Old Uncle Ben
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Being a Texan we, I loved that guy. His "The Missing Years" album is a treasure. Did you know he died of COVID? Fought cancer too.
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You English Folk are polite !Well - it's not a competition - and it's always good to be able to spread a little love- in a like - to almost every post you read - if it's only just to say that you stopped by - and said hi/hello - it's good manners towards the poster/thread starter -
I like that in folks
Yes I do
Old Uncle Ben
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Morning folks. This is the only one (out of 5) of the Kwik Seeds "Afghani mix" and she's a lady! Gonna breed her. Am about a week into 12/12 and this is the only I've sexed out of 9. Need to look at them closer today. As usual they love the drill - MicroKote treated pots and Osmocote 15-9-12, 8-9 month. Big "pot" in the background is holding a mango and volunteer tomatoes. Maters pop up all over the greenhouse. One year I had one take over 1/3 of the floor!
Old Uncle Ben
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That is a strange order indeed. Xrays are usually all you need to check out bones. CT's are used to really get a thorough look at all tissue - tendons, muscles, etc. Got a CT scan last week for a shoulder that's been giving me hell.
Old Uncle Ben
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Yes I do
One of my favorites......
Sally used to play with her hula hoops
Now she tells her problems to therapy groups
Grandpa's on the front lawn staring at a rake
Wondering if his marriage was a terrible mistake
I'm sitting on the front steps drinking Orange Crush
Wondering if it's possible for me to still blush
Uh huh, oh yeah
His wit and sarcasm was rich. My neighbor knew him.
The NHS here in the UKCanada has a novel approach to the pesky problem of having to wait for treatment. They used it on a reported 50,000 souls last year and it resulted in 50,000 fewer people needing healthcare now or in the future. In a couple of months they will be expanding the MAIDS program to children. We are living in sad, evil times. That being said, I hope you get treated like a king soon.
has been pretty good most all my life - although because I've always been a healthy bastid - throughout my youth and up till just recently - when I started getting aging problems - I never had to use it much at all - the occasional broken bone - and stitches for cuts mainly in the past - so now - when I really need this National Health Service - to service me - it's at the very worst time in it's over 75 years of existence - with around 8 million people currently waiting for a medical procedure - so I'm waaay down on the list for this open heart surgery - to fix a valve - and my 1st ever Urology appointment to see a live urologist is not till early April!
Old Uncle Ben
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The NHS here in the UK
HUH? That just sucks! That kind of surgery is life saving. Compared to the quick U.S. medical services that really doesn't make sense to me. I recently had an ailing friend go to a clinic in Tennessee and after a series of checks/tests they immediately put him into an operating room and inserted a Pacemaker. You need to come to the states!
As an aside, my deceased wife (RIP) had a calcified valve that needed to be operated on when/if she got out of the hospital. Unfortunately she didn't due to many complications which took her life. Over 15 days in 3 hospitals she underwent 20 frickin' procedures, one being an implant in a vein to filter clots.
Moral of the story - social medicine sucks.
Good luck!
UB
moose eater
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Get routine PSA tests with your regular blood draws for labs when doing physicals, if you don't already, and if the numbers are rising, never settle for the 'quick and easy' pee-in-the-tube test to assess cancer risks.Ya - same here - my prostate is larger than a walnut - and I'm hoping it's not grown to tennis ball size- just yet -
Just last week King Charlie released the news that he also had an enlarged prostate problem - and he got to go straight into hospital to get it fixed (probably via prostate ablation methinks) - but little old me - who is just a 'subject' of the monarch - has to wait alot longer (could be years) - to get mine seen to - It's far from an egalitarian society over here in Blighty -
I took 2 MDX Bio-Marker tests, pissing into a tube, and both said I was "extremely low risk for prostate cancer," when I'd already had it growing for 5-10 years, and was at a Gleason 7/8.
If your PSA rises more than a little bit, bite the bullet and do a transurethral biopsy.
The differences in outcomes can be substantial.
moose eater
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My primary care Doc is a lot like my current primary mechanic; booked 1-1/2 to 2 months out.
moose eater
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"And the lady is mine"??
Thanks for that info moose 🫎 - one of the distinct benefits of hanging out with senior old farts - is that us junior old farts get to know about how to fix things - that need fix'in -
Yup - I already get an annual PSA test - for the past 2 years- and so far so good - according to the doc - but I should go check on the numbers - to confirm it -
moose eater
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I've seen Johnny Prine a half dozen times in 3 states....
An incredible human being and humble as they come.
Milked goats, slopped hogs and pulled mill wood from the swamps to his tunes on old Pioneer Super Tuners in the mid-1970s.
Old Uncle Ben
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Yep, get that PSA test! Biopsy showed 75% cancerous prostate. Was radiated like a potato for 6 weeks. Last PSA showed 0.2. Been 4 years out so I'm happy.
moose eater
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The older system here (years ago?) had a limit on how many strokes one could give.Don't think so Reynard -- I've never run out of likes to give - have you?
It also had a negative rep option, but both seem to have gone away with the newer system.
oldfogey8
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I am rolling up on a year of digestive issues. I have had nearly every scan and scope they can use. My gall bladder is emptying at about half the rate it is supposed to(HIDA scan for that). Surgeon doesn’t think removal of my GB is needed(but would do it if I requested it). No stones or sludge(CT scan followed by ultrasound). Endo and colonoscopy-no culprit found. Next up is an endoscopy with an ultrasound camera. I have been waiting since around Christmas for that. Scheduled for last week but pushed out until next month. Socialized medicine is similar to for-profit medicine except we get to pay for it(if we have the money, if not it defaults to socialized medicine. Sounds like a grift but my government tells me it isn’t. Lobbyists make for a very profitable behemoth of an industry and yet Americans by and large are among the least healthy ‘first world’ countries on earth. I am not bitter just infuriated…The NHS here in the UK
Yes - I remember it well - this new system is OK so far - had no complaints - yet -
Old Uncle Ben
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Aint growing old fun!
Shit, I've got screws and rods in my lower lumbar too from a fusion surgery. Oh well, at 74 every day I put my feet down on the floor is a blessed day to me.
Got an incredible girlfriend too, also a widow, 67. We met at a Lutheran Church sponsored Grief Share program. Program was a little on the heavy religious side but helped with the overwhelming grief plus I met her. As an aside, I'm an agnostic who considers religion as a man made thing designed to control via fear and guilt, BUT an absolute necessity for the benefit of society. Our laws are based on the Ten Commandments for example, a good thing.
Time to get some work done. No marathons today, eh!
Shit, I've got screws and rods in my lower lumbar too from a fusion surgery. Oh well, at 74 every day I put my feet down on the floor is a blessed day to me.
Got an incredible girlfriend too, also a widow, 67. We met at a Lutheran Church sponsored Grief Share program. Program was a little on the heavy religious side but helped with the overwhelming grief plus I met her. As an aside, I'm an agnostic who considers religion as a man made thing designed to control via fear and guilt, BUT an absolute necessity for the benefit of society. Our laws are based on the Ten Commandments for example, a good thing.
Time to get some work done. No marathons today, eh!
