Forgot to mention, I will offer Ardbeg Uigeadail as a preparatory sedative. The only condition is you need to take it neat.

Would it make more enticing if I was to say my wife is a retired dentist?

You have no idea how tempting that is. Is the medicinal whiskey included?

When will the wet weather stop. I have a lawn that needs moving and few other things to do in the garden that aren’t happening at the moment.

Getting the complaint out of the way, I’m off this week. I was looking forward to Friday whole of last week. Alter Bridge to look forward to and wife’s birthday too. (In that priority order, mind)

Mate, I have really good pliers, so I can save you couple of tons. DM me.

Yeah alright cheers bruv, how was yours?

I say that, two thirds of it was alright. The other eight hours of a day gets taken up by toothache. Apparently there's a hole in a filling that needs cleaned, filled (giggity), and a crown on top. The bill is going to come in at three ton too which will be absolutely delightful.

Honestly, I'm thinking of paying Anthony Joshua to spark me out by landing a very specific punch on my chops to save me waiting.

Other than that, yeah I'm off work on a few weeks off this time next week, so my head's already checked out. I'm going to turn up, do the bare minimum, fuck off any new projects, and enjoy the run down I think.

❤️

Oh my I'm so sorry 😔

Ah, you've probably not tried enough yet.

In my experience if you go to the doctor they also ignore it

https://111.wales.nhs.uk/encyclopaedia/f/article/frozenshoulder

I'm a programmer and gamer, my right shoulder spends quite a lot of time tensed up (apparently) and I had started doing weights and bench presses after a few years off. It started not very painful, despite no incidents I assumed I'd torn something so gave the weights a rest. Seems not moving it was the worst thing to do, after a few months I'd have to do a savage click to free it up and that was getting harder and not painful.

Doc sent me to physio, physio said to get bloods. Nurse called me up after bloods to come in and get meds asap. Never heard a nurse sound panicky like that.

Now my dick don't work, Right eye don't work and AI took my job 😀

Allergies girl here, if you can get to Costco, their tissues are a gift from heaven. I have a giant box in each room of the house, lifesavers!

Genuinely curious, how did diabetes caused your shoulder pain, was it nerve damage? When I caught the 'beetus I just could not stop peeing, I never had any pain anywhere.

I've pretty much done that with my allergies, because apparently I have to get a GP referral before anyone will let me safely test which ones I have & their severity. So I use over-the-counter antihistamines, a lot of off-brand Kleenex & an air purifier, and I live in hope that a bystander will have an epipen if I ever have a really bad reaction.

You'll just be reaching the front of the phone queue by then 👍

(Apologies for the rant) The only accessible ones are either not taking on new patients, or insist you're not in their catchment area.

The one nearest my house (~5 minutes walk away), which I used to be registered with before Covid, decided I wasn't in their catchment area any more and kicked me off. We tried to sort it, but they just "computer says no" at me.

There's this "find a GP" thing on the NHS website, but seemingly none of them update it, and the ones which say "taking on new patients" aren't. They've pretty much all been bought out by these "healthcare partnership group" type things, and they're pretty much all as shit as each other now - the non-shit ones have no vacancies.

It took years to get this one. It's less then an hour’s walk away, and if you can get an appointment, they're actually quite nice.

It's one of those "postcode lottery" things. I live in a fairly poor "shithole" area, so we seemingly get the absolute dregs of service for doctors and dentists. The local council were trying to do something about it, so perhaps it'll get better sooner or later.

3 months...

My knee popped around Christmas time (alcohol induced injury)... thought it was getting better... went to a friend's birthday party last weekend... had alcohol... it's hurting again.

Ought to go I 'spose.

Mind you... I still have a weird patch of skin that changed colour when I had Covid, maybe they need to see that first...

Find a new one then. They make money off you being registered but not using them

Doesn't appear so, sadly. Mine used to, but they got rid of it and replaced it with "same day appointments only - no advance booking" and "phone between 8:00am and 8:01am".

Admittedly, I've not tried to contact them for quite a few months, so maybe it's working again.

Doesn't every GP have to offer online booking now? You should just be able to book an appt, even if it's a week or so out.

I waited a year for a shoulder injury to go. Turns out it was massive diabetes and now I've got nerve and eye damage at 41.

Be careful everyone!

"Your call is very important to us"

Is it getting worse? If so, is it because I'm not treating it? If not, do I have anything left to try? If not, I'll go.