• 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!

Main Bathroom Renovation

Frustratingly not. Chin wants to droop onto chest.

And, by mistake, I keep lifting things that are too heavy ("half-full kettle - maximum"). It's way too easy to forget, e.g. rinsing the coffee pot (because I usually fill it full to clean it, and it's only water!), or, the really stupid one last night, trying to move a standard lamp (brain tells you it's not heavy, and no alarm goes off until it's too late!). I aam hoping these mistakes are just painful, and won't affect actual healing...

Legs: really sympathise with your wife's trials: I have had right foot droop and leg weakness steadily getting worse for a few years. A week ago, I could easily fall over on plain flat surfaces, as my toe would catch - muscles fine, but no nerve control. You get used to it, but I have ruined a decent pair of shoes by wearing just the tip of the right front shoe, right through to the upper stitching. Left is fine.

So I can guess a bit what your wife is coping with, but...

... It is ridiculously early days (op was Thursday afternoon), but I think I can already see a small improvement - right leg seems to want to behave better. It might just be the drugs ("woo-hoo, these are good!"), but I think it's real. "Plumbing" also significantly better (the last insult, pre-op) - I refuse to be incontinent until at least my nineties!
 
Jeez, EV you really are in the wars. I guess it must be really difficult to be patient after this kind of OP. Not knowing if you have done too much until you feel the pain is tough.
I hope the recovery goes well.
 
Sincerely hope both EtV and Duke's wife recover quickly and without too much pain. Old friend of mine fell in the kitchen and really messed his neck vertebrae up. So operation only they didn't realise that he was allergic to morphin and so days in hospital of unremitting pain until someone with a brain wondered about the morphine and Hey Presto....sorted but also fortunately triggered the Pain Management Team to get involved.
 
PAC1 said:
Great job Duke.
Best wishes to Mrs Duke (does that make her Duchess?) and EtV.
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Eric the Viking said:
Frustratingly not. Chin wants to droop onto chest.

And, by mistake, I keep lifting things that are too heavy ("half-full kettle - maximum"). It's way too easy to forget, e.g. rinsing the coffee pot (because I usually fill it full to clean it, and it's only water!), or, the really stupid one last night, trying to move a standard lamp (brain tells you it's not heavy, and no alarm goes off until it's too late!). I aam hoping these mistakes are just painful, and won't affect actual healing...

Legs: really sympathise with your wife's trials: I have had right foot droop and leg weakness steadily getting worse for a few years. A week ago, I could easily fall over on plain flat surfaces, as my toe would catch - muscles fine, but no nerve control. You get used to it, but I have ruined a decent pair of shoes by wearing just the tip of the right front shoe, right through to the upper stitching. Left is fine.

So I can guess a bit what your wife is coping with, but...

... It is ridiculously early days (op was Thursday afternoon), but I think I can already see a small improvement - right leg seems to want to behave better. It might just be the drugs ("woo-hoo, these are good!"), but I think it's real. "Plumbing" also significantly better (the last insult, pre-op) - I refuse to be incontinent until at least my nineties!
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Do you have to use stairs in your home? They told her not use the second floor ie, no stairs. Luckily we live on the main level .
 
Thanks everyone!

Stairs: two flights but nice rails, so I have been doing them but really cautiously. But I am debating moving my toothbrush down to the middle bathroom.

The Incident Of The Standard Lamp In The Nighttime was me trying to close the lounge curtains to sleep on the sofa, so as not to disturb my wife (who had already gone up and was probably asleep). Didn’t think and just grabbed the stem and, "oh s××t, that really hurt!". And the sofa idea was ReallyDumb.

But I am learning...
 
duke said:
......They told her not use the second floor ie, no stairs......
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Divided by our common language...!

In Britain, the ground level floor is the ground floor, and the floor above (ie upstairs) is the first floor. "Second floor" means up TWO flights of stairs.

The origin of this is that in mediaeval times the ground floor of a house was generally just beaten earth. It wasn't a constructed floor. The insertion of floors above created the first constructed floor......hence "ground" and "first floor".
 
Two storeys (or more) here is a house. A single storey is a bungalow.
 
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