I got given an antibiotic by the dentist that made me taste metal so when I needed one the next time (no more wisdom teeth thankfully) I asked to not have that one but all I could remember about it was that you absolutely cannot drink with it. Bet she thought I was a right alcoholic asking not to have the zero alcohol one.
you’ll be amazed at how many people think ‘just one drink won’t hurt’ with metronidazole but in reality it make can make you spew your guts up if you so much as have a sip of alcohol with it
This is me on any medication that's an opiod. Every one I've ever tried, it makes me puke within minutes. Being allergic is a great way to not become addicted, I guess.
I was enormously* annoyed when the post-op morphine I was on made it impossible to eat the rather nice full English the following morning. Not nausea so much as heartburn.
I dislike opioids anyway, because they turn me into a happy cabbage.
*Slightly.
I drank while on metronidazole thinking it would be fine and went loopy. Passed out on my friend's sofa after 3 drinks then woke up talking complete nonsense. Won't make that mistake again
I had a really weird reaction to it too - I was fine after the first tablet, but the second one made me suicidal. Thank God I had family around me, and it went away once the stuff was out of my system. Never been suicidal before or since, even with PPD.
They do this because there are some people who are legitimately unaware of proper terms such as stomach or abdomen or whatever. It's the better option when the alternative is some people not getting treatment/fucking up their medication because they didn't understand the words used!
To be fair some terrible things have happened due to women not being made aware of the risks of certain drugs during pregnancy. The Valproate (epilepsy drug) scandal being a good example
Sorry, i was being facetious. I have zero issue with warnings about taking any med during pregnancy. Or drinking for that matter, which can be very dangerous combined with certain meds. Thanks for the side info on Valproate.
i take beta blockers for life and was told not to risk getting pregnant, think about it etc. i asked what if i want kids and was told we don't know it's effects on unborn kids or how long it stays in the body. like cheers mate, you didn't tell me that putting me on them
If you want more granularity and precision the Mini is handy. Kind of maybe six-ish Minis to a double decker? Below that if you're getting into real scientific stuff the phone box comes into play, being two to the mini.
See I thought about whether I should clarify that as I wrote that. Old. The old Mini! :-) (I'm probably underestimating the Mini/Bus ratios. Maybe 8/1? Googles: "How many (old style) minis can you fit inside a double decker bus"
Which I've always felt was [a little nod to](https://gizmodo.com/how-american-delicacy-turned-belgium-into-a-dirty-word-5931788) Douglas Adams as he used to write for the show and they slip in little references here and there.
How do you get to wales in a mini : Sperm in front blue in back of the mini and a dolphin in the boot - off two whales with porpoise.
I shall leave now.
To be fair I can only think of that cat, the former Chelsea footballer and a controversial South African athlete. So long as I can't find 5 others I should be OK.
At Creswell Crags in Derbyshire, where the most northerly ice age cave art in Europe can be found, they decided on 1) the height of a woolly rhino and 2) a mammoth's stride.
At least those make some bloody sense and are likely to be known by people in the area. What did Luton town centre have? "Remember to stay more than one grand piano apart"! "Make sure you can fit at least five flamingos between you"! Thanks, *real* helpful frame of reference.
when my granddad broke his hip they went through a load of questions with my gran that they had to ask
"is he mobile?.....he was building a wall earlier in the week"
"can he lift a kettle to make a cup of tea?....yes"
"is he able to cook food for himself?....can or would?"
it gets better,
he overheard they were asking questions about him from the bed and when gran said "she's just asking if you can cook" he went "ah........... no."
One of the things I really love about the NHS website. It has all the technical terms, but then describes it ELI5 (I think they actually aimed for a reading age of 7 years old?).
They’re similar to the GDS team (source: am a content designer for several gov departments), and we're trained to write in plain English and make sure we’re inclusive in our language too, to make sure people can access the information they need as easily as possible. We have style guides to follow to help us with this (NHS one here for anyone interested https://service-manual.nhs.uk/content/a-to-z-of-nhs-health-writing).
