That's exactly where the pain was, right under where the ribs come together. Nowhere else.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
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That's exactly where the pain was, right under where the ribs come together. Nowhere else.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
good looks like its solved.. your valve gets tired with age apparently and doesnt seal properly. you eating late near bed time has set off the acid and its come out and burnt your tubes at that spot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
My first appointment was on the 26th March! so 6 months to get tested:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Good grief, they obviously don't see it as time critical then. But if was something really serious you'd want to know asap whether it was worth starting a DVD box set :)
Oh Yesss:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I have had long covid symptoms since feb, not had covid though, the onset was 5 days after my Pfizer booster.
AZ was administered for the first 2, not going anywhere near Pfizer or Moderna again unless I really have to.
Doctor from Livingston I presume :) Thanks for the info Grant, obviously still a bit rubbish to have, but at least I can go to bed reasonably confident about waking the next day!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
i'd still see a doc if it happens again.. peace of mind for all steve..Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Yes of course, but right now I have a more pressing concern: I've gone deaf in one ear! I wake each morning with my left ear completely blocked, and though it improves a bit when I'm up and about, I hear next to bugger all. And when my phone rings I can't so easily locate it. And music doesn't sound quite right - am I listening in mono?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Annoying that it's my left ear - my sitting position puts my stereo to my left and Anita to my right. Should be the other way round :(
Time for some earwax removal then. NHS don't seem to be arsed anymore, but there are plenty of private places, offering "micro suction" which is supposed to be better and safer. And they all seem to stay open quite late, which is handy. Prices average around £45 for one ear and £70 for two.
I'm the world's greatest at putting things off, but I think I'll make this a priority.
I had mine done by micro suction about 4 months ago. Used to have them done once a year at the surgery by the water pump method. I have Tinnitus that was made worse by Covid. I found the micro suction really loud and was concerned about it making my Tinnitus even worse but it doesn't seem to have. Very efficient cleaning method but mine was £70 for about 10 mins. Nice money if you can get it.
Yeah I was thinking that, a licence to print money. And I bet they make a bit more by selling the removed wax on to the people who make Marmite :( I would have to spend 3 hours up a ladder in all weathers for that kind of money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puffin
If I was called out to adjust a door for a micro-suctioneer (is that a word?), a job taking about ten minutes, then said "£70 please", he'd have a right face on him.
If I had my time over again... I'd still avoid Marmite
marmite on toast, as long as you spread it thin, is great ... i like bovril as a drink too and use bovril chicken and beef in dishes im making sometimes as a boost.
its as they say a em, marmite taste tho.. the aussie version, vegimite i find fairly ghastly tho.
Bovril is proper - as a kid I'd always have a cup of Bovril and a bag of crisps in Saul Street Baths cafe. Without that incentive I probably wouldn't have learned to swim.
Remember a naval war film, think it was in which we serve where the captain gives army officers they rescued at Dunkirk, I think, Bovril and sherry mixed which they all raved about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I tried it...yuk! Lol
Dozens of Clarence House staff have been given notice of their redundancy as the offices of King Charles and the Queen Consort move to Buckingham Palace after the death of the Queen, the Guardian has learned.
Up to 100 employees at the King’s former official residence, including some who have worked there for decades, received notification that they could lose their jobs just as they were working round the clock to smooth his elevation to the throne.
Private secretaries, the finance office, the communications team and household staff are among those who received notice during the thanksgiving service for the Queen, at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh on Monday, that their posts were on the line.
Nice....that's the way to do it eh
Whoever made the decision to inform them during this period of mourning, they want bloody sacking. A much better way to reduce the wages bill.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
How can anyone not like Marmite? How else are you going to get your RDI of vitamin B complex? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/m...-a7867336.html
A very shoddy way to treat loyal staff. Obviously there would be a duplication of staff, but there must be better ways to soften the blow. One can only hope the redundancy package is generous.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
No shortage of B complex supplements on the market. Even if it came in suppository form that would be preferable to Marmite. Having said that I don't take any vitamin supplements, so no doubt I will probably be deficient in something, and in that respect I envy Marmite fans their tolerance for things that just taste wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
We have Marmite, but it never occurs to me to eat any. The missus does though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I've noticed there have been no police to be seen for the last few days. All seconded to nearby forces on royal related duties I expect, we're within ten miles of Windsor and Westminster. You don't see that many police cars, but you do see a few, there are none about now.
great time for crooks then..Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Plenty of them around!
