Featured Finds Thread

Tight budget has kept me from scoring any major finds, but I did grab this Flygsfors miniature dish off Ebay (I also stole the image) Signed Flygsfors Kedelv (around the edge) and SA in the middle. I have no idea what the SA stands for (Maybe a "second")

 

Nice - might guess it's perhaps '54' rather than 'SA'...

~Cheryl

 

Cheryl,

It has the 54 on the outer edge (I forgot to add that info earlier) It is definately an "Sa"

 

Any buttons left, I collect them?
I sold quiet a lot buttons to a lady in the states who makes juwelry out of them.
Might be the same person!?

 

Nothing you'd want. What's left are mostly 80s buttons someone got as spares when they bought clothing. I'm planning on hot-glueing them to a wreath form. They aren't anything good. I do have some old bakelite and glass ones about that do have to get sold eventually. Also a small lot of screwback earrings made from much older buttons. Someone in the dim past, dim as in dimwit, cut the shanks off of them.

 

Thanks for the reply.
No you are right, probably not for me. What i am looking for are brass 19 th century examples with motto's on them.

 

WOW to all that!
I have a 3' tree brand new in it's box and use it sometimes.
Unfortunately some illiterate clownfart put a billion watt bulb in the color wheel though.

 

Today I got up early to head to a local tag sale. Worth the effort? I spent (drumroll) a whole dollar. Got to church to help sort a bit for our monthly Clothes Closet giveaway. Picked up some clothes for myself for...zero. much better deal. I'm hoping the sinus crud toothache I really don't need leaves too. I'd sell it cheap but somehow doubt there would be any takers.

 

get well soon !!!!

 

Trade you a sinus crud toothache for a 12" belly wound that won't heal............


just kidding, I know anything related to toothache is NASTY PAIN! Hope it clears up soon.

 

Thanks. Did a surgical incision like that about 13 years ago to the day. It did heal though but dang that took forever.

 

If that really is an issue, sorry, how about vitamin E gel/oil?
I had an issue with my thumb where the whorl lifted up for some reason and wouldn't heal and someone told me to try that. It worked great and has never happened there again.

 

I use Santyl for my morning dressings, silver sulfadiazine for my afternoon dressings and bacitracin zinc for my evening dressings. All the while popping 30mg Morphine tablets and retching over the yuckys as I pull off the dead stuff created by the Santyl. And go for a weekly debridement with an attractive and witty, but not very gentle young lady doctor.

Ain't life grand?

And the doctors frown when I light up a Dunhill and pour just a tad more gin............................like I ain't got an excuse......................

 

Maggots are good for persistent failure to heal. No. really. Look it up.

 

Hi Manson's,
I hear ya. Went through the same on my leg for several months can not even think of a belly wound. Still having headaches, throwing up and the trots with these stupid antibiotics. Ain't old age grand??????
greg

 

Hi AF,
When I was 12 I broke my arm. Got so itchy I bent a coat hanger and scratched like hell, felt good for a couple of minutes then the blood run out. The doctor opened a case and placed 10 or 12 tiny things into my cast. After the second day the itching stopped and it felt better. The next few days later I saw tiny flies flying out. I wanted to tear off the cast but went back to the good Doctor. He told me to not worry the flies were from the maggots he placed in my cast. I almost fainted with his words but my arm felt fine after that.
greg

 

Used locally at Morriston hospital. Per South Wales evening post in 2012:
"YOU would not associate them with cleanliness or treatment but maggots are playing an important role at one of Swansea's major hospitals.

Due to the amount of infections now becoming resistant to antibiotics, maggots are being increasingly used to treat wounds at Morriston Hospital.

The treatment involves placing a pouch filled with maggots over a wound, wrapping it in protective gauze and bandaging the area, allowing the little creatures to clean the wound by eating away all the damaged tissue"

 

I heard that mentioned, but the wound is not deep enough.

 

As late as the mid-1960s here in the US maggots were used on patients suffering from severe burn injuries.

A friend who was in training as an RN related her reaction when first seeing maggots in action on a burn victim. She said she was amazed at the efficiency of the maggots in discerning dead tissue from live tissue.