Celebrating Positives (offset of the Gripes Thread)

[old man emu]

16 hours ago, spacesailor said:

Can I get it tested to make sure it works properly & won't blow my hand off . Just asking ! .

Spacey,

Check your Personal Mail.

 

OME

[facthunter]

Steel can age harden and avoid chrome plated ones.   Nev

[nomadpete]

My positive:-

 

Today I can move in with my wife!

 

We flew home from Qld a week ago and SWMBO must have inhaled the wrong person's exhalation.

Came down with covid. So for a week I have been sleeping in the spare room and spending all day playing in the yard.

 

Today her RAT has only one red line and I have avoided a second bout of covid!

 

 

[facthunter]

Mine had it badly for 18 days. So far I've never had it.    I've had all the shots too.  Nev.

[old man emu]

7 hours ago, facthunter said:

Mine had it badly for 18 days.   I've had all the shots too.

Did all of them miss her?

[octave]

A positive thing I did yesterday and most weeks is some flight sim.  In about 2010 I took my brother-in-law flying. He loved it so much that he at my suggestion booked himself in for a flying lesson.  Although he lives interstate, in the years after he became qualified he would visit us a couple of times a year and we would go on many cross-country adventures.   We both drifted out of flying during the Covid years.

 

Now about once a week we get together on the flight sim server and fly together.  We have a project of flying around Australia in around one-hour hops.  We started at his home airfield in Gawler SA and have covered the east coast including Tas and next week should get to Darwin. Then it is down through central Australia back to our starting point, and then we are thinking of flying to NZ.

 

We usually use the live weather at the time and also different navigation methods.   We do occasionally fail to find some of the smaller dirt strips.   I enjoy the challenge of remembering how to navigate old school.  Also because we have a voice channel we get to chat one-on-one for for an hour or so a week, sometimes about aviation but not necessarily.  

 

 

Edited January 12 by octave

[old man emu]

Happiness is when you easily fix a something that you thought was going to be a major problem.

 

(See the Reno thread tonight.)

[old man emu]

I have had a problem with my bike's carby float. It would not shut off the inlet valve and so kept overflowing. I gave up all hope of fixing it myself and bought a complete float and bowl assembly. It was one of those "out of the box, onto the bike and go" deals. Except it wasn't. Overflowed like crazy. Luckily I located a bloke in Dubbo who knew Harleys and took it to him.

 

Called him this morning and was told that the float and lever had been assembled upside down, which is why it wasn't working. $100 for his trouble, which is well worth the price of freedom from anxiety. I'll pick it up on Friday, and with a new battery fitted, should be able to finally fire it up on Saturday, nearly 18 months since it last ran.

 

You watch it rain all weekend!

[ClintonB]

I get to go home tomorrow and see my wife and youngest daughter. Living at work 300kms away is not fun.

 

[onetrack]

Yesterday was a positive day. I got to see the Oral Surgeon at 1.00PM, although he kept me waiting for about 40 minutes. He did apologise for the wait. He was a decent sort of bloke, long and lanky and with eyes that looked like he'd been looking through microscope eyepieces for 30 of his 40 years.

 

But he was excellent at explaining what the problem was with a broken tooth root, what he could do with it, and what the risks were. He did say he was missing an X-ray from the dentist, that she took after she pulled the tooth. He did have the X-ray from before she pulled the tooth, but he would've liked to have had the one after the tooth was out, so he could see exactly how much was left.

 

The dentist originally told me the tooth root would eventually work its way out, and I asked him why he needed to cut it out, if it was going to come out by itself?

He explained that they don't always work their way out, and sometimes the gum can grow back over the decayed tooth root, and continue to cause problems.

 

He explained how he needed to cut the gum horizontally, then do a rising cut up against the side of the tooth in front. I presume this was so he could peel back the gum like a flap to access the tooth root.

Once that was all done, he asked if there was anything else I wanted to know, and if I was happy to go ahead with the extraction right there in the chair. I said I was fine with it all, so he got into it.

