Thanks - the knee is bad enough to prevent me from photographing and downloading a further 80 items. Daughter told me to use her camera, but I'm too knocked out. It'll have to wait until next time. I keep nodding off. It's a weakness in my right knee. I had Baker's Cyst, a very severe swelling that prevents you from moving your leg. the Christmas before last which kept me off work for two weeks. The trouble was, when I got back, people at work were giving me the thumb's upsaying "Yep, well done Fred. Make sure the *bleep*'s pay you" as if I was swinging a lead!
My last year was steeped in controversy where I should have been on a paid four day working week but wasn't because a new broom came in and decided to run things differently so everyone assumed I was skinning a cat by other means. Some people could, but I coudn't - I've always played a very straight bat.
Well this is a straight weakness - osteoarthritis where the joints are beginning to get jagged. They spoke of having some form of an operation, with them reshaping the bone etc. but advised me against me having it, stating I would be off my feet for about three months! No, this is a small cross to bear - I'll be running around like a seven year-old in less than a week.
Baker's Cyst it totally different - it is a sudden lump of musccle tissue which will come totally unannounced in the shape and size of a ping pong ball directly behind the back of the knee preventing you from moving it. Nobody really knows what causes it. Unlike osteoarthritis it is not particularly painful, but is totally disabilitating - you just cannot move your knee and it lasts for about two weeks. After I returned the crutches to the hospital I went straight over to Argos and bought a pair. They were only £25.00 and are exactly the same as those supplied by the hospital - ten times easier than a walking stick, and the guarantee you a seat on any bus!
Ohhhhhh Fred what are you doing to yourself!!!. Bless you. Hope you feel better soon. Thats lovely getting that from your girl. Awwwww,, Happy Fathers day to you ,,,even though your not my dad!!!.
know the feeling Ed, my mother never used to turn up at our house without something, even if it was just a couple of magazines!!!