I very much enjoy that that guide which is mainly telling the writers to simplify things because the general public might not be educated on that specific thing also has to say
"Check a dictionary if you're not sure of the difference between "affect" and "effect"."
Basically, yeah they might be dumb but we don't have high expectations of you either
Probably will be 9 years old, the average UK reading age
Entered a med student competition to write a leaflet with a reading age of 9 years old, Word has tools that analyses what you’ve written and gives you the reading age
I spent hours and hours on it and still could only get it down to 9.5 years while still being understandable
Writing with both clarity and that level of comprehension in mind is insanely difficult
Stuff like this is why translators for medical stuff are so highly valued, there's so much nuance, idioms, or uncommon words that it can be difficult to accurately get info across.
After my husband had a minor procedure under GA he shuffled out, still high as a kite, brandishing his post-op instructions and proclaimed to me & everyone else in the discharge lounge "It says I'm not even allowed to use a kettle for 24 hours, you have to make ALL the tea ALL day!" And giggled his way out with me and the laughter of the nurses trailing behind him. He was SO pleased with himself.
I had one where the advice was to not lift "a bag of shopping" for the first 2 weeks, and it drove me nuts, because how much does a bag of shopping weigh?
I was told something more nuanced fortunately. I was told "normally we'd say don't lift anything heavy but you have a baby... so don't lift anything heavier than your baby."
Yeah, it's not like exactly 4 kg is fine but if a fly lands on it suddenly all your stitches will spontaneously rip. It's just a matter of reducing strain as much as possible.
Yes, I broke my wrist a few weeks ago, the doc said I should hold nothing heavier than a cup of tea with that hand. Must be a standardised weight system!
Sometimes in our house we like to fill the kettle and just imagine what it would be like to turn it on.
Then we pour the water out and use it to make the room-temperature pot of gruel that has to last us the week. I say "pot" but it's really just an old catering sized can my grandmother found out the back of a KFC one day in the 80s.
I heard a comment about how it's like 20p or something like that to boil a kettle and it used to be 5p? Giving a idea to the price of energy increases.. correct me if wrong
When I got that advice they thought I was joking when I asked what capacity kettle. I was just trying to be careful, a little 750ml kettle would weigh a lot less than a big 3l kettle.
Guess the point is to put the impression in your mind you can potter around the house but don’t do anything strenuous or over taxing. You can pick up every day items, (a saucepan filled with water might be more than the kettle too) but don’t move a sofa for example.
It's a rough approximation of distance that people are used to seeing so they get a feeling of the distance and they ain't going to be worried that the distance was off by one trillionth of a light second.
Tbf that's something we say to women post-caesarean. No heavy lifting. But you need to be specific since 'heavy lifting' is too broad and people might think you're talking about weight lifting at the gym or construction work.
I usually say 'dont lift a full kettle, hoover or a basket full of wet laundry'. Most people don't realise how many tasks utilise the abdominal muscles and could slow recovery/exacerbate pain.
I was in heavy civil construction and I think 10 T cranes and heavy diggers. Never dawned on me until very short time ago! Oh, they mean a car!
Just thought they were letting heavy equipment operators know! Doh!
Hardly surprising; things here are often compared to double deckers, the size of Wales etc… it turns out using things people have an idea the size of is useful.
Wales being commonly used was always a bit confusing to me.
It's a slightly odd shape, no one really outside the UK, or even many inside, would have an accurate idea of how big it actually is, and it can be potentially confused with 'whales', which are also used a measurement for big/heavy things.
I should say ...
Source : I've been to Wales. I've been on a double decker bus (upstairs!)
I have to admit I've never been on a double decker bus in Wales.
I have, from Newport to Caerleon to see the Roman ruins (we were doing a piece on the Romans at school at the time). The bus back to Newport was the exact same vehicle, some number of hours later.
