Your rants here.

rick_chasey

Just beginning to get that form where all cycling is thoroughly enjoyable.

Unfortunately, was coughing up blood y'day. Seems the old pollution/pollen doesn't do me many favours.

Reasonable chance I won't be able to cain it to & from work anymore without getting into a coughing fit.

EKE_38BPM

Rick Chasey wrote:

Unfortunately, was coughing up blood y'day.

That can't be a good thing. If I were you, I'd be headed to the doc.

rick_chasey

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Unfortunately, was coughing up blood y'day.

That can't be a good thing. If I were you, I'd be headed to the doc.

Way ahead of ya. Went y'day morning.

EKE_38BPM

Rick Chasey wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Unfortunately, was coughing up blood y'day.

That can't be a good thing. If I were you, I'd be headed to the doc.

Way ahead of ya. Went y'day morning.

Good lad. Hope it's nothing major.

I don't understand people who don't go to the doc when something is wrong with their body.
I've got a friend who has had a problem with his back for almost a decade but won't go to get it checked out. He's a builder and physical labour is agony to him, but he still won't go, yet his tools get all the care and maintenance they need. If he looked after his body the way he looks after his tools I'm sure he'd be in less/no pain.

DrLex

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Unfortunately, was coughing up blood y'day.

That can't be a good thing. If I were you, I'd be headed to the doc.

Indeed, even if you were inhaling pollen mixed with glass fibre.

rick_chasey

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Unfortunately, was coughing up blood y'day.

That can't be a good thing. If I were you, I'd be headed to the doc.

Way ahead of ya. Went y'day morning.

Good lad. Hope it's nothing major.

I don't understand people who don't go to the doc when something is wrong with their body.
I've got a friend who has had a problem with his back for almost a decade but won't go to get it checked out. He's a builder and physical labour is agony to him, but he still won't go, yet his tools get all the care and maintenance they need. If he looked after his body the way he looks after his tools I'm sure he'd be in less/no pain.

Yeah. Basically the doctor reckons my respiratory system was inflamed/irritated by an allergic reaction - likely pollen. That gave me an incredibly tickly cough, I mean really bad, and the coughing burst a vessel in my bronchial tract or whatever it's called.


Breathed through nose the entire ride in today. Not much of a workout.

suzyb

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Unfortunately, was coughing up blood y'day.

That can't be a good thing. If I were you, I'd be headed to the doc.

Way ahead of ya. Went y'day morning.

Good lad. Hope it's nothing major.

I don't understand people who don't go to the doc when something is wrong with their body.
I've got a friend who has had a problem with his back for almost a decade but won't go to get it checked out. He's a builder and physical labour is agony to him, but he still won't go, yet his tools get all the care and maintenance they need. If he looked after his body the way he looks after his tools I'm sure he'd be in less/no pain.

If I went with everything that was wrong with my body I'd never be out the surgery.

My rant for the day...the company conference was held in the office on Saturday so everything has been moved to make room. And my chair has gone missing. I had a nice comfortable chair at just the right height for me and it's gone. Not happy.

EKE_38BPM

suzyb wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Unfortunately, was coughing up blood y'day.

That can't be a good thing. If I were you, I'd be headed to the doc.

Way ahead of ya. Went y'day morning.

Good lad. Hope it's nothing major.

I don't understand people who don't go to the doc when something is wrong with their body.
I've got a friend who has had a problem with his back for almost a decade but won't go to get it checked out. He's a builder and physical labour is agony to him, but he still won't go, yet his tools get all the care and maintenance they need. If he looked after his body the way he looks after his tools I'm sure he'd be in less/no pain.

If I went with everything that was wrong with my body I'd never be out the surgery.

My rant for the day...the company conference was held in the office on Saturday so everything has been moved to make room. And my chair has gone missing. I had a nice comfortable chair at just the right height for me and it's gone. Not happy.

I have been known to put a sticker with my name on it under my chair. It makes taking your chair back much easier if your name is on it.

DrLex

Rick Chasey wrote:

[...]and the coughing burst a vessel in my bronchial tract or whatever it's called.
[...]

