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Thanks, probably got it from my Grandson last Wednesday, he was a two year old walking dribbling fester ball all day. Made to go round as they say.
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Marilyn wrote:How hard is it to just give a second sample?
It isn't that big a deal...( though results can generally be accessed on-line between all doctors, including your GP if only they bother to look them up! )
I sympathise with him Maz. I come out in a great big black bruise on my arm when they take blood samples. If they have two gos at it my whole arm might turn black! Good luck with it all Tardis, sometimes we just get fed up with them messing up and can't help but be a bit nowty with them.
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Panny...don't take this the wrong way...but I am not attracted to your grandson on any level...following your description of him.
Tiz...something is wrong if you suffer that much from giving a blood sample. ( do they bash you or something?!)
Hope I have never caused that much damage to a patient.
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That's always been the case Maz, although it doesn't happen every time. I can't say it's due to any one nurse or doctor. My mum had the same problem. Injections are no problem, it's only when blood is taken. But I'm brave and put up with it... :wink:
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No problem Maz but you will know what I mean. He was off nursery on Thursday and his sister off school on Friday. Odds on we would get something!

You must have dodgy veins Tiz.

Fist time I donated blood the agitator went on alarm after a couple of minutes, nurse came and readjusted the needle for flow but had to come back again two or three times. Had to stop the donation as the cannula nurse had managed to go through the back of the vein. I bruised from half way up my forearm to just under the armpit, a right mess, took ages to clear. I always donate from my right arm, the left takes about twice as long.
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Although you would think all humans have the same physiology, we all have little differences.
My husband is on ultra-powerful blood thinners and he bleeds like a stuck pig with the slightest knock. He has frequent nosebleeds and it is like a massacre if he cuts himself shaving. A recent bump oozed for three days.
Yet he doesn't have any bruising when he gives a blood sample. Amazing!
And while I don't take blood thinners, I bruise just from a blood pressure reading,
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Last time at donors there was a young woman who joined the tea and biscuit table while I was having my brew. It was her first time, she had tried to donate but they couldn't find a suitable vein in either arm. Now't as queer as folk as they say.

Your hubby's condition with his medication must be a bit like induced haemophilia.
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I got a letter from our surgery on Saturday informing me to make an appointment at the hospital to see about my cataracts - they had only had the letter 17 days from when I had my eyes tested. Now I have to wait a further 3 weeks for the appointment!!
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Well done Moh, go for it! It took about six months overall for me to get through the process, well worth it. Remember, no pain only a little discomfort and brilliant results. You'll sail through it!
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Yes Panny, a bit like induced haemophilia...he has complained to his specialist but there is nothing that can be done. We were hoping he could at least come of the baby Aspirin as there didn't seem to be any point taking those with the more powerful ones...but apparently he must stay on both for the rest of his life. He has stents in both legs and three in his heart and he has been told that "if he doesn't take these pills every 12 hours he will die." (So that was telling him!).
So we both make sure he does...he has only ever missed a dose once...and it scared him so much he will never miss another one. One of his cardiac stents was apparently so difficult to place and so dangerous a procedure that he simply cannot risk developing a small clot...and it is unlikely they can help him if one develops.
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Makes me realise how lucky I am.....
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He is lucky too. He has me for a wife! :laugh5:
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Puts my poxy throat into context, although it's not getting any better. Cant make appointment to see doc until after 2pm, would not normally go if there is no sign of infection but this is now day four without improvement.
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Talking of taking tablets, my dad's prescription (three drugs, each to be taken once a day but at different times) is now being dispensed in those customised blister packs where you pop a bubble for each time of day. This is because he can't be relied on to take them and the carers have to administer the drugs - but they are only allowed to do it from these special personal blister packs, not from the original packs. But the new packs started before the carer visits started and he couldn't understand how to take the tablets from the blisters. In his `toys out of pram' rage he popped all the blisters and left a month's worth of the tablets all mixed up on top of a cabinet! Now the carers are administering the tablets but they couldn't prevent him taking extra ones because he believed they were giving him the wrong ones. So a safe now sits in his room with the tablets locked in them.

