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Post by middleoftheboothen on Nov 14, 2023 9:14:24 GMT
Great news middleoftheboothen that you’re getting through all of that in the most positive way you can. I’ve nearly lost all of my ability to walk, can furniture balance around the house but it’s wheels for outside, and the support of my family and friends has been invaluable and the kids always keep you going too. The support on this thread, albeit from people we’re unlikely to meet, is brilliant. The best thread on this board. I feel you there mate it's tough not being able to do the things you often take for granted isn't it. I'm glad you have the support of friends and family mate as do I which I certainly don't take for granted as I know there are alot of people who don't have that. I don't know how I'd get on without them to be honest. I agree with the support on this thread aswell mate. Everyone has been brilliant since I put 'my story' on here and I'd just like to thank everyone for the support as I was nervous about putting it up for a good while but I needn't have been.
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Post by fullmetaljacket on Nov 14, 2023 9:50:44 GMT
Sorry to hear about your rough time middleoftheboothen glad you are coming out the other side now. You'll be up and running in no time
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Post by stokefc on Nov 14, 2023 11:25:16 GMT
Thanks all , i will get through it , i will get back to work , it's just gonna take a bit of time i'm a hundred times better now than i was a month ago my feet are dragging slightly and i have a bit of a wobble when i stand up I've heard fuck all from anybody on the medical side , i feel i can drive but i really need the go ahead from a specialist before i can get behind the wheel then i can push on from there..Thanks again
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Nov 14, 2023 12:20:24 GMT
Sorry to hear about your rough time middleoftheboothen glad you are coming out the other side now. You'll be up and running in no time Thankyou mate and I feel like I'm getting somewhere now. The physios have been brilliant with me and it's hard work but much easier when you can see where it's taking you.
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Nov 14, 2023 12:21:59 GMT
Thanks all , i will get through it , i will get back to work , it's just gonna take a bit of time i'm a hundred times better now than i was a month ago my feet are dragging slightly and i have a bit of a wobble when i stand up I've heard fuck all from anybody on the medical side , i feel i can drive but i really need the go ahead from a specialist before i can get behind the wheel then i can push on from there..Thanks again Keep getting on to them mate is all I'd say and you will get your answers much quicker.
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Post by foster on Nov 14, 2023 13:26:17 GMT
I can't. It seems to already be in your mouth. Fnarrr fnarrrr Viz style What happened to your last leg thread mate?
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Post by iancransonsknees on Nov 14, 2023 16:49:11 GMT
What happened to your last leg thread mate? It got cancelled for being too woke.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Nov 14, 2023 16:59:28 GMT
Hopefully it’ll be back soon, just need someone to resurrect it🤔
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Post by iancransonsknees on Nov 14, 2023 17:27:27 GMT
Hopefully it’ll be back soon, just need someone to resurrect it🤔 No doubt some snowflake will oblige if they can distract themselves from pontificating about how they'll end centuries old conflict.
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Post by flea79 on Nov 15, 2023 16:23:04 GMT
Hopefully it’ll be back soon, just need someone to resurrect it🤔 No doubt some snowflake will oblige if they can distract themselves from pontificating about how they'll end centuries old conflict. get them all to sit down with a pint of lager and a bacon butty, that should sort it out!
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Post by iancransonsknees on Nov 15, 2023 18:45:25 GMT
No doubt some snowflake will oblige if they can distract themselves from pontificating about how they'll end centuries old conflict. get them all to sit down with a pint of lager and a bacon butty, that should sort it out! Some pork scratchings too.
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Post by flea79 on Nov 16, 2023 13:58:33 GMT
a little fed up today after a chat with a doctor so i amused myself by looking at the genius drawings of the Rooneys and Vardys during the Wagatha Christie trial
it hasnt half made me laugh again
there is loads but it has cheered me up a little!
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Post by gawa on Nov 17, 2023 23:54:47 GMT
If anyone is feeling a bit low then I suggest contributing to the wordle thread.
Basically takes 5 minutes a day and then the rest of the day you get lots of self esteem boosting notifications of people saying they like your post.
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Nov 18, 2023 13:08:42 GMT
How has everyone's week gone then? Hoping it's all been mostly positive and if anyone was feeling a bit low I hope you didn't watch that England match last night as it was rather depressing to say the least.
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Post by foster on Nov 18, 2023 13:14:11 GMT
If anyone is feeling a bit low then I suggest contributing to the wordle thread. Basically takes 5 minutes a day and then the rest of the day you get lots of self esteem boosting notifications of people saying they like your post. Sqword is much better imo.
