I'm finding it hard to feel sorry for all these people that appear on television complaining that their saving aren't safe despite the government's 50 grand guarantee.
What are you doing with over 50 grand in savings? to my mind the only people with that sort of spare cash are drug dealers, high class prostitutes and the scum that have been reaping the profits from ripping everyone else off.
Maybe my outlook on life is different from anyone else in that throughout my adult life I've worked for the simple reason of supporting my family, if we've had any spare cash it would be spent on providing things that had been missed out on when times were hard.
Friday, 10 October 2008
Crunch 1
Just a few brief thoughts without having to think too hard on the ongoing Credit crunch / World market failure.
One thing that's come out of the recent troubles for me is that I actually watch the news on telly, something I got out of the habit of doing years ago.
Not sure why I'm watching it? as it's not as if I've got Millions invested in Icelandic banks or Bradford and Bungley.
I suppose I'm just getting some sick pleasure about seeing these tossers who have lived luxurious lifestyles off the back of the common man finally get their come-uppance, wish they would jail the lot of these frauds and crooks who have played with our money for so long.
One thing that's come out of the recent troubles for me is that I actually watch the news on telly, something I got out of the habit of doing years ago.
Not sure why I'm watching it? as it's not as if I've got Millions invested in Icelandic banks or Bradford and Bungley.
I suppose I'm just getting some sick pleasure about seeing these tossers who have lived luxurious lifestyles off the back of the common man finally get their come-uppance, wish they would jail the lot of these frauds and crooks who have played with our money for so long.
Social Networking
My son persauded me to try Facebook recently, and have been on Myspace for a couple of years.
The first thing that strikes me about Facebook is that I'm probably too old for it, the only attraction I can see is if you've got a ton of School / college friends who all add you on to it to relay info or slag people off en-masse.
I'm not that big a fan of MySpace but the fact that you can personalise your page. and that you do come across a hell of a lot of new music on there make it interesting.
Facebook doesn't seem to have any of the redeeming factors mentioned :(
After adding my son to my friends, I have been added by a lot of his friends (some I know, a lot I don't?), so I login and have all these wonderful messages everyday like "i'm gonna get wasted tonight lol" and "xx scored 500 on this game" really interesting stuff!!
I feel like a "Johnny no mates" because I've yet to find any of my friends who use it, I only know a couple of people of my age who used MySpace and that was because they were in bands.
I'll carry on with it for a while just because my boy is away at Uni and doesn't seem to be able to use the phone or e-mail but seems to be able to only use this?
Although I'm still not comfortable with the whole world being able to read any conversations we have.
Neglect
Sorry have been neglecting this blog a bit, I'll try harder :)
Everyday I think of some personal (obscure) take on the news but never get to write it down, as I log onto the PC and end up somewhere else instead.
Sorry.
Everyday I think of some personal (obscure) take on the news but never get to write it down, as I log onto the PC and end up somewhere else instead.
Sorry.
Monday, 15 September 2008
Music
Do you ever wonder just how much brilliant music is out there that you'll never ever here?
The wonder of the internet and those many thousands of blogs etc that post music have over the years introduced me to tons of bands and musical styles I'd never have heard if I just listened to radio and bought music CD's.
Everytime I download an obscure bands songs from some blog just because I like the name and find out it's really good, or just go browsing through the millions of MySpace band pages and listen to some of their songs it makes you realise that you'll never live long enough to hear everything.
Plus there is over 60 years of stuff already recorded that I'll probably never ever hear, and in amongst it there is probably tons of songs that I would absolutely love.
Many of my favourite ever songs are album tracks that have never been released as singles, so the chance of hearing them on the radio is very small.
I still believe that a lot of artists record music because they want people to enjoy it, but if you've got to pay out over a tenner a time to buy a CD you're going to be choosy and the majority of people won't buy an unknown bands CD if they've never heard it.
I guess there are hundreds if not thousands of new albums released around the world every week so the chances are without the internet 99% of these would never be heard by people other than followers of the specific band.
It's nice to see so many high profile artists cottoning on to the trend such as Prince, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and most recently Iron Maiden all releasing their albums free on the net knowing that if people like the music they're far more likely to want to go and see the band or even buy some back catalogue, clever stuff.
But still the record companies are trying to hang on to their profits by hounding the free music sharers still believing that one day everyone will have to go back to the old method of having to buy all your music and paying the inflated prices charged by record companies.
