A Glorious Week Of Good Weather

Hylander · June 2, 2021

Whoever opted for this week for their holiday on the Broads, well it could not get any better if you had gone abroad. What glorious weather we are having. Good for the soul even if you are not on the rivers.

Cal · June 2, 2021

Some of us are having to work through this glorious weather :default_sad:

Smoggy · June 2, 2021

I can see the glorious weather through an obscured workshop window, shut up will you. :default_biggrin:

That said the bank holiday was great and now I need to hide a bit till the red bits subside.

If you are lucky enough to be on a boat remember the uv comes from below as well on the water so you get twice as much.

Cal · June 2, 2021

8 minutes ago, Smoggy said:

I can see the glorious weather through an obscured workshop window, shut up will you.

That said the bank holiday was great and now I need to hide a bit till the red bits subside.

If you are lucky enough to be on a boat remember the uv comes from below as well on the water so you get twice as much.

That's reminded me of the first proper holiday we had on our old boat Naughty-Cal. It was a glorious sunny week and on the first day I sat up front on the bow with my bare feet dangling over the edge. An hour or so later the bottoms of my first were completely sun burnt :default_blink:

Had a couple of very uncomfortable days trying to walk on them before the burning subsided.

Lesson learned though. I never did it again!!

Hylander · June 2, 2021

Well I have to say that having done my bit of working from 15 to 65 I think I deserve to be enjoying the sun in the garden and am doing just that when I can. I know what it is to sit in a sweaty office , literally dripping from it being so hot while Management had air conditioned rooms and kept their doors firmly shut so as to not let any cold any reach where we were. Saying that there are those who would be more than pleased to be working at this moment. I was really thinking of all those lucky souls who are on the rivers. Just a tad envious. Your day will come when you retire and it is not all beer and skittles I can tell you. Just as you get to retirement everything seems to go wrong with you , what do they say, the mind is willing but the body is weak. We make the most of the good days.

Just enjoy it. Now where did I put that tin of Raid?

ChrisB · June 2, 2021

1 hour ago, Smoggy said:

I can see the glorious weather through an obscured workshop window, shut up will you.

That said the bank holiday was great and now I need to hide a bit till the red bits subside.

If you are lucky enough to be on a boat remember the uv comes from below as well on the water so you get twice as much.

1 hour ago, Cal said:

That's reminded me of the first proper holiday we had on our old boat Naughty-Cal. It was a glorious sunny week and on the first day I sat up front on the bow with my bare feet dangling over the edge. An hour or so later the bottoms of my first were completely sun burnt

Had a couple of very uncomfortable days trying to walk on them before the burning subsided.

Lesson learned though. I never did it again!!

Very Wise. Having spent all summer sailing, when I was alot younger, I would play squash to keep fit in winter. Look at the colour of my skin in Mid-Winter in this old photo from the 80s.

I am now 72 and have non- melonoma skin cancer. No wonder! Protect yourselves.

webntweb · June 2, 2021

My Bank Holiday weekend didn't go quit as planned as I spent Sunday and Monday in a cardio ward.

Sunday lunch son and family came round for a barbecue - first one in almost 12 months. Fortunately we have a large back garden so distancing isn't a problem.

Thursday I had had a replacement pacemaker and the doctors in their wisdom changed my heart tablet from Digoxin to a beta blocker – I have had heart block, now have AF and a lot more than my share of ectopic heartbeats.

Friday I took the first tablet and was fine, Saturday about an hour after the tablet I started to feel more breathless than normal, Sunday I couldn't walk upstairs without having to stop at the top and rest for a few minutes.

There wasn't any answer from the nurse specialists at the hospital so I phoned 111 just to try and get some advice from a doctor about either lowering the dose or coming off the tablet - didn't want to make the decision myself in the off chance there was a problem with the new pacemaker.

I know there is a checklist system for 111 operators and with my symptoms the only option was for them to send a paramedic. When they arrived they found my heart rate was reading mid thirties and an ECG didn't look too good to them. I explained to them that a pacemaker combined with my type of heart condition can give totally wrong (usually low) pulse readings – I almost always get a low pulse reading on BP machines, finger Oximeters and fitness watches. They couldn't take a manual pulse reading because at present they can't take their gloves off.

