do get in hand in hand with medications for things like depression, because it's obviously quite overwhelming the you know, being diagnosed with something like that.
01:02:38
Speaker 7: So I've got a Lady Crinch, he's sixty three. She had the losses for women's head cancer and she's got parking, but she would never depressed. I'm not worried about I don't worried about things like that. I just thought I'll bring up the question. The other thing I've got boy is to me and my mom had dementia, but my dad had He wished till the day passed away twenty fourth during last year. I have a well, like, call me your elephant because of my memory, not because I'm bigger or anything. Is there a connection between having good memory and not getting dementia or minimizing dementia.
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Speaker 3: Well, the good thing is if you've got good memory, memory is the first thing that triggers you to seek help for potentially having or you know, having some cognitive decline of some sort, So that would then get investigated I mean even things like bad urinary infections or low vitamin B twelve can give you dementory type symptoms. So you know, if your memory has decreased, then you would then seek help and they would investigate. But if your memory is sharp as a chip, and you know that's why, it's like any kind of muscle in the body, you've got to use that you lose it. So you know, you know, I think people are very lucky if they reach older ages and their memory as sharp as a chip, because that then, you know, it shows that there's not that cognitive decline there, which is great. So thank you very.
01:04:26
Speaker 7: Much, protect my call through the year, and young Matthew, you have a lovely Christmas and the same you believe you're on over.
01:04:35
Speaker 3: Summer with my l plates. Yes, I'm going to have my learners on.
01:04:43
Speaker 2: You'll be right.
01:04:44
Speaker 7: I'll tell you what I don't like many a like crime cons can do it. You can do it.
01:04:54
Speaker 2: Onion Ty Well, it's kind of true. Last Yeah, good on your Jumbo, that's what we'll call him. Now, okay, somebody Rod Rod says Raal Marlow, lead singer of the Mavericks, was sixty and when he passed on Monday of colon cancer diagnosed a few years ago.
01:05:15
Speaker 3: How sad?
01:05:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right. So regarding preparing for the silly season, any last minute tips you want to leave us with, Tracy, Well, I think just.
01:05:26
Speaker 3: Be sensible, don't drink and drive all that. Moderation's the key. Enjoy the day. We don't eat those things every day of the year. It is okay to have a treat, yes, sometimes, you know, but two, look out for family members. Look out for supporting family members if they're caring for someone with a chronic disease or a chronic condition. If you know one of your family members has a mental health issue, reach out, contact support. It's those little things that mean the most, and everybody needs someone, and it can be really, really lonely at Christmas time if you don't. You know. That's why I say the beauty of things like talk back radio, the fact that it still exists to be there, to have a conversation with someone, hopefully to make them feel that little bit less lonely or make them feel like they're in good company. Because I'm sure from a listener's point of view, it feels a bit family like because everyone gets to know everybody that familiarity the voice. I think, just be sensible, drive safely, don't drink, and drive moderation, but be really kind. And I think one thing we seem to have forgotten is we can all be different and believe in different things and whatever it's about. Respect. It's okay that we're different, but we need to respect each other for those differences. And I think the world would be a kind of place if we did.
01:06:55
Speaker 2: Now, if people want to find you, Tracy in the meantime, and there's a few that you want them to ring you.
01:07:01
Speaker 3: I do so much. My new home is at the Blair Pharmacy, which is shot one and two six to ten Main Road, so the easy way to find it is Blair Triangle shopping Center, right next door to Banana Boogie Bakery.
01:07:17
Speaker 2: At Blair, you're under the big transmission tower almost, aren't you? That's there? Not far?
01:07:22
Speaker 3: Don't tell me that.
01:07:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, haven't you seen it? You can't have missed it. It's like fifty meters tall.
01:07:27
Speaker 3: I probably have seen it. I drove my son to and from school every day for the last how many years up that street. But no beautiful new owners. Tim and Kay are just gorgeous, beautiful family business, very community oriented, which is just lovely fits well with my ethos. So either pop in on Mondays and Tuesdays between nine and five pm, or give us a call on eight two seven eight one, nine six one.
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Speaker 2: Okay, there we go eight two seven, nineteen sixty one. All right, Tracy, lovely seeing you. Thank you for popping in throughout the year. It's been it's been great having this part of the char I mean it's continuity, really, you've been doing it all year. But thank you, thank you for having me.
01:08:12
Speaker 3: It's been fun.
01:08:13
Speaker 2: It has been great fun. I've really enjoyed it. So until we cross paths again, I hope you have a wonderful Thank you, Tracy. Good luck on the twentieth, thank you. Here in five double A you can hear Tracy on the is it a Saturday Saturday Night?
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Speaker 3: Twentieth for Saturday Night, the twentieth, twenty seventh, and the tenth.
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Speaker 2: They're etched in your memory, aren't they?
01:08:33
Speaker 6: Yeah?
01:08:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, good luck all right,
Speaker 1: Five Double A Nights with Matthew Pantellas.
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Speaker 2: Tracy Yean, it's here from the pharmacy. Hello, I got it.
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Speaker 3: Right, he did well. How are you, Matthew?
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Speaker 2: Very well? Thank you. Over the last week, I'm having.
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Speaker 3: An insane week. It's so busy at the moment, sometimes feeling a little bit overwhelmed. And I'm sure there's a lot of people out there that kind of get that same vibe. It's the whole deadline thing and setting up new things, completing old things, silly may you know, the whole renovation things happening in the middle, And yeah, it's a bit overwhelming at times.
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Speaker 2: All sorts of things change.
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Speaker 3: Jobs change. I'm glad I don't need to learn a whole new professional Well, I suppose I am in some ways coming in here, even though yeah, I've done a lot of radio. All those shiny buttons I'm getting there.
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Speaker 2: There lit up. You know, they're good. It's good fun, all right. So what we're talking about tonight is preparing for the silly seas, which we're sort of in. This is the silly season now, I don't know where sick of it.
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Speaker 3: And last week we talked about busyness so obviously last week was still the same, and you know, we're getting towards when you think about it, we are so close to Christmas now, and I had this really big wake up call today where it's I've done all my Christmas shopping. I'm very prepared, but I haven't wrapped anything, and I've got boxes and bags of stuff everywhere trying to find what I need because now's the time you start catching up with those people that you're not going to see again prior to Christmas.
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Speaker 2: It's fourteen days tomorrow, isn't it. I've just realized we started Christmas shopping.
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Speaker 3: Hell, it's getting busy out there. Can I just say, but I'm lucky. I'm pretty organized like that, But just this whole okay, I've got to get that ready today because I see them tomorrow for the last time this year type of thing. So just that whole business, and it's nuts getting my head around now or have I purchased all the food and and you know, getting ready for everything. You know, I love cooking, so for me, Christmas Day is about the food. And I'm a typical Taurus. I love you know that food and self indulgent. I think food's my love language. Actually, I just love cooking for people, so I like to be prepared and I like to do the traditional Christmas lunch and yeah, you've got to do all the bits because we only do it once a year totally, but it's just something else this year, just.
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Speaker 2: Add to it all. So okay, mental and physical health and wellbeing tips? Why do we need to keep in mind?
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Speaker 3: I'm going to read these for my own benefits. Well, what we need to do is is you know, I'm going to skip a couple of points here because that expectation of how it should be. We want everything to be perfect. We want the perfect gifts, we want the perfect meal, we want the perfect Christmas functions. Are we putting too much pressure? I mean, Matthew, watch your Perfect Christmas Day. If you could pick the perfect Christmas Day, what would you pick.
