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complete novice
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 Posted - 05 Jan 2016 : 12:09:51 AM
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I know it's been years since I've posted though I do have a read, I was wondering if Pop was still around, I remember her posting she was having some problems with her hip and have been checking to see if she has posted an update but I've not seen anything.
If you do see this Pop I hope everything went ok
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Kharidian
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Posted - 05 Jan 2016 : 08:48:07 AM
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This forum is so quiet now, and as such it is difficult to remember when people posted last. I hope Pop and everyone else is well.
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Kharidian (Prince Sadik x Khiri)........ Alkara Cassino (H Tobago x Rose Aboud)
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FireLight
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Posted - 05 Jan 2016 : 12:40:34 PM
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I was thinking about Pop the other day as OH needs a new hip. Also wondering if she ever sorted her strange weeds out!  |
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complete novice
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Posted - 05 Jan 2016 : 9:29:52 PM
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Hi Firelight, I seem to remember if she grazed the area quite hard in the spring they didn't grow much as the horses would eat them when they were young and tender but if they're left they get quite woody, at least that's what I found with mine.
I've got to have a new hip too but I remember Pop's had almost crumbled away and was in a very bad way, I hope your OH's op goes ok, do you have any idea how long he will have to wait? |
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Fee
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Posted - 05 Jan 2016 : 10:22:33 PM
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I think I have this strange weed now too. One paddock that I keep for Po incase her weight drops was covered and the rest which aren't left at any point were clear. To add further concern Po became very ill this summer with acute breathing difficulties and I did suspect this weed??
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Mrs DJ
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complete novice
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Posted - 05 Jan 2016 : 11:13:14 PM
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| I wouldn't like to say Fee as I've found mine and my friends horses won't touch it when it grows but they have all eaten it when it's young without any ill effects but like us humans they are all different and react differently to some things, I hope she's ok now. |
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FireLight
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Posted - 06 Jan 2016 : 2:12:58 PM
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| Sorry to hear you are in the dodgy hip brigade Complete Novice. OH can have his hip within 3 months if he can sort out his work. Self employed in a very specialised industry is not very good when trying to keep customers happy! So realistically it will be longer. |
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SuziQ
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Posted - 07 Jan 2016 : 7:50:04 PM
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| I did my knee in 8 weeks ago, Im really lucky to have great family and friends to help me and as the nice physio was kind enough to say..you still 'just about' have age on your side! So y total sympathy to those suffering with hips and knees its awful! |
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complete novice
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Posted - 08 Jan 2016 : 12:46:58 AM
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Firelight though it's me that needs the op it'll be OH that will be doing all the nursing and like your OH is self employed in a fairly specialized field, by the time he's finished looking after the horses, dogs and me it'll be another 'field' he'll be specialised in lol.
SuziQ sorry to hear about your knee though glad age is on your side if only just, I hope you make a speedy recovery. |
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debs
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Posted - 08 Jan 2016 : 06:37:10 AM
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We have that weed in our fields, in fact it's in so many as I ride I can see it everywhere! We've lived her over 20 years and never put anything on our fields so loathe to start now.....
I have a vague recollection of seeing a post on FB by Pop but can't remember when... |
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moatside
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debs
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complete novice
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Posted - 09 Jan 2016 : 3:06:04 PM
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Thank you for letting us know Moatside, if you speak to her again would you say hi please, I often wonder how she's getting on and remember what a brilliant job she did rescuing Maddy even when she was putting her own safety at risk on several occasions.
A very brave lady. |
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moatside
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Pop
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Posted - 10 Jan 2016 : 08:07:07 AM
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Hello
Hello Complete Novice, so sorry to hear about your Hip, it’s not funny eh?
The weed things continue to bug me, I’m not sure if the horses eat them, sheep wont, but if the land is well grazed, they don’t get a hold, if you leave/rest it, they just go wild. I’ve tried pulling them up but after a while they make my chest go tight and also make me sleepy.
