Just want to rant I'm so fed up with this knee of mine...

[merciasounds]

If I exercise too much, it swells up. If I don't exercise it enough, it swells up. If I stand on it too long, it aches, and if I sit too long, it goes stiff and feels really tight. And when I lie in bed, it does all fizzing three at once and I can't sleep! I just knew when they were wheeling me down to the operating theatre it was a bad idea, I wish to goodness I'd never had it done now, I could cope with a little 'back ground pain' if you know what I mean, you can feel it, you know it's there but you can forget it once in a while - but this is constant and it's really getting me down as it's affecting my life. Can't walk my dogs, can't go into the garden ( I have done, but not since hubby's been home) not allowed to drive yet, the freezers are practically full from all the cooking and baking I've been doing.

[ttfn]

Cheers mercia
Triggs - please hold it right there before you get to Grotbags, to whom I have been likened (I was in Halloween fancy dress at the time) x

[Safiya]

wow thats quite an experience mercia, didnt you have a seatbelt on? looks like that maybe saved your life

[Sqad]

What operation have you had, when and what for?

[merciasounds]

yes Safiya, I did, I always wear a seatbelt, the overhead electronic notice boards had told us to cut our speed down to 25 mph as there had been an accident. The police were letting cars through one ot two at a time. I was virtually stationary as I was waiting my turn to pass the jackknifed lorry, and then this idiot comes up from behind me in a white van crashes into me shoving me under the lorry with it's precariously balanced scaffolding poles, he then (so I later read in the accident report) skidded off to the right hand side, went through the gap in the central reservation made by the jack-knifing lorry and hit the bridge wall the other side, narrowly missing another car coming in the opposite direction

[DTCwordfan]

serious ouch for you - the positive is that you are still here and, even though it may be slow and frustrating, you will get there

Hope the police are throwing the book at the driver and that he had insurance - and also you should be able to sue for loss of earnings and damages.....not that money is the be all and end all. It's your health that counts.....

[merciasounds]

All this happened 14 years ago


Dare I ask, what do I need Trigger - don't say a holiday because I can't walk too far at the moment

[Safiya]

it would have been a lot safer to shut the road until the lorry was moved or at least made safe..... i wondered about the seatbelt with you saying this *'something' pushed me down from the drivers seat into the footwell of the passengers side, * i was picturing it in my head and couldnt see how it could happen with a seatbelt on ...

[merciasounds]

Sorry Sqad, didn't see you question there before!

ACLr using a metal pin

[merciasounds]

No Trigger, as I said the other night, as far as 'gaming' went, Pong was just about my limit!

Sqad Beginning of May, I had the op because my knee kept on 'giving way'

[mccfluff]

nasty accident you're v lucky. so was it momentum that pushed you into the passenger footwell or do you think it was something else? i'm a bit of a sceptic in that area myself.
and can you just confirm please having a row with fatboy, i just showed him the bit about the accident and he reckons the elec overhead warning signs weren't up 14 years ago, hes hgv and being v annoying right now - can you tell us where it happened?

[vivandorron]

mercia....I feel you are right to have a Rant.

Having read your story I realise how lucky I am just to occasionally have twinges in my knee from a cartilage op. which I had over 50 years ago.

Ron.

[boxtops]

mercia, you were so lucky, guardian angels and whatnot - as soon as you mentioned scaffold poles, my mind shot back to Jayne Mansfield's fatal car accident.

[Sqad]

mercia....thanks, I sense another MRI may well be on the cards.

[merciasounds]

i was on the M5 not far from Lydiate ash going towards the A38 to B,ham city centre. The bridge has long gone now - I know I saw a sign say 'Speed 25' I thought it was overhead, in fact i'm pretty sure it was - the original accident hadn't long happened as police were still trying to put cones out - I read that after - quite frankly, I can't even remember getting up that morning. Not through drink or anything, I hardly tough the stuff and never when driving, just memory loss.

[rowanwitch]

Mercia...triggs idea isn't as daft as it sounds but I'd suggest something less violent to begin with but when you start and get the knack a good game can totally absorb you..... it sucks you in and doesn't spit you out until you've beaten thee bar steward.... but start with games aimed at say 9 year olds no one need know while you get the hang of the controls... I have to say though I am such a girl I still prefer wii but thats because I use it for yoga

[merciasounds]

That's something else I've been robbed of - I used to love yoga - but can't do it now with my hips knees and back. I can swim, but I don't like the chemicals so I don't go often. I can't play squash now, hubby and I were a good team too - tennis is no go.....I better go - I'm beginning to get depressed!