Slowlycatchymonkey

Reckon you need the good old crack of a snappy chiropractor followed up with deep tissue massage or osteopathy. The bone movement you described sounded like far too much. I can’t remember a lot about my orthopaedic placements, probably cos they were in 1996 and I’ve gin’d a lot of brain cells away since then! Spect if you google bone healing it’ll go into the types of healing and what complications slow or stop recovery, Id put money on movement being a top cause. The “come back in 6 weeks” is unlikely to have anything to do with seeing more healing, more likely he needs to discuss it with someone else. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s reluctant to share that piece of work with his colleagues. The back pain will drag you down, perhaps make that a priority?

When did you take a photo of my feet?!

Ooh now I’m interested to have a quick watch!

Sorry to hear the manky legs still manky. After six months you have moved to ‘non-union’ which is oft caused by poor nutrition and/or excessive bone movement. As your not an ol’ codger yet I’m guessing it’s the excessive movement disrupting the growth process. I remember smokings quite bad for bone growth cos of the reduction in O2 but I have no idea about the nicotine on its own- sounds from what you’re saying they don’t know either! I’m guessing that big gap and the bones being too mobile has caused this. Time to ask for a definitive plan and a timescale it’s going to happen over. Back pain is nasty, have you considered seeing a chiropractor? They are pricey but this is the sort of out of alignment problem they’re really good at. Good ones also know a lot about breaks and have friends in the right places. Just a thought. My husbands chiropractor has saved him from a lot of hassle on more than one occasion because of who he knows. I’m really looking forward to the day I hear your fixed and on a bike. As for the cold I have a billion layer system I can let you in on that will keep you toasty... and as a consequence render the peg immobile!

Dinitrolled?

Yep I’d rather be treated here on the NHS than anywhere else. Which hospital though is a different matter!

This is obvious but I’ll say it anyway. If you decide to go for a BnB pick one with good parking where your precious bike won’t be left out on the street! Well, I'm booked up around the corner in a hotel with a nice car park. I can cancel up to 22/10 (its with booking.com) so I'll monitor the weather in the interim! Are you two going to be using whatever your bike transport is? Good plan, if anyone had told me I’d spend my time insesantly weather watching I would have told them they’re bonkers, then I got a bike... Likely be in the works van or I’ll be stranded while the works done on 9T If your staying over consider a look around this place before the bimble home https://krazyhorse.co.uk [mention]goat[/mention] A mere days trek on foot bit tricky if you don’t have feet though

Thanks - it's in lovely nick actually. Much more of a purist's car, and far more engaging because of that. I did love my Boxster, but it was 18 years old and following the last service I was given a list of about £4k's worth of additional work that was required. maybe the write-off was a blessing in disguise as I don't have that kind on money knocking around. (The car was worth £7.5k at best anyway, so it wouldn't have been money well spent.) That does sound like a blessing in disguise, bet it felt very heavily disguised when it happened though!

You don’t have to come on your bike. I’m most likely going to be in a van, unless the weather is unseasonably pleasant. Course if youre frightened your swivelling eyeball head combo can’t handle the biscuit chat then best hob nob off.

Okay, I'll see of there's a cheap BnB nearby and then decide what to do This is obvious but I’ll say it anyway. If you decide to go for a BnB pick one with good parking where your precious bike won’t be left out on the street!

Perhaps they should coat the tardis in malted milk biscuits. The British version of a deflector shield.

Very nice indeed. Looks in very good nic.

Me n my other half will be, not there but close by.

I’d risk attack for a wagon wheel or a tunnocks teacake but bourbons... yep probably them too. A rich tea however nope.

Perhaps the Daleks and the Cybermen don’t like custard creams so they’re safe biscuits and the bourbons are riskier. Safe biscuits and risky biscuits. That’s a new angle. A digestive would definitely be a safe biscuit. Wonder what the riskiest biscuit would be?

Just custard creams? No bourbons?

Find a pub or BnB and go back in the morning. Or have a little ride out in the dark soon before the 25th to get you over that hump and see if your feeling confident enough before committing. I had a little fear of that myself, then when I did it I felt silly cos it’s no biggie. You might find the same.

