Beautiful knives gentlemen and good luck with your doctor’s appointments.
Thanks Todd
My neurologist told me to call if my aphasia comes back.
Jack, sorry to hear about your doctor's visit and your various ailments. The concussion was no doubt the result of you banging your heat at the tool market. I do get benefit from 600 milligrams of Ibuprofen but I can take it because of all the blood thinners I have to use daily. At my age the arthritis is creeping in but all I can use is wimpy stuff like Tylenol. And if you take Tylenol you better not be drinking alcoholic beverages due to the deleterious effects on the liver.
Thanks Bill, yes, a few folks have said I might have been better going to the hospital, but I'd probably have been there 8 hours or more, and ended up banging my head against the wall!
There are folks here waiting longer than that for an ambulance at the moment
You can't buy many pain killers over the counter here
Good Morning Guardians
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Looking good John
Let me get this straight: She didn't want you to get a scan because it might show something that needs to be operated on?
If there is something like that, it isn't going away by not looking at it! And even if such a thing is shown, you still have the option to not operate, so I can't imagine what advantage there is in refusing to look. I am outraged on your behalf, Jack.
Thanks Rachel
Incredible isn't it? But rather typical of our health service I'm afraid
Anybody read
Breath, by Nestor? It's two years old now, but I just got around to it.
Speaking of ailments.
That looks in good shape Jer
I agree with everything
r8shell
said. Do you have the option of a second opinion with a different doc? When I had sciatica, I ate ibuprofen by the handful and it didn't even take the edge off. It also gave me bleeding problems and I was a lot younger than you are now.
Thanks buddy
I'm hoping to get some physio sessions at the hospital, so I might be able to get a scan that way, or I'll just have to try seeing another doctor. It's a very painful condition isn't, sorry you've suffered yourself?
There are painkillers specific to nerve pain that she could have prescribed. Two minutes before she told me to go and buy some 400mg ibuprofen, I'd told her that I took 200mg ibuprofen for a week, but stopped because it was making my stomach bleed! I used to get diclofenac on prescription, but had to stop taking it for the same reason
I sure can't complain. I messaged my doctor about some symptoms I figured we'd talk about on the 6th, and she messaged back that these symptoms are concerning, please call for an appointment. She's always booked four months out, so I figured we'd talk about it on the 6th, but I went through the motions. I called yesterday and I've got an appointment for the day after tomorrow. So I'm worried, but I won't be in suspense for long.
Hope you're going to be ok Jer, I'm glad you're managing to get in to see the doc at least
If I could find my Far Side books, there would be a picture here of the two old sailors at a bar, and the one is pointing to his hook for a hand, and saying "Let me tell you how I lost this", to the one with a wooden peg for a head.
Jack and Bill; I feel for you about the arthritis. I've had both knees replaced, the bones in my right foot fused and get around much better but still fight arthritis in the big lower thumb joints , shoulders and lower back. Luckily anti-inflammatories keep things to a tolerable level.
Oh no, sorry to hear that Sceva
I get in my hands and fingers, neck, shoulders, legs, and feet. Thankfully I can still open a Lambsfoot!
Oh; and here's a Lambsfoot photo.
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Thank you for that
Thanks for all the support folks, but I must apologise for dragging this thread off topic so much
I'm out in the garden at the moment, as I'm having connectivity problems in my house again!
I just let my neighbour use my Lambsfoot to trim the stem of one of her plants!
