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Offline gertbysea

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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #960 on: July 17, 2012, 12:44:53 pm »
Once I was  waiting  around for a Caesar to turn up in the OT. In the nurses lounge we had a bag of macadamias . The wardsman and I decided to crack a few  without a tool . Eventually he put some in the hinge of the  heavy swinging door into the theatre and flung it hard. The macadamia won. I had to,call out the hospital,engineer on a Sunday morning to fix it.  Naturally we never owned up to it. While the door was being repaired I  unwrapped a lovely  sterile solid metal hammer  used in orthopaedics  not remembering it was to be used the next morning for a hip replacement. I then had to explain to,the sterilising unit manager  how I came to open the package  and why it had to be re sterilised right away for for the morning list. Of course I explained that it had fallen off the shelf while I was cleaning and had a wee hole  in the package.

The nuts were lovely.

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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #961 on: July 17, 2012, 12:51:30 pm »
So you always were a bit of a devil girl then Gert ;D
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Judy from North Haven, South Australia

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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #962 on: July 17, 2012, 12:54:01 pm »
You really must have wanted those macadamias.
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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #963 on: July 17, 2012, 12:54:55 pm »
No not al all JD. There are a lot of very interesting items in the store room of an operating theatre including a lovely boxed set of glass eyeballs just to mention one?  Lovely to find one staring up at you  from the bottom of your soup bowl.

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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #964 on: July 17, 2012, 01:00:50 pm »
Quote from: mcmich on July 17, 2012, 12:54:01 pm
You really must have wanted those macadamias.

I think mcmich it was about the challenge of cracking them  opened and using our imagination.  They certainly are a very hard nut to crack.
If the hammer had not worked I remember I was going to open the bolt cutters next. That really would  have been hard to,explain.

Gert
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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #965 on: July 17, 2012, 01:01:24 pm »
A bit like the false teeth I found in my pumpkin soup when I went to a dinner/show taking off the Fawlty Towers programme. :o :D
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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #966 on: July 17, 2012, 01:02:25 pm »
Nurses have their own sense of humour.
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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #967 on: July 17, 2012, 01:06:24 pm »
Quote from: judydawn on July 17, 2012, 01:01:24 pm
A bit like the false teeth I found in my pumpkin soup when I went to a dinner/show taking off the Fawlty Towers programme. :o :D

That is hysterical ;D

Quote from: mcmich on July 17, 2012, 01:02:25 pm
Nurses have their own sense of humour.

Just give  us a bottle of gentian violet  or iodine.  The possibilities are endless eh?

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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #968 on: July 17, 2012, 01:08:48 pm »
 gentian violet thats a name l have not heard of  for years
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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #969 on: July 17, 2012, 01:10:34 pm »
Quote from: nazar on July 17, 2012, 01:08:48 pm
gentian violet thats a name l have not heard of  for years

A recipe for good or for evil. LOL!

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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #970 on: July 17, 2012, 01:12:50 pm »
good my mum used to use it all the time
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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #971 on: July 17, 2012, 01:13:58 pm »
Quote from: nazar on July 17, 2012, 01:12:50 pm
good my mum used to use it all the time

What for Nazar?

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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #972 on: July 17, 2012, 01:14:56 pm »
 from memory her eyes  l think   its  purple  liquid  isn't it
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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #973 on: July 17, 2012, 01:28:21 pm »
Yes it is. It was widely used as an anti bacterial and anti fungal. It could cause some staining to the skin if not cleaned  properly. It was used in inks and was early on used in fingerprinting.

I have two small round tattoos  on my body  where a needle which was dipped into gentian violet  and then pricked on my skin to mark the perimeter of  radiation therapy when I had breast cancer.

Kids used to use it for home made tattooing years ago.  If they knew I guess they would use it today.

It is still used for herpes zoster.

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Re: Anyone want to join me on my $100 per week food challenge
« Reply #974 on: July 17, 2012, 01:31:53 pm »
 l remember the purple rings on our bathroom shelf  and mums purple fingers and l think she would put it on our sores
 what is herpes zoster
 l  hope it was a long time ago and that your all better cancer free now
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