The good fairy has been and touched all the members of this forum with her magic wand. You are all aged 50 (age under 50 members are back to age 20) with no AF, super fit, healthy, and energetic, you have no responsibilities and she has given you enough money so that you will never need to work again. She has also guaranteed you good health for the rest of your life.
What would choose to do?
I'm thinking about what I would want.
Jean
I’d explore the world! Revisit my favourite places and discover new destinations (Especially as this is make believe and we could pretend there was no pandemic).
No it's real, the good fairy has touched you with her wand. Come on get into your role. 😅😂
Jean, oh so much !!!!I would ski and scuba dive again, get myself a great bike and maybe a motor bike, travel extensively, visit friends in NZ.
Move into a property with a garden and plant masses of wild flowers.
Most importantly enjoy having more energy to keep up with my nearly 4yr old grandson.
Jo
That energy would be the biggest reward wouldn't it!
You just described me, I don’t ski or dive but have & can,I live on 10 acres, cycle, have 2 motorcycles & my Daughter just moved to oz, so be going to visit!
When can I move in 🤣
We do have the cutest little cottage on 5 manicured acres vacant lol
Jeanjennie50 will be there like a shot, I'll have to be quick 😃
Hey this is my post and my fantasy, if you don't mind! 😁😂🤣
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HiYes energy is sapped with AF.
Others blame the meds but because I had it before the meds but with undiagnosed thyroid cancer, it remains pointing to UNCONTROLLED AF.
Thyroid cancer removed in its entirety.
Take care, JOY
I’d definitely travel Jean and have always fancied visiting Japan. I might get myself a personal trainer and shopper. Bit of a Diva! 😂💕
Yes, at first I thought I'd book into an exclusive health and beauty place for a month . I'd have all the treatments and come out looking good, then go off to Paris and Rome shopping for new clothes. Then I changed my mind, my post is below.
I would probably have all my old fun again and therefore make all the same mistakes again which would no doubt piss off the good fairy to the point where she would rescind the gifts bestowed and I would end up back here at some point with afib looking for answers and getting a good laugh from time to time with posts like these from Jean.
Jim
Come on, there must be more you would like from life if given a second chance?
LOL. Who said I didn't live it to the fullest until only recently afib throttled me down?
But sure, I'd do some things differently, but I first would need my morning cup of coffee (different time zone here) but unfortunately I can't drink coffee anymore because of the afib.
Ok, I did like Kevinder23's answer -- "would love to be a/fib free that's all xxx"
Jim
Would love be to be a/fib free thats all xxx
Yes, that would be the most special gift, not only that you would be free from AF but all other ailments and guaranteed a healthy life ahead.
I'm going to travel the world, staying in nice hotels to see what's happening in other countries. Then I'm coming back home, selling it and buying somewhere that doesn't have neighbours as close as they are to me now. I'd like it to back on to farmland. Perhaps a cottage with a lovely garden.
While I'm away, I'm going to hire some SAS men to go in and take out a rather horrible man, dump him somewhere out in the wild where he can never leave or get back to his country. I may get a foot chopped off and he'll have to learn to be nice to the locals or they wouldn't take him in to their remote tribe, you all know of him. Then I'll put a nice person in charge of the country he dominated.
Then I'm off financing wells for those people who don't have clean water to drink. Building homes for women who live in ramshackle huts, that men can easily break into and rape them. Building homes for children who live on the streets.
Who will help me?
Jean
Yes I'm in 🙂
Count me in Jean xxx
I will xxx
Me and I'm mean when I'm angry!
It’s not just his foot I’d chop off!
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I would add more and better shelters for all the unwanted animals.
A while back I saw a feature on how to make a cat shelter for the garden. It was by using one of those large plastic boxes with lids and making a hole big enough for a cat to get in at the side. Racking my brains now. I think you put a smaller cardboard or plastic box inside then stuffed between the boxes with hay to make it warm. Then I guess you'd put something cosy inside for them to lie on. I've had three birds killed in my garden in the last week, so am not keen to attract them here right now.
