Funny, I bought my mother a Camry a while back, she's turning 91 and I'm not sure I did the world a favor. She's quite annoyed that the stairchair folks consider the homestead a "difficult" install.
I remember the day my grandmother decided she couldn't see well enough to keep driving, and sold her Plymouth Hemi. She'd learned to drive a Stanley Steamer, and like her cars to "step away smartly".
For folks considering remodeling for aging parents (or selves), the Home Builder's Association certifies Aging In Place designers. Look for "C.A.P.S.". My wife is such.
For folks considering remodeling for aging parents (or selves), the Home Builder's Association certifies Aging In Place designers. Look for "C.A.P.S.". My wife is such.
Absolutely, it's not that bad. Not painful, just strong and "unusual" sensations.
When else are you going to see your innards, live?
I got to see mine in the cardiac cath lab.
The butt probe is coming my way in a couple of weeks while we still have medical insurance. Sherri goes first!
The internet has such probes for sale if you want to look for/at yourself. Watch yourself on a PC screen. I bought one for fun but dont have the guts to use on myself. But they are cheap and available probes for probing.
-RNM
-RNM
It's obvious you don't live in San Francisco (cheap and obvious slam), but Viz magazine in the UK (always, always incorrect) was onto the concept for popstars and junk/reality TV.
The obvious prurient comments aside - would an Ebay procto be significantly cheaper than the newish Milwaukee hand-held camera probe (they also have a decent cheap thermal camera with better features than a similarly priced Flir product)?
Prurience back on - you'd have to wonder where the thing(used procto) had been in its various travels and whether it had been properly sterilized/autoclaved afterwards - I own a lot of assorted stuff, but not an autoclave... Apparently this is an item of concern for folks contemplating a procto, as some clinics seem to be less than diligent in sanitizing their gear, and something that may make me opt for a virtual procto/MRI, even if I have to pay for it out of my own pocket (more scan for the money, too).
Prurience back on - you'd have to wonder where the thing(used procto) had been in its various travels and whether it had been properly sterilized/autoclaved afterwards - I own a lot of assorted stuff, but not an autoclave... Apparently this is an item of concern for folks contemplating a procto, as some clinics seem to be less than diligent in sanitizing their gear, and something that may make me opt for a virtual procto/MRI, even if I have to pay for it out of my own pocket (more scan for the money, too).
I took a look, and the Milwaukee camera (even with an extension) is loads cheaper than a medical equivalent - a nice deal if you're stringing a cable in a wall rather than some poor sod's chute.
Good example for Ashok's words.
Your bowels are governed by the sympathic nervous system, but are influenced by your mood.
The more positive your mood is in, the more relaxed the colon will be, the easier the colonoscopy.
The curves between colon ascendens-transversum, transversum-descendens, plus the sigmoid are the most sensitive to nervous mood swings.
Be tightbutted during a colonoscopy, and you're in for a treat.
Aka, talk to your azz !
The gastro-enterologist in the hospital I worked at, had the habbit of humming (the 5th) during a colonoscopy.
Overhere, it's uncommon to use anaesthetics for colonoscopies.
My g/f had to have a bronchoscopy a number of years ago, she asked me to come along for support (and watch the screen).
During such a procedure, the trachea is only lightly sedated with lidocaine spray.
Nasty examination, makes a colonoscopy a piece of cake.
(Why mr. Wurcer, I can always call you Sir)
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I've been on the 5 year cycle for colonoscopy for 20+ years.
Like most things, it gets easier.
Due to a bicycle /car incident years ago, I've probably undergone at least 10 full sedation procedures (starting with tonsillectomy at age 10, ether, ich!). I've never experienced problems with recovery, but often wonder if I would be able to tell if there were issues.
Like most things, it gets easier.
Due to a bicycle /car incident years ago, I've probably undergone at least 10 full sedation procedures (starting with tonsillectomy at age 10, ether, ich!). I've never experienced problems with recovery, but often wonder if I would be able to tell if there were issues.
We had picked out the place where we would have liked to live out our last years maybe 15 or more years ago. Unfortunately all the property was owned, and nobody was leaving.
Fast forward about 12 years or so. I guy in the target area lives in a run down mobile home on 1/2 acre. His water heater springs a leak and floods the place while he is out of town. Black mold grows and makes the place unlivable. Cleanup and repair work starts, the mold is removed, but the insurance money runs out and he abandons the property, leaving behind a major mess. About a year and a half later we buy the property at a tax auction.
