lol ymp
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 16 November 2023 01:32 (one year ago)
Colorectal is easy to catch, easy to fix, at least compared to other cancers.
Wait around for the "perforation" and you'll be the one they're depositing into a box.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:22 (one year ago)
Hello knee pain, my old friendI've come to talk to you again
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 16 November 2023 23:49 (one year ago)
I am not sure if this is the right thread for this particular ventfest but fuckit.
Two days ago I went to meet my son's school bus and the bus was already there. (For context, it is a special ed bus and if I m not there, they leave and take him back to school and it becomes a Whole Thing.)
Annnnyway I started to run to catch up with the bus. There was a jogger with a dog, and I tried to dodge around them but tripped My face, my glasses, and my phone had a serious disagreement with the sidewalk.
My wife was out of town, I needed urgent care, and my son was having a meltdown. Also my phone was smashed, which meant that anything requiring two-factor authentication (which is a lot of things) would be impossible for a while.
Of course I will be okay about maybe I will someday look back on it as comical - a parenting injury! - but right now I just feel stupid and embarrassed.
Plus my face looks like hamburger and I don't know how to go to four business meetings and a follow-up doctor's appointment without having to address the whole episode.
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 19 November 2023 18:12 (one year ago)
oh ymp, i’m really sorry.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Sunday, 19 November 2023 19:19 (one year ago)
Ouch dude, that sucks. And I don't know about you, but for me physical injuries hit a lil different now. Not that I have many of them. But just much more aware of overall corporeal vulnerability and how long any one thing can take to recover from.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 19 November 2023 20:07 (one year ago)
Yikes, that sounds painful. Hope you mend quickly.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 19 November 2023 20:12 (one year ago)
i've hit my face on the pavement a couple of times while out running, i know that pain well and fuck me does it hurt! you never really think about how little cushioning your face has compared to other parts of your body until you whack it full-force into a slab of concrete. but the worst bit is that longterm it's left me feeling a bit wary and vulnerable in moments where previously i wouldn't have had a care in the world. anyhow, heal quick ymp!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 19 November 2023 20:56 (one year ago)
As someone who also had a recent face-meets-road bad fall (I have a slightly Vulcan eyebrow now thanks to one scar), I empathise. Christ just last night I was unable to sleep cos I was having horrible intrusive thoughts about falling over and going to the hspital and feeling so embarrased and frightened, even though it happened over six months ago.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 19 November 2023 21:54 (one year ago)
Thanks for the empathy folks, I will be fine but I definitely feel like this is oart of aging. You will get injured more easily. You will heal more slowly. Health complaints that would have been minor and temporary start to get, vexingly, more permanent.
When you're 22 and you hurt your knee, it might hurt for a few days. When you're 52 and you hurt your knee, that's basically going to be how it feels, forever. You get used to it, because what other choices do you have?
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 November 2023 00:18 (one year ago)
I now totally get the olds’ fear of falling and how it influences choices of activities. I used to disparage horsewomen who got to a certain age and quit jumping. I’m not there yet and hope I never will be, but after more falls this year than in my entire riding career up to this point, I am getting more selective about what horses I jump. Biting dirt after coming off a horse at speed—this is a very different thing for a 50-something than a 15 year old rubber ball of a rider.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 20 November 2023 22:48 (one year ago)
I slept so poorly last night. Everything hurt. I feel my age today and I hate it.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 20 November 2023 22:59 (one year ago)
Hope you feel better jimbeaux.
Have you tried an electric heating pad? I got one and makes a world of difference. Sometimes I use it just because it's comforting, not because I have any specific injury or complaint.
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 November 2023 23:08 (one year ago)
I have tried them for my back specifically, usually not when trying to sleep. I might give it a try. Thanks, and I hope you feel better too.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 20 November 2023 23:11 (one year ago)
I definitely feel like this is oart of aging. You will get injured more easily. You will heal more slowly. Health complaints that would have been minor and temporary start to get, vexingly, more permanent.When you're 22 and you hurt your knee, it might hurt for a few days. When you're 52 and you hurt your knee, that's basically going to be how it feels, forever. You get used to it, because what other choices do you have?
seldom has a poster been so otm. over a month ago I threw my back out...by coughing. at the outset of an incredibly busy workweek. I could not really stand up straight for two weeks, nor get out of bed without incredible effort and pain. aging requires a deeply philosophical outlook to be tolerable.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 20 November 2023 23:12 (one year ago)
I saw a friend on Saturday, he's my age, he hurt his back reaching over to open a window.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 20 November 2023 23:14 (one year ago)
it was so embarrassing because it happened so fast, and I was due to meet my coworkers at ten -- and I'd already been up and around, they'd seen me just earlier that morning -- and they called: where are you? and I said, oh, ahem, well, I'm trying to get out of bed, but turning over is proving to be a real whole thing, give me ten minutes. it was like this for two weeks.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 20 November 2023 23:16 (one year ago)
because I COUGHED.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAQosOF8bKQ
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 23:20 (one year ago)
I have a thing now where every time I fly in an airplane, and all the sitting that entails, will result in a back injury upon reaching my destination. Happened when I flew to Spain (as I reached down to open a mini fridge in the hotel), and it happened in Sweden in June when I bent down to photograph a wildflower.. just like a rubber band snapping in my lower back, if sucks
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 20 November 2023 23:50 (one year ago)
oh that's data for me -- this was the morning after a long flight.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 00:16 (one year ago)
What about changes in weather?
