Category Archives: aches & pains

A Fall becomes a Set Back and a Shaggy Dog Tale

Posted on September 16, 2017 by

  Yesterday’s events brought back a memory from 1962 when I was a student nurse in Exeter. I especially recalled a young man on the orthopaedic ward who had a talent for inappropriately releasing the cot sides from his bed. … Continue reading →

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New Poem on Archive Mined

Posted on September 14, 2017 by

I’ve posted the fifth draft of a freshly minted new poem – PROPRIETARY RITES – on ARCHIVE MINED and FRESHLY SPUN.

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Falling Prey to my inner wimp

Posted on September 9, 2017 by

Although most days, of late, have tended to feature a time of sustained pain and discomfort, its manner of onset varies considerably. Sometimes an ache in the palm of the hand and fingers, or more frequently wrist, can be set … Continue reading →

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Of Conversation And Being Wallopped

Posted on August 13, 2017 by

Another shattered day, or should that be another day of shattered tiredness; perhaps a tired shattered-ness will suffice. Drained, wrung-out, exhausted; none of these quite hit the mark, although I feel quite walloped out by all of them. Just working … Continue reading →

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For These Small Mercies

Posted on July 20, 2017 by

Today’s post is unusual in that I began to write it as a normal, diary-type, blog post in which, after writing the first sentence, I recognized its potential as a poem! For that reason, it will also appear on my … Continue reading →

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just ANOTHER Day – a REAL Pain

Posted on July 4, 2017 by

Why don’t they come and release the clamps … why don’t they come and RELEASE THE CLAMPS? Stupid thing is there aren’t any clamps and, even if there were, there’s no-one around to free me from them. I’m just slowly … Continue reading →

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on the mend and back again

Posted on June 9, 2017 by

Well, I’ve got to admit that my recovery after the arthroscopy was much quicker than I’d anticipated and, within three weeks I was back to being able to walk the dog on pavement, footpath and fields almost as before the … Continue reading →

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