Oh. What I really meant were the shelters operated by our different counties all over the country. And the different organizations that run these shelters. These are the shelters where people bring strays they've found or people who maybe can no longer keep their pets. Animals lost during a hurricane. These shelters try to adopt the animals out to new families. But some shelters are not run well. Sorry I wasn't clear. My 3 pet peeves are children who are abused, the elderly who are abused and the animals who are abused. I think I would try to make things better for all of them.
I see what you mean now.
I agree, those three things make me wild too. In fact I think I could turn really nasty if I witnessed any of these happening. I once shouted at two young lads who were fighting, the words just came out I think I stunned them into stopping. Never gave a thought for myself I was too angry! 😡😠
Oh jean. Nowadays if a person shouts at someone like that he/she might end up getting stabbed or shot. 😱 Things like that are happening more and more. Just yesterday two men in a parking lot at a Wal-Mart in New Smyrna Beach, FL got into an argument over a parking spot and one man stabbed the other. Of course the stabber was arrested. Seems to be happening more and more everywhere around the country. I always like to talk to people when I'm out shopping. Nowadays I'm more careful...... Sad. Take care and be safe. Loved your post. It's just nice sometimes to go somewhere else to forget about all our illnesses just for a little while. Thanks.
Jean, yes, I’m in! The wells, the homes, the protection for the vulnerable. I always wanted to go be an aid worker wherever I was most needed and wherever people were most oppressed/in need. I badly regret not making that happen while I was well. So thank you for the second chance! 
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I wish I'd had some nursing experience so that I could go and help in those countries that are desperate for medical aid. Mind you there are plenty of elderly people in this country who could do with some help. I see them out getting their shopping and they can hardly put one foot in front of the other. Just smiling and talking to some elderly people is all that they need - simple human contact. I have a poem (not one of mine) I will PM you it's about old people will see if I can find it.
Jean
Probably not a lot different as I have had a fantastic life but just maybe might have taken that job in F1 in the early seventies even though it would mean I never meet Sam. ( better stop there. lol 😁)
I was going to say that I'd like more children but a bit tricky at 50 . With masses of energy and a good bank balance I'd love a huge house enabling me to foster children. I always felt I wanted to do this but but nasty AF appeared before I was 50 !I suspect many of you will think I'm bonkers....not far wrong!
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That's a nice thing to want to do.
I used to want to do that too when I was younger. The closest I got to it was giving an underprivileged child from London a two week holiday with us. A friend had a little boy from the same charity he came in his plimsoles with the sole hanging off of one of them and a few items in a carrier bag. He'd never had a whole orange. That's what I thought I was going to get, but no mine came with a nice red suitcase and lots of clothes. Still glad I did it though. I suppose these days children wouldn't be allowed to stay with complete strangers, I don't remember there being any checks back then.
You're certainly right there! Extensively checked now and rightly so .
With and without AF, I consider the life to be a magic! imagine, a handful of dust has grown to be a person, to have ideas, criteria, freedom of choice (well... not in the past time, lol), to be able to change the world. The only problem we all have, is limited lifetime. If young again, I would study medicine and devote the life to fighting the worst enemy we all have - the death. I know, I know, it is far from being possibly solved, but even contributing a small portion to the solution of this problem, would be worth spending the life on it❤️
That sounds like an interesting idea and yes life is certainly magic. I sometimes look up at the stars and feel very small and insignificant, but experience the joy too at being alive.
oh...in no particular order;
I would dearly like to go back to Singapore where I grew up in the 60s,and travel to lots of other interesting places.
I would still like to be married to my man and have my two boys.
I would like to set up a replacement Family Learning Service,in which I worked for many years. I loved seeing the families grow in confidence and abilities( from being able to support their child better in school to healthy eating,and cooking,on a budget. Id do some of the classes myself.
I would like to have known about AF anyway,as my mum sadly died from an AF stroke, and now I know she wasn't really looked after very well from the medical profession where she lived.I She always played down illness, and I wish I had known more
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I'd like to have been able to sing,have the desire but as Billy Connelly once said,sound like a goose far*ing in the fog!
I would like the men and women in suits to be more accountable.
Also that crusty bread,butter,chips and pasties don't make you fat and clog up your vitals!
Finally that children and animals can grow up in world free from abuse and fear.
Not a lot to ask for Good Fairy!!!
