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Bluepete

04-05-12, 09:10 AM

Feckin feckin feckers. Thieving feckin car thieves.

About ten years ago, I chased a stolen car around and had a right good scrap with the fecker after he abandoned it. During that scrap, I was kicked on the tip of my elbow. It broke a bit of bone off the tip which was quite sore. :rolleyes:

I had to scrap with him several more times when he failed to go to court, including in a loft after making a hole in the ceiling to climb up 'cos he was standing on the loft hatch. Gravity works really, really well dont'cha'know!

To add icing to the cake, the **** was convicted of the TWOC and assault but because he was a work shy, benefit claiming oxygen thief, he didn't have to pay any compensation to me. (I always donate these awards to a charity. I don't want their money)

A few years later, it needed a cortisone injection to settle it down and all was well.

About three months ago, the elbow flared up again and I had another injection. Now, I don't know if I'm a big softie or not, but by Christ, it hurt! I couldn't sleep for three nights, but it soon went away and all was well again.

Now, the pain in my elbow is really, really bad. I've lost loads of range of movement and can barely ride my bike (no clever comments about no change please)

So, a trip to the docs this morning (just what I needed after a week of nights) and I have to buy a very snazzy wrist support and arm strap thingumy.

I can't take Ibuprofen 'cos it makes me sick, so no anti-inflammatory drugs.

I'm basically going to have to live with it!

As a little aside that cheered me up no end, I was at work a few weeks ago when I had to deal with a lad. He gave the name of the pest who broke my elbow. PNC showed he was wanted for failing to go to court, so 'cuffs were rapidly slapped on.

He wasn't the lad, but a mate of his as it turned out, he'd given false details.

The best bit? When he heard my name, he went pale and said,

"You're not PC Phillips who used to work in Moston are you?"

Nice to know I have a reputation, even in a town like Manchester!

Right!

Rant over, sorry if it's a bit rambling, I'm severely sleep deprived and a pint of excellent home brew IPA to the worse, so apologies.

PS,

Freeman of the land who wanted a scrap a last set of nights has realised the error of his ways and has changed his plea to guilty of assault on me and speeding.

Nominations for a respectable charity should a court award be forthcoming please!

Pete ;) tired, bit pished and feeling old.

maviczap

04-05-12, 09:14 AM

Go to bed Pete!

Charity suggestion, PC Rathband Blue lamp appeal or your local Air Ambulance

Justice prevails eventually

Mr Speirs

04-05-12, 09:15 AM

There is a respectable charity by the name of Mr Speirs needs a new bike.
I'm in no way affiliated at all but think I, I mean he, deserves it.

Bibio

04-05-12, 09:15 AM

that sounds sore m8. have you asked to doc to send you for xrays to see if there is something floating about in there?

Geodude

04-05-12, 09:20 AM

Is it not time for a bit of 'off duty' work dressed like the below ;)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EaMU6-xD6UA/Th84bOLRZcI/AAAAAAAAD4s/8Ne_1r6ss4Q/s1600/Sylvester-Stallone_Judge_l.jpg

Greatest respect for the job you guys do and +1 mav

Teejayexc

04-05-12, 09:26 AM

I can't take Ibuprofen 'cos it makes me sick, so no anti-inflammatory drugs.

Plenty of other NSAIDs out there Pete:
http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Anti-inflammatory-Painkillers.htm

I have arthritic joints and like you I'm allergic to Ibruprofen. Surprised yer quack didn't tell you about the alternatives?

Owenski

04-05-12, 09:29 AM

The best bit? When he heard my name, he went pale and said,

"You're not PC Phillips who used to work in Moston are you?"

LOL, I bet you struted around the station for a while after that one.

Bluepete

04-05-12, 09:31 AM

TJ,

I've had problems with most of them. What with broken knees (work injury) hands (work injury) neck problems from getting rammed at work and so on, I've had loads od NSAIDS but I just can't stomach them . The first warning line on your link is me.

Pete ;)

timwilky

04-05-12, 09:35 AM

Reads to me that you are trying to work up to a sickie;) Have you seen the long range weather forecast and found some nice riding weather?:riding:

Damm pubic servants with their early retirements and generous sick leave:plod: If you are not capable of doing a front line job. Move to the back office but keep working till you drop like the rest of us have to.

Glad to know it is not just me intolerant to ipuprofen. Still it means the quack just shoves tramadol on my repeat whenever I need it.

just jesting mate. Hope the elbow heals.

dizzyblonde

04-05-12, 09:56 AM

Second cortisone injection never worked in my shoulder either Pete. I swear it made it worse!

I feel for you, I spend most mornings undoing last nights sleeping shape. Usually takes an hour for my arm to relieve itself of pins and needles and my shoulder to untwist and go back to somewhere near comfortable.

If you push for alternative drugs they will cave in.

