Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 07/12/2024 19:34, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-12-07, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

On 07/12/2024 02:30, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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On 2024-12-06, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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I was recovering from a tumour operation at that point and was on
seriously concrete butt plugging pain relief.
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I drank a couple of points of pear juice. Delicious. And unbeknownst to
me Natures best laxative...

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Interesting.  I've found that peanut butter acts as a mild laxative,
at least for me.  This is a Good Thing - I love peanut butter.
I had a knee replacement yesterday, so I'll get to test it.

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Oh gawd. I hope it works out. I hate to say it, but IME around 50% of
knee operations fail.
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Sometimes fatally

 Sepsis is always bad news.  But there are a lot of measures being
taken to avoid this.
 I think things are a lot better nowadays.  Our local hospital seems
to have it down to a science, and I've heard far more success stories
than failures.
 

Well my horror stories are from the early noughties and 20teens...
Stuff does progress fast.  Back in the day when I asked 'what are the long term effects of this chemotherapy the nurse had the decency to say 'no one knows:its only been with us for about 12 years, but its raised the 5 year survival rate from 60% to 97%'
That was around 15 years ago...

As for me, I'm on my second day after the procedure.  I'm kicking back
and relaxing, and doing those stretching exercises to get things back
to normal.  It'll take a while.  Painkillers help.
 

Painkillers are sometimes mandatory. Even if just to let you sleep.
I am faced with possibly a year or more of physio from the last operation to try and turn my left bicep from a bit of wet string back into muscles.
Now that the nerves are almost working again.
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"The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards."
Billy Connolly