Other What's ruining your life right now?

I’m thankful I’ve never (yet) been the victim of a burglary. And I’ve lived in some pretty horrific council estates.

 

@Shirty I had my gallbladder removed yesterday via keyhole surgery (5 incisions). I have some aching across the abdomen but don't find the pain to be unmanageable. Was yours a keyhole procedure too?

Hope you feel better soon.

 

£1,755 paid to solicitors to expedite the eviction of the dole dossers, should be out before Friday and if not, they will with the aid of bailiffs.

Can’t wait to watch them get turfed out, but feel sorry knowing it’ll be the council picking up the cost of rehoming them. Even though it was the council who have told them to stay put until they get turfed out.

Should be illegal that.

I already know the house will need gutting, another expense, but be glad for it to finally be over.

 

Feel your pain mate.

It's the one big silver lining I console myself with, even though lots of work needs doing my tenant at least buggered off.

Glad you got at least that stress dealt with.

 

I had 4 keyhole incisions, the main one in the belly button (reopening the one from January where I had an inguinal hernia fixed), and like you I'm uncomfortable but coping well without pain relief.

Hope yours feels better soon too!

Feels a bit like my body got to 40 and decided it was payback time for all the abuse over the years - I haven't had need to so much as visit a doctor in the past 20 years

 

Dude, through your belly button?!? That freaks me out.

Hope you and your gallbladder budder @dead beat get on the mend soon.

I don't even know where to begin imagining what those aches and pains even feel like.

 

Thanks,

The belly button incision is the least enjoyable. That's the hole they use to pull the gallbladder out, so sitting down and getting up isn't all that pleasant during the recovery process

 

My wife had her gallbladder out before I met her and the scar was one of the things that she was nervous about me seeing. She has an 11" long x 1.5" wide scar going from just above her appendix diagonally up to her left hand side. When she had her appendix out later, the surgeon took one look at the gallbladder scar and said "who did that?", turns out the first surgeon was known as a bit of a butcher in terms of the final look, always did a great job in fixing the problems, but not good at all on making things neat afterwards.

When she had her thyroid surgery she was stitched up by a plastic surgeon and that was over 100 really fine stitches and you don't see the scar unless you are looking for it and that goes almost 120 degrees across the front of her neck.

 

Ugh I have a thing about my belly button.

* Shudder *

It was a good while ago now but my appendix scar looks like they only had a kitchen knife spare to cut me open

 

I had my left Femoral artery bypassed a couple of years ago. The scar runs from 3" above my ankle all the way up, and 3" along the groin. The surgeon told me he would cut in 3 places, he didn't say he was going to join the dots though.

 

This beautiful weather - yes I do have more motorcycle lessons and both my big test tomorrow. So every day without failure it’s either rained or been a storm.

 

Feel your pain!! Itching to get back on my little Mutt Mongrel. Mrs has barred me from the big boy test because of an incident last year. I want a bigger bike!

 

A big bike would allow you to accelerate out of danger if required, and has better brakes for stopping ,

 

Sadly that wasnt the problem.. Someone almost run into me ... reckoned he didnt see me coming.. I fixed his eyesight for him

 

Wasted the entire morning trying to get my work remote connection working, which is especially annoying as it was working just fine yesterday. The ISP (Talktalk) are blaming the company's IT guy, the IT guy's blaming the ISP. The remote login does work through my phone when acting as a hotspot, but I get crap reception on it so it's extremely painful to use. Being without a car and living out in the sticks means I can't just pop into a nearby cafe either, and bluntly, who wants to do technical work surrounded by strangers?

I'm going on holiday on Saturday too, for three weeks. While I suppose I can be glad my car didn't break down on the way to Heathrow, I had a lot of work planned this week and it's being very stressful juggling that whilst also having to arrange alternatives. Didn't help that on Monday I went to pick up my travel money, and forgot to bring the damn card I paid with. At least they were able to hold it for tomorrow.

When it rains, it pours.

Righto, time to get off the forums, roll up my sleeves, and endure the pain...

 

Did Spanky do spanky?

 

I have done many things in my life i am not proud of. However the Mrs caught wind of it and went mental. Apparently at 46 im expected to be a responsible adult.

Of this i do not agree.

 

Had that all day yesterday. Got set up with a new PC last week at work, well I say new, after mucking about for 2 days I got to about 90% of where I was when I went in on Monday morning as they had sorted me out with EXACTLY the same spec workstation as I was previously using, a Lenovo P720 with the same CPU, same RAM, same Quadro P2000, same 500GB SSD, the ONLY difference being that this one now has another 3 year warranty, so 2 days of not doing what I need to to get to where I was before I started...

Anyway, working at home this week and my PC needs MS TFA to get Teams working at a new location and not directly on the company network, so fine call the number to get me to press #... except all this was set up way before we used Teams exclusively for our phone calls and the number that was set up for it was the number that was calling through Teams to verify that Teams was aloud to connect... I try to get things changed to my personal mobile (which would have been a far more sensible thing to set up in the first place....). So I had to go into the office at 7 this morning so that I could hook my PC up directly to the network so that Teams would trust me again to not need to call then go onto the ABB MS site to set up my number again then bring it all home again and setup everything so that I could start at 8:30. All stuff that could have been properly set up and avoided if on IT would talk to us and not just assume that they are smarter than us and know everything (they don't, the new guy came over to ask what power supply brick we needed for the "new" PCs... - hint: they are not laptops, and he was the one setting them up...)

Yes, exactly. This is why when buying a new car I always want something with a bit more go to it rather than something that is super economical. I am not a fast driver, been there and done all of that years ago, but I want to be able to put my foot down and get out of the way if I need to. It has saved me from getting run into more than a few times. It would be the same if I was on a bike. Have it and not need it vs need it and not have it sort of thing.

 

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