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Post by PB on Apr 5, 2024 18:54:18 GMT
Having two MRI's consecutively was an interesting experience! The 40 minutes of humming, buzzing, hammering whilst lying totally flat and unable to move did seem quite long. The tiny visor you are given slid down over my head and for all the world I could have been wearing a space helmet aboard some future craft heading into deep space, Captain, Buck Rogers, who knows, but letting the imagination flow helped pass the time. My nose developed an intense itch, frustrating as I could not scratch it, my hands and arms were somewhere out of commission... Another thought while in 'transit' aboard the MRI projectile was that some invisible force is probing the content of my brain, neck and down the spine. What it finds remains an interesting question... I travelled light, pockets were empty, nothing was wiped -even my memory still works"!
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Post by rocky14 on Apr 6, 2024 10:29:10 GMT
The recent 1959 pics are brilliant. I was 9 years old at the time, Doctor Who hadn't aired it's first episode (23 November 1963),nurse Carol Young (Jill Browne) was comforting patients in iron lungs from 1957, the nearest we got to a MRI was the TARDIS. Where have the years gone? I'll let you know last week!
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Post by chevvron on Apr 6, 2024 11:01:38 GMT
I remember the lovely nurse Carol Young in Emergency Ward 10; pity the idiots at ITV decided to change to a one hour a week format instead of two half hour episodes; it killed the continuity as it was mostly transmitted live rather than recorded. My next medical procedure is projected to be an 'Echo' cardiogram ie a cardio using ultra sound; you're laid on a bed and have to stay absolutely still for about 20 min but not enclosed while they pass the scanner over you.
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Post by rocky14 on Apr 6, 2024 11:43:32 GMT
Well discerned chevvron, our 'simple'lives back in those austere days were probbably oblivious to us kids!
Medical technology has advanced rapidly since then. In a few generations we will be able to shed our skin, renew our organs and do a proper job overpopulating the planet. Fascinating stuff, but the opportunity costs are huge. Good luck to you and Peter with the scan results, I am certain you will both pass with flying colours.
To infinity and beyond....!
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Post by PB on Apr 7, 2024 6:43:24 GMT
Thanks Rocky, the wonders of modern science never cease to amaze. Strange how on the same planet we continue to bomb, murder, and destroy innocent lives on a world that is a true gift from the gods. Life is so precious to each of us but still we are unable to live as one.
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Post by rocky14 on Apr 25, 2024 10:06:21 GMT
Talking of bad weather; I arrived in Tenerife yesterday morning - a 07.30 Gatwick flight. The temperature at Gatwick very low; in Tenerife 26c. Las Canarias has had several demos in regard tourism escalating house prices, draining precious water resources - little rain over the previous few months - and marring the fragile ecosystem. Thirty five percent of their GDP is from Tourism! I continue to ponder how to reconcile avarice and common sense.
As a kid I often visited Fairoaks; as an older 'kid' I often landed there. The intent to rid a hangar of its rightful purpose, at the flick of a switch, is lamentable.
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Post by chevvron on Apr 25, 2024 12:44:51 GMT
Talking of bad weather; I arrived in Tenerife yesterday morning - a 07.30 Gatwick flight. The temperature at Gatwick very low; in Tenerife 26c. Las Canarias has had several demos in regard tourism escalating house prices, draining precious water resources - little rain over the previous few months - and marring the fragile ecosystem. Thirty five percent of their GDP is from Tourism! I continue to ponder how to reconcile avarice and common sense. As a kid I often visited Fairoaks; as an older 'kid' I often landed there. The intent to rid a hangar of its rightful purpose, at the flick of a switch, is lamentable. Yet nearby Lanzarote manages with no significant rainfall and no groundwater although you are asked not to waste water; a lot of water in Lanzarote is produced by de-salination plants. The main hangars at Fairoaks have been closed for aircraft use for about 2 years although the Starspeed hangar on the western boundary is still in use and there have been recent moves to build another helicopter hangar opposite Starspeed. The owners of the hangar area to the north of Fairoaks are intent on building yet another 'film studio' to add to the ones at Longcross about 2 miles away and further north at Bovingdon (another airfield which used to have similar status to Blackbushe). Why I wonder does the country need all these film studios? By the way if anyone does visit Fairoaks you will find that the original 1930s control tower has also been denied to the operator by the owner and a 'new' tower has been erected adjacent to Taxiway 'B'.
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Post by alanjohnlew on Apr 26, 2024 11:52:20 GMT
Mine was signature 5400.
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