Good news. You now have a plan if it happens again.

I still would.

Coopers Green wrote:

This is my second day off work with cramps, bloating and diarrhea. 

My poor beautiful behind:

Get to the doctors tomorrow if it's not sorted.

I have had the blue torch before.
This was full on red hot prong.

It was hard to tell exactly but I think the process involved wedging a series of silver pins into the tooth then using the prong to melt them deep into the tooth. No amount of blue light is gonna do that.

I think you are pretty spot on there Cosby.
I imagine there are other, less alarming ways of doing it but I'm fairly chill at the dentist so they probably thought it fine.

@Live Yeah, the tools dentists use are somewhat intimidating - especially combined with the noises drills make, so that alone can put you on edge.

One of my old dentists had that poster of every Simpsons character ever on the ceiling above the chair, which was genius. I'd focus on looking for certain characters or groups of characters and it really helped me relax.

Just woken up to severe stomach cramps and diorrehea. Mrs Dino is fine though. We did go to a wedding Saturday night, food seemed fine. Yesterday other than usual breakkie had a portion of fish n chips for dinner. Gotta be the wedding food with a delay?!?

Food poisoning shows up within 12hrs max dunnit?

Scout wrote:

I'm one week into six weeks of having this daft finger splint on to sort my torn tendon. It's just totally frustrating and inconvenient more than anything. Yesterday I managed to get chocolate dust on it from a cappuccino that ended up looking like a smear of shite after an unsuccessful arse wipe.

Middle finger?

Dino, was it a finger buffet?

Scout wrote:

Ha, no worries Cosby. And yes, Griff, middle finger.

Did you least get it set to finger blast?

So. As is typical of me, instead of a rare mutation causing my body to renew itself at a cellular level at an infinitely accelerated rate causing me to live forever, I missed the mark only slightly and I have cancer.

At this time, I'm not quite sure of the exact kind and type (to be honest, none of the choices I have been provided with are awesome) but it is generally a full English breakfast of a cancer, a full plate, replete with a little ramekin of beans on the side and some toast. Unfortunately, whichever one I do have has no particular symptoms of its own, rather, it grows and presses on things, causes discomfort and then spreads silently. This means it can become quite advanced before it is found and treatment starts.

(Although, to look on the bright side, but for a series of fortunate coincidences this may not have been discovered at all, which means it could have been massively advanced and untreatable.)

So, whilst I'm still going through tests and biopsies at the moment, I do know that chemotherapy is on the cards (what kind at the moment depends upon the type) and then potentially surgery (because you know, why not).

Anyhow, that's enough of the downside. On the positive side, I am very fortunate to have private health cover, so no need to clog up the NHS with my particular brand of funky cells (note: there is nothing at all wrong with the treatment available on the NHS, indeed, I would be seen by the same doctors and consultants, I just get a slightly better bed, WiFi and better food). I'm also going to get a chance to actually play some games for a change (although this may become a little difficult if I end up as an in patient), I can't wait to catch up on the last 18 months of stuff and who knows, I may actually get into Destiny 2 (great quote there, Destiny 2, better than reoccurring germ cell tumours).

I gave up smoking and vaping a few years ago as well. Bugger, that seems like a waste of willpower now.

Fucking hell.
That is awful news Mostly.

Try to stay positive while you are having the checks. Keep strong man.

Aww shit, glad you're focusing on the positives, early diagnosis, already beaten it once so you've got form, comfier bed

Thinking of you

Shit, that's awful news M0stly. Thinking of you.