Early Risers.

[Happy Hippo]

2 hours ago, grandadbob said:

 

"The Cut" is still leaking. 

Superglue it together!

 

it's what the stuff was originally developed for.

 

However, don't be tempted to use the accelerator to set the glue quickly as the reaction of the two chemicals mixing is a sharp rise in surface temperature around the effected part.

 

I wonder how I know this?

Edited December 27, 2019 by Happy Hippo

[NHY 581]

21 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Superglue it together!

 

it's what the stuff was originally developed for.

 

However, don't be tempted to use the accelerator to set the glue quickly as the reaction of the two chemicals mixing is a sharp rise in surface temperature around the effected part.

 

I wonder how I know this?

 

Speaking of effected parts.....

 

A drop of 'hot' hot glue on one's pants focuses the mind as well......

 

Rob 

[New Haven Neil]

A'noon.  Grey wet miserable day here, you would think it was winter. Oh.

 

Michael, cauliflower rice is a thing, and a useful one for us T2 diabetics that can't eat rice or pasta without blood glucose going stratospheric.

 

Statins - a friend had them after a 'cardiac event' - he was lucky to live - and they did something to his leg muscles, and as a result is now partially disabled.  I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole - there are alternatives in most cases, there was for him too.  He is very bitter about the event.

 

Andy ID, Losartan isn't a statin, it's an angiotensin antagonist.  Used to be on that for BP, but a small dose of bisoprolol has proved more effective for me.

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from a Sidcup where it is currently dry but a little cloudy. Today is an interlude; the in laws left earlier today and my lot arrive tomorrow morning; fortunately there is an ocado order due later as the wine levels are running dangerously low!

 

i have finished off the Christmas pud and the air is filed with the delicious smells of beef and shallots stewing before they form the filing of a pie for tomorrow.

 

otherwise not too much to report from here. Have a good day all

[grandadbob]

Hmm, the bit about statins affecting your mood is a bit worrying. It doesn't take a lot to make me fly off the handle.

Also heard that they can give joint pains which I don't need as I've got enough of those already.

[leopardml2341]

Off to the dentist soon.

[BlackRat]

Greetings one and all.........last time I had a 'nasty cut' a visit to A&E resulted in said super glue being used and I got a I was brave sticker into the bargain!

 

Now any cuts (self inflicted) are rapidly sorted with a dab of cyano......a bit of kitchen roll wrapped around it, and neatly held in place with masking tape!

 

Works for me and saves a lengthy round trip and wait in A&E now our minor injuries has closed.

[Andrew P]

Just realised reading these post's that I've been on 80mg  Atorvastatin since my heart attack almost 2 years ago. I hadn't realised what they were, as I never read the box. The Hospital prescribed them when I was discharged and told me in no uncertain terms that I would be on them for LIFE.

And that was reiterated again last Month when my Surgeon signed me off.

I've had no side effects other than having to build more Layouts as a result of taking them..

[tetsudofan]

I've been on 40mg Atorvastatin for 3 1/2 years after the Consultant Stroke Physician I saw was "minded" to say that I had had a TIA (transient ischaemic attack) one afternoon. Since taking the tablets I have not had any side effects and my cholesterol and blood pressure readings have fallen to within the targets laid down by the consultant. The consultant did point out that I will require life-long anti-platelet and statin therapy.

 

It's interesting about the comments about possible change of moods. I've been known to have a rather short fuse in the past but I've certainly not lost it since I've been on Atorvastatin.

 

Keith

[BMS]

Statins

I was put on Atorvastatin 40mg and aspirin 150mg (both daily) after a quadruple bypass op. So I've been on it since 1997 and have never been fitter. Bypass op caused by bad chloresterol; reading was around 11 when 5 was the max target figure and main heart arteries were blocking. 7 days after the op the district nurse couldn't understand how I managed to get to the door to let her in the house. 76 birthday was last month and I'm still active- indeed my understanding is being sensibly active is good for a weakish heart.

Hope this helps others.....

 

[NGT6 1315]

Cheers, folks. Hope you all made it through the holidays all right!

 

Inhaling right now as there still seem to be remnants of the pneumonia I had, causing a very annoying cough. Still sated from the roast goose yesterday, so I’ll probably leave it at something simple for dinner.

 

With the shops open again, I also needed some bits for home improvement work, and came across a product line for left-wing Arab nationalists, it would seem...

[woodenhead]

My dad was admitted to A&E with a tiny cut on the back of his head that wouldn't stop - the doctor was convinced he had more than this one cut due to amount of blood he was covered in.

 

It was too small to stitch so she used glue - it set so quickly that when she withdrew the end of the applicator it left a string of glue which set between him and the applicator - a last moment of jollity.

 

He died in the same hospital two weeks later from the kidney failure that started with a doctor mis-prescribing some pain killers some ten years earlier.  He was quite annoyed that he had been admitted for a small head wound, I think deep down he knew he wasn't coming back out.

 

Having had a nurse in the middle of all this tell me my kidneys were also failing (when they weren't and aren't) was a bit galling, and now with the Doctor again thinking about Statins with no certainty that I am at risk of a heart attack I think I will take my chances with keeping fit, not boozing and not smoking as a means of staying healthy.

