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Could a member who doesn't post here now please contact Gill as she Is going Into hospital.

Yes, Gill Is to have a bionic leg fitted.

They are taking her old one and using It as the local cricket team lost one of their stumps last year.

Her new bionic leg Is revolutionary In that It can send messages to her other leg to keep up when running for buses.

Don' forget to send me details of the hospital Gill so some Thornton's can make their way to you.... who knows... You may even have a surprise visitor !!!!

oscar;1372333 wrote: Could a member who doesn't post here now please contact Gill as she Is going Into hospital.

Yes, Gill Is to have a bionic leg fitted.

They are taking her old one and using It as the local cricket team lost one of their stumps last year.

Her new bionic leg Is revolutionary In that It can send messages to her other leg to keep up when running for buses.

Don' forget to send me details of the hospital Gill so some Thornton's can make their way to you.... who knows... You may even have a surprise visitor !!!!


And the very best of luck to her whilst she's in there :yh_flower

When's the operation so we can keep her in our thoughts?

Wishing her all the best and a speedy recovery.. !! :yh_flower:yh_flower

I'm puzzled, I can quite see why they might add a prosthetic that works but why spoil the symmetry by removing the old one? A centrally-located Pistorius accessory would enable her to tuck up both side legs and hop, given a clear stretch of pavement or tow-path.

They don't allow chocolate or cigarettes in hospitals any longer, visitors have to bring fruit or veg, "Thorntons" is proscribed just under "Ten Woodbine" on the contraband list.

Gill, get someone to lend you an iPhone so you can post updates onto FG - using the Internet isn't covered by the "No Phones" signs. You can video the consultants' bedside manners and upload the clips.

Do they do this under a general anaesthetic?

We'll be wishing you an effective recovery Gill, stay in touch.

Please tell her I'm thinking about her and hoping for a speedy recovery!

Am I missing something here? She's getting her leg amputated, much to everyone's amusement? Naw, that can't be right.

Best wishes if you're reading this Gill and may you have a speedy recovery.

SnoozeAgain;1372363 wrote: Am I missing something here? She's getting her leg amputated, much to everyone's amusement? Naw, that can't be right.

Best wishes if you're reading this Gill and may you have a speedy recovery.


I am sorry Shrug but It's my British way of taking the **** out of my fellow countrymen.

The true story Is that Gill Is having a hip replacement operation.

Gawd bless her and all who sail In her

She's been talking about it for years, I'm glad it's finally happening. I'm sure our concern shines through the tasteless facade.

spot;1372369 wrote: She's been talking about it for years, I'm glad it's finally happening. I'm sure our concern shines through the tasteless facade.


I spoke to Gill about putting a thread on before I did so tasteless ? No

The outcome of posting the tread that we hoped for was that a member who comes here as a guest would phone Gill at home after seeing this. That was Gill's wish.

As a close friend of Gill's, she would think I was unwell If I did not take the **** out of her situation.

If she's offended, she will soon ring me and tell me.

spot;1372347 wrote: I'm puzzled, I can quite see why they might add a prosthetic that works but why spoil the symmetry by removing the old one?


Because she doesn't want to be forever known as Jake the Peg. lol

From other friends of mine who have had this done it's a very long and painful process. Gill is in our thoughts.

I'm not sure what snooze means. you're supposed to take the **** out of sick people It cheers them up . Snooze I think you'd have been horrified the pisstaking we did at my dad when he was in hospital half dying. We should be happy for Gill but of course concerned ...I would be sad if she was still waiting. this is actually great news.

Good lord her account's logged in... now we're for it.

spot;1372373 wrote: Good lord her account's logged in... now we're for it. Oscar logs off.

Ummmm Gill? ......SPOT DID IT!!!!!



(quick!! everyone point towards Spot)

fuzzywuzzy;1372371 wrote: Because she doesn't want to be forever known as Jake the Peg. lol

From other friends of mine who have had this done it's a very long and painful process. Gill is in our thoughts.

I'm not sure what snooze means. you're supposed to take the **** out of sick people It cheers them up . Snooze I think you'd have been horrified the pisstaking we did at my dad when he was in hospital half dying. We should be happy for Gill but of course concerned ...I would be sad if she was still waiting. this is actually great news.


My wife's cousin had it done but, because of a heart condition, she could not have a general anesthetic and had it done under an epidural - she said it was OK until they started to knock the new joint in with a lump hammer :wah:

Several friends have had it too and the one thing they all agree on is that if you take it easy after the operation you'll never have full use of the joint, if you do all of the exercises you'll end up not knowing it's there and be up on the dance floor with the young 'uns :-6

Oh my, awake and being hammered!

