Roast Grumpy Old Thread- 10k posts of whinging

[miss_kate18]

On Wednesday I had my regular achilles rehab appointment with the tendon specialist, who I was referred to by my regular local physio mid year. After a half hour of pain from electro shock therapy and re-strapping I went to pay, handing over my BUPA card first followed by my bank card to cover the gap. "Errrrrr you've reached the limit on your BUPA claims for the year unfortunately so you'll have to pay in full today, and for future weekly treatments this calendar year."

"F***ing what? How much?" I asked.

"$165 per appointment, not including the needling and injection additional costs."

GAGF!

I feel your pain. The chiropractor, whose services are fortunately covered up to a certain point by BUPA, referred me to a podiatrist. Podiatrist told me their services are not covered in any way by my health insurance. I've decided that it's cheaper to buy Nurofen in bulk than it is to get the orthotics I need.

 

[utility]

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/planning-and-projects/melbourne-road-projects/chandler-highway-kew
It's a pipe dream and the residents are already complaining

Seriously the government is full of corrupt scumbag campaigners. Can't put the bridge on their mates development site, prefer to knock down people's homes. Effin' scumbags.

Six lanes seems like overkill but would future proof from further bottlenecks.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Seriously the government is full of corrupt scumbag campaigners. Can't put the bridge on their mates development site, prefer to knock down people's homes. Effin' scumbags.

Six lanes seems like overkill but would future proof from further bottlenecks.

Self interest is what it's all about.

 

[utility]

More importantly, did you work out a timeframe for you to ween off your dummy?

When our season kicks off next year. :grumpy look

 

[utility]

Or the flog who drives 10-20 below the speed limit but upon seeing an orange light, floors it, just making it through and leaving you stuck at the red.

If I have some hoon behind me I tap the breaks so they slow down, speed through the orange light, and leave them sitting at the red light.

 

[Horace]

I Learnt a lot about you today Gaso.

I can call you Gaso right?

Well I do. And he hasn't told me to stop yet. Mind you he knows i'm one of the older Grumpy Olds.

 

[see see]

When our season kicks off next year. :grumpy look

I reckon that it'd be prudent for you to hang onto it until after round one. History tells us that it will most likely come in handy.

 

[Horace]

I feel your pain. The chiropractor, whose services are fortunately covered up to a certain point by BUPA, referred me to a podiatrist. Podiatrist told me their services are not covered in any way by my health insurance. I've decided that it's cheaper to buy Nurofen in bulk than it is to get the orthotics I need.

Hmmm. In the short term maybe that is a solution but I would be a bit wary of using nurofen on an ongoing basis Miss Kate.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1346254/Ibuprofen-trebles-risk-stroke-doctors-warn.html

Disclaimer. I have been seeing Chiropractors for over 30 years for the ongoing treatment of a damaged disc in my back after jumping onto amd badly mistiming a moving trailer. I walked around with a very painful right hamstring for two years until I went to a Chiro. Nothing can be done about repairing the damaged disc but since then my back and right hamstring have been very well managed. I hardly ever take any painkillers, perhaps at worst twice a year.

Disclaimer 2. Ms Horace will be starting work as a Chiropractor in April next year at the Practice we go to in North Melbourne, assuming she stops gallivanting around the world and realises there comes a rime when she needs to work for a living (well she does now at several part time jobs but will make a lot more money as a Chiropractor hopefully).

 

[miss_kate18]

Hmmm. In the short term maybe that is a solution but I would be a bit wary of using nurofen on an ongoing basis Miss Kate.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1346254/Ibuprofen-trebles-risk-stroke-doctors-warn.html

Disclaimer. I have been seeing Chiropractors for over 30 years for the ongoing treatment of a damaged disc in my back after jumping onto amd badly mistiming a moving trailer. I walked around with a very painful right hamstring for two years until I went to a Chiro. Nothing can be done about repairing the damaged disc but since then my back and right hamstring have been very well managed. I hardly ever take any painkillers, perhaps at worst twice a year.

Disclaimer 2. Ms Horace will be starting work as a Chiropractor in April next year at the Practice we go to in North Melbourne, assuming she stops gallivanting around the world and realises there comes a rime when she needs to work for a living (well she does now at several part time jobs but will make a lot more money as a Chiropractor hopefully).

Thanks Horace. Definitely a short term solution - I now see the chiropractor once every eight weeks (down from three times a week) and off the medication most days. I have scoliosis (which I understand) and retrolisthesis (which I don't) and all I really know is now, I have to do daily exercises and can't really lift anything heavy above my head ever in case my vertebrae slip further out of place.

 

[Horace]

Thanks Horace. Definitely a short term solution - I now see the chiropractor once every eight weeks (down from three times a week) and off the medication most days. I have scoliosis (which I understand) and retrolisthesis (which I don't) and all I really know is now, I have to do daily exercises and can't really lift anything heavy above my head ever in case my vertebrae slip further out of place.

Sorry to read that Miss Kate. More that quite a bit to deal with there. One of Ms Horace's primary school friends has scoliosis and that was and still is very debilitating for her. She had to use a wheeled bag as a school bag to avoid further damage to her spine.

Ms Horace has told me that retrolisthesis; and I hope I am explaining this correctly; is where part of the spine is displaced backwards from the rest of the spine. I really sympathise with you reading that. Understandable the Nurofen. You are doing really well seeing the Chiropractor only once every 8 weeks.

 

[miss_kate18]

Sorry to read that Miss Kate. More that quite a bit to deal with there. One of Ms Horace's primary school friends has scoliosis and that was and still is very debilitating for her. She had to use a wheeled bag as a school bag to avoid further damage to her spine.

