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This is a link post Hi folks been a long time since i was here last
over a year i think but heyho.
big change in my life coming soon maybe pain free for the first time in 27 years
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 13:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Chronic migraine can be a real misery.
But I can't help feeling that you're being a bit extreme.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 13:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Welcome back
But this appears to be 'mixed' news. I guess what works best for you though.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post not mixed news
just releived that there is finaly going to be a way out of all the morphine and pain that has blighted my life and got worse over the last year, hence me not being on here and also the depression didnt help.
got told in january that the surgeons wanted to put me through 4 or possibly 5 opperations using a shoulder blade and rib to rebuild and straighten the ankle, however over the last 8 operations i have had none has worked and i cant see these being any differant also therte is the added 2 years of operation recovery operation recovery cycle.
So after a decent chat to the consultant me and my wife decided the best way forward was to take the bugger off and be done with all the physical pain.
this would also remove the festering ulcer on the right side of my ankle that is a symptom of the osteomylitus and will not heal despite time in hospital on IV antibiotics.

So good thing alround and as an added bonus my socks will now last 2 days which is ggod
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sounds like the logical choice.

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post This definitely sounds like the right thing
Good luck
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post So foot and lower leg?
That bloke from The Last Leg seems to get about ok on a prosthetic.
I assume you're getting one?
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post yeah right leg below knee amputation
means i can get an ordinary welly boot and put it the stump and hey presto instant kinky thigh high boot "wink"
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:33, , Reply)
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Make sure you build in a USB charging port for your phone. Risk of explosion probably minimal...
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 14:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post also you can nick display shoes (assuming it's the correct foot)
never pay for shoes again!
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post yeah could nick the shoe but not be able to leg it might be a flaw in that plan somewhere

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post details blah blah

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post well you know if that shoe fits and all that...

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post I can make a wooden peg leg
To complete your Pirate costume.
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 12:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post hey theres a thought
i could rape and plunder my way accross the home countys with gaye abandon as long as it is made from finest teak and none of this nambypamby recycled white dogshit thats pressed into mcnuggets or what ever
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 23:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post I once read an article about two old fellas who'd both lost a leg in the war.
One had lost the left, the other the right. Every year they'd meet up, go for a drink and then go shoe shopping.
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 7:08, , Reply)
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didn't they have daughters who got married or something?
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 14:11, , Reply)
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www.movies101.com/SOLDIERS.HTML

There is one interesting relationship in the film, and it is between Moore and young Joe Galloway (Barry Pepper), a journalist who hitches a ride into the battle site on the second day and records it all. Need we say that he is also the co-author of Moore's autobiography. In the film he tells Moore a wonderful story. Moore has asked him why he's a journalist and not a soldier. Galloway says that he comes from a long line of soldiers, including two great-grandfathers, who each lost a leg fighting on opposite sides in the Civil War. One lost his right leg and the other the left. They met by accident, after the war, in a shoe store in Galveston, Texas, and then by design met each year afterward, in the shoe store, to buy a pair of shoes and take home one shoe each.
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 14:22, , Reply)
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Well, if it makes you hoppy...
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post Dark
But I guilty LOL'd
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post the best kind

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:55, , Reply)
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Oh my finger lingered over the post button for a few seconds I can tell you, but I figured people come here for a laugh, not sympathy.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post this place has never been known to be worried about upsetting other people

I have been guilty of doing that very same thing in the past on here.
And if you cant laugh at the bloody mess i am in then you shouldnt be here after all this is meant to be full of ADULTS in here
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Do you get to keep the old foot?
If so, bring it in a pickle jar to the next London b4sh in June.

Hope that operation is a resounding success, sir.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sounds nasty
Wondered where you'd got to - I figured you'd run off.

On the bright side though, this sounds like it should get you on an even keel (figuratively, if not literally).
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 23:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post Would agree
My father is in his 80's and had a festering ulcer since his mid 20's from a broken ankle. It has been the bane of his life.
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 17:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post Blimey, that's a tough choice.
Pain must be really bad.