Warning long post from a nurse who quit. [mention]NeilM[/mention] There has been a distinct change in the way care is administered in the last couple of years. The criteria for whether something is considered worth treating has been tightened to the extent often only the very worse cases can be treated, if it’s possible to send you home they will send you home. Private healthcare is not the answer. You can’t make a profit from illness. It takes time and money to fix broken people. Who hasn’t come away from the vets, the dentist, the opticians quite a few quid lighter wondering if what they’ve been sold was actually necessary. Or the iatrogenic medicine practised in America where it’s such a financial benefit to the hospital to perform interventions people are made ill from unnecessary treatments. [mention]MarkW[/mention] It’s is disheartening and the disillusioned leave in droves. There’s a huge skill split than runs roughly like this- If your working in the admin or managerial side you have a transferable skill so if your good enough then eventually (I’d estimate 1-2years max) you’ll be voting with your feet and getting a better paid job somewhere else. Which leaves the place being run by people who aren’t good enough to get a job anywhere else. There are lovely exceptions (who often don’t understand themselves why they’re still there) but mainly you’re not talking to skilled people who care. The shortage of decent admin and managers means it’s used as a stepping stone by people who want to move onto bigger and better things so they come along to cut their teeth before leaving. We had a new chief in charge every 2years for longer than I can remember. This sort often enforce a change that looks great on paper (ignoring all the people who’ve been there donkeys explaining why it won’t work) then leave using the brilliant plan they got their name next to to secure a better job in corporate world. Leaving us to unpick the mess they’ve left and revert back to what works. This happens so frequently your in constant flux encountering headache problems that means it’s difficult for anything to run smoothly. Then there are the medical staff who often love what they do patient contact wise but who’s spirits are crushed by the bollo they have to work in. Fortunately for the NHS they don’t have transferable skills so spend endless hours discussing what else they could do, never reach a satisfactory conclusion and trudge on. There was not one nurse when I left in April who didn’t tell me how jealous they were and they were desperate to get out. 33,000 nurses left last year.

[mention]bonio[/mention] I’ve checked with mudguard man and will definitely be around on the 25th I’m not expecting to see limbs, just an eyeball from the exorcist

Aah joeman why keep you waiting? They have no choice. Do they want to do the things they are doing? No. No one should have to know a secret phrase but the point is the service has been denuded to nothing right in front of us while we whinge about individual treatment and don’t bash down the doors of the people doing the destruction. -Urr not saying ur whinging it’s just a common experience. Complain loud and at the right people. Or perhaps watch your lovelies get second rate treatment and no-one gives two hoots about preserving something decent. You are spot on, no one should need to know a phrase to get correctly treated but it’s your baby and then your baby’s baby who needs to know who to stand up to so I share the words.

Troll where you like for fun. This is not fun. You know that, make a fuss where fuss should be made.

I’m so sorry, that’s just plain wrong. If your kids overheat again it’s imperative to bring the temp down. Cell death occurs at 40 (bit below depending on the study) so it is serious and the sooner you recognise the temperature increase and take action the sooner you’ll be avoiding calamity. Strip them off. Put a fan on (oscillating not direct) then if there’s no joy it’s luke warm bath time (pray they don’t remember that!) If it’s chilly take them out to the car. The best piece of advice I was given (that works) is this- “I appreciate it’s difficult for you to advise me so I won’t ask what I should do but perhaps you could tell me what you might do in this situation?” Legally they have given you no advice. They’ve only stated what they might do if it was them. Big difference and generally you get good advice.

One of my quiet friends said under his breath once whilst some guide was trying to fleece us tip wise- “Tip? Don’t eat yellow snow”

A tad

It makes my heart break. They have fractured and destroyed something that means people have no faith or inclination to use it unless desperate. But that is the aim. A guy (who would be shot!) wrote a book in the 80s about how to destroy the NHS. It involves starving the service of money, fragmenting the care into so many pieces it can’t work, privatising by the back door (just google Sir John Nash for nepotism gone mad) and making people lose faith in it to the extent they will pay rather than use it. It’s being followed almost to the letter. Meanwhile decent people who want to provide good care are frustrated (and frightened of the consequences of their instructed actions) and are leaving in droves (myself included) because watching the NHS’s demise takes its toll. Of course your child would be better at home but a temp of 40 degrees is so far over the line I’m surpirsed you didn’t see fitting. They would know that too, they also know there’s no beds so will only admit people who might actually die right now. I sincerely hope you received advise about what methods to use to cool him down (too fast is also dangerous) and were told what to look for if you needed to attend A&E but you probably weren’t. A&E tried to discharge my son whilst having an anaphylatic reaction but I knew it wasn’t over so stood (in my bloody nurses uniform) in front of them and said NO Turned out ok in the end but only just. Sorry you’ve had a shite experience. I can guarantee you the people working there are squeezed and not enjoying themselves either. Be demanding and don’t give the staff grief, just make sure you MP knows this is something that matters.