Tag: hospital
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Even when you're not remotely ready to think about Christmas yet and yet it keeps getting closer every second.
Even when the house is an absolute shambles and trying to rectify that is one step forward/one step sideways/three steps back/now put your hands on your hips and wait, what was I supposed to be tidying again?
Even when the electricity keeps yo-yoing every few minutes as the country continues to be battered by a storm.
Even when you spent most of the evening in the hospital with your injured child and then most of the night habitually getting up just to reassure yourself he's still breathing (he's fine, by the way!).
Even then, there's still the comfort of a bacon sarnie for breakfast. 😋
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Brioche bun loaded with thick cut bacon rashers, plated, on a wooden surface.
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In good news, my injured arm is not broken and should recover within a couple of weeks.
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Dan, wearing a sling, stands near the reception of a Minor Injuries Unit.
In amusing news, the doctor who treated me recognised me from (tales of) my electric shock admission earlier in the year, even though she never treated me on that ocassion.
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Zap
This week, a live-to-earth fault on the grid resulted in me getting zapped with mains electricity. Unfortunately, it didn't give me superpowers, just a mildly-interesting anecdote and a partially-shaved chest.
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There is a car
Sayed A Tabatabai writes a very short story about a car abandoned in a hospital car park.
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That way they would never know
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Some 702 intimate examinations were done on sedated or anaesthetised patients (table 3). In only 24% of these examinations had written consent been obtained, and a further 24% of examinations were conducted apparently without written or oral consent.
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Coldicott, Yvette; Pope, Catherine; Roberts, Clive (BMJ)
This 2003 study at an "English medical school" determined that … -
Into the Lair of the Bladder Monster
Following his recent illness, Dan undergoes a variety of investigative procedures, including having a fibreoptic bundle inserted into bladder... via his penis!
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The Bladder Monster
Complications associated with a series of urinary tract infections cause Dan a stay in the hospital and a long battle with the bladder monster. Eww.
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Calculating Pi (when you're ill)
Dan's stuck in bed while he recovers following a medical issue. But while his body's recovering, he's been occupying his brain by writing software to visually approximate the digits of pi!
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Guess where I woke up this morning, MegaMasons?
So yeah: that's not entirely pleasant. A couple of days ago I was diagnosed with what was supposed to be a minor bladder infection and given antibiotics. Then yesterday I became feverish and collapsed. And now I'm in hospital.
But on the upside, they've spent all night pumping me full of some kind of … -
"Uncle Dan"
Dan reflects briefly on the birth of "tiny", and the crazy week that's come since, along with some adorable photos of the little rascal.
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The Snip, Part 2
Dan is rendered sterile, and takes a picture of the removed parts of his vas deferens to share with you, along with his write-up of the entire procedure. Aren't you lucky.
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The Snip, Part 1
It's been a long time coming, but next week, after years of promising, Dan is finally going to put his genitals where his mouth is and get himself a vasectomy. Here's why...
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Hospitals
My Gran's been taken into hospital: we could've seen that coming when we visited while up that end of the country for my cousin's wedding. She'd protested about the possibility of being admitted then, stating that "she'd been in hospital three times before and they hadn't managed to kill her yet," which is an interesting …