Dropsafe

Goggles You have got to try this – it’s v.silly and v.fun without having v.much point, exactly what you need when you are stuck in bed and staring at the ceiling… (Via)

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MumsNet So here we are: one of Britain’s most wealthy and successful childcare experts demanding the closure of a community website run by mothers to enable parents to swap support, advice and the odd joke. […] Quite apart from the fact that Ms Ford’s legal moves now threaten our very existence, we think this case

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home is good.

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Just finished another trot down to X-ray on the crutches, under Hannetjie’s expert guidance. It’s getting easier, but it leaves me knackered. How do I find a local taxi company that takes wheelchairs? Just ring round, yellow pages, or is there a list?

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Recovery progresses. I’m getting better on the elbow crutches, all my sutures have been removed and the scars are healing, I’ve had a bit of a wash and am sitting in shorts, leg-brace and SunTour 2006 polo shirt, in my room’s easy chair, trying to pretend I’m normal and healthy once more. In truth I’m

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Amazing how you gan get into more pain as you heal; the ribs arestitching into bigger plates and the latter are moving tectonically, and so I’ve been swearing a lot of late. Comfort is improving, but the gaps between comfort are getting worse. Diclofenac is currently my best friend, though it combined with the food

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Wikipedia It has been reported that veterinary diclofenac use in India has caused a crash of the vulture population,[1] with “major ecological consequences” and a sub-cultural Zoroastrian Parsi “sky burial” crisis.[2] Diclofenac causes kidney failure in vultures that eat treated domestic animals. …so I should avoid being eaten by vultures this week.

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A short catalogue entry, for the sake of getting it down in ASCII: Fractured tibia, just below the plate of the knee joint. It was screwed together in France, and the screws will come out in a couple of years. Apparently it may give me arthritis in later life, but that might happen anyway, and

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It’s wednesday again, and i’ve been in the Priory for a week. I’m shattered. Today I got wheelchaired upstairs to physiotherapy for a wonderful bath in this big blue motorised side-opening thing; then Mandy arrived and pushed my wheelchair out into the garden for a while, then i spent 45 minutes on the CPM (continuous

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i ache… am using gprs but it is fiddly to set up. dave walker’s up here helping mewith laptop cabling, but it is a hassle to get non geeks to help, so time online will be limited. big love out to you all for thoughts and mementoes. it makes being stuck in a room so

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Independent France, the country which invented the philosophy café, has just had another smart idea: the train of thought. From this week, passengers who book by internet on certain long-distance French trains can arrange to sit next to other passengers with similar interests. Would you like to travel from Paris to Marseilles while discussing Nietzsche

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