Good luck Gill!

Bryn I've heard that about new hips. People that can hardly walk one week, have the operation and don't even have a limp two weeks post op.

fuzzywuzzy;1372371 wrote: Because she doesn't want to be forever known as Jake the Peg. lol

From other friends of mine who have had this done it's a very long and painful process. Gill is in our thoughts.

I'm not sure what snooze means. you're supposed to take the **** out of sick people It cheers them up . Snooze I think you'd have been horrified the pisstaking we did at my dad when he was in hospital half dying. We should be happy for Gill but of course concerned ...I would be sad if she was still waiting. this is actually great news.


I'm American, I don't have the refined sense of humor you Aussies and Brits do.

I wonder what it would be like to be awake during something like that and the surgeon accidently hits his own thumb with one of the hammers. How effing funny would that be !!!

fuzzywuzzy;1372384 wrote: I wonder what it would be like to be awake during something like that and the surgeon accidently hits his own thumb with one of the hammers. How effing funny would that be !!!


I like your thinking :yh_rotfl :yh_devil

I'm sure the surgeon stands back and tells one of the orderlies to do any heavy hammering work.

SnoozeAgain;1372383 wrote: I'm American, I don't have the refined sense of humor you Aussies and Brits do.


That's okay we'll teach you . Brits after being blown up ......"Tis just a flesh wound, come on boy, stiff upper lip and all that "....

Aussies after being blown up.......' "nah she'll be right mate, we found a couple of your limbs, they'll have you back together in no time"

It's like when dad started having chemo. One thing that made him happy was he'd lost so much weight he could look down and see his Dick again. (something you don't want to hear from your father under normal circumstances.)

But what really pissed him off was the chemo had the opposite affect on him .....his hair began to grow. And this is a man who has spent twenty years shaving his head ...........he didn't want his hair back . LOL LOL LOL We began calling him goldilocks just to rub it in .. lol

spot;1372386 wrote: I'm sure the surgeon stands back and tells one of the orderlies to do any heavy hammering work.


Yep the bloody carpenters apprentice walking past the door after getting everyones lunches.. " Oi!!, You got ya 'set out and framing' ticket? get ya butt in 'ere."

hey everyone in the operating theatre must have the highest of qualificatons you know.

Have fun gill .

Bloody hell !! lets hope Gill it totally out Orthopedic Surgery is brutal to watch and hear saws, drills, hammers, you name it looks like a carpenter shopt in the OR. I have watched a few and had a few Orthopedic Surgeries myself.

Your in our thoughts Gill..!!

spot;1372386 wrote: I'm sure the surgeon stands back and tells one of the orderlies to do any heavy hammering work.


Ever noticed how everyone in theatre is dressed exactly like the kitchen staff????? hmmm something to think about there. (pssstt...the puffy little caps are the give away)

Given the state of the national deficit I'm surprised elective surgery is still on the menu at all. Take it while it's going, Gill.

A new limb is considered elective?

A hip replacement is. As for elective amputation there's even a wikipedia article about it. And a film, if I remember right.

fuzzywuzzy;1372395 wrote: Ever noticed how everyone in theatre is dressed exactly like the kitchen staff????? hmmm something to think about there. (pssstt...the puffy little caps are the give away) They wear green because copious amounts of blood appear black on them and not freak out relatives when they go to tell them the patient hasn't made It,

Either she's logged in but not talking.......or she has squatters moved in while she's away.

Hope all goes well.

When I told Oscar about my pending op. wondering if she had a contact number for a member here, she said she had lost the new number from this member but she would put a thread up. Perhaps the member would read it and make contact with me. I asked Oscar not to bother as I doubted that the person would read it anyway, and I wasn't sure about spouting about me 'ospital visit on an open forum ! But Oscar did it anyway ! I must say that I am so surprised with all the posts in answer to the OP, and I thank you all for your leg pulling (:yh_rotfl oops ! ), it has made me laugh ! :wah:

I must say that I am apprehensive about the op. it should be 14 November for the first hip and they reckon I will be in hospital for 5 days, and then some time after that for the other one. The descriptions in some of the posts are pretty gruesome and even though I have an idea of what the surgeon will be doing, to see it written down on here by people with experience has scared me to death !!! I do know that the 'ball with it's stem' has to be hammered into the centre of the thigh bone (femur), and I was trying to discard that from my thoughts, but somebody writes all about a patient watching somebody using a lump hammer for heaven's sake ! That aside, I feel rather moved by your good wishes and I thank you so much for that.