My Hip issue is not going well really, I was told of its urgency but when I got to see the Surgeon he said that he would not take it away until he knew what had caused it, on the basis that he could not put it back, but when they did that investigation, I still had 3 different opinions on the cause. Then followed a series of reason why it should be delayed which were absolutely ridiculous. They included me being “too young”, that “after the operation I would never be able to ride again”, that I would be “very disappointed with its flexibility, in comparison to the other leg where I can put my foot behind my head”: it just went on and on.
So the Surgeon says I should try to survive on a few Steroid injections a year, and another Doctor at the same hospital in the same department says I should man up and just have it done. So I have an appointment to discuss things with the doctor says no and the other who says absolutely now yes.
I arrive, a little early, they are running late, I’m chilled about that; eventually a lady calls my name and indicates that I should follow her, I do. She walks like a teenage boy, bottoms of feet never leave the ground causing a shuffling movement, her shoulders are slumped forward causing her to appear to have curvature of the spine and extraordinarily long arms. She has the same vocabulary as a teenage boy which is little better than grunting. Anyway, I sit and wait in a small examination room.
10 mins pass by. A nurse comes in, she doesn’t look at me, marches to the bed, drops her kit (which I recognised as a kit to take blood), she prepares everything, still not looking up and finally turns to me, with a needle held like a dagger and says “Mr Howlett?”. No I say, I’m not Mr Howlett. She looks again at her paperwork, then back and me and says more forcefully “Mr Howlett?”, NO I say, I’m not Mr Howlett or Mr anyone for that matter, she turns, leaves.
10 mins pass. Then, in the doorway I see a man, his back is to the entrance, his entire right hand side is clad in plaster, his arm is out at a fight angle, a thing I thought was only for cartoons and Benny Hill. It made him wider than the doorway, and the experience was new to him, the plaster was so white, it was clearly very new. He spend a very very long time reversing carefully into the room and finally turned around, saw me, said “oh, it’s occupied” I confirm this and he left, very slowly.
10 mins pass. Then, in comes someone who seems to be a doctor. He ask how I am; and he says “why are you here?” Eh, because I have an appointment … He says “last time we met ….” I say, sorry to interrupt you but we’ve never met”, he disagrees, I’m adamant. Bit of pointless conversation, so he starts again; “How is the elbow?” he says. “Elbow is fine” I say, but the Hip is worse. “Hip?” he says, I don’t do hips, I only do Elbows and Shoulders. I end the meeting by reusing his opening statement “why are you here”.
10 mins pass, in walks the Doctor who has previously said I should man up and have the replacement. He looks at me, breaks out in a sweat, turns around and leaves.
10 mins pass, in walks the Surgeon who says I should not have it done yet. He looks at me, turns and leaves; seems he has gone off to find the other Doctor. 20 mins pass, and I am finally seated opposite both Doctors, the one who says Yes and the one who says No. I ask them to explain themselves and that’s when the really stupid stuff starts.
My original suspicion was that it was all about budget, and at a later meeting, the surgeon accidently let this slip, but at the latest appointment, he said “we will do whatever you like”, so that’s where I am. The replacement needs to be in the Spring, so that I’m completely mobile for the following winter hard labour.
I can ride (very little cantering) for about 3 months after each steroid injection, but my hip did dislodge a bit on one ride, that wasn’t nice.
Then of course there is the sever allergy issue, and autoimmune issues, which seem to attract the same amount of puzzling administration. I’m far enough forward to know I don’t have Lupus, which it seems was what they thought; and that I’m allergic to almost every product used around horses, but not actual horses, or dogs. I asked for a test to see if I was allergic to humans, they said they didn’t have one, but I’m allergic to perfume, which has much the same effect really. Don’t get me started on the administration of that, it was so bad it was hilarious.
Still on the steroids, tablets, injections, inhaler and cream … oh well.
