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Due to my Quack being concerned about my BP I've been wearing a BP monitor for the last 24 hours. Not so much a problem during the day, but the fucking thing fires up every hour at night. How many times can you be woken from sleep, thinking your arm is being bitten off by a Rottweiler, before you crack?

No sheep for the wicked?

Oh never mind........my glasses need cleaning.

Gob wrote:How many times can you be woken from sleep, thinking your arm is being bitten off by a Rottweiler, before you crack?

That's nothing. When I had the surgery to deal with the abscess under my ass, the initial plan was to use a Wound V.A.C. - fitting the wound with a sponge material out of which came a drainage hose attached to a vacuum pump. When it was set to continuous suction it was not bad, but after the first 48 hours it was changed to intermittent, where it would release suction every few minutes and then start again, and I would feel the exposed flesh in the wound being sucked up against the sponge over and over and over again. The only thing that saved me was that the area it was covering precluded maintaining a good seal, and so they discontinued it in favour of traditional wound packing.

Ouch!! A real pain in the ass...

Have Hen wrap the thing round your neck. Probably improve her BP.


But seriosly I much prefer a manual cuff because those electronic devices really do squeeze too damned hard.

A holter moniter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holter_monitor

A very popular device for the 'worried well' and their caregivers.

Still have the motorcycle? Maybe you should tell your primary physician so he/she can drop all the expensive and difficult things to keep you alive. Kind of a waste to remove a 0.5% risk when you're taking on a 10% risk of death with thoughtlessness.

Irrational to fix the 0.5% risks when you're being stupid elsewhere. Do you smoke? Now is a great time to start! If you're going to turn your brain pan to oatmeal on the tarmac lung cancer is hardly worth fretting about (and heart disease kills most smokers anyway).

Go for the gusto!

yrs,
rubato

Saturday afternoon at the rube's it's...............




have one on me!

Another lovely example of how rube never starts anything...

No siree, not him...

He's just a poor victim of unprovoked attacks who merely defends himself and always does so with less insult than he receives....

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Lord Jim wrote:Another lovely example of how rube never starts anything

Aside from the fact that he has mistaken an instrument that measures blood pressure for one that monitors cardiac rhythm.

But he's a scientist.....

He's as much a scientist as I'm an astronaut*.



*Clue: I'm not an astronaut.

That's not what you said when you picked me up at the bar the other night!

Sean wrote:He's as much a scientist as I'm an astronaut*.



*Clue: I'm not an astronaut.

But Gob is!

Wait, I thought you said "Aussie NUT"!

Still have the motorcycle? Maybe you should tell your primary physician so he/she can drop all the expensive and difficult things to keep you alive. Kind of a waste to remove a 0.5% risk when you're taking on a 10% risk of death with thoughtlessness.

Irrational to fix the 0.5% risks when you're being stupid elsewhere. Do you smoke? Now is a great time to start! If you're going to turn your brain pan to oatmeal on the tarmac lung cancer is hardly worth fretting about (and heart disease kills most smokers anyway).

What a sheltered life you must lead.
Have you ever done anything "daring"? Something that might get the adrenalin flowing?
Is dining in a fine resturant the most exciting thing you do?

dining at the restaraunt is nothing compared to the rush from using the experience as a merans to look down at someone else.