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Speaker 2: I've always enjoyed since the kids came along, watching them Open Presence. I love that film.
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Speaker 3: When they're a bit grown up.
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Speaker 2: It is and you know, I mean, you know all along what they're getting, But when they're little, it's really special because they are amazed that somebody's dropped by the house in the middle of the night and left something right.
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Speaker 3: So milk cookies.
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Speaker 2: So you know, just look, it's family. It's all about family, so it doesn't matter what you do. And you know, we always do a family lunch. Usually I don't think we've done a dinner. We might have, but sometimes it's a lot of if we're going over to a cousin's house, for instance, and the family gets together. But usually it's just my mum and the four of us, and then we go round to the in laws and join them for leftovers after they've had lunch. Yes, so we have. I mean, who's hungry, right, But you go over and nibble on something.
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Speaker 3: We managed to still eat. And I think we in our heads we think we actually eat more than we do because there's such a grand preparation and a grand spread, and you do pick at this and that, but we still have those limitations and what we can actually fit in. I think for me, my perfect Christmas Day is something very you know. I like the warmer Christmas days. If it rains to me a disappointment, I love to put the weber on. I can get the whole you know, the turkey, and do a nice baked ham and your veggies and things like that. If it's hot, I'll pick salads. We have gorgeous friends who own this amazing business called Spring Fresh Salads. And you think of all the ingredients you have to buy to make a salad. Oh my god. They make my life efficient, cheap and easy. And I put an order and you pick it up Christmas Eve and you've got enough for about four days. And that goes with the leftovers as well. So they are a wonderful little asset. But on the colder days, I'll do veggies. But yeah, that and you have to have Christmas pudding with the custard and things like that. That to me is Christmas. And you have to have the bon bonds and table set pretty, and yeah, it's just a really nice occasion. But I'm really glad that I don't have to do too much running around that would probably.
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Speaker 2: So everyone comes to you.
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Speaker 3: Everyone comes to me because I cook basically, which is lovely too. If it's hot, we've always had the pool and or you know, the end of the day and we do lunch, really that long slow lunch. And yeah, my perfect Christmas night is sitting listening still to maybe some Christmas musics with a glass of wine, sitting in my spa. Okay, nice, that's my choice. Yeah, but that's just a nice reflection. But like you were saying about the children I love. For me, probably my ultimate favorite part of Christmas is Christmas Eve, that.
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Speaker 2: Whole the lead up. Yeah, the anticipation, that's the word.
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Speaker 3: The anticipation of all things good and happy and nice and well received. And yeah, it's just a nice feeling, I think. So Christmas Eve's definitely my favorite.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is good and the lead up to it, and you kind of feel it the day, even on Christmas Day, towards the end of the day and the next day, that feeling is gone, you know, it's just business as usual now, even though it might be holidays and whatever.
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Speaker 3: Well, we always have a Boxing Day tradition with gorgeous friends that we've been doing for the last what are we twenty twenty five, probably about thirteen years where the two families get together and we don't often get a lot of days to get together because we're all busy, we all have professional lives and things like that, so we have what we call, we joke and call it the hair of the Dog Day. So it's basically whatever leftovers are in those houses from Christmas Day, get brought along and we laugh, drink cheese platter, you know, have a swim by the pool, play some music and really just chill out. It's a really nice.
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Speaker 2: Nice just yeah Christmas tradition.
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Speaker 3: So Christmas Day tradition.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely fantastic. All right, we will take a break, Tracy Yen to see if you've got any health questions for her. Now's your chance. Eight double two to three double oh double ow all advice of a general nature of course.
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Speaker 1: Five double a nice with Matthew Pantellas.
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Speaker 2: Tracy Yenda's here and Marge's called in from Hampstead Gardens, cra see hello March.
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Speaker 3: Hi Marge, oh.
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Speaker 4: Hi, I'm waiting for a hit replacement. I'm just you know, the what do you call them, the.
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Speaker 3: Long lasting one, the pando osteo.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, And I just want to was taking Targeant or something. I think it's called Targeant.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a bit higher up sort of pain relief. Yep.
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Speaker 4: I don't really want to go down there. I did try the money took me for about three days. I did bloody work.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, what did you try them?
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Speaker 4: Targeant?
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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, it was the targant. That didn't help.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I didn't really want to go down that oil, you know, because you can give it them things. I think, Well, the.
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Speaker 3: Problem is where does it stop? I mean it comes down to you. How long are you waiting for this hip replacement? Are you on a private list a public list?
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Speaker 4: Are you public then? Sixty three months?
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Speaker 1: Wow?
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Speaker 3: And what's the what's the projective? Have they giving you a bit of a timeline?
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Speaker 4: Well, they just keep they just keep giving you appointments. I've been on to the clinic, you know, for the age. It's sat at Modbury. You know that's I think it's called the Age Clinic or something right, and I've think I'm there for I don't know. They just seems to pray along it all the time. Yes, they do help you there. They're very good, I think if you're am. I can't think of the word ambulant tree or something. It's a clinic. It's run by the North by the hospital there, and they seemed every a couple of months and weren't you to go in And I think it's just as if you can get in and out of bed and all that sort of thing. But they don't seem to do anything, you know, give you any idea when you're going in or anything like that.
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Speaker 3: No, it's really sad some of the wait times for some of these bigger operations unfortunately.
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Speaker 4: I mean I can still get around, you know, pretty well on the walker, but I'm certainly SICKX. But it's just it just goes on it and the pain is excruciating, you know.
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Speaker 3: That's it. But it affects your quality of life. And the problem with things like kIPS is you start limping and then then you compensate with the other leg and then your knees are affected and your ankles are affected, and it kind of just is you know, ongoing. And look, paracetamol that osteo is pretty good for having, you know, if you have the regular doses, but you can't exceed more than six and twenty four hours and you can't take over paladole like paracetamol with it because you it's quite a nasty drug in excess, so you've got to be really careful. But do you know what I would have a look at. It's something that has clinically blown me away over the last few years, is what we call pete is the palmatoil ethanolamide, and it's a natural fatty a mind that our bodies were generally make them break down in response to trauma and injury, but as we age or pain becomes chronic, our bodies can't make enough. So by you know, potentially giving this back to the body, it can help reduce that inflammatory process and hopefully lower the pain. And I did a bunch of surveys on people after taking your stuff for twelve weeks, so it's not like taking your panta like your parasede my way, your pain goes away for a few hours and then you take more umuls.
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Speaker 4: W you're taking that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the good thing is is it doesn't interact with any of those pain relievers, so you can still use pain relief. This also doesn't affect your cognitive function like some of the bigger pain reliefs, so it doesn't make your drowsy, it doesn't make you more unsteady on your feet. But you need to be consistent with it for a good couple of months to get that loading dose in and then you just maintain it. But certainly after that twelve week mark, I saw some significant results in it'd blow me away a bit the results people were.
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Speaker 4: Getting and a natural thing. I didn't want to take anything.
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Speaker 3: It's not it's completely natural, doesn't interact with anything. It doesn't have any you know, unwanted additives in it, and what it The only time you wouldn't take it is if you had sort of severe stage of kidney or liver problems.
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Speaker 4: I'm a dog BETI I haven't anything.
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Speaker 3: There's no issues with that with diabetes at all. So but I'll leave my number at the end March. Give me a call and we'll have a chat and we'll work out how to get your set up.
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Speaker 4: Oh good, Yeah, it didn't want to take anything that was like you know, because the first one they gave me was a load. She gave me another one. I said, look, I'm not taking him anymore.
