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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 20, 2017 16:44:10 GMT
When I smoked the 2 Bichons would run a mile. If they ever caught a whiff of the smoke, their lips would curl up and they would bare their teeth. More I think in annoyance rather than in attack mode.
Since I started vaping, they will lie on my lap and snooze. Over the past few years we have only the one Bichon, but he is completely at ease with all things connected with vaping. `
Having said all that, I do not produce "clouds of vapour" but keep my vaping very much "low key".
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 17, 2017 12:35:16 GMT
Our 2 Bichons were both trained on "puppy pads".
Once they were used to using these, they were moved to outside the back door, then onto the back lawn and eventually the pads were not needed.
Bichons are notoriously hard to "house-train" and therefore patience and persistence is the name of the game.
The main thing is to get a couple of books that are specific to your pet breed and to read them well. I say a couple of books by different authors because everybody has their own ideas about what is best and by steering a course between their opinions and what you think is best, you will end up with an A1 member of your family.
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 17, 2017 7:41:53 GMT
I wonder if Mrs thebishman feels the same way about Frank??????
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 16, 2017 15:27:52 GMT
Well done.
Now what have you spent all the saved money on now that you are so healthy, wealthy and wise??????
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 16, 2017 15:24:28 GMT
Great pics thebishmanLike you. I get a couple of beauties and then 100's of the north end of a south bound Coll.
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 15, 2017 21:51:58 GMT
Our Pup's first wash..... in a Flower Pot. If he had been any smaller, he could have disappeared down the plug-hole.
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 15, 2017 21:40:33 GMT
Thanks to all that have commented on your daily ejuice consumption. Your comments have answered many questions which I did not understand and they have set my mind and rest over whether to continue to vape the way I am going or to try something new. Yesterday was a rather worrying day because the weather was bad and I had to drive a long way to get to a hospital where I had gone through two Replacement Knee operations, ten years ago. They did x-rays, took measurements and pronounced me fit, so I can wait another 5 years before I need to go back for another check-up. During yesterday I probably vape my way through 3ml between the worry and the traffic. Today I am so laid back I doubt if I have got through 1ml. Even the sun was laid back today as it has shone all day.
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 15, 2017 12:43:47 GMT
I'd imagine lobeydosser that any and all medical people would be very understanding of your present issues - even though, in your position I'd prolly have similar concerns. Do the medical folk offer you hope for further improvements?I'm afraid not.
Towards the end of my stay in hospital, various departments said that there would be follow-ups by various out-patient departments to look after me as I recovered from the stroke. However strokes vary in patients and while I did attend 2 appointments from Speech Therapy, all they did was listen to what I had experienced while out and about and they did not suggest me doing anything different. Actually I suspect that many of these, so called, out patients departments are a con, set up to squeeze the government for more money, but in actual fact are a waste of money, staff and resources.
I did get 2 visits, at home, from the Staff Nurse of the hospital which looked after me and she was right on the ball. I learned more from her during these visits than from anyone else during my time in hospital and throughout my recovery. The first visit came a month after I got home and the second was 2 months after coming home. By the time of these visits I was sufficiently recovered to need answers to my questions.
I know now that what I have regained is about as far as I will get, and that is okay. I'd rather know and work on that than keep hoping for some future miracle that ain't going to happen. Now that I know the parameters, I can work on those and plan the rest around these.
And, ofcourse, when all else fails and my world looks like it is coming apart, I have a safety net in my Garden Shed where I keep all my Vaping Stuff. It is amazing how little I can get done, sitting on a comfy stool, gazing out at the unfinished garden work that I still have to complete, while vaping on the latest home brew e-juice and doing not a lot. Many a happy hour has been spent doing just that.
My hospital visit yesterday was a 10 year check-up on my 2 replacement knees. They are still A1.
