Tag Archives: health

May 27 2025
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Lung capacity

Monday 26th May 2025, 9.35am (day 5,023)

A public holiday in the UK, but as I had, blatantly, skived off on Friday I worked through it. It was raining anyway. So uneventful was this always going to be, that my idle musings as to just what my present lung capacity might be led to a suitable candidate for today’s photo. A spirometer (definition: “lung-capacity measuring instrument”) hangs around thanks to the wife’s asthma, and there you go. As this figure of, what, 583ml lies at least two-thirds of the way up this particular scale I assume I’m doing OK. (Note: the picture isn’t upside down, but the spirometer is.)

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Mar 12 2025
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Keeping the hygienist happy

Wednesday 12th March 2025, 11.20am (day 4,948)

Dental hygiene, 12/3/25

In general, I remember to use interdental brushes on my teeth maybe once a month; except when a visit to the hygienist looms, when I start to do the right things more often in order to assuage my feelings of guilt and potential shame.

Paying one of my twice-yearly trips to the dentist really was the most exciting thing done this Wednesday, hence why this is a photowhack; the one and only picture taken on a given day.

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Jan 19 2022
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Model in the House of Pain

Tuesday 18th January 2022, 2.55pm (day 3,799)

Acupuncture points, 18/1/22

A twinge in my leg meant I booked myself in for a massage, but any images that word may conjure up, of women lying blissfully on a couch while being gently caressed, can be dismissed in favour of being wrestled and half-beaten into submission. At least I did not plump for the acupuncture; this model in the foyer of the House of Pain suggests there are far too many points of fresh, new torture to discover on the human body.

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Mar 18 2021
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

We queue for salvation

Thursday 18th March 2021, 3.40pm (day 3,493)

Vaccination centre, 18/3/21

We turned up at our appointed time. We stood at the ends of our appointed lines, waiting to get the call. Some of us read the information sheets we were given, which seemed (to me) to say little more than ‘in the end, we don’t really know what this might do’. Some of us did not. Yes folks, I’ve been vaccinated.

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