Anyway after a couple of days in a cardio ward, three lots of heart scans plus permanent connection to an ECG they decided the problem must be the beta blocker, so have put me back on a Calcium Antagonist tablet which they took me off last year after I had been on it for almost twenty years.

Only second day on that tablet so a little too early to see if it does the job, but I was really glad to be sat out in the sunshine yesterday and am doing the same today - grandchildren are coming for the delayed barbecue after school.

Yes, I am jealous of all those on the Broads but enjoy yourselves anyway.

Hylander · June 2, 2021

2 hours ago, webntweb said:

My Bank Holiday weekend didn't go quit as planned as I spent Sunday and Monday in a cardio ward.

Sunday lunch son and family came round for a barbecue - first one in almost 12 months. Fortunately we have a large back garden so distancing isn't a problem.

Thursday I had had a replacement pacemaker and the doctors in their wisdom changed my heart tablet from Digoxin to a beta blocker – I have had heart block, now have AF and a lot more than my share of ectopic heartbeats.

Friday I took the first tablet and was fine, Saturday about an hour after the tablet I started to feel more breathless than normal, Sunday I couldn't walk upstairs without having to stop at the top and rest for a few minutes.

There wasn't any answer from the nurse specialists at the hospital so I phoned 111 just to try and get some advice from a doctor about either lowering the dose or coming off the tablet - didn't want to make the decision myself in the off chance there was a problem with the new pacemaker.

I know there is a checklist system for 111 operators and with my symptoms the only option was for them to send a paramedic. When they arrived they found my heart rate was reading mid thirties and an ECG didn't look too good to them. I explained to them that a pacemaker combined with my type of heart condition can give totally wrong (usually low) pulse readings – I almost always get a low pulse reading on BP machines, finger Oximeters and fitness watches. They couldn't take a manual pulse reading because at present they can't take their gloves off.

Anyway after a couple of days in a cardio ward, three lots of heart scans plus permanent connection to an ECG they decided the problem must be the beta blocker, so have put me back on a Calcium Antagonist tablet which they took me off last year after I had been on it for almost twenty years.

Only second day on that tablet so a little too early to see if it does the job, but I was really glad to be sat out in the sunshine yesterday and am doing the same today - grandchildren are coming for the delayed barbecue after school.

Yes, I am jealous of all those on the Broads but enjoy yourselves anyway.

Oh I do sympathise. Changing tablets seems to be something these doctors do without looking into your medical records very closely. Not as serious as yourself but in 2015 I was admitted to James Paget and put on a drip for a week and it was concluded that a tablet that I had been put on was causing all of the problems. Just recently my doctor changed my pills , and not being a medical person myself , I did not realise that these pills were the same as the ones that knocked me completely off of my feet. It takes a lot to do that but these literally did me in. I could feel that I was going the same so stopped taking them. On looking at my medical records on line that you can do now, there was no mention of what had happened in 2015 , no warning about these pills. I have written to the doctors practice and informed them of the fact that my records are not correct. I asked for a reply in writing, as of today I have not received a response. However, looking at the records I see there are additions that did not use to be there. I use something called System on Line that is run by the surgery. Have you got something similar?

ranworthbreeze · June 2, 2021

2 hours ago, webntweb said:

My Bank Holiday weekend didn't go quit as planned as I spent Sunday and Monday in a cardio ward.

Sunday lunch son and family came round for a barbecue - first one in almost 12 months. Fortunately we have a large back garden so distancing isn't a problem.

Thursday I had had a replacement pacemaker and the doctors in their wisdom changed my heart tablet from Digoxin to a beta blocker – I have had heart block, now have AF and a lot more than my share of ectopic heartbeats.

Friday I took the first tablet and was fine, Saturday about an hour after the tablet I started to feel more breathless than normal, Sunday I couldn't walk upstairs without having to stop at the top and rest for a few minutes.