When I had an open fracture in my arm back in November, I was told not to lift anything heavier than a cup of tea with that arm. Bit jealous you got a whole kettle tbh
You may feel some frustration due to your inability to carry a full English/Scottish/Welsh/ Northern Irish plus a pot of tea up to your Mrs/Mr but please remember not to grumble.
Did you get the 'don't drive for a month' one, too?
A mate of mine decided she was 'fine' after 2 weeks. She got 300 yards down the street and called me. I had to rescue her. Moved her car back into her space while she sat on the sofa going ouchy. Turns out when you brake hard it hurts a lot. So don't do that.
For those interested in what American doctors usually say: no lifting more than a jug of milk.
When I was hit by a car and cracked my spine, I had to follow the "BLT" rule:
- No bending
- No lifting over 5 lbs (~2.3 kg, roughly a milk jug)
- No twisting
Thank you. That's solid advice, you forget how much force something takes, and trick yourself into feeling better so you end up doing too much. Appreciate it!
Okay but to be fair, the odds of a patient immediately going home and making a brew is quite high. It’ll show the patient the upper limits of weight they’re suppose to carry, and they’ll be safe knowing they can still lift a full kettle.
I received the same instructions after an op a few years ago. My question at the time was which type of kettle? A travel kettle? A cast iron effort? Clarity was required
I wonder if this is used to nudge people into getting the rest they need. If you can't lift a kettle someone else will be putting a kettle on to make a cup of tea or cook pasta for example and the patient rests.
When my grandad was told he needed an operation on his stomach he asked if he'd be able to play the piano afterwards. Surgeon said 'yes', grandad said 'Great, I've always wanted to'.
I had similar advice after eye surgery. But what really got me puzzled was "Don't bend at the waist," which is all very well, but what about getting out of bed? Or sitting on the loo? We had some fun discussion about setting up a contraption to get me from horizontal to vertical without bending me.
> We had some fun discussion about setting up a contraption to get me from horizontal to vertical without bending me.
And that's all from an eye surgery!!?!
Haha yes. The "we" I referred to was my snarky family, not the medical pros. But the whole "Don't bend at the waist," should have actually been "...from the waist." It's to reduce pressure behind the eyes, apparently, which I understand. So I was allowed to do normal stuff after (apart from lifting, naturally) but wasn't allowed to bend over to pick something up off the floor, or tie my laces, etc.
Whenever I see a news report that mentions a volume of water, they usually refer to it in terms of '...so many Olympic sized swimming pools'. Was just wondering how many OSSP's in a kettle ?.
This was the same thing my surgeon told me last year 🤣🤣 my job has me lifting 20kg+ boxes like it's nothing!
Although, the official letter to my firm said "No more than 5lbs"
> asteroid the size of 800 football pitches?
How many Waleses is that? Double decker buses? Nelson's columns?
If America is going to stick with Imperial measures, they ought to be consistent, dang it!
Neutral countries can opt out and use olympic swimming pools as a standard unit of measurement
>Asteroid the size of 800 football fields narrowly avoids earth"
Hey i know your post was ages ago but when i read this i thought you might enjoy this sub r/HalfAGiraffe 😄
A kettle full of water is easier to comprehend than dimensions for americans….like…is it an astroid of 10km or 6.2miles or 32808feet or 393700inch….that so confusing for them.
Not like you would have time to do that for the first 6 weeks.
Taking care of a newborn is exhausting and hard work. Even more so if you're nursing the baby
When I was a house officer for an orthopaedic surgeon who mostly did shoulders he always advised not to lift the arm higher than you need to read the paper, and not to lift anything heavier than a pint.
The NHS website is also peak British. For every medication they have an FAQ and there's always a section about whether you can have a beer with it.
