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Squishy skin

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

2-3 weeks ago my right ankle / achilles area swelled significantly - walking was painful. Couple of very large blisters, lots of weeping from it, took several days to subside. Cause unknown. About 5 days ago the left side of my left hand swelled up (I could not see my knuckles) and began weeping. It [...]

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Piercing and the clueless BBC

Friday, June 13, 2008

And here we have the “It’s a slow day so let’s recycle some inaccurate and blatantly wrong junk”
Problems over botched body piercings could be a “substantial burden”
Define ’substantial’. And if you want a ‘burden’ look at tobacco, alcohol, hospital acquired infections to name but 3. In fact if you want the biggest burden it’s [...]

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Pottering

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Just an infinite list of little jobs, which can be done in any order, and which you can tackle secure in the knowledge that you would never manage to reach the end of the list so there’s no point stressing about it.
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Smoke-free Rampton?

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

High Court judges have ruled psychiatric patients should not be allowed to smoke at a high security mental hospital.
“There is very strong evidence that smoking causes disease and endangers the health of the smokers themselves and other people who live and work in their vicinity. BBC
You can’t argue with the danger to others, but:
The judge [...]

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one or two not both

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

I’ve not been feeling well for a while and chest pain was the main part of it. Last night it got worse, my pulse really slowed (which was weird) and I felt rough. So today I go the doc. He looks at two sets of tablets I’m taking and tells me that I shouldn’t [...]

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