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exxos wrote: 21 Oct 2025 17:55 As most people know, my girlfriend packs up the orders and walks to the post office to ship them off for me..

Unfortunately the past few weeks she has problems with her left knee and that it's become very painful and she's struggling to even bend her leg to walk.

So while she can still package the orders up she probably won't be able to walk to the post office anymore. I do go up once or twice a week to see her (I don't live with her). so I'll be able to post them myself, but likely only once a week

She's going to have it looked at on Friday but it is a physio hospital I think and I think they will have to likely send her for an X-ray because I don't believe it is a muscle problem, I think it is a bone problem and that could likely drag on for years with the state of how the NHS is these days :(

Her mother had to have a knee replacement and she was waiting literally years for that to be done :(

Hopefully won't be anything too drastic but either way, we probably only be able to ship out once a week for the foreseeable future.

Darklord wrote: 21 Oct 2025 18:31 I don't understand about the knee replacement though - why would that take years to be done? I
mean, once the attending doctor ordered it, it should just be a matter of scheduling it, right?

exxos wrote: 21 Oct 2025 18:38 Never-ending drama with it all... But basically the health system here is seriously strained and you basically have to wait two years for even basic operations these days. It may depend on area but around here.. good luck basically.. She should have had it done years ago and the hospital said it's the worst they have ever seen..I could write a book on it all...

Darklord wrote: 21 Oct 2025 19:24 Ugh. I had both hips replaced. I wore them out working 12.5 hour night shifts on concrete floors
for 40 years, according to the orthopedic surgeon (retired respiratory therapist - lots of walking).

(that and idiopathic avascular necrosis)

I think it was a couple of months wait on the first one and then 4 months on the 2nd one. The 2nd
one was because they won't do the surgeries that close together. Heck, I asked them to do both at
the same time but they refused. :roll:

I hope your situations get resolved soon. Will keep my fingers crossed. :)

rubber_jonnie wrote: 21 Oct 2025 21:07 Please pass on my my best wishes to Dawn.

exxos wrote: 21 Oct 2025 18:38 Never-ending drama with it all... But basically the health system here is seriously strained and you basically have to wait two years for even basic operations these days. It may depend on area but around here.. good luck basically.. She should have had it done years ago and the hospital said it's the worst they have ever seen..I could write a book on it all...