Search results for:

Am reading this at the moment after a few friends have recommended it. It's pretty good but I can't rave about it.

Read the Bonfire of the Vanities and the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test prior to picking up Flashman. Both were superb books.

It's your health man, call them up!

OK, thanks. The shoulder is doing well, I'm cycling a bit after all, but appreciate you making my life (and shoulder) easier!

Catlike Kompact Pro - it jas an adjustment 'wheel' at the back, much better than those clasp mechanisms IMO.

^ Ah Kris, great, I had actually forgotten about that...shall I bring the wheels to Wests??

Hmm, I'm not sure about where the loose part should be setting...our breaks are a bit different but I was a bit concerned about mine too until told that it was perfectly normal. Basically my 'loose part' is not back in line with the main part of the clavicle and has healed at an angle, so I have a small bump of bone sticking up (if you look back at my x-ray its basically healed like that). This is apparently totally normal as new bone forms where it is needed...sorry if thats not very clear.

However if I was you I would just try and get to the fracture clinic now, its much better to put your mind at rest, and if an op is needed better sooner than later. If there is any chance you could get a private doc to have a look at it (e.g. through a family member's insurance) that would be worth doing too.

Little update: its been almost exactly six weeks and I'm not wearing the sling any more. Well, I wear it on the train to stop people sitting next to me ;-) After 5 weeks I was really starting to feel the healing, and stopped wearing the sling around then. Bear in mind this is for a fracture at the distal end where healing is slower due to less blood supply.

Now I've been doing some physio for a couple of weeks, I cannot stress the importance of this enough! Get the theraband fired up soon as possible.

^ Was that the mad cruiser bike for sale recently
goes off to look at classifieds
should have known...

Tempted to hop on the Dutch bike again tonight. Who would have thought that a set of bright pink ourys and a bike that weighs more than Jupiter would generate so much attention? ;-)

After some troubled times on the forum recently, the ladies' sub-forum is, in my opinion, a really positive thing. Hope you all have fun here, makes lots of new friends and generally do cool stuff. Bye!

I have only just realised that you can check comments (i.e. "rep") received at the bottom of the User control panel. All this time I have been labouring under the false impression no one thought my intellectual cut and thrust was rep worthy. And revisiting the comments I have made and the ones I found funny have made me very happy. Peace.

it has alot of the features that eat up ram disabled on lower models. software designed for iphone 4 wont work anything else so thats bollocks.

i want an iphone 4, but im gonna do the geeky thing and wait til the price comes down, and the jailbreak community gets me free access to apps and modding the phone.

ios4 is fine on my 3G, OK its not super-fast but perfectly useable.

It's not geeky to wait for the prices to come down (geekier to queue overnight outside apple stores and all that jazz), but other than the 2nd hand market, which is a long way off for the iphone 4, I doubt the prices will come down much, if at all. thats how apple and its carriers roll - look at the 3GS, its still as expensive as it was!

Rest well and heal up dude

I was thinking that, what with the rather bold use of the word "PORN" in the title, this bike would be an absolute dog. It is, in fact, gorgeous.

^ Prison slang?
Thanks but a pink headset is a bit tooo racy

BC were out of stock...but were nice enough to hook me up with their suppliers...who were also out of stock...but they were nice enough to give me a few more online suggestions...and there's one on the way to me now! I love it when a plan comes together.

As a side note, Chris King have stopped making the white lettering headsets...it's sotto voce all the way from now on.

I'm still kinda chicken about it though. Do you smell it? Do you have to be conscious? What happens if you blink?

Pretty sure you're conscious for the op. But yeah, do they just rely on you to look in one direction? I am pretty sure I read about anaesthetic drops for the eyes, I wonder if these work to immobilise it.

Anyone know what the long term prognosis is like? As far as I understand it's a relatively new proceedure. How does it stand up over time? I mean do you have to have it done in another 10 years as your eyes naturally deteriorate? Also you do hear some scare stories of scaring affecting vision - is this bullshit put about by glasses manufacturers?

Also what is with the price? A while back I lived with a girl who had it done said it cost maybe £400 each eye. It seems a lot loss - did she perhaps fget it done on the cheap which might mean more dodgy/dangerous?

The procedure has actually been around since like the 60s or something...maybe earlier.

And as Velocio says there is a huge initial cost to recoup. Plus the equipment and training is still very expensive, staff costs blah blah. I am really thinking that a few grand for 20/20 vision for the rest of my life is really worth it, considering spending on contacts and glasses.

me too - literally last night was looking at these guys after recommendations from 2 guys at work that have nothing but good things to say. There's even a draw to win a free treatment!

http://uk.opticalexpress.com/

I was looking at that site recently too. Everyone seems very positive about the procedure these days and it looks like the technology and skillsets of the doctors has got to a stage where issues like halos around bright lights in darkness can be eliminated (at a cost), and mistakes...well, they must happen occasionally but can't say I've heard of much.

BC sold me one of these (silver Sotto Voce)recently. It was 'In Stock', no waiting. BC rules.

Cheers skullator - gonna call them now

It looks like it'll be quite a wait to get one of these online, so if anyone has one they are looking to sell drop me a line.

Ideally looking for a black headset (either normal white CK text or the 'sotto voce' style) but other colours considered.

Cheers.

Reading a thread on opticians/glasses made me want to ask about laser eye surgery...UTFS and here I am...anyone got any further input since last October? Am seriously thinking about getting this done.

yeah the vegetarian diet actually has been great.
It took a falter when I went round to my vegetarian girlfriends house, all ready to surprise her with the news i was a veggie too, when she pulled out a specially roasted (she'd worn surgical gloves!) Topside of beef with all the sides.
...

Ha, no way could you refuse a lovingly prepared topside...one last feast before the famine ;-)

I do not have the time to read the whole thread but would recommend to anyone trying to lose weight to move to a 'nutritionally balanced' (i.e. don't just eat loads of cheese instead) vegetarian diet (vegan, with the right nutritional balance, would be even better). I am not going to back this up with lots of info I found on the internet so do with this what you like.

Henry, I know you are now basically a vegetarian and this is a great move; combined with less booze you can't go wrong.

Do you have a picture of said frame?

'fraid not, best you google it. Ignore the haters who say his welds are sloppy.