You can pretend it happened to a “friend” if need be.

wookiemeister said:

You can pretend it happened to a “friend” if need be.

Barium meal scan thingy.

wookiemeister said:

You can pretend it happened to a “friend” if need be.

Hmm, how about this?

Went to hospital for a “tear duct” operation and dying a week and a half later from hospital-acquired pneumonia.

Or perforated bowel from the endoscope during an endoscopy looking for non-existent bowel cancer.

Or waking up in the middle of a tonsillectomy operation because of an anaesthetist’s mistake.

Or first degree burns, by being scalded by a nurse putting the shower water on boiling hot. The nurse was delighted by the pain inflicted.

(I can continue).

mollwollfumble said:

wookiemeister said:

You can pretend it happened to a “friend” if need be.

Hmm, how about this?

Went to hospital for a “tear duct” operation and dying a week and a half later from hospital-acquired pneumonia.

Or perforated bowel from the endoscope during an endoscopy looking for non-existent bowel cancer.

Or waking up in the middle of a tonsillectomy operation because of an anaesthetist’s mistake.

Or first degree burns, by being scalded by a nurse putting the shower water on boiling hot. The nurse was delighted by the pain inflicted.

(I can continue).

Yeah you need to be careful of these characters a lot of them are stupid

vaccination

wookiemeister said:

mollwollfumble said:

wookiemeister said:

You can pretend it happened to a “friend” if need be.

Hmm, how about this?

Went to hospital for a “tear duct” operation and dying a week and a half later from hospital-acquired pneumonia.

Or perforated bowel from the endoscope during an endoscopy looking for non-existent bowel cancer.

Or waking up in the middle of a tonsillectomy operation because of an anaesthetist’s mistake.

Or first degree burns, by being scalded by a nurse putting the shower water on boiling hot. The nurse was delighted by the pain inflicted.

(I can continue).

Yeah you need to be careful of these characters a lot of them are stupid

Went to hospital for an appendectomy & ended up with tropical ulcers which got into the bone.
The tough time I had was the start of my needle phobia.

wookiemeister said:

Yeah you need to be careful of these characters a lot of them are stupid

I’ve seen some doctors who weren’t sure where they were supposed to be, where that place was, when they should be there, or why they were going there.

I’d wager that they’re excellent doctors, but, really, they shouldn’t be left alone near traffic of hot stoves.

captain_spalding said:

wookiemeister said:

Yeah you need to be careful of these characters a lot of them are stupid

I’ve seen some doctors who weren’t sure where they were supposed to be, where that place was, when they should be there, or why they were going there.

I’d wager that they’re excellent doctors, but, really, they shouldn’t be left alone near traffic of hot stoves.

or hot stoves

captain_spalding said:

captain_spalding said:

wookiemeister said:

Yeah you need to be careful of these characters a lot of them are stupid

I’ve seen some doctors who weren’t sure where they were supposed to be, where that place was, when they should be there, or why they were going there.

I’d wager that they’re excellent doctors, but, really, they shouldn’t be left alone near traffic of hot stoves.

or hot stoves

depends on what you’re cooking on those hot stoves, whether it might be worth trafficking

pihkal

tihkal

etc

SCIENCE said:

captain_spalding said:

captain_spalding said:

I’ve seen some doctors who weren’t sure where they were supposed to be, where that place was, when they should be there, or why they were going there.

I’d wager that they’re excellent doctors, but, really, they shouldn’t be left alone near traffic of hot stoves.

or hot stoves

depends on what you’re cooking on those hot stoves, whether it might be worth trafficking

pihkal

tihkal

etc

Are these people doctors or chemists?

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

captain_spalding said:

or hot stoves

depends on what you’re cooking on those hot stoves, whether it might be worth trafficking

pihkal

tihkal

etc

Are these people doctors or chemists?

Chemists like hot stoves & things that go bang.

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

captain_spalding said:

or hot stoves

depends on what you’re cooking on those hot stoves, whether it might be worth trafficking

pihkal

tihkal

etc

Are these people doctors or chemists?

could be PhDs in Chemistry then

SCIENCE said:

vaccination

That is pretty strange, isn’t it?

Essentially, give you a disease to prevent a disease.

captain_spalding said:

SCIENCE said:

vaccination

That is pretty strange, isn’t it?

Essentially, give you a disease to prevent a disease.

well, not quite, some just give an immune response without the actual disease, ie mRNA.

I’ve had a parotidectomy, that’s where the saliva gland is removed from the side of your neck. There’s one on each side, and three arranged around your mouth, so I only have four now. 33 stiches and it damaged the nerves going to my ear, that resulted in me not really feeling much of my left ear for some time – Even a full thirty years later I’m still regaining some feeling bit-by-bit and it’s getting back to where it was pre-op times.
I also got dinged in the head with a hanger door pretty hard, that was another 17 stiches. And another 5 or so stiches under my chin when a large cyst was removed, so in my travels I’ve actually had a full 55 stiches from the neck-up.
More below it, but that might be for later.

