Drawers, rather than drawings/paintings under my bed…
Used the Nooly found thermometer yesterday for the 1st time in my life.
I have always been able to tell when summat was wrong wivva look in the eyes anna hand on the back of the neck. & I was always right
That isn’t quite so accurate on oneself, so I am now checking.
Temp will go up with the tablets tonight, & down tomorrow
Carinthia.xx
Hope the depth charges don’t give you too bad a night, Dahlink. I have a thermometer somewhere, but no battery for it, and I know the shop up the road doesn’t do them. Which is useful.
Gxxx
I was amazed that this worked after 10 yrs TBH
Would never have bought one, but Mr C needed to see the numbers, for reassurance.
Carinthia.xx
The Bull is a demon with a posh thermometer as used in the clinic
I am my lugs have been probed numerous times a day
And hot flushes are noticeable when my temp is taken when one happens
The Bull was nearly ready to phone the doctor yesterday
Bah. Life Unfair to Twellsies.
Life very unfair to Twellies.
I have an old-fashioned thermometer which works with mercury and doesn’t need batteries. In fact I have two.
In other news, this morning the small lump of hard skin on my finger, which was parchment-coloured last night, was a delicate, fetching shade of pastel green. When I was having my bath I pressed on it in an experimental way, as you do, and it suddenly behaved like a toothpaste tube and extruded a half-inch of what looked like wintergreen ointment. So I have bunged Savlon on it again and a plaster, but it still doesn’t hurt at all and I have no idea what it may be up to. Hedgers says “a blister with very thick skin” and postulated a wool fibre off the knitting needle pushed into the wound – which would be more convincing if it were not that I am knitting with acrylic!
Green gunk means infection
So continue with draining and disinfectant
Poultice might be of use too
I have bejaysus fluid going cheap…
Here I have started on the wabbit’s skirt then I can stuff her!
Some elderly cushions have been washed so I can use the stuffing
I have sat on my hands (not a Doctor/microbiologist/anything much) but would like to post this for Fishers:
Pus is sometimes green because of the presence of myeloperoxidase, an intensely green antibacterial protein produced by some types of white blood cells. Green, foul-smelling pus is found in certain infections of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The greenish color is a result of the bacterial pigment pyocyanin that it produces.
I’d immerse the wounded area in warm, pre-boiled water with a good dose of added salt. I wish I could peer at/sniff the wound. Strange bee, that I am.
Soo xx
It doesn’t smell at all. That was one of the things I found confusing.
Salt water immersion seems a good plan; next time I have to remove the plaster because it has become beyond reason soggy I’ll do that. Except last time I saw it, it had shrunk to about a third its previous 3mm or so size and was neither particularly hard nor hurting… Possibly the bath did for it?
Not a strange wee bee more a wise knowledgeable wee bee sharing this knowledge with others
The Bull has red flaky backs of his hands from the frequent hand washing
I think it to be a contact dermatitis and have given him a steroid cream (very mild) from when I reacted to an antibiotic earlier this year
Neither of us would do this normally but we are NOT going to annoy the doctor about a trivial thing when he is doing his best to keep the parish healthy and out of hospital
The delicate scent of sodium hypochlorite perfuses the air in the Gushut: I have been washin’ me shoppin’ and shall shortly bath the me. Although not in bleach - that strikes me as taking things a little far.
Hot Sossinge Rolls are available
Not made by me, but by my friend with the cafe
Steps smartly to 1 side…
Carinthia.xx
Bread under construction.
We’ve had a wind-blown walk to view the frogspawn and long-tailed tits across the fields. About to make hot chocolate thence to bake a cake.
Soo xx
…well, my dearest sister-sib (avid KnitterOfSlipper-Sox (…see pics elsewhere))
sent me following pic this a.m. She made the order and was somewhat surprised to receive the yarn fairly shortly thereafter:
…oh, and BTW Amanda is vegan so no meat in that delivery!
Not much of a superpower, shooting wintergreen ointment from yer finger-ends, but better than nothing ;- )
Depends where the finger ends attach to the enemy. By God, that stuff can burn. Not Veet exactly but … aaaargh.
But, Fishy, I’m intrigued. Do keep us informed.
I’d like regular reportage of the Fishly Finger.
Soo xx
At the moment I am trying to keep it open to drain, and it is determined to heal over.
Today I have knitted a wabbit’s skirt shoesies straps and started assembling said wabbit
I am going crosseyed so I declared beer o’clock while dinner finishes cooking…
