Yesterday, a nice young lady kept telling me to swallow.

To put this in context, I was in the Endoscopy unit at Wishaw General Hospital, and the nice young lady was ramming three feet of garden hose with a camera on the end down my throat. Not one of the more pleasant experiences of my life, but actually entirely painless. Made my eyes water a bit though.

Apparently I have a hiatus hernia. I was going to enter it for Crufts, but I'm told it's not that sort of thing at all...

 
Brave man, Wulf. I've had the camera down the throat (and the other way) a few times now but always take the coward's way out and go for the sedative - usually the best sleep I have had in ages. Anyway guys, the procedure is nothing to worry about and I'm sure Wulf will agree. I presume you went for the spray? Now that they've found out I'm sure everything will be fine. All the best.

Throat spray, yes. Disgusting taste.

Quote from: Fig.ht on 23 January 2015, 12:14:33 PM
Techno - Have you considered a TENS machine, it emits small electrical pulses (the strength of which can be manually controlled) to alleviate pain, my wife uses one for back pain and I have used one when I broke my wrist a few years ago.  They generally seem to deaden the pain considerably as far as we are both concerned.  Most chemists stock them now I think, though perhaps online rather in the shop you might get a better price (I think our present one cost a little over £10 online from a reputable chemist about two years ago).
Bill

Mrs T & I eventually ruled out the TENS machine for the M.I.L......Basically because we felt she wouldn't have bothered to use it, or found it 'confusing'/too much bother. (She's like that ! )
Furthermore......The different painkillers seemed to have helped her.

BUT.....I'd had a good read about the machines, and looked up lots of reviews.....So I bought one for myself, for my back problem....It arrived yesterday.
Had a 'play' with it, just for a short while, last night.......Good grief !!.....If it does that much good, when I don't know what I'm doing with it properly yet.....Goodness knows how useful it's going to be in future.

Got to phone the manufacturers this morning, to check on one thing that isn't mentioned in the instructions. (Mrs T couldn't find it in the instructions either.....So it can't be there ! ......Not just me doing the 'man thing' of not reading the instructions properly !  )

Ray.....If you read this, I'll send you an update in the next few days.
Bill !......You may have helped stopped me slowly poisoning myself, with all the painkillers I've been shoving down my neck for the past few years !...Hopefully be able to cut those down to the bare minimum now !!....Thanks, Matey !!

Cheers - Phil (Who hasn't been moaning and groaning every time he gets up out of the chair since last night !.......Huzzah !!)

Cheers - Phil

Great, Phil. I'll await that with interest.

Ray

Techno - Glad the M.I.L. is sorted out.  

I hope you get the query sorted with the manufacturer.  By the way a little tip is to use pieces of micropore sticky tape to keep the pads on if you are going out anywhere and going to be 'wearing' the TENS machine, especially if the pads are somewhere inconvenient to adhere back onto should one fall off such as on the back.  

Anyway, glad it seems to have helped.  Just remember to take note of the warnings that seem to be in all the leaflets about not attaching the pads to the lips, tongue, or genitals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   (I can imagine some idiots now trying it out - did I only use the word 'idiots' there!)  

Quote from: Fig.ht on 27 January 2015, 09:07:25 AM
I hope you get the query sorted with the manufacturer.  By the way a little tip is to use pieces of micropore sticky tape to keep the pads on if you are going out anywhere and going to be 'wearing' the TENS machine, especially if the pads are somewhere inconvenient to adhere back onto should one fall off such as on the back. 

Done and dusted.
It HAD to be what we thought.....But I wanted to check to make absolutely certain !
(Bloomin' weird sitting here with strange little pulses of electricity 'zapping' my back !  )...Thanks again, Bill !
Cheers - Phil.

Electro-Techno!

Slightly worried that the quality of your sculpts may suffer a bit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnCcSFZw9lM

Just in case anything goes wrong, maybe you should hasten to complete a major outstanding range. Remember Bach, Mozart, Dickens....

Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 January 2015, 10:39:12 AM
complete a major outstanding range. Remember Bach, Mozart, Dickens....

Leon's not said anything to me about making those chaps.
Maybe one of my colleagues is working his way through that range. 
Cheers - Phil

I once got a full strength belt from a Tens Machine while my wife was in labour!
Threw me across the room!

Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 January 2015, 02:35:47 PM
I once got a full strength belt from a Tens Machine while my wife was in labour!
Threw me across the room!

Why were you the one wearing the TENS machine?  Or come to that, are you sure it wasn't the wife just hit you and then blamed the TENS machine!    

I've only used the 'zappometer' up to strength 13......It goes up to 99.
Don't think I'd fancy that level much !!!! 
Cheers - Phil

It MIGHT wake you up.....

IanS

More likely make my hair stand on end......  be even messier than it normally is, Ian 
Cheers - Phil