Update of disaster graft saga

[Hilary Johnson]

Hi

Cam back with no fewer than FIVE (!) tubes to fill with my blood.

In theory you can lose up to 3 pints before you actually die...

Tell me, why do banks these days have luxurious etc

Machines are cheaper. It's only a disability discrimination issue if lifts aren't available - if you can ask and be directed to one, it's OK, I think

seem to get a lot of lower back ache.
anyone any ideas??

Possibly - spending too long in bed esp if old mattress - do more (back) exercise(s)... May also be worth trying hamstring stretches - I read somewhere that that can help backache.

WHy she thinks I shouldhave known what she was talking about was beyond me!

Very common human failing to overlook the simple fact that other people have a different point of view, hence road-rage ....

M's reaction to my complaints of patronising GP was that he needed to calm them down

I disagree - call it "emotional intelligence", "stiff upper lip" or "part of growing up", but I reckon adults should be able to calm themselves down - why didn't they just slap their foreheads with a cry of "doh!!!", laugh at their own silly mistake and move on? Instead of thinking someone else was to blame, someone else was responsible for fixing it, and still fuming 35 years later .... <sigh> - short shrift would have been available from me too, I think.

Now, what was that about the things I didn't know/remember.....?

OK OK I take it back

I guess having bramble scratches on your arm wouldn't help if someone thought you were in danger of self-harming, particularly in East London, and they maybe didn't ask how you got them because a self-harmer would have a story ready .. However, talking about cutting the stitch out with a Swiss Army knife is probably what really gets people going - I'd suggest not saying it if you don't really mean it ...!

H

[rosemary johnson]

Agree about parents' GP - you can enlighten people that their precious daughter doesn'tactually ahve cancer without sounding like a patronising git.
Trouble with parental reaction is, or was, the mindset that it's reasonable toassume "cancer" if the optician won't give a medical diagnosis.
As regards hamstrings - aha! back ache could be associated with stiff hamstrings (from all that mucking out, not to mention weeding the manege - there are weeds growing up through the sand....)
NOt heard any more from Barts, though no doubt a bit early to do so (unless something imminently fatal identified!!!).
Not heard about neurology ref either, though experience of feeling disoriented/vaguely seasick riding round fields only 4 days after being taken to A&E may suggest the problems with motion sensation processing may be related to the steroid problems - maybe I actually want a neuro=endocrinologist after all???????
Latest news on horse front, BTW, is : I've bbeen jumping! Not on Duke, whose feet still look pretty manky, but on Ari(zona). Bit wobbly (!!!) far from stylish and only about a foot, but an improvement on previous week!
The foal has still not arrived......
Rosemary

[rosemary johnson]

PS: as regards the bramble scratches...... well, I suppose that the first week in Januarywhen one has just gone down with The 'Orrible Lurgy is not the ost common time of year to be out gardening!!!
- except that Danny had just got a chain saw for Christmas, with which to attack the overgrowth around the field, a rather overdue job as it happens. He'd set to the task with a vengeance, we'd all got various scratches from lugging the pruned branches down to the bonfire enclosure. and Duke had that many fewer bushes to tuck into so wanted to take full advantage of the one by the gate.
In fact, Danny had gone at the overgrowth with such gusto the chain saw he got fro Chriatmas broke down, and we were all out at B&! the next morning buying a new one!
What's singularly irritating is, the big scratch from thebush Duke was trying to eat was in the last place anyone with a clue what they were doing would have tried to slash their wrists, and the various little ones weren't in any much more sensible places (sensible from that point of view) for doing so. If they really thought I was trying to do myself in they ust ahve thought I was going about it in a pretty dumb manner!
THe real problem, I guess, is that people who don't work with horses don't realise how people who do spend most of their time with a collection of bruises, scratches and aching muscles.
Rosemary