Those days have gone thankfully, and despite the warnings of P2P etc killing the music industry, it is probably in the healthiest state it's ever been due to the rise of thousands of bands who got their fame due to the quality of their music and the ability of people being able to listen to it for free.
The wonder of the internet and those many thousands of blogs etc that post music have over the years introduced me to tons of bands and musical styles I'd never have heard if I just listened to radio and bought music CD's.
Everytime I download an obscure bands songs from some blog just because I like the name and find out it's really good, or just go browsing through the millions of MySpace band pages and listen to some of their songs it makes you realise that you'll never live long enough to hear everything.
Plus there is over 60 years of stuff already recorded that I'll probably never ever hear, and in amongst it there is probably tons of songs that I would absolutely love.
Many of my favourite ever songs are album tracks that have never been released as singles, so the chance of hearing them on the radio is very small.
I still believe that a lot of artists record music because they want people to enjoy it, but if you've got to pay out over a tenner a time to buy a CD you're going to be choosy and the majority of people won't buy an unknown bands CD if they've never heard it.
I guess there are hundreds if not thousands of new albums released around the world every week so the chances are without the internet 99% of these would never be heard by people other than followers of the specific band.
It's nice to see so many high profile artists cottoning on to the trend such as Prince, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and most recently Iron Maiden all releasing their albums free on the net knowing that if people like the music they're far more likely to want to go and see the band or even buy some back catalogue, clever stuff.
But still the record companies are trying to hang on to their profits by hounding the free music sharers still believing that one day everyone will have to go back to the old method of having to buy all your music and paying the inflated prices charged by record companies.
Those days have gone thankfully, and despite the warnings of P2P etc killing the music industry, it is probably in the healthiest state it's ever been due to the rise of thousands of bands who got their fame due to the quality of their music and the ability of people being able to listen to it for free.
Cynical 'ol me
Might just be me? but I get very cynical about company announcements.
Recent ones have included airlines who despite proof to the contrary have decided to keep their ban on liquids being carried as hand luggage because of terror fears, this ban of course includes all drinks that might be carried on long distance flights forcing passengers to cough up extra for drinks onboard.
Various supermarkets plan to charge for plastic carrier bags to "save the environment" while still overpacking just about everything they sell, nothing to do with not making a profit from the free bags I suppose? incidentaly They tell us these bags survive for thousands of years in landfills which is amazing as those I put some old books in and put in the loft have already crumbled to dust after only a couple of years?
My internet company Virgin are charging me extra to have my bill sent in paper form as they say that this is damaging to the environment and I should set up an internet account, while I receive at least one personal letter a week advertising their wares plus several leaflets from them shoved through my letterbox with the pile of junk mail I (and everyone else) get every week.
Now if they didn't send this crap out wouldn't that be better for the environment?
In some ways I admire inginuity of these people who come up with these ideas of how to turn anything into a profit making excercise, it shows great imagination.
Although stringing the lot of them up would make me happier.
Recent ones have included airlines who despite proof to the contrary have decided to keep their ban on liquids being carried as hand luggage because of terror fears, this ban of course includes all drinks that might be carried on long distance flights forcing passengers to cough up extra for drinks onboard.
Various supermarkets plan to charge for plastic carrier bags to "save the environment" while still overpacking just about everything they sell, nothing to do with not making a profit from the free bags I suppose? incidentaly They tell us these bags survive for thousands of years in landfills which is amazing as those I put some old books in and put in the loft have already crumbled to dust after only a couple of years?
My internet company Virgin are charging me extra to have my bill sent in paper form as they say that this is damaging to the environment and I should set up an internet account, while I receive at least one personal letter a week advertising their wares plus several leaflets from them shoved through my letterbox with the pile of junk mail I (and everyone else) get every week.
Now if they didn't send this crap out wouldn't that be better for the environment?
In some ways I admire inginuity of these people who come up with these ideas of how to turn anything into a profit making excercise, it shows great imagination.
Although stringing the lot of them up would make me happier.
Cop Shows
Do you ever find yourself ranting at the telly when watching these shows like "Police, camera action" and similar?
Every week you see the Police following stolen cars rampaging through the streets nearly killing people and smashing people's property, and after they catch them you assume they're going away for a few years and at the end of the programme they point out that the guy who's stolen a car and run down a mother and baby and smashed through some old persons garden has been given a warning or a suspended sentence?
I would much prefer the American methods to be used, they chase the car and run them off the road and if they survive that a dozen police officers drag them from the car and jump on them while sticking guns in their ear and battering them with sticks before hauling them off for a long stretch inside.
