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Post by davidallum on Feb 26, 2024 8:13:53 GMT
Sorry to read about your mishaps Peter,hope you get better soon.
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Post by seniorpapermonitor on Feb 26, 2024 9:08:57 GMT
Peter, I don't know if this will help, BUT ... a few years back I developed a horrible dry hacking cough, which was bad to the extent that I snapped two ribs one evening from coughing. The pain (for several days - approaching a couple weeks I seem to recall) was excruciating at best and indescribable when I coughed. Local doctor said there was nothing to do about the ribs, but suggested getting a considerable supply of child's cough medicine in (not able to overdose on it) and take a slurp whenever I felt a cough building up. It was of considerable assistance to me over what was best part of two weeks living, including sleeping, in my chesterfield armchair.
I won't bore you with the ensuing drama of resulting fluid on the lungs, infection of same, draining and dose of shingles thrown in - was not a great month !
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Post by PB on Feb 26, 2024 10:16:07 GMT
Peter, I don't know if this will help, BUT ... a few years back I developed a horrible dry hacking cough, which was bad to the extent that I snapped two ribs one evening from coughing. The pain (for several days - approaching a couple weeks I seem to recall) was excruciating at best and indescribable when I coughed. Local doctor said there was nothing to do about the ribs, but suggested getting a considerable supply of child's cough medicine in (not able to overdose on it) and take a slurp whenever I felt a cough building up. It was of considerable assistance to me over what was best part of two weeks living, including sleeping, in my chesterfield armchair. I won't bore you with the ensuing drama of resulting fluid on the lungs, infection of same, draining and dose of shingles thrown in - was not a great month ! Wow, follow that!! I've slurped quantities of cough preparations, currently to no avail.. Ribs are currently intact, it's the face that smashed up now!!
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Post by Bert Visser on Mar 4, 2024 13:41:46 GMT
As they said in the film 'Life of Brian': "Blessed are the Big Noses!"
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Post by longshot44 on Mar 4, 2024 15:14:10 GMT
Whilst on the (tender?) subject of noses ( commiserations!)I'm surprised by the white area in front of the cockpit glazing on the BOAC & Nigerian Britannias in the header photo today....I thought the usual thing was a dark or matt black anti-reflection area as on the BOAC DC-7C in the photo
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Post by chevvron on Mar 13, 2024 10:46:53 GMT
Re 13 Mar I can remember our parents taking us on day visits by bus to 'London Airport' sometime about summer holidays 1952 to 1954. After a change of Greenline to red bus at Uxbridge we got to the north side where we then walked across the airfield to what was to become the Central Area; it was in the early stages of being built (as was the tunnel which literally cut 10L/28R in half as it was built by digging a huge trench) and was being used as the public viewing area; no permanent buildings just tents with 'joyriding' aircraft adjacent. The point is I clearly remember clearly seeing Ambassadors/Elizabethans taxying past us every few minutes. A couple of years later the Queens Building was up and running and the Ambassadors had been replaced by a continual stream of Viscounts.
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Post by seniorpapermonitor on Mar 13, 2024 10:57:04 GMT
G-APCY ... An aeroplane with which I have some deep affinity with (as my avatar suggests) and not just because it was the first airframe in which I became airborne
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Post by b170 on Apr 4, 2024 12:34:46 GMT
b 170
as peter is having a busy time in hospital it may do him good to see a few more likes when he does tomorrows photos of the day.i am as guilty as any one; bob carter.
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Post by PB on Apr 5, 2024 6:36:39 GMT
b 170 as peter is having a busy time in hospital it may do him good to see a few more likes when he does tomorrows photos of the day.i am as guilty as any one; bob carter. Well thanks Bob, I very much appreciate your comment. The worst part of yesterday is the waiting for results of the two MRI scans and also hoping my right eye returns to full service after the laser blast!! I guess "likes" are a bit minimal but the return I get is just being able to spread the word according to Blackbushe as we all look forward to the airfield's future developments.. Hope all is good with you and your wife.. As always Peter
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Post by chevvron on Apr 5, 2024 8:41:26 GMT
I found the MRI was particularly taxing because the top of the tube was only a couple of inches in front of my face, so I resolved to try to sleep but even that was denied to me because some female kept waking me up by saying 'breathe in; hold it; breathe out'. Afterwards I went to an ATM to draw some cash and discovered none of the 3 cards I had with me would work, the card could not be inserted although it could be use for a purchase in a shop. Apparently the magnetic field produced by the MRI machine, even though I had left the cards in a 'shielded' area, had wiped the information from the magnetic strip.
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