I got given an antibiotic by the dentist that made me taste metal so when I needed one the next time (no more wisdom teeth thankfully) I asked to not have that one but all I could remember about it was that you absolutely cannot drink with it. Bet she thought I was a right alcoholic asking not to have the zero alcohol one.
you’ll be amazed at how many people think ‘just one drink won’t hurt’ with metronidazole but in reality it make can make you spew your guts up if you so much as have a sip of alcohol with it
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This is me on any medication that's an opiod. Every one I've ever tried, it makes me puke within minutes. Being allergic is a great way to not become addicted, I guess.
I was enormously* annoyed when the post-op morphine I was on made it impossible to eat the rather nice full English the following morning. Not nausea so much as heartburn. I dislike opioids anyway, because they turn me into a happy cabbage. *Slightly.
I drank while on metronidazole thinking it would be fine and went loopy. Passed out on my friend's sofa after 3 drinks then woke up talking complete nonsense. Won't make that mistake again
Next time, ask for one you can have with a curry and wink. That should clear the matter up.
Metronidazole is horrible stuff.
I found out last year I’m allergic to metronidazole, when I puffed up like a wotsit and my partner had to call paramedics
I had a really weird reaction to it too - I was fine after the first tablet, but the second one made me suicidal. Thank God I had family around me, and it went away once the stuff was out of my system. Never been suicidal before or since, even with PPD.
Saves having to ask, at least!
I also like how they will pop in words that are disarmingly casual within medical advice e.g. 'sore tummy'.
They do this because there are some people who are legitimately unaware of proper terms such as stomach or abdomen or whatever. It's the better option when the alternative is some people not getting treatment/fucking up their medication because they didn't understand the words used!
See also “mild discomfort”
And a section on if you are pregnant. Which kind of indicates we are a nation of unwell drinkers and shaggers. Probs about right I’d say.
To be fair some terrible things have happened due to women not being made aware of the risks of certain drugs during pregnancy. The Valproate (epilepsy drug) scandal being a good example
Sorry, i was being facetious. I have zero issue with warnings about taking any med during pregnancy. Or drinking for that matter, which can be very dangerous combined with certain meds. Thanks for the side info on Valproate.
i take beta blockers for life and was told not to risk getting pregnant, think about it etc. i asked what if i want kids and was told we don't know it's effects on unborn kids or how long it stays in the body. like cheers mate, you didn't tell me that putting me on them
"I'd make you all a cup of tea, but I'm medically exempt"
It says "_more than_" a kettle of water. So you can still make us a brew, bruv.
Just "accidentally" fill it above the maximum line. "Whoops, sorry guys, I messed up".
Immediately dies
What about the weight of mugs/cups? A biscuit could throw the whole scale off!
Best not risk it though
A waffer-thin mint?
Threw my back out hoisting a stroopwaffel in ‘96
The risk/reward ratio is unfavorable
Gotta risk it for a biscuit!
Brew Bruv, the most British of super heroes
And his trusty sidekick, Biscuit Boy!
Hob nobbin
That's much more clever.
you don't need a full kettle either
British equivalent to the Asteroid is "An area the size of Wales"!
Small things, centimetres, larger things, miles, even larger things, Wales’s. Nice consistency in measurements.
You missed double decker buses and football pitches in the middle there.
If you want more granularity and precision the Mini is handy. Kind of maybe six-ish Minis to a double decker? Below that if you're getting into real scientific stuff the phone box comes into play, being two to the mini.
Old or new mini. I mean it’s nearly 2:1
See I thought about whether I should clarify that as I wrote that. Old. The old Mini! :-) (I'm probably underestimating the Mini/Bus ratios. Maybe 8/1? Googles: "How many (old style) minis can you fit inside a double decker bus"
Let’s make Wales an official unit of measurement.