Bogsnorkler said:

captain_spalding said:

SCIENCE said:

vaccination

That is pretty strange, isn’t it?

Essentially, give you a disease to prevent a disease.

well, not quite, some just give an immune response without the actual disease, ie mRNA.

Yeah, i know.

OK then, provoke a reaction to a disease to prevent a disease.

Bogsnorkler said:

captain_spalding said:

SCIENCE said:

vaccination

That is pretty strange, isn’t it?

Essentially, give you a disease to prevent a disease.

well, not quite, some just give an immune response without the actual disease, ie mRNA.

doesn’t everyone prefer Live Attenuated in concert with some autism

captain_spalding said:

Bogsnorkler said:

captain_spalding said:

That is pretty strange, isn’t it?

Essentially, give you a disease to prevent a disease.

well, not quite, some just give an immune response without the actual disease, ie mRNA.

Yeah, i know.

OK then, provoke a reaction to a disease to prevent a disease.

I had to go to A&E to get a spearfishing spear out of my neck.

SCIENCE said:

Bogsnorkler said:

captain_spalding said:

That is pretty strange, isn’t it?

Essentially, give you a disease to prevent a disease.

well, not quite, some just give an immune response without the actual disease, ie mRNA.

doesn’t everyone prefer Live Attenuated in concert with some autism

Naturally, but it’s so hard to get tickets for those shows.

Tamb said:

I had to go to A&E to get a spearfishing spear out of my neck.

Well, that would have got you to the front of the queue on the novelty value alone.

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

I had to go to A&E to get a spearfishing spear out of my neck.

Well, that would have got you to the front of the queue on the novelty value alone.

I’d managed to unscrew the shaft from the head. When it happened I was way more concerned with all the blood in the water. It was a bit sharky round there.

Spiny Norman said:

I’ve had a parotidectomy, that’s where the saliva gland is removed from the side of your neck. There’s one on each side, and three arranged around your mouth, so I only have four now. 33 stiches and it damaged the nerves going to my ear, that resulted in me not really feeling much of my left ear for some time – Even a full thirty years later I’m still regaining some feeling bit-by-bit and it’s getting back to where it was pre-op times.
I also got dinged in the head with a hanger door pretty hard, that was another 17 stiches. And another 5 or so stiches under my chin when a large cyst was removed, so in my travels I’ve actually had a full 55 stiches from the neck-up.
More below it, but that might be for later.

I’ve had a parotidectomy, that’s where the saliva gland is removed from the side of your neck. There’s one on each side, and three arranged around your mouth, so I only have four now. 33 stiches and it damaged the nerves going to my ear, that resulted in me not really feeling much of my left ear for some time – Even a full thirty years later I’m still regaining some feeling bit-by-bit and it’s getting back to where it was pre-op times.

Mine’s right side. Forty years later and the ear and face still have dead-feeling patches.

I woke up on the operating table while the surgeon was sewing my ear back on. The anaesthetist was saying repeatedly “Don’t forget to breathe”. For the next six weeks, I salivated from the base of my ear whenever I saw or smelt food or even a cup of tea. I had to keep a hanky at the ready.

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Bogsnorkler said:

well, not quite, some just give an immune response without the actual disease, ie mRNA.

Yeah, i know.

OK then, provoke a reaction to a disease to prevent a disease.

I had to go to A&E to get a spearfishing spear out of my neck.

What? You didn’t shoot yourself in the foot?

Michael V said:

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Yeah, i know.

OK then, provoke a reaction to a disease to prevent a disease.

I had to go to A&E to get a spearfishing spear out of my neck.

What? You didn’t shoot yourself in the foot?

Still got the scar……………. in the neck.

Tamb said:

Michael V said:

Tamb said:

I had to go to A&E to get a spearfishing spear out of my neck.

What? You didn’t shoot yourself in the foot?

Still got the scar……………. in the neck.

Do you tell people it’s from when you had the bolts removed, and they were a bit clumsy on one side?

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

Michael V said:

What? You didn’t shoot yourself in the foot?

Still got the scar……………. in the neck.

Do you tell people it’s from when you had the bolts removed, and they were a bit clumsy on one side?

I hadn’t thought of that. But now!!!

Bogsnorkler said:

captain_spalding said:

SCIENCE said:

vaccination

That is pretty strange, isn’t it?

Essentially, give you a disease to prevent a disease.

well, not quite, some just give an immune response without the actual disease, ie mRNA.

Even killed virus is just an immune response.

Wisdom tooth growing into the sinus was pretty bad.

But I’m still gobsmacked that I needed emergency surgery under a GA to drain an infected cyst.