OT: Blood Tests

[Clive George]

A bottle a day is what he's reputed to have drunk, not a bottle with breakfast. Quite different things.

[Lobster]

On 27 Feb 2016, Graham. grunted:

The only proactive test my practice has done

Well that's one more than my practice has ever done for me, in the 20 years I've been with them!

[Stuart Noble]

I'm with Ronnie Scott on that. Teetotallers don't live longer, it just seems that way

[Lobster]

On 27 Feb 2016, Stuart Noble grunted:

Cos the vast majority of patients greatly underestimate their alcohol consumption when asked. No point in starting lengthy investigations into dodgy liver enzyme results in a patient claimimg to be teetotal when he's actually a raving alcoholic!

[news]

Does anybody without a lung full of air? I never have and even my beer gut wouldn't save me without a gulp of air.

AJH

[Tim Lamb]

In message , [e-mail] writes

Don't know.

I refrain from swimming as avoiding drowning makes it hard work:-)

[Capitol]

Just get used to the idea that you're going to die anyway. Just how and when is a matter of luck. Having enjoyed a hedonistic lifestyle for many years, I'll take my chances. By the way, almost all the people younger than me who indulged in exercise have died, just an observation.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I'm not judging him. Leave that sort of thing to the likes of you. I do feel sorry for someone in the last stages of addiction, though. Regardless of who they are.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Well, quite. I do wonder about some on here. Anyone who drank a bottle of spirits quickly would pass out. And then need more when they woke up.

Drinking a bottle a day is more usual behaviour for an alcoholic. Until he dies at an early age, that is.

[Capitol]

Thanks, I'm still planning our next US trip for November, going to be interesting on the health insurance front. Life is for living.

[Capitol]

Forgot to add, the NHS service was outstanding, fully equivalent if not better than a good US hospital. I am also able to report that the answer to the old adage about "do you like hospital food?" is equally true on both sides of the Atlantic.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

It's perhaps the most common symptom of alcoholism. Denial of how much they drink - and to themselves. Hence you'll find a person who lives alone hiding the empties. Going to a different off licence each time to buy their supplies. Disposing of empties in other's dustbins, etc.

[polygonum]

Someone not far away enough from me (though in no way connected with me) currently seems to be on a litre and a half of spirits a day. I have seen and heard various forms of evidence including a letter from his liver consultant. Said stop or you will die - soon.

[tim...]

Doc - you have to stop drinking now

Patient - will it let me live another 40 years?

Doc - No, it'll just seem like it!

(yes I know it's old)

tim

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Yes. Plenty do drink far more than a bottle of spirits a day. But not for very long in the scheme of things.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

It's not a matter of luck if you die before your time due to any drug use. It's a choice.

Indulged in exercise? Went for a walk most days? Your statement is more ridiculous than most from you. Which is saying something.

[Cursitor Doom]

Why would someone who lives alone need to hide their empties?

[Cursitor Doom]

Nope; nothing "reputed" about it. He said so himself in a fairly recent documentary. He also stated he enjoyed it, wasn't an alcoholic and his routine liver function screenings showed no abnormality.

[Cursitor Doom]

Yeah, well that's what they said to George Best, Oliver Reed and countless others who carried right on knocking it back with no apparent ill-effects.

[Clive George]

I'm not disupting drinking a bottle a day, but a bottle with breakfast is bollocks - even if it came from the horses mouth. So I think you'll find it's "yep", not "nope".