airfuelEddie wrote:The last set of pics looks especially "harrowing" and "terrifying". Having what appears to be a "randy" Jerry Garcia on one's backside. Or as Dave puts it, "an uphill gardening dirt packer"!!
airfuelEddie wrote:The last set of pics looks especially "harrowing" and "terrifying". Having what appears to be a "randy" Jerry Garcia on one's backside. Or as Dave puts it, "an uphill gardening dirt packer"!!
airfuelEddie wrote:Who are they Wayne? They have matching sneakers. In my old neighborhood growing up as a kid. That would have been a sure fire way to get your "ass" kicked up and down the street, in front of your parents. (Sorry for the language as I was referring to a "jackass" )
airfuelEddie wrote:Who are they Wayne? They have matching sneakers. In my old neighborhood growing up as a kid. That would have been a sure fire way to get your "ass" kicked up and down the street, in front of your parents. (Sorry for the language as I was referring to a "jackass" )
dave-r wrote:Ron Jeremy was in a "Celeb" version of Big Brother over here last year.
dave-r wrote:Yeah those shin bruises look familiar...
Mine turned into horrible varicose veins eventually. Had to have them stripped out the whole length of both legs.
That hurt.
RedRaven wrote:Jesus that sounds really sore man...Is that what I have to look forward to??
dave-r wrote:RedRaven wrote:Jesus that sounds really sore man...Is that what I have to look forward to??
Possibly. I had a few big veins anyway but when they get bashed they can get really bad. My right shin came up really swollen once and never went down again. Then I started getting itchy exema patches on my shins and toes. This is caused by the blood that leaks out of the vein walls.
The aching legs I could take but the itching redness was just too much.
I had to get one leg done at a time. About a year apart. Takes at least 4 weeks to get back to work each time. Its not that bad a proceedure. Although thinking about it.....actually it is.
They do it by making an incision in your groin, side of knee and ankle. Also many smaller incisions to cut off the branches away from the main vein along the whole length. Then they thread a wire down the whole length of the vein from your groin that has a large steel ball on the end. As they pull the ball through (I think they stand on the table with one foot braced on your balls and pull like hell ) it strips the vein out with it.
Once out they tie up any bleeding bits left over and stitch you up.
It is a very crude proceedure.
The painfull bit is that you have to start walking right from the next day. Every stitch pulls. It makes your eyes water I can tell you. But you have to walk correctly so that blood that normally came up that vein is pumped up by muscle action through the deeper veins. It also has to develop new return paths.
The good bit is you get to wear a pair of stockings. You only need to wear one actually but it is a good excuse.
I flew to Dublin for a long weekend two days after my first leg was done. It got me out of walking around the shops but I managed to struggle around the pubs at night.
airfuelEddie wrote:it was a production factory job making of course, vinyl records which are now obsolete.
dave-r wrote:airfuelEddie wrote:it was a production factory job making of course, vinyl records which are now obsolete.
They were never obsolete in my house Eddie and modern club "DJs" couldn't work without them.
I keep Diana's old Linn SP12 record deck resonably up to date. It is used a lot still. We have 1000 LP records on a shelf along the upstairs landing.
Wayne, you're a natural for Prison Work. If we had worked the cellblocks together they would riot. It would be wonderful! The inmates would also get upset. I 'finally read all of Daves surgery, poor fella has been thru hell!RedRaven wrote:Eddie...Lookin Good my man....slick!!!
Heres a pic of my in Ayutthaya Thailand a couple of months back...Iknow the shame of it...what a pose...couldnt help myself!!!