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Speaker 3: Well, the problem is where does that end? I mean, if you're on them for a really long term and you're waiting, time keeps blowing out, they're not you know, it's not an ideal solution, it's a it's a a cute you know, a cute pain solution. I think. So if we can come up with a better plan that won't put you at further jeopardy of things like fools or you know, won't you know, take you over any limits of what you're taking and things like that. Then I think it's a really positive additive to what you're doing.
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Speaker 2: All right, Marge, get ready at the end. In about half an hour or so, we'll give out Tracy's number. So be there with a pen and paper. Jenny at Allen b guard inside, Jenny, Oh.
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Speaker 5: How messew? And how I tracing?
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Speaker 3: Hi? Jenny, I'm well, thank you? How are you? Yes?
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Speaker 6: Some good?
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Speaker 5: Thank you? Well, I'm going to myself very unpopular now. The thing I hate about Christmas is the animals are so many, thousands of animals so killed. And look people will say, oh no, no, they don't do it the way they used to. That isn't true.
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Speaker 2: But Jenny, they're delicious.
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Speaker 5: Oh for you all, you're abong room. I have a very weird watching babe. And I said, I cannot understand how anyone can kill that little pig.
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Speaker 7: And he said, well, it's.
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Speaker 5: Making me hungry. So I gave him the thing in the ribs because oh, I said, you're horrible man, because I know I look seriously the poultry that these animals are, some of them are more intelligent than human beings, and they also show love like cows. Yeah, well, I look, I'm sorry. I just will never eat anything comes off of pig or a cowel or and I get rubbished about it, and you know, just because you're doing this doesn't stop them being killed.
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Speaker 7: But look, I can't.
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Speaker 5: I just can't deal with it.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you've got to stick to your beliefs. That's what you think. Well, that's great, that's fine.
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Speaker 3: I don't think Jenny's alone. I think our upcoming generations are so much more educated and have these wider views on issues like this. Where there and the beauty is there's much more sustainable options and alternate options for people these days. So you're not just at the.
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Speaker 2: Same you don't want to eat an animal.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's fine, thank you.
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Speaker 2: Jenny, will leave it. They're Bessie at Ross Trevor. Hi, Bessie, good, thank you.
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Speaker 3: Hi Bessie. I'm good, thank you. How are you well.
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Speaker 8: I'm very pleased to say I'm recovering slowly. Not a very good year with myself. I've had too many testing this year. I'm on the way to climbing up the slippery hill, and I'm getting up slowly, so I'm going.
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Speaker 3: Well, which is good. You had COVID quite badly earlier in the year. I remember not long after your birthday.
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Speaker 8: That's right when I went down with that, and then I went down with a chest infection and it didn't clear up when we thought it had and and then it came back with rsv M or something off for get what's called now.
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Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, and that that really set me back.
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Speaker 8: So I'm on the way to recovery now. So I'm fine now, but I'll have a nice Christmas and sit back and with everybody do the work.
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Speaker 3: Are you catching up with your family and your sister, Bessie actual me, No, I.
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Speaker 8: Probably want to join them, my sister. But going out with my youngest daughter and her partner for lunch on Christmas days that will be nice, lovely. Nobody has to do any work. But it reminds me a little bit of one of the moves we had from one down to another many many years ago, and our children were small and we were moving out on Boxing Day, so we had to have everything packed up on Christmas Day. We couldn't have Christmas tree up or anything like that because we had to move out. You know as early as possible on boxing to move to the next town.
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Speaker 6: So we sat on sat.
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Speaker 9: On packed boxes in the kitchen eating Fritz.
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Speaker 8: Pritsonton March, I saw sandwiches, and I'll never forget that. It was one of the best Christmas lumps as we ever had. There was no work, that's sure, but what we did was kept all We opened our Christmas presents, but we kept all the decorations until we got to our new home, and then we put them up there and celebrated Christmas a few days like that didn't happen.
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Speaker 9: But it was really lovely.
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Speaker 8: Lovely family in the township where we invited us to their home for the evening move along Christmas Day, so I didn't have to do anything.
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Speaker 6: It was lovely.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's lovely and so good to hear your voice, Besci. And I might have a conversation with you offa at some point over the next week or two, because there's a really good antioxid and I used four lungs that can help them repair a lot quicker.
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Speaker 9: Oh okay, and it might.
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Speaker 3: Help prevent you from getting some more stuff down the track, so it might. I believe you have my new number. Beautiful genre in you and told you where I shifted to hair. I'm so glad you do.
00:19:02
Speaker 8: Would you like me to renewald it? The betterf you roun me went up through to Jews because I don't know what.
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Speaker 3: Let me just check. I'm pretty sure I got you plugged into my phone these days, Bessie, after your big Bertie, I.
00:19:17
Speaker 8: Haven't had yours transferred into mine at the moment on having trouble with all my electronics, and I'm terrified that someone's going to do something with's not done and upset.
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Speaker 2: You've got it.
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Speaker 3: Oh good, I've got you, know, Bessie. I'll give you a call over the next few days.
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Speaker 2: Good on your Bessie, Thank you for calling. Have a great Christmas. It is news time on five double A. Tracy Yender's here and Marge's called in from Hampstead Gardens. Cracy, Hello, Marchi.
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Speaker 4: Marge, Oh hi, you chase you look I'm waiting for a hip replacement. Just I'm just pan. You know the what do you call them?
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Speaker 3: The long lasting one depended old osteo.
00:20:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. And I just wanted was taking Targeant or something. I think it's called Targeant.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a bit higher up sort of pain relief. Yep.
00:20:15
Speaker 4: I don't really want to go down there. I did try the money took about three days. I did bloody work.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, what did you try them?
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Speaker 4: Pageant?
00:20:27
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, it was the targant that didn't help.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I didn't really want to go down that or you know, because you can give it them things. I think, Well, the.
00:20:38
Speaker 3: Problem is where does it stop? I mean it comes down to you. How long are you waiting for this hip replacement? Are you on a private list a public list?
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Speaker 4: Are you public then? Sixty three months?
00:20:52
Speaker 1: Wow?
00:20:53
Speaker 3: And what's the what's the projective? Have they giving you a bit of a timeline?
00:21:00
Speaker 4: Well, they just keep they just keep giving your appointments. I've been going to the clinic, you know, for the age. It's sat at Modbury, you know that's I think it's called the Age Clinic or something right, And I've been going there for I don't know. They just seems to pray along it all the time. They do help you there. They're very good. I think. If you're ambulance if I can't think of the word ambulance tree or something. It's a clinic. It's run by the north by the hospital there, and they seemed every a couple of months and w't you to go in. I think it's just as if you can get in and out of bed and all that sort of thing, but they don't seem to do anything, you know, give you any idea when you're going in or anything like that.
00:21:55
Speaker 3: No, it's really sad some of the wait times for some of these bigger operations unfortunately.
00:22:01
Speaker 4: I mean I can still get around, you know, pretty well on the walker, but I'm certainly six. But it's just it just goes on and the pain is excruciating, you know.
00:22:14
Speaker 3: That's it, but it affects your quality of life. And the problem with things like kIPS is you start limping and then then you compensate with the other leg and then your knees are affected and your ankles are affected, and it kind of just is you know, ongoing. And look, paracetamol that osteo is pretty good for having, you know, if you have the regular doses, but you can't exceed more than six in twenty four hours. And you can't take the palidole like paracetamol with it because you it's quite a nasty drug in excess so you've got to be really careful. But do you know what I would have a look at. It's something that has clinically blown me away over the last few years, is the what we call PETE is the Palmertoil ethanol. And it's a natural fatty a mind that our bodies would generally make them break down in response to trauma and injury, but as we age or pain becomes chronic, our bodies can't make enough. So by you know, potentially giving this back to the body, it can help reduce that inflammatory process and hopefully lower the pain. And I did a bunch of surveys on people after taking your stuff for twelve weeks, so it's not like taking your panalta like your parasede my way, your pain goes away for a few hours and then you take.
