Mmm…guzunders 
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Cracked…that’s living (or squatting)dangerously.
Sympathies.
A&E waits I understand - accidents happen unpredictably and some people need more urgent and prolonged attention than others.
Outpatient procedures are usually planned though and you’d hope that whoever’s carrying them out knows what they’re doing well enough to book enough time when they draw up the appointments list. I’m afraid my experience (diabetes clinics, eye hospital scans) is that delays usually mean a) someone’s been dragged out of clinic to deal with a crisis or b) someone’s just not turned up.
Sadly no time soon.
Have gone from not much work to loads of work.
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Indeed - get a wriggle on !
Nope but time is when the heart stops
Thanks Graeme. Apparently the delay was due to morning surgery over-running, plus the new intake of junior doctors - it’s August - needing their hands holding (procedures etc) according to the nurse who fitted my pot.
Yeah, that can happen too. The day before my wrist op the surgeon came to explain the plan and to consent me. I asked how long it would take. He said they’d booked 1hr 20mins in theatre but if it went smoothly they should be done in 1hr or so. The day after I asked him how long it had taken. He looked at his feet and said “2hrs 10mins. It was, er, challenging. But we persevered and we’ve restored some wrist function instead of simply fusing the whole joint”. I was grateful. The subsequent patients and doctors maybe not so much.
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Yes, that’s my only worry (apart from work) at the moment - if it gets to the end of the 6 weeks and it’s still not healed, then surgery will be on the cards, rather than just a possibility.
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Fingers crossed (mine, not yours, obviously).
Yeah, that’s a problem at the moment, along with tying shoelaces, buttoning and zipping up trousers etc, etc.
There are (or were) youtube videos on how to tie shoelaces one-handed. I eventually got it so mine stayed tied all day.
My dad lost the use of his left arm in a motorbike accident aged 19. As a child, I was in awe of his one-handed skills, including shoelace tying.
Mind you, he also had slip-ons.
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Getting radioactivated with Tc-99m and then scanned in this beast, including an impressively-acronymic SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) scan. First step in trying to find and fix a problem with my right knee, suspected to be a mistracking patella.
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Could the VTA be a bit high ?
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Too high a tracking weight is certainly a possibility at present! 
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I have enough dreams where I’m back in work, if MRI Patellar maltracking scans feature tonight then I won’t be happy.
Seemingly went for £185k
Don’t quote me on that
Hopefully you will have an untroubled sleep. MRI wasn’t on for me because of large lumps of chrome-nickel alloy in both knees.
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