Not politically correct I know and downright brutal at times, but seems to be a better solution than our "imaginary slap on the wrist" methods.
Every week you see the Police following stolen cars rampaging through the streets nearly killing people and smashing people's property, and after they catch them you assume they're going away for a few years and at the end of the programme they point out that the guy who's stolen a car and run down a mother and baby and smashed through some old persons garden has been given a warning or a suspended sentence?
I would much prefer the American methods to be used, they chase the car and run them off the road and if they survive that a dozen police officers drag them from the car and jump on them while sticking guns in their ear and battering them with sticks before hauling them off for a long stretch inside.
Not politically correct I know and downright brutal at times, but seems to be a better solution than our "imaginary slap on the wrist" methods.
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Banks (Part 2)
Another 45 wasted minutes on the phone and I just end up with the opinion that they are a "shower of shit" (as an old guy I used to know called people who didn't know what they were doing).
I managed to get the number to ring the complaints department direct and after 10 minutes of recorded info about the ongoing court case over unfair charges I finally had someone to speak to, several holds later after explaining my concerns she said that as the payment was taken by DD they wouldn't have checked things like account name and signatures?
I said I wasn't happy about their anti-fraud measures and wanted to speak to someone in the anti-fraud department to register a complaint, eventually I was passed on to that department and another ten or so minutes was wasted voicing my concerns that anyone who had obtained my account number could withdraw money from my account even with the wrong name and no signature (I'm sure if the postie had nicked my Bank statement he would have even had the correct name), but they just kept saying that DD's were set up totally on the account number and other info wasn't checked.
So again I asked to register a complaint about the ease of fleecing bank customers and was passed onto yet another department, this time the DD Indemnity team? have to say he was the most knowledgable of the 3 people I spoke to even though he was in a department you wouldn't normally deal with.
But the basic outcome was that although you could cancel a DD after it had been taken, if anyone had set one up for the entire contents of my bank account the bank would pay them and the first you would know about it (if you didn't check your statement) is when they tried to charge you overdraft fees for a second month payments!
So advice to all fraudsters, use the Abbey as they only check if you try to pay money in?
No wonder banks are going bust.
I managed to get the number to ring the complaints department direct and after 10 minutes of recorded info about the ongoing court case over unfair charges I finally had someone to speak to, several holds later after explaining my concerns she said that as the payment was taken by DD they wouldn't have checked things like account name and signatures?
I said I wasn't happy about their anti-fraud measures and wanted to speak to someone in the anti-fraud department to register a complaint, eventually I was passed on to that department and another ten or so minutes was wasted voicing my concerns that anyone who had obtained my account number could withdraw money from my account even with the wrong name and no signature (I'm sure if the postie had nicked my Bank statement he would have even had the correct name), but they just kept saying that DD's were set up totally on the account number and other info wasn't checked.
So again I asked to register a complaint about the ease of fleecing bank customers and was passed onto yet another department, this time the DD Indemnity team? have to say he was the most knowledgable of the 3 people I spoke to even though he was in a department you wouldn't normally deal with.
But the basic outcome was that although you could cancel a DD after it had been taken, if anyone had set one up for the entire contents of my bank account the bank would pay them and the first you would know about it (if you didn't check your statement) is when they tried to charge you overdraft fees for a second month payments!
So advice to all fraudsters, use the Abbey as they only check if you try to pay money in?
No wonder banks are going bust.
Banks
A while back I tried to pay in 2 cheques made out to me in the name Lee, both banks that I have accounts with would not accept them because Lee is actually my second name (long story...).
A couple of months ago a guy from the Red Cross came around looking for a donation, seemed genuine and gave me a pile of info etc, so feeling charitable I said I'd give him some money at which he pointed out that they could not accept money at the door but I could set up a direct debit.
OK I said, give me the form and I'll post it to my bank but he insisted on seeing a bank card, at this despite still believing he was the genuine article the scam alarm bells started ringing.
So my cunning plan was to show him my bank card for my second account (current balance £18, set up for any internet dealings like e-bay etc) and give my name as Lee as I knew they wouldn't accept it without at least checking with me first as I was unable to pay in using that name even after showing them identification.
So imagine my surprise when the first monthly DD has been taken from my account without even a phone call to check?
So bank security is so tight that I am unable to pay money in to my account in person even with ID and my missus who has an account at the same bank standing beside me, but a complete stranger can set up a DD on my account by using my account number and a wrong name and no signature with no trouble at all?
