Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Y'know, it's absolutely shocking how little you can do when your abdominal muscles are being held together by what's basically a glorified elastoplast.Can't walk more than 30 yards. Can't lift even so much as a cat. Can't sweep the kitchen floor without collapsing in exhaustion, never mind even thinking about hoovering.
Wanna know the worst thing though? Have it done yourself and then try taking a dump!
Yeash!
A special mention for Andrea is required at this point.
Not only has she had to put up with me stressing for weeks before my op, then sat around all day at the surgical clinic while I was being operated on and in recovery... and then been there for me as I whine and wince like a wuss through my recovery... all of which must be extremely annoying things to put up with... she's done it with such good grace, and more than this, she's done much of it while injured herself. Somehow she managed to do something nasty to her knee/leg while sitting in the hospital waiting room, and is now largely incapacitated herself.
What a wonderful woman. I could almost believe she injured herself so I wouldnt feel like the only cripple in the house, but... she's not stupid like me, and deserves much sympathy.
In other, non-medical related news, I got myself a new graphics card recently, coz my old one was getting a bit creaky. The new one's pretty much as powerful a card as it's possible to get on an agp based motherboard. It's a Gainward 7800GS+ 512Meg, which surprisingly doesn't use the nVidia 7800 chip at all, but the 7900 one.
This little monster of a card was purchased solely to play one game... Battlefield 2.
Hooked? You bet!
The funny thing is, the way I came to get into the game in the first place. It was THIS spoof video.
I saw it, recognised similar behaviour from playing SOCOM, laughed my head off all night (no doubt annoying Andrea), and promptly went out to buy it at the soonest oportunity.
Anyways... it's very very addictive.
Labels: games, graphics cards, hernia, medical
Steve 4:38 PM [+] (0) comments
Friday, June 30, 2006
I'm home.The op was successful, but it would be the understatement of the century to say that I'm in pain.
By god, it hurts. When I breathe, when I stand up, when I sit down, when I laugh, when I cough.
Ouch!
Quite out of my face on pain killers right now, which is rather amusing.
Steve 11:01 PM [+] (0) comments
Been busy.
I go in for my hernia op tomorrow.
It's safe to say I'm pretty nervous.
I know it's just a routine and very minor thing, but the very idea of general anasthetic scares me.
Oh well.
Fingers crossed and stuff.
Steve 12:34 AM [+] (0) comments
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Yeah yeah, I know... no new site yet.The distractions and sidelines keep on piling up.
So the trip to York was awesome, and I should probably put photos on flickr, but I havent even got round to that yet.
Then yesterday I went to the hospital for this hernia, though it was only a consultation, not surgery yet.
It seems there's around a 3 month waiting list for surgery, which while it's nice as far as being mentally prepared is concerned, means we've had to cancel our holiday to devon. The chances are, the surgery would be scheduled either slap bang in the middle of the holiday, or just before it, and I don't wanna be several hundred miles away in the event of post surgery complications.
So the final distraction, predictably, is a game.
Tourist Trophy is, quite literally, Gran Turismo on motorbikes. All the same circuits... same graphics and physics engines, same game structure, same everything... just on motorbikes.
Is it good?
Oh hell yeah!
Is it easy to get into?
Well... you could never really just load up Gran Turismo, play it and be good... the same is doubly true of Tourist Trophy. You really have to practice to be remotely competative, but once you've got the swing of it, the level of satisfaction when you win a race is way up there.
I get the feeling Gran Turismo on PS3 is gonna be something along the lines of Gran Turismo 4 with bettwe graphics, combined with this.... as from what I've read, it includes bikes.
Very clever use of resources, making an entire standalone game out of what is effectively just extra stuff added onto an earlier game, to make a next gen game... if you get my meaning.
Labels: games, hernia, medical
Steve 3:17 PM [+] (0) comments
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
I've just come back from the doctors and the phrase "Oh fuck" comes to mind.Last thursday, I felt a painful twinge in my upper stomach area, and on feeling it with my hand, found a large swelling, or protrusion. Not good, I thought.
Anyway, I figured it might be a pulled muscle, from mowing the lawn, coz it's a pretty tough job, with the garden being on a slope and all.
So, several days later it was much the same, and a trip to the doctor seemed in order.
Well.... it's a hernia... probably a rupturing of the hernea I had repaired as a child, 35 years ago.
So, I'm booked into the local hospital for surgery on the 6th of june.
General anasthetic scares the crap out of me.
Steve 4:50 PM [+] (0) comments
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