I am not asking what is under your fingernail.
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I would have clenched if that happened
Had a meeting with my surgeon today. There has been a number of recent scans and other meetings (all doomy) with oncologists and other specialists. I was expecting the worst but it seems like the radiotherapy has controlled the cancer in my liver. There is some progression in the disease outside my liver but not enough to warrant surgery (yet). Keep taking the drugs and do some more scans appears to be the plan.
Tl;dr no news, have a glass of wine with dinner
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Youâre a tough old cunt and long may you continue to be 
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Who are you calling old you cheeky little fecker?
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Itâs a looong time since Iâve been called little 
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Well I should have kept my mouth shut.
Currently pretty poorly with what Iâm 99% certain is a diverticulitis flare-up. So thatâs ÂŁ90 in the bin tonight and I was really looking forward to The Orb tomorrow 
. I might yet get there but it seems unlikely.
Iâll leave it a couple of days and then go drug-seeking at the GP.
As a drive-by for the âwhere are the chips? Burger burger burgerâ brigade
Causes and Risk Factors
Diet: A low-fiber, high-fat, or high-red meat diet.
(my consultant was also of the opinion that there was a big uptick in people with sedentary occupations like sitting in front of a computer for 30 years)
Just home from a day procedure at the Oxford John Radcliffe where a robot with a scalpel, driven by a human, went up my nostrils and cut polyps out of my sinuses. Not too painful (but that may be the prescription-strength codeine plus the residual general anaesthetic) but quite a bloody snotty mess draining out of each nostril. Lovely (not). Apparently normal though, while it goes about sealing up. âJust donât blow your nose !â
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Not sure that is correct.
Quite a few quotes in here saying that there isnât any evidence of an issue.
Not sure what issues in the last 12 to 18 months have to do with the war in Iran
The messages seem to be mixed about this. Jim Mackey made the âreally worriedâ comment on the radio and that stirred the journos up. But it seems that when some of them went to the coal-face to ask what the Iran-specific worries were everyone said âWell, nothing yetâ and then gave them examples of things that have been ongoing problems for weeks or months or even longer. Here for example Head of NHS England âreally worriedâ about medicine supplies | NHS | The Guardian.
None of the meds that I take has a lifetime shorter than months or even a year or three. So since covid Iâve kept a few monthsâ stash so I donât have to cause a rush on the pharmacy in the event of Trump doing whatever his latest stupid thing might be. When covid hit I was a bit short of some things. As the old saying goes âItâs not culpable to make mistakes, but it is to repeat themâ. So Iâve tried not to.
EDIT: Crossed with Kev.
This has come from the NHS to the surgery where Jenny works.
From NHS England ?
It is quoting The Pharmacist website and the Guardian.
There doesnât seem to anything on the Home or News pages of the NHS England site about this.
Speaking to a couple of hospital Chief Pharmacists I know, they are concerned about the potential implications, but not worried - yet.
I am prevented from ordering repeat prescriptions if I have more than 2 weeks left of the previous allocation. I cannot stockpile unless I buy (who knows what) online.
Just reorder every six weeks of you get 8 weeksâ supply, then you build up stock. They only look at the last date.
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So, after this debacleâŚ
âŚtoday I had a thumbnail sized lump of wax removed from left ear. This took place in Oxford, so Redbridge P+R (ÂŁ2.50) then Seniorâs Bus Pass into Queen St. In and out in 7 minutes (actually out before the appt. was due).
All so I can sit through another (four so far) battery of tests before getting fitted with a hearing aid. Next appointment is next week. Unless, of course, they fuck that up too.
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As someone who had really bad eczema as a kid to the extent that even though I was only about 5 I can still remember the pain and the itching. It was so bad that pretty much every fold of skin was split and weeping. If I went out into the sun my skin would blister within 30mins
I have no idea how my dad did it back in the 70âs before the internet but when they were told the only treatment was steroid creams and more than likely immunosuppressants, he went off and researched steroids and came to the decision that they were going to refuse them. They spent a couple of years giving me bandage wraps with oats and other things and luckily my eczema went away at around 7yrs old and barring a few incidents with the inside of elbows or back of the knees Iâve been clear ever since.
Itâs the sort of thing I would only wish on pedos, Trump or Reform MPs.
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