Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1625771 times)

why1040 · « **Reply #1525 on:** 21 March, 2012, 10:07:47 pm »

You know your teeth really aren't doing well when the receptionists (all 3 of them) in your dentist's office know you by name...

I'm really getting bored going all the time! This time, it seems that the pain I thought was a sinus infection radiating down was in fact toothache radiating up. Turns out I have an abscess. Joy.

Despite the anaesthetic injection, the scale hurt so badly I was shaking by the time she finished...not her fault, it had to be cleaned...

Metronidazole, corsodyl and corsodyl gel to go on the inbetweeny brushes...oh joy! Oh, and of course lots of pain relief...

hellymedic · « **Reply #1526 on:** 22 March, 2012, 12:40:18 am »

GWS why! Did I suspect this was your problem or am I a deluded bat, or both?

why1040 · « **Reply #1527 on:** 22 March, 2012, 11:41:54 am »

Laughs! I can't remember whether you said so or not and my laptop is being a slow thing today so going to check will take half the day, but I've been wondering about it for a while too...figured I might as well finish the course of antibugs I was on for the sinus infection first though-I didn't want to finish halfway through in case it really was the sinuses...I DID have an inordinate amount of snot

I do suspect this of being the reason for my brain fog on Monday though, infection always seems to make the Chronic Fatigue worse!

jogler · « **Reply #1528 on:** 22 March, 2012, 11:44:27 am »

Quote from: why1040 on 21 March, 2012, 10:07:47 pm

Despite the anaesthetic injection, the scale hurt so badly I was shaking by the time she finished...

As a youngster I had a tooth removed without anaesthetic.Head held by nurse:shoulder held by the ~~torturer's~~ dentist's knee & PULL/TWIST/YANK.
I

As a teenager I had 3 cocaine injections,mid morning,which didn't anaethsticise so refused the extraction.Mid afternoon in the pub I suddenly started dribbling my beer from the corner of my completely numb face & was floating three feet off the floor

Dentists?

only after days of agony & a skip load of painkillers

why1040 · « **Reply #1529 on:** 22 March, 2012, 11:53:21 am »

Yikes! That'd put me right off the buggers as well!

I have a mild dentophobia caused by being given gas and air to fix a filling when I was 8...it did sod-all to take the pain away, but made me very dizzy and it felt like I was on a ship in a storm, with pain...I'm a control freak at the best of times...you can see how well that went, I'm sure...lol!

My mother was most embarrassed because I screamed the place down. Didn't come in to check on me, mind you...just spent the time being embarrassed!

Thankfully I have very good dentists who specialise in dentophobics. I'm almost at the stage where I can cope now, and do go regularly to have them checked. Sadly my poor teef are struggling because of the years I spent in depression-not getting out of bed doesn't tend to be good for your oral health and some of the antidepressants/sleeping things I was on made me have a dry mouth as well. Plus I ate tons of sweet things and drank about 2 litres of Coke a day...I'm still picking up the pieces of those years (sometimes quite literally) though I've been out of depression for years.

At least the treatment seems to be working...I haven't actually had a pain killer yet today! It's grumbling, but not that badly...I'll take something before I go out in a bit though, so it doesn't hit me while riding!

Dibdib · « **Reply #1530 on:** 22 March, 2012, 12:17:32 pm »

After ordering a bunch of stuff from Wiggle last night, I get an email this morning telling me it's been packed and despatched.

By an untrackable despatch method.

Which now has me worried - over a hundred quid's worth of stuff out of my bank account and floating around "somewhere". It'd better turn up before I get proper ranty.

Kim · « **Reply #1531 on:** 22 March, 2012, 12:24:59 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 22 March, 2012, 12:40:18 am

GWS why! Did I suspect this was your problem or am I a deluded bat, or both?

No, that was me. Why1040 gave me the lurgy on the barakta birthday ride, and I then passed it on to barakta a couple of days later. It went to my both my lungs and briefly sinuses, but I managed to eventually get rid of it with gratuitous over-use of salbutamol, ibuprofen and xylometazoline nasal spray. Barakta, whose sinuses are anatomically 'interesting' so is under instructions not to mess around, was given Augmentin after a week or so, but it didn't do anything.

It was a really rather spectacular lurgy though. I strongly disrecommend it. Left both of us in a state where we had about 2 hours worth of useful brain energy per day, then spent the rest of the time sitting around like snot-producing zombies.

Ob-grumble: I lost a fight with the duvet in the early hours of this morning, and ended up bashing the back of my hand on the corner of the bed side table. It now has a bruise reminiscent of the last time a junior doctor (he was about 12, and trying to Be An Authority Figure) tried to put a cannula in, and I'm hoping it won't end up the same colour.

Arch · « **Reply #1532 on:** 22 March, 2012, 07:04:29 pm »

Oh ffs.

So, the twingy wrists were cured by support bandage, driving my pain quota to my weak ankle. So today, I wore a banadge on that too. Result!

The pain was however sent to the end of the second finger of my right hand, which I managed to trap in our vehicle's door today...

spesh · « **Reply #1533 on:** 25 March, 2012, 08:31:54 pm »

The clocks may have sprung forward, but it takes a while for the bodyclock to adjust. Dinner will be on time in GMT tonight.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #1534 on:** 25 March, 2012, 08:39:05 pm »

I tweaked a bit in my foot today at yoga and it's sore. I'm trying ice and anti-inflammatories. I'm fed up of being injured!

