September 2018 Here we are then, Saturday 8th September and autumn is well and truly here, the mornings are crisp and misty and the leaves are turning already – red and golden coloured leaves are more and more visible every day. It is a beautiful sight but a precursor to the cold of winter. We…
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Early Summer 2018 I try to keep some kind of chronological order to my posts, using this like a diary of sorts and I started this post back at the end of June. Today is 26th July 2018 and things have been delayed by a personal and family tragedy which diverted my attentions elsewhere, as…
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Hello all – me again – with the Spring edition of my Blog and (again) my apologies for the time between posts but I’ve had a busy and uncomfortable time since I was discharged from le Mont. First of all I must state that the care and support I received whilst in rehab here in…
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Rehabilitation in France – 26th February through until 20th April 2018 After I was discharged from the Royal London I moved to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore for my rehabilitation – a world renowned centre of excellence in its field – so the prospect of trying out le Mont, a French equivalent, was…
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10th April 2018 Hello one and all and my thanks for looking in again after such a long break. The last time I wrote I was looking forward to going into hospital to have a prosthetic shoulder replacement to repair the damage caused when I binned my bike. The whole experience was actually quite straightforward. …
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This episode of my blog was going to tell you about getting ready for hospital on Sunday, ready for Monday’s surgery but the truth is there’s nothing much to say. We’ll pack a bag of clothes and bits and pieces and that will be that. The hardest part of getting ready will be getting rid…
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Hello everyone It’s still snowing, in fact it hasn’t really stopped since last Sunday night. When I wrote last I said how we were expecting Benoit to clear the drive in good time for us to get out to go to hospital on Tuesday – well guess what? That’s right – he didn’t show! The…
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Hi all Just a quick one today – mainly because I’m back at the hospital tomorrow to have my heart checked out and confirm (or not!) if I’m safe enough to slice open for my new prosthetic shoulder. I’ll write later in the week about how that went on but let’s hope that my pacemaker…
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Hello all – me again – and this time I’ll be concentrating on how costly being disabled is and how easy or difficult it is for me to get around and about. To have any kind of mobility I need to be able to get about, complicated by not having a functioning set of pins,…
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Let me make it clear from the outset that I know I’m not comparing apples with apples, this is my personal comparative view and is not a criticism of either system. Since coming to France I have been really well cared for by my GP, my nurses and the ‘local’ hospitals. I put local in…
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