[woodenhead]

5 minutes ago, NGT6 1315 said:

 

With the shops open again, I also needed some bits for home improvement work, and came across a product line for left-wing Arab nationalists, it would seem...

 

Took me a moment to get this.

[81C]

3 hours ago, grandadbob said:

Hmm, the bit about statins affecting your mood is a bit worrying. It doesn't take a lot to make me fly off the handle.

Also heard that they can give joint pains which I don't need as I've got enough of those already.

You certainly don't need them I had the same problem and you know how volatile I am sometimes, I'm on the old fashion tabs pre statin carp Fenofibrate does the same job. 

I've never been higher than 4.7 to 5 one of the quacks said I should have a reading of 2.8 I told him the only way that would happen if you drained the blood out of me.

 

I don't think it wise for you to start super gluing your cut we all know you will end up sticking hands together . 

 

 

Afternoon campers 

Weather stayed dry long enough to walk the mad dog he was as good as gold today he did give me a sheepish look when I let myself in when we went out he was muzzled up the 

new neighbour said #ucking hell is he that bad I said no come and stroke him

I had a surprise this morning Blondie text me   to say she could not get through the past few days, the masts round here are giving trouble at the moment we had a nice chat she is away

to relatives in the New Forest she will call when she returns Lady Horsell will be ditched soon she was about as exciting as a slab of dried up clay and she reminded me of that odious creature 

I once had the misfortune of living with, never judge a book by it's cover as the old wives tale goes. 

Enjoy the rest of it I.M.Porkinit

 

Have a peek at this

https://imgur.com/gallery/nrlIog9

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2019 by 81C

[AndyB]

Bob. We did a poll about whether statins would finish you off. 

The general opinion was that they'd never get the chance.

Most folk on here reckoned you'd meet your end either by self immolating trying to blow out the candles on your birthday cake, or by decapitation with a Dremel slicing disc whilst fettling some flexitrack to size. There was one vote for "falling off his roof whilst installing a thatched roof". We think that might have been cast by your barber. 

[Coombe Barton]

Not read many posts as have been out, but

 

Post came

 

Sandy's got a tax rebate.

 

On her birthday

 

Will blog later but quite honestly an unbelievably good day

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2019 by Coombe Barton

[TheQ]

Afternoon awl, 

In 1427 the Merton college( Oxford)  authorities,  released the serfs / villeins/ bonded servants of Kibworth , from their bonds. All now becoming free men and women,  holding any land from then on in return for a monetary rent. Though they were still liable for church tithes. 

 

While out on Ben the Border Collie's long walk I stopped, sat on a wooden fence looking across the former common toward the Anglo-Saxon church. Probably  not a building in sight that was  built since the commons enclosure in 1812, our strip ploughed lands were the other side of the common although long since ploughed in. 

In 1927 our house had all liabilities to church tithes and the chancel bought out from Kings College Cambridge who had owned the area since Henry VIII. 

 

While sitting there  a deer wandered further along the lane as they have for hundreds if not thousands of years.. 

 

Over the centuries many a time someone in the village must have sat sewing, looking across from the other side of the common,  though probably not two Needle sail modifications which I was sewing later. That perhaps took place in the villages nearby where fishermen was recorded. This is Norfolk which was once shown on maps as the County of Norfolk Fisherman. 

[AndyID]

Snowing here and it looks like it's going to snow off and on into the new year.

[grandadbob]

I had heard that ordinary household superglue shouldn't be used on wounds but have found this which is quite useful:

 

https://www.realfirstaid.co.uk/superglue

 

My cut is right over the thumb joint and that is why it's causing problems and the above does advise against using  cyano over joints.

[AndyID]

9 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

I had heard that ordinary household superglue shouldn't be used on wounds but have found this which is quite useful:

 

https://www.realfirstaid.co.uk/superglue

 

My cut is right over the thumb joint and that is why it's causing problems and the above does advise against using  cyano over joints.

 

Maybe you should get a couple of stitches?

[woodenhead]

17 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

I had heard that ordinary household superglue shouldn't be used on wounds but have found this which is quite useful:

 

https://www.realfirstaid.co.uk/superglue

 

My cut is right over the thumb joint and that is why it's causing problems and the above does advise against using  cyano over joints.

Maybe put a splint on the thumb for a couple of hours so you cannot bend it whilst your blood coagulates across the cut.

Edited December 27, 2019 by woodenhead

[grandadbob]

15 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

Maybe you should get a couple of stitches?

 

That was thought of at the time I did it but bearing in mind that my last visit to A & E (in an ambulance) resulted in me being there for a total of 7 hours I think that walking in for a couple of stitches might leave me there until next Friday fortnight!

[AndyID]

Pocketmags is offering a digital subscription to "the other magazine" - $25 for 12 issues.

[polybear]

With regard to Statins, I have heard (and read) that the particular brand can make a big difference - some people who have been on them for years start having side effects all of a sudden; it turns out that their GP's have shifted them onto a cheaper brand (of supposedly the same thing) to save money.

[Coombe Barton]

Sandy's birthday, better than expected, and Wassailing.

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/sounds-of-the-season-27-sandys-sixty-seventh-birthday/