Knee ortho today

marion1952

Hello Iris

Glad it is over for you..

So - no mini skirts for you for a few days then??

Take care

Marion xx

tillytop

Hi Iris

Well done for getting through today and for achieving part 1 of the master plan - and getting started on part 2!

Sounds as if you have plans to make your enforced bed-rest as enjoyable as possible Iris which is good.

Thinking of you.

Love Tillyxxx

skezier

Welldone Iris that's the first bit over and done with and with luck it will work and work really well.

Did you get your cuppa? I have had one or two since escape .... you beat me back but only by an hour and a half.....

I know your spell worked for me and I did try and get it to go back to you for an easiest time of it. Sending ((((( ))))) and maybe a small bit of cdm cus I got a little to spare (can you imagine a bar the size of Cornwall?! My imagination is in over drive for that one ) I also got you some saffron and cream as well as a fell less pain draft and sleep well draft with a side bucket of good lucks and a very big hope. Love Cris xxx

hileena111

Hi Iris
Thats great....you've got the first part over...senind you hugs (((()))))
I dont think i need to tell you to take it easy....think you have it all planned LOL

Love
Hileena

woodbon

Hi, I'm glad it's part 1 of the plan completed! Now, part 2, rest and relaxation! A chance to read and whatch the rubbish telly! You've done really well and been brave. The thought of it is enough for me to beg for sedation!!! I had a dental op once, a long time ago but, I do remember begging for a general anaesthetic!!!! I didn't get it.

Now take care and have a nice rest. Lots of love Sue xxxxx

chris7

Jeepers Iris :shock:

Only just catching up after my week away. You are some brave and sensible lady to be taking all this on the chin so well. Do hope you are having a reasonable night there and you feel a little better tomorrow after all your adventures. I thought Wally was enough to deal with and now all this.!! You do have my sympathy and hugs ((( ))).
Let us know how you are when you can.
take care
love
Chris

dorcas

Hi Wonky, Elna, Marion, Tilly, Cris, Hileena, Sue, Chris and Lynn.

thanks for all your good advice and kindness. :!:

Knees very painful overnight, and still very swollen... but I guess that's because of being so messed about with. :roll:

I did laugh at the 'mini skirt' comment Marion I think I'd definitely frighten the neighbours

having a duvet day with much tea drinking , box watching, and of course over eating. :oops:

have a lovely 'September weekend' holiday folks

Iris xxxx

frogmorton

Good Morning Iris

You did so very very well - I am proud of you You are so not a wuss :shock: nO on the contrary very brave.

I reckon life will be abit painful today and mayeb a few more days, but it's done now and as you say


part 1 acheived.

Glad part 2 is initiated too - that's as much as YOU can do for now isnt it?

You rest up and enjoy what you can of your duvet day - the knees will ease off over time.

Love and hugs

Toni xx

tillytop

Hi Iris, sorry your poor knees are so sore but only to be expected eh?

Try to enjoy your duvet day as much as you can under the cirumstances..

Thinking of you.

Love Tilly xxx

julie47

Hi iris

Hope you are not feeling too bad today.

Hope there is something worth watching on tv . Here brought you a sticky bun and another cuppa.

Bet your knees feel like new tomorrow (fingers crossed) but don't over do it.

Thinking of you
JuliePF x

skezier

Hi Iris,

I hope there is a whole heap of improvement today Flower? Love and the huge bucket of Hope... in a very nice pink ribbon and her best Sunday smile. ((( ))), a cuppa and a bit of coffee and walnut cake. Cris xx

dreamdaisy

Hi dorcas, I have returned from my wanderings and am checking in to see how things are going. I hope yesterday's duvet day helped, but I guess your knees are probably still sore. Oooooooh I can feel it too! On the other hand, the steroids might just have started to being some relief: I hope that is the case. Take care. DD

dorcas

Hi Toni, Tilly, Julie, Cris and DD.

thank you for sticky buns, walnut cake and the oodles of cups of tea hope looks so lovely in her pink ribbons... she doesn't half know how to look good... baaaas to her for being a fashion guru.

I've been up and about today a bit more,there's less swelling on both knees so steroids hopefully starting to kick in...

Anyway.... I have to be up and skipping for tomorrow's 9am 'Pathways to Work' interview don't I !. :shock: I think if they ask me 'what I've been doing to manage my condition' I might just self destruct with anger.

sorry :oops: got carried away there peeps....!