All can be yours (in fantasy land). Take yourself there when you dream in bed tonight. 😊
Love the bit that children and animals could grow up in world free from abuse and fear. Lets add all the people in the world to that wish. Also that everyone could have enough food, a cosy shelter from the cold and the love of a family.
Perfect!
Thank you Good Fairy!! I always believed in you! ❤️❤️
Just a joke to lighten the load. A chap was walking along the beach in Miami and found a bottle floating in the surf. He opened it and out popped a genie. "Master" said the genie "I have been incarserated in that bottle for two thousand years and you have released me. I give you any wish that you want. " The man thought for a momentand said "OK I have a second home in Barbados but hate flying and boats, Can you build me a bridge?" "Oh dear Master" said the genie "think of the environmental damage to the sea bed and all the marine life that would cause. Is there not something else you desire." The man thought for a moment and then said. "OK if no bridge help me to understand women. " " One lane or two on that bridge? "
I'll go now!
Yep, you better go quickly you cheeky man!
I would have a huge property where I could put rescued animals especially farm animals.You would all be welcome to come and help!
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I'll come and help Lily. Put me in charge of rescuing animals that are kept confined in small areas. I remember a man who used to drown kittens, how could anyone do that!
How awful! One of my neighbours years ago did the same thing ,- it was her idea of birth control! I told she should spay her cat but she said she couldn't afford to. Very sad. The woman moved away but I was seriously on the point of calling the SPA ( société pour la protection des animaux équivalent of the RSPCA here in France).I cry when I see a dead cat on the road or a hedgehog....
So yes Jean you shall be in charge of rescuing distressed animals from small spaces. In this real life I have rescued 4 cats , 2 dogs and 4 horses destined for the abbatoir. It's a drop in the ocean.....
I'm fully on board with the SAS Special Afib removal Services!! 😂
What shall we call this farm,Jean?
Hmm, Rainbows End, Animal Sanctuary, Wonderful Life Farm, Joy Farm, Freedom Farm, Lovely Life Farm, Good Life Farm.
We could have open days and serve tea and cake., but then perhaps that would be stressful for the animals and they need to put stress behind them. We have to plan.
Or (If you are old enough to remember) "Jollity Farm" ( Bonzo Dog Doodah Band) or "Heart's Ease Farm" ( Hearties for short). The animals will want to eat the cake especially the goats 🤣 . There wouldn't be any stress.🐕🥯🐈😺🦄🦊🐰🐴🐎🐈⬛🐣🍰🎂🥮🐓🦆🌻
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Have the fundraising/awareness event away from the animals so they are not stressing.Put plenty of wine and cake out so they buy more raffle tickets/ donate..my cunning plan..
High profile social media and press..who is the most generous ...! The local Ladies who Lunch will be fighting to the death..
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Sounds like you'd be a good fundraising event planner.
Lily, you beat me to it. I would really love the same thing. I do so love animals. I will open the East Yorkshire branch.☺️
Excellent 😊
Traverse The Cuillin Ridge on Skye 🥾🥾🧗♀️
That sounds interesting Pete, never heard of it, but will look it up now. Did a day trip to Skye many years ago. I think it was the last week before they opened the bridge. We sang every Scottish song we could think of, which started with The Skye Boat Song on that trip. It lead to us buying a CD of Scottish songs we could sing along to. Happy days.
Looks a bit dangerous and I couldn't find out how high it is. I've done Cader Idris in North Wales, many times along every single path that goes up there. That's one of my favourite places in the whole world.
That's impressive Jean! I get breathless thinking about it. But of course Afib and meds have a lot to do with it. When I was a child I used to go up a big hill called Moel Fameau in North Wales( not sure about the spelling) every Sunday followed by a big roast beef and Yorkshire pud family lunch. But I haven't eaten meat for 32 years so our rescue animals will be safe 😊
Jean.I share that joy with you. Our favourite family trek.
We carry on the tradition now through our children but it's a very special place indeed.
I tried to share a photo of our dog Adam up there but I failed,so imagine a golden retriever looking very relaxed in a bog.😁
We both know what heaven is then - the views from that mountain and the beautiful lakes up there!!! We would stay in a lovely cottage that was right near the Fox's path.
