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.

[facthunter]

Excellent. Nev

[old man emu]

I've mentioned before that the data from which BMI scores are computed was obtained from Belgians. The Body Mass Index (BMI) was developed in the 1830s by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet as a quick, statistical formula to define the "average man". Originally intended for population studies, it was not designed to measure individual health or body fat. BMI for men is a measurement of body fat based on height and weight, calculated as kg/square metre. Notice that this formula does not consider volume. It does not differentiate between muscle mass and fat. Many professional footballers would be classed as "obese" using this formula.

 

Quetelet was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences. He also founded the science of anthropometry and developed the body mass index (BMI) scale, originally called the Quetelet Index. His work on measuring human characteristic to determine the ideal l'homme moyen ("the average man"). Quetelet himself said explicitly that the BMI could not and should not be used to indicate the level of fatness in an individual. It's great for studying populations, but as a tool for individuals, nope.

 

[facthunter]

A Pinch test will tell you the Amount of fat under the skin. Muscle is  also more dense than fat.. Your Build is also Important  Nev

[willedoo]

5 hours ago, old man emu said:

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.

There's some variation in charts. The two that I have saved on my computer both rate stage 1 hypertension as starting at 140/90. Below that, one chart says high normal/prehypertension starts at 130/85 and the other says prehypertension starts at 120/80.

[facthunter]

I  did a deep relax and got 95/55.  Nev

[Marty_d]

I have no idea what's good or bad with blood pressure, but they check mine every time I give blood.

The nurse says "it's blah blah over blah blah - that's good!"

Like a dog listening to its owner, I just heard the "good" keyword and the rest is noise. If I go in and it's "hmmmm" instead of "good", I'll start paying attention.

[red750]

Harking back to my comments on the previous page, today is the first time I've been back to Forest Hill Chase shopping mall. I had my phone camera with me today.

This is the hairdressing booth. You can see the red docket number indicator showing the number of the last customer to enter the booth (the guy being treated). Normally there are two lady barbers working. The guy in the armchair on the left would be customer 210 waiting his turn.

 

 

A bit closer look shows the customer count, the screen below showing the various cuts which you tap to select, and at the bottom left, the note slot. Bottom right is the cup where your docket drops when printed.

 

 

The large opening behind the white pillar is the entry to Target, and beyond the booth, to the right, is a travellator to the lower shopping level.

 

 

 

 

[rgmwa]

Just a matter of time before the two ladies are replaced by two robots.

[facthunter]

Seems a Rather "hairy" sort of operation. Impersonal. Nev