Off topic's off topic thread

[Harrison]

Yes, I am typing this from my hospital bed at the moment as I was taken ill recently.

I hope it isn't anything too serious?

Get well soon!

[v85rawdeal]

Quinsy/Tonsillitis [delete according to personal opinion]

All I know was I couldnt eat or sleep since Saturday night!!!

Two of my favourite hobbies!

[Harrison]

Are you having your tonsils removed?

I used to get tonsillitis a lot when I was young, but they never wanted to remove them. I remember being off ill from Infant school and not being able to eat much.

[v85rawdeal]

They're hesitant about it, as the effect on my body defences could be quite drastic, apparently!

Ho-hum, such is life!

[Buleste]

They're hesitant about it, as the effect on my body defences could be quite drastic, apparently!

Ho-hum, such is life!

You need all your bodies defences to fight off all the superbugs you'll be exposed to.

[Harrison]

That is true. My theory is that all these superbugs have been brought into the hospitals from the 90+ percent of foreign nurses we now seem to have working in them!

[Buleste]

I have to say i don't like that last post. The reason there are superbugs is due to outsourcing of cleaning within hospitals and also the drug companies not improving anti-biotics. Superbugs are a prime example of evolution. The only way for bugs to survive an attack by penicillin etc was to become resistant to them and as the life cycle of germs is so short they evolved faster than anyone thought plus the use of anti biotics has meant that our own immune system has not evolved to combat the bugs in the first place so we are more suseptable to them.
The foreign nurses are doing a superb job that very few people in Britain are willing to do. Superbugs were imbedded within our hospitals long before the latest influx of immigrants to the NHS.