It's Showerday Eve!

Simon Brooke came up with the following;:

Quoted message said:

And so the pent up excitement builds to a climax: tomorrow is the
long-awaited day! Tomorrow, I get to take my carapace off for half an
hour. Tomorrow, I get to have a _shower_. Oh, frabjous day!

And you? You all get to take the clothes-pegs off your noses!

LOL, my grandad slipped in a bath and broke his back, so be careful or wear
a helmet .. 😉

--
Paul ...
(8(|) Homer Rules ..... Doh !!!

Simon Brooke said:

And so the pent up excitement builds to a climax: tomorrow is the
long-awaited day! Tomorrow, I get to take my carapace off for half an
hour. Tomorrow, I get to have a _shower_. Oh, frabjous day!

One might think that you have been getting a little crabby..

...d

in message <[email hidden]>, David

Martin (') said:

Simon Brooke said:

And so the pent up excitement builds to a climax: tomorrow is the
long-awaited day! Tomorrow, I get to take my carapace off for half an
hour. Tomorrow, I get to have a _shower_. Oh, frabjous day!

One might think that you have been getting a little crabby..

Indeed. However, I have now shed my carapace, as crabs are wont to do,
and am all clean and sweet smelling. And, regretably, reencarapaced, but
that happens to crabs, too.

Company, atten-tion! From the left, by numbers, Remove Clothes-pegs!

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
"The result is a language that... not even its mother could
love. Like the camel, Common Lisp is a horse designed by
committee. Camels do have their uses."
;; Scott Fahlman, 7 March 1995

"Simon Brooke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Indeed. However, I have now shed my carapace, as crabs are wont to do,
and am all clean and sweet smelling. And, regretably, reencarapaced, but
that happens to crabs, too.

Company, atten-tion! From the left, by numbers, Remove Clothes-pegs!

Thanks for that. My nose was aching rather a lot ;-)

How long does the carapace have to remain, Simon?

Cheers, helen s

in message <[email hidden]>, wafflycat

('w*a*ff£y£cat*@£btco*nn£ect.com') said:

"Simon Brooke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Indeed. However, I have now shed my carapace, as crabs are wont to do,
and am all clean and sweet smelling. And, regretably, reencarapaced,
but that happens to crabs, too.

Company, atten-tion! From the left, by numbers, Remove Clothes-pegs!

Thanks for that. My nose was aching rather a lot ;-)

How long does the carapace have to remain, Simon?

I don't know.

I next see the surgeons on the 12th January. Realistically, they're not
going to say 'take off thy brace and cycle' right there and then, but it
can't be too much longer. And frankly, it can't come too soon for me.

Don't get me wrong. I'm extremely grateful. I'm extremely grateful for
all the care I've had. I'm also perfectly aware that without the brace
I'd have had to spend three months lying still on my back, instead of
only one. I'm also acutely conscious of how lucky I am to have survived
breaking my back twice without being paralysed.

But still, it's an extraordinarily uncomfortable thing to wear. You can't
eat a large meal or even take a deep breath, because there physically
isn't room in the bloody thing. And walking up the least hill I'm
struggling for breath like a dying man, because I just can't breathe
properly.

Oy vey. Not long now.

And it was my own fault, anyway.

Some time, I'm going to write a piece (or collaborate with other people
like Russ to write a piece) on the experience of breaking your back and
how you get through it. Because the first time I did it I was very, very
frightened indeed about the consequences, and so were my relatives; it
would have been nice for them to have been able to download a piece from
the Internet saying 'OK, so you've broken your back? That's bad, but
it's not as bad as you think'. I've been really lucky, twice. Russ seems
to have been really unlucky, but it sounds as if he, too, is getting his
life back together pretty well now. Everyone else who breaks their back
(and survives at all) has to be somewhere between these two extremes).

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

... a mild, inoffensive sadist...

"Simon Brooke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I don't know.

Here's hoping it won't be for much longer then.

Quoted message said:

I next see the surgeons on the 12th January. Realistically, they're not
going to say 'take off thy brace and cycle' right there and then, but it
can't be too much longer. And frankly, it can't come too soon for me.

Don't get me wrong. I'm extremely grateful. I'm extremely grateful for
all the care I've had. I'm also perfectly aware that without the brace
I'd have had to spend three months lying still on my back, instead of
only one. I'm also acutely conscious of how lucky I am to have survived
breaking my back twice without being paralysed.

Aye. An ex-work colleague of mine had to spend a year in a 'plaster bed' as
she called it, due to severe spinal problems. She was in agony the entire
time and even though she knew it would mean she would be able to walk again
afterwards, it didn't stop it being incredibly uncomfortable for the
duration.

Quoted message said:

But still, it's an extraordinarily uncomfortable thing to wear. You can't
eat a large meal or even take a deep breath, because there physically
isn't room in the bloody thing. And walking up the least hill I'm
struggling for breath like a dying man, because I just can't breathe
properly.

Oy vey. Not long now.

And it was my own fault, anyway.

Still doesn't make it any easier to get though. A cousin of mine broke his
neck diving head first into a shallow swimming pool. Sheer luck meant he
didn't end up a quadraplegic, but could go on being the loveable loon he
always was 🙂

Quoted message said:

Some time, I'm going to write a piece (or collaborate with other people
like Russ to write a piece) on the experience of breaking your back and
how you get through it. Because the first time I did it I was very, very
frightened indeed about the consequences, and so were my relatives; it
would have been nice for them to have been able to download a piece from
the Internet saying 'OK, so you've broken your back? That's bad, but
it's not as bad as you think'. I've been really lucky, twice. Russ seems
to have been really unlucky, but it sounds as if he, too, is getting his
life back together pretty well now. Everyone else who breaks their back
(and survives at all) has to be somewhere between these two extremes).

Take *extra special care* from now on Simon!

Some time ago Russ gave a URL for his hand cycle, IIRC, which looked one
mean machine.

Cheers, helen s