Some cough! And all without the pleasure of smoking prior.



IGMC

king_jeffers

Awkward customer fun. It amazes me that even at 30 years old I can still let someone else make me feel about the size of a flea. So pleased we have a double bank holiday coming up :-)

veronese68

King Jeffers wrote:

Awkward customer fun. It amazes me that even at 30 years old I can still let someone else make me feel about the size of a flea. So pleased we have a double bank holiday coming up :-)

This is why I only deal with trade customers now and avoid retail. I don't have the patience for some of them. They can't make me feel small because I know my field very well.
My wife had a sign over her desk saying "Nobody has the right to make me feel inferior without my prior consent" or words to that effect. Don't let the idiots grind you down.

desweller

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Unfortunately, was coughing up blood y'day.

That can't be a good thing. If I were you, I'd be headed to the doc.

Way ahead of ya. Went y'day morning.

Good lad. Hope it's nothing major.

I don't understand people who don't go to the doc when something is wrong with their body.
I've got a friend who has had a problem with his back for almost a decade but won't go to get it checked out. He's a builder and physical labour is agony to him, but he still won't go, yet his tools get all the care and maintenance they need. If he looked after his body the way he looks after his tools I'm sure he'd be in less/no pain.

Cos many GPs are basically useless. Like the one that failed to diagnose my mother's TB until it was almost too late. Or the one that mistook the blood clot in my father's lung for pleurisy. Or the one that prescribed me antidepressants as a first attempt to deal with a chronic sleep problem. That's three different GPs, BTW. Perhaps we're just unlucky.

Some people become a little averse to visiting their GP until they've exhausted the alternatives!

Has your mate has a bad experience with a doctor sometime in the past? It's worth skipping the GP phase and finding a specialist directly.

MonkeyMonster

DesWeller wrote:

Cos many GPs are basically useless. Like the one that failed to diagnose my mother's TB until it was almost too late. Or the one that mistook the blood clot in my father's lung for pleurisy. Or the one that prescribed me antidepressants as a first attempt to deal with a chronic sleep problem. That's three different GPs, BTW. Perhaps we're just unlucky.

Some people become a little averse to visiting their GP until they've exhausted the alternatives!

Has your mate has a bad experience with a doctor sometime in the past? It's worth skipping the GP phase and finding a specialist directly.

knowing quite a few that is a little harsh. TB is very rare, lung clots and pleurisy share a number of symptoms and chronic sleep issues are a good indicator of depression but also "anti-depressants" is merely a group name for a number of different drugs that are used to treat a number of different things. Some will affect the way your brain works to help you drop off naturally. I take an "anti cancer" drug (amongst others) for my arthritis. Doesn't mean I have cancer.

I should have gone to the docs sooner and got my arthritis found sooner, perhaps I wouldn't have had to have my hip replaced so soon then. If you have a symptom for more than month - i'd suggest going. Anyway, not a rant just prefer not to see so many gp's being knocked when its a fecking hard job and majority are good.

Off to the bike(mobile)!

optimisticbiker

Come home to find a letter from South Australian police inviting me to pay AUS$312, about £200 for 3mph over the limit somewhere in the forgotten regions of Mount Gambier. And then another £30 for the privilege of not responding to the previous request for payment apparently sent 4 weeks ago. This arrived by normal post, no tracking or signature, so an assumption on their part that it ever got here.

It could have been either myself or Mrs OB driving, can't recall. Well it gives me the option of paying by cheque and nowhere does it state what currency the cheque should be in... so I shall send them a sterling cheque from our joint account for £240 by second class seamail post....

EKE_38BPM

OptimisticBiker wrote:

Come home to find a letter from South Australian police inviting me to pay AUS$312, about £200 for 3mph over the limit somewhere in the forgotten regions of Mount Gambier. And then another £30 for the privilege of not responding to the previous request for payment apparently sent 4 weeks ago. This arrived by normal post, no tracking or signature, so an assumption on their part that it ever got here.

It could have been either myself or Mrs OB driving, can't recall. We'll it gives me the option of paying by cheque and nowhere does it state what currency the cheque should be in... so I shall send them a sterling cheque from our joint account for £240 by second class seamail post....