There wasn't any answer from the nurse specialists at the hospital so I phoned 111 just to try and get some advice from a doctor about either lowering the dose or coming off the tablet - didn't want to make the decision myself in the off chance there was a problem with the new pacemaker.

I know there is a checklist system for 111 operators and with my symptoms the only option was for them to send a paramedic. When they arrived they found my heart rate was reading mid thirties and an ECG didn't look too good to them. I explained to them that a pacemaker combined with my type of heart condition can give totally wrong (usually low) pulse readings – I almost always get a low pulse reading on BP machines, finger Oximeters and fitness watches. They couldn't take a manual pulse reading because at present they can't take their gloves off.

Anyway after a couple of days in a cardio ward, three lots of heart scans plus permanent connection to an ECG they decided the problem must be the beta blocker, so have put me back on a Calcium Antagonist tablet which they took me off last year after I had been on it for almost twenty years.

Only second day on that tablet so a little too early to see if it does the job, but I was really glad to be sat out in the sunshine yesterday and am doing the same today - grandchildren are coming for the delayed barbecue after school.

Yes, I am jealous of all those on the Broads but enjoy yourselves anyway.

Hello Roy a friend of mine had a pacemaker fitted a few years ago and has had issues since with AF, feeling nocuous, dizzy so much so that he has days in bed. During one of his last spells in hospital he was seen by a consultant he should have seen over a year ago but was transferred to a cardio ward. On seeing this consultant it would appear that his condition is related to crystals in his inner ears. Since new medication he has had an improved condition, it is a pity his GP and other consultants could not have been more proactive over the last four or five years.

I hope your condition improves soon.

Regards

Alan

BroadAmbition · June 2, 2021

Some of us are having to work through this glorious weather

We had a glorious wx weekend onboard 'B.A' and I've not done too bad this week, off Monday and Tuesday so only a three day week from today. Plus off clay shooting in ten minutes for a couple of hours :default_beerchug: :default_2gunsfiring_v1:

Griff

webntweb · June 2, 2021

5 hours ago, Hylander said:

Oh I do sympathise. Changing tablets seems to be something these doctors do without looking into your medical records very closely. Not as serious as yourself but in 2015 I was admitted to James Paget and put on a drip for a week and it was concluded that a tablet that I had been put on was causing all of the problems. Just recently my doctor changed my pills , and not being a medical person myself , I did not realise that these pills were the same as the ones that knocked me completely off of my feet. It takes a lot to do that but these literally did me in. I could feel that I was going the same so stopped taking them. On looking at my medical records on line that you can do now, there was no mention of what had happened in 2015 , no warning about these pills. I have written to the doctors practice and informed them of the fact that my records are not correct. I asked for a reply in writing, as of today I have not received a response. However, looking at the records I see there are additions that did not use to be there. I use something called System on Line that is run by the surgery. Have you got something similar?

We do have access to some very basic GP records but I believe I can access all my records if I pay. Probably worth looking into to make sure this tablet is flagged up.

webntweb · June 2, 2021

5 hours ago, ranworthbreeze said:

Hello Roy a friend of mine had a pacemaker fitted a few years ago and has had issues since with AF, feeling nocuous, dizzy so much so that he has days in bed. During one of his last spells in hospital he was seen by a consultant he should have seen over a year ago but was transferred to a cardio ward. On seeing this consultant it would appear that his condition is related to crystals in his inner ears. Since new medication he has had an improved condition, it is a pity his GP and other consultants could not have been more proactive over the last four or five years.

I hope your condition improves soon.

Regards

Alan

Thanks Alan, mine was a replacement pacemaker fitted to the same wires and appears to be working OK. I should have had a cardio follow up after a rubidium scan last May but it never happened. I'll make sure I chase them up for a follow up this time.

As an aside I had to have the pacemaker replacement without sedation as I have sleep apnoea. Obviously I felt the local needles going in but he gave me some more anaesthetic when I flinched as he used the scalpel. Being fully awake it was quite interesting to hear the surgeon instructing a junior doctor as he worked on me - definitely not as dramatic as Holby though.