The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
So sorry to hear this. Are they giving you anything to prevent blood clots?

January 2021, I went up to the chicken coop to catch 2 chooks.

I remember the fall clearly and remember my arm resting against the electric fence being zapped... I even caught a chook as she tried to get between me and said fence. So lying on my back with a chicken on my chest I was thinking I didn't have my phone on me... eventually I got up to my feet and carried the chook down to the house.

day 3 saw me at emergency. They x-rayed my right ankle, nothing broken but I'd damaged the tendons and ligaments badly so it went into a bootie. They did ask if anywhere else hurt but compared to the ankle, the other areas were just a niggle.

After several weeks physio sent me to my gp who sent me for an ultrasound - grade 3 tears on ligaments and tendons in the right ankle bad enough to need referring to a consultant... he ordered mri of both legs from thigh down. The final outcome was a broken stress fracture in my left foot (3rd metatarsal), stress fractures in both tibia heads and 1 further down mid tibia, one of them exceptionally concerning and needing to go into a knee support (it was over 75% of the way through the head of the tibia and would have required a knee replacement if it had broken because of its location.

So at 6 weeks in, I was told 8 weeks totally non-weightbearing on either leg with my entire right leg in a 'bootie' from the thigh to my toes A follow up x-ray at 14 weeks in had me off my feet, still totally non-weightbearing on either leg for another 6 weeks (not healed well enough) and then a further 8 weeks before I was fully weightbearing again.

The accident was a simple fall in the garden that I got up and walked away from at the start of January. I wasn't fully weightbearing and walking again until the end of July!

I even had a bone density scan done during this because I was so concerned that maybe I needed more treatment for the osteoporosis I had been cleared of... nope, my bone density was above average and officially treated.
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Oh my goodness SatNav, this sounds awful! (Although I did have a bit of a chuckle at the mental image of you lying there with a chicken on your chest, getting zapped away by the fence!)

Did you have to use a wheelchair to get around? I find the crutches tire me out very quickly. Thankfully my employer has agreed to let me work from home until I’m back on my feet.

Tomorrow will have been one week in the cast. I counted and my follow up is in 6 weeks, so I guess it’s 1 week down, 5 to go. I’m on vacay at the moment so trying to relax and not get too bored.
 
caseydog said:
We're Number One!

I was listening to NPR (public radio in the US) in the car, and heard the news that Texas is the Number One state in the count of books that are banned in schools and public libraries.

WooHoo! :woot:

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UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM hmmmm
 
No need to chance missing my Britmas cooking mags…they’re already available here.

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Morning Glory said:
Harry Potter and in schools (strangely) the Bible plus LGBTQ+. I'm sure there are plenty more. Its really quite shocking.
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Any book with LGBTQ characters shown in a positive light are pretty much banned. History books in Texas are being "whitewashed." Not sure about Harry Potter.

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I’ve also sorted one of MrsT’s Christmas gifts - I’m going to sponsor a stone in the Tower of London in her name.

The Tower is number 1, above all others, her favorite place in the whole of the universe. She’s gone every single time we’ve been to London (which means a good 35 times, probably). She’ll go ape-shit-boogaloo when she finds that out.
 
TastyReuben said:
I’ve also sorted one of MrsT’s Christmas gifts - I’m going to sponsor a stone in the Tower of London in her name.
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You know those world wildlife fund sponsor a 'insert animal name here' where they give you a stuffed cuddly toy, a certificate and regular updates.... I'm just drawing a picture here, lol.

Seriously though, sounds like she will appreciate it, I'm just imagining 25th December and her unwrapping a foam brick...
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Seriously though, sounds like she will appreciate it, I'm just imagining 25th December and her unwrapping a foam brick...
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I don’t even think she’ll get the foam brick! :laugh:

Seriously, though, you’ve given me the idea that I’ll need to get some little ToL trinket of some sort and attach that to the certificate they give me.

Oh…and I also bought another Christmas magazine and she bought another Queen Elizabeth magazine.
 
TastyReuben said:
Seriously, though, you’ve given me the idea that I’ll need to get some little ToL trinket of some sort and attach that to the certificate they give me.
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I guess the alternative is a silver brick charm for a charm bracelet?

Or a piece of Lego, or a Lego model of The Tower?
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I guess the alternative is a silver brick charm for a charm bracelet?

Or a piece of Lego, or a Lego model of The Tower?
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You’ll know I wasn’t kidding about her love of The Tower when I tell you…she already has all that! :laugh:

Well, not a brick charm, but a ToL charm.
 
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