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Post by gawa on Nov 18, 2023 19:47:45 GMT
If anyone is feeling a bit low then I suggest contributing to the wordle thread. Basically takes 5 minutes a day and then the rest of the day you get lots of self esteem boosting notifications of people saying they like your post. Sqword is much better imo. Do you get likes for it though mate.
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Post by foster on Nov 18, 2023 19:54:10 GMT
Sqword is much better imo. Do you get likes for it though mate. I do actually. Usually a couple each time. Unselfish ones as well as I don't like back.
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Post by flea79 on Nov 18, 2023 20:21:10 GMT
How has everyone's week gone then? Hoping it's all been mostly positive and if anyone was feeling a bit low I hope you didn't watch that England match last night as it was rather depressing to say the least. ups and down for me finally got round too buying a new car today, I have purchased a nice little Mini Cooper D today and when its not trying too kill me it is putting a smile on my face, I was going too have it remapped but I think its already been done, its frighteningly fast, given the history of mrs flea79 I don't think I will let her out in it much!
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Nov 18, 2023 21:50:36 GMT
How has everyone's week gone then? Hoping it's all been mostly positive and if anyone was feeling a bit low I hope you didn't watch that England match last night as it was rather depressing to say the least. ups and down for me finally got round too buying a new car today, I have purchased a nice little Mini Cooper D today and when its not trying too kill me it is putting a smile on my face, I was going too have it remapped but I think its already been done, its frighteningly fast, given the history of mrs flea79 I don't think I will let her out in it much! Same here mate but next week's a new week 👍 bloody hell I've always fancied a mini myself mate. Haha not the greatest driver then mate the wife? Hide the keys Flea, hide the keys I tell ya.
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Post by flea79 on Nov 18, 2023 22:17:37 GMT
ups and down for me finally got round too buying a new car today, I have purchased a nice little Mini Cooper D today and when its not trying too kill me it is putting a smile on my face, I was going too have it remapped but I think its already been done, its frighteningly fast, given the history of mrs flea79 I don't think I will let her out in it much! Same here mate but next week's a new week 👍 bloody hell I've always fancied a mini myself mate. Haha not the greatest driver then mate the wife? Hide the keys Flea, hide the keys I tell ya. She wrote my beloved seat Ibiza off a couple of weeks ago, we were at a loss as to what to replace it with and this car popped up online and looked right and it was right when I went today! Highly recommend it, British design but with German engineering! And drove it back up the motorway today and averaged 58 mpg!
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Nov 18, 2023 22:30:50 GMT
Same here mate but next week's a new week 👍 bloody hell I've always fancied a mini myself mate. Haha not the greatest driver then mate the wife? Hide the keys Flea, hide the keys I tell ya. She wrote my beloved seat Ibiza off a couple of weeks ago, we were at a loss as to what to replace it with and this car popped up online and looked right and it was right when I went today! Highly recommend it, British design but with German engineering! And drove it back up the motorway today and averaged 58 mpg! Bloody hell mate hope she was ok. I'm off road for a good while yet but I've always wanted a mini mate. 58mpg is really good aswell.
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Post by flea79 on Nov 18, 2023 22:31:49 GMT
She wrote my beloved seat Ibiza off a couple of weeks ago, we were at a loss as to what to replace it with and this car popped up online and looked right and it was right when I went today! Highly recommend it, British design but with German engineering! And drove it back up the motorway today and averaged 58 mpg! Bloody hell mate hope she was ok. I'm off road for a good while yet but I've always wanted a mini mate. 58mpg is really good aswell. Maybe aim for it to be your car when you do get back on the road they do auto boxes too
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Nov 18, 2023 22:59:30 GMT
Bloody hell mate hope she was ok. I'm off road for a good while yet but I've always wanted a mini mate. 58mpg is really good aswell. Maybe aim for it to be your car when you do get back on the road they do auto boxes too Something to think about for sure mate 👍
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Post by NassauDave on Nov 23, 2023 7:38:19 GMT
Took me a while to put this on here but here goes. In around march last year I had pain in my right knee which felt like I had pulled something or damaged ligaments etc. I thought I had done it at work and it would pass but over the next few weeks and months it got worse and the swelling got bigger and bigger. In the end I went to the doctors and he booked me in for a MRI scan a month later. By the time of the scan I could barely walk in to have it done. A day later my doctor's rung me up to say they thought it was bone cancer and that the tumor was big and aggressive. It was the toughest thing I've ever had to listen to made worse by the fact my one year old was staring at me at the time. I was referred to Birmingham Orthopaedic hospital and was sent there for a biopsy a few weeks later. Then followed a two week wait for the results and I could now hardly get up as my leg would not move and the pain was unbearable. Two weeks later I had the phone call and found out that it was not cancerous but was a giant cell tumor that