Do we need a Medical subsection ???

[petercooman]

Indeed it is! You hang in there yourself!togheter we are strong

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nice to see Phil maintaining at least one racial sterotype.

IanS 

[Hertsblue]

Indeed it is! You hang in there yourself!togheter we are strong

Together we're a composite basket-case, by the sound of it. OK, whose turn is it for the wooden leg today?

[DanJ]

Cold degenerated into full manflu but I can't take time off work due to a report deadline.

Taking decongestants to stop nose dripping on keyboard

[Hertsblue]

Cold degenerated into full manflu but I can't take time off work due to a report deadline.

Taking decongestants to stop nose dripping on keyboard

Too much information, Dan. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Cold degenerated into full manflu but I can't take time off work due to a report deadline.

Taking decongestants to stop nose dripping on keyboard

Wimp   

In the words of one Bruce Douglas - Exploit IT

ianS

[Rob]

I signed up yesterday to have my Gallbladder removed. I had problems 4 years ago and had the tube down the throat operation twice. They put in a stent and I thought had removed all the stones. Apparently I was supposed to have the chat I had yesterday about 4 years ago but was forgotten by the system and I was too stupid to realise this. 

Anyway, 3-4 months until they do the job.

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Laparoscopiccholecystectomy/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Anybody want a used Gallbladder?  One not very careful owner. 


Cheers, Rob 

[Orcs]

Anybody want a used Gallbladder?  One not very careful owner. 

Cheers, Rob 

Save the Gall stones and use them on some bases as terrain.  Interesting talking point mid game 

[fsn]

A few years ago, I had gall stones. They were painful. My doctor said that I could have the gall bladder removed, or I could keep it. I erred on the side of cowardice and kept it. One gall stone got stuck opposite the pancreas and blocked the pancreatic duct. This led to pancreatitis, which the surgeon described as "the pancreas digesting itself." I was in intensive care, with one of those "50/50", "next 24 hours" conversation went on around me.  I didn't get it, I was off my head on morphine.

Suffice to say, after being starved of food, but lavished with attention by the lovely nurses in Halton Hospital, I was released some weeks later with very skinny feet. I don't know why the feet went skinny, but none of my shoes fitted properly.

Months later they whipped Mr G Bladder away and I've been fine ever since.

Subsequently, I was talking to a woman who had gall stones. She said the pain was worse than childbirth. Pancreatitis knocks gall stones into a cocked hat, so I now feel two up on womankind in the bearing-of-pain stakes.

The removal of the gall bladder was a comparatively benign affair. It was done with keyhole surgery, leaving 4 tiny scars. The worst was in the navel, as it itched abominably.     

[Last Hussar]

Did you die?

[howayman]

na, just smells like it.   

[nikharwood]

 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Blimey! All coming out tonight! Literally!   

[Mickey Sims]

I'm loving this thread but can't help thinking that one comment from a woman will kill it off. Wait, no, it's still a wargames forum, so more likely to get a response from a hen's tooth.

That aside, I'm less than half a year off the big 4 0, I have the mind and outlook of a much younger man (I'm still mature, if a little daft at times), but I have ailments of an older man. To name a few, ME, high cholesterol, type II Diabetes, IBS & I'm dyslexic. The ME ended my last career but lead to me starting my painting business, so silver lining. My tuppence worth.

[Rob]

I signed up yesterday to have my Gallbladder removed. I had problems 4 years ago and had the tube down the throat operation twice. They put in a stent and I thought had removed all the stones. Apparently I was supposed to have the chat I had yesterday about 4 years ago but was forgotten by the system and I was too stupid to realise this. 

Anyway, 3-4 months until they do the job.

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Laparoscopiccholecystectomy/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Anybody want a used Gallbladder?  One not very careful owner. 


Cheers, Rob 

I got a surprise letter inviting me for pre-op tests, which happened last week, and I am due in for the OP this coming Tuesday. Gets it out of the way but it means I may not get to Derby next weekend.