Having just returned from France, I am going back out there again in early May. I might extend it by a few days as I have discovered a mate of BfB and me relocated in January from Mid Wales to somewhere north of Limoges (near another mate of mine), to farm cattle and cereal. I might drop in on him before BfB does in June.
Ah, I was thinking more about April following BfB operation. However if we are in League One next season I'm not expecting to be seeing much of BfB,he'll probably take up bird watching or something
Missing last 2 home games. 21/4 Grandaughter's 2nd birthday 26/4 In London. Son in law was doing London Marathon on 27th so we booked hotel Friday to Monday so we could support him and about 10 people from our running club. He's now injured so deferred his charity place for 12 months. I hadn't included a cancellation fee on my hotel booking so got to go anyway. If you can find a suck..... volunteer for my ticket for those games they are welcome to it.
So, a visit to the local hospital on Saturday morning for a booked appointment with the wound clinic. Stitches out, but leg still swollen and the cut is infected. On antibiotics now. It feels better with less pain and more mobility in the ankle. Another appointment for a check up in a week. DIY. They'll text me with a link to take a piccy and upload. NHS is fercacked. Wound clinic can't issue prescriptions. Very efficient nurse took a picky and uploaded it to a portal along with other info like BP, O2, temp and state of the wound. Told me to call 111 and speak to an out of hours doctor. Called 111 and while waiting to be connected to a human was asked to complete information using a link I was texted. First contact with a young sounding scouse lady who couldn't grasp the concept and asked all the questions Id answered on line.. Asking all sorts of other irrelevant questions and couldn't come to terms with the fact I'd seen a nurse that morning and the injury had occurred 9 days before. Anyway, half hour later and spoke to a triage nurse who called me. More irrelevant questions, more getting a firm grasp of the wrong end of the stick. Wanted to know if my leg was swollen and wouldn't accept that it was as likely to be swollen because a third of a tonne of concrete had hit is as because it was infected. Told her the nurse at the wound clinic had examined the leg and loaded all the relevant detail on to the NHS portal. Was told a doctor would call. Another half hour and a call from another nurse. Out of hours doctor couldn't access the detail the wound clinic put on the NHS portal (really?). Get a bit snippy at this point. Especially when she asked if I could take a piccy of my leg and email it to them. No, I can't, the nurse at the wound clinic had put a dressing on it and told me to change it after 4 days. OK, says she. Another doctor coming on line in a couple hours who should be able to see the original detail. ( If he can see it, why couldnt the original one?) A few hours later was called back by a helpful doctor who had read the notes from the 'wound expert' (the nurse I saw at 9 in the morning) and agreed I needed antibiotics. He was at the infirmary I went to in the morning and I could collect the prescription or he could email it to a pharmacy of my choice. Decided to collect it as he confirmed the pharmacy at the local Tesco was open. A nice round trip for me especially as I wanted to avail myself of the 25% off 6 or more bottles of wine that was the offer at Tesco. Turned up at the infirmary, went to the reception I'd booked in at 7 hours earlier and said I was there to collect a prescription, to be told 'we don't issue prescriptions here luvvie '. After assuring her I had come off the phone to an out of hours doctor not 10 minutes before she reluctantly messaged him. 5 mins later and a cheery chappy handed my prescription. Off to Tesco, found bottles of red I like reduced from £10 to £8. Factoring in the 25% off it was £6 a bottle. Just in time as the offer ended today. 9 bottles left as I opened one this evening. The inefficiency and flaws in the system was staggering. Left hand, right hand and central I T system all totally dysfunctional. Come on Mr Streeting, get a grip.
I was going to say, should you be drinking wine with antibiotics, but after the day you’ve had I think you can take the chance.