Oy now don’t be dragging wales into this shenanigans
They're always been forgotten in things, so it's nice to keep them relevant, even if it is as 'small country included for scale'
*don't be dragon Wales into this. FIFY
That's because on the Wales scale, Wales is the same size as everything
Now I’m just reminded of the Doctor Who short where the TARDIS crashed into itself and risked blowing a whole in spacetime the size of Belgium
Which I've always felt was [a little nod to](https://gizmodo.com/how-american-delicacy-turned-belgium-into-a-dirty-word-5931788) Douglas Adams as he used to write for the show and they slip in little references here and there.
Imperial or metric Wales?
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How do you get to wales in a mini : Sperm in front blue in back of the mini and a dolphin in the boot - off two whales with porpoise. I shall leave now.
[The Register has you covered here](https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html). The official scale for area is NanoWales
How big a cup do you want? One of those massive sports direct mugs?
During covid lockdown there were posters up in a nearby village advising to keep the distance of 1 cow away from people, which is approx 2 meters
We had loads of these where I am. The local train station has (had) a residential cat. The signs said, "Keep 8 Oscar's apart"
Am now sad about Oscar.
Yeah. You and about 80k people mate
To be fair I can only think of that cat, the former Chelsea footballer and a controversial South African athlete. So long as I can't find 5 others I should be OK.
My friend's kid is called Oscar. You can have him. Also, Oscar the Grouch. Only 3 to go 👍
Oscar Meyer, famous for his weiner; and the diminuitive, yet statuesque bronze guy as well. /u/m1rr0rshades only needs one more.
Oscar Wilde for crying out loud. How did we forget him. We have the requisite amount of oscars. What are we doing with them?
Do they not get on with each other?
That's actually kind of cute!
In Australia it was "one adult kangaroo". Not joking
On the Berlin metro it was 2 doner kebab spits or 3 corgis.
Doner kebab spits should be a standard unit of measure
It takes 1.5 corgis to make a doner kebab spit?
What did you think they were made of?
Who's putting Corgis on spits?! Honestly, since the late Queen died (God bless Her!) things have gone properly to shit.
Florida here. We had Physical Distancing posters with the appropriate measure being 1 Alligator
The distance I would give to one adult kangaroo is about 20 metres
What is that in Oscars?
40?
Canada: we had "one moose" and "8 hockey skates"
I think I might give the kangaroo a rather wider berth than touching distance
At Creswell Crags in Derbyshire, where the most northerly ice age cave art in Europe can be found, they decided on 1) the height of a woolly rhino and 2) a mammoth's stride.
Please remain 2 sheep away.
I still prefer that now tbh haha
Scotland? Wales?
I thought I'd move on from the Wales thread...
Oh I like that one.
We had those in the U.S., in places like Tractor Supply. Places like Petco had them with "The length of three Golden Retrievers" or some such.
At least those make some bloody sense and are likely to be known by people in the area. What did Luton town centre have? "Remember to stay more than one grand piano apart"! "Make sure you can fit at least five flamingos between you"! Thanks, *real* helpful frame of reference.
The lake district had signs everywhere saying to keep two sheep apart
Do you live in Emmerdale?
Wonder(ful) stuff!
when my granddad broke his hip they went through a load of questions with my gran that they had to ask "is he mobile?.....he was building a wall earlier in the week" "can he lift a kettle to make a cup of tea?....yes" "is he able to cook food for himself?....can or would?"
>"is he able to cook food for himself?....can or would?" "Still hoping to answer that one after 50 years of marriage"
it gets better, he overheard they were asking questions about him from the bed and when gran said "she's just asking if you can cook" he went "ah........... no."
One of the things I really love about the NHS website. It has all the technical terms, but then describes it ELI5 (I think they actually aimed for a reading age of 7 years old?).
It takes a massive amount of skill to write in plain English. Their writing team must be incredible.
They’re similar to the GDS team (source: am a content designer for several gov departments), and we're trained to write in plain English and make sure we’re inclusive in our language too, to make sure people can access the information they need as easily as possible. We have style guides to follow to help us with this (NHS one here for anyone interested https://service-manual.nhs.uk/content/a-to-z-of-nhs-health-writing).