 

He spent about 10 mins seemingly running around pulling stuff out of drawers, but I guess he was like a good mechanic, getting all the tools and equipment he needed right at hand.

I was a bit surprised he didn't use any gum-numbing gel before he whacked the needles in. The outside one wasn't too bad, but the inside one hurt a bit.

The anaesthetic seemed to work quickly and very effectively, I didn't have the same numbness as the anaesthetic the dentist uses, although the pain-deadening was very effective.

 

He had to drill a hole in the tooth root (I guess to get a grip on it), and the awkward part of that was the water spray from his drill sprayed all over my face!

He was apologetic and said he had little control over where the water went, and it tended to spray around a lot. About 40 mins later, the tooth root was out, then he had to stitch up my gum.

That was quite an interesting and lengthy experience as he used some kind of fancy tool to thread the stitching in, and I could see and feel him tying off the knots, and cutting the ends off.

 

After an hour, it was all done - and he showed me the tooth root. I was quite surprised, it was quite large, well over a third of the original tooth, I'd say. I was all done, and he gave me a cotton wad to bite on to staunch the bleeding, and gave me a list of instructions of what to do, what not to do, and I had to acquire a bottle of Colgate Savacol mouthwash, and use it after every meal to prevent infection.

 

I drove myself home and put myself on light duties for the rest of the afternoon. I made a pot of potato, bacon and leek soup (SWMBO is away on the Gold Coast until Saturday), and I had some for dinner. The bleeding eased off after about 4 hrs, and I hit the sack at about 10:00PM and slept O.K.

Today I'm feeling much better and the gums and mouth are just fine - although I'm still on soft food, avoiding meat and chewy stuff. So now I have to wait a couple of months for the gum to fully heal, then I can go back and see the dentist, and she's going to organise a new denture with an extra tooth added to make up for my missing tooth.

[nomadpete]

Always good to hear about positive outcomes from any medical interventions.

I have a couple of crowns and it has worried me about what happens next if there is a problem with them.

Now I know.

Thanks for sharing.

[Jerry_Atrick]

I am so fliipn queazy, it took me almost an hour to read your post, OT.. but well done.

[facthunter]

You need to preserve the Jaw bones at all costs. Seems like a good job was done..  Nev

[nomadpete]

My major happy moment for the day....

 

I discovered how tocancel autocorrect on my phone - it is hidden under the LANGUAGE  settings!

 

Now I will have to take the rap for my typos - can't blame autocorrupt any more. Hooray!

[onetrack]

Nev, this was an upper tooth, the one behind an incisor. Interestingly, the teeth come close to the sinus cavities, and there is normally a thin section of bone between the sinus cavity and the tooth.

 

However (and the dentist explained this previously), if the bone section between the tooth and the sinus cavity is damaged, and a hole made in that section, you have major problems in that your sinuses and mouth become connected, and you could attempt to blow your nose and air would blow out the gap into your mouth - or you could take a drink and when you closed your mouth, the liquid would travel through the gap, into your sinuses.

 

This was the reason the dentist was fearful of digging in to get the tooth root out, she said it was possible the pressure involved in the root extraction could push the tooth root through into the sinus cavity - and that was why she sent me to the oral surgeon.

 

The oral surgeon explained that if a hole developed between the tooth area and the sinus cavity during root extraction, they would then need to do a bone graft in the area to close the hole.

He carefully outlined on the X-rays how some of the teeth had a good thickness of bone in this tooth/sinus area - but my incisor tooth is huge, and the root of it actually projects right into the sinus cavity.

He said this was typical of where they would run into problems, and removing a tooth like my incisor would then result in a need for a bone graft. This whole business of oral surgery is quite amazing.

[onetrack]

Nomadpete, there's nothing like finding a new hidden menu on a tech device to make your day! I'm sure the programmers do this on purpose, like setting puzzles for us to solve!

 

I also have a major win on the tech front menu to report, too! Both SWMBO and myself have been frustrated with our relatively new phones (hers, Samsung A54, and mine, a Motorola Edge 30 Fusion), in that you can't seem to delete unwanted portions of a text message - you appear to only be able to delete the entire message thread.

