Grumpy old buggers thread

[JDNSW]

I have had a couple of really bad nights this week.

I mentioned my grandson having a tooth out last week. Still whinging about the pain, the dentist agreed to some stronger painkiller (panadol forte) and I got it when I was in town getting the week's groceries on Tuesday. He took the first dose not too long before dinner Tuesday night. Before the meal had ended he was vomiting, shaking, abnormally high blood pressure, and abdominal pain.

After a session with healthdirect on the phone, I called an ambulance, which got here about 2300. His sister went in with him. She called me about 0100 to check exactly what my address is for the paperwork. And again at 0600, with the news that we could pick them up after the doctor did her rounds, plus the fact that she was starving, and he was getting fed but not her!

So after breakfast I headed for the hospital, taking her boyfriend for a gate opener (about an hour, taking the shortcut through next door). Significant roadwork on the Golden Hwy. Only had to wait about half an hour for him to be allowed out - allergy to codeine it seems. Then half an hour parked outside the local cafe to get food for the starving teenager.

So Wednesday night I was exhausted. About 0300 I awoke very abruptly. It seems I had gone to the toilet (not unusual), and had gone to sleep sitting on it (unusual). And then slumped forward off it, landing on my knees and with my head striking the edge of the washbasin about 80cm in front of it. Scalp wounds bleed freely - there was blood everywhere. I yelled for the kids, and they came pretty quickly. I was sat on the bed, and one stanched the flow from my head, one cleaned up, and the third called healthdirect. After a conversation with them we decided medical attention was not needed, at least immediately. The 15yo put a dressing on my head and I got to bed. Seems to be healing OK, and I have her chaging the dressing every night.

Late in the day I found that a certain protuberance seems to have caught on the toilet seat as I fell, and now has a bruise on top of it. No pain though. And minimum pain from y knees, and no visible damage.

I have an appointment with my GP for Tuesday to make sure the head is healing properly.

Fortunately, last night was without incident!

Spent part of this morning giving the 15yo tractor driving lessons.

[austastar]

Well, guaranteed tomorrow won't be that bad, 100%.
Cheers

[scarry]

Geez,be carefull,the BILs mother fell from the toilet,hit her head and never woke up.She was 83 and living by herself.
Whether she fell asleep or had some other type of medical issue,no one seems to know.

[RANDLOVER]

I'm finding the sound of the drones covering the Winter Olympics annoying and so many athletes wearing white makes them hard to see against the snow.

[RANDLOVER]

Not me but my retired truck driver neighbour is highly upset that the Sunday newspaper has gone up to $5 from $4-50, and is threatening not to buy it ever again.

[scarry]

Not me but my retired truck driver neighbour is highly upset that the Sunday newspaper has gone up to $5 from $4-50, and is threatening not to buy it ever again.

We used to get the paper delivered here every day.it was the dog's job to go get it every morning and bring it into the house,which she enjoyed doing.

But when cancelling the paper when we were away,it was difficult,they would regularly stuff it up,and after being away for a week we would come home to a weeks worth of papers on the lawn.

This started to happen regularly so we eventually cancelled it completely.

i still miss reading the paper every day.

[austastar]

Hi, back in the 60s I was travelling by train towards Oatlands going on a club walk.
On a long uphill curved stretch of rail, just watching the scenery, about half a km away I noticed a dog leaving a farm house, full tilt towards the train.
Across the paddock, under one fence, over another, really running fast.
Why is a normally smart dog like a Border Collie chasing a train I wondered, and losing too as I could see back around the curve to the dog closing in on the guard's van.
With a splendid leap the dog caught the newspaper thrown from the open door, and looking very pleased with himself, headed back to the house.
Smart dog!
Cheers

[incisor]

Geez,be carefull,the BILs mother fell from the toilet,hit her head and never woke up.She was 83 and living by herself.
Whether she fell asleep or had some other type of medical issue,no one seems to know.

ouch!

sister in laws husband fell off a toilet and broke his spine in a couple of places and is now a paraplegic...

we had been telling him repeatedly to go into managed care but he refused.

now has 3 aides visiting him daily

[RANDLOVER]

We used to get the paper delivered here every day.it was the dog's job to go get it every morning and bring it into the house,which she enjoyed doing.

But when cancelling the paper when we were away,it was difficult,they would regularly stuff it up,and after being away for a week we would come home to a weeks worth of papers on the lawn.

This started to happen regularly so we eventually cancelled it completely.

i still miss reading the paper every day.

I cancelled my milk delivery for similar reasons, the first guy would do it but would whinge, I suspect the second guy's maths and English weren't very good as he'd charge for deliveries I'd cancelled, then when I complained he messed up the refund amount a few times.

[JDNSW]

We used to get papers delivered when I was a small child (and milk and bread and ice), but since then, even when I was living in a place where deliveries were available, I have not had anything delivered except mail, and even that has not been available for the last thirty-three years since I have been living here.