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2 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Have you looked at going Private mate or do you get private healthcare through work?

 

I'm not sure how much Bupa etc. costs per month, or if you'd not be covered as it's a pre existing condition, but if you want a referral and talk to a proper expert then it might be the best way forward.

 

 

I'll see how this month goes and if I do get a referral. If not I might look into it, if like you say its covered as pre existing condition. 

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Just now, Facecloth said:

Not even sure if you're taking the piss lol

i wish i was mate. last time i was there i diagnosed myself with pulsatile tinnitus caused by my ears being blocked with excess ear wax, walked out with a 2 week course of anti biotics and 2 bottles of otamise ear spray. just wish i could get a permanent solution so im asking for ventilation tubes next time

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1 minute ago, Beliall said:

i wish i was mate. last time i was there i diagnosed myself with pulsatile tinnitus caused by my ears being blocked with excess ear wax, walked out with a 2 week course of anti biotics and 2 bottles of otamise ear spray. just wish i could get a permanent solution so im asking for ventilation tubes next time

Fair enough.

 

You can only tell them what you experience if its something they can't see. So for him for admit the symptoms fitted a condition, but to completely dismiss it because it wasn't the original diagnosis and will mean more work to diagnose pissed me off. Once diagnosed, if it is cluster headaches they can give me a pen like diabetics have, that I just inject when I get an attack, which has to be better than taking tablets daily.

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I have a theory that inner-city general practices are more sensitive to their patients' ailments than those out in the sticks. I changed from a surgery in Evington to one out in the county. The one in Evington was always extremely helpful with everything. The one I'm with now seems to require patients to be at death's door before they'll lift a finger to help. I've concluded that country folk are generally more healthy, so out-of-town surgeries set the bar for ill-health much higher.     

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5 minutes ago, String fellow said:

I have a theory that inner-city general practices are more sensitive to their patients' ailments than those out in the sticks. I changed from a surgery in Evington to one out in the county. The one in Evington was always extremely helpful with everything. The one I'm with now seems to require patients to be at death's door before they'll lift a finger to help. I've concluded that country folk are generally more healthy, so out-of-town surgeries set the bar for ill-health much higher.     

Mines near the centre of Loughborough, so an exception to the rule it seems.

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14 hours ago, Royston. said:

People whinging about not having Sky/BT/Amazon and think they are entitled to some method of alternative viewing.

If you cant afford or dont want to pay for something then you go without.

 

Im not intentionally being mean or making fun, thats life.

Ahh what a lovely community we live in. :)



 

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What grinds my gears is the fact that February is extended by one day in leap years, not December. (Today is the 366th. day of the year.) It's a bit like adding injury time to a football match after only 15 minutes of the game! February should have 29 days every year and December should have 30 days, except in leap years, when it should have 31.

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27 minutes ago, String fellow said:

What grinds my gears is the fact that February is extended by one day in leap years, not December. (Today is the 366th. day of the year.) It's a bit like adding injury time to a football match after only 15 minutes of the game! February should have 29 days every year and December should have 30 days, except in leap years, when it should have 31.

When you start a football match you don't know how much injury time there'll be so yeah that would be daft

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On 28/12/2020 at 19:23, Free Falling Foxes said:

People who say 'so' at the start of a sentence.

Or when people say 'listen' as well :frusty:

 

Football pundits are the worst for it, as it's usually followed up with them stating the obvious despite them saying 'listen' extremely confidently as if something really insightful is about to be stated when they'll probably just say that Liverpool are favourites at home. 

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1 hour ago, String fellow said:

What grinds my gears is the fact that February is extended by one day in leap years, not December. (Today is the 366th. day of the year.) It's a bit like adding injury time to a football match after only 15 minutes of the game! February should have 29 days every year and December should have 30 days, except in leap years, when it should have 31.

"New Years Eve" would change though. They'd be no specific date attached to the event of New Years Eve.

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14 hours ago, Facecloth said:

Drs who have no desire to listen and look into things.

 

I had a phone consultation yesterday with a dr from my surgery, (not seen him before, but that's fine) about my headaches. For years I've suffered what I thought were migraines. A few years ago I finally got the drs to listen and they put me on medication. It seemed to help a little, but not totally stop them. Recently they've started again pretty badly and I'm still taking the medication. Back in March I spoke to a dr and they gave me some tablets to try once they start, along side the preventative medication I use, but they've had no effect.