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Speaker 8: More while you're taking that.
00:23:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, the good thing is is it doesn't interact with any of those pain relievers, so you can still use pain relief. This also doesn't affect your cognitive function like some of the bigger pain reliefs, so it doesn't make your drowsy, it doesn't make you more unsteady on your feet. But you need to be consistent with it for a good couple of months to get that loading dose in and then you just maintain it. But certainly after that twelve week mark I saw some significant results in it. It did blow me away a bit the results people.
00:24:07
Speaker 4: Were getting and a natural thing. I didn't want to take anything. It's not.
00:24:12
Speaker 3: It's completely natural, doesn't interact with anything. It doesn't have any you know, unwanted additives in it, and what it The only time you wouldn't take it is if you had sort of severe stage of kidney or liver problem.
00:24:27
Speaker 4: I'm a dog betig, I haven't anything.
00:24:30
Speaker 3: There's no issues with that with diabetes at all. So but I'll leave my number at the end March, give me a call and we'll have a chat and we'll work out how to get your set up.
00:24:41
Speaker 4: Oh good. Yeah, it didn't want to take anything that was like you know, because the first one they gave me was a load. She gave me another one. I said, look, I'm not taking them anymore.
00:24:54
Speaker 3: Well, the problem is where does that end? I mean, if you're on them for a really long term and you're waiting time it's blowing out, they're not you know, it's not an ideal solution. It's a it's a cute, you know, a cute pain solution. I think. So if we can come up with a better plan that won't put you at further jeopardy of things like fools or you know, won't you know, take you over any limits of what you're taking and things like that, then I think it's a really positive additive to what you're doing.
00:25:23
Speaker 2: All right, Marge, get ready at the end, in about half an hour or so, we'll give out Tracy's number, So be there with a pen and paper. Jenny at Allen b Garden side, Jenny, Oh.
00:25:32
Speaker 5: How Matthew and how?
00:25:34
Speaker 3: I try to Hi Jenny, I'm well, thank you? How are you?
00:25:38
Speaker 6: Yes?
00:25:38
Speaker 5: Some good? Thank you? Well, I'm going to myself very unpopular now. The thing I hate about Christmas is the animals are so many, thousands of animals so killed. And look people will say, oh no, no, they don't do it the way they used to. That isn't true.
00:25:59
Speaker 2: But Jenny delicious, oh.
00:26:02
Speaker 6: Pro for you all.
00:26:04
Speaker 4: You're abound me.
00:26:05
Speaker 5: My husband very we're watching Babe, and I said I cannot understand how anyone can kill that little pig. And he said, well, it was making me hungry. So I gave him a thing in the ribs because, oh, I said, you're horrible man, because I know I look seriously the poultry that these animals are. Some of them are more intelligent than human beings, and they also show love.
00:26:39
Speaker 3: Like cows beings.
00:26:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I look, I'm sorry. I just will never eat anything comes off of pigs or a cowel or and I get rubbished about it, and you know, just because you're doing this doesn't stop from being killed.
00:27:06
Speaker 7: But look, I can't.
00:27:09
Speaker 5: I just can't deal with it.
00:27:10
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you've got to stick to your beliefs, that's what you think. Well, that's great, that's fine.
00:27:14
Speaker 3: I don't think Jenny's alone. I think our upcoming generations are so much more educated and have these wider views on issues like where there and the beauty is. There's much more sustainable options and alternate options. It's for people these days. So you're not just at the same you.
00:27:35
Speaker 2: Don't want to eat an animal.
00:27:37
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's fine, thank.
00:27:39
Speaker 2: You, Jenny, will leave it. They're Bessie at Ross Trevor. Hi, Bessie, good, thank.
00:27:45
Speaker 3: You, Hi Bessie. I'm good, thank you. How are you well?
00:27:54
Speaker 8: I'm very pleased to say, I'm recovering slowly, another very good year with myself. I've had too many chest infections this year. I'm on the way to climbing up the slippery hill and I'm getting up slowly set so I'm going.
00:28:17
Speaker 3: Well, which is good. You had COVID quite badly earlier in the year. I remember, not long after your birthday.
00:28:26
Speaker 8: That's right, I went down with that. And then I went down with a chest infection and it didn't clear up when we thought it had, and and then it came back with rsv M or something of for get what's called.
00:28:41
Speaker 3: Now, Wow, yeah, and that.
00:28:44
Speaker 8: Really set me back. So I'm on the way to recovery now. So I'm fine now. But I'll have a nice Christmas and sit back and with everybody do the work.
00:28:56
Speaker 3: Are you catching up with your family and your sister, Bessie action.
00:29:00
Speaker 8: We No, I probably won't to join them from my sister, But going out with my youngest daughter and her partner by lunch on Christmas.
00:29:13
Speaker 3: Dater, that will be nice, lovely.
00:29:17
Speaker 8: Nobody has to do any work. But it reminds me a little bit of one of the moves we had from one down to another many many years ago, and our children were small, and we were moving out on Boxing Day, so we had to have everything packed up on Christmas Day. We couldn't have Christmas tree up or anything like that because we had to move out, you know, as early as possible on Boxing Day to move to the next town.
00:29:46
Speaker 9: So we sat on sat on packed boxes in the kitchen, eating Fritson Princeton. Mar I saw sandwiches, and I'll never forget that. It was one of the best Christmas lumps were here.
00:30:03
Speaker 8: But there was no work of fact. But what we did was kept all We opened our Christmas presents, but we kept all the decorations until we got to our new home and then we put them up there and celebrated Christmas.
00:30:20
Speaker 6: A few days late.
00:30:21
Speaker 8: But that didn't happen. But it was really lovely, lovely family in the township where we invited us to their home for the evening we along Christmas Day, so I didn't have to do anything.
00:30:36
Speaker 6: It was lovely.
00:30:37
Speaker 3: Oh that's lovely, and so good to hear your voice, Bessy, and I might have a conversation with you off air at some point over the next week or two because there's a really good antioxid and I used four lungs that can help them repair a lot quicker.
00:30:51
Speaker 9: Oh okay, and it might.
00:30:52
Speaker 3: Help prevent you from getting some more stuff down the track, So it might. I believe you have my new number, beautiful genreng you and told you where I shifted to her. I'm so glad you do.
00:31:07
Speaker 8: Would you like me to renewal it betterf you rang me?
00:31:11
Speaker 6: When?
00:31:12
Speaker 3: So to you?
00:31:13
Speaker 8: Because I don't know what.
00:31:15
Speaker 3: Let me just check. I'm pretty sure I got you plugged into my phone these days, Bessie, after your big Birdie.
00:31:22
Speaker 8: I haven't had yours transferred into mine at the moment. I'm having trouble with all my electronics and I'm terrified that someone's going to do something with my son and upset.
00:31:35
Speaker 2: You've got it.
00:31:36
Speaker 3: Oh good, I've got your number, Bessie. I'll give you a call over the next few days.
00:31:39
Speaker 2: Good on your Bessie, Thank you for calling. Have a great Christmas.
00:31:43
Speaker 1: Five Double A Nights with Matthew Pantellas.
