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Old age.
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:39 pm
by pete
About 20 years ago I hurt my wrist playing football, the one and only time I played as a grown up.
It was x rayed and put in a cast in case it was my scaphoid, but they thought it was just a bad sprain. It was x-rayed again when the cast came off and the conclusion was it was a sprain.
Finally got round to getting it looked at again properly (I've had physio on it a few times) together with an Xray. It's broken and strangely more sore now I know it's broken than it was before...
Bollocks.
Re: Old age.
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:32 pm
by rossybee
pete wrote:Bollocks.
They broken too?
Re: Old age.
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:50 pm
by j2 lot
Old age is best left to others as there are way too many ailments to catch and suffer from. I looked up something on NHS Choices and I have caught it and the diseases on the surrounding pages, to be honest it's doubtful if I'll see the night out.
Re: Old age.
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:01 pm
by pete
rossybee wrote:pete wrote:Bollocks.
They broken too?
I have a broken HAND.
I think the fact that it has been broken for 20 years should gain me more sympathy. Not less.
Re: Old age.
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 2:46 am
by robin
Is it possible you've broken the hand recently? 20 years seems a long time for it to get neither better nor worse. On the plus side the quality of prosthetics is improving daily. Or you could get a hook?
Re: Old age.
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 6:49 am
by rossybee
pete wrote:rossybee wrote:pete wrote:Bollocks.
They broken too?
I have a broken HAND.
One-handed bollock gropage can be fun.
Not with a hook, mind...
Re: Old age.
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:31 am
by pete
I also want it recognised I'm clearly hard as nails - able to just manfully ignore broken bones.
Re: Old age.
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 9:37 am
by alicrozier
pete wrote:I also want it recognised I'm clearly hard as nails - able to just manfully ignore broken bones.
Until moaning about it online...TUP!
(Toughen Up Princess)
Re: Old age.
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:12 am
by tenkfeet
Its just your luck which doctor you get. Last time I ended up in hospital first junior doctor looked at x-rays and said "you should get out tonight, take him off the spinal board." Second doctor " There is a anomaly with you x rays, don't move". Consultant " have you done this before? We will put you in a cast. Two months later at spinal injuries specialist " Where did you get that brace? They are a waste of time, don't work and its been fitted wrong. The last six weeks have done more damage."
I still think the NHS is brilliant.
Re: Old age.
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 12:10 pm
by Lazydonkey
robin wrote:Is it possible you've broken the hand recently? 20 years seems a long time for it to get neither better nor worse. On the plus side the quality of prosthetics is improving daily. Or you could get a hook?
I think pete could really rock the hook. Do it.
Re: Old age.
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 12:31 pm
by Mikie711
Some modern prosthetics are incredible and you can have them in carbon......
Watch on YouTube
Re: Old age.
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:54 pm
by r10crw
Lazydonkey wrote:robin wrote:Is it possible you've broken the hand recently? 20 years seems a long time for it to get neither better nor worse. On the plus side the quality of prosthetics is improving daily. Or you could get a hook?
I think pete could really rock the hook. Do it.
Re: Old age.
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:33 pm
by tut
Still not sure that it is what your right hand is for..........
tut
Re: Old age.
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:48 pm
by rossybee
Mikie711 wrote:Some modern prosthetics are incredible and you can have them in carbon......
Watch on YouTube
Some of those grips could bring a tear to a prosthetic eye!
Re: Old age.
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 6:31 pm
by thinfourth
Mikie711 wrote:Some modern prosthetics are incredible and you can have them in carbon......
Watch on YouTube
So does a wooden leg