In the hospital recovering from a hernia repair operation.
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you might remember Louiseās short stay in hospital for a procedureā¦today we learnt she is cured! 16 critters gone, good on her for insisting on specialist minimally invasive treatment in London, when the local place just offered an open hysterectomy.
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Have you got a mesh thingy now? My dad had one fitted and it flattened his very full tummy considerably!
I have indeed. Sounds like collateral benefit although it could look a bit odd as I think they only did one side
A 3 pack then ?
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It hurts when I laugh.
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Then get thee to the joke page. Youāll be fine there 
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Iām wriggling around my pair of hernias whilst reading, recently advised not a surgical candidate.
Grins most welcome.
And now back at home. Operation went well apparently.
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Currently high as a kite on pain meds due to sciatica having flared up. Oli managed to yank on my neck yesterday evening and it set it right off again. Normally a good nightās sleep is sufficient to deal with it, but not this time.
Every cloudā¦
About 50 years ago when I first started nurse training it was common practice to apply honey to clean but open wounds, especially bed sores (decubitus ulcers ). I didnāt have sufficient experience to compare with/without healing times but the results were good as long as the site was clean and granulation had begun. This treatment was halted due to lack of research and the introduction of evidence based practice.
Recently Iāve been patch plastering at home and had a dermatological reaction to the plaster, my right hand dried and cracked around the finger joints, right where the buggers would bend and reopen the cracks on movement. After a week of no improvement, I applied Asdaās finest ( cheapest ) honey to the deepest cut and covered with a plaster, re-dressed three times in 36 hours. Healed, no crack/cut, no bleeding, no pain, no inflammation, I really have difficulty in believing the result. The untreated cuts and cracks remain as they were, open, bleeding and inflamed, so theyāre next.
Bog standard honey, not the super Manuka honey at megabucks pricing ( although clinically far superior ) just Asdaās cheapest.
Probably not of a lot of interest to you professional slaughtermen 
but a dab of honey has cleared up in 24/36 hours what natural healing had failed after a week. Who says the old ways were just old wives tales, I still canāt believe the speed of efficacy.
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I used to get bad splits in my fingers when I was plastering years ago ā¦I found solace in Burgess Lion Ointment from Uxbridge ,it contained beeswax ā¦sadly the company closed and as did the ointment ā¦I bought from Boots in the 70/80āsā¦
A company called Rose I think in Hebden Bridge made something like it later ,supposedly to the original recipe but failed in my eyesā¦
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Thatās taken me back a while, useful for everything. I remember my Nan using it to get indelible ink off my leg - the family laughed but the ink was removed without much pain.
Bit of a daft idea, putting it in your eyes.
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I injured my neck when I was a teenager and the damage still manifests itself sometimes as a pain going into one shoulder or the other. Not bad really (dull ache) when Iām up and about but enough to stop me getting to sleep unless I can set my arm and neck in just the right position, which seems to vary a bit from night to night. Once Iām asleep I move, of course, so after a while it wakes me up and Iām 20-30 minutes shifting about and trying to get back to sleep. This wakes Mrs VB up, so Iāve moved out of our bed into the spare room. Itās been going on for more than a week now. It might go away any time. Or it might hang around for a month or more. Doctors seem unable to help (I gave up seeing them about it years ago). Over the counter painkillers hardly touch it, which might indicate itās a nerve problem. Trivial really, but wearing 
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ah you will be pleased to know johhny that honey is used hugely in wound care . its incredible stuff but can sting . it really heals wounds . sometimes shocking them out of inactivity . manuka honey is also very antimicrobial and in these days of antibiotic resistance it is brilliant stuff .
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thats a real bummer Vb , i suppose you have tried memory foam mattresses to help position ?
I had a probable TIA a week ago and attended the stroke clinic today. Fortunately there have been no lasting effects of it, full movement and usage returning to my arm and leg within minutes of the incident.
The down side as regards normal activities has been no driving for four weeks (three to go) and a B/P that resembles a cricket score, plus of course restrict alcohol and no smoking.
The consultant was a very nice lady and surprisingly young and attractive, from my appointment I have learned two things.
A stroke nurse is not the human equivalent of a pat dog and when asked by the consultant to push against her be very careful how you interpret her instructions.
Hopefully the meds and results from the various tests will show the way towards reducing the odds of a full blown CVA in which case if any of you kind gentlemen can get their hands on a large bottle of Bromptons cocktail and place it within reach of my mobile side, I would be very grateful.
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Feck!
Get well soon, and mobile sooner.
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