Hey spotibus what's this about not permitting Thorntons in hospitals? :-3 They are my favourite chocs, particularly the dark chocs ! How very dare they ! :-5

I don't know about iPods, but I will try to find out if I will be allowed my laptop in there, otherwise I will be offline for about a week ! Can I really survive or will I be overcome with withdrawal symptoms ?

Being a bit of a whimp, I'm not looking forward to post operation as I know I shall be in a lot of pain for a while, however it will hopefully be worth it as I should be a lot more able to walk, and without all the pain, and it will be nice to be able to go for a walk with my husband, without being in a wheelchair or on a battery mobility buggy !

Once again thank you all very much for your posts and your good wishes. I will try to keep you posted.

G#Gill;1372412 wrote: Hey spotibus what's this about not permitting Thorntons in hospitals? :-3 They are my favourite chocs, particularly the dark chocs ! How very dare they ! :-5One can only hope that Up North they're (as usual) twenty years behind the times when it comes to health fads. The down-side is your hospital lunch will alternate between tripe onions mash and black pudding onions mash, in which case the box of Thorntons afterwards is essential.

G#Gill;1372412 wrote: When I told Oscar about my pending op. wondering if she had a contact number for a member here, she said she had lost the new number from this member but she would put a thread up. Perhaps the member would read it and make contact with me. I asked Oscar not to bother as I doubted that the person would read it anyway, and I wasn't sure about spouting about me 'ospital visit on an open forum ! But Oscar did it anyway ! I must say that I am so surprised with all the posts in answer to the OP, and I thank you all for your leg pulling (:yh_rotfl oops ! ), it has made me laugh ! :wah:

I must say that I am apprehensive about the op. it should be 14 November for the first hip and they reckon I will be in hospital for 5 days, and then some time after that for the other one. The descriptions in some of the posts are pretty gruesome and even though I have an idea of what the surgeon will be doing, to see it written down on here by people with experience has scared me to death !!! I do know that the 'ball with it's stem' has to be hammered into the centre of the thigh bone (femur), and I was trying to discard that from my thoughts, but somebody writes all about a patient watching somebody using a lump hammer for heaven's sake ! That aside, I feel rather moved by your good wishes and I thank you so much for that.

Hey spotibus what's this about not permitting Thorntons in hospitals? :-3 They are my favourite chocs, particularly the dark chocs ! How very dare they ! :-5

I don't know about iPods, but I will try to find out if I will be allowed my laptop in there, otherwise I will be offline for about a week ! Can I really survive or will I be overcome with withdrawal symptoms ?

Being a bit of a whimp, I'm not looking forward to post operation as I know I shall be in a lot of pain for a while, however it will hopefully be worth it as I should be a lot more able to walk, and without all the pain, and it will be nice to be able to go for a walk with my husband, without being in a wheelchair or on a battery mobility buggy !

Once again thank you all very much for your posts and your good wishes. I will try to keep you posted.


I was rather over-egging the cake so to speak, the poor lady is in her seventies and has osteoporosis so using a lump hammer would have been over the top - and at least you wont have to watch the surgeon making a bodge of it :p

Definitely meant it about the exercises though - skip those at your peril young lady!

May all the spirits shine on you whilst you are there and all the angels watch over you as you recover :-6

G#Gill;1372412 wrote: When I told Oscar about my pending op. wondering if she had a contact number for a member here, she said she had lost the new number from this member but she would put a thread up. Perhaps the member would read it and make contact with me. I asked Oscar not to bother as I doubted that the person would read it anyway, and I wasn't sure about spouting about me 'ospital visit on an open forum ! But Oscar did it anyway ! I must say that I am so surprised with all the posts in answer to the OP, and I thank you all for your leg pulling (:yh_rotfl oops ! ), it has made me laugh ! :wah:

I must say that I am apprehensive about the op. it should be 14 November for the first hip and they reckon I will be in hospital for 5 days, and then some time after that for the other one. The descriptions in some of the posts are pretty gruesome and even though I have an idea of what the surgeon will be doing, to see it written down on here by people with experience has scared me to death !!! I do know that the 'ball with it's stem' has to be hammered into the centre of the thigh bone (femur), and I was trying to discard that from my thoughts, but somebody writes all about a patient watching somebody using a lump hammer for heaven's sake ! That aside, I feel rather moved by your good wishes and I thank you so much for that.

Hey spotibus what's this about not permitting Thorntons in hospitals? :-3 They are my favourite chocs, particularly the dark chocs ! How very dare they ! :-5

I don't know about iPods, but I will try to find out if I will be allowed my laptop in there, otherwise I will be offline for about a week ! Can I really survive or will I be overcome with withdrawal symptoms ?

