MEDICAL MATTERS

[Wendyf]

I think Col has faced 3 catheter removal days, always anxious times for him and me too! Luckily he hasn't had any bladder problems since his last TURPS procedure about 4 years ago. I hope it goes well Kev.

[Big Kev]

Thank you Wendy

[Stanley]

Fingers crossed!!!!!

[Big Kev]

I am officially a Dyson vacuum cleaner, bagless
Just got a few hours of drinking, draining, tests and a scan. If all is good I'm out of here

[Wendyf]

Good news Kev, I hope the drinking and draining goes well!

[Stanley]

Wonderful! Hope the tests go well. It must be a lovely relief....

[Cathy]

Kev, 7.45pm here, 9.15am there. I’ll check in before I go to bed, around midnight , 1.30pm there. Make ‘s sense .
Hope all is well by then.

[Big Kev]

First of the tests are OK

[Stanley]

[Big Kev]

[Big Kev]

First of the tests are OK

Second test is OK and I've been scanned, one more to go. I could be out of here before lunchtime

[Big Kev]

and I'm home and looking forward to my lunch

[Cathy]

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[Whyperion]

When the NHS works it is quite efficient at this kind of thing - as long as you give it a stir in the right direction too.

[Big Kev]

I can't fault it recently. I did have an issue seeing a GP a little while ago and used a private doctor but, certainly in the last 12 months, it's all been very good.

[Stanley]

I'm glad you're home and dry..... Take it easy, that was not a pleasant episode.

[Big Kev]

I've previously mentioned a PSA blood test for prostate cancer and, as a follow up to my recent shenanigans, I've had one.

These are from the cancer research website and show when further investigation is needed

Between 40 and 49 more than 2.5ng/ml
Between 50 and 59 more than 3.5ng/ml
Between 60 and 69 more than 4.5ng/ml
Between 70 and 79 more than 6.5ng/ml

I'm pleased to say my latest result was 2.8ng/ml

You can request a PSA from your GP surgery.

[Stanley]

Excellent!

[Mags]

Mick has a PSA test every year as part of the yearly MOT our GP gives us.

[Stanley]

[Big Kev]

Mick has a PSA test every year as part of the yearly MOT our GP gives us.

[Stanley]

Covid booster at Everest Pharmacy this morning at 10:45.....

[Stanley]

I can remember shortly after the war seeing a card sent out by Tube Investments, the biggest UK manufacturer of tubes, which had a very fine piece of tube mounted in it with what looked like a piece of wire pushed through it. A foreign firm had sent them a sample of very fine tube so TI made an even finer tube that fitted inside the sample and sent it back.
You might well wonder what this has to do with medical matters..... I thought about it yesterday when the nurse gave me my Covid jab, I never felt the needle go in. I can remember the industrial size needles that used to be used on us and reflected that the needle the good nurse was using must be as fine as a human hair..... Some things have definitely improved!

[PanBiker]

I can remember the industrial size needles that used to be used on us and reflected that the needle the good nurse was using must be as fine as a human hair..... Some things have definitely improved!

They still use the big ones on occasion Stanley as I found out when I had Quincy. The nice Easter European Junior Doctor who took pity on me dribbling in the corridor at the old Blackburn Victorian Hospital used two of the said, "I can see the hole down the middle" big syringes to aspirate the peritonsillar abscess that I had been sent with one Easter Saturday 20 years ago. I have to say that the relief given by the treatment, although slightly medieval was absolute bliss once on the right side of it! The wimpy little variants that they use for vaccinations simply would not have been up to the job and certainly not long or wide enough. Horses for courses I suppose. Three days on IV cross spectrum antibiotics followed, my first stay in hospital aged 50.

[Tripps]

I can remember shortly after the war seeing a card sent out by Tube Investments, the biggest UK manufacturer of tubes, which had a very fine piece of tube mounted in it with what looked like a piece of wire pushed through it. A foreign firm had sent them a sample of very fine tube so TI made an even finer tube that fitted inside the sample and sent it back.

This is an old "urban myth". I first heard it in the late 1950's from a mate who was an apprentice in the drawing office at at Mather and Platts in Newton Heath at the time. I was very impressed at the time, but urban myths and legends hadn't been invented then, and I never doubted it. .

Snopes covers it very well. thin tubes They categorise it as a "legend".

"This rating is most commonly associated with items that describe events so general or lacking in detail that they could have happened to someone, somewhere, at some time, and are therefore essentially unprovable".