No wonder fraud is so rife.
It does appear the money has gone to the Red Cross and I'm glad to help out, but if he had been a scammer it seems he would have no difficulty in clearing my account.
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Oh and one other thing the bank in question is the Abbey, the complaints procedure is all on their website and you can make an online complaint which I tried to do but when you press "send" the fucking thing won't connect, tried it about 6 times.
So the other option is to ring them up which I tried and after waiting about 15 minutes I got a woman with very little grasp of English who after a minute put me on hold for another 10 minutes, then I got a different person who in broken English said that I needed to contact my branch!! so I asked for the number and got put on hold again, I gave up after another 10 minutes ..... Fucking useless Bastards.
A couple of months ago a guy from the Red Cross came around looking for a donation, seemed genuine and gave me a pile of info etc, so feeling charitable I said I'd give him some money at which he pointed out that they could not accept money at the door but I could set up a direct debit.
OK I said, give me the form and I'll post it to my bank but he insisted on seeing a bank card, at this despite still believing he was the genuine article the scam alarm bells started ringing.
So my cunning plan was to show him my bank card for my second account (current balance £18, set up for any internet dealings like e-bay etc) and give my name as Lee as I knew they wouldn't accept it without at least checking with me first as I was unable to pay in using that name even after showing them identification.
So imagine my surprise when the first monthly DD has been taken from my account without even a phone call to check?
So bank security is so tight that I am unable to pay money in to my account in person even with ID and my missus who has an account at the same bank standing beside me, but a complete stranger can set up a DD on my account by using my account number and a wrong name and no signature with no trouble at all?
No wonder fraud is so rife.
It does appear the money has gone to the Red Cross and I'm glad to help out, but if he had been a scammer it seems he would have no difficulty in clearing my account.
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Oh and one other thing the bank in question is the Abbey, the complaints procedure is all on their website and you can make an online complaint which I tried to do but when you press "send" the fucking thing won't connect, tried it about 6 times.
So the other option is to ring them up which I tried and after waiting about 15 minutes I got a woman with very little grasp of English who after a minute put me on hold for another 10 minutes, then I got a different person who in broken English said that I needed to contact my branch!! so I asked for the number and got put on hold again, I gave up after another 10 minutes ..... Fucking useless Bastards.
Sunday, 31 August 2008
Scream
No not the film, just my reaction to those bloody people who seek to make your internet life a misery.
I had a music file in an AIFF (Apple) format, which I couldn't play so I opened up my music converter program and found I didn't have the right codec, so I download it and it tells me it'll only run with an updated version of the main program :(
So I search for a program update (the original has served me well since 2003) and I find one to download, install it and install the new codec and convert the file.
I play the file and it's just 3 minutes of buzzing even though I know it was a music file from the person who gave it to me.
Then I try to go the net to see if I've got the right version and my browser (IE) starts throwing up virus messages :(
I know from experience that it's one of those browser hijack programs that tells you to download some crappy anti-virus programs because you've got thousands of viruses, even though you just have the one dodgy trojan.
Trouble is with these is it's a long winded process deleting them, so I've had to reset my IE and run a few removal programs with multiple shut down / restarts before it's clear.
So I've wasted over 3 hours to get a program which doesn't work properly and the new version is not as easy as the original.
So aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!
I had a music file in an AIFF (Apple) format, which I couldn't play so I opened up my music converter program and found I didn't have the right codec, so I download it and it tells me it'll only run with an updated version of the main program :(
So I search for a program update (the original has served me well since 2003) and I find one to download, install it and install the new codec and convert the file.
I play the file and it's just 3 minutes of buzzing even though I know it was a music file from the person who gave it to me.
Then I try to go the net to see if I've got the right version and my browser (IE) starts throwing up virus messages :(
I know from experience that it's one of those browser hijack programs that tells you to download some crappy anti-virus programs because you've got thousands of viruses, even though you just have the one dodgy trojan.
Trouble is with these is it's a long winded process deleting them, so I've had to reset my IE and run a few removal programs with multiple shut down / restarts before it's clear.
So I've wasted over 3 hours to get a program which doesn't work properly and the new version is not as easy as the original.
So aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!
Saturday, 30 August 2008
Ethnic Cleansing
Found this picture at http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/
You'd think that Prince William might be concerned that the outboard motor has disappeared, even if he wasn't worried about the guy steering the boat.
Must be true it's in the Sun.
Spiders
Are Spiders secretly taking over the world?
