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Mo1959 said:
Oooo....look what’s happened to Colin the Caterpillar! :laugh:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-56955873
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ColinJ

ColinJ

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I just put the TV on to watch the lunchtime news. I caught the end of an episode of 'Police Interceptors'. The patrol cops had just spotted a stolen car being driven in to a McDonalds car park so they followed it in and nabbed the driver and passenger as they got out. A search of the car revealed a pile of heavy tools on the back seat - crow bars, an axe, a lump hammer, big screwdrivers etc. The driver claimed to have bought the stolen car. He had no licence or insurance. The tools were to be used for 'gardening'! They were arrested for driving a stolen car, no licence or insurance, and 'going equipped' [for burglary]. Roll credits... The voiceover announced that the 2 youths were not charged, but a note was made that the driver had driven without a licence or insurance... And they say that crime doesn't pay!! :cursing::wacko:

Dave7 said:
That's down the throat is it ?
If so..... my advice is to be sedated.
I chose not to (after the nurse told me it makes little difference). Since then several people have told me it is so much easier when sedated.
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My late best mate suffered from Barrett's Oesophagus. The condition has to be monitored for any potentially sinister changes so he had to have an endoscopy every year. Before he went the first time, I asked if he would be sedated. He laughed and said 'no' - it wouldn't be painful... :whistle:

When it came to it, he found it deeply unpleasant so he got knocked out every time after that!
 
Mo1959

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ColinJ said:
My late best mate suffered from Barrett's Oesophagus. The condition has to be monitored for any potentially sinister changes so he had to have an endoscopy every year. Before he went the first time, I asked if he would be sedated. He laughed and said 'no' - it wouldn't be painful... :whistle:

When it came to it, he found it deeply unpleasant so he got knocked out every time after that!
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My dad was much better than me at getting anything done. He just took the spray to numb your throat and was ok with that. Just thinking about it makes me gag. Hope I never need one.
 
ColinJ

ColinJ

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Mo1959 said:
Oooo....look what’s happened to Colin the Caterpillar! :laugh:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-56955873
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Funnily enough, I was just reading about the lower life expectancy in Scotland... I'm not sure that battered Colin the Caterpillar is exactly the kind of healthy diet that could help reverse that trend! :whistle:

New Statesman article said:
Scottish citizens of the United Kingdom can expect, on average, to die approximately two years younger than their English counterparts. According to statistics published by National Records of Scotland, the life expectancy of people born in Scotland between 2015 and 2017 is 79 – that’s 77 for males and 81 for females – which is the lowest in Western Europe. Improvements in life expectancy have stalled since 2015, as they have in the rest of the UK. In England, the average life expectancy currently stands at 81.4 years of age. But this relatively small two-year difference masks much greater disparities between the wider UK and Glasgow, where life expectancy is 73.3 years for men and 78.7 years for women – an average of 76.
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oldwheels

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ColinJ said:
I just put the TV on to watch the lunchtime news. I caught the end of an episode of 'Police Interceptors'. The patrol cops had just spotted a stolen car being driven in to a McDonalds car park so they followed it in and nabbed the driver and passenger as they got out. A search of the car revealed a pile of heavy tools on the back seat - crow bars, an axe, a lump hammer, big screwdrivers etc. The driver claimed to have bought the stolen car. He had no licence or insurance. The tools were to be used for 'gardening'! They were arrested for driving a stolen car, no licence or insurance, and 'going equipped' [for burglary]. Roll credits... The voiceover announced that the 2 youths were not charged, but a note was made that the driver had driven without a licence or insurance... And they say that crime doesn't pay!! :cursing::wacko:


My late best mate suffered from Barrett's Oesophagus. The condition has to be monitored for any potentially sinister changes so he had to have an endoscopy every year. Before he went the first time, I asked if he would be sedated. He laughed and said 'no' - it wouldn't be painful... :whistle:

When it came to it, he found it deeply unpleasant so he got knocked out every time after that!
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I have had every possible orifice investigated including a poke around looking for a gallstone. Even with sedation it was bad enough so I would hate to try with no sedation.Prostate checks were done in the good old days when you got a general anaesthetic. Cannot remember the technical term but I had about 20 of those.
 
ColinJ

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oldwheels said:
I have had every possible orifice investigated including a poke around looking for a gallstone. Even with sedation it was bad enough so I would hate to try with no sedation.Prostate checks were done in the good old days when you got a general anaesthetic. Cannot remember the technical term but I had about 20 of those.
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Dear doctors - If I ever have to have any serious medical things done to me... KNOCK ME OUT FIRST! :laugh:
 
ColinJ

ColinJ

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dave r said:
That sounds like a plan.
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I'm rewatching 'House' in the evenings now. I know it is a TV show, but they make it seem quite routine to drill into a patient's head and chat to them while they are doing it. Even on the TV the sound of a drill bit cutting into bone makes me wince. Being able to feel the vibrations in my skull and smell the burning bone - no thanks!! :laugh:
 
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ColinJ said:
I'm rewatching 'House' in the evenings now. I know it is a TV show, but they make it seem quite routine to drill into a patient's head and chat to them while they are doing it. Even on the TV the sound of a drill bit cutting into bone makes me wince. Being able to feel the vibrations in my skull and smell the burning bone - no thanks!! :laugh:
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House? I don't know that one.
 
oldwheels

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ColinJ said:
Dear doctors - If I ever have to have any serious medical things done to me... KNOCK ME OUT FIRST! :laugh:
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It does remind me of a procedure I had years ago when a tube is inserted into an artery in the groin and fed up to the kidney. I was told when the dye was put in it would feel a little warm and to remain very still. In fact it felt like I had been kicked in the back by a horse and I was rigid with the shock. I had been told in advance that I would be sedated but after the procedure I mentioned this omission to a nurse. " Oh we only do that if you try to jump off the table" was the reply. I was then given a pad to hold over the insertion point and told if it started to bleed to shout loudly for help immediately as it was an artery.
We should have a new thread for gruesome medical stories. :ohmy:
 
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