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1535 on:** 25 March, 2012, 08:55:11 pm »

I feel your pain Kirst.
My not-boss has been travelling again, and brought me back a cold, again. I wish he'd stop it. And I'm away this week so I don't even get to feel sorry for myself in the comfort of my own home.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #1536 on:** 25 March, 2012, 08:57:15 pm »

I turned my foot inwards while I was changing position and felt something ping, like an elastic band, on the lateral dorsal surface. Bah. Ice is soothing though.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1537 on:** 25 March, 2012, 09:24:05 pm »

The sales bloke who I provide most of the techincal support for his customer (and him, he's not the strongest technically) has been rewarded by the mothership. I do a *lot* stuff for him that I probably don't need to because this is the first time I've had technical full reign on a custo without my not-boss sticking his oar in and I want it to work for my own satisfaction, as well as him.
When I read the announcement in an email last week I nearly spat my tea over the keyboard. I'm not bitter, cos that's just the way that sales and tech are rewarded differently, but I did laugh manically.
The mothership are having a slap up in the Bahamas this week to which he & his gf are invited.
I'll just enjoy my 'warm glow' over here.....

Jacomus · « **Reply #1538 on:** 27 March, 2012, 09:57:22 am »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 25 March, 2012, 09:24:05 pm

The sales bloke who I provide most of the techincal support for his customer (and him, he's not the strongest technically) has been rewarded by the mothership. I do a *lot* stuff for him that I probably don't need to because this is the first time I've had technical full reign on a custo without my not-boss sticking his oar in and I want it to work for my own satisfaction, as well as him.
When I read the announcement in an email last week I nearly spat my tea over the keyboard. I'm not bitter, cos that's just the way that sales and tech are rewarded differently, but I did laugh manically.
The mothership are having a slap up in the Bahamas this week to which he & his gf are invited.
I'll just enjoy my 'warm glow' over here.....

The 'warm glow' of your offices burning to the ground?

rafletcher · « **Reply #1539 on:** 27 March, 2012, 10:25:23 am »

Dear Radio Controlled alarm clock. Why, after sucessfully negotiating the change to BST at the weekend did you choose last night to revert to using the German signal and not the UK one? And wake me up at a putative 06:25, which in reality was 05:25?? Hmm? And of cousre, as I'm still in purdah on the sofabed in the lounge after my wife's radio(active)Iodine treatment I'd already folded the damn thing before I noticed the (oddly seductively read) 05:30 shipping forecast being read on Radio 4, and shortly thereafter the 05:31 showing on the central heating timer. Pah.

At least I got an extra hours reading time.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1540 on:** 27 March, 2012, 11:23:36 am »

About five years ago I dreamed that my alarm clock had gone off. I got up and had breakfast before noticing it was only 2 am

Kim · « **Reply #1541 on:** 27 March, 2012, 01:45:12 pm »

Jesus died to prevent people like me (insomniac atheists) getting lie-ins. The bastard.

Basil · « **Reply #1542 on:** 27 March, 2012, 11:01:37 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 27 March, 2012, 01:45:12 pm

Jesus died to prevent people like me (insomniac atheists) getting lie-ins. The bastard.

Surely someone needs to grab sig that?

Kim · « **Reply #1543 on:** 28 March, 2012, 12:16:18 am »

Well, it's just rude, isn't it? I mean, I've no problem getting out of bed and falling down the stairs at morning o'clock if there's going to be a parcel in it, but to have to do the same in order to be told about someone who's been dead for quite a while now, to the point where we all learned about it extensively at primary school, seems a bit pointless.

On a related note, it's about time the Hadley Heath New Life Church got a new fluorescent orange Jesus poster. I've run out of sarcastic comments to think to myself about the current one^[1].

_{[1] "Jesus died for YOU!" - and not in a Lord Kitchener way. The n-2th one - "God's Sat-nav: The Bible!" is my all-time favourite.}

Jacomus · « **Reply #1544 on:** 28 March, 2012, 03:39:52 pm »

Weird grey gunge building up on the desk around my mouse. Knock it off!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1545 on:** 29 March, 2012, 09:48:07 am »

Why in the name of pie floaters did you swap the positions of the printer and the fax? Now I'm all confused

PaulF · « **Reply #1546 on:** 29 March, 2012, 10:01:00 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 March, 2012, 09:48:07 am

Why in the name of pie floaters did you swap the positions of the printer and the fax? Now I'm all confused

Just wait 'til he realises that they've also swapped the shredder and photocopier

tiermat · « **Reply #1547 on:** 29 March, 2012, 01:51:22 pm »

OH BOLLOX!

That's not quite what I asked for....

95% of the way there, but not complete.....

clarion · « **Reply #1548 on:** 29 March, 2012, 01:54:55 pm »

Oh dear. Hopefully not a tragic lack.

tiermat · « **Reply #1549 on:** 29 March, 2012, 01:58:50 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 29 March, 2012, 01:54:55 pm

Oh dear. Hopefully not a tragic lack.

Not quite a ha'penneth of tar type thing, but enough for me not to be 100% happy...