Being a bit of a whimp, I'm not looking forward to post operation as I know I shall be in a lot of pain for a while, however it will hopefully be worth it as I should be a lot more able to walk, and without all the pain, and it will be nice to be able to go for a walk with my husband, without being in a wheelchair or on a battery mobility buggy !

Once again thank you all very much for your posts and your good wishes. I will try to keep you posted.


If they don't let you have The Thorntons, I will ask them to re-direct them to your home. Either that or I will smuggle them In my pants :wah:

I can't see what the problem Is because I can't see any difference between you having chocs In hospital and me having coco pops In my locker when I was In hospital recently.

Please don't worry Gill.... my old neighbour was filled with dread and apprehension about his hip replacement and he kept putting It off for years. He says he felt no pain and was so surprised at how smoothly It all went that he agreed right away to have the other hip replaced. You will have some dull aching afterwards but they will control that with pain relief.

Don't forget to let me know when you are going In and which hospital.

spot;1372413 wrote: One can only hope that Up North they're (as usual) twenty years behind the times when it comes to health fads. The down-side is your hospital lunch will alternate between tripe onions mash and black pudding onions mash, in which case the box of Thorntons afterwards is essential. I was In Frenchay recently and the food was marvellous. The best was braised liver with mashed potato.

The food was so good that I always asked for seconds.

Thinking of you, Gill. :-4

I have a friend who has had both replaced. She wishes she'd done it sooner.

Good luck Gill.

oscar;1372419 wrote: I was In Frenchay recently and the food was marvellous. The best was braised liver with mashed potato.

The food was so good that I always asked for seconds.


Do you know, liver onions mash was my third option but I edited it out because I didn't think anyone would believe me. It has, I understand from those who've gone ethnic enough to try, a unique flavour, but they say the same about toasted mealie worms.

ummm overboard now spot ...reign in .

flopstock;1372427 wrote: I have a friend who has had both replaced. She wishes she'd done it sooner.

Good luck Gill.


Thank you all for your kind messages and encouragement , and since my last post thanks Bryn, Aftr, and Flopstock - yes I'm having both replaced as well but they are doing the worst one first ! I really can't wait for it all to be over now. :-5

Spotibus you are a stirrer grrrrrrrrrrrr, hospital food has improved greatly since Edwardian times, and there is a very varied selection and daily choice now ! Although I haven't had to go to hospital for myself since my teens, I have visited others in hospital and been pleasantly surprised at the quality and choice offered each day !

Aaah, so it's hip replacement? That's a little less horrifying than having a leg amputated. I've known several people that have had knee replacement surgery and they've all been thrilled afterward.

I got the address of the hospital and time schedule me old ducks and will send those Thorntons... dark of course.

There Is every possibility that I can get up to visit between those days so no hiding under the bed when you see my car pull up In the car park.

I am only coming to poke you In sensitive places and embarrass you In front of your doctor. Tis Oscar's duty.

Wishing you all the very best, Gill :-6

Gill, I hope you know that I wish you the best! Any of my customers that had it done all said the same thing. They wished they had done it sooner. Do what you are told and you will be just fine.

Wishing you all the best and a quick recovery

kayleneaussie;1372532 wrote: Wishing you all the best and a quick recovery


Lovely to see you here Kay

Thanks Snooze, Theia, Peg and Kay for your good wishes.

Hi Kay, long time no see. I hope you are OK, and your family. Yes I have noticed you in the arcade nickin' the top slot ! :sneaky: :yh_rotfl Addict !!! :p

G#Gill;1372543 wrote: Thanks Snooze, Theia, Peg and Kay for your good wishes.

Hi Kay, long time no see. I hope you are OK, and your family. Yes I have noticed you in the arcade nickin' the top slot ! :sneaky: :yh_rotfl Addict !!! :p


ha ha thank goodness you are going into hospital now I can nick more games:guitarist

kayleneaussie;1372544 wrote: ha ha thank goodness you are going into hospital now I can nick more games:guitarist


Charming ! I'm sure you didn't mean that to sound like it did !

Is that all you have to say to me ? I did ask after you and your family after all .........perhaps you would rather send me a PM - I don't mind. Take care Mrs

no Gill I was just having a joke with you but seems you have taken it the wrong way..hope the op goes ok you will be a new woman once you have healed...now back to the arcade with me so I dont go upsetting people:-5

kayleneaussie;1372551 wrote: you will be a new woman once you have healed...Technically speaking, if they've started recycling the implants, she could become as many as 1.085 new women by the time she's sent to physiotherapy.