00:31:46
Speaker 2: Tracy yindis here in the studio. She's taking your calls. We've been talking about preparing for the silly season and the big Day, which is only thirteen eleven days away. What's today? I don't know. It's our tenth to day, so it's fifteen days away. Thursday's two weeks tomorrow. That's said two weeks tomorrow. Well that's fifteen days. There we go. That's right, Thank you, Tracy. It has been a boy. I can't believe it's the tenth of December. It feels like the eighteenth of January. Still, you know what is here? You got?
00:32:21
Speaker 3: It has flowed, it has, hasn't it? And I honestly think the last three months have just rated totally totally.
00:32:30
Speaker 2: Maybe they have. Maybe we're in a time thing, and you know, I.
00:32:33
Speaker 3: Think as we get older, like when we were kids, the days felt like they lasted forever, and now they feel really quick.
00:32:41
Speaker 2: Really, what is going on?
00:32:43
Speaker 3: I don't know.
00:32:44
Speaker 2: Faye windsor Gardens help us out.
00:32:46
Speaker 10: Hello, Faye, Yes, I am going to help you out too. And this is with relation to an earlier call you had with regard to talking about panadole and for the pain that they were in have can I reflect on the person for the good place this is for? I think it was Marjorie from Hampstead Gardens, and I wonder if she has tried ever using panidole rapperds. Have you ever heard of those?
00:33:20
Speaker 3: Yes, we have, yeap, what do you think of them? Look, it comes down to personal preference. So a lot of people with pain are recommended, like long term chronic pain, particularly that of osteoarthritis and things. You know, it suggested that they use the parasitam or osteo, but it's slightly higher those. It gives you a bit better coverage, but you can only take six in twenty four hours.
00:33:46
Speaker 10: The fact I've had them myself, yeah, when I've needed them obviously. And also another thing she might like try if she's got a hot signment of any kind, the warmth, wrap it up in a towel or a hot water bag. She's got one, wrap it up in a towel, and that I found don't help me too.
00:34:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're right. And just to clarify the paracetamol, so if you're using something like the wrapperds, you can actually take eight in twenty four hours as long as you're not taking osteo as well as you know, cold and flu tablets have paracetamol, so you've got to be really careful you're not doubling up there. But the recommendation so for something like your normal paracetamol or your paracetamol WRAPID is no more than eight in twenty four hours, but the osteo is no more than six in twenty four hours. And they can't really mix them up.
00:34:45
Speaker 10: No, no, if you do well, they fight each other anyway anyway.
00:34:49
Speaker 3: Well, they don't fight each other. You're just possibly going to end up over your quota. And you know, paracetamo like any good drug is not great, or any good anything, even natural stuff not grade in excess.
00:35:00
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, so I thank you very much, but I thought that might help. That might help a bit as well. There's nothing worse than being in a lot of pain, that's for sure. What the public system is like, as we all do. Matthew, you're going to be on tomorrow night.
00:35:16
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll be here tomorrow night.
00:35:18
Speaker 10: Okay, I'll talk to you then. Okay, Okay, I'll see you then. But Merry Christmas to the both of you for now.
00:35:25
Speaker 3: ITAs to you, Taylor.
00:35:27
Speaker 2: All right, we'll speak tomorrow. Sally at Birkenhead.
00:35:30
Speaker 6: Hi, Sally, I'm I'm gonna call you Paul.
00:35:35
Speaker 2: Don't call me Paul, Tracy.
00:35:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just wondering. It's not about myself, or I do have a question about myself. But Tracy, I'm on a committee for a community radio station down here at SEB before we go out and try to raise funds and organize things to raise money, and we got a lot of requests for a band called the Mavericks and the lead singer Paul Marlow or we call him Paul, but his real name is r u L. He's just passed away. To these days ago.
00:36:17
Speaker 3: I've read that today. To hear that, yeah, I did.
00:36:22
Speaker 6: And I'm a bit devastated because I used to ring from time to time to find out how he was going. And three weeks ago I did ring the number I'm supposed to ring, and they said the cancer had gone to They did tell me a name, but it meant the lining before it gets to the brain, but around the brain. And it said that at Paul or Raoul whatever you like to call him, had a very positive outlook and he was hoping he would recover. And now he's passed. How can that happen in three weeks when somebody's got a positive attitude.
00:37:01
Speaker 3: I don't know. I certainly have seen changes in health over the last few years.
00:37:08
Speaker 6: Tracy, do you know that the name of that what I mean where it said the thing around the brain before it gets to the brain. What do they call it?
00:37:17
Speaker 3: Cool? Good question, A good question.
00:37:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it was just so devastating because we used to get such a lot of calls. They always used to bring up for a song called You're Always Bringing Me Down, and we just loved it. And I just couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it when they said three weeks ago to me that he had a positive outlook.
00:37:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, there's there's been a lot of research over the years that shows that people with a positive outlook do it actually have in a lot of cases a better prognosis. But not knowing him or what type of cancer it was, or you know, was it a late stage when it was picked up, or there's so many factors involved in that, it'd be quite hard to comment on that. But very very sad because he was really quite young, wasn't he was only sixty sixty two or something, just sixty.
00:38:13
Speaker 6: Two he is. Yeah, Oh, and I used to love it. You know, my husband just passed away in July.
00:38:18
Speaker 3: And we're really.
00:38:20
Speaker 6: Country, we're really country music people, but they the Mavericks went really traditional country music. They are what you called crossed over.
00:38:29
Speaker 7: That I can tell you.
00:38:30
Speaker 6: Now, Tracy. My husband and I didn't cross.
00:38:32
Speaker 3: Over dress oh bless.
00:38:36
Speaker 6: But we liked all music. But Tracy, if you've got time, I'd like to ask you a cook question about myself.
00:38:44
Speaker 3: Certainly, I've got a.
00:38:46
Speaker 6: Blood pressure problem and I've had it for quite some time, and it goes up and go very low, and then it can go very high. And I have noticed I do go and see a cardiologist from every so off about twice a year excellent. And I have noticed if I have a meal in the middle of the day, my blood pressure drops down very low to about ninety seven, and I feel very unwell like and going to fake. That doesn't happen to me. If I don't eat through the day, but I eat my meal at night, it doesn't happen, can you. And I've told the GP, I've told the cardiologists, and they say to me, oh, I don't know why that happened.
00:39:29
Speaker 3: And I'm sitting there in that bed on the way and going I don't know what's going on there. So there's definitely something going on that depends what i'd say too. Potentially depends on what you're eating. Are you well hydrated? Yeah, it sounds like, well that that would make your blood sugar livers higher because you're eating in the middle of the day. And yeah, but usually people feel a bit whoop see when their blood pressure, well, sorry, when their blood sugar drops more so than other of it. No, that doesn't make a lot of sense in respects. But yeah, the heart's obviously working harder. I I gather you're not eating excessively salty food or anything like that.
00:40:17
Speaker 6: No, I'm about I think I'm about five foot one and I weigh.
00:40:21
Speaker 3: Sixty three to so you're very healthy. Way are you well hydrated?
00:40:27
Speaker 6: Depends what you call. I do like the bubbly.
