Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 19:56:27 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
Lines: 56
Message-ID: <vj299b$381or$13@dont-email.me>
References: <vhigot$1uakf$1@dont-email.me> <vifmj4$1sj76$4@dont-email.me>
 <3a416c2c-ac2e-686b-3357-8a12c8b29181@example.net>
 <lr1rlgFu4ncU3@mid.individual.net>
 <7fe3461d-034d-182a-1f49-593897da8287@example.net>
 <lr3pa7F991qU1@mid.individual.net>
 <3bdd895b-3d89-0af9-8cb1-c75e3536a34f@example.net>
 <20241202131938.00006a37@gmail.com> <lr789nFqfgtU1@mid.individual.net>
 <8c5b7aab-bdea-bf1b-4a63-d8e88f5ebe33@example.net>
 <lr93btF4s3vU3@mid.individual.net>
 <1d749149-8ab2-8479-6ab5-ff6b6a91a158@example.net>
 <lr9q2jF81nrU3@mid.individual.net>
 <1a157182-0b8e-1181-aaca-7bf01d15e5f9@example.net>
 <lrbmtsFhpcpU2@mid.individual.net>
 <2ff93cc9-4153-2065-2845-27be39d60da2@example.net>
 <lrcapmFko8rU1@mid.individual.net>
 <41f5b9f2-f089-75c7-d875-c3c0cb614ab1@example.net>
 <lrejmpF1h5dU1@mid.individual.net>
 <45201620-3526-fa6f-91ee-9f7b3b0a4dc3@example.net>
 <viuv7d$2bf1r$7@dont-email.me> <qrO4P.19767$OuJ1.17261@fx16.iad>
 <vj1jqo$33eu5$9@dont-email.me> <qr15P.18652$xPr6.14886@fx10.iad>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 20:56:27 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d0a9fc17b6f8caea45cd793b92a18377";
	logging-data="3409691"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19QVkk0KfKXXgsSu2jML2UazHrMBZ2RJIo="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:j+GqQZV6bEHtsoIv21yYg1Drk3M=
Content-Language: en-GB
In-Reply-To: <qr15P.18652$xPr6.14886@fx10.iad>
Bytes: 4048

On 07/12/2024 19:34, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2024-12-07, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/12/2024 02:30, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-12-06, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was recovering from a tumour operation at that point and was on
>>>> seriously concrete butt plugging pain relief.
>>>>
>>>> I drank a couple of points of pear juice. Delicious. And unbeknownst to
>>>> me Natures best laxative...
>>>
>>> Interesting.  I've found that peanut butter acts as a mild laxative,
>>> at least for me.  This is a Good Thing - I love peanut butter.
>>> I had a knee replacement yesterday, so I'll get to test it.
>>
>> Oh gawd. I hope it works out. I hate to say it, but IME around 50% of
>> knee operations fail.
>>
>> Sometimes fatally
> 
> Sepsis is always bad news.  But there are a lot of measures being
> taken to avoid this.
> 
> I think things are a lot better nowadays.  Our local hospital seems
> to have it down to a science, and I've heard far more success stories
> than failures.
> 
Well my horror stories are from the early noughties and 20teens...

Stuff does progress fast.  Back in the day when I asked 'what are the 
long term effects of this chemotherapy the nurse had the decency to say 
'no one knows:its only been with us for about 12 years, but its raised 
the 5 year survival rate from 60% to 97%'

That was around 15 years ago...

> As for me, I'm on my second day after the procedure.  I'm kicking back
> and relaxing, and doing those stretching exercises to get things back
> to normal.  It'll take a while.  Painkillers help.
> 
Painkillers are sometimes mandatory. Even if just to let you sleep.

I am faced with possibly a year or more of physio from the last 
operation to try and turn my left bicep from a bit of wet string back 
into muscles.

Now that the nerves are almost working again.

-- 
"The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll 
look exactly the same afterwards."

Billy Connolly