Yes can see it now in my mind's eye....xxx
It is very dangerous and only for very experienced mountain climbers, which I am not.
Recently I have latched onto a Facebook page called "All Things Cuillin" and Adrian Trendall who is the face behind it, is the top mountain guide on Skye.
For the past 15 years my wife and I have made the journey to Skye in April to celebrate our Anniversary (51 years this year) and we look at the Cuillin from afar ( the main mountain range on Skye) and we just love the beauty.
Having followed Adrian's posts, I think that if as you say I was 25 years younger, I would love to be guided up to the top by Adrian. Mind you I was at my worst time for AF then so maybe it would have to be 35 years ago when I was only 40 years young.
Adrian gets up at 3.00 every morning he can in the winter to photograph the dawn from the top. Yes I agree he is obsessed. It makes being an armchair mountaineer so much easier to follow him.
Pete
Looks so beautiful. Try an easy path up Cader Idris in North Wales (Pony path), or go up to the lakes on the Foxes path. I think you would like it.
Sounds good but with my Bradycardia I cannot walk even a short uphill climb without being out of breath.
Maybe if they ever do get my allergies sorted and install a pacemaker it might be possible.
Many years ago went up to North Wales Cwm Idwal. I agree it is also beautiful.
Pete
I would stop all the hatred in the world. Race, religion, sexuality, it wouldn't matter. Then I would help all the little ones born with terrible disabilities , men and women who are genuinely suffering and I would rescue animals. There would be no need for media to report on bad things, just good stories.But mostly if I was cured of all illnesses I would go for a long walk with my little dog 🐕 in a wood with bluebells .
Oh how we can dream..
Yes, love your dream - if only that could be!
It’s only the money I really need. There’s nothing in my life I’d change other than the ability to buy a small house so my wife and I aren’t homeless when we have to retire. A little extra for food and heating would be nice too.
That's a very modest want Clive. It would be great if you could achieve that.
Take my retirement to France ten years earlier than I did in reality. I would prefer to be back at 47 as that was the age before my first bout of AF!
Yes, but the fairy has got rid of all your ailments. So in the fantasy world you could do what you want now and you're 50 again.
I'd like to meet the scumbag who shot me in the back in N.Ireland April 1972 whilst on patrol with the royal engineers,repairing a damaged water supply ,I've always wondered about that so and so.
It's awful the things people will do when full of hatred for others, which includes people they have never met or spoken to. I'm lost for words Ronnie boy, Wish you well.
One thing it did do for me was to appreciate the time we have on this earth,and not to take anything for granted,and be greatfull for what we have.
We’ll said!
Oooohhhh. I’d just grab my handbag with credit and debit cards, and, with no luggage, get a taxi to the nearest station, and go anywhere I fancied. Then I would buy myself new clothes and a little hold-all, and book into a hotel for the night, where I’d book a flight to somewhere I’ve always wanted to go, for the next day, and off I’d go……mmmm.
I like your dream. Yes, I imagine buying classy dresses turning me into someone like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. Might have to reduce my stomach a bit first though and have 100 skin treatments!
Haha. I would need my skin pulled up and tied on top of my head. I’d look better then!!!
My granddaughter is a Dental Therapist and has just started doing botox and facial dermabrasion etc. Don't think I'd ever want botox, but when she's next in my area I'll ask her what she would recommend for me. In my heart I know I wouldn't want any chemicals in my body, but those white teeth her and her boyfriend have - well maybe!
Lucky lady Jean. All boys in my family, and the youngest, who’s 6 asked me with great interest, how I got the ‘folds’ on my eyelids. Good luck with the teeth. 😁
Buy a boat and take my kids and families around the world, stopping off enjoying all cultures and places, and linger a long time in the pacific , then come back here , this mountain, and buy the best chalet on top of the mountain with views of Mont Blanc and whatc h my family grow up here .When is the fairy goung yo tap her wand? Today Jean Jeanie? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze! Grin!
Sue
That sounds a wonderful dream and I'm guessing your boat wouldn't be a little cabin cruiser?
Ha ha hadn’t even thought that far…..wish fairy!
Travel
Yes Dave, I think that's one thing we'd all do more.