I can't take any anti inflamatory drug, nor opiate based drugs either, so all tramadols, ibuprofen, diclofenac, fuzzy wozzy sick, burning tummy, dizzy head stuff are all OUT. But then I have to wear a nice red wrist band in hospital, I'm extremely sensitive to them all.

Amadeus

04-05-12, 10:03 AM

I believe that relatively small, repetative movements of the arm can help. Get a grib of something and move your hand about 8" for a few minutes at a time.

As for the charidee, either Save the cow, PC Rathbone (the offender would hate their money going to such a cause) charity - Woozles efforts, or Air Ambulance (in memory of Reeder)

Bluepete

04-05-12, 10:08 AM

just jesting mate. Hope the elbow heals.

Tim, read "Winsor part 2" and you'll soon realise the days of Gene Hunt and easy money are looooooong gone. It's proposed that a Warranted Officer, ie, constables, can be made redundant. That would make us employees and subject to all employees rights, including the right to strike.

New years eve without us anyone?

Good luck.

Pete ;)

dizzyblonde

04-05-12, 10:12 AM

I believe that relatively small, repetative movements of the arm can help. Get a grib of something and move your hand about 8" for a few minutes at a time.

)

So what you are saying is, that BP should don a lycra leotard and do some Pliates? :smt119

Which happens to not be a bad idea, it works wonders....the pilates, not the leotard;)

Geodude

04-05-12, 10:17 AM

So what you are saying is, that BP should don a lycra leotard and do some Pliates? :smt119

Which happens to not be a bad idea, it works wonders....the pilates, not the leotard;)
I dont know dizz, i think seeing pete in a leotard would ease any pain i was in :p

Amadeus

04-05-12, 10:18 AM

So what you are saying is, that BP should don a lycra leotard and do some Pliates? :smt119

Ummm, well... I'd donate £10 to (pretty much) any nominated charidee if BP posted a photo of himself in just a leotard and helmet... Whether it makes him any better, well, I think I'd be laughing too much to care! :-)

Amadeus

04-05-12, 10:19 AM

I dont know dizz, i think seeing pete in a leotard would ease any pain i was in :p

See, it's got the popular vote. BP - you can't refuse now! :-)

Bri w

04-05-12, 10:21 AM

Poor Petey Weetey... does your armie warmie hurt? Aw diddums do...

Seriously, not funny trying to live with pain like that. A good physio can work wonders Pete - there's a really good one in Urmston, and another the corner of Washway Road and the road that heads off towards Ashton-on-Mersey.

Was it you that turned up in a big shiney Range Rover to my RTA the bottom of Mile End Road in Flixton a few years back, then grassed me up to the Mrs that I'd only done it to avoid her cooking?

Littlepeahead

04-05-12, 10:27 AM

I feel your pain - actually I'm feeling my own too - all this damp weather has made my elbow sore as hell this last few weeks.

I find Naproxen helps if I take it with a milk based drink like hot chocolate.

Definitely worth seeing a specialist I reckon. My wonderful elbow surgeon is probably too far south for you, but they all seem to know each other so if you'd like me to ask him to recommend someone in your area then I'm happy to email him.

punyXpress

04-05-12, 11:11 AM

Far be it for me to teach an old Frat in blue new tricks, BUT . .
Line 3 : " I had to scrap with him several more times when he failed to go to court, including in a loft after making a hole in the ceiling to climb up 'cos he was standing on the loft hatch. Gravity works really, really well dont'cha'know! "
Should have cut through the loft hatch & when he fell through, given him a good kicking ( you still wear boots in your Battenburg poncemobile, dont you ? )
" Those unfortunate injuries were sustained when he fell through the hatch, M'lud "

Teejayexc

04-05-12, 11:26 AM

I believe that relatively small, repetative movements of the arm can help. Get a grib of something and move your hand about 8" for a few minutes at a time.

:toss: :toss: :toss:

Thought all the boys in blue did that anyway :p

Jayneflakes

04-05-12, 11:37 AM

I have nothing to add to this thread, other than...

:toss: :toss: :toss:

Thought all the boys in blue did that anyway :p

Snigger!

Sorry your elbow hurts Pete, being a copper is not a job I could do, what with my fondness for Columbian Marching Powder, hookers and more Marching Powder! :smt119

Bibio

04-05-12, 11:48 AM

Sorry your elbow hurts Pete, being a copper is not a job I could do, what with my fondness for Columbian Marching Powder, hookers and more Marching Powder! :smt119

dont let that put you off as half the force is on it anyway and the other half is on mothers little helpers :plod:

Richie

04-05-12, 03:27 PM

Hope you heal and have pain free nights soon bud.

Now man the feck up, and get back to work :0)

andrewsmith

04-05-12, 09:51 PM

I believe that relatively small, repetative movements of the arm can help. Get a grib of something and move your hand about 8" for a few minutes at a time.

