Mundane News

[fossyant]

Just seen the medical report. Doesn't look great long term. I'm currently tipped forward 10 degrees after the fracture to my spine. I'm compensating for it as it's wedging some of my discs in the area of the damaged L1. He doesn't think I can maintain this long term. Options would be injections or surgery where they cut away part of my vertibrae. Specialist not hopefull I will continue to cycle. Pain likely to remain.

I ain't giving up riding. Just not near traffic. Quite sobering reading the report. I did mash myself up a bit.

 

[TVC]

Just seen the medical report. Doesn't look great long term. I'm currently tipped forward 10 degrees after the fracture to my spine. I'm compensating for it as it's wedging some of my discs in the area of the damaged L1. He doesn't think I can maintain this long term. Options would be injections or surgery where they cut away part of my vertibrae. Specialist not hopefull I will continue to cycle. Pain likely to remain.

I ain't giving up riding. Just not near traffic. Quite sobering reading the report. I did mash myself up a bit.

Bad news, what are the chances of getting corrective surgury pretty quickly?

 

[fossyant]

Sorry to hear that. I hope the surgeons sort it out. Mrs R had 5 ops after her bike smash three years ago including replacing two disks in her neck. She still cycles although the Brompton seems to be the only bike she can do any distance on.

There is stuff in the report that my surgeon hasn't mentioned so I have some questions. I'm inclined not to have anything done unless it becomes too painful. We are talking years.

Today's offer has come as a surprise but the solicitor has said to reject as it takes no acount of the medical report nor stuff like the cost of commuting by car.

 

[EltonFrog]

I've never smoked

Me neither, I have never even touched a cigarette. Vile things.

 

[EltonFrog]

Just seen the medical report. Doesn't look great long term. I'm currently tipped forward 10 degrees after the fracture to my spine. I'm compensating for it as it's wedging some of my discs in the area of the damaged L1. He doesn't think I can maintain this long term. Options would be injections or surgery where they cut away part of my vertibrae. Specialist not hopefull I will continue to cycle. Pain likely to remain.

I ain't giving up riding. Just not near traffic. Quite sobering reading the report. I did mash myself up a bit.

I'm sorry to hear that too, it must very miserable for you, we wish you well for the future.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

15 years muck free for me. Do you look back and wonder what you were thinking? I do, to volunterily suck hot smoke deep into your lungs is a crazy idea.

I quite smoking in 1977.

 

[EltonFrog]

Oh yes!!
Already booked for the O2 Academy Oxford for 31 March!! Big stuff!!!
Woooo wooooo

Have they got any toons online we can listen to?

 

[summerdays]

I've never smoked

I was beginning to think I was the only one... I must have been a goody goody child......

 

[potsy]

I was beginning to think I was the only one... I must have been a goody goody child......

No I'm another in the 'never smoked' gang, even as a youngster I was too aware of just what a waste of money those things are.

 

[Smithbat]

Twenty years ago I did something amazing - I gave up smoking. I've been drawing a little crossed-out cig on the calendar every year since then .

8 years for me. Still the hardest but best thing I have ever done.

Well done you for 20 years

 

[summerdays]

No I'm another in the 'never smoked' gang, even as a youngster I was too aware of just what a waste of money those things are.

I think it was an afternoon in juniors year 3 (Mr Boston's class).... I remember watching a video and seeing something full of tar. I think it made a strong impression on me. By the time I was in secondary school and seeing where the boys kept their cigs to avoid being caught, I wasn't going to have one of theirs!

 

[EltonFrog]

The thing I could never understand about smoking, even as a child, was why anyone wanted to smell like that, then as I got older I couldn't and still don't understand why people want to pay that extra tax; on 20 a day a smoker is paying another £1300 in tax. Bonkers.

 

[fossyant]

No I'm another in the 'never smoked' gang, even as a youngster I was too aware of just what a waste of money those things are.

Same here. Having been through the COPD then lung cancer with my smoking FIL I'm glad I never took it up. Not even a puff.

Great work all you folk who gave it up.

 

[Salty seadog]

Is there a word that means "to try to find something and fail, but in the process you find something else you were trying to find and failed last time"?

I think serendipity covers the second part.

 

[Salty seadog]

Poundland are selling things that don't cost a pound! It's the End Of Days, I tell ya.

I wasn't entirely sure, though, and standing in the queue with £3 and 4 packs of Oreos was as much excitement as I've had all day.

I've got a mate who's an adrenaline junkie too.