 

So on Tuesday afternoon, while on light duties, I started fiddling with my text message controls, to try and find out where all the hidden tricks are.

What I can report, is that I found you CAN delete portions of a text message, without deleting the entire thread!

 

This involves placing your finger over the text message portion you desire to delete (such as "you missed a call" text notification), pressing and holding until the the text is highlighted - which then brings up a new menu of icons above the text message - which menu contains a trash can icon! Tap the trash can icon, and the highlighted text is deleted, leaving the rest of the thread intact!!

[red750]

Speaking of phones, Samsung have just released the S24 range, three phones with AI which does such things as language translation in real time. Features available on all 3 models, but they are not cheap.

 

Samsung Galaxy S24

 

 

[ClintonB]

Dentist/butcher that pulled 2 wisdom teeth from me, sat on my chest pulling with pliers and breaking them up with a drill/jackhammer. 2 weeks before my first ever cruise. I had a piece of bone go rotten in my gum, it worked itself to the top when I was on a tender boat. When I flicked it out with my tongue it was the most rotten smelling thing I had ever smelt. Healed up real quick after it was gone.

I do not envy you having dental work like that one track.

[facthunter]

Would not do your Health much good. The acid in your stomach would be working overtime to kill the Pathogens. Nev

[onetrack]

Interestingly, the researchers have found out that people with rotten teeth, who won't do anything about them (usually because of dentist fear and cost), are at much higher risk of heart disease.

Apparently the bacteria in rotten teeth affect your heart valves and lead to higher rates of cardiovascular problems.

 

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/gum-disease-and-the-connection-to-heart-disease

 

The positive news for today is my stitched-up gum is healing rapidly, and is giving me no problems - and I've also nearly completed a new laundry trough and associated tiling installation in the laundry, with a satisfactory degree of success.

[spacesailor]

Then other's can just , pull their own teeth ! .

Easier than going to the " Barbershop " .

spacesailor

[octave]

So I had a bit of an incident/accident on my bike today after 9000km of trouble-free riding.  I was on one of my regular bike rides. I have done this ride many times. Lately, I have shunned the bike path on this downhill section because it is dangerously steep. The road has a more reasonable grade. Usually, I would stay on the road down to the roundabout before rejoining the bike path.  One of the problems of daring to cycle in a car-obsessed society is the constant pressure not to do anything to attract criticism fair or or unfair. from motorists (usually, it is unfair).   I decided to get off the road and back to the bike path but I did not anticipate what looked like a mild driveway ramp was actually quite abrupt.  

 

Whilst flying through the air in an elegant hyperbolic trajectory I had plenty of time to think  Yes time does really APPEAR to slow down. My first thought was. "I hope no one is observing this embarrassing incident"  My second thought was to protect my face, my beautiful beautiful face. (much more beautiful than most of the people on this forum). 

 

 I ended up with a very tiny graze on my chin (no worse than a shaving incident)  and several graze wounds on both hands and one knee and possibly sore muscles tomorrow. 

 

Why am I posting what might seem like something bad in a celebrating positives thread?  Well, it is because at the age of almost 62 and with significant health problems I am still out there doing things I would rather get run over by a truck than sitting at home whinging about young people and things changing, etc.  

 

If you have enough to eat and a reasonable level of health for your age and someone you love and who loves you then you are rich. 

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Glad you're alright, squire.

 

As the fella who is Mongrel Dog Productions on Youtube said "I would rather meet death head on"

[nomadpete]

You impudent young pup!

 

I ride occassionally (velocopede or motorcycle). I firmy believe in 'use it or lose it', right down to 'jog across to the shed while you still  can'.

 

I'm only a decade older than you Octave and I'm sure there are other forumites more senior than me. We are still here precisely because we are 'keeping on because we can'.

[nomadpete]

1 minute ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Glad you're alright, squire.

 

As the fella who is Mongrel Dog Productions on Youtube said "I would rather meet death head on"

I'm old enough to know I'd rather not meet anything head on.