Xylia's out of hospital. Swelling and inflammation much reduced but with loads of tablets to take. We've had a Mexican takeaway for tea to celebrate. The people at the hospital continued to be very thorough right through to the end, with a checklist of questions about whether she'd got keys to get into the house, whether there'd be someone to take care of her, whether there'd be a means of heating the house, whether there was food available, whether she needed a follow up appointment scheduling and much else besides. In my day job I study the healthcare system, and my colleagues and I have been advocating for this sort of thing for a long time, because in the past there were incidents where people were turned out of hospital at odd times with no means of getting back to their houses or getting in once they got there, no access to heating or food or follow up care, so it's great to see it's all built into the protocol now.
 
Stone56 said:
Could be the reason for the bad back wouldn't help it
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The bad back is due to three slipped discs that were not diagnosed for 7 years. Before I met her. She'd been running downa flight of stone steps with her arms full of books, when she missed a step. She didn't fall over but by the end of the evening she had crippling pain in her hip.

So the sawbones all concentrated on the hip.
When she eventually went to a doc in London in 20 minutes he diagnosed it correctly, referered pain from the discs.
Since when she has had various treatments culminating in a titanium cage in her back.
Now has a left foot paralysed due to the continuous wear from discs rubbing on the nerves in the spinal column over all that time. And constant pain, she takes enough morphine sulphate etc to kill a horse.

But yes she ought to drive more gently!;)
 
Brown said:
Xylia's out of hospital. Swelling and inflammation much reduced but with loads of tablets to take. We've had a Mexican takeaway for tea to celebrate. The people at the hospital continued to be very thorough right through to the end, with a checklist of questions about whether she'd got keys to get into the house, whether there'd be someone to take care of her, whether there'd be a means of heating the house, whether there was food available, whether she needed a follow up appointment scheduling and much else besides. In my day job I study the healthcare system, and my colleagues and I have been advocating for this sort of thing for a long time, because in the past there were incidents where people were turned out of hospital at odd times with no means of getting back to their houses or getting in once they got there, no access to heating or food or follow up care, so it's great to see it's all built into the protocol now.
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Good news for all of this.
Please wish her "Get Well Soon" on my behalf. ;)
 
Say What! -4°c tonight? Are you kidding me?
I think the woodburner will be running tonight. ;)
We have the G-kids tonight & tomozz night (deep joy), honest. 😔
I expect my energy bill will be up to £25+ as they have to have all the lights on and all the TV's games stuff running and sit there in T-shirts complaining about the cold.
But other than this everything is just fine and dandy....... honest! :)
I think I have erred on the lathe motor rewire, maybe I should have just bought a new 3-phase 220v motor of 1HP.
Not sure I will get the speed/torque with the path I have taken. Oh-well it's only money.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
The bad back is due to three slipped discs that were not diagnosed for 7 years. Before I met her. She'd been running downa flight of stone steps with her arms full of books, when she missed a step. She didn't fall over but by the end of the evening she had crippling pain in her hip.

So the sawbones all concentrated on the hip.
When she eventually went to a doc in London in 20 minutes he diagnosed it correctly, referered pain from the discs.
Since when she has had various treatments culminating in a titanium cage in her back.
Now has a left foot paralysed due to the continuous wear from discs rubbing on the nerves in the spinal column over all that time. And constant pain, she takes enough morphine sulphate etc to kill a horse.

But yes she ought to drive more gently!;)
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My mother had something very similar - a great deal of pain in her leg originating from her bad back. It seemed to involve a combination of pain, numbness and paralysis. Interestingly enough, she too had a rather jerky driving style, treating the accelerator a bit like the button on top of an aerosol can. So it was all accelerate and overrun. After a while, her cars tended to develop a clunky noise in the transmission. I can't imagine why.
 
Brown said:
Xylia's out of hospital. Swelling and inflammation much reduced but with loads of tablets to take. We've had a Mexican takeaway for tea to celebrate. The people at the hospital continued to be very thorough right through to the end, with a checklist of questions about whether she'd got keys to get into the house, whether there'd be someone to take care of her, whether there'd be a means of heating the house, whether there was food available, whether she needed a follow up appointment scheduling and much else besides. In my day job I study the healthcare system, and my colleagues and I have been advocating for this sort of thing for a long time, because in the past there were incidents where people were turned out of hospital at odd times with no means of getting back to their houses or getting in once they got there, no access to heating or food or follow up care, so it's great to see it's all built into the protocol now.
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Glad she's out! :)
Best Wishes for a steady recovery. :D
 