For goodness sake man, if you hadn't have picked a fight with a lump of concrete, none of this would have happened. I'm afraid that like many, you are suffering the effects of decades after decades after decades of neglect of our beloved NHS. And you're right, the inefficiency is in the system and not the good people at the sharp end. I'm not in favour of any political party in particular, but Street is at least making the right, specific noises. Whether he manages to act on them is if course, another story. If anyone disagrees with that it's fine and I won't get drawn into politics. Anyway, you should be like me and get axseason ticket
Pressed send too early. Yes, get a season ticket and enjoy the dedicated help of doctors and community nurses that have got to know you. And what's all this talk of wine? You know the rules, when poorly drink rum, when healthy drink rum. For gawds sake, look after yourself.
You remember the Grange Hill anti-drugs campaign - Just say no. Clingo has started the Not606 campaign - Just drink rum!!!
Very sad news - https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport...kCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar Devastating news for Rino. Sincere condolences from all on here, I'm sure.
OK, so this is really "away from football" - if you've got the time, read it. Got home from the game Saturday to be told by the wife that the brakes on her car were "a bit funny". Couldn't be arsed after that second half display so said I'd have a look on Sunday. Sunday dawned, and I'm in the middle of pressure washing my block paviour drive. Done the top half so had to move the cars to do the rest. Shifted mine and went to shift the wife's. Started it up and put my foot on the footbrake to put it into gear and my right foot went straight to the floor. Had a look underneath and a lovely big pool of brake fluid on the drive stared back at me. Big problem is that without applying pressure on the brake pedal, the gearbox won't allow you to shift out of "park" into gear to move the bloody car. My theory then was to top up the brake fluid reservoir and pump the pedal like crazy to get some sort of pressure in the system and enable me to shift it into gear. Got some pressure back but no joy with the gear shift. It still wouldn't let me put it into gear so I left the bloody thing where it was. Couldn't even push it up the drive because being in "park" locks the transmission and wheels. Now the good news. First thing yesterday called my usual service garage proprietor and told him the story. Told me that once air is in the brake system through a total loss of fluid, the auto gearbox safety feature locks you in "park" until it's fully re-pressurised - only then will it allow you select a gear. Fair play, he came straight around in his service van with a selection of trolley jacks, a pressure brake bleeding machine and dived in. Within minutes the car was in the air and all 4 wheels were off. The problem was a burst brakepipe serving the front offside wheel. No way of repairing it on the spot - it needed complete replacement. He cut it and sealed it off which meant the offside front would temporarily have no braking but he could pressurise the other three. Pressure machine attached and running, he went around the other three wheels a bled the air out - it was bloody full of it! Started the car and the gearbox sprang back to life allowing me to select a gear. Wheels back on, he told me to drive it carefully down to his garage whilst he followed behind me. Got it to his workshop, drove it straight onto the ramp and he turned round and gave me a lift back home - only a couple of miles. Got phone call from him about 4pm to say he'd drained the brake fluid off, replaced the burst pipe and flexible hose to the front offside wheel and pressure bled the system again - could I call down with my chequebook and pick it up.... Materials used were pretty minimal but the total time spent at my house and up on the ramp at the garage was the bummer. I ended up 420 quid lighter but that's what I call real service.
Modern cars are a pain. Safety features, while positive in general, can be a real hindrance. Systems work on the basis that if in doubt, immobilise the vehicle. I've been having problems with the brakes on the tractor. 30+ years old, so no issues with it immobilising itself. It was a bit scary when 4 tonnes of vehicle wouldn't stop. Still haven't got to the bottom of it, but keeping the brake fluid reservoir topped up seems to work. There are only brakes on the back anyway and the left is a lot more reactive than the right. Fortunately, the trailers we use are braked off the hydraulics from the tractor. Need to get round to bleeding the brakes, but the bleed nipples are stuck solid. The handbrake still works, so that is the contingency.
Our newish car is a ****ing control freak too. On times I really hate it. League admin seems less bothered having learnt in Germany. And, of course, the ****er has sorted profiles that suit him but not me!
