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Thank you ND for your best wishes for me.. :D..I'm so sorry you're not a good candidate for surgery, there's nothing worse than thinking you may have to live in chronic pain for the rest of your life..sooo very sad for both you and Kath :( I do hope you both get some kind of relief from Pain before too long ...somewhere, somehow!! ((hugs))
 

ND and Kath, sorry you're having pain as well.

Holly, you had to pay for PT?

A non workout day. Housework. Going to make some carrot and coriander soup this morning so I can have some with my lunch. Planning on some time on the sofa with a good book.
 
yes Annie... 2 years ago initially the GP sent me to an NHS PT at the hospital...I can't even begin to tell you how utterly abysmal they were.. 15 minutes of show me how you stand , bend this way or that way..and then 15 minutes later sent on my way with another appointment for 3 months later..this went on a couple of times before I thought Sod this for a game of soldiers these people shouldn't even be qualified to work in a GYM much less the PT department of a hospital , so to cut a long story short I paid privately for a Sports injury Physiotherapist.. at a cost of over £200 per month once a week treatment for an hour which enable me to continue working albeit with painkillers and unable to lift or stretch ...but she was the one who gave me a letter to recommend to my GP that he send me to see the Top Back surgeon in England...

It wasn't an easy road the GP got miffed because he didn't like to be advised on how to treat his patient by someone who he deemed to be not in medial practise insisting that the intervention of Mr Consultant wasn't required and that even tho' I was in dreadful pain but still needed to work, he dismissed both arguments by saying that I could take a certain type of painkiller which doesn't agree with me and would render me senseless enough not to be able to drive much less work.., and just take time off sick. ..neither of which I was going to accept. and so I had a bit of a fight on my hands, but I stuck to my guns because I was in total agony ..but fortunately in the end I was sent to see the Great man..and we're here today..thanks primarily to the Private PT
 

hollydolly said:
yes Annie... 2 years ago initially the GP sent me to an NHS PT at the hospital...I can't even begin to tell you how utterly abysmal they were.. 15 minutes of show me how you stand , bend this way or that way..and then 15 minutes later sent on my way with another appointment for 3 months later..this went on a couple of times before I thought Sod this for a game of soldiers these people shouldn't even be qualified to work in a GYM much less the PT department of a hospital , so to cut a long story short I paid privately for a Sports injury Physiotherapist.. at a cost of over £200 per month once a week treatment for an hour which enable me to continue working albeit with painkillers and unable to lift or stretch ...but she was the one who gave me a letter to recommend to my GP that he send me to see the Top Back surgeon in England...

It wasn't an easy road the GP got miffed because he didn't like to be advised on how to treat his patient by someone who he deemed to be not in medial practise insisting that the intervention of Mr Consultant wasn't required and that even tho' I was in dreadful pain but still needed to work, he dismissed both arguments by saying that I could take a certain type of painkiller which doesn't agree with me and would render me senseless enough not to be able to drive much less work.., and just take time off sick. ..neither of which I was going to accept. and so I had a bit of a fight on my hands, but I stuck to my guns because I was in total agony ..but fortunately in the end I was sent to see the Great man..and we're here today..thanks primarily to the Private PT
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I'd pay too if I was in your position.
 
Hollydolly, that was quite the two-year saga. Glad you're on the mend now, though.

Rainy here this morning and 62F. We won't see temps that warm again before early next week!
 
I am expecting them to want us to come down even more.. so I'm not getting too excited at the moment. I have a very firm idea where I can end up and if they cannot or will not meet that I will walk away from it. They also want us to pay for the water and septic inspections. That will be changed if I accept their next offer.
 
35 years ago today, my oldest son was shot in the face in a handgun accident involving another 10 year old and his careless mother. He survived... It changed my life and my views about guns forever. It still haunts me every year on this date.
 
QuickSilver said:
35 years ago today, my oldest son was shot in the face in a handgun accident involving another 10 year old and his careless mother. He survived... It changed my life and my views about guns forever. It still haunts me every year on this date.
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How horrible! Did he fully recover with no lasting problems?
 
hollydolly said:
Jeez QS what a horrible thing to happen, and for it to cause so much misery and sorrow so many years on for both your son and your family. No wonder you are anti handguns..
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That would be why.. It's always easy to be in favor of something when you have not had it hurt you or your family personally.
 
Sorry to hear that happened, QS, it must have been so difficult for everyone. It makes sense to me that such a traumatic event would be responsible for future problems. Thank goodness your son survived. I am also anti-gun.
 
QuickSilver said:
That would be why.. It's always easy to be in favor of something when you have not had it hurt you or your family personally.
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I'm in total agreement with you re firearms, QS. Although my immediate family had no direct gun injury, a good friend of mine from back in school days lost both her grandparents when a teenager entered their house armed with a gun - his motive was robbery but when he found the grandparents were at home he shot them both dead. A really gut-wrenching tragedy!
 
Oh, my! I'm also anti-gun. And no matter how hard I try to understand, why people want to be armed with big guns is beyond my comprehension. Stupid. Just plain stupid.

Finished today's house in less than four hours. Yippee. Came home and threw my cleaning rags in the washer, took the vacuum apart and washed the filter and the rest of the innards, hung the cleaning rags up to dry, then repotted my amaryllis and thing called a ZZ plant that was given to me by a client. The ZZ plant has an unpronounceable Latin name; I just call her Zelda.

Now I'm gonna rest!
 
Been to the gym, did dumbbells for my arms at home before lunch.

Chilly today and mostly cloudy. Supposed to get stormy and windy this weekend. It should not be this cold at this time of year.
 

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