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WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

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Izzie
 
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Reply Wed 21 Oct, 2009 11:35 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
Hope you're knee heals quickly David.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 21 Oct, 2009 11:53 pm
@Izzie,
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
Izzie
 
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Reply Thu 22 Oct, 2009 12:03 am
@OmSigDAVID,
Glad your pains vansished quickly Very Happy

You're most welcome.
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Letty
 
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Reply Thu 22 Oct, 2009 02:31 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
David, please keep a constant check on your knee, honey. It's the way my David's problems began.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 01:32 am
@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 ?
dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 01:51 am
@msolga,
Car fixed!!!! Very Happy


Over $500 Crying or Very sad
msolga
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 01:57 am
@dlowan,
Quote:
Car fixed!!!! Very Happy


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

Quote:
Over $500 Crying or Very sad


Shocked

A bit of belt tightening coming up, hey?

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

Sigh.

OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 02:32 am
@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:

Car fixed!!!! Very Happy


Over $500 Crying or Very sad
Congratulations on your re-instatement to motorism





David
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 06:02 am
@msolga,
My car is 17 years old!!!

It's old enough to have sex!!
Letty
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 07:51 am
@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

OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 12:09 pm
@Letty,
Letty wrote:
Quote:
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:
Quote:

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:
Quote:
Don't you know that Izzie is magic?
That is a very deep subject.





David
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msolga
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 04:50 pm
@dlowan,
Quote:
My car is 17 years old!!!

It's old enough to have sex!!


Laughing

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 Wink
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msolga
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 04:58 pm
@Letty,
Quote:
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


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!
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 05:17 pm
@msolga,
msolga wrote:

Quote:
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


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.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 05:24 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
And I still hear that sound....
msolga
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 05:51 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
Quote:
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!
msolga
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 05:53 pm
@ossobuco,
Yes. And it's not in my head! Laughing
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 05:59 pm
@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.
msolga
 
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Reply Fri 23 Oct, 2009 06:15 pm
@ossobuco,
Good luck, osso.
I know quite a bit about these "sometimes there/sometimes not there" noises! Rolling Eyes
msolga
 
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Reply Fri 13 Nov, 2009 01:50 am
@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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