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[pidgeon chit welder]

I'm having to give up any thing heavier than lifting a knife and fork .

As a result of an accident and associated difficulties I have had a series of MRI scans and just found out I've got several prolapsed discs in low spine , three in thoracic spine , compression in S1 &2 , two stenosis points and massive scar tissue on various spinal nerves . I doubt I'll ever weld , woodwork or build again as I'm just turned 60 and well and truly knackered .

No point in beating about the bush ,I'm going to be selling all sorts of things over the next few weeks.

I'd rather the tools etc go to tradesmen than else where , so my friends on
this forum will get first shout . I'll add items as I get to the items and take pictures over the next week or so .

 

[jugs]

I'm having to give up any thing heavier than lifting a knife and fork .

As a result of an accident and associated difficulties I have had a series of MRI scans and just found out I've got several prolapsed discs in low spine , three in thoracic spine , compression in S1 &2 , two stenosis points and massive scar tissue on various spinal nerves . I doubt I'll ever weld , woodwork or build again as I'm just turned 60 and well and truly knackered .

No point in beating about the bush ,I'm going to be selling all sorts of things over the next few weeks.

I'd rather the tools etc go to tradesmen than else where , so my friends on
this forum will get first shout .

Real sorry to hear that pidgeon,

I feel your pain, (I've also got several prolapsed disc's in low spine + C3 &C4, so thats why I'm a pain in the neck).

Sounds as if I've got off lightly compared to you.

What ever you do, don't give up & vegetate in front of the TV, find something you can do - model trains, growing orchids, making dolls houses- anything to keep your mind active + some gentle exercise to stop you seizing up.

Stay on the forum, pass your knowledge on.

All the very best
john & jan

 

[spaffmonkey]

Dont give up Your tools they are a mans best friend

About 10 years ago my dads spine collapsed smashine sevral disks crushing vertibray and alsorts he has had 3 major operations now and he has £3000 worth of titanium plates, bolts and disc holding his back together. he turn 60
last year.

Yes he cannot bend or lift much wait but he can still do a fair amount within reason.
so just before you sell all your tools hold fire and see what can be done for you.

The last thing you want is to get rid of lots of tools and then wish you haddnt.

All the best.

 

[jugs]

Dont give up Your tools they are a mans best friend

About 10 years ago my dads spine collapsed smashine sevral disks crushing vertibray and alsorts he has had 3 major operations now and he has £3000 worth of titanium plates, bolts and disc holding his back together. he turn 60
last year.

Yes he cannot bend or lift much wait but he can still do a fair amount within reason.
so just before you sell all your tools hold fire and see what can be done for you.

The last thing you want is to get rid of lots of tools and then wish you haddnt.

All the best.

Weigh him in for scrap

 

[spaffmonkey]

I said that to the surgan but they said once titanium has been formed it cannot be resmelted

 

[pidgeon chit welder]

We will soon have the garden re done for easy maintenence, at present it's full of concrete lumps and there is a building that's got to be demolished due to its state .. my garage is only so big ..I'll still have enough tools to mess around with but it looks like any bending for even a minute or so is going to be out even if I get plated and riveted up in all the damaged places.

We will have about 25 mtrs of 1 mtr high raised garden beds 36 inches wide and with all round wide path access .
So I can play at growing stuff standing up or sitting in a wheel chair if it goes to that.

One thing I will not have is lawn grass .. I'll be growing my own chamomile instead as two cuts a year is all it needs., then I'll pay some one to do it.
I've been zapped with a busted shoulder joint ( had a mega rebuild in 1978 and it is crock )& I've had the back injuries since Sept 1994 and have not worked since .
I'm now 60 have a wife nearly 15 yrs younger than me and we have our own 9 yr old Munchkin ..I run a small INTERNET sales thing in sea fishing stuff so I'll not be sat down brooding etc .. I will deffo keep on the site ..it's one of the few where I can get an intelligent input from most of the guys .. engineers tend to be like that.

