Tea? (Part 4)

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stephec

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As no riding this morning I turned my attention to the new road bike and fettled the gears, it's ridable now but only on the small ring, I cannot get it to go on the big ring. Well at least I can take it for a spin next time I'm free!

So now time for :cuppa:
Cable too tight, or limit screws need adjusting?
 
He's given me Tramadol (which I hate) to take with my Voltarol and Paracetamol.
I've to get in touch by Thursday if no better, as he says I may need an urgent referral to the Back clinic who can do an MRI :sad:

I feel for you. Can't have Voltarol either. I'm sure you know but if you are on it often and routinely, get your kidney function checked as well...
The back clinic could be the best option for you, much as you may want to be avoiding it. which reminds me. I much make a telephone call to see who exactly I was referred to... :whistle:

I never got on with generic tramadol, got the most horrendous side effects from it and it didn't really seem to work. but if it was Zydol rather than generic tramadol, I could take half the dose, get less side effects and actually get much more pain relief and be in a fit state to work! In the end my GP gave in and gave me Zydol rather than tramadol after seeing the difference... spent 15 years on it as well... worked well for my chronic pain from my wrist issues, but didn't touch my back when this first started and currently however, zydol would not touch my pain sadly either!

I wonder what someone coming into cycling would think of the current CC sick list! :eek:
 

stephec

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I know, but it doesn't make it any easy. It's not my fault my disc went but I am the reason we are not there on holiday for this week. If I could sit at all, we could have gone, even if i spent most of my time there in bed it would have been a change of scenery!


I would rather he talk to me about the food. His cooking is the cause of us both putting weight on. Great when you are on the road, but not other worse sadly. I keep trying to get him to talk to me. Hell I'm even a moderator on a food website... I can't concentrate on getting better when I am 7kg overweight! (That's over my preferred weight and what I was when this happened).



:cheers: :cheers:
I have some morphine if that helps? Mind you at the moment morphine, codeine and paracetamol plus high doses of pregabalin are not really touching my pain! I've just been told to take more morphine!
It sounds like you're being a bit hard on yourself, after all you didn't damage your disc on purpose. He probably would like to be on holiday, but your health is more important than one trip. Are you able to make plans for a trip when you're better?

For the food, can you tell him he can eat what he wants, as long as he sticks to cooking for you from a diet plan you give him?
 
It sounds like you're being a bit hard on yourself, after all you didn't damage your disc on purpose. He probably would like to be on holiday, but your health is more important than one trip. Are you able to make plans for a trip when you're better?

For the food, can you tell him he can eat what he wants, as long as he sticks to cooking for you from a diet plan you give him?
our food has never really worked that way - been married for 18 years. he eats what I eat for economic reasons.... I'm the one with the major restrictions, but he is now having to do the cooking and whilst he used to be good at it, he hasn't really cooked for a very long time and he is simply too tired to really cook in the evenings and falls back to the standard chips, egg & (vegan) sausage... I have had to pester him frequently just to get him to remember to add some other veg with that like peas and beans or broccoli.... just to get greens into my life again. Its not like I am expecting him to cook a full Indian meal from scratch which is what I used to prepare for meals etc because I didn't work and he did. I have always done all the cooking - so would cook naan or chapatti with the Indian meal etc tis just frustrating.

as for making plans - to be honest, this is a long term recovery and nobody knows if I will ever sit up again, let alone walk without crutches and the likelihood is not on the walking right now. TBH if they actually got me to the point where I can sit up in a wheelchair, I will be better of than I am now and I accept that. I can deal with that. Needing a wheelchair for things like the supermarket and shopping in general I could deal with - and I accept we may have to move house as well. but I can't accept not being able to sit up ever again.... making plans for trips is just not an option right now. We have no idea on what I am ever going to be able to do again. I may currently manage 12km in my trike recumbent, but only my OH sees how much it takes out of me! I'll fall asleep later!

I just want to get to the point where I can leave my home again on something other than a trike recumbent or crutches! those are the only 2 options I have right now. We don't even know if I will ever be ablet o drive an unmodified vehicle again, right now!
 
as long as you can pass the receptionist's interrogation. :smile:
Lol, it's not just our surgery then!
 
Lol, it's not just our surgery then!
nope - not just your surgery... I used to have it sussed with my last dr's down south.. start with the line "I' a severe asthmatic and Think I have gone down with a chest infection" and I would get an appointment immediately. often I was asked if I could get to the surgery in the next 15 minutes, so which I would have to reply no, I think it will take closer to 20-25 minutes by the time I have driven the length of the track, dealt with the 2 gates.... lol
Haven't quite worked it out yet for my new surgery... I usually get told the duty nurse will ring me back and I don't have any issues getting an appointment from her!
 
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