WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

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Hope you're knee heals quickly David.

Izzie wrote:

Hope you're knee heals quickly David.

Thank u, Izzie.
It was in a lot of pain for 2 days, at the knee and for 6 inches below,
accompanied with a lot of limping n hobbling,
but abruptly, the pain has vanished.

I have no idea Y.

Again, thank u for your good wishes.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Glad your pains vansished quickly Very Happy

You're most welcome.

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@OmSigDAVID,

David, please keep a constant check on your knee, honey. It's the way my David's problems began.

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@Letty,

Letty wrote:

David, please keep a constant check on your knee, honey.
It's the way my David's problems began.

Really ?
Well, actually, I was concerned that the pain exceeded more than a few minutes.
It lasted about 2 days.

May I ask what problems began ?

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@msolga,

Car fixed!!!! Very Happy

Over $500

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@dlowan,

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Car fixed!!!!

Hooray! (Hope you enjoyed a couple of day's walks, though ...)

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Over $500

A bit of belt tightening coming up, hey?

Why do these repairs (on newish cars, even) cost so much?

Sigh.

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

Car fixed!!!!

Over $500

Congratulations on your re-instatement to motorism

David

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@msolga,

My car is 17 years old!!!

It's old enough to have sex!!

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@OmSigDAVID,

David, it began with what they thought was a ruptured Baker's cyst. The fluid continued to build on his knee, and it later led to s systemic infection. From that point on, it was all down hill. Dr. Chan, who drew fluid from my knee, told one of Dave's friends that his doc had inserted an unsterile scope.

Don't you know that Izzie is magic?

Hey, Aussies. When I think of all the times that I have been ripped off by car repairs, I want to do more than grimace and grit. Mad

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@Letty,

Letty wrote:

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David, it began with what they thought was a ruptured Baker's cyst.

My trouble began with blunt force trauma:
I drove into a metal doorframe, accidentally arresting the motion
of my little rented electric car with my exposed knee.
(I did not know that my knee was unprotected by the little car.)
Did his rupture result from any blunt force trauma ?

Letty wrote:

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The fluid continued to build on his knee, and it later led to
systemic infection. From that point on, it was all down hill.
Dr. Chan, who drew fluid from my knee, told one of Dave's
friends that his doc had inserted an unsterile scope.

Something a lot like that happened to my mother a little over 100 years ago,
with catastrophic results.

Letty wrote:

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Don't you know that Izzie is magic?

That is a very deep subject.

David

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@dlowan,

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My car is 17 years old!!!

It's old enough to have sex!!

Ah, I see now. So these expensive repairs are hardly a new thing?
It's a bugger, I know. They fix/replace one part. Car goes rather nicely for a while. Then the part next to it gives up the ghost. And so on & so on .... endlessly. Been there, done that. Drove me nuts, waiting for the next inevitable drama ... I figured I'd eventually end up with the equivalent of a new car, once all the faulty parts were eventually replaced, but it didn't quite turn out like that. Neutral

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@Letty,

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Hey, Aussies. When I think of all the times that I have been ripped off by car repairs, I want to do more than grimace and grit.

It was the constant explaining the nature of the problem, to one mechanic or other, Letty. As they watched on bemused. "Well, there's this knocking, clunking noise, which appears to be coming from the left hand side, under the bonnet ...."
Then they'd take the car for a little "test drive" & say they couldn't find a single thing wrong with it! Great little car! ... only to charge you your life's savings a few weeks later, when some major major component died/expired/blew up!

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@msolga,

msolga wrote:

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Hey, Aussies. When I think of all the times that I have been ripped off by car repairs,
I want to do more than grimace and grit.

It was the constant explaining the nature of the problem, to one mechanic or other, Letty. As they watched on bemused. "Well, there's this knocking, clunking noise, which appears to be coming from the left hand side, under the bonnet ...."
Then they'd take the car for a little "test drive" & say they couldn't find a single thing wrong with it! Great little car! ... only to charge you your life's savings a few weeks later, when some major major component died/expired/blew up!

That sounds like mechanical malpractice and professional negligence.

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@OmSigDAVID,

And I still hear that sound....

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@OmSigDAVID,

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That sounds like mechanical malpractice and professional negligence.

Sadly that's the way things sometimes go when one drives an old bomb. So hard to communicate with mechanics about the problem without actually being able to diagnose it myself. I'm so glad I'm not driving an old bomb anymore, I tell you!

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@ossobuco,

Yes. And it's not in my head! Laughing

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@msolga,

I took my old bomb in for a noise and did have a lot wrong, which could have caused the noise. I like my mechanic and he found those problems after we went on a test drive (neither of us hearing it during that few miles ride).
The low rumble is back. Roger rode in my car for a bit but the noise didn't happen then. Maybe I'll ask Dys one of these days. He's car smart.

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@ossobuco,

Good luck, osso.
I know quite a bit about these "sometimes there/sometimes not there" noises! Rolling Eyes

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@msolga,

Not so much a G & G, but a rather bewildering moment, this morning ...
I was walking toward a cafe when I saw a man struggling with his wheelchair & the cafe door at the same time. He appeared to be having quite a bit of trouble managing the two. So I asked if I could help, as one does. He responded by giving me a nasty look & snarling "No!"
I felt like some misguided, patronizing "do gooder". Embarrassed

But if I hadn't offered to assist, I probably would have felt worse.
Some days it's difficult, ya know, knowing what's the right thing to do.

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