hospital technology

[Stephen B]

Here I am in a brand new hospital using an over head bedside interactive screen.Thought I would check the FOG, and here I am even making a post.  [big grin]

Just had corretive surgery to a hammer toe. No pain yet,  [eek] but only out of recovery about an hour ago.

Wonder if my surgeon used a Festool Drill for the wire insert?  [tongue]  [smile]

 

[six-point socket II]

Wishing you a speedy and as far as possible painless recovery!

Sounds like a nice hospital, maybe they used PB Swiss "OPERACE" Equipment? ->http://www.pbswisstools.com/en/medical-instruments-mi/surgical-instruments.html

Kind regards,
Oliver

 

[Stephen B]

thanks [member=61712]six-point socket II[/member]  Yes more likely the tools you linked.

 

[peter halle]

Wishing you a speedy recovery!

Peter

 

[Kev]

I need surgery on a joint in my food .. been putting it off and complaining about it for WAY TOO LONG [embarassed] [sad]

[member=19746]Untidy Shop[/member] I hope yours comes good quickly and with the least pain possible.

Kev.

 

[DrD]

[member=19746]Untidy Shop[/member]

Wishing you a speedy recovery and minimal pain!  I was in our local hospital emergency room last nite and found we too are advanced - we had indoor plumbing with running water and all!  It was an experience.

Best to ya!

DrD

 

[sancho57]

now ya got time to watch all those festool videos on tube :>D
get well soon bud

 

[Stephen B]

Thanks all,  for your best wishes and other comments. Now home. Lucky I recently finished a deck ramp.  [smile]

[member=10147]jobsworth[/member] 
Yes it is certainly video catch up time. Must dig up the links from the last FOG video comp too.

[member=19075]DrD[/member] 
To continue the satire, you mean your hospital actually has running water.  [smile] Trust all is well following your visit whether it be for yourself, family member or friend.

[member=13058]Kev[/member]
Do not delay that operation, it won't hurt! [eek] [tongue] Best to get it done before the big move.

[member=1674]Peter Halle[/member]
Trust your own health continues to be a positive recovery story.

[member=61712]six-point socket II[/member]
Spoke to my Surgeon today. No hand drill  He used a brushless battery drill as we all here would have; wouldn't we!? [big grin]

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[sancho57]

Pinterest and Ana white are great sites

 

[DrD]

[member=19746]Untidy Shop[/member]

Yeppers, it was pretty upscale, PLUS, didn't need to boil no water to get it hot, there was a plumb fancy handle, which when turned, pre-made hot water come gushin' out.  Got the ambulance ride & the whole thing - pretty exciting, thinking maybe heart attack, but, praise the Lord, it was just a really bad gall bladder attack; went home the same evening.  At 72, you can't take chest and jaw pain for granted.

Good to see you're chipper and hopefully on the road to good and better things.  Jobsworth is correct about Ana White, she's got some really great plans that even an old guy like me can follow.

Regards, DrD

 

[Tinker]

[member=19746]Untidy Shop[/member], recently I got the taxi ride.  Once they wheeled me in to leave me alone with all those beeeuuutiful nurses, I complained to the driver.  I told him I was very disappointed that he had NOT blown the siren all the way. That just took all of the excitement out of the trip. :
Tinker

 

[Stephen B]

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[member=19746]Untidy Shop[/member], recently I got the taxi ride.  Once they wheeled me in to leave me alone with all those beeeuuutiful nurses, I complained to the driver.  I told him I was very disappointed that he had NOT blown the siren all the way. That just took all of the excitement out of the trip. :
Tinker

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[member=550]Tinker[/member]
I would have thought the nurses were enough excitement for you in one day.[eek][big grin]

[member=19075]DrD[/member]  And Tinker.
Good to know you are both on the mend/OK.  [smile]

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[peter halle]

Thank was funny.