Remind me to never buy Dormeo products. The verbal battering they give you in their TV adverts is ridiculous!
Sounds like a sleeping product do they sell massively overpriced memory foam mattresses?Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Speaking of alternative methods to take vitamins I've just had a thought. They do the pill in slow release implants that last a few years. The government could introduce mandatory multivitamin implants to keep people healthy and save the NHS money. They could do them to children at school that way children would get their vitamins even if they had neglectful parents.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
The company getting the contract would do ok too. I'm wonder if Matt Hancock's pub landlord knows anything about multivitamins...
That's right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
I think they must rely on impulse buyers, nobody researching the pros and cons is likely to buy one I think. The product looks gimmicky to me.
Half the nation to go hungry on Monday, McDonald's to be closed for the royal funeral!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62903404
they reopen at 5pm... most big operations will be closed.
If popping a pill seems too easy a way to good health, that's because it probably is. The efficacy of vit D pills has been brought into question, even when levels in the body appear normal, it seems the natural production of vit D itself only brings real benefits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
What an awful idea - what other mandatory injections would they think desirable?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
The idea does have some merit, but that word "mandatory" has to go - no one would get behind that. In any case, trust issues between Joe Public and the govt would always be a stumbling block.
Better perhaps would the provision of a multivitamin for primary school kids, like they used to do with milk. Free of charge, and also parents could choose to opt out.
Older kids and adults can fend for themselves, but hopefully young kids will stick with it as it has become a normal routine.
Yes, it was the word "mandatory" I objected to.
Childhood jabs for polio, diptheria, rubella, smallpox, TB, whooping cough etc. make perfect sense; though I think they should be highly recommended rather than mandatory.
Off into town later to Richer Sounds to buy an a/v amp. Mrs. P is missing the old, long-dead one. She wants it primarily I think, for the new Game of Thrones spin off "House of The Dragon" - she wants to hear the dragons flying round her head.
It would be cheaper for me to stand behind her making roaring noises, but no that's not good enough. High maintenance or what?
Just been down Sainsburys do some shopping and draw some cash out but ofc their cashpoint isn't working. On a Saturday too which you have to think is when most people will need to use it.
Not an isolated incident either. The bloody thing is out of order more often than Piers Morgan. Now I've only got about eight quid in cash so I'll have to make a second trip out just for that. Useless wankers.
I draw cash with my debit card at the local Post Office counter on the rare occasion I need it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
need to get cash out too.. its the grandsons 15th on tuesday. last time i tried it was like macca..empty. trying to wean us off cash i think.
Our local post office shut several months ago and hasn't re-opened. Now have to use the one in the 'University Quarter' which is tiny and the queue is out the door most of the day because of Pox E Student taking up the staff's time with some pointless nonsense.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Can't be doing with buying stuff with my card, I like to have cash in my pocket. It's reassuring.
Grant, it looks like you're spot on with your diagnosis. I went to see the doc on Friday, who also spoke about this valve, told me to stop eating close to bedtime, cut down on fatty foods, avoid alcohol (I can do that), cut down on coffee (can't do that) and prescribed a 28 day course of a 'proton pump inhibitor' (PPI) called Omeprazole.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Now the whole of my stomach feels tender, but apparently this is a common side effect which should go away for a few days.
good news steve. im on omeprazole for life lol.. oddly mine played up last night so had to take liquid.. must have been the whisky:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Yep, I suppose that would do it. Though sometimes it's a toss up between risking some discomfort and that feeble existence also known as abstinence ;) Never been that bothered about alcohol since before I was wed, smoking has always been my demon, which is probably worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I live like a monk compared to most it seems :).
I had all the regular 'bad habits', but have none now. Partly choice and partly necessity.
