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Post by davidjconstable on Jan 2, 2019 0:36:30 GMT
Thanks Haardrada.
I am trying to keep upbeat, and looking to try and find a suitable flat on one level.
Unfortunatly being single and living alone Motorbility will not work, I am not allowed to drive.
If I go onto stronger pain killers I am hoping that I can get enough mobility to be able to get to easy places like Bakewell, but I am concerned about problems occuring when away (particulary hospitalization). At the moment I am typing this from what will become my temporary bed, my computer chair.
Thanks for your thoughts.
David Constable
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Post by goragrad on Jan 2, 2019 4:44:44 GMT
Not sure what options you have under the NHS, but hope that you can work things out.
Best wishes for the New Year.
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Post by davidjconstable on Jan 2, 2019 5:32:51 GMT
Hello goragrad
Not many options, in fact only one (1) from know on, stronger pain killers, and as I am already on dihydrocodeine that gives only one extra level before we get to morphine, and morphine under these circumstances is the end of the road.
Bone grows on the spine vertibrae which then press on nerves etc., these cannot be removed safely as far as I know, one slight slip and you are paralized from the waist down.
David Constable
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Post by Baldie on Jan 2, 2019 9:06:27 GMT
Sounds like a command litter may be the way forward. Granted the upkeep on the eight companions to carry it may be a problem.
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Post by hodsopa on Jan 2, 2019 20:25:19 GMT
Here in Belgium the French speakers would say "Courage et soignes-toi, David" - meaning something along the lines of, keep your pecker up and take care of yourself. I transmit those wishes to you - Paul H
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Post by goragrad on Jan 3, 2019 4:43:02 GMT
Ave David -
So the sweet oblivion of morphine...
Had a co-worker who was put on morphine after an accident crushed his legs - took him longer to get over that than to recover from the injuries.
Definitely a last resort.
Had been thinking along the lines of a powered chair and then chair accessible van service. I presume that comes under the Motorbility aegis in the UK.
So, again, best wishes for the future.
James
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Post by davidjconstable on Jan 3, 2019 7:25:44 GMT
High goragrad
"So sweet oblivion of morphine is true" it often is a slow killer, it is how my mother died. The Dihydrocodeine affects the brain badly enough in small quantities, but I need one level up, and that is one below morphine.
A powered chair is an option at least to get me around, but I am in a terraced two up two down house at the moment, hence the need of a one level flat WITH wheelchair access.
Services are patchy in this country, often dependent upon charities, so as I live in a small town they are virtually non exsistant.
But we are trying to sort things out.
Effectivly I have given up ancients, so I will try to help on Fanaticus when I can, but library needs to go, I canot easily use it anymore.
David Constable
P.S. - Does anybody know why on Quick Reply the typed text changes as you scroll around.
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Post by goragrad on Jan 3, 2019 23:40:55 GMT
Ave David -
My father had a bolus with his pancreatic so he controlled the dosage and it became fairly regular at the end - how much was pain and how much was just the ride is a good question. On the other hand it was my siblings pushing for more injections with my mother in the hospice because of their reaction to her perceived pain...
At any rate a last resort.
Rather a pity we are on opposite sides of the pond as I well imagine that that library would be worth looting...
Know how it is in a small town - I drove my mother a 100 miles to her treatments. There is a ride service, but she would not have been willing to use it.
At any rate - wishing you well -
James
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Post by davidjconstable on Jan 4, 2019 0:31:08 GMT
Hello goragrad
Library a problem, very much a mixture of books.
Was thinking if Scott Russell had it he could do some thinning down. Take Osprey to DBA meetings in small batches at say £1 a time to charity, take some of the better books to meetings to give as 1st to 3rd prizes. Need to see what Scott thinks.
You obviously understand the picture, tonight I cannot go upstairs, and even if I could, I could not use the bed, but shower is up there so I have to hope in the morning I can.
I do not like the painkillers I am on, let alone the idea of stronger. I was at Bakewell in October watching a game, a rule poped into my head, when I came home looked for it, found it evemtually in WRG 4th, which I probably have not played for nearly 40 years.
David Constable
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Post by goragrad on Jan 5, 2019 4:09:07 GMT
Ave David -
Sounds like an good way to dispose of the library. One of the club members in Denver used to work for a company that picked up the inventories of hobby and comic book stores that went out of business. That allowed him to acquire a lot of references fairly cheaply and when his bookshelves got too full he would bring in boxes of magazines, Ospreys, etc. to club swapmeets and let them go cheaply. I picked up a number of my books from him.
Definitely time to be getting that single floor accessible flat.
There is a parishioner here who has a degenerative muscular condition that has her confined to a power chair. Getting to the point where all she can do is operate the joystick. Fortunately her husband is retired and so can around to take care of her and they live in a one story house. Additionally they pay my niece to come down a couple of days a week to help her out (turns pages for her when she wants to read and opens web pages for her to browse on the net, etc.) giving her husband a bit of a break.
Personally I had my shoulders act up a few years ago. Fortunately about a year of glucosamine chondritin tablets (and perhaps less abuse) seem to have cleared that up. Now it is the hips...
James
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Post by jdesmond on Jan 16, 2019 0:27:16 GMT
Salutations, Mr. Constable,
Is a cliche to say 'My thoughts and prayers are with you.' But it is true.
Hope the doctors can get you some relief.
Yours, John
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Post by aldavion on Jan 16, 2019 9:12:24 GMT
Definitely pass on my regards. David is warmly regarded, such a gent!
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Post by davidjconstable on Jan 16, 2019 14:26:50 GMT
Hello everybody, you catch me on one of those rare occasions, at home.
Since tea-time 1st January I have called the Doctor out twice, and twice been sent to hospital.
Regarding Brexit, get your figures now to cover the year, as a safety precaution.
Regards to all.
David Constable
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