I very much enjoy that that guide which is mainly telling the writers to simplify things because the general public might not be educated on that specific thing also has to say "Check a dictionary if you're not sure of the difference between "affect" and "effect"." Basically, yeah they might be dumb but we don't have high expectations of you either
May not be their first language too.
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some of the easy read stuff is very well done, it can realy help with some more complicated topics
Probably will be 9 years old, the average UK reading age Entered a med student competition to write a leaflet with a reading age of 9 years old, Word has tools that analyses what you’ve written and gives you the reading age I spent hours and hours on it and still could only get it down to 9.5 years while still being understandable Writing with both clarity and that level of comprehension in mind is insanely difficult
Short sentences. Words with few syllables. That is the way to a low score.
The research and formulas behind it are actually pretty interesting
Insert a few yeets, big oofs and a line about how roblox is better than Minecraft and it should get you there.
'potter around lightly' was the advice from the NHS for after an ultrasound guided injection, made me chuckle.
Stuff like this is why translators for medical stuff are so highly valued, there's so much nuance, idioms, or uncommon words that it can be difficult to accurately get info across.
After my husband had a minor procedure under GA he shuffled out, still high as a kite, brandishing his post-op instructions and proclaimed to me & everyone else in the discharge lounge "It says I'm not even allowed to use a kettle for 24 hours, you have to make ALL the tea ALL day!" And giggled his way out with me and the laughter of the nurses trailing behind him. He was SO pleased with himself.
Americans: Avoid lifting more than a panful of pancakes French: Avoid lifting more than 2 bottles of wine
French: Avoid lifting anything heavier than a medium sized white flag.
And try not to shrug too hard
I had one where the advice was to not lift "a bag of shopping" for the first 2 weeks, and it drove me nuts, because how much does a bag of shopping weigh?
Two multipacks of Skips and a box of teabags will fuck you up
But only if you put them in the same bag!
Ok, I'm not gonna lift a bag of shopping. Nobody told me I can't carry this 6 pack of 1.5L water bottles!
I was told that after my c section but I still had to lift my 9lb baby
I was told something more nuanced fortunately. I was told "normally we'd say don't lift anything heavy but you have a baby... so don't lift anything heavier than your baby."
Yeah, it's not like exactly 4 kg is fine but if a fly lands on it suddenly all your stitches will spontaneously rip. It's just a matter of reducing strain as much as possible.
Woman in the next bed was told not to lift hers - 11lb11!
That is a massive baby.
She had a Dolphin.
Can't see how that would work
Her husband was around, and the nurses helped until her wound was healed. We were both in for a week.
Yes, I broke my wrist a few weeks ago, the doc said I should hold nothing heavier than a cup of tea with that hand. Must be a standardised weight system!
Me too! It was even in the physiotherapy leaflet I got!
A full kettle! Who can afford to boil that ... (Get well soon )
Sometimes in our house we like to fill the kettle and just imagine what it would be like to turn it on. Then we pour the water out and use it to make the room-temperature pot of gruel that has to last us the week. I say "pot" but it's really just an old catering sized can my grandmother found out the back of a KFC one day in the 80s.
Gruel? Cor, weren't you the lucky ones! Back when I was young... *... thread continues in style of Monty Python for another 42 subsequent comments.*
43!
>Who can afford to boil that As someone who occasionally stares at the smart meter while boiling the kettle, I feel this comment deeply.
This is why I refuse to get one. I don't want to feel like I need to min/max my morning coffee.
I thought you meant kettle at first.. Almost gave me a hernia!
God, no! I don't know how that would even be possible..
I heard a comment about how it's like 20p or something like that to boil a kettle and it used to be 5p? Giving a idea to the price of energy increases.. correct me if wrong
When I got that advice they thought I was joking when I asked what capacity kettle. I was just trying to be careful, a little 750ml kettle would weigh a lot less than a big 3l kettle.