I love the nurses that took care of me.  But I admit that I tried to not make their lives hell.  I was going to be there for multiple weeks after all.  I had some drop dead gorgeous nurses that I was so glad that they double robed to prevent any possible contact with the chemicals going thru me.  I had nurses who had volunteered to be part of treating the ebola patients that were transported here for treatment.  I had those who cheered me on when I went on a 1 mile walk with my iv stand and then i sopped and encouraged others walking to go a little further.  When I ordered pizza in for them and remembered that some might be vegetarians they noticed.  I never told them but an anonymous thank you note told me that they knew who.

Every four months now I go back for a checkup and although I have no interaction with those angels I leave a note of thanks with a couple of doughnuts. 

God bless those who train to take of us with whatever comes to ail us.

Peter

 

[Tinker]

I have a couple off nurses in my family.  Also two of my very best friends married nurses.  I know what they have to go thru and the couple of times I have been in the hospital I have tried to entertain the nurses, and even the docs, who have worked with me.  A few years ago, I had to have a batch of extra bone and scrap metal inserted into my neck.  I was mighty nervous about the surgery, but had a great time kidding the nurses and telling them stories (as you all know, that really took great effort).  They laughed.  I thought the laughing was just being polite until one of the nurses, when she went off shift in the evening, came back to my room to tell me how much I had made her day.  I told her, "You just made MY day."  The two of us hugged.
Tinker

 

[Stephen B]

[member=10147]jobsworth[/member]

Today I spent some time  looking at some Anna White on UTube, and as well, I browsed the Festool Chanels.  Thanks to Ms White, Ms Untidy is looking at some glasshouse ideas.  [scared]

Looking at the Festool Channels  I visited and revisited some exceptional woodworkers and craft people  including –






Then there is this Aussie Timber mill.


And this on Japanese Carpentry


Caught up on some old FOG contest entries too. This one, from 2014,  surely has  to be the funniest entry –


Most of us, unless we really earn our living using Festool, might easily relate to the circumstances presented.

 

[Tinker]

[member=19746]Untidy Shop[/member], I only had time to look at that last one.  I will be laughing all day. 
Whenever I bring home a new "toy", I tell my Dearly Beloved how "...many thousands of dollaras I saved by ONLY bringing this ONE very fine item..."  I will have to remember that guy's approach. 
Untidy, you are putting your laid up time to very good use.  Keep it up and you will be good to go in no time.
Tinker

 

[sancho57]

That guy convincing his wife is a rookie. Me and Kev can give him lessons.

 

[Stephen B]

That guy convincing his wife is a rookie. Me and Kev can give him lessons.

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[not worthy] [not worthy]
There is no doubt about that. That guy and I salute you both!  [big grin]

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Re hugging nurses -
[member=550]Tinker[/member] , you old smoothie!

 

[Tinker]

[member=19746]Untidy Shop[/member], Are you dating yourself with that recording?

Hey, I even remember that old song.  I even remember when those old turntables were known as "Victrolas".  I have a cabinet that my dad built way back in the late twenties or early thirties to mount the victrola in.  I even remember using the hand crank on the side when the music started slowing down and getting ugly.  The Victrola had a curved megaphone on the top to increase the sound so you could hear the music.  The cabinet has morphosed over the years to house radios, radio/phonograph combinations, but the little hole in the side where the crank handle resided is still there and in the same place it always has been. 

Yeah! I know I date myself.  I still call phonographs "Victrola".  My kids and grandson look at me funny when i make such reference, the same as I still call a refrigeratot an "Ice Box". 

Tinker

 

[Stephen B]

Deck Mowing
Spring and  a sunny day  today.

Two weeks since my operation and the grass has certainly grown.

Yesterday my specialist removed my stitches and bandage  cast, replacing it with less bandaging. The wire/pin stays in the toe for another month but I can now walk with a hobble wearing an orthopaedic sandal.

So this morning AEST, I hobble to the mower shed and get stuck in to some mowing. At lunch time rather than hobble back to the house I drove  up the deck ramp to the door.

I am sure [member=550]Tinker[/member] has never attempted this!  [big grin] [smile] [eek]

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