destroys the bone and tissue around it and although they are very aggressive there is only a small chance they can spread to the lungs. It was a relief but I was still worried as amputation was not out of the question. The day I got the call I tried to get back on to the sofa after going to the toilet with help from my girlfriend and my leg just broke. I was taken to Stoke hospital where they told me the tumor had caused most of my femur to crumble. After being put into a cast I spent two weeks in there before being discharged. The treatment for my tumor then started with me having denosumab injections every week at the start and then monthly which they hoped would stop the tumor growing and hopefully even shrink it. The side effects are not great at all though but it had to be done. Many meetings and scans were to be done at Birmingham and in time I was told that the only way they could remove the tumor was to take away my knee and half of my femur as the damage was to bad to repair. I would be fitted with an endoprostetic and I would have the chance to walk again. I had hope again but it would be a year to the day from when I broke my leg until surgery. A handover of the company that were making my prosthesis meant that my drawings were lost so the original date for surgery was cancelled. At this point I was loosing hope and there were times when I felt like I couldn't go on with it anymore as the pain and being stuck in a cast for so long not being able to do anything started to hit home. I carried on for my kids and my family at this point and they are the only thing that kept me going. They won't ever realise how much their faces saved me. I had surgery on the 31st of August this year and it was a success. I spent a week at Birmingham Orthopaedic hospital and two days after surgery I could put weight on my leg although it hurt it felt good to walk again. I got home and things were tougher than I thought they would be. It's strange because I felt great it had gone but couldn't get my head around how much things would have to change with a prosthetic leg under my skin. Add to that the fact I had to learn to walk again. I was struggling to sleep and being on painkillers for the past year wasn't making things any easier. Again my family picked me up and got me through. I had a week of intense physio three weeks ago at Birmingham and after walking with crutches in a cast for a year I was now cast free, crutch free for small distances and had a leg that actually worked. Things are still hard to get used to but I feel like I've done the hard bit now and things will only get better. Hartshill badger told me to put my story on here and I felt like I had to incase it could help anyone else who might be going through tough times. If there's ever a pain or something not right with you get it seen to. I put it off for too long and nearly lost my leg. That's the main point but the other is that no matter how bad things are at the minute they do get better. It's hard work and it hurts to talk about sometimes but speak to people around you because my family and friends got me through this. They tell me I was the one who got through it but that's not true at all as they truly did get me through the hardest times. All the nights I lay here thinking it would be easier to not be here were just thoughts because I'm still here and I can walk again and I'll be watching the potters before the end of this season. Thankyou for reading if you have got this far. Hang in there mate. Hell and back for you doesn't begin to describe it,but your courage is amazing. Keep sharing, and good luck to you.
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Nov 23, 2023 18:41:40 GMT
Took me a while to put this on here but here goes. In around march last year I had pain in my right knee which felt like I had pulled something or damaged ligaments etc. I thought I had done it at work and it would pass but over the next few weeks and months it got worse and the swelling got bigger and bigger. In the end I went to the doctors and he booked me in for a MRI scan a month later. By the time of the scan I could barely walk in to have it done. A day later my doctor's rung me up to say they thought it was bone cancer and that the tumor was big and aggressive. It was the toughest thing I've ever had to listen to made worse by the fact my one year old was staring at me at the time. I was referred to Birmingham Orthopaedic hospital and was sent there for a biopsy a few weeks later. Then followed a two week wait for the results and I could now hardly get up as my leg would not move and the pain was unbearable. Two weeks later I had the phone call and found out that it was not cancerous but was a giant cell tumor that destroys the bone and tissue around it and although they are very aggressive there is only a small chance they can spread to the lungs. It was a relief but I was still worried as amputation was not out of the question. The day I got the call I tried to get back on to the sofa after going to the toilet with help from my girlfriend and my leg just broke. I was taken to Stoke hospital where they told me the tumor had caused most of my femur to crumble. After being put into a cast I spent two weeks in there before being discharged. The treatment for my tumor then started with me having denosumab injections every week at the start and then monthly which they hoped would stop the tumor growing and hopefully even shrink it. The side effects are not great at all though but it had to be done. Many meetings and scans were to be done at Birmingham and in time I was told that the only way they could remove the tumor was to take away my knee and half of my femur as the damage was to bad to repair. I would be fitted with an endoprostetic and I would have the chance to walk again. I had hope again but it would be a year to the day from when I broke my leg until