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SteveW

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Well I'm currently mid way through two weeks off work and it's one hell of a bore!

 

Normally if I had this time off I'd be polishing, claying, messing about and knocking jobs off my long car to do list. Maybe even mowing the grass Lol and doing lots of driving.

 

Sadly at the moment all I can do Is watch tv, text left handed and play MW3! Im not even allowed to drive :drive:

 

Reason being I've just had elbow surgery and it's very painful I only have about ten degrees bend on the arm. Can't wait for the pain to go and go out for a spin!

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Ha ha definitely high five.

 

However your surgery sounds way more painful and serious than mine was!

 

Get well soon fella. The boredom is the killer, I've been buying stuff constantly on eBay got a list of projects as long as my leg once my arm is ok!

 

Lol

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You're not kidding, if you're anything like me you've been eagerly looking out the window and desperate to go for a drive, which isn't helped by hearing performance cars drive past: There's an original Mini, mk2 vaguely rally spec Escort, classic Impreza tubby and a silver 350 down my road alone, I'm sure they're driving past on purpose! :rant:

 

What did you do to your elbow to need surgery matey?

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Ha ha, you probably won't struggle to beat me. I'm useless, use Virgin internet which is very latent! In fact i'm on to Virgin at the moment to get it fixed I'm fed up of walking round a corner. Unloading a full clip into someone then I get killed. The replay then shows I haven't even fired! Useless latent Virgin!!! :rant:

 

Too right Dan! Luckily I live on a quiet street thats at the end so no one can drive past and everyone else just has 'regular' cars. But I'm watching Le Man which isn't helping, just want to get out there and have a blast. Really looking forward to being able bodied again because I have so much to do and a car that needs driving.

 

Jobs list..

1 Fit New Front Bumper

2 Fill and smooth new front bumper

3 Fit side skirts

4 Take above parts for painting

5 Fit oil cooler

6 Fit oil temp gauge

7 Take car for MOT

8 Hexis Carbon Wrap various interior parts

9 Stop myself from buying Cragus' red Bride seats!!!

 

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My elbow has been a bit of a long termer.

Back in 2004 I was in the gym and noticed I had a slight ache in my right elbow but it wasn't stopping me doing anything so ignored it. Well the ache never went away and I moved to Canada in 2006 for a year out after uni and thought I'll not go to the gym for the whole of this year and let all my various joints, namely the elbow joint, heal. Well came back in 2007 and went back to the gym, the pain was still there and in fact worse.

 

So off I went to the docs. I was told it was likely to be tendon damage and to take Ibuprofen 4 times a day for two weeks. Two weeks later the elbow was exactly the same. So I was then referred to a 'Specialist' he decided it was a tricep tendonitis and that it was probably very accute so I was gonna be stuck with the pain. Anyway based upon this he gave me a load of exercises to do and said they should help. Anyway I carried on with those for a while but it made no difference. Then one day, about 8 months later, I was doing some big deadlifts in the gym and popped my back which trapped my sciatic nerve. So I went to the Physio at work and thought I'd ask if she could have a look at my 'Tricep Tendonitis' when she was doing my Sciatica. Turns out the specialist knew nothing and the physio said there is no way that the pain was a tricep tendonitis......go back to the docs.

 

So back I went, this time I was sent for an X ray and they found bone spurrs growing on my forearm and into the elbow joint pushing it apart. The doc gave me a Cortisone injection which did help a lot and the pain more or less went for about 3 months. However then it came back I figured I'd ignore it and just carry on. However, then after about 6 - 9 more months it was getting ridiculous. I couldn't play squash, basketball or do any sort of weight lifting.

 

Not Cool.

 

So back to doctors and I got referred to a proper specialist who said surgery was the only fix after looking at the X Rays.

Thats where I am now.

 

Hoping the op has been successful, the spurrs won't come back and I can start throwing the weights around again. I haven't lifted in about 9 months now and lost best part of 3 stone so can't wait to get back in the gym :thumbs: and go for a drive :drive1

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On the upside, if you weren't ambidextrous before, you might be after this. :thumbs: Amazing when you can only use one hand to do things, how strong the alternate becomes.

 

All the best, hope it heals up nice and fast. :console:

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