Both my dad and Mrs Tiz's dad are in a sort of half-dementia state, lucid sometimes but not at other times. Some things understood but others completely garbled in their brains. It's the irrational aspects that throw you, like when we visited my dad in the afternoon and he insisted that it was 9.00 in the morning, went and had a wash and shave and then wanted some breakfast - he'd had a big 2-course lunch an hour or so earlier! We bought him a day clock which shows the day and `time of day' - based on a digital photoframe, it displays, e.g. "Now is Tuesday morning". But he keeps saying things like "That clock thing was saying Friday for three days on the run". The carers confirm the clock is working correctly but dad keeps falling asleep then waking up and thinking it's the next day...which means he could have `3 days in 1 day' and perhaps overdose on his tablets (before the carers started doing them). When he starts wandering at night you can't convince him it's night even when he sees it's dark outside. Sometimes he claims it's the wrong day, e.g., Friday when it's Monday, so we tell him "Have a look at your newspaper for the day and date". He replies: "The newspaper's got the wrong day on it" (mind you, it's the Daily Express and they'll try to convince us of anything that suits them!).
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My aunty suffered from dementia, for many years her husband struggled to care for her at home. After becoming unable to cope he was forced to place her in residential care. She remained in care for a further twenty years till her recent death. Not a fate I would wish for.
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Not a fate I would wish for either. Unfortunately some of us will have an invisible target genetically loaded. No getting round it. Well maybe there is, but we wait for science to catch up.
I still find your Dad quite adorable Tiz. The "toys out of the pram" thing draws me to him. ( though the living with it would be hard).
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Jury's out on whether I need a repeat visit to the ENT ward. Been to Docs today, my left tonsil is twice its normal size and I am now having difficulty swallowing, I can still get stuff down but it is painful. Its the same side as when I had the peritonsillar abscess. I'm on antibiotics, paracetamol and ibuprofen for the inflammation.

Upshot is this, if it's worse tomorrow I have to go back, if no improvement by Thursday, I have to go back. It's not presenting like the last time, I have no raging temperature, no shakes, no swollen and infected tongue or uncontrollable salivation so looking on the bright side might have caught it in time. See what the magic pills do but If I go missing from the site for a bit you will know why. :sad:
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Dear me. All the best...and I hope you win the war with the bugs.
It is amazing how they can knock us for six.
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Best not to worry about what may be round the corner Maz. Dementia, asbestosis .....
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Well, I'm still here. Self assessed obs tell me I am no worse. Woke up this morning and could still swallow. I noticed there was a little less pain, still sore but better than yesterday. As long as it keeps going this way and I can get the meds down it should be good. Have to take the antibiotics on a empty stomach or an hour before food and the anti-inflammatory with food. Right side of the morning regime. Two slices of toast with loads of butter and home made hedgerow jelly. A way to go yet but heading in the right direction hopefully.

When Dr Jackson got my notes up on the computer, I was amazed to see that it was 12 years since the last episode which gave us the nice topic for the "boils" thread after my experiences as an emergency admission into the old Victorian Blackburn Royal Infirmary. I could have sworn it was only 8 or 9 at the most years ago. Time flies when you are enjoying yourself.
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Keep taking the hedgerow jelly and you'll be fit as a fiddle, Ian! I hope it all clears up fast. Tizer
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"Hedge row jelly". Is that made from medlar? Having seen it on an English cooking show I bought a medlar tree and for the last 3 years have made the most beautiful medlar jelly. Who would have thought you could make something like that from a 'fruit that looks so ugly?
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Nothing special Liz, just the stuff you can forage on a walk around the lanes and canal corridor around Barlick. Varies with what's available. Blackberries, late raspberries, crab apples, Rowan berries, and sloes went into last Autumns cupboard full.
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I was only thinking the other day that it's years since the doc asked me to stick my tongue out so he could have a look at it. One thing I frequently check is whether I have a nice clean tongue with no hearthrug!
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Panbiker, just make sure you don't include any nightshade berries in your hedgerow forage! (I think it grows in the south of UK so perhaps you're safe.)
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