What would happen if you don't pay up? I can't really see the Aussies sending the cops to your door. Different if you have to go back to Aus though.

EKE_38BPM

DesWeller wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Unfortunately, was coughing up blood y'day.

That can't be a good thing. If I were you, I'd be headed to the doc.

Way ahead of ya. Went y'day morning.

Good lad. Hope it's nothing major.

I don't understand people who don't go to the doc when something is wrong with their body.
I've got a friend who has had a problem with his back for almost a decade but won't go to get it checked out. He's a builder and physical labour is agony to him, but he still won't go, yet his tools get all the care and maintenance they need. If he looked after his body the way he looks after his tools I'm sure he'd be in less/no pain.

...Ranty stuff about GPs...

Some people become a little averse to visiting their GP until they've exhausted the alternatives!

Has your mate has a bad experience with a doctor sometime in the past? It's worth skipping the GP phase and finding a specialist directly.

He has never sought any alternatives!!! He just lives with the pain. I've asked about previous bad experiences but he said he hasn't had any.
I've got a friend who is a brilliant physio and suggest he goes to her to at least get an opinion, but he won't do that either.

His attitude is:" What can they (generic term for all healthcare professionals) do?"

optimisticbiker

EKE_38BPM wrote:

OptimisticBiker wrote:

Come home to find a letter from South Australian police inviting me to pay AUS$312, about £200 for 3mph over the limit somewhere in the forgotten regions of Mount Gambier. And then another £30 for the privilege of not responding to the previous request for payment apparently sent 4 weeks ago. This arrived by normal post, no tracking or signature, so an assumption on their part that it ever got here.

It could have been either myself or Mrs OB driving, can't recall. We'll it gives me the option of paying by cheque and nowhere does it state what currency the cheque should be in... so I shall send them a sterling cheque from our joint account for £240 by second class seamail post....

What would happen if you don't pay up? I can't really see the Aussies sending the cops to your door. Different if you have to go back to Aus though.

Seems to be some difference of opinion online... I dont think they can do anything in the UK, but there is a good chance I will be back to Australia in the next 18mo to 2y as my son and daughter-in-law are working out there in Melbourne for another 2.5y at least. As far as I can make out is not a federal but a state offence so they cant stop me visiting Oz, but I could be asked to pay up + any additional costs/interest accrued ...

EKE_38BPM

OptimisticBiker wrote:

EKE_38BPM wrote:

OptimisticBiker wrote:

Come home to find a letter from South Australian police inviting me to pay AUS$312, about £200 for 3mph over the limit somewhere in the forgotten regions of Mount Gambier. And then another £30 for the privilege of not responding to the previous request for payment apparently sent 4 weeks ago. This arrived by normal post, no tracking or signature, so an assumption on their part that it ever got here.

It could have been either myself or Mrs OB driving, can't recall. We'll it gives me the option of paying by cheque and nowhere does it state what currency the cheque should be in... so I shall send them a sterling cheque from our joint account for £240 by second class seamail post....

What would happen if you don't pay up? I can't really see the Aussies sending the cops to your door. Different if you have to go back to Aus though.

Seems to be some difference of opinion online... I dont think they can do anything in the UK, but there is a good chance I will be back to Australia in the next 18mo to 2y as my son and daughter-in-law are working out there in Melbourne for another 2.5y at least. As far as I can make out is not a federal but a state offence so they cant stop me visiting Oz, but I could be asked to pay up + any additional costs/interest accrued ...

A similar thing happened to me, but in Yankland, not Oz. I paid up because I could imagine the Yanks sending cops to my door. With guns. Big guns!

Just about any other country would have an unpaid speeding ticket in the name of Mr EKE_38bpm, but as I have family over there I had to make sure I'd get back into the country!

veronese68

MonkeyMonster wrote:

DesWeller wrote:

Cos many GPs are basically useless. Like the one that failed to diagnose my mother's TB until it was almost too late. Or the one that mistook the blood clot in my father's lung for pleurisy. Or the one that prescribed me antidepressants as a first attempt to deal with a chronic sleep problem. That's three different GPs, BTW. Perhaps we're just unlucky.

