Bacon Slicer
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confucius said:
My screen name, perversely has nothing to do with food.
what ails you?
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My screen name, perversely has nothing to do with food.
jenks
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What currently ails me is a broken knee cap sustained at work where i slipped on some juice on a lino floor whilst carrying a box of books - 24 hrs on and i am still in a rage - i have a vile blue leg brace and two crutches and i've been told i won't be able to ride a bike for 12 weeks - the whole fucking summer!!!! 
jenks said:What currently ails me is a broken knee cap sustained at work where i slipped on some juice on a lino floor whilst carrying a box of books - 24 hrs on and i am still in a rage - i have a vile blue leg brace and two crutches and i've been told i won't be able to ride a bike for 12 weeks - the whole fucking summer!!!!
how is the worker's compensation thing work in England? if that happened in the US from what I understand you could be set for a while, financially that is, if you played your cards right
Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
fuck, Jenks, that sounds awful, comiserations!
Any soft tissue damage?
Any soft tissue damage?
jenks
thread death
Rambler said:
thanks for that - i dreamed about the idea of having weeks off work and now that it has happened i already miss it. kpunk would probably riff on about me being in thrall to kapital or summat but i think it's simply the people - i wonder how people cope with not working with others - must quite a few here who plough a lonely furrow?
So my blood tests came back "slightly abnormal" according to my blunt GP receptionist, but not for anything I expected (high cholestoral, low glucose), but because I have a high level of hemoglobin. Too many red blood cells sloshing around. What does that mean, though? Now how am I dying?
bassnation
the abyss
jenks said:
funny you should mention knee injuries, mine is not as bad as yours but i felt something shift in my right knee cap when I kneeled down to plug something in. its been excruciatingly painful for a week now. i'm fine standing up but sitting and walking downstairs is agony. haven't been to the doctors yet but someone told me it might be a ligament problem. i put it down to sitting with my legs tucked under me when i am working.
oliver craner said:
It means that you can compete in marathons.
Or if you don't feel like doing that, you could sell your blood to professional cyclists. They do bloodtransfusions before and after the races. The extra red bloodcells give the athletes a higher of oxygen supply to their muscles.
jenks
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Not so much me as one of my sons
Last night we discovered that he is allergic to nuts
We discovered this the hard way - anaphalactic reaction involving massively swollen lips, constriction of the throat, rash etc.
Took him to the local hospital, excellent service, piriton injection, steroids etc.
Just wondered if anyone on here had much experience of this.
Last night we discovered that he is allergic to nuts
We discovered this the hard way - anaphalactic reaction involving massively swollen lips, constriction of the throat, rash etc.
Took him to the local hospital, excellent service, piriton injection, steroids etc.
Just wondered if anyone on here had much experience of this.
bruno
est malade
jenks said:
roughly the same thing happened to me last year, in my case a drug allergy, very nasty. first my arms and back, then my face and eventually my entire body. after the swelling had reached its peak i began to itch all over, it was a nightmare.
you do become more sensitive to things for a while. the allergies i had as a boy, which i had undergone treatment for came back in full in the aftermath. and i was left with marks where the rash manifested first, my back is a map. but you slowly desensitise, things return to normal.
i hope things turn out well for your son.