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Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey - explain this ??? From: Doug Chadwick Date: 06 Apr 16 - 04:47 AM As it is the Easter holidays, we are looking after our 8 year old grandson. Last week we went bowling and, by the end of the game, my shoulder really hurt. That was followed, a few days later, by a game of swing ball, where you try to bat a tennis ball on a string round a post. My back was so sore the next day that I found it difficult to walk. I hadn't thought about it but a common factor in these two events was that, on neither occasion, did I drink any whiskey. There have also been games of football in the garden but I leave those to the wife. She doesn't drink whiskey and she's full of aches and pains. We are going swimming today. If I am suffering tomorrow, I will know the cause and the cure. The only trouble is, I don't like whiskey. DC |
Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey - explain this ??? From: Leadfingers Date: 06 Apr 16 - 04:46 AM Whiskey IS a relaxant - Sometimes I het so relaxed I cant move |
Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey - explain this ??? From: Thompson Date: 06 Apr 16 - 03:42 AM I've had an increasingly awful chest infection for five weeks, mainly due to undermedication: last time I had a sinus infection (which I get all the time), the doc gave me some antibiotics to keep against the day of the next one, in case he'd be away when I got it. He doesn't usually need to see me when I get these things - he's known me for years and knows what it's going to look like. I took these, and they didn't make it better, and added a ferocious stomach pain. After five days of it, I emailed the doc and he faxed through a prescription for Augmentin to the local chemist; a five-day or seven-day course, I forget which. At the end of the course I was a fair bit better, but not quite, so I emailed again, and got a call from a locum. She point-blan refused to give me a further three days of Augmentin, and said I could go to their emergency clinic over the bank holiday weekend if I was still sick. I was, but jibbed at the expense (for the clinic, not me), and also at having to cycle a couple of miles to the clinic. So I went out and got a bottle of decent Irish whiskey in Lidl (Dundealgan) and drank some, neat. It didn't cure the dose (obv!), but it damped it down over the weekend and I was able to get through. I think whiskey's great as a *short-term* cure-all. After all, what's the proverb - something like "An rud nach leighseann uisce beatha ná im, níl aon leighis ann" (or something better put) - the thing whiskey or butter won't cure, there's no medicine for. In the end, by the way, a week later the doctor gave me Klacid and steroids, because the infection was deep in my chest. And I started taking high-dose Vitamin C and Vitamin D3 on the advice of a friend who does a bit of healing and said if I was getting infections all the time I was probably deficient. Seems to be working. I credit the whiskey. |
Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey - explain this ??? From: MGM·Lion Date: 06 Apr 16 - 03:15 AM & it wasn't the whisky coz I haven't drunk a drop of alcohol this millennium... |
Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey - explain this ??? From: MGM·Lion Date: 06 Apr 16 - 03:13 AM I meant Ebbie -- sorry. Can't imagine why I addressed that to Eliza! |
Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey - explain this ??? From: MGM·Lion Date: 06 Apr 16 - 03:12 AM A familiar, but highly dangerous, illusion, Eliza! What he meant was that he felt more irrationally confident, to the imminent peril of all other road-users. Lucky not to have found himself in prison for causing death by dangerous driving. ≈M≈ |
Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey - explain this ??? From: Ebbie Date: 06 Apr 16 - 03:03 AM I had a friend who always claimed that he was a better car driver when he'd had a few drinks. :) Seriously, rest and relaxation may have done the trick. |
Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey - explain this ??? From: Dave Hanson Date: 06 Apr 16 - 02:49 AM Perhaps it's relaxing effect does the trick ? it sometimes relaxes me so much I feel no pain at all. Dave H |
Subject: BS: Whiskey - explain this ??? From: punkfolkrocker Date: 06 Apr 16 - 02:21 AM About 3 weeks ago I strained muscle/tendon/ligament - not sure which - around a knee. It has become progressively stiffer, and I walk with a limp.... It's not that painful, but walking is awkward, and going up & down stairs is a task. Down stairs really makes the big muscle above the knee spasm and feel like its about to collapse under me... No big deal, I just presume it'll heal itself eventually... However, tonight I bought a bargain litre bottle of Famous Grouse in Tesco.. A real treat, my first drink since new years eve. [wife's away visiting her family] .. and after a few glasses watching rubbish movies on TV.. my knee now feels much better ??? I can actually walk briskly downstairs without holding the banister. Explain this ????? Btw.. I grew up on old cowboy movies.. whiskey really must be the cure all for everything... ????? |