A Parlour for a Plague

Love Prunella. Need to find that vlog

Lucky

I have a colleague with a bad back who fell arse over teakettle down a hill.

Bit bruised but she said it did her back no end go good!

It was the third time I prolapsed that disk and it was certainly extremely painful, but I could walk around most days.

My theory is that, because the pain of the prolapse doesn’t come from the disk, it comes from the contents of the ruptured disk creating a massive inflammatory response in the spinal nerves it touches, by the third time you rupture a particular disk, there’s little fluid left inside so the inflammatory response is accordingly less spectacular.

The first time I did it I was totally immobilised for a week, the second time I could stagger to shops and cook when I needed to.

anything from mothers little cabinet that helps with pains?? Or is pain not as big an issue?

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You are the only person besides one friend that I’ve heard use the expression “ass over teakettle.”

An expression I heard only once in my life, but thought it so wonderful was “So there I was, standing there with my teeth in my mouth”.

Well, that third one happened overseas You mostly can’t get codeine over the counter in the EU or the US, so I did the best I could on what I could get over the counter.

Lying on your tummy helps and there are some exercises that help a bit.

At home, with a medically diagnosed rupture you can get strong pain killers for a while.

It happened in England so I could have gone to a NHS doctor but I didn’t believe it was a prolapse initially because it wasn’t as excruciating as before.

Also we were on our way to Scotland then to France and Germany, then I was off to the US.

Also, unless you’re going to a known doctor, a new doctor who doesn’t know you will pretty much always assume you are drug seeking. I should have gone to an English ED but I wasn’t thinking straight

I wasn’t actually sure it had prolapsed until I had a spinal MRI in Oz, for other reasons and the specialist told me it was just healing.

The treatment now is to get people mobilising ASAP and manage pain.

The first one I had there was no way I could have got to a doctor. I could barely get to the loo!

My household got me panadeine and alcohol. Good single malt. It’s a smooth muscle relaxant and helps a bit with the muscle spasm component.

Arse over teakettle. An ass here is a donkey!

Love the teeth one.

They’re both British in origin, I assume.

Arse over teakettle certainly is.

My favourite response to people asking me if a story I have just told is true is to say “Do chickens have teeth?”

A lot of people don’t actually know if they do or not and it confuses the **** out of them.

The stories are true, by the way, even though chickens DONT have teeth!

For meds, that I use, I count on Canada. I buy a Canadian version of a blood thinner brand and in the US its 00$ a month after myy insurance kicks in 200$. From Canada its like 25$ a month or 150 a year.
Americans are mostly willing to get screwed on theiir meds without nary a bleat. I asked a friend from Ne Brunswick, "How much you pay for (XXXX)" his costs were covered but the express costs were like 25 $ US. My insurance covers it because my doctor prescribed it and they dont care where I got it at the dos I need. The meds are exact replicants ( We tested em on a nearby labs GCMS).

wow, you can get likkered up as a med??? COOWELLL

I was way too scared to see a doctor for pain relief when I got to New York.

I had insurance of course, but let’s say I hadn’t strongly featured how bad my back is

I was terrified they’d refuse the claim and the US is known for over servicing...presumably this stems from fear of litigation?...so I figured I’d get scans up the wazoo and be bankrupted if my insurance didn’t come across.

Honestly, if I’d known how to do it safely, I’d happily have bought painkillers on the street! By that time I’d fallen again in London because of the wonky leg and had either cracked ribs or a sprained ligament.

By the time I got to poor Dys and Dianne in Albaturkey, I was barely holding it together!

And there in Noo Yawk were Jonathan and Thomas running marathons as though they were wee walks to the corner store! While I was pissing and moaning after a walk to whatever restaurant we were going to!

Only because my friends advised it and went and got it for me.

That's a bloody big responsibility to put on a poor little lake!

G'day Roger!

Hi there, Set!

I was a martini guy but I usd to LOVE Lafroig neat with a splash of spring water.

the lake is enormous! it can take it if I can get in it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ontario

so what am I chopped liver?

I'm hoping to get it on a day when it looks more like





than it did in 1934

I used to get Mrs F all pissed off at me when I did a Mrs Fawlty imitation when she was on the fone

I knoooow, OOH yess I KNOOOOOW, Yes yes, OHHH I KNOOOOOOOOW
She d come close to smackin me.

mit schmalz

on a tangent (ish)

recently heard this interview with Patricia Routledge again
it's verra verra popular on Monocle

https://monocle.com/radio/shows/THE-BIG-INTERVIEW/102/

Is it a free site and is it allowed down here??(MONOCLE).

I liked The Last of the Summer Wine. Those ol coots always had something cooking