Good luck!
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:04, , Reply)
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Got the usual tramadon and dyhydrocodien but over the last year and bit it has gone onto liquid morphine and slow release morphine tablets
forget almost everything with that combo
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Friend of mine was on the morphine for pain release whilst being treated for throat cancer.
Was very unpleasant by all accounts.
In the end treated her own pain by using hash brownies which seemed to work quite well.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post Morphine is a bit shit really. Totally overrated.
Last year I completely fuckered my collarbone. 'Severely Comminuted Fracture' was the medical terminology, but I prefer 'fuckered'.
Anyway, before they put the big metal plate in my shoulder to hold everything in place as it healed, they had to physically re-align the two intact pieces of my clavicle. This wouldn't have been terribly bad if it wasn't for the fact that they had let the break sit loose for two weeks to see if by some miracle the bones would knit together without medical intervention. So when the time came for my surgery, the two splintered ends had already begun to heal themselves into stumps, which then required grinding down to lovely fresh bare bone and blood vessels.

The pain when I woke up from the surgery was hell. Easily the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life, and I've injured myself a lot. They ended up mainlining morphine into my arm from a big syringe until I'd reached the limit the hospital were permitted to give a patient. The pain subsided a bit, but not nearly as much as I hoped. Probably due to my history of rather enthusiastic and prolonged substance abuse, I had built up a pretty measurable tolerance to opioids and depressants which meant that the morphine did little more than take the edge off and make me feel really sick.

I'd have much rather just had some delicious pre-meds again :(
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post I've heard heroine is where it is at.

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's a bit more-ish though.

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 16:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Mindpiss

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 17:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post Make sure you save it as a souvenir
www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38621920/amputated-foot-gets-its-own-instagram-account
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hahaha
That's great. They can become instagram buddies
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post I would love to see the insides of the ankle with all the necrosis and failed operations
the surgeon has not said if that can be done for me though.
be intresting to see what all the pain and shit was caused by
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sounds nasty.
The plus side to this is you will get twice the life out of a pair of socks! Top tip right there!

Are you getting a bionic replacement or one of those blade thingies?
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post Get them to give you a bionic replacement.
So you can use it for EVIL.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 22:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post can i have your slippers?

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sorry but my dog has first dibs on any left over slippers

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post Have you tried medical cannabis
And you're having the NHS do it?
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 14:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post We don't have access to that here.
Despite it being a British firm that's been doing all the scientific research for nearly 20 years. How is it that you Americans are more progressive on drugs policy all of a sudden?
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post yup dear old NHS are doing it
not worked now for over a year and money is to tight to mention so no private healthcare or insurance for me.
I havnt tried the medical cannabis but have heard good things about it.
I have regular meetings with my pharmacist so may ask more about that

Car will have to be sold soon as i am less able to drive it as each week goes by and once i have the operation i will not be able to drive for 12 to 18 months untill the new limb has settled in and i have to take a driving assesment to see if i can drive in a safe manor
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post It has helped me significantly with chronic back pain.
Also, the narcotics, while helpful in the short term can fool the body into ceasing to create it's own natural pain killer. Then, it takes more and more narcotics to do the trick until they simply cannot, leading to hyper-algesia, or super pain, as I like to call it.

I had taken so many narcotics that I ended up in screaming pain and nothing would relieve it. I was transported to hospital where they tried ever increasing doses of morphine, fentanyl, etc. Then they filled me with ketamine and that broke it. I had to get off the narcs ASAP and it was absolutely miserable, but I'm so glad I did it. Now, even though my physiology has not changed, exercise and medical cannabis have had me narc free and pain much reduced for almost 2 years.

Good luck, I understand how pain can take over your thoughts and life.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post Federal criminal! Deport him now!
We'll have none of your kind in the land of Law and Order.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post Will you be doing the honor of the cavity search?

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post Is it covered by the ACA?
Or other evil communist conspiracies?
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 18:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post They are doing medical cannabis on the NHS?
I never knew that. I know there's an liquid extract by GW Pharmaceuticals that's been licensed but I thought that hadn't been passed by "NICE".
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:23, , Reply)
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until the new limb has settled in successfully integrated itself with my consciousness.
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 1:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hope it all goes well for you.
A while back I read a piece on a startup(?) that was linking amputees who'd had the opposite leg amputated by shoe size, I'm convinced it was called Sole Mate, but I can't find the link for some reason. So that's about as useful as your recent surgical consults. Sorry.

