Winterisation early

Hi folks,

Just a line to say that our Symbol (Winnie)   is now in hibernation for the winter, wheels off, tax back, water drained and batteries on trickle charge once a week.

Reason.... I tripped down a step and ruptured the quad tendon in the right knee so an operation was called for to repair the tendon with approx 3 months out of action. On the slow mend now so I should have a bit more time to come on here.

Already planning next year with a trip into Europe on the cards. 

Best regards and watch your step, this is common to people over 50   

Mike  

Hope you recover soon and enjoy your travels.

Mike,

Bad luck on the knee and all the best for a speedy recovery. At least if it had to happen then it could have been a much worse time of year. Up here in the NE of Scotland we will be expecting frosts soon. We are planning our last trip of the year to the W coast later this week. You will remember that our Symbol was new to us this year, and we had no previous motorhome experience. We have had a great year and the old girl (that's the Symbol not the wife) has done nearly 4000 trouble-free miles. Can't wait till next year.

Best rgds

Mikebro

Mike,

Speedy recovery over the winter.  

Knees are dodgy things so my advice is to DO NOT take painkillers until AFTER you have stopped doing something that hurts your knee.

Pain is what tells you that, in the case of a knee joint, you are doing more damage.

Best regards,
 
Ian

Thanks chaps for the good wishes.

Ian you seem to know about this, I am in a "Cricket Pad Splint" for 2 more weeks so I cant move my knee although the splint is next to useless as it keeps slipping down as I move about. Got to go back some as I complained about the splint so hope to get a new better fit one. Knee only painful when the splint slips down.

Oh well at least I had the summer.

Best regards, Mike  

Get get well soon mate, I only had a 'horse shoe tear' in my knee and I know how much that hurt and slowed me down.  You have my sympathy and best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Mike,

I do know knees and pain!  

The last time I had mine x-rayed (in the last 45 years I have seen more x-rays of my left knee than photos of my kids!) the young lass asked me how I managed to walk on it; and the answer is "With a lot of pain!"  

The tip about not taking painkillers came from my Mum who had chronic arthritis (which I have now inherited - thanks Mum!) for forty years and who only took painkillers when she had finished walking about.  As Mum lived until she was 98 years old I tend to give her advice some credence!

When I smashed up my knee I spent four months in hospital, six weeks in a spica (plaster-cast from chest to toe) and six weeks in a calliper before graduating to two sticks and back to work nine months after my motorbike accident! 

To stop the "cricket-pad" splint slipping down I recommend that you use long lengths of the old "sticking plaster" to glue it to your buttocks and the top of your thigh. 

The advantage of this method is that when you rip the sticking plaster off in two weeks time any pain from your knee will pale into insignificance!   

Best regards,
 
Ian

Who said the winter word, after a better than average summer we have had trips to Cornwall, Devon, York, Wales, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and not finished yet, Bessie just passed her mot, where have you been this year would be interested to know, all the best Johnandeva

Thanks Ian for the laugh, after what you had mine seems like nothing. When the surgeon cut my knee open to repair the tendon the kneecap was in good condition so knee caps should last, (I hope)   

Thanks all for you lovely comments and wishes, van now laid up till I get better NOT for after the winter.  

Best regards, Mike