Oh and give our regards to your friend freya imperium, i'm sure

JC Denton wrote on Feb 5^th, 2011 at 2:38am:


I'm on night watch, (my son has to have a nasty minor surgical procedure tomorrow for an ingrown toenail) and he's restless, hot,and in pain. So rather than be woken up every 20 minutes, "Mum, I need a drink"...or risk him being in too much pain to get it himself thus dehydrate,(his temps up a little tonight)  I have decided to pull an all nighter and keep an eye on him, and catch up tomorrow after we get back from the surgery.

Too hot to sleep anyway... especially in my room even with the air-conditioner on during this shocker heat wave we are enduring at present here.

....hmm, he seems to have inherited his dads ingrown toenails, and I know this wont be an enjoyable procedure for him, and he knows this too, so he's not sleeping too well, is quite restless and in a fair bit of pain. "Mum, I can feel my heart beat in my toe"....

It's really  swollen! right up to his ankle. The GP's put him on antibiotics, but has booked him in for the actual procedure tomorrow.

I am not overly happy with the GP's choice of not broad enough spectrum antibiotics (for my liking), this and think he probably should have done the procedure today, as his toe is almost twice the size it was when we were at the doctors today,(the corner of his toe where the nail joins the skin in the corner has obvious bright green puss under a thick layer of skin).. so rather than give him panadol, I have decided to give him neurophen instead. It's antipretic properties last a little longer also...6 hours instead of the usual 4 with panadol, plus it should help with getting some of that swelling down before tomorrow.

Not happy with the doctor, not one little bit...his usual GP will be there in the morning, so he may even want him to have it done in hospital, after a course of IV antibiotics the rate we're going...

Definitely looking ugly tonight!

JC Denton wrote on Feb 5^th, 2011 at 3:01am:


Wow, sounds far more entertaining than what I will be doing until the GP opens tomorrow morning.

Lucky you.

...Not that what will be happening after the doctor opens will be enjoyable at all. They plan to remove half his big toenail...it's his first week back at school, and he's already missed a day of school.

He loves school, and is miserable over this.

He only showed me under sufferance when I saw him limping to the breakfast table yesterday morning, and even then, he wanted to wear a pair of thongs to school...just to make sure he got two chemistry, and one biology class in, before coming back home.

Fat chance, the minute I saw it, I knew we were going no place else but the doctors today...it's bloody awful, never seen a nail on a 16 year old kid this infected in my life...and I was a nurse.

I'm a bit worried about how quickly it came on too, so want him to have a full blood count.

JC Denton wrote on Feb 5^th, 2011 at 3:21am:


Well, if they make my son wait in agony for as long as we had to wait in the waiting room today after having double booked appointments, they will feel my wrath, this I can assure you.

He's anxious enough, let alone sitting there awaiting his impending doom, (agony) ...and whilst you may think they can deaden it with local anaesthetic first, due to the infection being so severe, the anaesthetic wont have it's desired affect, (wont reach the nerves under the nail itself), so I know he's in for a bad morning.

I'm trying to be brave!!

I'm actually more nervous then he, he has no idea what he's in for, ...knows it's going to hurt, but not quite as much as I know it will.

His dad bent the treatment room bed-rails having his own dug out a couple of years ago, and my sons is far worse than his even...I am going to ask if we can have a hospital surgical referral, do everything in my power to get it done under general anaesthetic for him...(plan to use his harmless heart murmur as an excuse as a last resort)  ....we might get lucky!  MIGHT!

 I know they give really young kids a light anaesthetic for procedures like this,(realigning fractured limbs atc)... though given he's 16, they may deny him this luxury.

Anyway, had best put this topic back on track, I punched Cyclone Yasi into google, and was a little suprised to see this 'Christian Science' article come up first...lol



Quote:


http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2011/0204/US-sized-Cyclone-Yasi-coul...

Channel 7 must have finally forgone exclusivity....


Yasi flattened properties, overturned luxury yachts, and ripped up plantations along a 125-mile-stretch of Queensland’s picturesque coast when it came ashore with winds of more than 125 mph late Wednesday night. On Thursday some 130,000 properties remained without electricity as Australia deployed 4,000 soldiers to help with the recovery effort. At least one person is known to have died in the cyclone, asphyxiated by fumes from a generator operating in a small room.

“We were extremely lucky from an economic perspective," continues Mr. Mathews. "We were lucky because of where Yasi crossed the Australian coast, which avoided major population centers, and we were lucky because it avoided key mining infrastructure and assets. But certainly the agricultural industry will be impacted.”

Did any of you hear of the one single fatality, the bloke who asphyxiated in a small room due to generator fumes?

It's in the above article...  I wonder now if this guy had have thought this cyclone was going to be a mere storm in a tea cup, would he have bothered with a generator?

For christs sake, you cant operate these things in a small room,   ...  everyone knows that, or would know the minute they started it up.


Suicide perhaps?

Just crazy!

cods wrote on Feb 5^th, 2011 at 6:17pm:


I just heard this man screaming at Abbott for some help, not sure which town, but I did hear Anna Bligh say that the towns would be inundated with army, ses, red cross and any and all other available help from today onwards, they must have missed his street.

Yasi does 10yrs damage to Barrier Reef

Posted 41 minutes ago

Authorities say hundreds of kilometres of the Great Barrier Reef hit by Cyclone Yasi will take up to 10 years to recover.

It is still too early for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to send divers out to do a full assessment, but coral from the reef has been washing up on nearby shores.

The damage is expected to be similar to that of Cyclone Larry five years ago.

The authority's chief executive, Russell Reichelt, says all the progress the reef has made since then will now be destroyed.

"We can expect to see smashed coral beds, movements of coral boulders, sand and rubble moved around," he said.

"If there's any sand islands there and importantly sea grass beds, when they get disturbed - which they do by cyclones - then animals like dugong get affected."

Mr Reichelt says cyclones are not as damaging to reefs as the effects of climate change.

But he says Yasi will have still caused major destruction.

"Coral will begin regenerating immediately and be visibly restored in five to 10 years, but it changes the shape of the reef for very long periods - islands can be formed, boulders can be thrown up," he said.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/05/3130919.htm?section=justin


Feel free to dig deep and donate generously to Anna Blighs 'dead-Reef10' appeal.