MEDICAL MATTERS

[Stanley]

I must be wired up differently than most. I don't see how it can make any difference if I glue myself to the PC and AI. I shall die soon anyway. It makes me dizzy watching all the ins and outs.... Ignore me, I'm just a silly old fart....

[Tripps]

Nice change of subject.

The issue wasn't AI, but whether the source of Covid 19 was a wild creature, or the laboratory at Wuhan. The left, including The Guardian and the BBC, have gone to great lengths to back the former, whilst President Trump's new head of the CIA now says it was the latter.

Read widely and don't forget to use Occam's razor.

[Stanley]

I was including AI in what I steer clear of as far as possible David. I see a lot more point in standing at the bench working with a hand tool.

[PanBiker]

12 months from my first lung scan is up so it's time for another go, 16.45 today, Asda Car Park. They scanned me in April last year with no changes to the nodule they found in January last year on one lung. They did say then that I would be tested again at 12 months and here it is...

Got my results from the last scan yesterday, all OK, will be discharged from the scanning programme.

I will be picking up my new Varifocal glasses this Saturday afternoon.

[Gloria]

That’s good to hear Ian.

[PanBiker]

Thanks Gloria.

[Stanley]

[PanBiker]

Getting more used to my new Varifocals. The peripheral vision bit of moving your head rather than your eyes takes bit of getting used to. I have been out and about around on town without falling over so that's a bonus I reckon.

[Big Kev]

I have been out and about around on town without falling over so that's a bonus I reckon.

It took me about a week to get used to moving my head to look at certain things, now I'm used to them I doubt I could go back to single vision.

[Stanley]

The thing that always bugged me about having full range varifocal lens was the fact that if you wanted to look closely at something near to you like a picture on the wall, you had to tip your head back and look at it through the bottom part of the lens. This ensured that your mouth dropped open!
Nowadays I have two pairs, one that covers the distance ranges for use outside and another pair that cover the reading and screen ranges. In fact for many purposes like watching TV or videos on the computer I take my glasses off. My right eye has distorted vision because of the torn retina and tries to fight the left if I have my glasses on so I am sometimes better off without.....
One thing is certain, we all need to look after our eyes!

[Big Kev]

An interesting consultation with Doc Bryan this morning, a recent blood test at BGH prompted the Endocrinology department to write to the surgery. I have an elevated PCV level (no, I'd never heard of it either ), Packed Cell Volume or, in layman's terms, my blood is too thick. There's a good chance I've had the condition for years but it's gone unnoticed. One of the treatments is 'blood letting' and, up until 2022, I was a blood donor which had to stop following a DVT. Further investigation is required with a hematology team as I still take a low dose anti-coagulant, if it's not one thing it's another. It's looking like the car is fixed and now it's my turn again

[PanBiker]

Stuff tends to go in circles Kev. I have always found that I feel a bit brighter the day after giving an armful. Probably why it was a practice used in the past to cure or relieve all sorts of maladies. You might have to get some leeches.

[Big Kev]

You might have to get some leeches.

sounds like a plan

[Stanley]

When I was very young I had very bad anaemia and the treatment in those days was to go to Gartside Street Children's Hospital in Manchester and have an injection of (I presume....) iron once a week. My mother took me for years. Later I was told by phlebotomists digging for veins to tap for blood tests that my blood was thicker than normal and I always put it down to those injections.... It never bothered me and nobody ever suggested doing anything about it and I enter my 90th year in a week so I can't say it has hampered me!

[Big Kev]

Isn't our NHS wonderful, I've picked up a nasty UTI. I phoned the 111 service around 6pm and had a call back just after 7. A prescription for ABs has been sent to a pharmacy in Colne, eldest offspring is collecting it now and I have a telephone appointment booked with my GP tomorrow morning.

[Whyperion]

An interesting consultation with Doc Bryan this morning, a recent blood test at BGH prompted the Endocrinology department to write to the surgery. I have an elevated PCV level (no, I'd never heard of it either ), Packed Cell Volume or, in layman's terms, my blood is too thick. There's a good chance I've had the condition for years but it's gone unnoticed. One of the treatments is 'blood letting' and, up until 2022, I was a blood donor which had to stop following a DVT. Further investigation is required with a hematology team as I still take a low dose anti-coagulant, if it's not one thing it's another. It's looking like the car is fixed and now it's my turn again

Sort of question for Tizer, etc, but is DVT related to the PCV ( everything "too thick" to move ? I assume things like platelets are getting stuck due to protein bonds (or electrically valence bonding) (might be blood group specific too in likelyhoods). One is almost amazed given the complexity of the body that it works at all, let alone sometimes efficiently.

Aside question , should everyone on the health list as too sick to work be forced to work till they drop ? (had a couple of folks in the civil service in london who went from heart conditions around age 57, one wanted to keep on working)

[Stanley]

Hard luck Kev. You are in the wars at the moment! I hope they have chosen to right AB and nailed it, I have some experience with those little buggers and the doctor who eventually nailed mine was a lady in Bacup who knew what she was doing. Never seen one since touch wood and when I was having my immunotherapy the nurse mentioned than that I was unusual in that I was the only patient they had in that cohort who never had a bladder infection.
I wish you the same luck with yours....

[Big Kev]

Barlick surgery phoned at 8am, I have a face to face appointment at 10

[Stanley]

You're in there now. I hope it goes well!

[Big Kev]

A sample has been sent off for testing, a cloudy shade of pink
I'll be glad when the ABs kick in, I'm not a fan of this feeling ill malarkey. I won't mention the other symptoms but I'm sure you'll know.

[Stanley]

I am reminded of the old joke.....
Man goes to doctor because he has trouble with waterworks.... Doctor: "Does it burn?" Man: "I don't know I haven't tried setting light to it".
Sorry about that Kev, I know it isn't a joke....

[Big Kev]

I am reminded of the old joke.....
Man goes to doctor because he has trouble with waterworks.... Doctor: "Does it burn?" Man: "I don't know I haven't tried setting light to it".
Sorry about that Kev, I know it isn't a joke....

It did make me smile though so I must be on the mend.

[Stanley]

[Tizer]

A sample has been sent off for testing, a cloudy shade of pink

Have you been eating beetroot?

[Big Kev]

A sample has been sent off for testing, a cloudy shade of pink

Have you been eating beetroot?

Nay, it's definitely blood. I did have that happen once with beetroot.