Tony Blair

angel · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 4751 Location: essex

Party!!!!!! What Party. Icon_swoon

Just Get Your son well, dont worry about what others think, God has His hand on You all. Icon_0204

Eddie c · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 685 Location: Manchester

Faith,that is good news. As for it being Sunday dont worry there will be plenty of doctors and nurses and others working at the Hospital,thank God.
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Eddie c · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 685 Location: Manchester

I remeber school milk. If you pierced the top with a needle then shook the bottle the milk would squirt out at a great rate Icon_biggrin

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And then there were school dinners.......but thats for another thread.
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Elaine · Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 1712 Location: Derbyshire

I remember blowing down the straw into the last inch of milk, filling the bottle with bubbles Icon_fing05

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I was always terrified they would make me drink the milk that sat in a crate at the door (I hated milk) and was given out before the playtime in the morning, my mam always stood at the gate waiting for me during playtime i mainly stood and spoke to her, sometimes I didn't though

hope · Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 346 Location: Dorset

Oh yuck! School milk was vile, it was always warm it made me feel sick. Icon_sick

When I went to secondary school the milk came in cartons, it was such rough school they probably decided we'd break the bottle and use them as weapons. As it was some of the boys used to throw the cartons of milk at the wall to hear them go bang and mild go everywhere. Icon_fing01

It wasn't me of course I was quite a good girl. Icon_animated-angel

The NHS waiting lists do vary because I didn't wait long at all to see the orthopaedic surgeon. Then when he said I could have my knees replaced and it was a five month wait, my op was five months to the day. Icon_biggrin

jtheb · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 1451 Location: second childhood

My friend has been told that waiting for knee replacement is TWO years!
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VictoriaPlum · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 718

I suppose it is best to get in long before you really need it, ie at the first twinge, then by the time the two years is up you will be ready for it. Just a thought. Or else you could fall over in the street outside the hospital.
Oh dear, I suppose I have these things to come, or maybe not, not everyone has to have new knees and hips and things.

When I was thirteen I had a knee op, the patella removed and a false one put in. It was a horrendous experience and the false knee cap is not the same size or shape as the other one, not that that matters now. It used to ache in cold weather too though, strangely, as I have got older it has ceased to do so! I was told I might have to have it out later on and replaced, which I dreaded, but actually it has held up very well, I rarely think of it now. I do pray I never have to have another knee op though. I would rather drink school milk!

PS: Just read your post about the MRI scan for your son Faith. Wonderful news.

VictoriaPlum · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 718

Sounds like a very responsible job faith. I was never monitor of anything! Icon_biggrin

Fancy your son having his knee cap removed too! I feel sorry for him about the arthritis. I was warned that I might get arthritis in that joint too but, so far, if I do have it (and apparently everyone gets a bit of arthritis after the age of 25), it has not become apparent. I don't know if my knee joint is unstable or not, well after forty four years post-op I don't think I want to know. There again I did have an artificial knee cap inserted (ugly it is too). However, when I hear about what others go through, like your son, I realize how fortunate I am, it has never given me any trouble so far.

How is his knee cap fractured if he has had it removed or is that the other knee?

Poor kid having to go through all that. Is Robert a sportsman? Bless him. Sorry if I was going on a bit about my knee which is, let's face it, ancient history, it is just that I rarely come across anyone who has also had a knee cap removed.

hope · Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 346 Location: Dorset

No I was never monitor of anything, I always felt a little nobody at school. Icon_sad

Two years is a long time to wait for surgery but, then I waited about that because I saw a surgeon where I used to live and he told me to lose an unreasonable amount of weight before he would do the op. I was told I was young to have a knee replacement as they wear out so I think they were playing for time.

What a shame for son faith, but good news about his scan. Icon_happythumbsup

Knee surgery is incredibly painful but for me I can say it was worth it now, but I still don't want the other one done.

Sisyphus · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject:

Don't you hate the Elspeth Pluckroses of the world..?? Icon_wink

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hope · Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 346 Location: Dorset

Only secretly, cos we aren't spose to hate. Icon_biggrin

Your son sounds amazing faith, quite a miracle in fact. Icon_hugginsmileys_753

I've never been to sussex. Icon_thinking

Is it far from essex? Icon_thinking

VictoriaPlum · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 718

Yes it is in a different direction from London, for Essex we turn left at Dartford! Icon_biggrin

Brighton is in Sussex.

jtheb · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 1451 Location: second childhood

Only secretly, cos we aren't spose to hate.

You heard about the little girl who said "I don't hate her, she isn't an enemy. She is a friend I don't like"
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hope · Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 346 Location: Dorset

That was probably me. Icon_laugh

I'm not to sure where Brighton is so rather than embarrass myself further I shall consult a map. Icon_blush

Actually it's probably in the opposite direction to Dorset, that would probably be left at Dartford. Icon_im_sorry