gone adrift

[cappy]

about 20 years ago......while in the shower i sneezed ...lo and behold a large chunk of flesh came down my nose and started to bleed copiously .....i dried and went to harrogate hospital were they sat me in a chair stuck a needle up my nose to freeze .......and proceeded to cut the offender out ....it was not pleasant and i thought the cutting device was coming out the top of my head...but no real pain.....sadly polyps will re appear ..i have a steroid nasal spray which i use from time to time ....not complaining just commenting regards cappy

[Rodney Mills]

John #9.

I developed overactive thyroid shortly after I emigrated to Canada back in 1958. I was treated with radium iodine in Toronto General Hospital (1961) to shrink the enlarged thyroid gland. I lived in Marathon, Ontario at the time, which entailed an eight hundred mile train journey each way. Not great when you feel crook.

Anyway, it eventually killed off the thyroid (1963) and I've been on the thyroid supplement pill ever since. No big deal really.

It's definitely the neck of my bladder and not the prostate. It's a genetic condition aggravated by scaring from exploratory tests (ouch!) over the years. But thanks for your suggestion anyway.

[Richard Quartermaine]

Yes Cappy I know the feeling - the Indian polyp remover in Singapore attacked them with fervour. One has reappeared and I also used a steroid nasal spray - 'Nasonex' (mometasone furoate monohydrate) and I notice on the blurb inside the box 'Do not use for more than 6 months without the advice of your doctor or pharmacist".
Cheers, Richard

[Keith Tindell]

Hi Cappy ref 11, myself and wife have just returned from a stay in Great Yarmouth by coach, on the morning of our departure, coach leaving at 0930, breakfast at 0815, wife in the shower at 0800, suddenly calls out" oh no, I've got a nose bleed" , well, the blood just gushed from her, got out the shower and pinched her nose over the hand basin, it promptly back filled and poured out of her mouth, I have never seen nose bleed like it. After about 20 mins it started to slow, I was on the point of 999, anyway then the cleanup began, looked like the Texas chainsaw massacre in the bathroom, up the walls , over the floor, all over the shower. Eventually just managed to get the coach, with a backpack full of my T shirts in case it started again, but mercifully got home ok. Good job my wife's got me, I,ve only got her!!! Kt

[cappy]

Hi Cappy ref 11, myself and wife have just returned from a stay in Great Yarmouth. Good job my wife's got me, I,ve only got her!!! Kt

well kieth a lot of blood is always a bit upsetting .....but i believe nose bleeds are a quite common occurance ......it may be worth letting the doc know .....pats best friend gets them regularly .....but her doc ses not to worry .......hope she is ok now best wishes cappy

[happy daze john in oz]

Back in 2013 I had to have a colonoscapy afetr a ruptured divaticulits. All they give you is a muscle relaxant which leaves you a little drowsy. On the table with the aparatus up the rear end and aTV screen facing me. You can watch said the doc doing the job. As I drifted in and out of some form of sleep I noticed a number of black spots on the camera end. Polyps he said, three of them he said, burn them off he said. I may have been half asleep but I felt each of them come off. Kind of brings a tear to the eye.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Rodney.
When we were over in NZ for a few years the Drs over there were always pushing pills, we have seen people leave a chemist shop needing a bucket to take home their medication. My Dr there said oh! you have a thyroid problem I'll give you some pills, I never got them as you can't get off them once on, when we came back to Aus I had to see the Dr to get my prostate implant every three months; I asked him about my thyroid, he checked and said nothing wrong with it. As for getting up two or three times a night for wee wee's he said old age, if I get three hours sleep without having to go I'm chuffed, I am so easy to meditate that if I take an aspirin before bedtime I don't wake up all night, with no consequences.
Cheers Des

[j.sabourn]

Des I take 6 tablets a day now as a water tablet has now been added. The thyroid tablet is among them somewhere as I usually just take the 6 at one go. Don't know if one is supposed to or not, but have been doing it long enough now. Must be getting old when the topic of conversation is pills and aches and pains. 6 lots of tablets a month is roughly 36 dollars. Somewhere along the line usually about August/Sept. reach the cut out point and are then free, until January 1st next year. Cheers JS

[Jim Brady]

As the post is gone adrift I notice our shipmate Charlie Hannah hasn't been aboard for a while,Charlie doesn't normally miss a tide.I hope he has gone walkabouts or his computer has gone down.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Ah as Miss Murphy said, she didn't believe in pills, especially dat der contraceptive pill, said everytime she walked it fell out!