Just 8 lives left now apparently….
Fripp lives to fight another day
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
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Just 8 lives left now apparently….
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Too much information though.
If he likes it, maybe Toyah will start to oblige. For Bob, I mean. COR!
Well, I’m sorry to hear that news – although glad that he had a successful outcome.
More power to his elbow – I have nothing but good wishes for the old chap!
I like the fact that Mr Fripp has retained his rather charming Dorset accent. Nice.
They really are the oddest couple, but after all this time are clearly still besotted with each other.
Good for them – we should all be so lucky!
They make a lovely pair
Always spooks me that he looks so much like my Granddad, albeit far less introverted than he was.
Too much sitting down practice, clearly.
Seriously, glad he’s OK. Acid reflux is bad stuff. I had it badly for years and finally got it dealt with but along the way discovered I now have Barrett’s Oesophagus thanks to the regular acid. Not too developed thankfully.
Didn’t he have a heart attack, Twang?
Yes but in the video he talks about his reflux problem which is in some way related apparently.
Nah – just that cardiac pain can be mistaken for reflux pain, and vice versa.
Quick anecdote – I’d been up all night with pain that I thought was gastritis – couldn’t get it to resolve with double dose lansoprazole, paracetamol and buscopan. Eventually couldn’t tolerate it and phoned out-of-hours emergency GP – didn’t get past the receptionist. She listened to me trying to speak and breathe, told me to hang up immediately and phone 999. Control room basically did the same – sent an ambulance out immediately, told me if I had any aspirin in the house and could access it, I should crunch up and swallow 300mg, make sure my door was unlocked and wait for Armageddon*.
Admitted to hospital and established fairly quickly that I no cardiac issues. But I did have a raging case of cholecystitis – start of my journey toward jaundice, ERCP and eventual gallbladder removal.
*no they didn’t – they said wait for the ambulance.
Jeez, that sounds frightening. This getting old malarky sure does suck. Hoping for the best for you.
The old chole is no fun, indeed. I suspected I had pancreatitis so, once the first slow spasm subsided, courtesy morphine, I was delighted it was just my gall bladder, cramping down inexorably on pesky stones therein.
I suppose the danger is really the opposite of what happened to me – my gallbladder pain was mistaken for cardiac pain, so I got the all mod cons blue light experience by mistake.
But what seems to have happened to Mr Fripp is that he knew he had previously had reflux, so he therefore assumed that his pain was reflux rather than cardiac and didn’t get it checked.
Based on my (Crohns treatment drug side effect induced) experience of pancreatitis, you don’t want that at all.
Also-bloody-lutely.
Which drug?
Thanks Gary – but this was early 2023. I had the bugger out in May 2024 – and good riddance!
Ah, right, I didn’t realise. Back when you were still a young stallion!
Blimey Fitter. Just, blimey. Glad that’s a once in a lifetime thing.
I recently did an evening of CPR training provided by a local air ambulance charity.
Heart attacks are surprisingly common and usually at home with family (because we are mostly at home with family), the patient remains conscious, and survival rates are high if caught early.
It’s sudden cardiac arrest which needs the Staying Alive style chest compressions. Defrib finder is a jolly useful tool, too.
https://www.defibfinder.uk/
I am not medically qualified, the AW has enough of those already.
But if you see a similar event advertised, my advice is to go. It was really interesting and could, potentially, save a life.
In the last 5 years 4 apparently healthy people I know have had heart attacks. One died, a close work colleague, I think I mentioned it here. He was only 50. I wonder if there is a connection with Covid.
I know it sounds obvious, but the whole point of CPR is to force air into the lungs to oxygenate blood, and to keep that blood flowing in the absence of an operational pump. Anything which puts a strain on the lungs and/or heart (e.g. Covid) might well be a factor. I’m obviously speaking engineer to engineer, not as a doctor.
It can happen to anyone, I lost a close friend in his mid 20s and a cousin in his early 40s.
One of my tediously accumulating health issues is acid reflux. I was checked out thoroughly when my blood pressure rocketed at the beginning of 2024 so as far as I know my heart is OK at least for now. The acid reflux though is unpleasant. I take a pill everyday to control it and drink peppermint tea along with watching what I eat. I am slowly falling apart with the encroaching years which is only to be expected. Not much fun though everyday is an adventure.
I too suffer from acid reflux brought on by a hiatus hernia. I drank gallons of peppermint tea until a friend told me it is one of the worst so-called remedies that you can take. Apparently it can worsen symptoms by relaxing the lower oesophageal sphincter, which can allow stomach acid to flow back into the oesophagus (thank you, Dr Google). I’m on PPIs which can have other nasty long-term effects, but it’s the only thing that keeps the reflux at bay.
I’ll nix the peppermint and move over onto ginger and give that a whirl. Thanks and hope you’re feeling well. It’s a bugger ain’t it.
Yep same here for the hernia and reflux and when they finally did the endoscopy they found an ulcer in my oesophagus too. The symptom of this is GERD where your food backs up and you can’t get it down. Bloody horrible. 3×20 mg of omeprazole daily and I’m good.
Much of the concern about omeprazole is theoretical, and around the lack of consequent acid preventing due absorption of essential minerals. Like calcium. Never shown to be an issue. Likewise B12 and other essentials. Mind you, I have a vested interest, having been successfully able to swallow, without pain or obstruction, since about 2001, thanks to omeprazole.
But @twang, consider 40 over 60mg daily!
My sliding HH is beautifully controlled on one lansoprazole 30mg daily – huzzah!
It’s the best.
…better than all the rest…
I had acid reflux after a heart attack 17 years ago, at the ripe old/young* age (*take your pick) of 54. I’d never had it before and it was, the kind doctors explained, a reaction to the cholesterol-lowering and blood pressure controlling drugs I’d been prescribed. Since then, while I’ve never considered NOT taking the blood pressure or cholesterol tablets, I have thought “I don’t need these other bloody pills”. And then sure enough after laying off them for a while the reflux comes back. Silly me, thinking I could defy medical knowledge!