Post pics of your watches Part II

That's a very nice looking watch.

Got Happy Gilmore moment today.

My first Seiko 7T92-0EV0 Titanium

Plenty battle scars.

Hard to tell from the close up angle, but that doesn't look that big on your wrist for a 50mm piece

My ‘swim’ watch :)

This photo was taken 3 weeks ago and shows the time taken to swim the 11 miles of Lake Windermere.

Yeah, impressive swim.

was over there in June... lovely part of UK... didnt do anything that athletic! Some incredible views from various points.. Surprise view was a standout:

That's a lot of watch for €85, absolutely lovely!

I haven't noticed any issues with it. I didn't really buy the watch for its functions or different modes on the LCD though so cant say i look at the LCD an awful lot. I mainly just look at the analogue time.

Not great to read the date by glancing, but if you need it it's fine. Nicest of the g-shocks as it's not as chunky as some.

What made it extra specialer Wibbs?

Other than its obvious awesomeness...

On the train to Cork and enjoying a little Blancpain distraction from what's to come for the rest of the day.

My brother's inquest is today. Other than the "official" cause of death and thus being able to register his death, I am hopeful of obtaining an advisory verdict regarding the circumstances and delay of the ambulance response. Not to lay blame at the emergency services feet, but rather to ensure that any shortfall in resourcing and processes is highlighted.

If we get the advisory verdict? I look forward to wrecking the head of current and future Ministers of Health. There's nothing more I can do for Colin, but? I hope that by highlighting the shortcomings he faced, that we can prevent another family facing the same.

So... the inquest.

I have spent the last couple of months pulling together information and asking questions.

Foremost of which was?

How can it be possible that a young man can lay critically ill for over 135 minutes before an ambulance arrives to help.

Well today was the day, the Coroner to his credit did his utmost to ensure every question was addressed.

Today wasn't easy for any of us. For me, it was the last thing I can ever do for Colin, so I wanted to be sure I did my best.

Our aim was to gain an advisory verdict. One that would highlight the critically squeezed resources available to our Blue light services.

Unfortunately, the very specific circumstances(and in fairness correct) that the coroner can consider, prevented us from obtaining that verdict.

For that verdict to be available, the Doctor treating Colin would have had to agree that the delay in an Ambulance reaching Colin and the delay in him reaching hospital contributed to his death.

The Doctor however, believed that Colin's initial stroke was so severe that he may well not have survived no matter how quickly aid reached him.(70-80% mortality) Ergo the delayed response cannot be considered as contributing to Colin's death and can't be addressed in an advisory verdict.

On foot of all this? Colin's death certificate will record that he died of "Natural causes" from an intracerebral hemorrhage secondary to Hypertension and Chronic Kidney disease. There's fúck all natural about that at 34yrs of age.

As a good friend of mine often said, your health is your wealth! Mind yourselves, look after your health and look after each other.

I'm going to spend a little time grieving my brother now. It was on hold whilst I was trying to do whatever this turned out to be.

Then in the New year I'll be tying in with some other folk on a plan to address Ambulance Service resources. Plan is to assess global best practice and compare/contrast that with current Irish Practice. From talking to the NAS rep today. The service is creaking and if nothing else? If we can generate good data and get input from the frontline crews? We can at least highlight what we can do better with our own Ambulance response and resourcing.