How to spoil your weekend.....

[Feltwell]

.... other than by watching England play football of course.

I can specifically recommend that whilst taking a very heavy wheelbarrow full of bricks down a scaffold plank on some garden steps, you do not get distracted by one of your offspring. Otherwise you may drop the wheelbarrow wheel off the plank, pulling you over the top of it as you, the wheelbarrow plus the bricks descend merrily in a fine demonstration of the effect of gravity.

I can recommend also the value of not landing with your full weight on your wrist bending your hand back further than nature intended. Hopefully it's just a strain - I don't fancy a 6-8 hour wait in A&E so it's plenty of Ibuprofen for now and off to the GP in the morning to get a direct referral to the x-ray department of the local hospital.... :roll:

 

[philpjuk100]

OH NO! Hope its feeling better by the morning,those A&E depts can be a great way of wasting time,phil.(maybe a small whisky may help!)

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Ouch - hope it is just a sprain.

This is definitely one for the "Graham's Top Tips" thread....

 

[LadyArowana]

You poor thing. Trust me, if it was a bad break you would know. I have the scar and the titanium plate to prove that! Hopefully just a sprain, and some painkillers and ice will make it feel better by tomorrow.

 

[Feltwell]

I'm sure it's not a bad break - you're right, I would know all about that. Worst case is a hairline fracture I reckon, but it's probably just a sprain.

Particularly annoying when you know it's your own stupid fault though!

 

[Schoolmarm]

:shock:

 

[JoceAndChris]

Ouch, poor you. You should make your kids pay by getting them to do all the heavy work for the rest of the summer. One brick at a time. :twisted:

Hope it really isn't serious, keep us posted!

 

[Flyfisher]

Ouch!
Hope it's feeling better this morning.

 

[Penners]

a small whisky may help!

Don't talk rubbish, Phil! That's definitely a very LARGE whisky injury. Three times a day, before meals.

I'm afraid it won't help the healing, Feltwell, but at least you'll care a lot less. Fingers crossed for minimal damage.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

You think you had a bad weekend, FW. Think yourself lucky you're not a Mexican popstar!

Mexican singer El Shaka killed after denying his murder

Mexican singer Sergio Vega has been shot dead only hours after he had denied reports he had been murdered.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/latin_america/10429934.stm

:shock:

 

[Flyfisher]

Well that puts a new slant on the old Mark Twain quote about 'reports of my death are greatly exaggerated'. :shock:

 

[Penners]

Mexican singer El Shaka killed after denying his murder

Mexican singer Sergio Vega has been shot dead only hours after he had denied reports he had been murdered.

Clearly, if you're going to be a singer in Mexico, it's advisable to be a bloody good one. :shock:

 

[benmc]

following on this idea

Dont go in the loft and concentrate on laying cables. This will mean you may miss the joist with you foot and crash through the ceiling. This leave a nice person sized hole that needs fixing!

Ben

 

[philpjuk100]

Done that! it was unreal,one second in the loft,dark,then the next after tripping over the telly aerial wire,in the light on the floor,surrounded with broken plaster board and rockwool.Still as the wife is out shopping so nail the plaster board back up "jigsaw" fashion,skim over with"quick set" pollyfiller,match the woodchip with torn edges to blend in and then get caught giving it a coat of emulsion! the wife always spends too long at the shops! phil. :roll:

 

[Feltwell]

GGGrrrrrrr - bloody NHS!

Normally I have nothing but praise for our health service. Today I shall make an exception.

Went along to my GP this morning, who looked a little shocked that I hadn't carted myself off to A&E straight away (it's not that bad!!). She inspects me, deems that I probably haven't broken anything but need to get it X-rayed - fair enough, it's what I expected. Except that, despite being a fully qualified doctor, she cannot refer me directly to have an X-Ray - I have to go through A&E. This seems to me a farce and a very bad use of the limited resources that A&E have, which the GP agreed with.

So, on the way home I remember that I have private healthcare with my work. One "half-hour on hold listening to interminably bloody awful hold music" later I finally get to speak to the nice lady from Aviva, who tells me that I can go private but I need a GP referral first. A phone call to the GP where the medical secretary tells me it will take at least 72 hours to get a referral.......

So it's off to sit in A&E early tomorrow morning, when it will hopefully be quiet!

 

[Flyfisher]

Look on the bright side; by the time you are examined, it will probably have healed all by itself.

 

[Feltwell]

No bones broken, just soft tissue damage.

A&E at 6am is quite quiet, fortunately!

 

[LadyArowana]

Glad to hear that, did you get them to give you a sling anyway so you could make the kids feel guilty?

 

[philpjuk100]

My son who is at present unemployed is using the time to decorate,he has been communicating with me with texts as he is hard up,this morning whilst laying carpet tiles he cut his hand with the stanley knife,he says its quite deep and does not normally egsagerate.On earlier trips to A&E he took may hours to see anybody and found it difficult to wait(he is a smoker! I know,I know!)so with it bandaged in a tea towel walked to the doctor who told him to go to A&E,he tells me he is unable to drive to the hospital and if he could he would not be able to afford the car park,he cannot afford a taxi and there is no direct bus connections so he will just wait for it to get better! he is some distance away but see we may have to visit him tonight and take him to A&E.When I required stitches in the past they would normally be done by the doc or his nurse (sorry for the carp spelling,worried!)

 

[JoceAndChris]

Stitches have a time limit anyhow, as far as I know. I remember Chris waiting in A and E for hours and hours for the verdict "it's too late, that's on the way to healing". Tell him to keep it very clean and not to do any more decorating for a while.

Glad to hear you're OK Feltwell .