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:
> 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 clinics, where concern for patients welfare seems to have been superseded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]> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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