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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Malc on July 17, 2007, 04:39:46 AM
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Seeing as things are a little quiet on the Beau Peep board, I thought I'd share this off-topic item with youse all.
Queensland is great if you like sweating and mosquitoes. I got eaten alive by mozzies at Thursday night's training and eventually had an allergic reaction to the attacks. I awoke Friday night with incredible itching of the scalp and welts all over my body. I thought I had chickenpox, and drove to the local hospital's emergency dept at 5am.
Five hours later, doped to the eyeballs with antihistamines and steroids, I coached my team through their game and can't remember a thing about it. We lost 3-0, played like cr@p, and I wasn't the slightest bit bothered.
My wife tells me that I was rambling in my sleep (she found clumps of gorse still stuck to my boots) during the night.
It's only now, some four days later, that I can remember events, and (unusually for me) I have been eating like a horse. Maybe that's the steroids.
Anyone have any illness stories?
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"My wife tells me I was rambling in my sleep (she found clumps of gorse still sticking to my boots) during the night."
What does this mean? Are you still rambling? You were wearing your boots in bed? Did she go and check your boots in the middle of the night? What's gorse got to do with anything?
Glad to hear you're better, though.
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I'm sure Malc has mentioned his somnambulation problem before, Roger -or as the Aussies apparently call it, 'rambling'.
Bearing in mind the clumps of gorse, Malc, I sincerely hope you were wearing more than just your boots at the time.
I'll save my coronary event for another day.
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I bent a toe-nail back in Baguio City.
(How strange - that sounds like the lyrics to a song!)
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Not one I'd buy!
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Just had my gall bladder removed.
Which burst when they did key hole surgery
Supposed to be in for a night ended up being in ten days
Still convalescing
Think it would have been easier to have letter box surgery instead
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had problems with my drain bottle.
I kept forgetting that it was there, the next thing was it tried to knock me out as it flew passed my head.
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Just had my gall bladder removed.
Which burst when they did key hole surgery
Supposed to be in for a night ended up being in ten days
Still convalescing
Think it would have been easier to have letter box surgery instead
This is like a blues number!
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Went to the docs this week cause I had the runs.
She ask me if I was running a tempreture.
I said no.
She said good she was not worried then.
I said no you havent got the runs.
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You're like an antidote to Mince!
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you mean clever and all that
thanks
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There is no known cure for Mince And I should know he just exists.
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Don't get him started on his holiday snaps. There's only so many waterfalls a sane person can admire in a lifetime.
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The one with salmon jumping at the Shin fall was one of the best scene I have seen.
Even you said it was ok
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Even you said it was ok
I was probably drunk or insane at the time.
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I know it's not technically an illness, but when I was 14 I ended up in Casualty with a large barbed fish hook embedded in my head just above my right ear. I had accidentally knocked over my mate's tackle box, and while I was picking it all up, he swung back to cast his line, and...well...you can guess the rest.
My other mate, Biff Bailey, reckoned his dad could get the hook out, without me having to go to casualty and possibly having part of my head shaved (which was the major concern of mine at that moment, being a long-haired teen of the 70's), so we popped over to his house. Biff was the biggest and clumsiest lad in the class, and his old man was exactly what you'd have expected of his dad. He took a look at it and agreed with his son that he might be able to get it out. Still concerned about my mane, I gave my consent. It was only when he reached into the kitchen drawer and pulled out the bread knife that I suddenly had a change of heart, and decided my hair wasn't quite worth dying for.
Casualty snipped off the barb and fed the hook through. No clippers or bread knife needed. I felt such a plonker! Plus I was a vegetarian - I'd have had a panic attack if I'd ever actually caught anything. I only took up fishing so I could have a smoke with my mates down at the harbour.
Which brings me (eventually) to my coronary event.........
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You should have come to our doctors....unless it's a huge hook, they all think it's better to distract the patient and then give it a good pull and out it comes...barb and all!!...they do use some local anesthetic first, I hear!
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Tarks, I had a very similar experience. I was about ten and fishing with some mates on the local river. I was standing behind one of them as he cast his line. The three-pronged hook hit me in the eye and snapped the line. One barb stuck in my top eyelid, a second in my lower lid and the third dangled in front. My mates managed to remove one but I had to be whisked off to the doctor for the second, as it was proving a bit stubborn. Using a scalpel, he had to make a slit in the eyelid so that the hook could be eased out. Looking back, I was extremely lucky. At the time, it was....COOL!
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Way cooler than a single barb in the side of the head. I'm dead jealous!
What bait was he using?
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TT3 you are just fishing for complements
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Peter, that's the only kind of fishing I've done since that day 34 years ago. And I have to say, I catch even less than I did back then.
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Why's that, Ugly?
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Beats me, Fish-face.
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Now now...I'll turn this car right around!
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You just keep your eyes on the road.
Let them enjoy themselves.
I did walk into the same lamppost three years on the trot.
Do I get some reward for that.
Besides a headache.
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Are we there yet?
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HE started it!
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A week to the day after my allergic reaction, I returned to the same pitch at exactly the same time and have suffered the same thing again.
I can only assume it's something I touched or maybe it's a wind-borne thing, but my whole body has been taken over by hundreds if not thousands of spots, just like last week.
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I would keep away from it
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Advice from the man who walked into the same lamp-post three times!
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Perhaps he meant he'd keep away from it eventually?
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I only walk in the dark now
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I only walk in the dark now
. . . so that next time he'll have an excuse for bumping into the lamp post.
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I had a new lamp post erected outside my house this week. Men came and cut the old one down in two sections with a circular saw, before digging out the stump, and replacing it with a shiny new one. Quite interesting really...
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I had a new lamp post erected outside my house this week. Men came and cut the old one down in two sections with a circular saw, before digging out the stump, and replacing it with a shiny new one. Quite interesting really...
Let me make a note of this hilarious anecdote for use in future conversations.
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Most lamp posts have lights on so you dont bump into them
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In that case, tell everyone there was a power cut.
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Most lamp posts have lights on so you dont bump into them
That's a brilliant innovation. Hopefully, one day, all lamp posts will be similarly endowed.
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they dont work in daylight
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they dont work in daylight
I think you'll find they do work but are just not turned on.
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I seem to recall once having seen one switched on in the middle of the day, but I suspect it was some kind of malfunction. It was one of those that has an orange glow, although that's probably not relevant. It was several years ago now.
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How do you know they work during the day.
It is the same as does a tree make a noise if nobody is there.
Why not ask is there a god
Do you believe in dragons
Is there a loch ness monster.
When was the last time you saw a fairy