Some people become a little averse to visiting their GP until they've exhausted the alternatives!

Has your mate has a bad experience with a doctor sometime in the past? It's worth skipping the GP phase and finding a specialist directly.

knowing quite a few that is a little harsh. TB is very rare, lung clots and pleurisy share a number of symptoms and chronic sleep issues are a good indicator of depression but also "anti-depressants" is merely a group name for a number of different drugs that are used to treat a number of different things. Some will affect the way your brain works to help you drop off naturally. I take an "anti cancer" drug (amongst others) for my arthritis. Doesn't mean I have cancer.

I should have gone to the docs sooner and got my arthritis found sooner, perhaps I wouldn't have had to have my hip replaced so soon then. If you have a symptom for more than month - i'd suggest going. Anyway, not a rant just prefer not to see so many gp's being knocked when its a fecking hard job and majority are good.

Off to the bike(mobile)!

I agree with MM. I've had very bad experiences, lymphoma missed until I got a second opinion, but on the whole I think most of them do a hard job well. They do get paid for it mind. Last visit to my GP we wound up comparing stories of breaking ribs riding bikes (she wonwith a 40mph dismount in RP).
Ironically it was an arthritis drug that accelerated my cancer. Maybe we should have swapped MM.

suzyb

I assume if it's been over 5 years since you visited the country, you've got away with going a tad too fast on occasion

optimisticbiker

suzyb wrote:

I assume if it's been over 5 years since you visited the country, you've got away with going a tad too fast on occasion

Not so sure, a mate of mine went to Switzerland and got stopped at Immigration for unpaid speeding and parking fines when we worked there on on a project together. That was in 2010, we worked there in 1997... the Swiss have long memories it seems!

davis

OptimisticBiker wrote:

It could have been either myself or Mrs OB driving, can't recall. Well it gives me the option of paying by cheque and nowhere does it state what currency the cheque should be in... so I shall send them a sterling cheque from our joint account for £240 by second class seamail post....

Send them 10 cheques for £24 each, or 100 for £2.40 each.

optimisticbiker

davis wrote:

OptimisticBiker wrote:

It could have been either myself or Mrs OB driving, can't recall. Well it gives me the option of paying by cheque and nowhere does it state what currency the cheque should be in... so I shall send them a sterling cheque from our joint account for £240 by second class seamail post....

Send them 10 cheques for £24 each, or 100 for £2.40 each.

I am tempted ... not sure what would happen if I send them a sterling cheque. They'll probably say its not paid and then send another reminder, slapping another $46 on for the fun of it...

Kieran_Burns

God Damned Flash Player decided to bork my pc just as I finished editing my Friday commute in!

Completely locked everything up just as I was saving so I lost the saves and all the work.

Bollocks.

Great steaming ones.

notsoblue

Gah! My Garmin 800 has been nicked! Bastard!

optimisticbiker

notsoblue wrote:

Gah! My Garmin 800 has been nicked! Bastard!

Sorry to hear that? But you only just noticed?

suzyb

fecking smartphones. How those damn things ever became so popular I'll never know.

After at least 10 minutes and 3 failed attempts at writing a post (my response in the gear you've bought thread) I finally gave up and switched on my PC to do it. PC booted up and 2 posts made in less time than I took to fail at making the post using my phone.

unclejimbo1983

Went to get on the bike yesterday evening and discovered I had a flat. What I thought was just a slow puncture actually turned out to involve an inch long section of rubber having delaminated from the tyre, leaving bare canvas! Got home late after walking to the nearest bike shop to buy a new tyre. It was the middle of the night by time I finished my dinner, whereupon some workmen started digging up the road right outside my flat! Aaaaarghhh! :evil:

Long_Time_Lurker

My Strava app is dead after I installed an update...
On the very day that I beat my previous best commute by 5 minutes!!! :x

bails87

Am I f*&^ing invisible?!

Oh well, I did more damage to her car than she did to my bike :roll: