Monday, February 25, 2008

Self-Aspirated Blisters/etc

I'M INCLUDING A PIC of that beautiful giant mountainside trotter the PIKA, who collects poisonous flowers for the winter, that, as they slowly break down over the cold season, become nontoxic and edible before they rot... and that is how the tubby little pika feeds himself... and did you know this...= 100% true? In the wild, roborovskis use the established rambling paths of and sometimes live inside the burrows of pikas!... that is 100% true and correct! Imagine what the giant pikas think as my tiny robbies quickly scuttle on past into their personal deeper levels... "grrr! Bloody vermin! Tweetie-Pie meeces in my house again! We shall HAVE to put down more poison!!" (Robos are too intelligent to nibble the pika's poisonous flowers...)

I'm very sluggish and slow and miserable today... not entirely sure why... leg a little less painful by the day. Pain seems to be caused by the blisters re-forming/filling (where of course underneath it's red raw...) On Friday the A&E nurse "aspirated" these for me (basically means she burst 'em with a whacking great horse-needle and sucked the gunge into a gigantic syringe... surely something we've all wanted to do? ... Or am I totally barking up the wrong tree? To pop a zit by sucking it into a syringe... or to do likewise with a boil or pussing abscess... or even plain old "brandy"-filled blisters...

Anyhow, seeing as it's now mostly dried out and scabberous by now, and going all itchy inside I felt I wanted to change my dressings myself... cleaned it up and "aspirated" my own blisters (barely anything to drain they're sinking down into soon-to-be-scabs now...)...

Even Mother Hubbard, whose last abscess was so spectacular, the doctors asked if they could photograph it for their records, (it required surgical intervention literally on the FIFTH day since first appearing... and was so deep it required "fingers" of tampon-like interior packing... she was lucky to have sorted herself hospital-wise so soon as these "fingers" (which I saw myself: empty, I could literally have inserted my own fingers into them... this was the infection's jamboree of drilling not one but TWO attempts right down into the bone and it very nearly had reached there... abscess is VERY difficult to get out of bone... that requires the highest antibiotic doses of all... that is what loses people their legs...

Anyway, Mother Hubbs said my wound was pretty spectacular considering it was just a "miss"/partial "miss" caused by bad drugs and not even an infection... that's NASTY business.

And the sneery look on "nurse aspirator's" face at me the "barbiturate injector"... I TOLD them it was unwittingly and inadvertently done... I SAID I haven't actually "seen" a barbiturate capsule in my life. (All I "saw" prior to that injection was scummy brown heroin!)

I am going to have to get my dressings changed properly and professionally tomorrow... the GP's surgery will supposedly do this for me... if not the drugs service...

Hmmm I am TIRED. I slept for a LONG long time last night... from a miserable 6pm turn in to a 9am "gotta run!" I sorted myself out gloriously...

... gotta get my chicken pieces and peppers and all... y'know. I found some Arabic Coca-Cola on the street (in date! Just because it was covered in unusual writing and obviously some kind of special edition it had been judged inedible/undrinkbble and so chucked outside...) this had me peeing all night... When I awoke in the early hours, full-on robo-tainment was happening...

Hey best of news: my robbies seem to have stopped excessively washing and itching... seems they've left their "mites" far behind themselves... and their harvesty-coloured coats smell all fresh and harvesty now, too... not that they ever smelt nasty but they're fresher than ever living on and behind newspaper now... excellent stuff... Even pingy Baby Itchy seems well... too well almost... she was squabbling with Bashful this morning. Which made me wonder where that power-struggle will end up... with Queen Itchy I ruling over them all, do you wonder?...

... I dunno! Well I better had go. Hope all is well with y'all my friends... take care...


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I am behind with my Videos, so here's a whole list of all the most recent. If they aren't upscreen then click on anything you like the sound of and you'll go straight there on whatever other blog it's to be found on...

Staxx: Joy
Liza Minelli: Losing My Mind
Talking Cat
Madonna: The Power of Goodbye
Two Cats Chatting: Translation
Michael Jackson: Stranger In Moscow
Madonna: Hung Up
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
Kraftwerk: The Model
Right Said Fred ~ Too Sexy ~ Daz Commercial

I love doctors' medical memoirs: this is a good one you can "listen again" to from Radio 4: Trust Me, I'm a Junior Doctor by Max Pemberton. If you want to hear it all from the beginning you'll need to clickonit today as (last) Monday's (the first) instalment vanishes as of midnight London time tonight...

17 comments:

  1. Please continue to take care of your self. As if nurses have any right to "sneer" at patients. I'd like to smack em'. Hmmph.

    Okay what is arabic cola? You need to share a pic of a bottle of it.

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  2. Make sure you let the professionals change your dressings, even if they are hard hearted and generally ill tempered. I know it's tempting to "help things along" but don't.

    I'm glad you got a good long rest. And everyone's fur is fluffy and lovely!

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  3. Good to hear your leg is feeling better, but stop messing with it and leave it to the nurses Gleds. Hopefully it won't be too long before it's completed healed. x

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  4. Is this thine leg Gleds? WOW! MY GOODNESS! Well, my eyelid is better, after going through hell with it last week as u read on mee blog.

    Hmmm, I hear Manuka Honey is terrific for wounds of this sort, lather it on and then put the dressings. You should heal faster, nicely, and with prolly little to no scarring.

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  5. Patti: I will; they don't; I wouldn't (any excuse to call security on the junkie); Arabic Coca Cola:= EXACTLY the same as the Euro-variety... as for American I'm not sure whether ours is "classic" or ... is there another Coca-Cola in America? I don't know...

    Tut-Tut: I think you're right it's already hurting more thanks to my "efforts"... also bits of bandage keep falling on the floor now and I can't possibly reuse them...

    When Itchy "got a job as a rapper" her name was going to be Furry Fur...

    Akelamalu: O no! Do you think I really did wrong... o dear me... havta see the nurse tomorrow now it's urgent I cannot have dirty old dressings on it, I really can't. Not in 21st century Britain!

    Wat: Honey on the wound... wouldn't I get REALLY STICKY... and constantly get chased around by bees (OK it IS January... but I saw a bumblebee on new year's day last year which is UNHEARD OF over here).... hey I might try that... better than messing around with antiseptic creams etc etc I'm very glad your eye better did you GET to a dr..? No I bet. Hmmm

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  6. That sounded like a major wound on Mother Hubbs. Hope you heal a little each day! Glad your babies are better! I liked the Liza one. I'll post a video of her I like one day soon. :)
    Be well.

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  7. Cheers it was a HORRIBLE HUGE pussing infection... I only wish they'd video'd and youtubed the operation (GENERAL ANAESTHESIA!!) that must've been absolutely gorgeous in a "collecting fresh mayonnaise" type of way... Losing my Mind is the ONLY Liza Minelli I know apart from Cabaret's songs... and I only know THAT as I got dragged in to see the stage version once... found it surprisingly good... really amazing actually... no Liza Minelli in fact her part was played by a blonde if I remember correctly but it was really good actually better than the film I'd say ;->...


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  8. Soory I haven't been around the last few days, been a bit hectic. Glad to read youa re still alive and hope the leg gets better soon!

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  9. Do hope it all heals up soon, Gleds. It all sounds like it must have been horrible. Make sure you keep on taking care of yourself and getting the right treatment and dressings.

    Good news that the robbies are mite-free and fluffy again. They are such a joy to hear about.

    How's Mother hubbs?

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  10. I hope your leg is better on the morrow!

    Rest well, my friend.

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  11. I'm glad that both you and the robofriends are on the mend.

    I could never sleep that long...I'm lucky if I get 6 hours ever.

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  12. Hi Gleds ~~ I hope your leg is getting better and will soon be quite OK again. Good that the robos are looking better and enjoying themselves. Take great care, Regards, Merle.

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  13. Gled I didn't catch a Tuesday post and hub will be in surgery tomorrow so maybe i'll get caught back up with you Wed evening or on Thursday. Hope all is well!

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  14. i really love your blogs! patti is right, take care of yourself :)

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  15. Vi: cheers... I will come round to you soon...

    Liz: Mother Hubbs is OK. She now blames her fall on barbiturates! I don't know I really don't know...

    Sometimes~Saintly: I'm not that good at properly resting but I did have a try...

    Debs: that long... yeah it's odd... I tried on techniques like making the room freezing cold and wrapping self in a blanket (that seems to work pretty well for sleeping I'm not altogether sure why but it does have you ever tried that? making wrapping yourself up in bed the ONLY way of keeping warm and hey presto you also tend to sleep whereas if you're too hot it's too easy NOT to sleep at all...

    yes the tiny tubbies! are not soaking wet all the time! which is either because of my moving them out of sawdusty woodshavings accommodation which ... well would YOU like sawdust in your hair 24-7? or it's to do with providing them finally with a proper "burrow" ... or a bit of both maybe...(??)...

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  16. Merle: "great" ... that is a highly operative word I need GREATNESS back in my life! and not just a Great Big Failure~!!

    Patti: Not too bad I only wrote about boring old antidepressants tonight so you didn't miss much! ;->...

    Mallory: ~~glad ya like it!!~~ hey how did you find my blog? Or did I find you? I've not gone hopping for AGES... was gonna hop out 2nite actually! ;->...

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  17. Hey! How come all my winking faces:

    ;->...

    manage to come out with jaws dislocated to new lines tonight...!!..??..!!..??..!..>..?..?????????

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