This is the weblog of Tinman18 – a guy who can only be described as middle-aged if I’m going to live to be over a hundred.
I’m new to all this, & with computers in general I’m really quite useless, so there will be no links, very few pictures, and no moving flashy icons. The title is from my favourite quote, from GK Chesterton : “Anything Worth Doing, is Worth Doing Badly”, so I’ve decided to have a go.
I’m married, have 3 kids, live in Co Wicklow and work in Dublin City Centre.
My name reflects a medical condition, & how I came to have it.
I can’t say any more without risking revealing my identity.
Yours
Clark Kent (damn)
great to meet you tinman and thanks for the comment on my blog. i always find it really interesting to tell interesting stories to people who actually want to listen and to those who actually give a damn.
Well bye for now and just remember your secret is save with me clark.
Comment by Vicky Rogers — August 20, 2008 @ 9:32 pm
Tinnitus? 18 bouts of it?
Comment by problemchildbride — August 27, 2008 @ 1:49 am
That would explain the ringing in my ears, PCB, which I thought was just Coldplay on my iPod.
By chance I’d decided to write about it today, since I’ve a check-up later this morning, but short version just for you:
Last byear I kept blacking out, so after a load of tests they gacve me a heart monitor, & when they read it they found my heart kept slowing & sometimes stopping altogether – on one occasion when I was asleep it stopped for 18 seconds.
So now I have a pacemaker, hence the tin part.
Comment by tinman18 — August 27, 2008 @ 7:34 am
18 seconds. Did you float above your body looking down shouting “wake the fuck up”
Comment by holemaster — October 25, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
Nah, but there was always a lot of yelling going on in whatever kind of dreamland I was in, which may have been me fighting with myself.
I do remember bursting awake that night & thinking “Jesus, that one was really bad”.
Comment by tinman18 — October 26, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
I thought I was the only one with a head full of cotton wool.
I’ve included a link to your blog on mine. I hope that’s ok – if not, let me know and I’ll rectify it as soon as poss.
Thanks and “Keep plugging away!” (That’s often my mantra…)
Comment by The Saint — September 19, 2009 @ 7:34 am
Of course it’s ok, Saint, thanks.
I’ve read a couple of your posts and I’ll read some more later (I’m at work now), but you take care of yourself too.
(“Deep breath, Keep calm, Carry on!”)
Comment by tinman18 — September 21, 2009 @ 8:26 am