[speaker001:] Hello.... pinching....
[Cathy:] Erm, it's about my back today.
[speaker001:] Aha.
[Cathy:] It's... for a, a couple of weeks there it wasn't too bad, but now I feel as if it's.
[speaker001:] What did you do to it?
[Cathy:] It doesn't look bruised, mind, but it feels, sore to touch or anything?... I, I really don't know what I've done. I know times I get it, like... maybe just at one side, if I've been sitting in a hard seat
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[Cathy:] at a, a particular wee bit if I've been leaning back,
[speaker001:] Aye.
[Cathy:] you know, but
[speaker001:] But this is all over?
[Cathy:] Right.... It's just i i there isn't any bruising.
[speaker001:] And there's nothing to see?
[Cathy:] You know, I've I've, well I've looked.... The best I can
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[Cathy:] and I cannae see any bruising, but... it feels
[speaker001:] It feels all bruised.
[Cathy:] as though it's all bruised.... And in
[speaker001:] And no and nothing you can think of that started it up?
[Cathy:] and it's sore like... nerves. Like
[speaker001:] Pins and needles?
[Cathy:] you know how if you hit your elbow?
[speaker001:] Aha right.
[Cathy:] Or er you know into my finger.
[speaker001:] Into your fingers.
[Cathy:] You know when I, when I go to lift something, or if I use
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[Cathy:] pressing on this finger,
[speaker001:] Aye, it feels numb.
[Cathy:] right up
[speaker001:] Right up the arm. Right.
[Cathy:] this arm....
[speaker001:] Right.... Er your hand doesn't get swollen or anything like that Cathy, no? You've not seen anything?
[Cathy:] No, I don't think it's been
[speaker001:] Nothing at all.
[Cathy:] swollen or anything.
[speaker001:] Right.
[Cathy:] right in into my wrist.
[speaker001:] Right through?
[Cathy:] Right.
[speaker001:] Aye.... What about your elbow?
[Cathy:] Aye, up to my elbow.
[speaker001:] U u right up to your elbow.
[Cathy:] Not so bad at the top.
[speaker001:] Mhm. More down at the bottom.
[Cathy:] Painful down
[speaker001:] Right....
[Cathy:] from my finger up....
[speaker001:] Now,... are you on anything in the way of tablets that could be upsetting your, your system... at all?
[Cathy:] I just got two... two bottles the last time I was in, I can't.
[speaker001:] Nothing?
[Cathy:] And was one of them not for that and my neck?
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[Cathy:] That's
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[Cathy:] still a bit sore.
[speaker001:] Still a bit sore? Right.
[Cathy:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] Right.
[Cathy:] And an odd time it goes really
[speaker001:] Right.
[Cathy:] I feel as if it's really deep,
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[Cathy:] deep, deep. And then it kind of calms down a wee bit.
[speaker001:] Then it calms down, right.... There's nothing in that that would cause this problem. Is this a sort of neuralgia
[Cathy:] just
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[Cathy:] you know a kind of painkiller I'm taking.
[speaker001:] No, it's... er, no this tingling down to your fingers, that's a different thing Catherine. Erm, right....
[Cathy:] Is it the same thing?
[speaker001:] Aye, it's the same thing down your back. Yeah.
[Cathy:] Coming down my back maybe, and...
[speaker001:] Now the one thing you'll have to watch [cough] excuse me [cough] excuse me, with these tablets, is anything with alcohol in it. It's liable to make you sick
[Cathy:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] if you mix the two.... And
[Cathy:] I've been feeling a wee bit sick.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[Cathy:] Apart from just this.
[speaker001:] That's right.
[Cathy:] Like, well, the wee'un's not too good, she's loaded with the cold and... sore throat, and been a wee bit sick, too. But today
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[Cathy:] I've been feeling a wee bit
[speaker001:] Yeah. I had something to eat earlier on, and I felt awfully... Just
[Cathy:] sicky. as if I was going to be sick.
[speaker001:] watch your... watch your tummy with this... stuff. It's good, but it's... you know, it'll fight... er with anything, any sort of beer or whisky or any of these things, but it'll also fight with cough bottles. Er and tonic bottles. Because nearly all of them have a very small amount in. So, if you're on anything like that at all, forget it. Leave it off just now Cathy.
[Cathy:] And what about the
[speaker001:] till I get you sorted.
[Cathy:] Tagamet and things? Is that o okay?
[speaker001:] That's okay. Tagamet's fine. No problem there.
[Cathy:] The inhalers?
[speaker001:] Ventolin isn't a problem. Aye, it's only alcohol and things with alcohol in, that you n need to watch Cathy.
[Cathy:] And can you give me
[speaker001:] Okay? and that
[Cathy:] some Tagamet and Ventolin?
[speaker001:] Mhm.... There we are now. And that'll put that right for you.... There you are Cathy.
[Cathy:] Could you give me a, a line?
[speaker001:] [cough]
[Cathy:] . Er, I had a, a card to go for an X-ray. For the
[speaker001:] Yes.
[Cathy:] pain I was having in my side.
[speaker001:] Yes.
[Cathy:] But I haven't managed to do it yet.
[speaker001:] That's okay. That's no problem.
[Cathy:] Erm... should I, should I wait till the pain's
[speaker001:] First, first time you get a chance.
[Cathy:] really really bad or anything before I go? No? Just any time?
[speaker001:] No no. No no. Just first time you get a chance, you go over and get them to X-ray it, and they'll see if there's any damage at the back there.... To try and find out what's going on. Turn you into a human being. [LAUGHTER]
[Cathy:] [LAUGHTER] You're not kidding [].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER]
[Cathy:] That's what it feels like
[speaker001:] Well
[Cathy:] especially with the wee one being
[speaker001:] well,
[Cathy:] ill, I mean
[speaker001:] well
[Cathy:] she's up all night,.
[speaker001:] Turn you int turn you into a human being.
[Cathy:] You cannae be upset with her, because she hasn't.
[speaker001:] She can't help it. She can't [cough] Aye well, you look after her, that's the main thing. Keep her right.
[Cathy:] Mm.
[speaker001:] Turn her into a human being.
[Cathy:] And then she can do me.
[speaker001:] That's right. [cough] Right, Catherine. Okay now. Cheerio just now. [cough]