Andy Ramblings

Ok that I can't prove just yet, as it's still daytime here so I will have to wait till 6pm or there abouts when it is dark. OK, you ask why are you glowing in the dark ? Well My adventures with untried medical machines I was on my hospital getting a bone scan. You see (from previous comments) being a transplant patient for coming on 30 years and in that time have been taking steroids, (fantastic medicines, but boy oh boy, you really have to watch what you eat, as there is no stopping you, those ea- all-you-can for a fiver  resturants are your best friend, but theywill never what you back). Having come of the buggers, that's the steroids, did I say they were great meds? Oh yes they are, they hide all forms of things from you so when you get off them your suddenly either mad or in a lot of pain, the latter being my case.

A bone scan sort of looks like this:
Obviously, these pics aren't mine (you can click on the image for more info on the whys, the hows it's all done) but I did ask if I could get them. Not being morbid or anything, I just found it incredibaly interesting.
There are two reasons why I had the scan, firstly to see of there is a presence of an infection (yuck) or an un-explained pain.

That's all done, so tonight I will check if I'm a glowing or not.

OK, you can't get it now as it did upset Tony a little bit, as it did come out a couple of weeks ago during the height of of his wee problem with calling Donations  loans. Anyway, as you can't see the once-in-a-lifetime oppertunity here's a snap shot of the website

Yep, small entry, to say, yep I'm still alive. The clocks in most of Europe go forward 1 hour today! and you won't get it back till late October... Have fun with that extra light in the evening. Hopefully we will get some semblence af a summer.

Anyway, that's that, spring is hear, and am looking forward to the old April showers as believe it or not, but the South East of the UK is heading for a drought this summer. They are saying that it 'could' be like 1976 when there were water taps in the steets, if not that, then water lorries. The UK a highly developped western country and we still have the old problems of the lack of water. There you go... that's it for me tonight!

Oooo it's old St Patricks day today!! So everything is Irish!

To all me readers, yep the one or 2 of you who find this blog have a great day!!
Ok and once again.

HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY

Some sites about the famous St who got rid of snakes and other things...

This link is the History Channels view on the story click here
Here is what the Advent say about him Click here
This is the story via the Cathlics Online

Enjoy the day, and well tomorrow is Saturday so you can sleep in ... Enjoy!!! Read More

Somebody forgot to tell these poor plants that spring has been delayed this year. It's been delayed to am late April? I don't know, I'm guessing as it's darn freezing cold here. This morning it hit a high of 2^oC when I went out for a walk at 9am (Daft idea I know). It's now 13:40 and the temp hasn't got any higher. (3^oC) Brrrr

Below nice picks of those unfortunate flowers, I don't know if they are still there today...


But then again, I took the pictures the other day, but still!

It's one of those things that happen when you are a transplant patient. I've been on for well almost 30 years, well just coming on 29) but one likes to make these things up a bit. Anyway, back in the days when they had started doing Kidney transplant it was pretty much a hit and miss affair, something that these days we don't hear about, why ? well Doctors are supposed to be perfect aren't they, they never make mistakes, well they do and sometimes well, they don't understand the mechanisms involved so yep, it's the old trial and error.
Come to to think of it, they had an a pretty good idea how that if you put a foreign body ie a kidney, the body will treat it as such and will try it's level best to get rid of it. The first problem they had obviously was how to get around this little annoying habit the body has to try and get rid of something that well, is needed to keep it alive, but no, the body doesn't think that way, it will go ahead and try and wipe the good functioning kidney to kingdom come.

So some of the steps through history of kidney transplantation.
The first Xenotransplant  one was done in 1905!! Sheesh that' over 100 yrs ago! a French doc tried to transplant a rabbits kidney to a 16yr old girl who had kidney failure. She survived 2 weeks. Not bad for starters
It went downhill from there, in 1906 another Xenotransplant  from Pig to Human was done by using the vains and arteries in the arms. This patient lasted 1hr.

This were looking bleak now... So in 1909 a German Doctor transplanted a kidney from a macaque onto the thigh of a woman. She dies 32 hours later.
A war stopped most research into transplantation, I assume making weapons was more fun as they made a lot of noise and well made the night a bit brighter..

In 1923, Another Xenotransplant was tried with a Lambs kidney to a human, well as with previous attempts this didn't last much longer

Now we fast forward to those bleak years of the, 30s, and 40s to get to the first Human to human transplant.
This was done in 1952 from a trafic warden to her son, the kidney as you would expect was rejected 22 days later Read More

But then I didn't know that a train wizzing and having a quick suck .. But obviously the local train service think that it can happen...

So this is what Madge thinks is a great name to call a new company..

Semtex Girls.

Now that's a great name for a company, but when you look at the slogan for the company you begin to wonder if the silly cow has gone completely mad?



Now calling a company after a terrorist favorite tools isn't kinda cool in any way or form.
She even says, a man can be a semtex Girl ... OK, I'm gonna blow my mind !!!

Luckly, it looks as if this silly name will not become a reality, the company Explosia, The Czech company who makes semtex is very interested protecting it's world famous brand and plan on sueing her... Just as well, the silly cow needs to be knocked down a step of two.

Mount Everest toWhen here's the view, a 360^o view from the top of
Click on the image and scroll along left/right to get the whole view.

If you are using FF you will see what appears to be the image above, if you pass your mouse over it, and click on the image to get the full sized image.

Enjoy!