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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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