The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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I managed to give myself a fat lip while shooing a mosquito away from my face. I heard the buzzing and flapped my hand in the air...and *whap*, my thumbnail goes right into my lower lip. Took a while for the bleeding to stop. :ohmy: Now I look like I was abused by my hubby. Had that been the case, I would have gotten away without a scratch and he would be sporting a thick lip. :ninja:Seriously, we're a perfect loving couple.
 
Ouch.

On occasion I have been pulled aside whilst at A&E when writing for stitches or X-rays to be questioned. On one occasion by police! My response has always been the same: "He doesn't need to beat me up because I can do a good enough job myself!"

I had come off my mountain bike whilst on a training course learning additional skills. It was a women's only course and he had been 300km away at the time. I had a superb black eye from where my helmet had hit the ground and smashed against my forehead* (it broke into 5 pieces), a suspected broken thumb, mild concussion and 2 broken ribs.
I had driven home much larger that day but 2 days later needed to visit the Drs. X-rays followed of course. The eye was rather like make up. It didn't hurt, there was no swelling, no issues whatsoever. I didn't even really know there was an issue until you liked in the mirror. I only went into town once until it had gone after all the looks I was getting. After that I just visited my parents cycling there. In cycling kit with a bike a shrug and I came off was generally accepted but somehow out shopping with my husband wasn't!

*Even my instructor agreed that on that occasion the helmet actually got in the way causing/making the head injury ironically.
 
Lynne Guinne said:
I managed to give myself a fat lip while shooing a mosquito away from my face. I heard the buzzing and flapped my hand in the air...and *whap*, my thumbnail goes right into my lower lip. Took a while for the bleeding to stop. :ohmy: Now I look like I was abused by my hubby. Had that been the case, I would have gotten away without a scratch and he would be sporting a thick lip. :ninja:Seriously, we're a perfect loving couple.
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Ouchy... :hug:
 
morning glory said:
I hope so. I used to get things like that. Someone told me this trick about hanging from a door frame. Its a bit silly but what you do is grip the frame surrounding the door and then just let your body drop like a weight (whilst hanging on!). It straightens out the spine. It has worked for me once or twice.
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It is such a rare thing that I just ride it out, no pain pills or anything. All will be over by tomorrow.
 
Lynne Guinne said:
I managed to give myself a fat lip while shooing a mosquito away from my face. I heard the buzzing and flapped my hand in the air...and *whap*, my thumbnail goes right into my lower lip. Took a while for the bleeding to stop. :ohmy: Now I look like I was abused by my hubby. Had that been the case, I would have gotten away without a scratch and he would be sporting a thick lip. :ninja:Seriously, we're a perfect loving couple.
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I haven't given myself a fat lip yet (in those circumstances) but I do tend to send my reading glasses flying across the stoep sometimes by attacking mosquitoes. I have also poked myself in the eye a few times.
 
Yorky said:
Other than the three or four "regular" posters I don't really think anyone else will give a sh1t. It deteriorated about 2 or 3 years ago when members were unable to log on because the IT support was pathetic (or possibly incompetant). Three years ago it would have probably been a loss but now?
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I am fascinated by the number of posts that the news of closure has generated. It was unusual to see more than 2 or 3 posts/day in the last 12 months.
 
Lynne Guinne said:
Now I look like I was abused by my hubby. Had that been the case, I would have gotten away without a scratch and he would be sporting a thick lip. :ninja:Seriously, we're a perfect loving couple.
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We would have a similar problem. My wife bruises at the slightest thing. A huge blue black bruise on the arm and she says when asked how "Oh I don't remember" - If I had a bruise like that I would probably have a broken arm at least.
Sadly death toll in London fire now up to 17 and counting.
 
morning glory said:
I wonder if the lack of IT support there extends to an inability to close it down!
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sidevalve said:
We would have a similar problem. My wife bruises at the slightest thing. A huge blue black bruise on the arm and she says when asked how "Oh I don't remember" - If I had a bruise like that I would probably have a broken arm at least.
Sadly death toll in London fire now up to 17 and counting.
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I understand your wife.
When I first married this husband, he would come home and I would be sporting a new bruise. He would ask me how did I do that. I took to responding what is at that height.
He finally quit asking.

Now when I was married to my first husband, I sprained my ankle. When asked how, I said I didn't know. They put denies injury. I asked them about that. Due to it being a military hospital, they flagged all unknown injuries as potential domestic violence. The next year I know there was a DV put in my file. The idiot thought he was being amusing, pushing a nearly due wife in the pool front first.
Needless to say the OB was not amused and neither was husband's boss. I know that because when said idiot came home from work the next day, he had the audacity to ask me why I had called his boss. I hadn't called his boss, I had just told my OB exactly what the idiot had done. (I don't think my main OB liked the idiot much anyway. My OB's wife worked at times with said idiot.) So I figure the OB put it in the file, then told his wife who in turn told idiot's boss. OB and wife were both doctors.
 
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