This will be a token post. Following an early afternoon nap, I have had the remainder of my afternoon consumed by a futile attempt to carry on with a botched toilet tank valve replacement that my wife had undertaken during my nap.
To better explain, refer to this image:
She successfully removed the entire fill valve assembly above the shank washer, but the shank washer and the nut directly underneath the tank will not unscrew so that the base of the new fill valve assembly can be fitted through the opening there and then locked into place.
I never saw what the old fill valve base looked like. Today was garbage day, and it was apparently discarded. But my wife ─ who is Thai and speaks English as a second language with fairly limited descriptive skill ─ said that some unknown-by-me component had been broken.
Making this labour almost impossible is the fact that as one faces the toilet, the left side of the rim of the bowl is at most a foot from the edge of the bathtub. This make it excruciatingly difficult to get down to see under the tank where this work must be performed. My chest is too wide to allow me to safely attempt to squeeze down between the toilet bowl and the bathtub.
We had been getting some movement by blindly twisting the nut just beneath the tank, but the shank washer also moves. And it is so low or 'thin' that we cannot lock any pliers onto it to hold it in place. And it is getting chewed up from trying.
So here we are ─ nowhere. I am going to have to enlist my younger brother tomorrow when he gets up in the morning, although I may have to absent myself because I think I need to visit a bank to try and pay tomorrow's bi-weekly mortgage in cash rather than have it debited from a different financial institution where my chequing account is, because the account at the second institution has no money to cover the impending mortgage debit payment.
I don't know how automated that debit process is for the mortgage ─ I hope that it can by cancelled if I get to the bank early enough.
I cannot talk to my brother when he gets home this evening because he will be uselessly drunk.
This is a miserable quandary.
Incidentally, I did have my wee a.m. five-mile+ walk last night, leaving here at 1:53 a.m. But I cannot have it tonight, or the visit to the bank will be out of the question. I am considering doing the walk this evening.
Let's talk T.V.
This morning I used our Android TV Box to play the last two-thirds of a video my brother and I had to break from yesterday due to its length (1:18:26). It can be found on BitChute ─ I located it at bluedemon218's channel: Thalidomide Tragedy.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in pregnant women in 46 countries resulted in the "biggest man‐made medical disaster ever," with over 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as phocomelia, and thousands of miscarriages.
Thalidomide was introduced in 1956 and was aggressively marketed by the German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal as a medication for anxiety, trouble sleeping, "tension", and morning sickness. It was introduced as a sedative and medication for morning sickness without having been tested on pregnant women. While initially deemed to be safe in pregnancy, concerns regarding birth defects were noted in 1961, and the medication was removed from the market in Europe that year.
Thalidomide was developed and first released by the German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal in 1953. The company had been established as a soap maker after World War II to address the urgent market need for antibiotics. Chemist Heinrich Mückter, who was a known Nazi war criminal, was appointed to head the discovery programme based on his experience researching and producing an anti-typhus vaccine for Nazi Germany.
The total number of people affected by the use of thalidomide during the mother's pregnancy is estimated at more than 10,000, of which approximately 40 percent died at or shortly after the time of birth. Those who survived had limb, eye, urinary tract, and heart defects.
The severity and location of the deformities depended on how many days into the pregnancy the mother was before beginning treatment; thalidomide taken on the 20th day of pregnancy caused central brain damage, day 21 would damage the eyes, day 22 the ears and face, day 24 the arms, and leg damage would occur if taken up to day 28. Thalidomide did not damage the fetus if taken after 42 days gestation.
The documentary was painting a scenario amazingly similar to what is going on today since the roll-out of mRNA gene therapy 'guising' as a vaccine.
We only watched one further video. It was 45 minutes (44:49), and added on November 10 to Rumble's Children's Health Defense Canada channel: Jonathan Otto Talks about Big Cures from Wee. Yes, as in Urine Therapy.
Jonathan Otto is a Humanitarian, Filmmaker, loving husband and father dedicated to helping to end suffering.
You can find him here;
https://jonathanotto.tv/
https://www.instagram.com/jonno.otto
Here is the link to the FREE series he mentioned; https://healingseries.com/
I must confess to being utterly intrigued, so I fully intend to learn more ─ much more.
It is possible that I may eschew an evening walk. If I have to hike to the bank tomorrow ─ it opens at 9:30 a.m. ─ the walk is about 1½ miles to get there. I can easily thereafter extend it if I feel inclined, should I feel a three-mile round trip walk to be inadequate.
The trick will be to not get overly involved in the drink this evening while watching T.V. with my brother once he is home. I can have the morning discussion with him about the toilet and leave him to it while I head off on my miserable errand to the bank. (I do not drive.)
My wife had today off work, and only has to start work tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time.
Well, this post was more substantial than I anticipated.
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