So all is good really, have another steroid injection next week, really looking forward to that, they did the previous one in the wrong place, so trying not to get too excited, just in case.
Anyone noticed it’s been quite a wet winter so far?
Happy New Year everyone. |
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debs
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Posted - 10 Jan 2016 : 09:02:19 AM
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Oh Pop....what a nightmare!!! Glad you still have your fighting spirit though :)
I'm just off to work so a quick happy new year to you and hope we will 'see' more of you x
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Goldenmane
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Posted - 10 Jan 2016 : 11:13:42 AM
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I'm afraid I laughed, but could have cried, when I read this. Hope horses are well. X
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SuziQ
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Posted - 10 Jan 2016 : 1:39:48 PM
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| Oh Pop if it wasnt so awful it really would be funny! Our NHS used to be the envy of the world! Glad you are batteling on and yes.. very very wet. I just hate wadding at the best of times but with a dodgy knee it lends the whole experience an extra level of desperation! |
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FireLight
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Posted - 10 Jan 2016 : 6:46:37 PM
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| Oh dear Pop, what a nightmare. As though being in pain isn't bad enough but being surrounded by total incompetence is beggars belief! hope you finally get sorted, fingers crossed! |
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Pasch
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Posted - 10 Jan 2016 : 7:06:51 PM
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I am afraid I laughed,too 
Nice to read you again here xxx |
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garnet
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Posted - 10 Jan 2016 : 7:44:09 PM
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| You have to laugh or you'd cry... Happy New Year! |
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complete novice
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Posted - 10 Jan 2016 : 11:09:23 PM
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OMG, all I could do was shake my head in disbelief, I understand about the flexibility, age and reason causing it but surely none of it is set in stone some people in their 30's get a new hip and I keep reading that people who want to ride generally do though sometimes getting on and off has to be from the wrong side depending which hip has been replaced.
I hope you get something sorted sooner rather than later, do you have any idea of the average waiting time in your area? I've been advised it's likely to be 3 months so hopefully early April but I'm going to try and ask for a cancellation if possible as like you I want to give it the best chance to heal before the winter and all the lovely mud makes a comeback.
How are your herd doing, do you still have Maddie? |
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cmj
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Posted - 11 Jan 2016 : 3:30:32 PM
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Just a little bit of info for you re steroid injections (I have rheumatoid arthritis so have read expert's advice) - "steroid injections must never be given in tendons" and "there is a risk of tendon damage with steroid injections" - this is why the amount of injections that can be given is limited.
Getting an accurate diagnosis in uk can be a lottery. My lottery ticket was rubbish and they didn't volunteer tests for RA even though I sat there and said "could it be RA?" No, they said it was osteoarthritis and take ibuprofen. Luckily went to France, tests I paid for showed VERY positive bloodwork for RA. I can see my rheumatologist when I want for only 28 euros. Getting proper treatment now thankfully.
Really hope you get the treatment you need. Lots of RA people get hips and knees replaced. Better than awful pain methinks. |
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Ziadomira
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Posted - 11 Jan 2016 : 4:24:01 PM
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| I have had RA for nearly thirty years now. I take lefluonomide which has slowed down its effect. It is a derivative of Thalidomide so as they say it's an ill wind that blows no good. Had a new ankle in 2010 and a new knee in 2012. Both great improvements on hobbling round on what felt like a broken ankle and a stiff leg. Have always had brilliant treatment from the NHS, maybe I live in the right area. |
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Misshana
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Posted - 11 Jan 2016 : 6:58:56 PM
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| Regarding riding after hip replacement. My friend has had both hers replaced about 6 years ago in her late 50's. She rides most days for 1.5 hours hacking, has lessons once a week, does odd dressage test and even small wh classes. Very determined lady, also walks her dogs for around 45 mins every day, so there is life after hip replacement. Best of luck, hope you get sorted quickly |
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