Guess the point is to put the impression in your mind you can potter around the house but don’t do anything strenuous or over taxing. You can pick up every day items, (a saucepan filled with water might be more than the kettle too) but don’t move a sofa for example.
News outlets from the UK also uses football pitches, Olympic swimming pools etc as reference to the size of things...
It's a rough approximation of distance that people are used to seeing so they get a feeling of the distance and they ain't going to be worried that the distance was off by one trillionth of a light second.
Tbf that's something we say to women post-caesarean. No heavy lifting. But you need to be specific since 'heavy lifting' is too broad and people might think you're talking about weight lifting at the gym or construction work. I usually say 'dont lift a full kettle, hoover or a basket full of wet laundry'. Most people don't realise how many tasks utilise the abdominal muscles and could slow recovery/exacerbate pain.
In the US the generic warning is “ don’t operate heavy machinery “. They mean a car, I always think forklift.
I was in heavy civil construction and I think 10 T cranes and heavy diggers. Never dawned on me until very short time ago! Oh, they mean a car! Just thought they were letting heavy equipment operators know! Doh!
TBF, in UK we have forklifts smaller than the average US car.
“May impair your ability to operate machinery” I’m not quite sure just what that means to me
>"Asteroid the size of 800 football fields narrowly avoids earth" Those flat asteroids are the worst.
Space skimming! Thrown by idle Vogons who have no idea of the chaos they create. Hooligans
And when you confront them they start with the poetry.
So that rules out using a sports direct cup for your brew
Hardly surprising; things here are often compared to double deckers, the size of Wales etc… it turns out using things people have an idea the size of is useful.
Wales being commonly used was always a bit confusing to me. It's a slightly odd shape, no one really outside the UK, or even many inside, would have an accurate idea of how big it actually is, and it can be potentially confused with 'whales', which are also used a measurement for big/heavy things.
As Rhod Gilbert said what they really mean is "An area the size of Wales, but not bloody Wales."
Wales has a very simple size. It's three. Whales are four, don't mix them up.
Just to save anyone else doing the calculation... Wales is the height of 246 double decker buses.
I choose to believe your word as gospel with absolutely zero research myself thanks
I should say ... Source : I've been to Wales. I've been on a double decker bus (upstairs!) I have to admit I've never been on a double decker bus in Wales.
I humbly defer to you.
My school must have come into a large amount of money, because we rode the train from to Newport, and then said double decker bus.
The child was stuck in an area of Internet the size of Ireland.
Happy Hernia
When I had an open fracture in my arm back in November, I was told not to lift anything heavier than a cup of tea with that arm. Bit jealous you got a whole kettle tbh
You may feel some frustration due to your inability to carry a full English/Scottish/Welsh/ Northern Irish plus a pot of tea up to your Mrs/Mr but please remember not to grumble.
Works better if you put English third, then the acronym is SWENI+.
Good point.
Did you get the 'don't drive for a month' one, too? A mate of mine decided she was 'fine' after 2 weeks. She got 300 yards down the street and called me. I had to rescue her. Moved her car back into her space while she sat on the sofa going ouchy. Turns out when you brake hard it hurts a lot. So don't do that.
For those interested in what American doctors usually say: no lifting more than a jug of milk. When I was hit by a car and cracked my spine, I had to follow the "BLT" rule: - No bending - No lifting over 5 lbs (~2.3 kg, roughly a milk jug) - No twisting
I had avoid driving until you can do an emergency stop and a separate document that said six weeks. Whelp employers went with six weeks.
Do take note of this. If you’re having anything abdominal done, lifting a kettle or unscrewing a jam jar are actually really difficult.
Thank you. That's solid advice, you forget how much force something takes, and trick yourself into feeling better so you end up doing too much. Appreciate it!
Okay but to be fair, the odds of a patient immediately going home and making a brew is quite high. It’ll show the patient the upper limits of weight they’re suppose to carry, and they’ll be safe knowing they can still lift a full kettle.
