Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Hils

When you stuffed your knee in France, why didn't you get it fixed on your Medical Insurance, (instead of coming home and having to wait a while and then having to pay for it privately outside of insurance)?

As well as the financial consideration, one way of thinking about 'it', might tell you that the 'knee experts' are near to the ski hills and more experienced at 'doing it', sorta kinda. And medical care from French hospitals is damn good too. In fact, it's tons better than that in the UK.

Because, Doc, an ACL reconstruction is not something to take lightly.

When I did it all those years ago, they used a different reconstruction method with a higher rejection rate. In addition, the rehab is long and very hard work (about 9 months). It also depends upon your lifestyle. 99% of people can lead a normal life with a torn or ruptured ACL - mine has actually been absorbed into the body over the years and there's no longer anything there whatsoever. And you can build your surrounding muscles up to do the work of the ligament - I do a lot of swimming and gym work to target my quads - and I use a hinged brace to ski and play tennis.

It was only when we started moving to Switzerland for the winter that I thought it would be good to have a reconstruction. I was due to have it done last spring, but I missed that and I might just forget about it completely now. You can't fly or take long journeys for about 6 weeks after the op (DVT), and it's finding the time to have it done that's the problem.

I see.

I stuffed my knee up skiing too, you see. This was about 6 yrs or so ago and done in Deer Valley, Utah. It was the end of the day and I'd finished my run and for once, from the top of the hill right down to the bottom. I rotated my body around to the left side and reached round to unclip my skis from my boots and 'POP!' - something snapped!

I never have found out what it was. It was on the medial side of my right knee. One day to go and then it was 'home on the plane' so I didn't even go and get any treatment of any kind. I just kinda hobbled home with a 'supermarket bought brace' around my knee. Once home, after a few months, I ended up having an arthroscopy to tidy up the meniscus and was told that this was the thing , which had torn. But I didn't believe the consultant, really. I believed myself, that something else had been damaged too.

I now have a distorted knee and lots of pain - just as though the meniscus is 'mostly missing'. I now have a bit of a 'Baker's Cyst' swelling but it's not too big. I take 4 grms of paracetamol and 120mg of codeine every day and get by just taking things steady. I guess I really need a new knee joint. The pain killers work and I can just about walk a couple of miles, providing I sit down every so often.

I know that codeine lines your gut and so i go and have a 'colonic or two' every so often. I wouldn't want to end up like 'Elvis' did! ;-)

The qualifier for some kind of operation, is to do with 1. 'quality of life' being spoiled or alternatively, 2. pain.

Tip me off the cliff and I'll go and have 'whatever it is' done. The trouble is, I suppose, is that I don't go anywhere near to any cliffs, if you get my meaning. In fact, metaphorically speaking, I stay well away from them! And also a day turns into a week, turns into a month, turns into a year, etc.

But anyway, that's why I'm interested in your knee problem and also your attitude to effecting a repair.

I'm not too fussed about 'health professionals' either, if the truth be known.

I certainly wouldn't want to live off painkillers everyday because my lifestyle was being affected in the manner you describe, Doc.

Personally, I'd get an MRI scan done on it so that I knew precisely what was wrong. At least then you'd be able to make a balanced decision on how to future manage the situation, rather than being reliant upon self-diagnosis and internet remedies.

Cameron outside No 10 reminded me of Tom Brown's School Days with Dodgy Dave playing the role of Flashman in his adolescence.

His denigration of Miliband will appeal to his camp followers, but not to any of the non-committed voters who will see him as arrogant and self interested.

The sneering belongs to himself and cohorts.
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Just watched Osborne twist and turn in an interview.

I am not sure which is nastier piece of work, or I think is the most consummate liar, but think George is a perfect acolyte for Cameron and the NASTY PARTY.

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How low will the tories sink to in order to stay in power?

Fred.

Where do you get the nasty party tag from?


I'll let you into a great truth.


None of the party leaders would cross the road to piss on you if you were on fire, none of them!

ANDREW WHITAKER
12:22Monday 30 March 2015
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GORDON Brown has accused the SNP of being “willing accomplices of Tory austerity”, as he hit back at the nationalists at the start of Labour’s election campaign in Scotland today.

Mr Brown launched a dramatic pledge by Scottish Labour to spend an additional £800 million in Scotland on the NHS, in an attempt to reclaim the social justice mantle from the SNP.

The former prime minister said the election “not only about constitutional change”, as he set out a pledge from Scottish Labour to tackle youth unemployment and poverty.


In what he has dubbed “the social justice election”, Mr Brown said when Scots look at which is the best party to tackle inequality they would see that Labour is the party of social justice and fairness.

Mr Brown, speaking in Glasgow, revealed Treasury documents, which he said showed the SNP government has accepted Tory plans for “zero additional spending” to tackle austerity over the next year.

