Cabinetman
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Great to hear Al, I was thinking of you both yesterday and wondering how things were.
Ian
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Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!
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Blackswanwood
Old Oak
Good to hear - hope all continues to go smoothly.
Malc2098
Sequoia
Great news, Al. Please give my best to her.
Just to show how recovery is successful, my daughter crashed into a wall on surface water Boxing day several years ago. Her left humorous had to be rebuilt with loads of metal, some sort of twisting fracture. She had her hand on the gear lever at time of impact. Brilliant Army surgeon rebuilt it with experience from Afghanistan. Her black eye hid the brain damage which six months later turned into epilepsy, with the falling down type seizure as well as all the smaller ones, pain from the arm being one of the seizure triggers. But with 5 years of drugs and support, she moved in with her partner, got pregnant and the lovely pregnancy hormones reduced her seizures to nil over the 9 months. Baby Penny was delivered by C section to manage the pain better than by natural birth, and I now have a beautiful bonny baby granddaughter and a happy daughter that still hasn't had any seizures six months after the birth. And she now runs are much reduced PA business from home 2 1/2 days a week.
With your love and support and that of your families, Carolyn will get better.
Just to show how recovery is successful, my daughter crashed into a wall on surface water Boxing day several years ago. Her left humorous had to be rebuilt with loads of metal, some sort of twisting fracture. She had her hand on the gear lever at time of impact. Brilliant Army surgeon rebuilt it with experience from Afghanistan. Her black eye hid the brain damage which six months later turned into epilepsy, with the falling down type seizure as well as all the smaller ones, pain from the arm being one of the seizure triggers. But with 5 years of drugs and support, she moved in with her partner, got pregnant and the lovely pregnancy hormones reduced her seizures to nil over the 9 months. Baby Penny was delivered by C section to manage the pain better than by natural birth, and I now have a beautiful bonny baby granddaughter and a happy daughter that still hasn't had any seizures six months after the birth. And she now runs are much reduced PA business from home 2 1/2 days a week.
With your love and support and that of your families, Carolyn will get better.
Mike G
Petrified Pine
I'm really pleased to hear of some progress, Al. The one thing I would stress is to value the physiotherapy really highly. It's the key to a successful physical recovery from any trauma. If the NHS phyisotherapy ceases, don't hesitate to pay for private sessions.....and Carolyn must do the exercises assiduously.
SamQ aka Ah! Q!
Old Oak
Seconded for the physio terrorists (so they seem at times). I've seen rugby and climbing accident impediments much eased with, as Mike says, "assiduously" doing the routines.
Dr.Al
Old Oak
I think we should be safe there, but thanks for the advice. Our next-door neighbour (with whom we are very close friends) is a physiotherapist and has already offered to help in any way she can, so even if the NHS stuff ceases we'll have help from next door (and my work has BUPA cover, which covers Carolyn and is very good for physiotherapy).
Carolyn's quite good at being diligent and doing her exercises (and keeping detailed track of exactly how much she's done each day). If it were me I'm not sure I'd be as effective!
AJB Temple
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Great news Al. And I agree with Mike. When I went through the front of a digger a few years ago and broke stuff, the physio lady saw me twice a week (NHS). I recovered full mobility and muscle mass in a well effed up arm. She said most people don't do the exercises enough or at all, and so recovery is badly affected. Physio was superb. Really good.
Pete Maddex
Old Oak
Thanks for the update, I am glad she is doing well.
Pete
Pete
Lons
Old Oak
Plus 1 on the physio.
My missus has had both hips replaced and serious operations on both Achiles and really pushed it after her knee replacement which has worked very well. A close neighbour well into his eighties had both knees replaced within just a few months and similar result to my missus while another only a couple of doors away is a real wimp, didn't/couldn't do the excercises properly and still walks like a tin soldier more than a year after his op. Still seeing physios who say nothing wrong except he doesn't put the work in.
My missus has had both hips replaced and serious operations on both Achiles and really pushed it after her knee replacement which has worked very well. A close neighbour well into his eighties had both knees replaced within just a few months and similar result to my missus while another only a couple of doors away is a real wimp, didn't/couldn't do the excercises properly and still walks like a tin soldier more than a year after his op. Still seeing physios who say nothing wrong except he doesn't put the work in.