Best wishes, I hope your recovery goes well.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Can I please have your foot?

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post whats it worth to you?
My dog has given me big brown eyes and undying affection just for a good lick of the rotten ulcer

you may need to stump up the offer to get a look in
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Haha -stump.

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:37, , Reply)
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Sorry if I'm taking things too far - but why not have the foot stuffed - and then you can in true B3tan fashion craft a prosthetic out of it...
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 14:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post but it is already stuffed
full of bones and metal
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 23:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hey up Fluff, I had wondered a few times where you'd dropped off to.
Good luck with the recovery.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post havnt had the op yet
i go to see a vascular surgeon on 10th april in Northampton general. for what i dont know, as i already have letters from the very nice consultant we saw in january, may just be to confirm what has already been decided and to make sure thay take the right leg off.
MRI and CT scans looked intrestingwith the tract of the ulcer showing rather nicely, and they found an unheald fracture from god knows when theu lending more weight for our decision .

i may even do a spot the differance from the hospital bed if i remember/not total of my noggin
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post do you mean the right leg or the correct leg?
important to establish that imho
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post both
the right leg and the correct leg are both the same it is my righ leg
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post Make sure you write "Not This One" on the other leg

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 16:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post Might be an idea to write on your left leg "It's the other fucking one" before you go under the op.
[edit] Mind the piss.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 16:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post sound advice and dualy noted
however with my luck i would either get dyslexic surgeon write on it or some one who cant read or write english

I would be open to suggestions on how to avoid comedy pitfall while entering into a pact with the gods of milk of amnesia
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 16:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post Padlock on your grundies might be in order too.

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 16:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post Are you going to change your user name aftewards?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CVrJDLie0k
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 15:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post thats a good sketch

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 16:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post Deffo get a vascular surgeon to do it rather than an orthopod, they do loads more because of smokers.
I'm guessing Martin McNally if you were in Oxford?
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 16:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post Mr Rogers was the consultant who we saw
He was very very good explained all the good stuff and the down sides, he listened to our proposal anddiscuused it thourghly and came to the same conclusion
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 17:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post "Consultant"! Pfft.

(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 10:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post blimey thats a dead ringer for him
even down to him fisting a ginger tom
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 11:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ha!

(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 12:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post Good Luck mate!
God speed. Whatever that means.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 16:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post FLUFFY!!!!!1!
was wondering recently why you disappeared off here. but then I don't show up in these parts much lately either.
best of luck with the op, and hope you have a speedy recovery!
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 16:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post have a nice life!

(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 17:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hey man

Good to see you on here again. All the best, pain sucks, and if that's the only necessary solution then it's the lesser of two evils. You will learn to adapt and things will get easier with time.

All the best dude.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 17:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post yes it will be an intresting journey
if not a slightly lopsided one, i do have questions though
like if i go to the swimming pool will i swim in circles
or could i get a job as mountain guide.
so many questions so many drugs
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 17:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post I could join you for the drugs if you want ; o)

Yes, challenging times I'm sure. Keep us posted on your progress and spam is with links during your recuperation to make up for lost time!
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 17:39, , Reply)
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That's some decision to have to make. But you sound like a strong man. Good to see the support and the humour here on such a delicate matter. Keep us posted on your progress. "Beterschap" from Amsterdam here.
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 18:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post They're gonna remove your entire nervous system?
HUZZAH!
(, Mon 3 Apr 2017, 22:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post This is funny how?
Now if you put on a song and dance routine then you're in the zone. Hang on... wait...

Welcome back, nice to see some of the Old Guard back on here, I can't imagine your situation but I can only hope it'll work out for you.
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 9:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post i can hardly string a handfull of words together with murdering the dictionary
what makes you think me doing a song and dance woyld be any diferant?

it would be like bjork with dementia meets ballet danceing parkinsons sufferer.

actualy now i think about it that would be funny
(, Tue 4 Apr 2017, 23:10, , Reply)