We seem to be inundated with Spiders everywhere at the moment, if you don't go in a room for a couple of hours you walk straight into a web, every time I walk out of the front or back door I walk into a web.
Every time I have a bath or shower the spiders have taken over, fed the cat and there was a web built in her bowl, every time I go out in the car the wing mirror spiders have covered it in webs.
I went to hang some washing out and every peg on the line has its own spider and attached web.
I don't normally jump when I see one but the other night a largish one crawled out from behind the computer screen and started walking towards me.
They seem to have taken over every modern appliance and made it their own.
Now I know what the World Wide Web actually means.
All Balls
Sat through an episode of "Golden balls" today for the first time in ages, for anyone not familiar with the programme it is a British game show where lying and cheating could win you money, presented by former comedian Jasper Carrot it basically encourages the worst sides of human nature.
What the game comes down to at the end is they win a pot of money and 2 contestants go head to head and have the choice of "Split" or "Steal" to take the prize, if they both choose Split they share the prize, if they both choose Steal nobody wins anything, and if one splits and one steals the one who chose "Steal" pockets all the cash.
I vowed not to watch it again a few months back after a polite young lad who had been completely honest throughout the game believed the other contestant (a 20 something girl) that she was going to split the prize (about £25 grand).
He revealed his "Split" ball and she had chosen "Steal", so he goes home with nothing and she takes the lot, he just sits there looking crestfallen and Jasper wraps up the game.
I remember thinking "I hope someone stabs her on the way home" and I'm pretty mild mannered compared to a lot of people.
I understand the logic of the company who make this, as they get an hour long teatime slot with probably a lot of viewers and most days it doesn't cost them a penny as the greedy contestants usually both choose steal and both go home with nothing.
Anyway back to today's episode, the wife was watching it for the first time and asked me to explain it to her which I did "greedy bastards lie to each other and go home with nothing" sort of summed it up well I thought.
Certain similarity with today's game as a Mr Honest type got to the final against a guy who needed money for his upcoming wedding, the pot was £40 grand and Mr Honest says his piece and they even shake on a split and it comes to the reveal, Mr Honest has split and the other guy has stolen.
Now he just sits there looking sorry for himself, at this point I would have been over the table smashing this guy's face to pulp (which would have made great telly).
Can anyone who has just been robbed of £20 grand say they wouldn't be a little upset, because that's basically what had just happened.
Didn't see this episode below but the least he could have done was call her a lying c*nt (maybe he did and they cut it?).
Infections-R-Us
Oh well the missus finally got out of hospital alive :)
She caught the obligatory infection, which happens after every op she's had, despite all their new anti-infection initiatives (Fortunately not the MRSA type infection that they gave to my dad).
So the 5 day stay turned into almost a month, and now she has to have a nurse turn up at home every day for the next month to treat the unhealed wound (sigh).
Another thing she brought home was a stinking cold, which she passed on to me :)
Strangely although I'm pretty infection resistant I managed to develop just one symptom, a bad throat which has actually been quite funny as the main effect has been to change my voice every day, by day 3 I was doing a really good impression of Lee Marvin doing "Wandering star" :)
By day 4 I was the singer from Crash test dummies (if you remember that song "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"), sadly it's returned to normal now so my "voice-over" career is over before it began.
She caught the obligatory infection, which happens after every op she's had, despite all their new anti-infection initiatives (Fortunately not the MRSA type infection that they gave to my dad).
So the 5 day stay turned into almost a month, and now she has to have a nurse turn up at home every day for the next month to treat the unhealed wound (sigh).
Another thing she brought home was a stinking cold, which she passed on to me :)
Strangely although I'm pretty infection resistant I managed to develop just one symptom, a bad throat which has actually been quite funny as the main effect has been to change my voice every day, by day 3 I was doing a really good impression of Lee Marvin doing "Wandering star" :)
By day 4 I was the singer from Crash test dummies (if you remember that song "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"), sadly it's returned to normal now so my "voice-over" career is over before it began.
Monday, 4 August 2008
Visiting Time
Just another thing to get the "ripped off" feeling brewing.
The wife has spent a lot of time in hospital over the years, so I've spent a lot of time visiting her.
The maternity unit at Southend used to be in a different hospital at nearby Rochford, where you could stay most of the day and the parking was free with many available spaces.
About ten years back Rochford hospital was closed and the maternity unit was moved to Southend General.
It was always a problem to park there due to a lack of spaces, which was made worse when the extension was built to house the new unit.