Iris xxx

dreamdaisy

What an excellent demonstration of your feelings! I wish you well for tomorrow's nonsense: give it to them with both barrels. Twerps, the lot of 'em. DD

ironic

Hi Iris,
I am sorry that you have to go to this unwelcome and unnecessary appointment tomorrow. All you need at the moment. I had the forlorn hope that your MP might have been able to put a stop to that one as well. :roll:
I do hope the knees are feeling a little better tonight and I know your next appointment is due for the infusion later this week. I wish things would come better for you as it has been a real tough year for you.
Hope the loons are being good. Oh, I have just found another member of the “Soon” family in the bathroom!! :shock:
Sending lots of hugs and fortitude your way.
Love from, Ix

skezier

Hi Iris,

Leaving you a ((((( )))) for the morning and I am so cross they are actually doing this to you! Hope so much that this will not be continuous and how very dare they! You hold it together though and just be the ice maiden and I s hope they see how stupid they are being and what they are putting you through.

Another ((((())))) and a cuppa that will stay warm for the morning. Cris xxx

dreamdaisy

Very best wishes for today, it is a disgrace that you have to face this so soon after your aspiration - perhaps, with hindsight, you should have cancelled it - or even better do so now! Anyway, if you do go (and I am sure you will 'cos you is good like that) take care. You need to coddle those knees! DD

dreamdaisy

Right, it's later and I have spotted your name: how did things go? DD

dorcas

Thanks DD, Ironic and Cris.

Well I hobbled my way to the office where my Pathways Interview was to be held.... only to find it shut! :x :x

After phoning and being put through to 4 different people I eventually got a return call from the person who was supposed to be interviewing me.

She said there'd been a 'clerical error' and I should have been asked to attend a different office as the local one was shut today (no kidding :? :x )

I was/ am livid. Annoyed with them for their bureaucratic ineptness ......and with myself for being stupid enough to go when my knees were still in agony.

I told her about the pain this fiasco had caused me and that I would be complaining through my MP. I also asked if the re-scheduled interview could be done by telephone or home visit as I was not prepared to put myself through this again...... she reluctantly agreed to a phone interview but said it was 'really against there procedures'. tough :x

Aghhhhh!!! what is wrong with these people.!!!

I'm off now to e-mail my MP..... I'm sure he'll be delighted. not.

Iris x

dreamdaisy

Breathtaking. Absolutely breathtaking. I am fuming. FUMING. I know just how painful your knees are, I know exactly what that has cost you in terms of effort and pain. I AM LIVID. What a bunch of amateur, blockheaded, crass, dumb, erratic, flawed, ghastly, horrendous, inept, lazy, muddle-headed, newt-brained, officious, paltry, questionable, rubbish, stupid, twerpish, unintellligent and vexing people they are. DD

julie47

Oh Iris how utterly disgusting

I am glad you rang up and gave them what for. Wish you well with the mp email.

I am growling for you ggggggggggggg.

JuliePF x

dorcas

Thank you DD and Julie.

I wish I'd read that wonderfully descriptive list of adjectives before I e-mailed my MP damsel :!: and thanks Julie for growling with me!!!

thanks both for bringing a smile to my face.

Iris xxx

elainebadknee

Ooooohhhh Iris..... :x

What is wrong with these people, so they as well as being wooden, unfeeling and inept at their jobs cannot communicate either...Im bouncing off walls angry for you.......
And guys dont take this the wrong way and mods yes I know its naughty but double duck (use yer imagination folks)...their stoopid procedures about a phone interview...They must make the effort once in their well paid, pension guaranteed jobs......Id also whilst e-mailing MP think about contacting local newspaper....I dont know whats wrong with people nowadays......Most people without longstanding health issues turn under the duvet at the sniff of a cold they dont know what its like to be in pain such as Iris and others??? Bloody clueless!!!!

Im curently thumping the keyboard in anger......GRR!! Sol's that angry the beanies are coming out of his ears!!!

Look try and wind down, just sorry its happened....

Big ugs n support...

Elainex

dreamdaisy

I nearly had the entire alphabet! If any missing ones pop to mind I shall add them later. I do alphabet lists all the time, it takes my mind off things for a while. I spent ages in the wee small hours struggling with a kinds of fish list! - angler, blowfish, cod, dog, eel, flat, haddock, etc etc etc. Gave up in the end. DD

elnafinn

Aw Iris,

How horrenduous! Hope you have had a few cups of tea by now to calm yourself down. You had to make the effort to get up early as well, despite getting yourself and your knees to this non appointment. It is disgraceful. Well, one under the belt for you . You won the day with them, didn't you? It will be a phone interview or nothing. Well ,yet another very negative point for your MP to add to the already long list.

Hugs to you
Elna x