Ms Horace has told me that retrolisthesis; and I hope I am explaining this correctly; is where part of the spine is displaced backwards from the rest of the spine. I really sympathise with you reading that. Understandable the Nurofen. You are doing really well seeing the Chiropractor only once every 8 weeks.

That makes sense - they told me that two of the vertebrae in my neck have started to slip out of alignment and that if I keep up the exercises and be careful lifting, I should be able to avoid surgery.

 

[Gasometer]

Buying anything second hand, thinking it looks okay and ready to go, purchase, and then you start to discover all the little things...

Talking mostly about cars and ******* H O M E S.

 

[miss_kate18]

Buying anything second hand, thinking it looks okay and ready to go, purchase, and then you start to discover all the little things...

Talking mostly about cars and ******* H O M E S.

My last second-hand car, I bought from a car yard with the assurance that it was roadworthy.

It started slowing down for no reason so I brought it in for a service. They gave me a call and referred to me as 'Mr so-and-so' and started telling me that if I'd fixed the problem "when we told you to" the car wouldn't be stuffed. Turns out the previous owner had used the same service place, had discovered fifty million things wrong with the car including stuffed suspension and a fuel leak, and had just sold it to the second hand dealer in a barely roadworthy condition. They then told me there was nothing wrong with it.

I now drive a 2013 Mazda 2, bought last year with about 200km on it, and absolutely love not having to get it serviced every three months or worrying about it doing strange things in the middle of a freeway.

 

[Gasometer]

My last second-hand car, I bought from a car yard with the assurance that it was roadworthy.

It started slowing down for no reason so I brought it in for a service. They gave me a call and referred to me as 'Mr so-and-so' and started telling me that if I'd fixed the problem "when we told you to" the car wouldn't be stuffed. Turns out the previous owner had used the same service place, had discovered fifty million things wrong with the car including stuffed suspension and a fuel leak, and had just sold it to the second hand dealer in a barely roadworthy condition. They then told me there was nothing wrong with it.

I now drive a 2013 Mazda 2, bought last year with about 200km on it, and absolutely love not having to get it serviced every three months or worrying about it doing strange things in the middle of a freeway.

I believe that the only time you actually notice anything about the exterior of a car is when you hand wash it for the first time....

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

I pay for my own presents and have to fork out for presents for others. Damnit.

 

[rippersnipper]

I well remember them BT. They also love overtaking around blind bends on A routes with no clue what's heading their way.

In Malta a guy left his up for sale car parked in the inner lane of a major round about.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Thanks Horace. Definitely a short term solution - I now see the chiropractor once every eight weeks (down from three times a week) and off the medication most days. I have scoliosis (which I understand) and retrolisthesis (which I don't) and all I really know is now, I have to do daily exercises and can't really lift anything heavy above my head ever in case my vertebrae slip further out of place.

Retrolisthesis is the opposite of spondylolisthesis.

Retrolisthesis is when a vertebrae & associated disc is posteriorly displaced. That is, if you were facing forwards, retrolisthesis of, for instance, C3 & C4, would mean that C3 was slightly displaced backwards on top of C4. So if you're facing east, your C3 has displaced west, over C4.

I'm bad at explaining things.

 

[Horace]

Retrolisthesis is the opposite of spondylolisthesis.

Retrolisthesis is when a vertebrae & associated disc is posteriorly displaced. That is, if you were facing forwards, retrolisthesis of, for instance, C3 & C4, would mean that C3 was slightly displaced backwards on top of C4. So if you're facing east, your C3 has displaced west, over C4.

I'm bad at explaining things.

That's right FG. Which is basically as I explained in an earlier reply.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Retrolisthesis is the opposite of spondylolisthesis.

Retrolisthesis is when a vertebrae & associated disc is posteriorly displaced. That is, if you were facing forwards, retrolisthesis of, for instance, C3 & C4, would mean that C3 was slightly displaced backwards on top of C4. So if you're facing east, your C3 has displaced west, over C4.

I'm bad at explaining things.

All I know is that whatever you were trying to say the mere mention of disc displacements sent this grumpy old man, who has had to manage a bulged disc between L3 and L4 for the past 30 years, into a cold sweat.

 

[KiwiRoo]

Sympathies to anyone with dodgy backs, knees or shoulders etc !
It makes you wish you didn't take it for granted when you were a whipper snapper

 

[KiwiRoo]

(Used to have fun dressing him in band t-shirts when he was a toddler. Sent him off to his first day of creche in a Slayer t-shirt.)[/QUOTE]

be interested to know what you used to play him to get him to sleep when he was a baby TOD !

 

[Gasometer]

Sympathies to anyone with dodgy backs, knees or shoulders etc !
It makes you wish you didn't take it for granted when you were a whipper snapper

I saw a young teen running to catch a taxi on the weekend. He wasn't even breathing at 100m and was going full belt. I reckon i could get the breathing ok...its all the other things that would let me down let alone the pain the following day. Hence i ride a bike...wear bike shorts and jersey if warm enough but dont visit cafes which makes me 80%...

Poser.

 

[KiwiRoo]

I saw a young teen running to catch a taxi on the weekend. He wasn't even breathing at 100m and was going full belt. I reckon i could get the breathing ok...its all the other things that would let me down let alone the pain the following day. Hence i ride a bike...wear bike shorts and jersey if warm enough but dont visit cafes which makes me 80%...

Poser.

if he was a young teen he would have been running from a taxi Gaso....

 

[miss_kate18]

Sympathies to anyone with dodgy backs, knees or shoulders etc !
It makes you wish you didn't take it for granted when you were a whipper snapper

I know. When I have a day without some form of back pain I'm genuinely surprised. And I'm only 27!

 

[Gasometer]

Dat Charlie Sheen is a crazy Old...reading the dribs and drabs this past week of his life is just 'really? Gagf....really. ...gagf....really?'