Benedict16th

Madder and badder than the 15th

Friday, 24 November 2006

God doesn't believe in Athiests

GK Chesterton said "there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.", how about a third type, Athiests who run the dogma over in their karma ...

Researched* with thanks to Beep Beep and her original source A.C. Grayling in the Guardian Unlimited

Benedict




* Plagiarism is stealing from one author, research is stealing from many

Wednesday, 22 November 2006

Plateau

Okay - so I haven't lost weight in the last week (as I swish down the last tim tam with a rather nice red...)
however I was inspired by this site.
Bugger the high triglycerides, so what if my HDL is less than my IQ.... I am fat and I am proud...
and the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance



is the Answer...
PTL it is not my fault my BMI hovers around 35-36, it is yours, I am fat and happy (arghh damn cramp speading from my chest up my left shoulder, into my neck and down my arm, just like a damn elephant sitting on my chest...)

Remember Fat is not a Four letter word! (direct from NAAFA), and it isn't their fault they are just trying to make money.

All Hail the Fat god
In Saturated Fats we prey.

Benedict

Plateau

Okay - so I haven't lost weight in the last week (as I swish down the last tim tam with a rather nice red...)
however I was inspired by this site.
Bugger the high triglycerides, so what if my HDL is less than my IQ.... I am fat and I am proud...
and the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance



is the Answer...
PTL it is not my fault my BMI hovers around 35-36, it is yours, I am fat and happy (arghh damn cramp speading from my chest up my left shoulder, into my neck and down my arm, just like a damn elephant sitting on my chest...)

Remember Fat is not a Four letter word! (direct from NAAFA), and it isn't their fault they are just trying to make money.

All Hail the Fat god
In Saturated Fats we prey.

Benedict

Saturday, 4 November 2006

BMI 36 and falling

2 more kilos down.
BMI 36.

and the bruising is almost all gone, If I can only get Little Benny to stop dive-bombing on my abdomen!

I saw one of my patients today who had a band put in 3 weeks before I did, he also knew I was going for the band.
He presented because his abdominal and back pain was getting worse and there was a 3 cm diameter red swollen patch around the portal site. He is NIDDM and gets acute on chronic pancreatitis.... Bloods WCC 17xE+05 (94% neuts with reactive lymphocytes and a shift to the left), CRP 75 ESR 128 - too bad the surgeon who ordered the bloods 3 days ago didn't actually check them (or bother to cc a copy to me - are you taking notes here my specialist colleagues?) !!!! Reminds me, I had better phone the surgeon on Monday (it is about midnight Saturday at the moment maybe I should phone him now?)* Actually I might wait until I find out of the patient survived the weekend or not.

This means his portal site (where the band gets inflated or deflated) is infected, this means his band probably had to come out, and his morbidity is pretty damn high and that is before the laparoscopic/open surgery to remove everything and then the barrage of antibiotics etc...

It is a stark reminder of what can go wrong with surgery and how bloody lucky I have been!

Thinking of you BJ**

Benedict

* Q. What is the difference between God and a Surgeon? A. God doesn't think she is a surgeon***

** in a blokey, macho way of course!

*** (actual conversation heard between two cardiothoracic surgeons after a successful CABG without the consultant being there) "Q. What is the difference between God and a Cardiothoracic Surgeon? A. God wishes he was a Cardiothoracic Surgeon"
(I kid you not!)