The Random thought thread

[red750]

14 hours ago, Marty_d said:

For the price of 2 haircuts you could buy clippers (with the no.3 guide) and DIY (or get your kids to run it over your scone).

I know I shouldn't post this, and Nev will drag me over the coals, but this way I can say I had a head job from an Asian lady at the shopping centre for $15, and not be lying.

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, red750 said:

I know I shouldn't post this, and Nev will drag me over the coals, but this way I can say I had a head job from an Asian lady at the shopping centre for $15, and not be lying.

Get her to do your nails and you can add "hand job" in there too.

[red750]

I saw my GP today and got my referral letter to the specialist to check out about the Cochlear Implant.

 

Here is the write-up about him I got off the internet. Knox Private Hospital is just 5km down the road, and where I had my pacemaker and a number of other procedures done.

 

 

Prof Graeme Clark is the inventor of the Cochlear Implant.

 

 

[old man emu]

If you reach your three score and ten and your doctor hasn't got you on a pill or two, is there something wrong with you?

[red750]

I've reached 4 score and 1, and I'm on 6 tablets daily.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[onetrack]

I took nothing until I was 74, when after a shoulder injury, the docs discovered I had high blood pressure. So they put me on an enzyme-blocker, the drug softens my hardened arteries.

I take one little green pill each morning and my blood pressure has returned to an acceptable level (140 over 80), satisfying the docs. They all seem to think I'm "reasonably healthy" for my age (77).

[red750]

My tablets are-

Apixaban - a blood thinner prescribed for my pacemaker

Allopurinol - prescribed for gout (2 per day)

Metoprolol - stroke prevention

Panafcortelone - myalgia rheumatica

Thyroxine - thyroid

[onetrack]

Well, they must all be working, Peter, you're still kicking along O.K. A lot of people I knew, never made it to 80.

 

My brother is 86 this year and still getting along just fine, he still drives everywhere in his Landcruiser, and helps out his sons. He got a new knee about 18 mths ago, and had his prostate removed about a year before that. He's a tough old geezer, I think he'll probably make it to his mid-90's O.K.

[pmccarthy]

Several of my friends didn’t make it to 80 but I plan on doing better. Five pills a day for me at present.

[old man emu]

11 hours ago, onetrack said:

an acceptable level (140 over 80), satisfying the docs.

That's mine, too. But they still say I have hypertension. You start to think that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand knows.

[onetrack]

I tend towards the view that BP guidelines are a bit like BMI guidelines - they were decreed many decades ago, without taking into account, enough of the factors that affect them.

I've seen people who lived with high levels of hypertension for years, whereas others with relatively modest levels of hypertension, keeled over early.

 

[red750]

Mine gets checked every time I visit the doc. Currently around 116/77.