Frustrated and unsafe.

[Coggy CParticipant @coggyclapsaddle]

Hows this for frustration. Just bought a WM18B Milling machine from warco, their black friday deal was to good to resist saved £688.50. I Collected it (long story) on Wednesday, dragged it into the workshop that night with every intention of getting home Thursday and cracking it open. Christmas joys of anticipation all day Thursday.

The evening was planned, open crate, stand back and admire, find instructions, throw them away, just kidding, I do actually read instructions despite what the wife says, find a suitable location and start set up, a blissful evening well spent.

The reality was, get home, bend down to rummage in the car boot, put my back out, crawl into the house, on to the sofa and wait. Doc says trapped nerve or slipped disc, now waiting for scan.

So here I lay, milling machine still unopened. The good news is though for the first time since the big changes to the forum I’ve actually managed to get back on it, though my security keeps warning the site is unsafe.

 

[PlasmaParticipant @plasma]

OUCH!

The best laid plans etc.

I’ve had my share of back issues, spent years being told “it’s only a bit of a back ache, do physio, do yoga, you don’t need a scan”

I finally demanded an MRI scan despite being told t was the last thing I needed…..

Two days later,  I’m pulled into hospital for emergency surgery to stop corda equinae syndrome from paralysing me from the waist down!

I don’t trust doctors anymore, you have to ask questions and be assertive or they will just take the easy option every time; you’re moaning about a back ache.

Have a read at “The nylon kid of the north” by a guy who struggled with lower back pain for several years in his early twenties.  He was told it was everything from a strain, to slipped disc, to its all in your head.

He finally managed to get someone to listen to him and it turned out he had a problem with a kidney artery causing the pain, it was literally a five minute operation to cure him completely. Every doctor he had seen was convinced of their diagnosis and would not listen to anything to the contrary.

Hope yours is just a case of rest up and it will come right.

[Coggy CParticipant @coggyclapsaddle]

Thanks Plasma, that really cheered me up, ha,ha. Now what you mean about “doctors” though, it took them five years to decide I had fibromyalgia, when told I asked what it was  and was given a website link and bid good day.  The next week I bid them goodbye and found a doctor that knew his stuff. Unfortunately I still have fibromyalgia but at least he did something to help.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Nooooo!  Best wishes for a quick recovery.

Dave

[Coggy CParticipant @coggyclapsaddle]

Thanks. Tomorrow the really tortuous day time telly starts, luckily I’ve not exhausted u tube yet.

[grubscrewParticipant @grubscrew]

You have my sympathy Coggy…….. but look on the bright side, you have a shiny new milling machine waiting for you !!

[Martin ConnellyParticipant @martinconnelly55370]

My wife’s uncle had corda equinae syndrome. He thought he was getting a lot of cramp in his legs but it was only when he was scanned for something else that it was diagnosed. He didn’t bother telling the GP about the “leg cramps” because he thought it was just an old age thing.

Martin C

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Reminds me of a woman at work who had been plagued with migraine for years…

Until one day her GP thought a consultancy advisable. It was: it proved a brain tumour, fortunately both benign and operable, successfully at that.

[Bill PhinnParticipant @billphinn90025]

cauda equina

[noel shelleyParticipant @noelshelley55608]

You have my sympathy ! I was very lucky, 30 years of lifting engines and cylinder heads Etc had done serious damage. It all came home to roost at 3:05 one morning as I turned over in bed ! One option could have seen me in a wheelchair. What happened over 12 months was considered a miracle – even the specialist thought so. Good luck and best wishes. Noel.

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Hope that you soon get fixed up, but then be careful what you lift and how!

If it doubt, lacking a crane, “jack and pack” (But be careful that nothing will fall over!)

Ideally, have a rope to catch the machine before it damages you or itself.

Howard

 

[Coggy CParticipant @coggyclapsaddle]

Well thanks to all, I feel somewhat better knowing I’m not the only silly bugger doing these silly things. Luckily I have an engine crane to help when it comes to the lift. For now I can amuse myself with a theatrical workshop re organise in the vain assumption that one day I might actually get around to doing it, you know how it goes.

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Its the thought that counts. Some of it might actually happen.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions!

As my shop shows. Must have the biggest Round Ruit in Chrisendom!

Howard

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