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On 27/05/2012 18:55, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> Randolph
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> Engelbert Hump + The Russian Grannies = Maurice Scully's description
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> cheers
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> David
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> On 27 May 2012 13:18, Randolph Healy<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> David,
>>
>> I'm amazed they don't get in trouble under safety at work legislation
>> covering excessive noise over an extended period.
>>
>> Still, trust you to find a silver lining.
>>
>> Re Wordworth and a certain kind of popular song, I remember Maurice Scully
>> describing the latter as "commotion recollected in senility."
>>
>> best
>>
>> Randolph
>>
>>
>> On 27/05/2012 00:04, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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>>> Cheers, Randolph. My GP, perhaps coincidentally quoting Dr McCoy on 20th
>>> century medicine, says that in years to come CPAP machines will be seen as
>>>
>>> 'barbaric', however, that view is not shared in hospital respiratory
>>> clinics, where concern for patients welfare seems to have been superseded
>>> by an overwhelming love of the Great CPAP. It's rather like talking to
>>> fast-food managers about their menus.
>>> A friend who works as a charge-nurse tells me of whole wards full at night
>>>
>>> of patients strapped under the machines, which each make a noise like a
>>> fridge overheard in a kitchen, which is fine if it's a door away but not
>>> so
>>> fine if it's sitting on your face. And even less fine for those who are in
>>>
>>> a whole ward full of the same.
>>> I have to say I have observed it is also lacking in aphrodisiac effects.
>>> Life's horrors though, sometimes, do have their antidotes: I have just
>>> successfully sat through the last part of the Eurovision song contest,
>>> Jedward and Engelbert and Azerbaijan and all, serenely reading Wordsworth:
>>>
>>>
>>> " Some casual shout that broke the silent air,
>>> Or the unimaginable touch of Time. "
>>>
>>> Grasmere, douze points.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 26 May 2012 18:24, Randolph Healy<[log in to unmask]**com<[log in to unmask]>>
>>> wrote:
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>>> That sounds really terrible, David. The CPAP machine is like something
>>>> devised by torture chamber suppliers.
>>>> Good to see you joke, even at Pat's expense.
>>>>
>>>> best
>>>>
>>>> Randolph
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 25/05/2012 12:46, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is painful to read or hear, Chris, but also of some interest to
>>>>> me. I
>>>>>
>>>>> have symptoms very like those covered by CFS, in my case diagnoses have
>>>>> taken the form of 'fibromyalgia', (not established), COPD (established)
>>>>> and
>>>>> obstructive sleep apnea (established) plus a helping of other
>>>>> nomenclature
>>>>>
>>>>> like 'supraspinatus impingement' and that old favourite
>>>>> 'osteo-arthiritis'.
>>>>> All of those together, like system of bad rivers, produce what is very
>>>>> like
>>>>> the descriptions of CFS I've read. But, still, in my case, they do not
>>>>> lead
>>>>> to a cure, rather instead to minor palliative treatments (ironically
>>>>> these
>>>>>
>>>>> include the Australian invented CPAP machine, which is rather like a
>>>>> mini-vacuum cleaner, which I have to wear on my head each night :) and
>>>>> which provides some relief but not that of the panacea it is touted as
>>>>> over
>>>>> here).
>>>>> My suspicion, in both your case and mine, it is a matter of there being
>>>>> undiagnosed factors at work, my own doctors have just put me through
>>>>> another round of blood-tests, but looking at the history of CFS I notice
>>>>> that it's early reports, such as Royal Free Disease, seem to be of a
>>>>> viral
>>>>>
>>>>> nature, environmentally viral at that, and I wonder if there's not
>>>>> something like that at work. I know that pneumonia has multiple causes,
>>>>> including viral, and pneumonia is what my 'exacerbations' develop into
>>>>> if
>>>>> not caught by antibiotics in time ( I have become a very alert watcher
>>>>> of
>>>>> the horizon.
>>>>> Either that or, in case some wonder if this has nothing to with poetry,
>>>>> I'm
>>>>> suffering from the effects of reading snaps by Patrick every week since
>>>>> 2003, which could explain things :) - I couldn't resist that - you keep
>>>>> fighting man
>>>>>
>>>>> care
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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