Not looking for sympathy

[andyBeaker]

Well Ian, you did say you weren't asking for sympathy.....

 

[Quiney]

Horrendously expensive, i'd have paid thousands in over the last 35 years for very little return. Cant remember the exact figures when i looked into it when i first went SE in 1983, but it was something like £19 per month per £100 a month cover. Illness and accident are two seperate policys, and you couldn't claim for at least the first week of any illness. And the list of exclusions was huge, leaving little you'd actually get paid out for. Its the same with tool insurance, with the best exclusion being that they're not insured at night FFS.......
The only answer really is to create a savings pot that you never touch so you've got money to fall back on when the time comes!!

Yep, savings took the strain. Also forced me to adjust my life. Work has been cut to part-time and a thought of full retirement sometime next year.

 

[eddyace595]

Had a rotator cuff impingement op few years ago...Life changing..I was in agony
and down to 10 percent movement of my right arm..I was messed around by the NHS
and passed from pillar to post as everyone initially though that it was a frozen shoulder.
It was a young Physio lady barely out of school who first suspected a rotator cuff problem
and sent me back to docs.
I too am self employed, and was back in the shop doing light work 2 days after the op.
The consultant told me to crack on so to speak..he said your body will tell you when you
are over doing it and he was frigging right!!
Anyway long story short...No arm in sling,back at work after 2 days and when I went for
follow up physio they were amazed at my mobility and progess...In fact they told me there was no need for
any physio full stop.
The husband of a woman who works for my has just had the same op and has been told to wear a sling and rest it for
six weeks followed by lots of physio..No idea when he will return to work?? He works for the council by the way..

 

[andyBeaker]

My elderly neighbour had an op for carpal tunnel,a few weeks back - still a bit sore but nothing like it was before and he had good mobility after a couple of days.

 

[ianrobbo1]

A bit of an update, had both Carpal tunnels done a bit back, left hand no problem, had the right one done first!! fun and games trying to do "personal" things with the wrong hand I can tell you!! "wipe my botty" what else do you think? I had my right shoulder done a bit back and still have restricted use of it, not expected to get any better, this one is a bloody sight worse pain wise, and full of bruising, no idea how my "moobs" got that bruised that far away from my shoulder, six weeks off and can't lift anything with my left hand as it's so bloody painful, a change of dressing enabled a photo opportunity The other has cleaned up well.

 

[andyBeaker]

A bit of an update, had both Carpal tunnels done a bit back, left hand no problem, had the right one done first!! fun and games trying to do "personal" things with the wrong hand I can tell you!! "wipe my botty" what else do you think? I had my right shoulder done a bit back and still have restricted use of it, not expected to get any better, this one is a bloody sight worse pain wise, and full of bruising, no idea how my "moobs" got that bruised that far away from my shoulder, six weeks off and can't lift anything with my left hand as it's so bloody painful, a change of dressing enabled a photo opportunity The other has cleaned up well.

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I could have done without seeing your nipple before breakfast.

Do you wax??

 

[Stammo]

Looks like the same wax you use AB. Robbo could benefit from one of your Grecian bronze spray tans though!
On a more serious note, physio is key to a good recovery. Make sure you get some.

 

[ianrobbo1]

Looks like the same wax you use AB. Robbo could benefit from one of your Grecian bronze spray tans though!
On a more serious note, physio is key to a good recovery. Make sure you get some.

Cheers Stammo, literally just got back from the doctors arranging the physio, I cant understand how or why my moob is so bruised, I know we are a lump of meat when on the table but it seems odd as the bruising is nowhere near the cut, still hopefully it'll be sorted and bruises fade away in time. And Andrew my apologies for upsetting your breakfast "and that other thing a bit back"! THIS BTW is the hole in Yvonnes leg after she got MRSA in Barnsley hospital, just before her Cancer, so I feel really
lucky to get away with a couple of small scars