Snigger
8"girth???? ;) :plod:
Only a few minutes

*Runs for Alston*

As for the charidee, either Save the cow, PC Rathbone (the offender would hate their money going to such a cause) charity - Woozles efforts, or Air Ambulance (in memory of Reeder)

Any of those

Seeing I know what Opiates do I can concede the pains better than the meds.

Pete fancying a bimble North Any time soon?

Bluepete

05-05-12, 05:39 PM

Pete fancying a bimble North Any time soon?

Yep, but not yet, I'm busy pretending to be Robocop!

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/2012-05-05183459.jpg

Pete ;)

andrewsmith

05-05-12, 05:45 PM

Bloody Hell

you on yard duties then?

dizzyblonde

05-05-12, 08:34 PM

Oh poor petey poo. My mum was strapped up like that for a fair while, then they came and cut groovy marks round her elbow and operated, not so much Robocop, more, Frankenstein....least she can hold a cup of tea in her hand now!

yorkie_chris

06-05-12, 10:22 AM

dont let that put you off as half the force is on it anyway and the other half is on mothers little helpers :plod:

:smt082

Coffee ... screen...

Pair of idiots :smt082

Bluepete

15-05-12, 08:20 PM

Well those feckin straps were a waste of money!

All they did was make the matter worse, so back to the docs.

Now correctly diagnosed with nerve damage requiring a referral to a specialist for a scan and so on.

I'm seriously considering kicking up a storm about my GP's surgery. Three docs saying "tennis elbow" and all wrong. Months of unnecessary pain and cost for the straps, time off after cortisone and a private physio who took about ten seconds to diagnose correctly.

On the back of that, I insisted on seeing the GP today and getting her to test for radial nerve damage and bingo! Ooooo, "that's not tennis elbow". No **** Sherlock!

Gotta wait until July for the first appointment with the specialist.

Can't ride at all and luckily, my BMW job car is an auto.

I'm with Metalmonkey. Doctors are poo and paid too much. (average £110,000)

Pete ;)

andrewsmith

15-05-12, 08:39 PM

Glad to here you've got a diagnosis

I should have done that about my GP and the physio service

Bibio

15-05-12, 08:51 PM

nice one Pete.

now where should i start about quacks...... :smt094

Red Herring

15-05-12, 08:54 PM

....
I'm with Metalmonkey. Doctors are poo and paid too much. (average £110,000)

Pete ;)

Oh dear Pete, looks like the Windsor report isn't the only fiction you've been reading. If doctors really earnt that I wouldn't be sat here.....

Milky Bar Kid

15-05-12, 09:13 PM

I am going back to GP tomorrow as my knee is getting considerably worse - started locking again. Prob going to do same as usual - fob me off and prescribe me more painkillers but going to ask to be re-referred and get it scanned again.

Bluefish

15-05-12, 09:17 PM

Doctors, :rolleyes:

Bluefish

15-05-12, 09:19 PM

Pay for doctors

This page describes the pay for doctors from 1st April 2011.

Doctors in training

Doctors in training earn a basic salary and will be paid a supplement if they work more than 40 hours and/or work outside the hours of 7am-7pm Monday to Friday.

In the most junior hospital trainee post (Foundation Year 1) the basic starting salary is £22,412. This increases in Foundation Year 2 to £27,798. For a doctor in specialist training the basic starting salary is £29,705. If the doctor is contracted to work more than 40 hours and/or to work outside 7am-7pm Monday to Friday, they will receive an additional supplement which will normally be between 20% and 50% of basic salary. This supplement is based on the extra hours worked above a 40 hour standard working week and the intensity of the work.

Specialty doctor and associate specialist (2008) (SAS doctors)

Doctors in the new specialty doctor grade earn between £36,807 and £70,126. See www.nhsemployers.org/sas (http://www.nhsemployers.org/sas) for more details.
Consultants

Consultants can earn a basic salary of between £74,504 and £100,446 per year, dependent on length of service. Local and national clinical excellence awards may be awarded subject to meeting the necessary criteria.
General practitioners

Many general practitioners (GPs) are self employed and hold contracts, either on their own or as part of a partnership, with their local primary care trust (PCT). The profit of GPs varies according to the services they provide for their patients and the way they choose to provide these services.

Salaried GPs employed directly by PCTs earn between £53,781 to £81,158, dependent on, among other factors, length of service and experience.

metalmonkey

15-05-12, 09:25 PM

Bluepete

15-05-12, 09:43 PM

That link is for PCT salaried doctors. A partner in a GP practice earns the 100k. The three i saw are partners.

