Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

SingleSue wrote: »

I had nothing to relate that wasn't mundane.

Same here, I generally only post (on any forum sites) if I have something to say.

After all, this isn't Twit ter, where some people (so I've heard) feel the need to tweet when they get up, when they've had breakfast (and what it was), ditto lunch, etc., etc, interspersed.with what their moggie has or hasn't been doing

ukmaggie45

Internet outage (and TV too!) here, from around 1am to around 11am... :mad:

But then had to go to Royal Hospital to see consultant gastroenterologist. He wanted me to have the camera thing, I more or less told him where he could put it. Under some pressure I agreed to a flexible sigmoidoscopy which I will hear about soon - he said he'd do it as an urgent test.

There was just no way I could do another prep, and the one for colonoscopy is reputedly worse than the one for the CT scan (colonography) that I had. They give the CT scan to elderly and frail who can't cope with the full prep for colonoscopy. In other words people like me! :rotfl: After 3 days sitting more or less non stop on the toilet and with a very sore 4**e I was so exhausted I really didn't know what to do with myself. And the one they use for the other is worse? :eek: No way hos!!

[EDIT (that should read hos e with an acute accent by the way)]

Very nice consultant though - straight talking but took on board my disagreement with him.

GDB2222

I've probably misunderstood, but my daughter had the camera thingy and it was no problem at all. She swallowed it, and it travelled through taking photos of her insides. She, umm, retrieved it and they looked at the film.

They, rather cleverly, gave her a dummy one first. That one came through fine, but if it had got stuck it wouldn't have mattered as it was designed to dissolve.

Maybe what she had is different from what they offered you?

ukmaggie45

GDB2222 wrote: »

Maybe what she had is different from what they offered you?

Different. Maxi effect laxatives over 3 days (while eating foul diet of white stuff only - no veg, steamed fish/chicken, think white bread allowed) much more horrid than what I had to do for the colonography that they gave me as being old and frail. Then shove a camera up yer bum.

The colonography prep damn near killed me from sleep deprivation. The colonoscopy prep is similar but much worse from what I can make out. I really can't take it. I wouldn't even do the colonography again - with ME/CFS it had a really bad effect on my general health. Weeks in bed after recovering.

I'm not sure I'll do the flexible sigmoidoscopy they are offering as alternative. To be honest my life isn't a bundle of laughs at present, what's the point? I have no FH of cancer (other than Dad had prostate cancer), they mostly got diabetes or heart or circulatory disease or stroke or died young of TB.

Maybe I should ask about the pill camera to swallow - I do recall reading some stuff about that when looking at the colonography stuff before I did it.

Their idea of the colonography being better for old and frail patients does not compute for me!

ivyleaf

Maggie

I've pm'd you xx (at least, I'm just about to!)

Ah. Maggie, you need to clear your PM box. I think my first PM may have reached you, but then i tried to send a P.S. and couldn't.

CKhalvashi

Woke up about an hour ago, can't get back to sleep.

Please DQ below (above is fine), may delete.

Also just worked out I've had no more than 120 hours of sleep (and worked about double that!) in the last 3 weeks, so tiredness is probably the issue.

Going to have a coffee and crack on, but decided to have 3 days off next week instead of 2 (a massive luxury and the most I can do due to other commitments) with the exception of the potential client meeting mentioned earlier in the NPT, which will hopefully take no more than about 4 hours home to home.

PasturesNew

There was a sad episode of 24 Hours in A&E late last night - a re-rerun of a 2012 episode.

They had a 93 year old man that had been run over outside the hospital in a hit and run. He was fit/healthy, hadn't been to a Doctor for over 40 years. He'd walked two miles to pick up his pension.

His great-niece went to see him - she said he'd brought up her and her sisters as her dad wasn't around and he'd bought her her first bike and taught her to ride it ... and they interviewed his sister Nell.

He'd broken his leg and his pelvis and had massive head injuries.

He died ... and I googled it, they've still not found who hit him. There was even a reconstruction on Crimewatch.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/blitz-veteran-93-killed-in-hit-and-run-7499066.html

Jazee

Morning NP. I suppose I can tell you about my week here.

We are having a new kitchen, bathroom and downstairs loo. So everything pretty much has been ripped out (currently still have a toilet and sink to use, although the water is temporarily off). We have had a new gas pipe fitted, rewiring done, plastering in the kitchen and a new ceiling in the kitchen. Plastering in bathroom happening today, I think.

So it is chaos, and I am doing the paid stuff (when the power is on) and managing with a microwave etc in the LR. Stuff stored everywhere. The bedroom is pretty much the only untouched room. And yesterday on the coldest day, we had no heating.

That's my week.

ivyleaf

Goodness Jazee, that doesn't sound fun :eek: ! I hope your ankle is on the mend at any rate

GDB2222

Jazee wrote: »

Morning NP. I suppose I can tell you about my week here.

We are having a new kitchen, bathroom and downstairs loo. So everything pretty much has been ripped out (currently still have a toilet and sink to use, although the water is temporarily off). We have had a new gas pipe fitted, rewiring done, plastering in the kitchen and a new ceiling in the kitchen. Plastering in bathroom happening today, I think.

So it is chaos, and I am doing the paid stuff (when the power is on) and managing with a microwave etc in the LR. Stuff stored everywhere. The bedroom is pretty much the only untouched room. And yesterday on the coldest day, we had no heating.

That's my week.

We haven't had any significant work done since we moved in in 1998. It's just not worth the upheaval.

I'm beginning to think we will have to replace some carpets soon.