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    Default H.a.p.e.

    Since around 1947, millions of lives have been saved and prolonged in the UK by NHS staff such as doctors, surgeons, paramedics and air ambulance crews. However, some lives will have been lost due to a wrong diagnosis, the wrong treatment or simply because an illness had been incurable or an injury too serious.

    I was taken by paramedics to a local NHS hospital suffering from hyperventilation following a heart attack. When the doctor came to my bed I told him I suspect H.A.P.E so he said; ''Alright then. We'll get your chest x-rayed''

    When the doctor came back to my bedside about four-hours later he told the nurses that I was suffering with H.A.P.E. I then got an injection. I suspect that many people suffer with H.A.P.E, H.A.C.E or A.M.S.

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    Surely in the UK it would be H.A.P.O

    We spell it differently here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PantsMAN View Post
    Surely in the UK it would be H.A.P.O

    We spell it differently here.

    No. You probably went to dodgy school in Golspie where some Irish teachers neglected to teach you Gaelic.

    E is for Edema. O is for Odd.

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    High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) (HAPO spelled oedema in British English)


    Dont think we are at high enough altitude at ground level in Caithness for this to be worrisome.
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    Quote Originally Posted by unhappywanderer View Post
    No. You probably went to dodgy school in Golspie where some Irish teachers neglected to teach you Gaelic.

    E is for Edema. O is for Odd.
    it's no wonder you've been beaten up several times in london, i don't think you'd actually be any safer up here

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    "You probably went to dodgy school in Golspie where some Irish teachers neglected to teach you Gaelic."


    I think that's the most insulting and disrespectful post I have seen here in a long time.

    Everyone has problems. Don't spit your bile on this forum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gardeninginagale View Post
    "You probably went to dodgy school in Golspie where some Irish teachers neglected to teach you Gaelic."


    I think that's the most insulting and disrespectful post I have seen here in a long time.

    Everyone has problems. Don't spit your bile on this forum.
    Where is your sense of humour?

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    Dadie has already made the point that in British English it is spelled Oedema.

    And the high school in Golspie is a good school

    And hey, you really don't want to start trading insults on this board. Unless you want restrained at the Ord.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PantsMAN View Post
    Dadie has already made the point that in British English it is spelled Oedema.

    And the high school in Golspie is a good school

    And hey, you really don't want to start trading insults on this board. Unless you want restrained at the Ord.
    O.K Daddy!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by unhappywanderer View Post
    Where is your sense of humour?
    My sense of humour is very much alive and well. Was your original post intended to be humerous? If so it was in very bad taste. And your comment about school in Golspie is unacceptable, even though you may think it is in some way funny. Check my posts, I do funny. But I do not tolerate a*seholes.

    I offer an olive branch, maybe I was too quick to respond, and - though it pains me to say it - I kinda like your posts.

    Now, where's your sense of humour?


    My family is in Aberdeenshire, and when i go up and down the road, my pee-stop is Golspie. Golspie has a nice, and recently refurbished, public lavvie. Golspie also has a decent fish and chip shop. Golspie is the pit stop of choice, for most travellers who aviod Skiach.

    Sorry we got off on the wrong foot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gardeninginagale View Post
    My sense of humour is very much alive and well. Was your original post intended to be humerous? If so it was in very bad taste. And your comment about school in Golspie is unacceptable, even though you may think it is in some way funny. Check my posts, I do funny. But I do not tolerate a*seholes.

    I offer an olive branch, maybe I was too quick to respond, and - though it pains me to say it - I kinda like your posts.

    Now, where's your sense of humour?


    My family is in Aberdeenshire, and when i go up and down the road, my pee-stop is Golspie. Golspie has a nice, and recently refurbished, public lavvie. Golspie also has a decent fish and chip shop. Golspie is the pit stop of choice, for most travellers who aviod Skiach.

    Sorry we got off on the wrong foot.
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    Let by-gones be by-gones.

    I know already that there is nothing wrong with Golspie and have been there. No offence whatsoever had been intended but I have to respond somehow to insulting posts too.

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    Fair play. All is well with me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by unhappywanderer View Post
    No offence whatsoever had been intended but I have to respond somehow to insulting posts too.
    The implication being that my post (#2 above) was insulting.

    Can't see it myself. Maybe pedantic, but that's my particular albatross...

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    Quote Originally Posted by PantsMAN View Post
    The implication being that my post (#2 above) was insulting.

    Can't see it myself. Maybe pedantic, but that's my particular albatross...

    Oedema comes up as a spelling error on some websites Daddy. Doctors don't understand H.A.P.O so I stuck to H.A.P.E although the difference is about the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dadie View Post


    High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) (HAPO spelled oedema in British English)


    Dont think we are at high enough altitude at ground level in Caithness for this to be worrisome.
    A low air pressure system passing over Thurso or Wick can cause lung and trachea retraction manifesting as an asthma-like attack. This is because air is sucked skyward and away from you. If you are sleeping when a depression passes overhead then you could suffer other nocturnal events or simply awake feeling very depressed.
    Last edited by unhappywanderer; 12-Feb-15 at 22:26.

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    Quote Originally Posted by unhappywanderer View Post
    Oedema comes up as a spelling error on some websites Daddy. Doctors don't understand H.A.P.O so I stuck to H.A.P.E although the difference is about the same.
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    Congratulations. You are illiterate in your native language.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sids View Post
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    Congratulations. You are illiterate in your native language.
    Exactly! That is why I must move to Wick so that I can be educated about Scotch!!!

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    Want a big wooden spoon?
    Have one for sale cheap!
    Scotch you drink ...Scottish we speak.
    There again from your posts ....maybe you need to drink more scotch and lighten up a tad or two.
    A few drams of the good stuff might help!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dadie View Post
    Want a big wooden spoon?
    Have one for sale cheap!
    Scotch you drink ...Scottish we speak.
    There again from your posts ....maybe you need to drink more scotch and lighten up a tad or two.
    A few drams of the good stuff might help!
    With his heart condition, a dram might finish him off, which would be a really big shame.

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    Would it work?
    There are a lot (thousands)of single malts to choose from if you take in age/cask/distillery/year etc..some might finish him off just by price alone!
    Might be a happier way for him to go though.......
    Life is too short to spend it in beige underwear!

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