BS: Whiskey - explain this ???

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... ?????