As someone else said, are you finished yet? Are these imponerably long replies some kind of ego trip?
MBQ
As someone else said, are you finished yet? Are these imponerably long replies some kind of ego trip?
MBQ
A close friend's wife had a knee replacement op on this past Wednesday
- cut the knee open and S/S inserts top and bottom, etc. (without general aneasthetic). Home on Saturday, out walking with sticks - not crutches - for 15 mins on Sunday in the local park. Stairs are no problem it seems.
Don't be a woose :>) .
I suspect that ironically a bad sprain is possible more painful. My wife went over a step some years back and the ankle swelled up enormously; she went to A & E, checked it over and signed her up for immediate physio which was great rehabilitation.
Rob
I do live alone. However the girlfiend only lives two streets away and my next door neighbour has done my shopping for me!
Thanks
Adam
Is that out of sympathy, or fear ;-)
Owain
No bad neighbours on my street since the dickheads moved out. The one that did the shopping for me was the one that last year posted his house key and a note asking me to feed his cat as he had chopped a finger off:-)
Cheers
Adam
one crutch only - on bad leg side ... bad leg first going down, good leg first going up ..... hold on to banister
You of all people should know what to do with a crutch :-)
Sit on 2nd bottom step. Put good leg on bottom step, hands on 4th step, lift bum to third step.
When you get to top shout for wife to bring crutches. Or bring them with you, but it'll be clumsy.
You should be OK doing that with a sprain that hurts with weight.
Andy
Don't tell me matey found out who put that car outside his house ;o) Seriously though, I hope it clears up quickly.
them?
I have my crutches up in the loft - from a skiing accident 25 years ago
Please give to the NHS. Or return them, as the case may be. A little off our tax bills!
Andy
How are you going to get them when you next need them? ;)
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Champ saying something like:
Those days are gone. H&S fears means they chuck them in the skip.
Bought them in Austria
I'm hanging on to them, as I shall need another knee op in the near future
I really don't think there's a mechanism for taking them back
After my father died, there were various items - catheters etc which my mother tried taking back to the hospital (still sealed and boxed up) - they weren't interested
treating
Nasty. I think I would have been jumping up and down to sue the hospital for something.
No chance of that with my x-ray, the one taken side on looked OK, until you spotted the tiny chips of bone at the impact site but the one taken looking from the toes to ankle even I could see the fracture when I was 6' from the light box. IIRC I said to the radiographer "That's not supposed to be like that is it?"...
One can only assume it was a small hairline fracture and that is why it was missed, still not an excuse though. If they had been away for even a week or two that would have been too long to do much. Assuming
4 or 6 weeks then it'll have almost completely healed.
I'll ask Adam how to climb stairs when you're a crip - he'll be an expert by then
or ...
send the missus up to get them
Aye, I took the ones I had back but it was clear they didn't really know what to do with them. I can understand the H&S aspect as they don't know what sort of treatment they have had but I should imagine that it can't be that hard to send them to a place that checks 'em over and refurbishes for re-use. Or even if they don't want to do that, collect for the scrap ali and recycle them that way.
that caused me some mirth :)
that caused me some mirth :)
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