Red Herring

16-05-12, 03:17 PM

My Mrs is a partner in a GP practice.
She works half time with one of the other partners so the two of them in effect "job share" and do the same number of hours between them as one of the other three full time partners do.
This equates for my wife to about 32 hours a week.
For that she earns about £40k depending on how good a year it has been.
The reason the government says it is more is that a few years ago they very craftily gave the GP's the "employers" contributions for the pension scheme and told them to pay it themselves, and then told everybody it was a GP pay rise!
GP's also have to pay their own medical defence insurance (circa £6k)
Most GPs also pay for Locum insurance. Remember, they are self employed so if they go sick or can't get to work their partners insist on them paying someone else to do their job for them....
For the past three years the practice hasn't seen any increase in contributions from the now defunct PCT, despite the government forcing the practice to increase salaries to it's staff (staff doesn't include the doctors).
The practice is responsible for some 25 staff, that's responsible as in it pays them as an employer with all the associated costs and would have to fund redundancies if the practice folded.
The practice leases it's building, which costs approximately £100k per year, and it's still got 20 years to go on the lease. This is currently paid by the NHS, but if the practice folded the partners would be individually liable for paying it off.....
GP practices are not Ltd companies, so if it goes bang we lose out house....

So basically my wife trained for nine years to become a GP and now finds herself in the position where the practice nurse earns more than her for less hours with none of the responsibility.....

I'm not knocking nurses, but don't slag off doctors pay unless you know what they do to earn it!

Milky Bar Kid

16-05-12, 03:27 PM

dizzyblonde

16-05-12, 03:34 PM

Milky Bar Kid

16-05-12, 03:37 PM

BP, the docs told my mother several times she had tennis elbow, and had straps etc blah blah.

She was eventually diagnosed with some weird problem that was related to her shoulder, and had some sort of nerve damage which was operated on within her elbow.

I'm sure you'll eventually get the correct diagnosis, but just take note, it may not be yer elbow at all.

At this point, I will also state that sometimes doctors don't know their ar$e from their elbow :-s

Hear hear! When I had my shoulder injury, some of the worst pain was in my elbow put that was apparently due to the bleeding and pressure that was being put on my nerves!

Also, I went to a Dr who stated, and I quote - "I can never remember the difference between ligaments and tendons, I should practise my anatomy more...".

dizzyblonde

16-05-12, 03:44 PM

Also, I went to a Dr who stated, and I quote - "I can never remember the difference between ligaments and tendons, I should practise my anatomy more...".

That gives a whole load of confidence does that!

The surgeon who gave me my second cortisone injection demanded to know why I moved my arm in such a perculiar manner.....well it could be something to do with the fact that it doesn't work properly stupid man.
My ex asked me who it was that did it and he said

''oh, him, thats the same bloke who put me back together after the crash, and had to cheek to ask me why I walked with a limp!!'' :eek::eek:

May I add, the barstard put him back in such a way that his leg was shorter than the other, and it went un-noticed until his hip was replaced.....several years later!

Thankfully he was retired not long after injecting me,,,,,I'll never forget my initial reservations at seeing a surgeon that had such an obvious 'boozers nose'!

Teejayexc

16-05-12, 03:50 PM

....
GP practices are not Ltd companies, so if it goes bang we lose out house....

Ltd companies don't mean your house is safe nowadays. The law was changed to make directors responsible for company debt.

Now bankruptcy is anothe matter.

Milky Bar Kid

16-05-12, 03:52 PM

That gives a whole load of confidence does that!

The surgeon who gave me my second cortisone injection demanded to know why I moved my arm in such a perculiar manner.....well it could be something to do with the fact that it doesn't work properly stupid man.
My ex asked me who it was that did it and he said

''oh, him, thats the same bloke who put me back together after the crash, and had to cheek to ask me why I walked with a limp!!'' :eek::eek:

May I add, the barstard put him back in such a way that his leg was shorter than the other, and it went un-noticed until his hip was replaced.....several years later!

Thankfully he was retired not long after injecting me,,,,,I'll never forget my initial reservations at seeing a surgeon that had such an obvious 'boozers nose'!

LOL! That's what I thought too...even if he wasn't sure, I'm not convinced he should be telling his patients that!!

Red Herring

16-05-12, 04:59 PM

At this point, I will also state that sometimes doctors don't know their ar$e from their elbow :-s

Fair point, and the same can be said of police officers, teachers and just about any other profession that has to make difficult calls based on vague information.... I will however bear your comment in mind the next time I hear my wife telling the children to sit properly at the table.....:)

Bluefish

16-05-12, 05:14 PM

Now plumbers, we're on 100k :rolleyes:

dizzyblonde

16-05-12, 06:41 PM

Fair point, and the same can be said of police officers, teachers and just about any other profession that has to make difficult calls based on vague information.... I will however bear your comment in mind the next time I hear my wife telling the children to sit properly at the table.....:)

For sure, however there was a little joke in there...elbow, not knowing the problem.....meh never mind:roll:

Maybe its a yorkie saying, ar$e and elbow?