It's not a dish GW, it's a horror. All the bits of innards you don't want to know about shoved into a sausage shaped bit of intestine. Triple yuk! Makes haggis look positively haute-cuisine.
Don't do tartare either but I do like my steak rare. Always enjoy seeing Americans ordering steak américain as that is another version of raw minced steak..........
DL - I know. I was being naughty.
Pdoc - I have long thought docs should spend a couple of nights as patients in hospital to see how the other half live. went in for neck surgery in 2012. My private room wasn't available so i spent the night in a room with 3 old biddies - one Portuguese and taken ill while visiting family in Brussels. Not a word of French and very frightened after all her visitors left. Another snored all night and the last had been there so long her clock was inside out and she was awake all night wanting attention. I made it very clear I was not going back there after surgery.
As it happens, I woke up in intensive care cos my neck swelled so I had breathing difficulties. Noisiest place ever with all the beeping and clicking and pinging and people running back and forth answering alarms plus the noise of ambulance sirens all day and night. They brought me a lovely rare steak for lunch but I couldn't eat it. Despite all the noise the care was excellent and the staff were all courteous and helpful and smiley. I went back the following year for my new feet. Great place and great system but, even so, there are some hospitals in Belgium which definitely need to be avoided as they are badly run and have bad outcomes. It's down to people as well as funding.
Cladding done and windows in!! Now to insulate and board the insides and get all the goodies in.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hosta ....did you have both done ? I had my left one done in 2007 ......titanium (Russian) with a ceramic topping....life changing , ....after years of abusing my body .....including pseudo Irish dancing and marathon running .....I was supposed to have the right one done in April of this year but a clever Russian neuroscientist pointed out that my sciatica attacks were not hip related .....as I thought after trying to be a not so clever "Google doctor " so I had my microdiscectomy done ......but my right one is giving me some gyp now .......probably linked to my grumpiness
Pdoc ... when you're up to it you and your OH and me and mine will have to meet up at Brasserie Zedel and make piggies of ourselves
As for sleeping in hospital ... Pa had the most horrendous snore ... after a couple of nights in a ward he was always moved into a side room at the insistence of all the other patients ... you'll have to practice being noisy.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Cheers Hosta ...forgive my ignorance .....I agree about the NHS , when I was living in the UK many moons ago I was hospitalized with severe peritonitis which got very nasty ....I believe I owe those great people my life to be honest
No need Dacha. Back then it was a pretty new procedure. I was told only 6 surgeons in the UK performed it at that time. More now, but I was lucky to live in the catchment area of one of them back then.
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Hi all.
How does anyone ever sleep in these places, no wonder everyone is ill?
I am with Dove on the food choices.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Pundoc says "How does anyone ever sleep in these places, no wonder everyone is ill?"
I'm with you on that. When I had my hip surgeries I was in "isolation", so didn't have that problem.
Chin up and keep calm .
Good morning all , trying to google that French dish ?
Nice day , sun shining
It's not a dish GW, it's a horror. All the bits of innards you don't want to know about shoved into a sausage shaped bit of intestine. Triple yuk! Makes haggis look positively haute-cuisine.
Don't do tartare either but I do like my steak rare. Always enjoy seeing Americans ordering steak américain as that is another version of raw minced steak..........
DL - I know. I was being naughty.
Pdoc - I have long thought docs should spend a couple of nights as patients in hospital to see how the other half live. went in for neck surgery in 2012. My private room wasn't available so i spent the night in a room with 3 old biddies - one Portuguese and taken ill while visiting family in Brussels. Not a word of French and very frightened after all her visitors left. Another snored all night and the last had been there so long her clock was inside out and she was awake all night wanting attention. I made it very clear I was not going back there after surgery.
As it happens, I woke up in intensive care cos my neck swelled so I had breathing difficulties. Noisiest place ever with all the beeping and clicking and pinging and people running back and forth answering alarms plus the noise of ambulance sirens all day and night. They brought me a lovely rare steak for lunch but I couldn't eat it. Despite all the noise the care was excellent and the staff were all courteous and helpful and smiley. I went back the following year for my new feet. Great place and great system but, even so, there are some hospitals in Belgium which definitely need to be avoided as they are badly run and have bad outcomes. It's down to people as well as funding.
Cladding done and windows in!! Now to insulate and board the insides and get all the goodies in.
Looking great Ob - worth the wait and the inconvenience to get it
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Hosta ....did you have both done ? I had my left one done in 2007 ......titanium (Russian) with a ceramic topping....life changing , ....after years of abusing my body .....including pseudo Irish dancing and marathon running .....I was supposed to have the right one done in April of this year but a clever Russian neuroscientist pointed out that my sciatica attacks were not hip related .....as I thought after trying to be a not so clever "Google doctor " so I had my microdiscectomy done ......but my right one is giving me some gyp now .......probably linked to my grumpiness
Sorry Ob ......renovation looks sublime
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Pdoc ... when you're up to it you and your OH and me and mine will have to meet up at Brasserie Zedel and make piggies of ourselves
As for sleeping in hospital ... Pa had the most horrendous snore ... after a couple of nights in a ward he was always moved into a side room at the insistence of all the other patients ... you'll have to practice being noisy.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dacha said "Hosta ....did you have both done ?"
I had " acetabular dysplasia"
http://california.providence.org/saint-johns/services/orthopedics/hip-and-pelvis-institute/acetabular-hip-dysplasia/
I didn't have a replacement. I had a periacetabular osteotomy in 2005.
http://hipjointsurgery.co.uk/hips/hip-pao/ then a further bone graft later.
Back in the day, a hip replacement would have cost £7500 privately , but the PO would have been £15.500. Good old NHS did it free.
Have I ever mentioned I LOVE THE NHS?
Cheers Hosta ...forgive my ignorance .....I agree about the NHS , when I was living in the UK many moons ago I was hospitalized with severe peritonitis which got very nasty ....I believe I owe those great people my life to be honest
No need Dacha. Back then it was a pretty new procedure. I was told only 6 surgeons in the UK performed it at that time. More now, but I was lucky to live in the catchment area of one of them back then.