At least you had the option of staying all afternoon if you'd made your way there by bus, or if you had took the car and found a space it was £1.50 a day to park.
The current situation is even less spaces and a rising scale of parking charges from £2 for 2 hours upwards, the visiting times have changed to two slots of two hours a piece forcing you to leave the premises in beetween.
So if you travel by bus by the time you've got home it's time to come back for the next visiting slot, so it's pointless using public transport which is pretty expensive these days anyway.
The roads around the hospital are all yellow lines and parking restrictions, and each road is patrolled by a team of traffic wardens and recently you never fail to see at least one policeman sticking cones in various places?
So to be a good husband and visit my missus for the four hours a day available it costs me a minimum of £4 - £5 a day or over £30 a week.
Also makes you wonder where the money goes, as the hospital services seem to decline all the time, the wife's dinner today was one slice of extra thin ham and some lettuce leaves!
There's a lack of nursing staff (my niece who has no medical training was working there at the weekend as a nurse to make some extra cash).
The wife has spent a lot of time in hospital over the years, so I've spent a lot of time visiting her.
The maternity unit at Southend used to be in a different hospital at nearby Rochford, where you could stay most of the day and the parking was free with many available spaces.
About ten years back Rochford hospital was closed and the maternity unit was moved to Southend General.
It was always a problem to park there due to a lack of spaces, which was made worse when the extension was built to house the new unit.
At least you had the option of staying all afternoon if you'd made your way there by bus, or if you had took the car and found a space it was £1.50 a day to park.
The current situation is even less spaces and a rising scale of parking charges from £2 for 2 hours upwards, the visiting times have changed to two slots of two hours a piece forcing you to leave the premises in beetween.
So if you travel by bus by the time you've got home it's time to come back for the next visiting slot, so it's pointless using public transport which is pretty expensive these days anyway.
The roads around the hospital are all yellow lines and parking restrictions, and each road is patrolled by a team of traffic wardens and recently you never fail to see at least one policeman sticking cones in various places?
So to be a good husband and visit my missus for the four hours a day available it costs me a minimum of £4 - £5 a day or over £30 a week.
Also makes you wonder where the money goes, as the hospital services seem to decline all the time, the wife's dinner today was one slice of extra thin ham and some lettuce leaves!
There's a lack of nursing staff (my niece who has no medical training was working there at the weekend as a nurse to make some extra cash).
Sunday, 3 August 2008
The Op
Well the wife has had her operation and everything went well :-)
A total of 4 ovarian cysts were removed, one very large 35cm x 20cm x 20cm (Rugby ball), one about 5cm round (Tennis ball), and 2 smaller ones.
Slightly worrying is that some parts had to be left behind, part of the large one was attached to her bladder so the skin of it was left, and although one ovary was removed the other remains.
This is good in the sense that she won't need to have HRT treatment, but bad in that the cyst problem may reappear as this was the ovary that the large cyst eminated from.
She seems in good spirits even though they've taken away the Morphene now and she's feeling the pain.
Another reason not to wear a bikini, as they had to make two incisions this time, one from Belly button down, and another on the twice opened scar (where she had the ceasarian and hysterectomy) due to the size of the cyst being too big to get out of the first cut.
Her stomach is battered and bruised looking, but she's glad it's done.
Hopefully no complications or infections, and she'll be home in a day or two :-)
A total of 4 ovarian cysts were removed, one very large 35cm x 20cm x 20cm (Rugby ball), one about 5cm round (Tennis ball), and 2 smaller ones.
Slightly worrying is that some parts had to be left behind, part of the large one was attached to her bladder so the skin of it was left, and although one ovary was removed the other remains.
This is good in the sense that she won't need to have HRT treatment, but bad in that the cyst problem may reappear as this was the ovary that the large cyst eminated from.
She seems in good spirits even though they've taken away the Morphene now and she's feeling the pain.
Another reason not to wear a bikini, as they had to make two incisions this time, one from Belly button down, and another on the twice opened scar (where she had the ceasarian and hysterectomy) due to the size of the cyst being too big to get out of the first cut.
Her stomach is battered and bruised looking, but she's glad it's done.
Hopefully no complications or infections, and she'll be home in a day or two :-)
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Google Adsense
Joined this about a year ago, hence the adverts on this page.
I've just checked how much I've earnt in that time -
Total Earnings $0.00 - Impressive!!
I've just checked how much I've earnt in that time -
Total Earnings $0.00 - Impressive!!
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