the recovery

[byegad]

I'm a proud Yorkshireman, after all I am the Yorkshire Cultural Ambassador to County Durham, aka the frozen North!

While we don't get the rain that a certain unmentionable neighbouring county* gets we do get some. Sadly last weekend was one of the odd occasions when the rain was less than refreshing! More near drowning from some of the reports!

* A small hint, their roses are the wrong colour!
* Another small hint when God created the Earth he practised on the rest of the world then made England which was near perfect, so he tried harder and made Yorkshire, the best of the best....



....Then he tipped all the rubbish left over on the West side of the Pennines, where those lucky Yorkshire folk can't see it.

 

[n-ick]

Yo, minions and regular scibers......back from the very frontiers.
This most scribable of posts still here then.

Tha's not seen weather like in Middle Earth here. Last week we had hailstones size of hens.Never seen hailstones with feathers on before, quite frozen looking.
I also saw for the 2nd time a curio roadkill; 2 legs and fur. What creatures inhabit the night?

Are these symptons of RECOVERY ? Has the unipod gone into banking?

 

[byegad]

I gather his brain has rusted up, along with his partly tin leg.

We had no rain today! So lucky me got to drive to the Out-Laws and mow the lawn, then to the tip to get rid of the several hundredweights of grass. The Pygmies were well annoyed that they'll have to move on now the grass isn't tall enough to hide them.

Tomorrow I see the surgeon who will no doubt decide to wait before doing my dicky knee. Wish me luck!

 

[jayjay]

Good luck!
Knees only mildly squeaky here.

 

[n-ick]

I'm afraid that the knees here are softened by kneeling on the mud and praying for the rain to stop.We also have a crop of exploding gooseberries.
I am now looking forward to a waterlogged Olymptopic event.

I have contacted the newly mobile ( on the road again) Spud for a knee levitation device based on a hovering cushion. Once finalised a pair will be sent to the Rotherham Unipod,of whom no news has circulated in local periodicals.

 

[byegad]

Bad news! ... My knee has arthritic damage.
Good news! ... It's not too bad.
Worse news. ... It's only going to get worse!
Better news?? ... On my 61st birthday, I'm fa r too young to have it replaced! Cos the new one will last 15 yrs max!

So more pain ahead before they'll do it. Maybe I should d my best to b*gg*! it completely asap?

Any thoughts.

 

[Scoosh]

• calculate when you will no longer be needing your knee, for whatever reason
• subtract 15 years
• get booked in at the start of that year
• make the most of the 15 years
• enjoy setting off all the metal detectors at any travel place in the UK and elsewhere

On a more serious note, that was the exact position in which my F-i-L found himself a few years ago.
He's since had both knees done (to great beneficial effect) - but I don't think he's been counting the years since ...
My thoughts are not very good, I'm afraid.

 

[byegad]

Thanks Scoosh. I'm already wondering how much I'll be doing at 76, if I'm spared!

Off to see my quack on Monday with a view to weight loss and pain relief. I'm not exactly fat, more way, way short for my weight.

 

[Speicher]

Thanks Scoosh. I'm already wondering how much I'll be doing at 76, if I'm spared!

Off to see my quack on Monday with a view to weight loss and pain relief. I'm not exactly fat, more way, way short for my weight.

Strangely enuff, Byegad, I am way way short for my weight. I should be about 6 or 8 inches taller. I blame my Russian and German and Persian ancestors for that.

 

[Scoosh]

Thanks Scoosh. I'm already wondering how much I'll be doing at 76, if I'm spared!
F-i-L was still doing 20 mile walks at 78 ...

Off to see my quack on Monday with a view to weight loss and pain relief. I'm not exactly fat, more way, way short for my weight.

Weight loss (preferably 20 yrs ago !) will certainly have a major impact on the knees, as it's all that extra weight-related-impact which might have done the damage up to now, though, ironically, cycling will have helped to reduce those effects. Just think of how bad it could be ! []

From my team sports days, I have noticed an interesting progression for those who participate:
rugby + 1 -> hockey + 2 -> cycling + 3 -> swimming ....
.... usually associated with the following progression of conditions:

1. knee cartilage
2. young family
3. pension
4. Grim Reaper

I'm desperately hanging on to the Cycling bit (though I used to swim competitively when younger)

YMMV

 

[n-ick]

Will fear of work improve the knee life?

I'd ask our Rain soaked GG for an exchange. I beleive his troubles are higher
up.

 

[Scoosh]

This looks interesting - though, as so often, a bit late for some of us ... all right for the young chooks !

 

[byegad]

Will fear of work improve the knee life?

I'd ask our Rain soaked GG for an exchange. I beleive his troubles are higher
up.

There's always someone worse off than yourself and you've cheered me up with that one. I'm better off than he was before he smashed himself up.

 

[Scoosh]

He smashed himself up ???

What happened ?

I thought he was always like this/that ....

Have I been missing something important in this whole thread ?

Oh - and GWS "Rain soaked GG"



[]

 

[Speicher]

A big

for GG. He has probably lost the SB part.

Byegad, would you pass on this

to Mark please.