What day is this

Sitting at home with only the t.v. and computer for company may be great for some but for me it is becoming the biggest bore ever. I can only walk for short distances on crutches and am banned from driving for another 4 weeks, so the days seem to run into each other and they all seem the same. normally i woukd immerse myself in a good book but it seems that since all the problems with the drugs in hospital my attention span is reduced and i cannot concentrate. I hope that this will soon change as my books are one of the most important things in my life,speaking of which I have 2 lined up to read
The Da Vinci Code and Digital Fortress both by Dan Brown, both my Mother and H.B. have read them and raved about them so watch this space for my take.I'm sorry that my posts are short at the moment but i can't get comfortable at the computer and have to limit the time spent. I will end today with a story that was related to me by a friend, I don't know if it is true but it seems feasible.

A group of tourists were visiting the welsh villiage with the longest railway tsation name in the world and were arguimg about the pronunciation of the name, they decided to go into a resturant and ask the waitress to slowly say the name of the place, this they did and were amazed when the young waitress slowly said "Mc Donalds".
Keep the shiny side up, Ogri

Post Op Post

Ok I survived, but it was not all plain sailing, the first problem occurred as soon as i was returned from the O.R. when it was discovered that I am one of those inconsiderate people who'se bodies treat painkillers like poison. I have never had any kind of major surgery before and so have never needed high dose analgesics but it seems that if you give me morphine or any of its cousins I just absorb it but it fails to stop the pain.They give you a switch and when the green light goes on you can press the switch and recieve another dose of morphine, great in principal but not for me, until the medics figured out what was wrong I was slowly poisoning myself and would have died.
I am not over dramatising this there were people tasked with stopping me from sleeping as if I fell asleep my breathing would stop as the morphine had affected the natural breathing reflex.
Needless to say as I am sitting here typing this,with a load of hard work from a great team of nurses and doctors I am now on the road to recovery and will try to post more often .At this time I can only walk with the aid of crutches and this makes sitting at the computer uncomfortable, but hopefully soon things will improve. I will see you all soon , ogri

Big News

Well it's big news for me. On tuesday next(14/6/2005) I will be admitted to hospital for my long awaited knee replacement. I have suffered from chronic arthrytis for the past 5 years and the degeneration of my right knee is now so serious that only a total knee replacement can help. some days the pain is so bad that just walking from the house to the car is a big journey, but now the surgeon has explained that this procedure has a very high success rate and a good prognosis is indicated.
I expect to be hospitalised for 5 days and will need about 8 weeks to fully recover with initiallty greatly reduced mobility so my posts may be few and far between for a while.
To my good friends who have supported this blog I wish you all well and will be in touch with you as soon as I can. May your god (whatever that may be) go with you all ,

Ogri