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 00:16 (one year ago)
I have had, since I was 19, a knee that sometimes clicks when the weather changes, but I haven't noticed anything with other things. I went from heat to heat on the flight though (mid-atlantic to deep south) so I'm not sure about that.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 00:23 (one year ago)
My left knee used to pop like bubble wrap in the mornings. Lately it doesn't do that as much. I wonder if it's altitude/humidity related.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 00:34 (one year ago)
Long flights and long drives both mess with my back/shoulders.
Somebody mentioned heating pads, I will also throw out this specifically for back/shoulder/neck stuff: a massage pillow. I have this thing and my wife and I love it to pieces: https://zyllion.com/products/shiatsu-back-and-neck-massager-pillow-with-heat-zma-13
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 00:44 (one year ago)
On a flight of 3+ hours, I have to get up and walk around, my legs hurt so much. I think it's related to poor circulation.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 01:03 (one year ago)
Get you some compression socks! (I don't actually have any, but I should.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 01:57 (one year ago)
ooh
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 02:42 (one year ago)
I am suddenly visualising us all sittting under blankets round a fire, croaking tips at each other at how to deal with the old lumbago.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 05:49 (one year ago)
Don’t mind me … I am just getting a looksee at what I am in for next year
― sarahell, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 07:45 (one year ago)
lol Trayce I will take all the advice! Starting to realize that consciously trying to minimize/avoid current or future pain is going to be a focus from now on.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 16:23 (one year ago)
Got the shingles vaxx #2 yesterday... I'm feeling it today: achy, mild chills, slight headache. Plus my arm hurtsGlad I'm working at the kitchen table
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 18:22 (one year ago)
the shingles vax was rough but it's definitely worth it to prevent shingles
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 18:35 (one year ago)
I didn't really feel the first dose at all, outside of the injection site.. but #2 is kicking my ass
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 18:39 (one year ago)
hang on, this is available for all over 50s ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 18:42 (one year ago)
CDC recommends that adults 50 years and older get two doses of the shingles vaccine called Shingrix (recombinant zoster vaccine) to prevent shingles and the complications from the disease.
each dose is a different microchip
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 18:43 (one year ago)
Seeing Diane Feinstein in the wheelchair was enough for me to message my GP about it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 18:45 (one year ago)
cdc = America. nhs says 65+
Thraed of Shingrix
― koogs, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 18:48 (one year ago)
ahh, thats what i thought i remembered. i.e. 65+ for us in the UK.
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 18:54 (one year ago)
The shingles vaccine doesn't guarantee that you won't get shingles. But this vaccine will likely reduce the course and severity of the disease. And it will likely lower your risk of postherpetic neuralgia. Studies suggest that Shingrix offers protection against shingles for more than five years.
FIVE years?? I thought it was good for life :-(
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 18:56 (one year ago)
shingles thread... looks like some longer term study data was published last year. one study saying protection lasts at least 7 years and another study saying up to 10 years.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 19:51 (one year ago)
My aunt (79) has had it for years. It's been agony. The shot feels like a punch in the arm, well worth it.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 20:01 (one year ago)
If you had chickenpox as a kid is shingles off the cards or no?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 7 December 2023 02:01 (one year ago)
I . . . don't know. I definitely had chickenpox as a kid but they still said I should get the shot.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 December 2023 02:02 (one year ago)
Oh wait I thought shingles was if you had nevr had pox as a kid. but it seems its if you DID :/ ugh!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 7 December 2023 02:03 (one year ago)
Yeah, it's some kind of re-emergence of prior infection.
If you didn't have chickenpox as a kid, then you need that vaccine.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 December 2023 02:08 (one year ago)
I remember Mick Jones (of the Clash, not Foreigner) got chickenpox back in the 80s, it nearly did him in.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 December 2023 02:09 (one year ago)
I recall it being a miserable time as a kid. I had to have baths in this foul smelling pine wash. I had the mumps too, and whooping cough. Man the 70s were another time.
Now I'm thinking I should get this shingrix thing, though its only free for over 65s here.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 7 December 2023 02:12 (one year ago)
If you get chickenpox, the virus that causes it hides from your immune system in your spine. Shingles is what you get when that virus reactivates.
― Jaq, Thursday, 7 December 2023 02:13 (one year ago)
My aunt breaks down in tears when she talks about how painful shingles has been. Probably worth the cost of the shot.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 December 2023 02:13 (one year ago)