Church stretton and long mynd shewsbury laning

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Hopefully I'm in.......only problem might be if the house rewiring project goes bad...then I could be busy for many weekends until that is sorted.

The rewiring will be OK, it's the mess left after taking up every floor in the house in quick succession......gutted about my laminate floor that I'm going to have to take up with a big saw :(
 
Not looking good for me ... got an examination soon, and won't know if I'll be fit enough to do it, and won't know definitely till late November/early December ... sorry.

I'm fine driving for a few hours on roads, OK for an hour or two green laning on 'farmers tracks' but it's looking dodgy on anything that's liable to jerk my neck ..
 
Been pestering the doctor to send me an email with a copy of the X-ray of my neck ... eight fractures and some bits missing, the muscles are a bit messed up from the floating bits of bone and the central nerve is a little swollen in some parts and pinched in others .. it's not a pretty sight, and don't half give me some gyp .. :)
 
Summat from 30 years ago, working down t'pit when the roof fell in on me, trapped me for a few hours under some tonnage of stone. Eventually dug out and, what we thought was lucky and pretty minor at the time, was diagnosed with displacing three discs in my neck, trapped nerves etc. Off work for a month in a collar, three months of physio and started back driving Terex dumpers up and down t'pit tip .. ;)

Every couple of years after I'd have minor gripes with trapped nerves, causing pain in my shoulders and neck but sort of lived with it and got physio or massage to work it back into shape and that seemed to work.

Then I started having bad pains a couple of years ago and every so often cricked my neck and I'd be in agony for a couple of months, then late last year I did it again, just rolled over in bed and my neck went, but it didn't mend properly. This year I've had a full Cat scan and other stuff and they've found that I actually broke the little 'wings' off a couple of the vertebrae and also fractured two vertebrae as well. It was the first X-ray or scan I've had on my neck since 1981) The bits that broke have migrated a little and cut my muscles and tendons/ligaments up a bit and also impacted on the central nerve branches. They reckon the imaging techniques of 1981 simply couldn't see the cracks, and since the bits have migrated the actual damage is now pretty obvious!

Had some physio but I really need surgery. Every so often it calms down and I have a few months of 'normality' .... Still waiting for full treatment, they can't decide on a plan of action for the surgery ... so they're waiting to see what the physio does, if anything ... and that's why I'm being a bit circumspect about doing much laning or off-roading for the rest of this year. I mean, no worries getting stuck and needing a tug out, but I don't think anyone wants to cart a fat bastard away in a stretcher .. ;)

You could say me neck causes a few issues now and then .. )
 
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