Gardening and enjoy time out there with my dogs. No place like home. ❤️
Quite right. I went away for a few days recently and I was forever searching for things I knew I'd brought with me. Different food and not having to do any cleaning is a treat though.
HiWell Jeanjeannie50
10 days ago after seeing my interested locum for 3 months supply Diltiazem CCB, she took my BP and pulse.
Although grant you it was only for a minute or two
It was 123/72 with no AF which I normally have.
Recently had a surgical ugly mesh in pelvic which was causing lots of inflammation, could this be the cause of the blood test NT-Pro... drop from 152 in December to 111!
If AF disappeared I dream of NO BLOOD THINNERS and to get down the urchased RALEIGH BIKE to take it for a ride hills and all!
Thanx Jean... we can dream.
Cheri JOY
There'd be no need for tablets would there because we'd be so healthy. How wonderful that would be. I'll ride my bike with you up those hills.
Hi JeanWhere are u?
NZ, UK, USA???
I'm in NZ.
So can inflammation in the body cause AF or did the inflammation cause thyroid cancer which caused AF. And the stroke.
Wouldn't be wonderful to lose it as I did the Papillary Cancer. Passed 2 yearly neck scans.
I will go and look at the bike and put fairy dust on it eh!
Will you too, Jean..
cheri. JOY
I guess you'll never know about the inflammation, AF and cancer! One day some connection may be discovered.
I'm in the U.K. South West England. My bike will certainly need fairy dust. I haven't ridden it for about 10 years, its just stood in my garage. All the miles I've done on that bike in the past!! A friend did say he'd have a look at it, I must start dropping some subtle hints.
Jean
😁😂🤣. I'd kill myself first, but each to their own.
I would get all the music lessons I desperately wanted when I was young, then I would become a volunteer music teacher to enable the children that want to play an instrument but were prevented to because of poverty, had access to free lessons so they could fulfil their dreams of being a musician.
That would be a nice thing to do. Perhaps the good fairy could make it so that you had those gifts.
I'd love to be able to play the piano, when I was young I was always asking for a harp - it always worried my mum. Still love harp music. My dream was to be a ballet dancer, but there were no lessons in the small village where I lived and I doubt my family would have been able to afford them. I was always reading ballet books and dancing around at home.
I think it is so sad that primary aged children are rarely given the opportunity now to play an instrument. Unless the parents can afford private lessons, who knows how many future Beethovens or Evelyn Glenys are being lost, purely because of the lack of finance.
Wow! I would travel, travel, travel, then sell my home and move into a nice hotel by the sea and live there for the rest of my life! No more housework, laundry, cooking or gardening. Then, if I get tired of the hotel, I’d check out and move into another one, or stay on a cruise ship for a while! I see endless possibilities.
That's strange I answered your post earlier, but it's not here.
I like your way of thinking I'm sure I could cope with that too. I knew a wealthy lady who spent her last few years of life on a cruise ship, before coming to the nursing home where I worked. She said to me, "You know I've had a lot of money and tried all the different types of skin creams", then she told me which one was the best and really makes a difference its La Prairie. I have it written down somewhere. At a cost of £300-£1,300 I've had to give it a miss. Wonder if they give out any free samples?
JeanJeannie thank you for your post. As you say it has been so much fun. The replies are really interesting with so many people choosing to travel. After the couple of years we've just had, I think we should make you Prime Minister so that you can wave that wand and make so many happy! You'll be the first pm to wear a glitzy pink ball gown with matching pointed hat like the good fairy in Cinderella.
Well if a comedian can make Prime Minister, there's hope for me. 😂🤣🤣
I would buy a wee cottage miles away from people with lots of wide open spaces near the sea and just ........BREATH!!!! Take my dogs for long walks, hike up a mountain to watch sun rise and ..... BREATH!!
Paddle in the water at the beach and feel happy to be ALIVE...!
It's so sad we all get caught up with life and don't realise what is just around the corner waiting to grab you .
Take time and just BREATH.....!!!
Yes, I'm with you, all in all I think the simple life in the beautiful surroundings of nature has a lot to be recommended.
I'd be a professional cricketer.
That would be a lovely job to have, there's something very relaxing about watching a cricket match.
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