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    And when she reads this.... she'll just move it
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    with age comes experience with experience comes knowledge with knowledge comes wisdom with wisdom comes understanding with understanding comes respect with respect you have learnt the lesson Blimey Paulus - needed another coffee to read that one. Very true though.
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    I have never laughed at using honey and maggots - in fact in many many years of nursing, I have used them hundreds of times. I said there was no evidence of calcium and iron in treacle - which is one of the claims you made for it As for it helping with chemo and hairloss - that is just stupid. Yes, all things can have a use, and you can find evidence on the net of people using all sorts of daft "cures" if you look hard enough.
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    It's rife in animal meds - much more so than human meds, as more people buy online, and there is less regulation when things go wrong. The classic is vaccinations - buying a box of 100 vials of saline, for a couple of quid, then jabbing dogs for £15 a time and saying it is vaccinated. Same with one of the antibiotics that is commonly brought for treating dogs - not only is it pretty useless for most bacteria that dogs are likely to pickup, but as it is meant for fish, not animals, it is usually a powder, that is destroyed by the animals stomach acid before it can be absorbed by the body - so i
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    There is nothing like seeing the BBMF going overhead. I read an interview with Barnes Wallace once - him talking about the effect it had had on him when he realised how many men had died, putting his idea into practice. Very moving.
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    Never heard anything about using treacle - at the end of the day it is sugar - not needed in people, or dogs. As for the chemo / hair loss - that is total rubbish. If treacle did help hair loss when people had chemotherapy, I am sure the NHS would have noticed that if something as cheap and easily available as treacle, could help, and they would be shoving spoonfulls of the stuff down patients throats. I also cannot find any evidence there is calcium and iron in treacle, in quantities that would be beneficial as a supplement. If a dog has a skin complaint - find the cause ( mites, poor d
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    Nope
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    Yes the merle gene is dominant, but it is a single gene, so no it won't always appear - so no a merle sire will not always produce all merle pups. The sire can be merle/normal gene or merle/merle gene, and obviously the bitch will give her own genes to the pup too.
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    Practice is the way forward, as Walshie says - keep at it.
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    That one at the back has wire cutters. You were lucky
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    I think I'd have smacked the owner one and kept the dog !
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    Good choice. I have a gut string classic, and a steel string that is more baroque - both cost about £110 each, and have been very good purchases for what I want them for. Nothing extravagant, but sound fine, strings are pretty cheap, and they don't suffer with climate change like some of the more expensive ones.
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    If the government had it's way, docs would be given the choice to work for the NHS or privately, rather than doing 40 hours NHS each week, and then putting private work on top. A lot of the docs I work with don't do any private work at all. It is normally non-medical managers that restrict the NHS waiting lists - especially for joint replacements - putting an age limit on when NHS patients can be put on the list - which doesn't happen in private work. A guy I know had a form of juvenile arthritis as a late teenager - knackered his hips to the point he couldn't do his shoelaces aged 30, and use
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    Funny though Lab, though I've done it more times than i'd like to recall i've never ever felt like that. Quite the opposite to be honest... You have a deep sense of conscious 'of what might have happened' and your best only to recall it with humor and banter to take the edge off... Taking the Michael out of a situation, especially with a real dark humor, sure helps you for next time and I've certainly never thought of anyone indebted to me... That is so true. Some of the things seen and done mean that the only way you can deal with it, is by laughing at it - and it seems horrible and sick
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    great adverts !
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    My dogs have a healthy respect for large, hooved animals, as they are around my horses a lot. I wouldn't trust or expect them to do any form of work with cattle though, and avoid the beasts whenever possible. I have seen dogs work them perfectly safely though - and many years work as a vet nurse in a mixed practice, dairy and beef alike, the dogs are superb at what they do. It only takes 1 slip up though - as I discovered when me, the vet, and the farmer were most of the way through a C-Section on a young heifer ( she got raped by the neighbours Belgian Blue bull...) and the poor girl suddenl
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    I was raised catholic, but soon realised that I didn't actually believe half of what was being taught, especially when "god created the world" lessons came straight after "evolution of animals and biology" lessons. Standing in a church doesn't make you religious anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car. For what it is worth, when I heard someone describing the new testament as " the most elaborate and long lasting cover story from a woman who found herself pregnant, when her fiancé thought she was a virgin...."
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    It depends on where you are and which NHS trust you are under. All NHS places have to abide by the 12 week wait - 12 weeks from referral by GP to being seen by specialist and having a "plan" made for treatment. Waiting time from MRI results to operation sounds very long though - again, depends on what treatment is needed, but list waiting times are also monitored and limited. As the majority of private doctors are the same as the NHS ones in the same area, the times for NHS waits and private waits are not always that different. Fingers crossed that whatever you have done, and whether NHS o
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    Good to hear
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    excellent !
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    Good to her that the dog is doing ok Jim E
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    Isn't this a bit boring now ?
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    classic !
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    Just because someone is stupid enough to lie to you - doesn't mean you have to be stupid enough to believe them !

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      LaraCroft

      I know you don't RAW, no one can wear a Buzz Onesie and tell porky pies !

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      R.A.W

      lol

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      LaraCroft

      One of these days I will forget about the Buzz Onesie. Just not yet :-)

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    i had the same protection from vodka/redbull when i was younger :laugh: Funny that ! When you ( ok, not just you, most people ) get drunk, the co-ordination goes, to stop you getting to the bar, then you can't get the glass to your mouth, then the brain says " oh FFS, if you will carry on drinking.... I'm gonna make you vomit ! " To be fair, I can't see you drinking vodka and red bull at all. Archers and orange juice pimms :laugh: ppffffttttt Thats not a roll up behind your ear is it - it's a ferkin cocktail stirrer !
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