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Well don't you go thanking me too soon honeybun... I shut my eyes going over the blinky bridge so you'll have to navigate, lol!!

(I am joking... well, a bit ;¬)))

Love

Daff xxx

And I pranged my car yesterday lol. No problems going through town but my own wall on drive ........

LOL Daff - I have a phobia of bridges - and I have walked the old Severn bridge and Clifton Suspension bridge. We always take guests over them if they have never been there and you will always find me doing a very brisk walk over and back and am relieved the bridge has not fallen down whilst Im on it LOL.

Ann - I am half Welsh so dont mind at all and well done Wales yesterday good game!
Tina xx

I don't mind bridges at all, if I'm in a car - not too struck on heights though, I find I'm drawn to them in a sick sort of way

I can see the clifton suspension bridge from my bathroom window if I stand on tippytoes and its dark so lit up.

My Chiropracticers receptionists uncle designed and built (well, he had workmen who helped a little bit I expect) the first Severn Bridge.. He is dead now... he didn't fall off or anything... just thought I would pass on that useless piece of information, lol!

You would have to knock me out and tie me down to get me over the Clifton Suspension bridge, lol!!!

I don't like bridges, and I don't do heights.... which is why I bought a house on a piece of land which has been ironed out (if you are Welsh and a Gren fan, you'll understand that, lol)

Love

Daff xxxx

ps, Ann, I promise to keep half an eye on the road ... the other will be closed!! xxxx

I can only see the bridge if I walk to the top of the hill (I should say the very top of the hill as we are already on a hill) and look over Shirehampton Golf Park.
Looks lovely when its all lit up.

My grandad had a fear of heights too and he had a sort of drawing towards the edge - how strange?

I'm like your grandad - petrified but drawn at the same time!! not nice

Me too, as a child ran across a suspension in the Rocky Mountains at Capilano, no fear at all, then at 13 was stuck for 1 1/2 hours on top of a ferris wheel. That led to years of panic attacks, the inability to drive over a bridge with open sides, etc. When I was in north wales in 1994, my uncle was with me, I decided to take what looked like a shortcut between llangollen and trefor. All of a sudden I am on the narrowest road on the side of the hill. I was a wreck by the time I got to the other side!! Same thing with the Horseshoe pass. I now manage to drive over a local high bridge, but have to stay in the lane closest to the centre as I feel like I'm been drawn over the edge, same thing on a subway/tube platform, have to hug the back wall till the train stops. For a long time would drive miles out of my way to avoid that bridge, then one day had a flat tyre at the top of the bridge, and managed to roll to the bottom, white knuckles and shaking, feeling faint.

Bottom line is, enjoy your travel with confident drivers, my last time over, I was trying to enter Bristol and found myself heading for the bridge.Got mixed up with a motorway, which didn't head where I'd planned.
best wishes for a full recovery.
maxiMary

Bristol town is doddle - the key is to be prepared for anything before it happens - cos I promise you it will. And switch off sat nav - it dosent understand the redevelopment!

Bristol may be a doddle to you Maddie but to me, a Cardiffian, it is a nightmare!!
Cardiff is a doddle to me but you probably would feel the same as I do!!

Colleen - there must be some reason why people like us are drawn to heights yet are petrified of them - same with tube trains as you said, it really is very odd - there must be an explanation. When I was in London last weekend I went up a couple of sets of escalators on the underground and you could look over the side - over a glass barrier - it was as high as about three or four houses!!!! No way could I have fallen over it but my God, how frightening

lol Ann heights dont bother me a jot. But try to get me walk down an open stair case or even worse a windy one!!! I can barely get one foot over the other - I can walk up them fine right to the top .....but down ooooeeehhhh scares me ridged!

sorry only just seen this thread. My f.i.l. had GBS years ago. He got over it ok, as he was diagnosed quickly. It left him with a slight weakness in one shoulder but otherwise he was fine.
Hope your cousin gets well soon and is prepared for lots of physio lol.

Lin x

thank you Lin - lovely of you to respond - I feel a lot more hopeful for Mark now and shall be writing to him today and will include much of the information I have been given on this thread. People have been so very kind and I very much appreciate it.

Ann XX

when we lived in Lydney (1973-1981), we could see down the Severn to the Old Severn Bridge from our kitchen window. Spectacular when there was a thunderstorm as it always seemed to move up the river.

Ann
glos

Hi Ann.

There was a book written years ago called "Bed Number Ten" by Sue Baier. It is a description of her experience with this syndrome. Don't know if it would give some insight into the condition (been a long time since I read it).

thanks for all your good wishes and advice - a lot to think about - everyone has been so kind and helpful

Ann XXXX

OKAY Mary..... you've done it now... you are MAXIMARY to me from now on.

Ann I hope all goes well.
If it is not on ething it's another isn't it?

Deanna X

I worked with a woman years ago who came down with it while on holiday in France, I think, she was brought home as soon as able to travel and was ill for some time, but then after her recovery was back working as a dinner lady. Haven't seen her for years but am sure she is still around.
Good luck to your cousin, hope he is soon on the mend.
Lizx

thanks Liz - all posts have been quite positive so I am very hopeful Mark will recover in time