The old gits doctors waiting room chat thread

[slinger]

...unlike Liverpool you may make the top 4

Without wishing to derail the thread I really must make mention of the fact that we are currently 4th, 5 points ahead of the Arse. Those 6 points you gave us this season have really come in handy.

[CycleCoach]

What he said!!

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

OFF TOPIC

[guydarryl]

[quote="SteveTheShadow"]


I discovered by complete chance, mindfulness meditation and latterly, the power of living in the Now, rather than dwelling on the unchangeable past, or an imagined dystopian future where I can't pay my way and am thrown into the streets.

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Well done - one of the best things that I have read on the interweb thingy.
Similar for me, but I don't meditate just go for a walk and enjoy everything - wind, raind, wet feet whatever, at least I am alive and experiencing it.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Depression is a devil / bad energy in the person. It keeps saying me me me look at me get worried by me until it consumes you and it becomes all you think about. The cure is very simple to say and VERY difficult to do - ignore it and think about something else, or occupy yourself to the point it can't find room in you any more. Once you realise it is vulnerable and can be beaten you are half way there. Meditation, gardening, anything as long as it takes you away from it. You just have to find the way and subject that suits you.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

My sister had a bad bout of it for about 10 years, she asked me to help. I gave here something to do (from within my training) everytime she felt the bad energy rise, to begin with it fought her and fought her but slowly she drove it back out of sight again, and now she is not scared of it so it can't get her again.

The reason she got depressed, and this is typical, often something so daft. She has a very good life, money, holidays, brilliant gentleman as a husband, nothing at all to worry about. So she started to worry someone would take it all away, and that is all the bad energy needed to get her.

[SteveTheShadow]

The reason she got depressed, and this is typical, often something so daft. She has a very good life, money, holidays, brilliant gentleman as a husband, nothing at all to worry about. So she started to worry someone would take it all away, and that is all the bad energy needed to get her.

Oh yes I can identify with that. Every time anything good happened to me, my mind went "yes, but......" and that was all it took to set a chain reaction going. For about six months, when it got bad, I was petrified of the postie.

[karatestu]

A tale of woe about my father.

In 2002 my late father(then aged 63 years) suddenly lost use of his legs. Doctors said it had happened because of a trapped nerve in his back. Disclaimer signed, he was operated on shortly after and all seemed to be going well. He was going to physio and started taking his first steps again with the aid of parallel bars.

Fast forward a few months and one day he complained of an excruciating pain at the top of his back. Finally got to hospital and ended up on life support for three months. He was a very strong man and i never remember him having a day off work (he was a a farmer) and so was not surprised when he recovered enough to be taken off life support eventually.

We were told that an abscess had formed right at the top of his spine which cut off everything below that point. He was sent to a specialist spine ward and about a year after that was told he would never walk again (tears). In fact it was worse than that as the paralysis meant that he could only just move his arms and could not move his fingers at all. My mother had MS at the time and could not care for him at home so he resided at a nursing home until 2012 when he sadly died. His inability to cough properly resulted in every cold turning into a chest infection until the point in 2009 when he got pneumonia and had to have a pipe stuck done his throat and all the crap sucked out every half hour. I don't know how he survived that but he did but looked a lot weaker after that episode.

He was in ICU and hospital wards for almost 6 months and finally made it back to his nursing home. From the very first week he went in a home in 2003 to the day he died in 2012 i collected him every Sunday and took him out for the afternoon to see old friends etc. I only missed a handful in all those years and it was awful to see what he had become. Every time he got a cough or cold i knew what was coming and dreaded what was to happen. At least he got to see me get married and my first born up to the age of two.

He hung on for another three years after his first bout of pneumonia but got it again in 2012. This time he had had enough and chose to refuse intervention. A very brave choice and just goes to show how crap his quality of life was and prospects were.

The thing we found out along the way was the reason he got the abscess at the top of his spine after surgery was the fact that the surgeons infected his spine with MRSA. Go figure. The moral of this story is avoid hospitals at all costs because you may end up coming out with something far worse than what you went in with.

[slinger]

Saw my GP on Monday. Tuesday I had 3 ampoules of blood taken in the morning and one ampoule of B12 put back in that afternoon. Results of blood tests back on Friday and so the quack wants to see me again this Monday morning. Hospital Monday afternoon to see my trauma surgeon. Roll on bloody Tuesday.