I tried, but found the robes a bit scratchy.
i see russian males are trying to get out of country to avoid conscription... cant say i blame them.. they are not trained for a war situation and the front is a tough place. another sign russia has bitten off too much.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...war-army-drive
They are really running themselves into the ground. They should have quit after the first week, writing was on the wall from the start.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
My concern is what Putin and his cronies are likely to do when backed into a corner
America was warned 20/30 years ago not to expand Nato to Russia's borders, and here we are, the return of nuclear annihilation.
Here's US diplomat/historian A Fateful Error
By George F. Kennan
Feb. 5, 1997
"In late 1996, the impression was allowed, or caused, to become prevalent that it had been somehow and somewhere decided to expand NATO up to Russia's borders. This despite the fact that no formal decision can be made before the alliance's next summit meeting, in June.
The timing of this revelation -- coinciding with the Presidential election and the pursuant changes in responsible personalities in Washington -- did not make it easy for the outsider to know how or where to insert a modest word of comment. Nor did the assurance given to the public that the decision, however preliminary, was irrevocable encourage outside opinion.
But something of the highest importance is at stake here. And perhaps it is not too late to advance a view that, I believe, is not only mine alone but is shared by a number of others with extensive and in most instances more recent experience in Russian matters. The view, bluntly stated, is that expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era.
Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking. And, last but not least, it might make it much more difficult, if not impossible, to secure the Russian Duma's ratification of the Start II agreement and to achieve further reductions of nuclear weaponry.
It is, of course, unfortunate that Russia should be confronted with such a challenge at a time when its executive power is in a state of high uncertainty and near-paralysis. And it is doubly unfortunate considering the total lack of any necessity for this move. Why, with all the hopeful possibilities engendered by the end of the cold war, should East-West relations become centered on the question of who would be allied with whom and, by implication, against whom in some fanciful, totally unforeseeable and most improbable future military conflict?
I am aware, of course, that NATO is conducting talks with the Russian authorities in hopes of making the idea of expansion tolerable and palatable to Russia. One can, in the existing circumstances, only wish these efforts success. But anyone who gives serious attention to the Russian press cannot fail to note that neither the public nor the Government is waiting for the proposed expansion to occur before reacting to it.
Russians are little impressed with American assurances that it reflects no hostile intentions. They would see their prestige (always uppermost in the Russian mind) and their security interests as adversely affected. They would, of course, have no choice but to accept expansion as a military fait accompli. But they would continue to regard it as a rebuff by the West and would likely look elsewhere for guarantees of a secure and hopeful future for themselves.
It will obviously not be easy to change a decision already made or tacitly accepted by the alliance's 16 member countries. But there are a few intervening months before the decision is to be made final; perhaps this period can be used to alter the proposed expansion in ways that would mitigate the unhappy effects it is already having on Russian opinion and policy."
trouble with that arguement is ukraine was never going to be in nato, and unlikely to be in the eu. same can be said for finland and sweden. its all about a madman landgrabbing. a bit like adolf.
Boris Johnson mistakenly thanked Russia's Vladimir Putin for his "inspirational leadership" instead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The slip-up came during his first major contribution as a backbench MP since being ousted as prime minister.
In a general commons debate on the war in Ukraine, Mr Johnson said it is important to "double down in our defence of the Ukrainians" if Mr Putin doubles down on his "aggression".
Ukraine war latest: Russian foreign minister speaks at UN
As he listed the reasons why Ukraine's counter-offensive is proving to be successful, though, he inadvertently thanked Mr Putin, before quickly correcting himself and thanking Mr Zelenskyy.
He said: "Thanks to the heroism of the Ukrainian armed forces, thanks in part to the weapons that we are proud to be offering, I congratulate my right honourable friend (James Heappey) on his description of the work of the UK armed forces, the weapons that we're sending, the huge list...
"Thanks also, of course, to the inspirational leadership of Vladimir Putin."
GOOD OLD BORIS :doh:
i wonder if truss could be the shortest pm in history... she appears to be attempting it.:doh: boris to return perhaps is the plan