David

 

[Shox Dr]

Sorry to hear that David. I too have problems with my back, and went to York for an MRI last night. I won't know the prognosis for 2 to 3 weeks, and then I'm not sure it will make much difference, it's knackered I have to live with it.


Meanwhile I'm very interested in the Chamomile. I want to put some down on a patch about 5x7m the cost people want is ridiculous, have you grown any before, etc etc etc


regards

Dave

 

[brightspark]

Sorry to hear that David. I too have problems with my back, and went to York for an MRI last night. I won't know the prognosis for 2 to 3 weeks, and then I'm not sure it will make much difference, it's knackered I have to live with it.


Meanwhile I'm very interested in the Chamomile. I want to put some down on a patch about 5x7m the cost people want is ridiculous, have you grown any before, etc etc etc


regards

Dave

dont do what i did. wifey was on a wait forever list for an op . i paid 16 grand for the op and it was a failiour its worse now than it was before

 

[Shox Dr]

I not going to have anything done, I know too many people that are now worse off after injections ops etc, My mum for one.

I just would like to know what's wrong and how bad it is. So I can temper my foolings

 

[split999]

Good luck Pidgeon, I feel for you mate. I'm a little younger, not much, but have just a sore back from time to time. i wonder what the future has in store for me. Don't sell all your stuff, it's part of your heart.

Sounds like you've got a great family unit there so all the best my friend.

 

[pidgeon chit welder]

Sorry to hear that David. I too have problems with my back, and went to York for an MRI last night. I won't know the prognosis for 2 to 3 weeks, and then I'm not sure it will make much difference, it's knackered I have to live with it.


Meanwhile I'm very interested in the Chamomile. I want to put some down on a patch about 5x7m the cost people want is ridiculous, have you grown any before, etc etc etc


regards

Dave

I Googled chamomile seeds and found several places to buy it.

48 years ago in the last century , at school as part of our rural science and engineering drawing and mathmatical calculating . We grew thousands of seeds in a propagator bed so we gould plant up the inner quadrangle 37 yards by 35yards less the paths plus a hundred or more spare as the only access was via school corridors .. .. the head didn't want the hassle of having a gang mower in the corridors twice a week in high growth season .

It got it's 6 monthly hair cut with petrol flymo instead .

We didn't have the plug pots that you can buy or beg from garden centres and used 2 inch pots , a seed being sown with a vacuum pen /pump in the middle of each pot on a heated mist bed ( used a school made steralized John Innis No1 seed compost .. Thats the way I'll be doing things but buying inn the compost from a seedsman .

Instead of pots I'll be using about ten 5 mtr lengths of 44 mm waste pipe cut to 75 mm lengths as bottomless pots , sat a heated temp controlled bed made of a floor heat cable covered in sand with big cheap tiles laid on top. It will be used for the green house at a later date along with the misting set up & bottomless potds of tube . It may take several months to get all the plants but I'm not worried about that.
I seem to recall that we made a 9 x 9 inch grid as a nine foot by nine foot square and moved the grid over all the bed and planted a plant at each intersection .. it took several sessions from all the class years.

I've already designed a planting device in my mind made from a modified grandas litterpicking trigger operated gripper ( cut a small plastic Bi carb tub etc . in half from top to bottom and glue it to the gripper jaws .
Slip slide the the rooted plug out the bottomles pot into it , use long handled trowel to make hole then lower gripper over hole and squeeze the trigger to deposit the plug in hole . etc. etc.

 

[pidgeon chit welder]

Because I've been zapped for 15 yrs & each year sees things sliding a step or two back with me only being able to regain 3/4 a step forwards I've been contemplating this for over 18 months .. this last mega crash of August 2010 has told to get real and sell off what will only gather dust .
I also know that if I hang about till I turn my toes up , my lass will only be able to sell them for pennies if that.
( I've done clearances for deceased friends who have had to downsize etc. and was heart broken at the auction reciepts for the widow )

Selling off things now should see me re coup enough to put something towards a decent 12 mpix all singing all dancing digital TTL Canon camera plus a few lenses.. photography has been a 45 yr old hobby of mine.