Cameras for the disabled…

From my search engine list:- “camera for the disabled”. Well, that one’s very simple – there’s no such thing. What camera to choose depends on many factors, of which your particular disability is but one, though arguably the most important one. Still, if you’re thinking of buying a camera, you must be capable of using [...]

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Be careful with antibiotics – finish the course…

Another selection from my search engine list:-  “Can I take one day’s worth of antibiotics?” to which the only sensible answer is not if you have the brains god gave a gopher. I mean, why the hell would you? One day’s worth of antibiotics will do absolutely nothing for you. It won’t even harm you, [...]

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I’ve bought a lemon and I want my money back…

(With apologies to Meatloaf.) . Note:- There is a response from Route2Mobility, Motability’s scooter and powerchair arm, and my reply, at the end of page 2. See also this post for details of how the range of powerchairs and scooters is established. It’s quite staggering, and entirely divorced from the real world. . My Class [...]

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Christmas is coming, and coming, and coming…

I just love this – the Movement for the Containment of Christmas has vandalised three charity shops for selling Christmas cards in the middle of what, this year, passes for summer. The Movement, which may well be just one guy, superglued the shops’ locks in protest. Now, I realise charity shops have to make money [...]

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DHC Continus – a warning…

Partly as a result of being stuck by lightning, partly because of my ME/CFS, and also because of spreading osteo-arthritis, I am in often severe pain 24/7. I have several pain meds, DHC Continus, of course, 30/500 Co-codamol, Naproxen, an anti-inflammatory, and Paracetamol, which I take in whatever combination seems most appropriate. Make that have [...]

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Pharmacists’ Dispensing Standards – how good are they?

The following is from the BBC News website:- Pharmacists are calling for a change in the law, which criminalises them for dispensing the wrong drug. In April, locum pharmacist Elizabeth Lee, was prosecuted under the 1968 Medicines Act for giving a patient beta-blockers instead of steroids. The patient, Carmel Sheller, 72, from Windsor, later died [...]

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Shingles vaccine imminent…

GPs set for shingles immunisation programme in elderly patients, says the headline in the Search Medica newsletter Government advisers have, apparently, recommended a herpes zoster vaccination programme for everyone aged 70 or over, and some other high-risk groups. There seems to be no indication when this will happen, so far, at least. Experts say that [...]

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Questions about DLA and emphysema…

A question about claiming DLA, followed by one about DLA and emphysema/COPD. From my search engine section comes this gem “What illness do you need to get DLA?” For me, that says, “What illness can I claim to have, to fiddle DLA?”. Maybe I’m just cynical (yep), and it’s just a badly phrased question, but [...]

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Spud-U-Don’t Like

I’ve complained about the quality of potatoes on sale before and, hey, here we go again. Seriously, there is something radically wrong. Back in the spring I switched from my favourite Maris Piper spud, because many potatoes in the bags simply were not Maris Piper (wrong texture, wrong moisture content, wrong taste), to Vivaldi. The [...]

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Lockerbie and the US reaction…

It occurs to me that the US reaction to the release of the alleged Lockerbie bomber, on compassionate grounds, is massively out of touch with reality, not least because the US concept of justice and compassion is deeply flawed, as just two examples demonstrate. In the United States, Lt. William Calley served three years house [...]

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