Mr Brown said: “This election is not only about constitutional change but about the social changes and the economic changes that are urgently needed to start the day after the election – the desperate need to create more jobs, improve the NHS, tackle the scandal of poverty in our midst and reduce inequality now.

“In the coming year, the Tories and the SNP have exactly the same policy. At a time when the need is urgent and action to end Tory austerity is required now – and despite all the SNP promises - they will both - Tories and SNP together - do absolutely nothing more.

“Far from being the fearless defenders of Scotland, these documents reveal the nationalists as the willing accomplices of Tory austerity.”


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Has anyone (including Brown) actually seen these "Treasury documents" he refers to, or are we expected just to take his word for it that they exist?

Did he explain exactly how he has obtained any such documents from the Treasury and should we be concerned regarding the security in that establishment?


I see another enormous round of cuts to the Armed Forces will take place AFTER the election, bringing the total down near an astonishing 50,000.

This brings them into line with the other European Lands who are preparing to form a "Euro Army". The Germans and French have already begun amalgamating units.

Why is the Scottish media so quiet on the matter?

What will the Scottish unionists make of it?

Will they expect their Labour heroes to object? I suppose they will have to wait until London HQ tells them what they are supposed think of it.


Has the Scotsman forgotten just how discredited Gordon "Bigot" Brown is?

This imbecile brought the British economy to it's knees.

The first thing he did was sell off our Gold reserves, costing the country Billions, while destablising the Gold market at the same time.

As for a labour "Pledge", even the most cringing of forelock tugging Scottish unionists don't take that seriously, do they ?


We've heard it all before Gordon. Your party had the opportunity to bring "social justice" to the country but your greed got the better of you.

YOU sold our gold reserves below market value. YOU presided over the Bank collapse and merger fiasco.

Stop treating us with contempt.


Word is that Scottish Labour have given up and are concentrating on saving their "safest" seats.

So, Mother was right. People who tell lies get found out eventually.


Another sermon from "No more boom and bust" Brown

Nor would you, if you knew what I look like.

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Theresa May described the tories as the Nasty Party some years ago.

I think it was at a party rally and it didn't go down well with some at the time!

Ask the waiter!

Good advice , when you feel the urge to comment on Fred's postings or the paid morons on the ADVFN bb

George Bernard Shaw's advice. The playwright, journalist and founder of the London School of Economics once said:

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."

That's very funny!

I think Dodgy Dave needs a podium to hide.

Watching or hearing twisting when interviewed is becoming a joke figure.

Even heard some teenagers saying to one another they were doing a Cameron.

He is a disgrace to politics.

i have come to the conclusion that this pre-election nonsense is rather like one of those japanese "pain" shows that were occasionally shown in clips on tv a few years ago - the winner, or arguably the loser, is the one who can stand the pain of watching and hearing it all the longest

as we know, ALL politicians lie through their back teeth with grandiose promises of this and that ..... whoever then gets into power, will then apologise for being unable to deliver because the last lot left such a dreadful mess - or in the case of labour, no money whatsoever in the till

Fred is obviously worried that the Tories will be returned with an outright majority, why else would he continue to slate the Tories as opposed to putting Labour's strong points (ha! ha! if they had any) to the fore.
2517

Fred's very confused he wants to welcome the rest of Eastern Europe to the UK .
I think we only have about half of them at the moment .

any person under the age of 25 voting lab are voting to be the xmas turkey
they will never get a job with any value

MrT - an extract from what i posted elsewhere ....

the complaint from many that these immigrants steal jobs, just does not stand up to scrutiny
yes, they may indeed be prepared to work for a bare minimum wage, but how many of our youth and others would be prepared to take those jobs- and at those rates?
clearly not many, so do they really have a right to complain that someone else will?

it's a bit out of context for i thoroughly agree that it is quite preposterous that we allow so many immigrants without control, but your thoughts on the above would be interesting

2517,

In May, I think the chances of Cameron and the tories winning an outright majority, is minimal. Also, the chances of Cameron being able to form a government with a workable majority, is extremely small.

If you haven’t realised already the majority of other parties needed to enable him to do so, seem to detest him and his practised “ideology”.

What I am getting fed up is Cameron and Osborne's “barrow boy” spiel with repetition of “mantras” which is then repeated by some tories and camp followers collected around him.

It remind me of the spiel of “barrow boys” at a Saturday market, before they were run of the sites. The punters who bought their packages aware of the fraudulent "sales pitch" when they got home.

Here to-day, gone to-morrow politicians.


I am fed up with their repetition of distorted figures and sometimes, what appear to me, to be downright lies with the expectations that their more gullible followers, will swallow them and repeat for others to do likewise.
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JB.

Your mind reading abilities impress more and me more, especially, when it comes to knowing what I think about immigration and what I welcome.

Thanks Fred .