 

As long time sufferer I often read up on the latest migraine research, as I've never found my trigger. In doing so I've discovered cluster headaches. They are similar to migraines and are often misdiagnosed as migraines but with some key differences. They don't last as long, but are more severe. They pain is around one eye. They occur at roughly the same time everyday during a spell. You get watery eyes and a running nose. Your skin goes pale. There are no known triggers. Also cluster headaches can stop for months or even a year before starting again, which fits in with me having periods where I'm fine. Its basically like reading a list of what happens to me. I would never try and tell a Dr how to diagnose and I'm not diagnosing by Google, but knowing this is what I'm experiencing I basically read that list to him, and he said "Sounds like migraines symptoms to me" to which I replied, "but they also sound like cluster headaches symptoms too don't they". Which he had to concede I'm right.

 

I would like to have some tests and maybe be referred to neurologist (when possible obviously with covid going on), but for now he's trialing me on a different migraine medication (and still using the one I was given to take when an attack starts despite the fact I've said the have no effect), and I really had to push him to agree to more tests and neurologist referral if this doesn't work. Its like he was desperate to stick with the original diagnosis despite evidence pointing to it possibly being wrong. He also said "I understand you want to rule out cluster headaches" no i want to rule out whatever its not, and i don't want to keep pumping myself with drugs if they are ineffective for the condition I have. Just do your bloody job and look into my condition properly rather than lazily sticking to the script.

There really is a huge contrast between doctors you'll see. Some will push through every system to make sure it is nothing to help put you at ease and to know one way or another. Whereas others take a look and rule out everything instantly.

 

I had a lump once I was concerned about, 1 doctor dismissed it and said it was fine, so I left it a month or so. Found that doc rather dismissive of all my concerns and wanted me out the door.

 

Noticed it again a month or so later so went down again and saw a different doc who was confident it was fine, but pushed me through the entire system to categorically rule that it was nothing. 

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14 hours ago, Facecloth said:

Fair enough.

 

You can only tell them what you experience if its something they can't see. So for him for admit the symptoms fitted a condition, but to completely dismiss it because it wasn't the original diagnosis and will mean more work to diagnose pissed me off. Once diagnosed, if it is cluster headaches they can give me a pen like diabetics have, that I just inject when I get an attack, which has to be better than taking tablets daily.


I really hope you get it sorted. sometimes you need to demand to see a specialist, be a right pain in the arse to get things sorted. 
 

1 hour ago, String fellow said:

What grinds my gears is the fact that February is extended by one day in leap years, not December. (Today is the 366th. day of the year.) It's a bit like adding injury time to a football match after only 15 minutes of the game! February should have 29 days every year and December should have 30 days, except in leap years, when it should have 31.

I'm sure theres a sciency reason that its february

nope

 

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 For winter lovers, a Leap Day every four years in February isn’t so bad.  But WCCO viewers like Kathi in Eagan wondered: Why can’t that extra day be in summer? Why is Leap Day in February? Good Question.

First, let’s remind people why we have a Leap Day.  It’s because our calendar has 365 days a year, but it takes the Earth just about 365 and ¼ days to circle the sun. Without a leap day, our calendar would be out of sync and hundreds of years from now, we’d be celebrating Christmas in 90-degree weather.

So, that day has to go somewhere.

“It has more to do with history, really,” says Ben Gold, a professor of astronomy and physics at Hamline University. “It’s mostly that the Romans didn’t really like February very much.”

Back in the 8th century BC, the calendar was just ten months long.

“Then they had winter, a long period of winter, which they didn’t really like very much and didn’t even want to put it in months,” says Gold.

That didn’t work out so well, so eventually the Romans tacked on January and February to the end of the year.  February, the final month, got fewer days.

Julius Caesar then tweaked the calendar to line it up with the sun. In a decree, he added a Leap Day.  The Leap Day still didn’t fully account for the differences, so in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII created the Gregorian calendar and established February 29 as the official date.