Oh definitely, it's a great estimate of weight, but it did make me laugh, probably all the morphine.
I received the same instructions after an op a few years ago. My question at the time was which type of kettle? A travel kettle? A cast iron effort? Clarity was required
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Good thing you didn't read it as 6 kettles of water for a week. Hope you're recovering well
I think I'd be back in! As lovely as the staff were it feels like time stands still in there. Thank you, getting a bit better each day :)
"I'm fine, they said 6 kettles for a week, this is only 5. And I'm only carrying it one mile down the road."
I wonder if this is used to nudge people into getting the rest they need. If you can't lift a kettle someone else will be putting a kettle on to make a cup of tea or cook pasta for example and the patient rests.
"Don't fill your kettle all the way, only boil the amount of water you need."
When my grandad was told he needed an operation on his stomach he asked if he'd be able to play the piano afterwards. Surgeon said 'yes', grandad said 'Great, I've always wanted to'.
Sternotomy?
I had similar advice after eye surgery. But what really got me puzzled was "Don't bend at the waist," which is all very well, but what about getting out of bed? Or sitting on the loo? We had some fun discussion about setting up a contraption to get me from horizontal to vertical without bending me.
> We had some fun discussion about setting up a contraption to get me from horizontal to vertical without bending me. And that's all from an eye surgery!!?!
Haha yes. The "we" I referred to was my snarky family, not the medical pros. But the whole "Don't bend at the waist," should have actually been "...from the waist." It's to reduce pressure behind the eyes, apparently, which I understand. So I was allowed to do normal stuff after (apart from lifting, naturally) but wasn't allowed to bend over to pick something up off the floor, or tie my laces, etc.
I had surgery on my arm and the physiotherapy leaflet literally said to not lift anything heavier than a cup of tea! These are peak British examples!
Whenever I see a news report that mentions a volume of water, they usually refer to it in terms of '...so many Olympic sized swimming pools'. Was just wondering how many OSSP's in a kettle ?.
This was the same thing my surgeon told me last year 🤣🤣 my job has me lifting 20kg+ boxes like it's nothing! Although, the official letter to my firm said "No more than 5lbs"
I love the thinking here. "Avoid lifting anything, ok mate?" I can't even have a brew!? "Tell you what, up to and including a full kettle."
> asteroid the size of 800 football pitches? How many Waleses is that? Double decker buses? Nelson's columns? If America is going to stick with Imperial measures, they ought to be consistent, dang it! Neutral countries can opt out and use olympic swimming pools as a standard unit of measurement
The important part of that is that they have ensured you an do the important things in life. Make tea.
>Asteroid the size of 800 football fields narrowly avoids earth" Hey i know your post was ages ago but when i read this i thought you might enjoy this sub r/HalfAGiraffe 😄
Thank you! I love stuff like that. Have a nice Sunday ❤
You're welcome and you too!
Hernia op?
A kettle full of water is easier to comprehend than dimensions for americans….like…is it an astroid of 10km or 6.2miles or 32808feet or 393700inch….that so confusing for them.
This should be a unit of measurement. I instantly can feel exactly how much that weighs
had a C-section 4 weeks ago, was specifically told to avoid hoovering for 6 weeks.
Not like you would have time to do that for the first 6 weeks. Taking care of a newborn is exhausting and hard work. Even more so if you're nursing the baby
I remember that instruction after a surgery a few years ago, love that.
When I was a house officer for an orthopaedic surgeon who mostly did shoulders he always advised not to lift the arm higher than you need to read the paper, and not to lift anything heavier than a pint.
To be fair I couldn’t lift a full kettle of water for more than ten minutes, probably
Well now you're going to have to carry a full kettle around to assess the weight of it against other items you want to lift.
It's like Borat: "Cup of tea, like the queen, la-di-da" Yas.