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 14, 2017 9:05:02 GMT
Hi DaveJ I'm fine wombling about doing the local shopping and dealing with folks that know me. They know that I can struggle with my words and they give me the time to try to get things out. If I go outside the zone, then I write out wee notes to give to shop assistants so that they know what I want. It is when I go to strange places, that I struggle. I am away this afternoon to a hospital appointment for a check-up for an operation I had about 10 years ago. I am not looking forward to this. All the explaining of things that I have not tackled in years. Ho hum. I'll get through it somehow.
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 14, 2017 7:52:40 GMT
Thank you DaveJOn the downside, since my stroke last April, the caravan and the garden has gone walkabout as I do not have the energy to cope with that sort of thing. On the upside, at least I have the money to hire in contractors and let them do the heavy stuff.
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 14, 2017 1:14:46 GMT
With the set up that I have been using for over three years now, I recharge it overnight and I also top up the atty then so that I just have to unplug it in the morning and then I am good to go. No spare batteries and no extra juice. Good for 23 hours if necessary.
Vaping, for me, had to be better than smoking on a multitude of levels. It had to be smaller than a pack of 20 super kings, satisfying, cheaper and healthier. Okay, it did take me a couple of years before I found a set-up where I didn't have to carry spare batteries and spare ejuice, but once I found that, I stuck with it.
I have not bought any mods, atties, coils or chemicals for over a year now and hopefully I will not need any for the considerable future.
I have however bought myself a brand new car, a second hand caravan, paid for the last 5 years of holidays and spent about 5 thousand pounds on revamping both front and back gardens.
So whether I am high ohming or low ohming, the views out the front and the back, is definitely improving!!!!
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 13, 2017 18:35:31 GMT
Hi DaveJ <<< Maybe - but some don't see it the same as you or I. I've had this exact same discussion before: comparing my lowish consumption with someone who said they "required" far higher volumes ... I can only say it has to be a case of different strokes for different folks. Remember: I'm "needing" about double what you are currently using and, frankly, I cannot see how your lower volume would "do it" for me nowdays - at least not without some considerable "adjustment" which I'd rather not deal with. >>>If someone is sub ohming at say 0.6ohms @ 40mls, they would be consuming the same 24mg a day that I would be consuming. The only real difference would be that they would be going through about 15 times the amount of PG, VG and Flavouring. I would imagine that the coil life would also suffer, but I don't know on that subject. I imagine that in the (hopefully far distant) future, to keep with my preferred higher mg level, that I will have to look at sub-ohming, but in the meantime, higher mg and low volume suits me just fine,
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 13, 2017 7:17:00 GMT
Ofcourse it is DaveJ Compared to smoking, Vaping is not in the same ball park. However, I cannot get my head around why anyone would want to Vape 30 to 60ml when you can get all the satisfaction you could want from less than 3ml a day. It's a bit like driving from A to B. You could drive it in a Mini, or you could drive it in as Articulated Class One Lorry. You will still get there in the end, the only difference is who notices you as you pass by. I was hospital bound for 2 weeks recently and ofcourse you are not allowed to smoke in there. However, once the staff realised how little vapour was given off by my I-stick and Nautilus mod, I was permitted to Vape as long as it was not annoying to others and I was discreet. Common Sense tells me that I could be neither if I was getting through 30 to 60ml a day.
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 13, 2017 1:10:54 GMT
30 to 60 mil a day but i diy so costs me bugger all. Really!!!!!
What e-juice are you using? Water?
I have been mixing my own for 4+ years now, so I know exactly what it cost.
My usual mix of 24mg at 70/30 by 100ml comes in at £3.09p. That equates to 6.61p per day.
If I was getting through 30ml to 60ml a day, that would come in at 92p to £1.85p a day.
As I only have one mouth and 2 lungs, I wonder where all the excess vapour is going between my 6.61p of mine and yours £1.85p?
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Post by lobeydosser on Dec 11, 2017 19:39:31 GMT
Or it could be just the weather!!!!!
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