The house next door is owned by the guys mom. She lives with her daughter in another state. We have made offers to buy it. The house is "empty", but the power, phone, and utilities are still on. It seems that the guy who owned the mobile home is living in his mothers house with his wife and kids. We find out that the wife is sick because the house is also full of black mold. They pack up and leave, and the house is declared unfit for human habitation......we call the mother and reiterate our offer, but lower it. She sells it to us.
So now we own an acre of land with a derelict mobile home and a condemned house on it. See picture.....note the Yucca shrubs between the house and the camera.
We rent the biggest dumpster that we can, and fill it up twice with all the trash we clean off of the land, and out of the trailer. Picture.
We have the house torn down, and the debris hauled away. I spend the past 4 months clearing, digging up, replanting and prepping the land. Picture.
We also have started refurbishing the mobile home. I am already using it for storage, and will be building my wood shop inside in the coming year. Picture
More pictures in posts #376 and 397.
After a long wait and a bunch of money, this sign appeared in the yard. Picture.
Then the dozer and backhoe show up. Picture.
They dug a hole and built the forms for the footer. I have also had an Amish built shed delivered and installed (red roof) for storage of lawn and garden equipment. Picture.
In just over 2 weeks our future home, and the future Tubelab home is starting to take shape. This is the basement. The Yucca shrubs seen in the first picture were in the corner closest to the camera, and the lab will fill the area behind the guy in the blue shirt. The pole transformer can be seen above my blue Honda in the neighbors driveway (Sherri can be seen walking to the Honda). Power drop will be to the south wall between blue shirt and the neighbors house, and the breaker panel will be on that wall. No more blown breaker or crummy power issues. Picture.
Fast forward about 12 years or so. I guy in the target area lives in a run down mobile home on 1/2 acre. His water heater springs a leak and floods the place while he is out of town. Black mold grows and makes the place unlivable. Cleanup and repair work starts, the mold is removed, but the insurance money runs out and he abandons the property, leaving behind a major mess. About a year and a half later we buy the property at a tax auction.
The house next door is owned by the guys mom. She lives with her daughter in another state. We have made offers to buy it. The house is "empty", but the power, phone, and utilities are still on. It seems that the guy who owned the mobile home is living in his mothers house with his wife and kids. We find out that the wife is sick because the house is also full of black mold. They pack up and leave, and the house is declared unfit for human habitation......we call the mother and reiterate our offer, but lower it. She sells it to us.
So now we own an acre of land with a derelict mobile home and a condemned house on it. See picture.....note the Yucca shrubs between the house and the camera.
We rent the biggest dumpster that we can, and fill it up twice with all the trash we clean off of the land, and out of the trailer. Picture.
We have the house torn down, and the debris hauled away. I spend the past 4 months clearing, digging up, replanting and prepping the land. Picture.
We also have started refurbishing the mobile home. I am already using it for storage, and will be building my wood shop inside in the coming year. Picture
More pictures in posts #376 and 397.
After a long wait and a bunch of money, this sign appeared in the yard. Picture.
Then the dozer and backhoe show up. Picture.
They dug a hole and built the forms for the footer. I have also had an Amish built shed delivered and installed (red roof) for storage of lawn and garden equipment. Picture.
In just over 2 weeks our future home, and the future Tubelab home is starting to take shape. This is the basement. The Yucca shrubs seen in the first picture were in the corner closest to the camera, and the lab will fill the area behind the guy in the blue shirt. The pole transformer can be seen above my blue Honda in the neighbors driveway (Sherri can be seen walking to the Honda). Power drop will be to the south wall between blue shirt and the neighbors house, and the breaker panel will be on that wall. No more blown breaker or crummy power issues. Picture.
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The place above is really nice, i like the colored trees...
Personaly i will surely retire in what is my parents houses in Algeria in 15 years or so, they inherited the land from their respective parents and my cousin there proposed them to build a house for a decent price...
I see on Tubelab s pic all the machines, believe it or not, the house below was 100% hand made and it has an anti sismic structure, in France it would cost hefty amounts.
Personaly i will surely retire in what is my parents houses in Algeria in 15 years or so, they inherited the land from their respective parents and my cousin there proposed them to build a house for a decent price...
I see on Tubelab s pic all the machines, believe it or not, the house below was 100% hand made and it has an anti sismic structure, in France it would cost hefty amounts.
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Some basement
(in the meantime, Mr Marsh stuck a lightbulb up the pucker and is trying to blow air in his hiney for the peep show)