what grinds your gears

[Celt83]

I’m with you on that one. Razor feels like it’s ripping each hair out of your face one by one!

It's soul destroying.

I look in the mirror and say to myself "she's been effin using this!"

 

[JCMaloney]

General Practioners or GP`s are rapidly escalating up my grinds list.
Gammy leg - bursitis - I know what it is, physio knows what it is, had an examination at the GP`s they know what it is.
GP puts you on meds hoping you go away..... 2 months later said meds aren`t working.
I know a pain consultant ( a work colleague) he said, "Needs a guided steroid injection that`ll sort it, get the GP to refer you."
Ring GP. "Can`t do that, got to try this drug now for 2 weeks, if it doesn`t work after a week double the dose".
Week 1 - same.
Week 2 double dose - after Day 2 the headache from hell hit like somebody had a Kango on the back of my skull.
Day 3 I start looking "rosey" and think feck this back to 1 pill.
Day 4 face is starting to swell up, stop taking pills "It`ll go away".............
Day 5 full on tomato head.
Thinking "Hmmmmm this isn`t good".
Bus down to town waddle into A&E after the "covid triage".
A&E Desk look a tad concerned and say can you just go through the blue doors there to Majors.
I`m thinking "Oh must because of the new layout..... nope..... they was panicking.
Oral piriton large dose and sat down in a cubicle with a batch of epi-pens next to the bed.
Seems I might be allergic to amitriptyline and was "One step from anaphylaxis which isn`t "good".
All sorted, prescribed mega steroids which as a bonus have made the leg feel a lot better but finish on Friday.
Rang the GP today............. sorry no appointments its a half day.
Booked one for tomorrow....they are going to "Get some".

Now looking like a burns victim as the angiodema (swelling) decreases and the dead skin drops off.

Another couple of weeks on "the system" is starting to grind...even though the day job is part of it!
After chewing off the locum GP I requested a referral to the pain clinic as I know a few consultants who can shuffty stuff along a bit.
GP - "We have other drugs we can try, the side effects are worse than the amitriptyline....."
Me- Stop right there, the last lot nearly killed me"...
GP- "Would you like a pain clinic referral? "
Me - Yes please.

Just been to pain clinic .... jesus H he knew exactly where the hurty bits were!!! Long story short... yep you need two cortisone/steroid injections, that`ll fix it.

Only taken several weeks and a near death experience but it is getting there!
Good job I get 6 months full pay...... by the time I`ve done a phased return & used my annual leave I`ll probably have been out of the office for a year...

 

[Chae1]

Another couple of weeks on "the system" is starting to grind...even though the day job is part of it!
After chewing off the locum GP I requested a referral to the pain clinic as I know a few consultants who can shuffty stuff along a bit.
GP - "We have other drugs we can try, the side effects are worse than the amitriptyline....."
Me- Stop right there, the last lot nearly killed me"...
GP- "Would you like a pain clinic referral? "
Me - Yes please.

Just been to pain clinic .... jesus H he knew exactly where the hurty bits were!!! Long story short... yep you need two cortisone/steroid injections, that`ll fix it.

Only taken several weeks and a near death experience but it is getting there!
Good job I get 6 months full pay...... by the time I`ve done a phased return & used my annual leave I`ll probably have been out of the office for a year...

Need you back to work, so we know what's going on with covid

 

[Paddington]

With winter coming on I dug out some thermostat plugs today. I bought four wireless types last year, one is permanently connected, but the others are used about the place when needed. I found one sensor (no batteries) and three plugs. Batteries in the sensor just displays a "F", fail ? Check batteries, refit batteries, this time a "C" appears, perhaps the F was Fahrenheit ? Refit batteries again and a backlit display with ambient and target temperatures. Hooray, now plug a thermostat in and nothing happens, no power. Repeat with second thermostat, sensor is flashing to say please turn on, but no power. Third thermostat plugged in, sensor flashes and neon on the plug flashes, but still does not turn on. Examine thermostats, the two completely dead ones are same make as the sensor but the one that flashes in response is a different make though in an identical case...
Order an analogue type from Amazon, one with a knob that you turn to set the temperature, only accurate to +/- 1C compared to the +/-0.1C of the digital one but if it lasts more than a year I'll be happy.

 

[colhonk]

Metric bolt heads used to just 10, 13, 17, 19, 24

Got to disagree, In The 70`s about all you needed to take a Japanese car apart was 10 12 and 17 mm sizes. Few years ago had a major breakdown on my JD combine,Had a job to find an 18mm socket.

 

[JCMaloney]

Need you back to work, so we know what's going on with covid

Probably one of many reasons the numbers went wonky!!

 

[JP1]

 

[melted welly]

The wife’s evening coronavirus lecture
just want t watch fast n loud.

 

[ARW]

We brought the stupid ryeland tups home to shear them for showing season that never happened, left them in only field at home for a week or two with the ewes and lambs (lambed in jan/feb)
We have now started lambing! Early or late?

 

[Slippery Slope]

The lorry driver that phoned for directions and then when given them told ME to hang on because HE can’t look at the map right now! Well why phone then, why not wait until you were near your map genius?

 

[George from SJM Planning]

Planning committees - spent the best part of 18 months putting together an application for a bailiff cottage and some holiday accommodation on a fishing enterprise, managed to satisfy the case officer but it's then called in to committee by local pressure and end up losing the vote 8 to 6.

 

[Slippery Slope]

Planning committees - spent the best part of 18 months putting together an application for a bailiff cottage and some holiday accommodation on a fishing enterprise, managed to satisfy the case officer but it's then called in to committee by local pressure and end up losing the vote 8 to 6.

Excuse my ignorance but what is a bailiffs cottage? Sorry about the vote not going your way.

 

[George from SJM Planning]

Excuse my ignorance but what is a bailiffs cottage? Sorry about the vote not going your way.

Accomodation for a worker responsible for the security of the lakes, sort of a gamekeeper / ticket inspector. Apparently some of the fish in these lakes are worth big money and poaching is a big problem, also night fishing is big business but also gets abused if there isn't someone on site 24/7.

 

[Slippery Slope]

Accomodation for a worker responsible for the security of the lakes, sort of a gamekeeper / ticket inspector. Apparently some of the fish in these lakes are worth big money and poaching is a big problem, also night fishing is big business but also gets abused if there isn't someone on site 24/7.

Thanks, I’d not heard of the term before.

 

[8100]

The surgery's waffen ss receptionists that seem to think they are medical trained

 

[DrWazzock]

The grease gun and that seems to be empty, pumping air, feels light.
Take the end off and it heaves a turd of grease out.

 

[bumkin]

The surgery's waffen ss receptionists that seem to think they are medical trained

I agree and when you phone up for an appointment it takes 45 minutes to get through when you do they tell you to come in three weeks time, in three weeks I will be dead or better

 

[Paddington]

Five working days to get a prescription now. I give them six days, stand outside the surgery and ring the bell, they can't find it, how did I order it ? By e mail (as I have done for the last ten years), they can't find the e mail, I will have to resend it and presumably wait another five days. I give them the Paddington stare and the pills are passed through the window two minutes later before a gloved hand comes out and wipes the bell.

 

[Beames]

The stupid fake cobwebs my Mrs has hung from every door way in the house. Every time I walk through a door I end up with a face full of it!!!!

 

[Lofty1984]

The stupid fake cobwebs my Mrs has hung from every door way in the house. Every time I walk through a door I end up with a face full of it!!!!

You know the answer fire something over her face that’s white and sticky