00:40:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, that probably wasn't on the list, but like you know, I life. Sure, I enjoy the bubbles. But but you know, like the funny thing is is, you know, I sit there and I heard my mum say to the cardiologists the other day and I say, do you you know, do you drink enough water? And I was about to chuckle because I know what she does and doesn't do, and she goes, I drink plenty. I said, let's let's talk volume. How much in a day is your actual volume? Oh, I can't drink more than that, but it wasn't a lot. And the problem is we do need that because dehydration will make us feel not only wobbly, but it will also make us very unwell and put our blood pressure up. It can play around with our electrolytes, which can both put it up and down. So yeah, it'd be really interesting to have a much longer conversation with you, Sally, to see if there's any other factors in that. Are you taking medication at a particular time? So are you taking your blood pressure medication late morning and then eating and then your blood pressure you know when that medications in full action? Is that what's dropping at or something like that, So there's other factors.
00:41:42
Speaker 6: I do take blood pressure medication at night and then in the morning as well. But I'm just to wonder whether it's lack of confidence when I go and do things with this organization I'm involved with. I'm okay, but then when I go to a shopping center on my own, I feel if I'm becoming just orientated. The day I will went out to the shopping center with my fourteen year old granddaughter, and I feel wonderful. No wobbly, no disorientation, no nothing. Yeah, but don't forget I hadn't had a bubbly then either.
00:42:19
Speaker 3: Well that'll give you false confidence. But do you know what, it's not an uncommon phenomena as we age that we do lose confidence. And it sounds like while you're busy, distracted with company, you're absolutely fine. But when you're on your own, you know, it's not uncommon for people to second guess themselves and wherever I part, where am I going, what am I doing? It is just an unfortunate thing as we age. I think we do lose confidence in a lot of things. But yeah, I think the key to that is keep busy, keep your purpose, and keep your company.
00:42:51
Speaker 6: Well, I wouldn't mind coming to see I've got one of my daughter in laws is and ire in aren't just wondering when she's on the ranch shoe in The next will probably be after Christmas there if I could come make an appointment to.
00:43:05
Speaker 3: Come and see you, certainly can give us a call and we can work out a time for you. And that suits her as well. So that's my kinship because that's my background. Is a registered Inness registered midwife. Okay, but I think there's something else going on there, and whether it needs to be like an adjustment of your medication or the timing or something like that. But it might be worth run it past your pharmacists as well and just see what they kind of say about that that timing.
00:43:36
Speaker 6: I've asked them that it couldn't square house and they said, oh, I don't know. You have to ask your doctors.
00:43:44
Speaker 3: Well, let's see if we can pull it apart a bit more and come up with a plan.
00:43:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, looking after yourself. A couple of texts, Sylvia, it says Tracy and Matthew have been taking pea for nearly two years now. How long can I take them? Please? I'll miss you if you've shifted from Blackwood, Merry Christmas to both of you.
00:44:04
Speaker 3: Stay safe, Sylvia, Oh, Sylvia, that's so beautiful. The beauty of pa is you can take it safely long term.
00:44:12
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:44:13
Speaker 3: I haven't shifted out of the area, as I'll read out at the end of the show, I've just moved up to the Malair pharmacy.
00:44:21
Speaker 2: Just down the road, just down the raid, all right, next to the Banana Boogie bakery.
00:44:26
Speaker 3: Oh is in that criminal They are so lovely, they're so clever. That's a treat food everybody not in every day.
00:44:36
Speaker 2: This text says for Matthew, Tracy and Jenny who called before, it's an undeniable fact the majority of vegetarians fail and return to eating meat because of the beautiful, amazing smell of fried bacon. Marty, the carnivorous. So good on your Marty, carnivorous.
00:44:55
Speaker 3: You know what. I think that's the key is to we all have our different thoughts, systems, opinions, et cetera. And it's about respect that we are a moderation too. And to you know what, if you eat Christmas ham one day every year and that's something you really enjoy, enjoy, and if you choose not to.
00:45:13
Speaker 2: That's fine, exactly totally right. Twenty three past nine. Will take a quick break this one too from Luke. Maybe we'll reflect on this when we come back. Tracy, he says, Matthew. Remember not everyone has a happy Christmas. Some of us are alone for Christmas. Tracy, yenis here in the studio. She's taking your calls. We've been talking about preparing for the silly season and the big day, which is only thirteen eleven days away. What's today? I don't know. It's our tenth today, so it's fifteen days away. Yes, Thursday is.
00:45:47
Speaker 3: Two weeks tomorrow.
00:45:48
Speaker 2: That's it. Two weeks tomorrow. Well, that's fifteen days. There we go. That's right, Thank you, Tracy. Such a bad it has been a book. I can't believe it's the tenth of December. It feels like the eighteenth of January. Still, you know what is he got?
00:46:02
Speaker 3: It has flow?
00:46:03
Speaker 2: It has, hasn't it?
00:46:04
Speaker 3: And I honestly think the last three months.
00:46:07
Speaker 2: Have just totally totally. Maybe they have. Maybe we're in a time thing, and you know, I.
00:46:14
Speaker 3: Think as we get older, like when we were kids, the days felt like they lasted forever, and now they feel really quick.
00:46:22
Speaker 2: Really, what is going on?
00:46:24
Speaker 3: I don't know.
00:46:25
Speaker 2: Fay Wins the gardens help us out.
00:46:28
Speaker 10: Yes, I am going to help you out too. And this is with relation to an earlier call you had with regard to talking about panadal and for the pain that they were in have can I reflect on the person for the good place this is for? I think it was Marjorie from Hampstead Gardens, And I wonder if she has tried ever using panadole rappers have you ever heard?
00:47:00
Speaker 3: Yes, we have, yeap, what do you think of them? Look, it's it comes down to personal preference. So a lot of people with pain are recommended, like long term chronic pain, particularly that of osteoarthritis and things. You know, you suggested that they use the parasitam or osteo, but it's slightly higher dose. It gives you a bit better coverage, but you can only take six in twenty four hours.
00:47:27
Speaker 10: The fact I've had them myself, yeah, when I've needed them obviously. And also another thing she might like try if she's got a hot sigment of any kind, the warmth, wrap it up, wrap it up in a towel or a hot water bag. If she's got one, wrap it up in a towel. And that I've found those helped me too.
00:47:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're right. And just to clarify the paracetamal, So if you're using something like the Raffords, you can actually take eight in twenty four hours as long as you're not taking osteo as well as you know, cold and flu tablets have paracetamol, so you've got to be really careful you're not doubling up there. But the recommendation so for something like your normal paracetamol or your paracetamol rappid is no more than eight in twenty four hours, but the osteo is no more than six in twenty four hours. And they can't really mix them up.
00:48:26
Speaker 10: No, no, if you do well, they fight each other anyway anyway.
00:48:29
Speaker 3: Well, they don't fight each other. You're just possibly going to end up over your quota. And you know, paracetamo like any good drug, is not great, or any good anything, even natural stuff not grade in excess.
00:48:41
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, so I thank you very much, but I thought that might help. That might help a bit as well. Yeah, there's nothing worse than being in a lot of pain, that's for sure. What the public system is like, as we all do. Matthew, you're going to be on tomorrow night.
00:48:57
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll be here tomorrow night.
00:48:58
Speaker 10: Pay yep, I'll talk to you then. Okay, okay, I'll see you there. But Merry Christmas to the both of you.
00:49:05
Speaker 3: For now, its to you, Taylor.
00:49:08
Speaker 2: All right, we'll speak tomorrow, Sally at Birkenhead.
00:49:11
Speaker 6: Hi, Sally, I'm oh, I'm gonna call you Paul, call me Paul, Tracy. Yeah, I'm just wondering. It's not about myself, or I do have a question about myself, But Tracy, I'm on a committee for a community radio station down here at semb before we go out and try to raise funds and organize things to raise money, and we've got a lot of requests for a band called the Mavericks and the lead singer Paul Marlow we call him Paul. Beddy's real name is rau R a U L. He's just passed away. To these days ago.
