The Pleasure/Pain principle explained.

The pleasure. Alison was due to collect her Yaris 1.3 VVT-i today after work, dropping=20 off her faithless battered old 1.4 Skoda Fabia that still made =A31k trade= =20 in despite having masonary paint spattered bumpers, a scraped bumper, a=20 broken number plate, and a passenger rear door that didn't open.

Car paid for cash with the money from her company share save scheme=20 bonuses when the company sold.=20

The pain. While helping to set up a presentation in the big auditorium at work, a=20 telescopic display banner colapses and the top metal support whacked on=20 the top of her head, causing a gash that required the local A&E to glue=20 it closed, and diagnose a mild concussion.

The subject of the presentation, Health and Safety. The propaganda on the banner, "The ten golden rules of Health and=20 Safety".

--=20 Carl Robson Audio stream:

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Elder
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They "glued" her head back together? ffs, I knew the NHS was getting bad these days, but Christ on a bike.

Oh, and you said "gash" :)

Reply to
Lordy.UK

You do know that superglue was invented originally for fast "field repair" of soldiers in combat, to hold together jagged edged wounds.

It dried quickly and wasn't fussed about moisture.

Reply to
Elder

No it wasn't, that's an urban myth.

According to our good friend Mr Google, Superglue was developed in the second world war by Kodak whilst trying to develop plastic compouds;

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it *was* used in the Vietnam war for field repairs, but that didn't start until the sixties.

Proper superglue causes necrosis if I remember right, so I suspect (hope) the glue they use in hospital is a little bit milder :)

Reply to
Lordy.UK

It will be, she has been told she can't wash her hair for 5 days. She is going to love the feel of that.

Reply to
Elder

I was travelling in one of the back seats of a camera van once when the tin box first aid kit fell out of the rack above onto my head. Caused a two inch long cut which needed stitching. You can still see the scar if my hair is very short. Filling in the accident report form was fun.

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Dave Plowman (News)

The accident book at a place I worked at contained hundreds of entries for one bloke. He was electrocuted, broke multiple bones falling downstairs (on many separate occasions) and was knocked unconscious when he pulled a roller towel too hard and it fell off the wall onto his head.

A wry note on one entry stated that he was "the safety officer."

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Steve Firth

Car paid for cash with the money from her company share save scheme bonuses when the company sold.

The pain. While helping to set up a presentation in the big auditorium at work, a telescopic display banner colapses and the top metal support whacked on the top of her head, causing a gash that required the local A&E to glue it closed, and diagnose a mild concussion.

The subject of the presentation, Health and Safety. The propaganda on the banner, "The ten golden rules of Health and Safety".

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How's she coping with her other ailments/treatment? It going as well as can be hoped?

Reply to
Iridium

Yeah, she is bearing up ok, but she goes into the Royal for two outpatient treatments this week. The friendly sounding School of Nuclear Medicine.

Reply to
carl.robson

Tell her it's good for her, I'm sure there's a theory revolving around hair cleaning itself after a while if you don't wash it... :)

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Lordy.UK

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