• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

International Walk-Like-A-Duck Week

Phil":33uajvpz said:
A number of years ago I went for a colon scope. It was all clear and they cut out some polyps for good measure. Because of this they then bung the eye with wadding for the bleeding and hold this lot in place with what felt like a m2 of sticky plaster, which you have to remove the next day. All ok BUT with a hairy area that plaster removal is probably worse than going for waxing!

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Phil
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Bloody hell, mate. Your doctors sound like butchers.
 
Having had several sessions in hospital this year, I keep vowing to remove all body hair if I have to go in again? [emoji3]

Even the removal of tapes after blood samples and cannulas on arms and hands hurts, not to mention dressing strips from other areas!

Rod
 
stephen.wood125":qme5nh87 said:
Back was never the same since I did three discs in skiing.
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As, luckily, I have never had back problems I have felt a bit left out, but thanks to Stephen I now get a chance to play as well...

Skiing down a fairly easy red run at some speed, took my eye off the ball and ended up flipping over and hitting a bank of hard packed snow and ice mounted up by the piste bashers. Broken and dislocated shoulder, three broken ribs and a punctured lung (though that may have been due to the helpful chap who put his ski boot on my chest whilst tugging on my arm as he tried to pop my should back into place). Helicoptered off the mountain, two days in intensive care until I was finally ready to pee (apparently a sign your body has come to terms with major trauma). Only problem was that one arm was strapped up due to the shoulder problems and the other one had drips in it, so a helpful nurse had to insert my old gentlemen into the receptical for me! :oops:

After six days cheap skate insurers told me I would be fine to be flown back (rather than stump up to have me taken back on a train). Well, turns out you should not fly for six months after a punctured lung so within 24 hours I was in hospital in the UK with them trying to stop my lung collapsing. As they couldn't fit a chest drain because of the strapped up shoulder this involved a doctor inserting a very long needle into my chest cavity from the back to draw out blood and air to take the pressure off my lung to allow it to reinflate. They had to do that once an hour for a whole day.

Still having said all that, my vote for best war story is still for a broken back undiagnosed for ten years.

Terry.
 
@Wizard9999

WOW! Makes my black run tumble, cartwheel, sommersault and sudden stop with torn rotator cuff and knackered back seem like a scuffed knee!

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