00:49:57
Speaker 3: I've read them today.
00:50:00
Speaker 6: To hear that. Yeah, I did, and I'm a bit devastated because I used to ring from time to time to find out how he was going. And three weeks ago I did ring the number I'm supposed to ring, and they said the cancer had gone to They did tell me a name, but it meant the lining before it gets to the brain, but around the brain. And it said that at Paul or Raoul whatever you like to call him, had a very positive outlook and he was hoping he would recover. And now he's passed. How can that happen in three weeks when somebody's got a positive attitude.
00:50:42
Speaker 3: I don't know. I certainly have seen changes in health over the last few years.
00:50:48
Speaker 6: Tracy. Do you know that the name of that what I mean where it said the thing around the brain before it gets to the brain. What do they call it?
00:50:58
Speaker 3: Oh? Good question, A good question.
00:51:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, But it was just so devastating because we used to get such a lot of calls. They always used to bring up for a song called You're Always Bringing Me Down, and we just loved it. And I just couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it when they said three weeks ago to me that he had a positive outlook.
00:51:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, there's there's been a lot of research over the years that shows that people with a positive outlook do actually have in a lot of cases a better prognosis. But not knowing him or what type of cancer it was, or you know, was it a late stage when it was picked up, or there's so many factors involved in that, it'd be quite hard to comment on that. But very very sad because he was really quite young, wasn't He was only six sixty two or something, just sixty.
00:51:54
Speaker 6: Two he is. Yeah, Oh, and I used to love it, you know, my husband just passed away in July. And we're really country. We're really country music people. But the Mavericks went really traditional country music. They are what you called propped over. But I can tell you in now, Tracy, my husband and I didn't crop over dress.
00:52:14
Speaker 3: Oh bless, but we liked all music.
00:52:20
Speaker 6: But Tracy, if you've got time, I'd like to ask you a cook question about myself.
00:52:24
Speaker 3: Certainly, I've got.
00:52:27
Speaker 6: A blood pressure problem and I've had it for quite some time, and it goes up and can go very low, and then it can go very high. And I have noticed I do go and see a cardiologist from every so often, about.
00:52:41
Speaker 3: Twice a year excellent.
00:52:42
Speaker 6: And I have noticed if I have a meal in the middle of the day, my blood pressure drops down very low, to about ninety seven, and I feel very unwell like and going to faint. That doesn't happen to me if I don't eat through the day, but I eat my meal at no, it doesn't happen. And I've told the GP, I've told the cardiologists, and they say to me, oh, I don't know why that happened.
00:53:10
Speaker 3: And I'm sitting fir in that bird on the way and going I don't know what's going on there, So there's definitely something going on that depends what i'd say to potentially depends on what you're eating. Are you well hydrated? Yeah, it sounds like well that that would make your blood sugar levels higher because you're eating in the middle of the day. And yeah, but usually people feel a bit whoop see when their blood pressure, well, sorry, when their blood sugar drops more so than other of it. No, that doesn't make a lot of sense in respect, but yeah, the heart's obviously working harder. I gather you're not eating excessively salty food or anything like that.
00:53:58
Speaker 6: No, I'm about I think I'm about five foot one and I weigh.
00:54:02
Speaker 3: Sixty three to so you're very healthy, wight. Are you well hydrated?
00:54:08
Speaker 6: Depends what you call. I do like the bubbly.
00:54:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, that probably wasn't on the list, but you know, life shure. I enjoy the bubbles. But you know, like the funny thing is is, you know, I sit there and I heard my mum say to the cardiologists the other day and I say, do you you know, do you drink enough water? And I was about to chuckle because I know what she does, and doesn't do, and she goes I drink plenty. I said, let's talk volume. How much in a day is your actual volume?
00:54:39
Speaker 2: Oh?
00:54:39
Speaker 3: I can't drink more than that, but it wasn't a lot. And the problem is we do need that because dehydration will make us feel not only wobbly, but it will also make us very unwell and put our blood pressure up. It can play around with our electrolytes, which can both put it up and down. So yeah, it'd be really interesting to have much longer conversation with you, Sally, to see if there's any other factors in that. Are you taking medication at a particular time? So are you taking your blood pressure medication late morning and then eating and then your blood pressure you know when that medications in full action? Is that what's dropping at or something like that. So the factors I do.
00:55:23
Speaker 6: Take blood pressure medication at night and then in the morning as well. But I'm just hating to wonder whether it's lack of confidence when I go and do things with this organization I'm involved with, I'm okay, but then when I go to a shopping center on my own, I feel as if I'm becoming disorientated. Today I will went out to the shopping center with my fourteen year old granddaughter and I felt wonderful. No wobbly, no disorientation, no nothing. Yeah, but don't forget I hadn't had a bubbly then either.
00:56:00
Speaker 3: That'll give you false confidence. But do you know what, It's not an uncommon phenomena as we age that we do lose confidence. And it sounds like while you're busy, distracted with company, you're absolutely fine. But when you're on your own, you know, it's not uncommon for people to second guess themselves and wherever I part, where am I going, what am I doing? It is just an unfortunate thing as we age. I think we do lose confidence in a lot of things. But yeah, I think the key to that is keep busy, keep your purpose, and keep your company.
00:56:32
Speaker 6: Well, I wouldn't mind coming to see I've got one of my daughter in laws is and I are in except aren't just wondering when she's on the ranch ship in the neck will probably be after Christmas there if I could come make an appointment to.
00:56:46
Speaker 7: Come and see you.
00:56:47
Speaker 3: Certainly can give us a call and we can work out a time for you, and that suits her as well. So that's my kinship because that's my background, is a registeredness registered midwife. Okay, but I think there's something else going on there and whether it needs to be like an adjustment of your medication or the timing or something like that. But it might be worth run it past your pharmacists as well and just see what they kind of say about that that timing.
00:57:17
Speaker 6: I've asked them that it couldn't square house and they said, oh, I don't know. You have to ask your doctors.
00:57:25
Speaker 3: Well, let's see if we can pull it apart a bit more and come up with a plan.
00:57:32
Speaker 2: Yeap, looking after yourself. A couple of texts Sylvia, it says Tracy and Matthew have been taking pea for nearly two years now. How long can I take them? Please? I'll miss you if you've shifted from Blackwood Merry Christmas to both. If you stay safe, Sylvia.
00:57:46
Speaker 3: Oh, Sylvia, that's so beautiful, the beauty of pa is you can take it safely long term.
00:57:53
Speaker 2: Okay.
00:57:54
Speaker 3: I haven't shifted out of the area, as I'll read out at the end of the show, I've just moved up to the Malair pharmacy.
00:58:02
Speaker 2: Just down the road.
00:58:03
Speaker 3: Just down the.
00:58:04
Speaker 2: Road all right, next to the Banana Boogie Bakery.
00:58:07
Speaker 3: Oh, it was in that criminal They are so lovely, they're so clever. That's a treat food everybody not in every.
00:58:15
Speaker 2: Day for this text says for Matthew, Tracy and Jenny who called before, it's an undeniable fact the majority of vegetarians fail and return to eating meat because of the beautiful, amazing smell of fried bacon. Marty, the carnivorous. So good on your Marty, the carnivorous.
00:58:36
Speaker 3: You know what. I think that's the key is to we all have our different thoughts, belief systems, opinions, etc. And it's about respect that we are our moderation to and to. You know what, if you eat Christmas ham one day every year, and that's something you really enjoy, enjoy, and if you choose not to, that's.