Brown said:
Xylia's out of hospital. Swelling and inflammation much reduced but with loads of tablets to take. We've had a Mexican takeaway for tea to celebrate. The people at the hospital continued to be very thorough right through to the end, with a checklist of questions about whether she'd got keys to get into the house, whether there'd be someone to take care of her, whether there'd be a means of heating the house, whether there was food available, whether she needed a follow up appointment scheduling and much else besides. In my day job I study the healthcare system, and my colleagues and I have been advocating for this sort of thing for a long time, because in the past there were incidents where people were turned out of hospital at odd times with no means of getting back to their houses or getting in once they got there, no access to heating or food or follow up care, so it's great to see it's all built into the protocol now.
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Glad things are improving let's hope the pills are short time remedy
 
Brown said:
My mother had something very similar - a great deal of pain in her leg originating from her bad back. It seemed to involve a combination of pain, numbness and paralysis. Interestingly enough, she too had a rather jerky driving style, treating the accelerator a bit like the button on top of an aerosol can. So it was all accelerate and overrun. After a while, her cars tended to develop a clunky noise in the transmission. I can't imagine why.
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Sorry to hear this, you'll know what I mean.
But W doesn't drive me very often and she might have been a bit moody at the time.
I service her car and she doesn't go through brake pads very fast, she just seems to brake a bit late and then hang onto them until the car lurches to a stop. Maybe I am weird, but I ease off the brakes as I am coming to a halt trying to get no final lurch at all, as if stopping a train in a station, so that the punters don't spill the tea into their saucers!
But the Pluriel has a terrible habit of clunking or tramping if you take off in anything like a spirited fashion. Never witnessed her doing this before.

I did have a mate who described his mother's driving as "flat on the accelerator or flat on the brake" he was a farmer and his mum was a lovely, apple-cheeked, calm, motherly sort. You'd never have thought it!
 
DanClarke said:
Say What! -4°c tonight? Are you kidding me?
I think the woodburner will be running tonight. ;)
We have the G-kids tonight & tomozz night (deep joy), honest. 😔
I expect my energy bill will be up to £25+ as they have to have all the lights on and all the TV's games stuff running and sit there in T-shirts complaining about the cold.
But other than this everything is just fine and dandy....... honest! :)
I think I have erred on the lathe motor rewire, maybe I should have just bought a new 3-phase 220v motor of 1HP.
Not sure I will get the speed/torque with the path I have taken. Oh-well it's only money.
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Yes, I've often thought about this myself. I haven't bought a 3 phase bit of equipment yet, but I will do one day. Originally I thought I'd take the three phase motor out and put a single phase one in, as they're not that dear
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20235051...KI/ZqCrlBVTVcgfSK30TxPMgBF|tkp:Bk9SR7bu-ImjYw
3 h.p. would be fine for me for most machines, as once you go above that you start breaking things. Especially the parting off tool. But a lot of people on here seem to like the idea of 1-3 phase converters. It'll be interesting to see how you get on.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Yes it was and a lot of people still called in Frys. My parents moved there in 1973 as we lived in Bath and they both worked in Bristol so they got fed up of two traffic jams every day in both directions.
Parents divorde and dad libved there until death. Bro lived with him there a bit, as did I.
He did 3 shifts and earned good money though boredom was a big factor.
Every now and then he'd tell us he'd been moved section and didn't know why, the next week he'd tell ujs there had been a load of redundancies or his old section had been closed.
It took him a while to cotton on that it was because he was a "worker not a shirker".
But we always had free or nearly free choclit stuff kicking around!

What did you call them "Fry's chocolate (whatevers)"???!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣

Strangely the headmaster of the school I taught in came from Keynsham. He was mad on trains particularly The GWR. So the kids uniform was cream, brown and "camel" and although they dropped the "camel" soon after he retired, the uniform stayed like that for 325 years odd until about 5 before I retired. They hated it and so did their parents as they couldn't buy trousers, sweaters, shirts or skirts from ornery shops. And the xpensive brown ones were rubbish quality. For a long time even the sixth form had to wear brown clothes, who the flip would wear that? If you could find it?

So they got called "little chocolate soldiers".

Sorry for going off piste!!
But coincidence is a funny thing!:):):)

Edit, forgive the typos, you'll se why next post!
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As a youngster I installed a few machines(double decker & strollers) into the fry’s.
And done a few machines at bournville.
And yep you get fed up of chocolate,unless you been the fry’s club for a few beers on a Saturday footy time,then wander back into work while machines on test.
Out law still lives in bournville trust houses
Only place with no pubs/off licences/satalite dishes Funny place to live.
 
DanClarke said:
Say What! -4°c tonight? Are you kidding me?
I think the woodburner will be running tonight. ;)
We have the G-kids tonight & tomozz night (deep joy), honest. 😔
I expect my energy bill will be up to £25+ as they have to have all the lights on and all the TV's games stuff running and sit there in T-shirts complaining about the cold.
But other than this everything is just fine and dandy....... honest! :)
I think I have erred on the lathe motor rewire, maybe I should have just bought a new 3-phase 220v motor of 1HP.
Not sure I will get the speed/torque with the path I have taken. Oh-well it's only money.
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Just get the new 3 phase too you will have the best of both worlds
 
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