I'd be dead if it weren't for modern medicine

[woodybee]

Hey Dudes and Dudess's

Talking of modern medicine, just had an operation for something earlier on in the week (another story) but I kinda like going under as its a surreal kind of feeling, but boy did I have a frightener of coming round after this op.

They injected what I think is called Fentolin, as I was dreamily comin round, and boy did I have a weird reaction to it, my legs started to shake and my breathing went really shallow. The nurse called the anaesthetist back in, he called the doctor, who was saying why can't you breath, which is as daft as being the dentist with a drill in your mouth and the dentist asking you questions (why the ferk do they do that daft, gits)

Anyway, my bp went through the roof, and I felt like I had a block of flats on my chest, man was I worried eh!!!

Was worried I wouldn't be able to make the Burt, but to be honest, to sit on a bike motionless has been wonderful, just the getting on and off, which was a little tentative.!!

Ended up at the Burt stitched up like an oven ready turkey, but bopped my head to that fantastic band.

More later dudes and dudess's

Had a couple of kinda too near to tbe big guy experiences so far and don't dig that stuff at all. Life's for living for this chick, and don't I know it...

Woodybee, youch!!

Anyway, hope you guys are well, from one sore woodybee

[Mom]

Chrislost is one of those people I really want to meet one day.

I have met him and survived

my lack of physical development grim testimony to her parenting and culinary skills.

You are too hard on yourself Hitcher, you are bigger than I am

[Hitcher]

You are too hard on yourself Hitcher, you are bigger than I am

Only on the outside.

[Ixion]

I am happy to say that I have never had to call on the services of either modern medicine (or surgeons !) or modern pharmacologists. Long may that blessed state continue. Though I imagine sooner or later I will have to turn to them - however, there is more can be done than folk wit of with witches weeds.

[James Deuce]

I have met him and survived

That's good to hear. "Survival" is quite an apt word to float in the current context.

[Curious_AJ]

i reckon medicine is great these days, unfortunately in my line of work we often have to opt for extremely barbaric methods when you compare what we do to human medicine, mainly due to costs. I feel sorry for owners who have to put down their animal because they simply can't afford something as well (as animal medicine is obviously not subsidised). but what i'm saying here is, thank goodnes for science being able to save humans more than not these days!

and if any of you have read Bloody Mad Woman's recent thread about her friend you would agree with me...

not to mention, my dad would have passed if not for modern medicine... a 2-3rd degree heart attack is nothing to take lightly. and to this day I owe having the greatest dad in the world still alive, to it. as a seven year old i wouldnt have coped without a dad.

[SARGE]

yea.. i shoulda been dead several times over,.. i dont attribute my still being here to modern meds.. they coulda saved me 100 years ago, but i wouldnt be this damn good lookin..


i think im still here because Satan doesnt have my office ready yet..

(nice cushy middle management gig with a view of the lake of fire..Fridays are Casual Dress..)

[Ixion]

In your case, you'd be dead if it weren't for modern ordnance.

[Motu]

I was dead in a past life....

[Ixion]

That wasn't a past life. It's what you get when you hang out with hippies. Not all shrooms are created equal.

[SARGE]

In your case, you'd be dead if it weren't for modern ordnance.

meh.. im still a fan of an ammo box full of concrete pushed out of a Huey at 3000 ft


long story

[klingon]

... there is more can be done than folk wit of with witches weeds.

Agreed.

My Grandaddy was the smallest prem baby to survive in NZ at the time of his birth (1902). His Mum kept him in a dresser drawer in the oven! How's that for an incubator! They lived in Taneatua so Great-Granny relied heavily on the local Maori women and their remedies to help her and her baby survive.

Grandad lived into his 80s and was always an advocate for wild food and wild remedies. I still chew on koromiko for a tummy ache, apply harakeke (flax) gel for any skin problems and will even eat charcoal to reduce flatulence(reluctantly... it has side effects ).

[Ixion]

meh.. im still a fan of an ammo box full of concrete pushed out of a Huey at 3000 ft


long story

Bit hard to aim, I would have thought.

[SARGE]

Bit hard to aim, I would have thought.

yea.. it would be if aiming for a moving target..we hit the side of a rather large building on a flyby..3000ft x 125 mph x 50 pounds..


it became one of our fav entry tools


slightly more effective and not as squirmy as the pig...

[vifferman]

I survived a burst appendix, and modern medical practioners. (I guess it wasn't entirely their fault - there was a strike on...)