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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18180 on: May 28, 2018, 10:26:42 AM »
With those recommendations it seems like a better get to the library right quick!  ;D
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18181 on: May 29, 2018, 02:36:41 AM »
The lilacs here bloomed about two weeks ago and it makes me Very Annoyed every year because they're always just finished up right before the 25th :/
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18182 on: May 29, 2018, 06:01:21 PM »
I came back from my camping/primitive skills meetup to flowers blooming (not lilacs though) and mulberries ripening outside (I didn't know there was a mulberry tree at my new place. surprise!). Partly looking forward to tasty snack, partly dreading the purple bird crap that will definitely be covering my car in the near future...
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18183 on: May 29, 2018, 09:11:44 PM »
A friend of mine once had a grey car in which she was rear-ended three times. She painted the car yellow, and never had that problem again, though the car itself lasted about six or seven more years.
Now, purple bird crap is probably not sufficient reason to paint one's car purple, but... the option is out there....

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18184 on: May 30, 2018, 11:09:59 PM »
yes  :)) it is an option

I will probably be getting a new car at some point soonish so it may not be worth it  :V money might be better spent on regular carwashes. Or just parking down the street.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18185 on: May 31, 2018, 11:30:29 AM »
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18186 on: May 31, 2018, 09:46:06 PM »
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18187 on: June 01, 2018, 09:53:50 AM »
Adding an update in case anyone wondered where I was: I came down to Meadows on Sunday to do some mead-brewing workshops, and was then heading down to Victor Harbour to do some nature walks, foraging and more brewing workshops. Partway through the journey I came down with a sudden and severe earache, with symptoms sufficiently alarming that the person driving me diverted to the South Coast Hospital, who diagnosed an ear infection which had suddenly spread into the bone of the skull. Apparently this can be life-threatening and they had no ear specialist at the hospital, so they sent me by ambulance to Flinders Medical Centre, where I had no desire to go , having known many people whose experiences there had been bad. The infection was an unusual thing for me, normally I am quite hardy.

So Flinders is the worst hospital in which I have ever been, says the person who has been in hospitals in Nepal, Borneo, New Guinea and Central Australia. Never again if I can help it. The place was dirty, cold, serves the extruded bland pap variety of hospital food, and the beds were gritty and contained some kind of biting insect. While I was out of my room being treated someone rifled through my stuff and emptied my purse.  I spent a couple of days on intravenous antibiotics and heavy painkillers, cold, dirty and in pain. Finally was discharged into the care of a friend who lives at Victor Harbour, where at present I am lying in a warm clean bed in a quiet room with a view of her garden and the charming company of a kitten and her small grandchildren. I have oral medications and a warm place to recover for a few days before she drives me home. She just fed me a bowl of homemade pumpkin soup with lots of chopped parsley, and berries from her garden. Much better than the hospital food! So I will probably be about the Forum more for a few days while I lie in bed and recover enough to go home. At least there is a friend back home who will look out for husband until I return!
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18188 on: June 01, 2018, 10:19:44 AM »
Róisín, oh my goodness. That's just nasty. It sounds like you're now in a very nice place at your friends. I wish you a speedy recovery and I'll add you to my prayers.

I'm lucky in that the 3 hospitals I've been dealing with are very professional and well maintained. But I can see given the nature of institutions like that it would be very easy for them to degenerate into a less than desirable place to recover. Not that recovering in a hospital is all that great even when they are nice. Do take care.   
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18189 on: June 01, 2018, 02:32:57 PM »
Ah, get well soon, Rósín! That sounds like a terrible time in the hospital, but at least you're with friends now
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18190 on: June 01, 2018, 09:07:31 PM »
Adding an update in case anyone wondered where I was: I came down to Meadows on Sunday to do some mead-brewing workshops, and was then heading down to Victor Harbour to do some nature walks, foraging and more brewing workshops. Partway through the journey I came down with a sudden and severe earache, with symptoms sufficiently alarming that the person driving me diverted to the South Coast Hospital, who diagnosed an ear infection which had suddenly spread into the bone of the skull. Apparently this can be life-threatening and they had no ear specialist at the hospital, so they sent me by ambulance to Flinders Medical Centre, where I had no desire to go , having known many people whose experiences there had been bad. The infection was an unusual thing for me, normally I am quite hardy.

So Flinders is the worst hospital in which I have ever been, says the person who has been in hospitals in Nepal, Borneo, New Guinea and Central Australia. Never again if I can help it. The place was dirty, cold, serves the extruded bland pap variety of hospital food, and the beds were gritty and contained some kind of biting insect. While I was out of my room being treated someone rifled through my stuff and emptied my purse.  I spent a couple of days on intravenous antibiotics and heavy painkillers, cold, dirty and in pain. Finally was discharged into the care of a friend who lives at Victor Harbour, where at present I am lying in a warm clean bed in a quiet room with a view of her garden and the charming company of a kitten and her small grandchildren. I have oral medications and a warm place to recover for a few days before she drives me home. She just fed me a bowl of homemade pumpkin soup with lots of chopped parsley, and berries from her garden. Much better than the hospital food! So I will probably be about the Forum more for a few days while I lie in bed and recover enough to go home. At least there is a friend back home who will look out for husband until I return!

Whaaaaat?  How does this happen, what Dickensian squalour!  I'm glad to hear that you're recovering.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18191 on: June 01, 2018, 09:41:23 PM »
Róisín, very glad that you are recovering; and that you're now safe in a clean bed with kitten. Also good soup and good friend and children!

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18192 on: June 02, 2018, 01:57:23 AM »
Get well, Róisín.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18193 on: June 02, 2018, 06:56:26 AM »
Thank you for kind thoughts all. I still feel like death not very well warmed over, but am in less agonising pain than I was. 'Dickensian squalour' is a pretty good description of Flinders. It's not what I expect in a modern hospital. If I wind up hospitalised further I hope it will be either at Mount Pleasant where I live, a nice bush hospital, or Stirling where I normally go for anything serious, which is a clean competent modern hospital where I am known. Anywhere but Flinders Medical Centre, please!
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #18194 on: June 02, 2018, 08:34:07 AM »
Best wishes for a quick recovery Roisin. Every area has that one horror story hospital that does as much harm as good. I'm glad you survived.
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