 

still, it was interesting. yet another thing the romans did for us

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My reasoning for moving the leap day to the end of the year and giving February 29 days every year is partly because it evens up the month lengths somewhat and shortens the hiatus between Christmas Day and New Year's Day in non-leap years. Another idea would be to make the year 364 days long, with 'Spareday' inserted at the end of December every year, except leap years, which would have Spareday and 'Leapday' inserted. So this week would have 9 days. This system would result in Christmas occurring on the same day every year, ideally Sunday. It would also mean that everyone's birthday would be on the same day every year. I was born on a Thursday, so it would be great to celebrate it on that day and date every year. 

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Another fatal car crash in the city overnight.

 

Early hours, one vehicle involved, driver died at the scene. Hours later, the identity of the passenger killed just before Christmas in the crash at Willoughby Waterleys confirmed as an 18 year old from Broughton Astley.

 

What a waste

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1 hour ago, String fellow said:

My reasoning for moving the leap day to the end of the year and giving February 29 days every year is partly because it evens up the month lengths somewhat and shortens the hiatus between Christmas Day and New Year's Day in non-leap years. Another idea would be to make the year 364 days long, with 'Spareday' inserted at the end of December every year, except leap years, which would have Spareday and 'Leapday' inserted. So this week would have 9 days. This system would result in Christmas occurring on the same day every year, ideally Sunday. It would also mean that everyone's birthday would be on the same day every year. I was born on a Thursday, so it would be great to celebrate it on that day and date every year. 

I've not done any maths but that doesn't sound right to me.  You're still going 365 days from one date of the year to that same date the next one (366 in leap years), so there's still not a perfect number of full weeks from one birthday to the next.

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9 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Another fatal car crash in the city overnight.

 

Early hours, one vehicle involved, driver died at the scene. Hours later, the identity of the passenger killed just before Christmas in the crash at Willoughby Waterleys confirmed as an 18 year old from Broughton Astley.

 

What a waste

 

The one overnight on Braunstone Lane East was only in his 20s too.

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20 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

I've not done any maths but that doesn't sound right to me.  You're still going 365 days from one date of the year to that same date the next one (366 in leap years), so there's still not a perfect number of full weeks from one birthday to the next.

My maths is perfectly correct. Every non-leap year is exactly 52 weeks plus one day in length. So if that one extra day is called Spareday (or some other new name) and added to the end of December, then the first day of each following year will always fall on the same day of the week as the previous year. (With leap years, the same will be true by adding Spareday and Leapday to the end of December.) So every day of every year will always have the same date as it did in the previous year. All this would make the calendar much simpler. In fact you'd never need to buy a new calendar, because the old one would just follow the same pattern of days and dates year-on-year.  

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12 minutes ago, String fellow said:

My maths is perfectly correct. Every non-leap year is exactly 52 weeks plus one day in length. So if that one extra day is called Spareday (or some other new name) and added to the end of December, then the first day of each following year will always fall on the same day of the week as the previous year. (With leap years, the same will be true by adding Spareday and Leapday to the end of December.) So every day of every year will always have the same date as it did in the previous year. All this would make the calendar much simpler. In fact you'd never need to buy a new calendar, because the old one would just follow the same pattern of days and dates year-on-year.  

So you're not counting the spare/leap days as part of a 7 day week?  I see no way that could cause problems.

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No sir. Non-leap years would end with an 8-day week and leap years would end with a 9-day week. The additional newly-named day at the end of a non-leap year would correct the calendar's one day drift in the following year, and two extra newly-named days at the end of a leap year would correct the two day drift in its following year. If these new days were bank holidays, that would be good, as would the other advantages I've already suggested. Far fewer new calendars (and diaries) would need to be printed each year, saving vast amounts of paper.

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22 hours ago, Beliall said:

i wish i was mate. last time i was there i diagnosed myself with pulsatile tinnitus caused by my ears being blocked with excess ear wax, walked out with a 2 week course of anti biotics and 2 bottles of otamise ear spray. just wish i could get a permanent solution so im asking for ventilation tubes next time

I suffer tinitus. I can feel some kind of blockage, almost like being underwater although there is no obvious blockage in my outter ear so of course the doctor just sent me to scrivens and of course they just gave me hearing aids which do nothing to counter my problem.

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