00:58:54
Speaker 2: Fine, exactly totally right. Twenty three past nime. We'll take a quick break this one too from Luke. Maybe we'll reflect on this when we come back trace see, he says Matthew. Remember not everyone has a happy Christmas. Some of us are alone for Christmas.
00:59:08
Speaker 1: Five double a nice with Matthew Pantellas.
00:59:12
Speaker 2: Just before we go to Troy Trace see that text of Luke's some people are aligne over Christmas. So you know, there's obviously services to keep in mind. It can't be a tough day.
00:59:22
Speaker 3: It can be an incredibly tough day if people don't have support for people with mental health issues. You know, not all families want to be together in the same room, all at the same time as well. So they are very challenging times and it's working out the things that stress you. What can you know, put some plans in place? What can you do to feel less lonely? Are there groups, services and things that can support you. You know, if it's a family issue, don't do it. Learn to say no. And you know they say you can pick your friends, but not your family. So if it's that traumatic for you, remove yourself from those trauma triggers. So but yeah, my heart goes out to anybody. But that is the beauty of things like talk back radio because there is always someone to ring up and have a conversation with. But can I just emphasize that if it is very traumatic, the people with the skills that are there to help you are very much lifeline. Give them a call on one three, double one one four if you really are feeling the pinch and not coping with the Christmas period.
01:00:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic, all right, Troy in w A, Hi.
01:00:39
Speaker 7: Troy, Hello, Mace, youw and Tracy? How are we lovely people?
01:00:46
Speaker 3: Thanks? Troy?
01:00:47
Speaker 7: How can we help you? You're talking about positive people before? Oh, I'll probably have twols three in my life as family. And you know, the best friends to have people.
01:01:06
Speaker 3: In lightness, the low maintenance ones, they're the best one.
01:01:11
Speaker 2: The four footed ones, four legged ones. Dogs, Oh that too.
01:01:15
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're good for therapy, expect the golden labradors. Yes, we've got my true questions, Tracy. Uh, is there a connection between antiity presents, which I've been on for the last fifteen years. I start allowed at three hundred and now and down to fifty over that fifteen years. Is there between a connection between the met Parkinson and antisy present medications?
01:01:48
Speaker 6: So?
01:01:48
Speaker 7: You know, but I've lost a couple of friends.
01:01:52
Speaker 3: Through the right I don't know. They can be really effective for people with those conditions. Obviously, when you're diagnosed with a life altering or life limiting condition, that can affect your mood and stuff as well. Excuse me, I'm I haven't seen any research about causation or links with progression. But like I said, you know, often when you get these chronic conditions, you do get in hand in hand with medications for things like depression, because it's obviously quite overwhelming the you know, being diagnosed with something like that.
01:02:38
Speaker 7: So I've got a Lady Crinch, he's sixty three. She had the losses for women's head cancer and she's got parking, but she would never depressed. I'm not worried about I don't worried about things like that. I just thought I'll bring up the question. The other thing I've got boy is to me and my mom had dementia, but my dad had He wished till the day passed away twenty fourth during last year. I have a well, like, call me your elephant because of my memory, not because I'm bigger or anything. Is there a connection between having good memory and not getting dementia or minimizing dementia.
01:03:26
Speaker 3: Well, the good thing is if you've got good memory, memory is the first thing that triggers you to seek help for potentially having or you know, having some cognitive decline of some sort, So that would then get investigated I mean even things like bad urinary infections or low vitamin B twelve can give you dementory type symptoms. So you know, if your memory has decreased, then you would then seek help and they would investigate. But if your memory is sharp as a chip, and you know that's why, it's like any kind of muscle in the body, you've got to use that you lose it. So you know, you know, I think people are very lucky if they reach older ages and their memory as sharp as a chip, because that then, you know, it shows that there's not that cognitive decline there, which is great. So thank you very.
01:04:26
Speaker 7: Much, protect my call through the year, and young Matthew, you have a lovely Christmas and the same you believe you're on over.
01:04:35
Speaker 3: Summer with my l plates. Yes, I'm going to have my learners on.
01:04:43
Speaker 2: You'll be right.
01:04:44
Speaker 7: I'll tell you what I don't like many a like crime cons can do it. You can do it.
01:04:54
Speaker 2: Onion Ty Well, it's kind of true. Last Yeah, good on your Jumbo, that's what we'll call him. Now, okay, somebody Rod Rod says Raal Marlow, lead singer of the Mavericks, was sixty and when he passed on Monday of colon cancer diagnosed a few years ago.
01:05:15
Speaker 3: How sad?
01:05:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right. So regarding preparing for the silly season, any last minute tips you want to leave us with, Tracy, Well, I think just.
01:05:26
Speaker 3: Be sensible, don't drink and drive all that. Moderation's the key. Enjoy the day. We don't eat those things every day of the year. It is okay to have a treat, yes, sometimes, you know, but two, look out for family members. Look out for supporting family members if they're caring for someone with a chronic disease or a chronic condition. If you know one of your family members has a mental health issue, reach out, contact support. It's those little things that mean the most, and everybody needs someone, and it can be really, really lonely at Christmas time if you don't. You know. That's why I say the beauty of things like talk back radio, the fact that it still exists to be there, to have a conversation with someone, hopefully to make them feel that little bit less lonely or make them feel like they're in good company. Because I'm sure from a listener's point of view, it feels a bit family like because everyone gets to know everybody that familiarity the voice. I think, just be sensible, drive safely, don't drink, and drive moderation, but be really kind. And I think one thing we seem to have forgotten is we can all be different and believe in different things and whatever it's about. Respect. It's okay that we're different, but we need to respect each other for those differences. And I think the world would be a kind of place if we did.
01:06:55
Speaker 2: Now, if people want to find you, Tracy in the meantime, and there's a few that you want them to ring you.
01:07:01
Speaker 3: I do so much. My new home is at the Blair Pharmacy, which is shot one and two six to ten Main Road, so the easy way to find it is Blair Triangle shopping Center, right next door to Banana Boogie Bakery.
01:07:17
Speaker 2: At Blair, you're under the big transmission tower almost, aren't you? That's there? Not far?
01:07:22
Speaker 3: Don't tell me that.
01:07:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, haven't you seen it? You can't have missed it. It's like fifty meters tall.
01:07:27
Speaker 3: I probably have seen it. I drove my son to and from school every day for the last how many years up that street. But no beautiful new owners. Tim and Kay are just gorgeous, beautiful family business, very community oriented, which is just lovely fits well with my ethos. So either pop in on Mondays and Tuesdays between nine and five pm, or give us a call on eight two seven eight one, nine six one.
01:07:57
Speaker 2: Okay, there we go eight two seven, nineteen sixty one. All right, Tracy, lovely seeing you. Thank you for popping in throughout the year. It's been it's been great having this part of the char I mean it's continuity, really, you've been doing it all year. But thank you, thank you for having me.
01:08:12
Speaker 3: It's been fun.
01:08:13
Speaker 2: It has been great fun. I've really enjoyed it. So until we cross paths again, I hope you have a wonderful Thank you, Tracy. Good luck on the twentieth, thank you. Here in five double A you can hear Tracy on the is it a Saturday Saturday Night?
01:08:26
Speaker 3: Twentieth for Saturday Night, the twentieth, twenty seventh, and the tenth.
01:08:30
Speaker 2: They're etched in your memory, aren't they?
01:08:33
Speaker 6: Yeah?
01:08:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, good luck all right,