surgery. A handover of the company that were making my prosthesis meant that my drawings were lost so the original date for surgery was cancelled. At this point I was loosing hope and there were times when I felt like I couldn't go on with it anymore as the pain and being stuck in a cast for so long not being able to do anything started to hit home. I carried on for my kids and my family at this point and they are the only thing that kept me going. They won't ever realise how much their faces saved me. I had surgery on the 31st of August this year and it was a success. I spent a week at Birmingham Orthopaedic hospital and two days after surgery I could put weight on my leg although it hurt it felt good to walk again. I got home and things were tougher than I thought they would be. It's strange because I felt great it had gone but couldn't get my head around how much things would have to change with a prosthetic leg under my skin. Add to that the fact I had to learn to walk again. I was struggling to sleep and being on painkillers for the past year wasn't making things any easier. Again my family picked me up and got me through. I had a week of intense physio three weeks ago at Birmingham and after walking with crutches in a cast for a year I was now cast free, crutch free for small distances and had a leg that actually worked. Things are still hard to get used to but I feel like I've done the hard bit now and things will only get better. Hartshill badger told me to put my story on here and I felt like I had to incase it could help anyone else who might be going through tough times. If there's ever a pain or something not right with you get it seen to. I put it off for too long and nearly lost my leg. That's the main point but the other is that no matter how bad things are at the minute they do get better. It's hard work and it hurts to talk about sometimes but speak to people around you because my family and friends got me through this. They tell me I was the one who got through it but that's not true at all as they truly did get me through the hardest times. All the nights I lay here thinking it would be easier to not be here were just thoughts because I'm still here and I can walk again and I'll be watching the potters before the end of this season. Thankyou for reading if you have got this far. Hang in there mate. Hell and back for you doesn't begin to describe it,but your courage is amazing. Keep sharing, and good luck to you. Thankyou so much mate 👍
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Nov 24, 2023 18:23:48 GMT
How is everybody this week? Got a rare weekend out tomorrow to Manchester to “celebrate” one year with the Mrs. Got a table booked at a nice restaurant and a list of boozers kindly donated by a couple of posters on here to go at. Not had the best week at work and had a bit of a set to with the boss but all ended on a positive note. Even at work if you just speak about what’s troubling you a whole weight can be lifted so it’s not just friends that can lift your spirits. Get everything out in the open people
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Post by fullmetaljacket on Nov 24, 2023 19:39:12 GMT
How is everybody this week? Got a rare weekend out tomorrow to Manchester to “celebrate” one year with the Mrs. Got a table booked at a nice restaurant and a list of boozers kindly donated by a couple of posters on here to go at. Not had the best week at work and had a bit of a set to with the boss but all ended on a positive note. Even at work if you just speak about what’s troubling you a whole weight can be lifted so it’s not just friends that can lift your spirits. Get everything out in the open people Very true Badge. Better out than in said the flasher.
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Post by iancransonsknees on Nov 24, 2023 19:45:29 GMT
How is everybody this week? Got a rare weekend out tomorrow to Manchester to “celebrate” one year with the Mrs. Got a table booked at a nice restaurant and a list of boozers kindly donated by a couple of posters on here to go at. Not had the best week at work and had a bit of a set to with the boss but all ended on a positive note. Even at work if you just speak about what’s troubling you a whole weight can be lifted so it’s not just friends that can lift your spirits. Get everything out in the open people Maccies it is then. They do table service now. Who's paying?
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Nov 24, 2023 19:48:08 GMT
How is everybody this week? Got a rare weekend out tomorrow to Manchester to “celebrate” one year with the Mrs. Got a table booked at a nice restaurant and a list of boozers kindly donated by a couple of posters on here to go at. Not had the best week at work and had a bit of a set to with the boss but all ended on a positive note. Even at work if you just speak about what’s troubling you a whole weight can be lifted so it’s not just friends that can lift your spirits. Get everything out in the open people Maccies it is then. They do table service now. Who's paying? She’s paying and we’re having it delivered
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Post by fullmetaljacket on Nov 24, 2023 19:56:29 GMT
How is everybody this week? Got a rare weekend out tomorrow to Manchester to “celebrate” one year with the Mrs. Got a table booked at a nice restaurant and a list of boozers kindly donated by a couple of posters on here to go at. Not had the best week at work and had a bit of a set to with the boss but all ended on a positive note. Even at work if you just speak about what’s troubling you a whole weight can be lifted so it’s not just friends that can lift your spirits. Get everything out in the open people Maccies it is then. They do table service now. Who's paying? Festive menu too. Big mac Chicken and galaxy caramel pie. 😋
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