TENS Machine
After a wait of over 9 months I finally received a TENS machine from the pain clinic on Wednesday. The TENS machine is potenially a clever bit of kit as it offer drug free pain relief. What it purportedly does is send a tingly sensation to the area of pain. This sensation tricks the brain as it reaches it before the pain signal. If it works properly this will help the pain considerablely. I have been advised by people who have used one (thanks Mumpy) that two hours on and one hour off is a good way of using it and I'm going to give it a go.
I have one problem though. It doesn't work properly. One of the leads isn't sending any signal at all so I'm going to have to go back to the clinic with it and see about getting it changed.
Introduction Agency Update.
Thanks for all the comments you posted last week in reply to my Introduction Agency post. I received details from them on Wednesday and I'm not going to able to go ahead. The main reason for this is that they want an upfront payment of £499!! This is a great deal of money, which I haven't got. Even if I did have it I would be wary of paying someone this kind of money for not very much. They take your photo and put it in a book with a little description of you and that's about it. Also on closer inspection of their bumpf it seems they want to introduce me to 'ladies' and that they have several 'gentlemen' on their books. I'm not happy with their terminology at all. I don't think I'm going to find a young(ish) woman into gigging etc with them so I'm going to have to think on.
posted by marmiteboy at 2:28 pm
13 Comments:
Hi MB,
Bloody hell £499!Why do they never say £500 or 200 instead of 499 or 199!
Hope Twiglet has come thru' the operation ok without any side effects.
5:06 pm
Thanks Pete,
The only side effect is that it has made him even more of little git than before ;-)
Last night when he was meant to be resting he was doing leaping from the sofa onto the clothes horse that was drying my sheets. He had the thing over three times. I think he is fine as a fine thing. If not finer.
9:05 pm
That's fine then!;-) This sterilation thing is always worse for the other sex.
Enter him for that race at Aintree!
9:55 pm
get on an internet dating site - bout tenner a month n fulla booty! you wont look back
10:34 pm
I love my TENS machine. I wrote a poem about it. Doesn't work for everyone, but really made a huge difference to me. I really do hope it does the same for you. :-)
As for the Dating Agency, hmm. Maybe there are other avenues to explore? Certainly for £499 I would want them to pay for the wedding and send the first child of any successful match through college. Or at the very least guarantee I got laid. ;-)
10:57 pm
Lady Bracknell feels duty bound to ask the following question, in defence of the more mature members of her own sex.
Can Master Marmite explain exactly what, if anything, is so repulsive about women who are not "young(ish)"?
3:01 pm
Dear all,
Thanks for all your kind comments.I did think £499 was a bit steep and as Goldfish so politely points out there is no guarantee of anything;-)
I'm not going to give up there though. I'm going to put something on Yourable under the guidance of Lady B. She is concerned that won't 'sell myself'. I do have a tendency to under play myself so she has insisted on checking my profile before I post.
On the subject of Lady B I don't recall being repulsed by anyone. I also didn't state any age. Youngish could be any age. I don't think that a 50+ ear old would be interested in someone like me anyway so somebody under that age would suit me better. I'm sure she wouldn't want someone youngish (i.e. under 25 for the same reason).
As far as the TENS machine is concerned now have one that works properly. Tne pain clinic replaced the broken one straight away yesterday. It seems to be having some effect already so I may be able to reduce my meds a bit with any luck.
Thanks again folks you're all rather lovely.
By the way, glad you've got your kitten boxing Wildchild.
4:13 pm
Yours winks as well. It's really cool.
6:12 pm
If Master Marmite is determined to alter the generally-accepted meanings of words, he can hardly be surprised if his readers misunderstand him. How are they to anticipate that, according to his response, "Youngish could be any age", when "young" is generally defined as being the opposite of "old"?
Presumably, then, he was, in fact, talking about youthfulness of demeanour, rather than about chronological age?
12:40 pm
Thanks folks,
CD and Mumpy, I have tried the 'finding interests in common, making friends and going from there' game most of my adult life. That's the trouble it never becomes anything more than friends. I'm not complainin that I've got loads of female friends, far from it. I would like to feel fancied now and again though.
Melbamae, I wasn't aware of any of these sites. Yourable is the only site I have come across that has anything similar via it's penfriends page. Thank you for the tip.
Lady B, it does, of course, depend on your view of what is youngish. Your point about youthfulness of demeanour is a fine description. I know several people who are younger than me who seem like old men, where as I look (of which I'm thankful) and have an outlook on life that is much younger than my age.
12:45 pm
Charles,
This is certainly true. I'm shite at picking up any signals. The best way to get my attention would be to hit me over the head with a large mallet I'm so bad at it.
On the couple of occasions I thought I had picked up signals I was either sadly mistaken or taken for a ride and ended up fucked up by it. It sort of put me off.
Thanks for your best wishes,
MB
8:16 pm
Hi Mumpy,
Well it's not strictly my TENS unit. It's just one I found a picture of on the net. It's does look a bit like a clowns face though. It's those little triangles that do it. Maybe I've been drinking out of your mug ;-)
9:55 pm
Santamedical Rechargeable Tens Unit Electronic Pulse Massager is a compact, portable, micro-computer-controlled device. It can be used on many areas of the body, including the arms, neck and shoulders, back, low back, legs, feet, joints etc.
12:10 pm
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