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Dougs Third Go
that can't happen fella, who does the bottom cuts?, besides, what you lose on the walls (financially) you gain on the floors, (usually). It's not a "pity me" thread, more of a "heed me" thread, if that makes sense.
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Dougs Third Go
exactly the same Johnny, exacerbated now by not wearing the pads.
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jonnyc
Doug you must not beat yourself up about it.what's done is done.
i know a couple of tilers mid fifties who have never worn knee pads and they seem to be ok .
luck of the draw sometimes.
i know what you're thinking.
my knee is result of early teen ligament problem from sport and in those days even though I was going regularily to a children's hospital I never really got any help.
Ligaments just got looser and looser and because the pain was not there any more just left it and then went and took up tiling of all professions which is as crazy as you not wearing knee pads.
i am blaming myself now but it's done and people in positions like this just have try and keep going forward.
i tell you one thing I will and have been doing more of is floor restoration .
use my knowledge and get on the end of a vax or scrub machine and let a younger lad get down there.
there is good money in stone floor cleaning .just a thought .
plenty of people doing it but not many who really know what they are doing.
i know a couple of tilers mid fifties who have never worn knee pads and they seem to be ok .
luck of the draw sometimes.
i know what you're thinking.
my knee is result of early teen ligament problem from sport and in those days even though I was going regularily to a children's hospital I never really got any help.
Ligaments just got looser and looser and because the pain was not there any more just left it and then went and took up tiling of all professions which is as crazy as you not wearing knee pads.
i am blaming myself now but it's done and people in positions like this just have try and keep going forward.
i tell you one thing I will and have been doing more of is floor restoration .
use my knowledge and get on the end of a vax or scrub machine and let a younger lad get down there.
there is good money in stone floor cleaning .just a thought .
plenty of people doing it but not many who really know what they are doing.
I used to play a lot of football. Then I got into the **** and alcoholic beverages.
I got talked into going back to footy at the ripe old age of 36, just about got through the training, then first match of the new season, after a blinding run, which resulted in a cracker of a goal by yours truly. I got chopped down by a kid half my age.......fractured knee/fluid on the knee. First of many trips to hospital.
2 years later, my cartlidge was removed. I was told then that not "IF" but when I get arthritis, that will be the first area I get it.
Other than the cold getting to that knee......I am getting away with it. "So Far"
52 this year, so it's all downhill.
I got talked into going back to footy at the ripe old age of 36, just about got through the training, then first match of the new season, after a blinding run, which resulted in a cracker of a goal by yours truly. I got chopped down by a kid half my age.......fractured knee/fluid on the knee. First of many trips to hospital.
2 years later, my cartlidge was removed. I was told then that not "IF" but when I get arthritis, that will be the first area I get it.
Other than the cold getting to that knee......I am getting away with it. "So Far"
52 this year, so it's all downhill.
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jonnyc
I've just been connecting the fact very recently that most of the people I know who have knee problems now ,played a lot of sport or ran.
seems a bit unfair !!!
I was playing squash 7 days a week at school on top of other sports .another crazy decision with known ligament problems.
but we think we are invincible when young and keep thinking so till we start falling apart!!!
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Old Mod
Doug, that's a real rough deal u got urself there, sorry to hear that.
I'm in my VERY early 50's and I dunno what I'd do in your position, not an easy choice.
Blue Sky's m8!
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Dougs Third Go
my onset started I believe when I was 12, done the 100m and heard a "ping" in my knee, collapsed and had to e helped back to changing room. My mum took me to doctors and he said it was growing pains, kept going whinging but just to be told same until I went when I was 21 with an unexplained lump on outer side of my knee,,had an artroscopy and found that my cartilage was completely torn through in 3 separate places and had been for a number of years due to the calcification, ie the lump. A year, to the week, I was playing rugby at Leeds and had the same but on the inside of my knee,,,I got whipped in rather sharpish for that one removed lol.I used to play a lot of football. Then I got into the **** and alcoholic beverages.
I got talked into going back to footy at the ripe old age of 36, just about got through the training, then first match of the new season, after a blinding run, which resulted in a cracker of a goal by yours truly. I got chopped down by a kid half my age.......fractured knee/fluid on the knee. First of many trips to hospital.
2 years later, my cartlidge was removed. I was told then that not "IF" but when I get arthritis, that will be the first area I get it.
Other than the cold getting to that knee......I am getting away with it. "So Far"
52 this year, so it's all downhill.
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Dougs Third Go
Bluey's to you too 3-fall, what's your home DZ?, mine was Cark
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Old Mod
Silver stars Cirencester and Empuriabrava, much nicer haha warm skies Mediterranean seas,Pyrenean Mountains and so chilled out!
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Old Mod
Just read the whole post! U too Jonny! Totally crap!
I Hope whatever decisions u have to make, go well for you!
Was that a vertical drop that you could cover the distance in Doug? :sofahide:
Seriously, you need to think long and hard about your next move, is there any chance of you going into teaching Doug?
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Dougs Third Go
I was Mark Kirkby (arizona airspeed, multiple 4-way, 8 way world champs)'s best man at his wedding :smilewinkgrin:
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Dougs Third Go
I have most of qualifications to go into teaching John, but seriously I'm not cut out for teaching, I leave that to the Mrs (welding lecturer).
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Old Mod
Oh wow! That's kool! Or is it name dropping? :sofahide: Haha
yeah I've heard of them. Nothing so grand for me. But I do miss it terribly.
Sorry to hear that Doug but your health , and the quality of it are far more important ! I know that I will be bothered with arthritis in later life , as I've had a few bad breaks of late whilst playing football , metal shin bone , screws etc and my knee cap was taken out and put back in etc ...., ! Would hate the thought of a new job , plus their ain't much work out their!
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Old Mod
Oh oh! A very good friend of mine is Kevin McCarthy the instructor who taught Richard Branson jus before his attempted ballon stunt! Haha
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steve187
all the best Doug, my knees play me up, its not the being down, its the getting up that's hard, mine comes from years of tiling with wet screed and never wearing pads, in those days they dug into the back of the knee and were a real pain, i still hardly wear them, i do use a soft floor /garden mat to knell on but having to keep moving it is a headache. i have tried trousers with built in knee pads but as i'm short and on the cuddle size the pads are good for the shins only. I have cut down on my work load to save them a bit, . i remember a few years ago going to the doc with a left knee that i could hardly walk with without a stick , the doc said ' i have never seen such an old knee on a young man' i replied the right one is just as old why is that one ok,
anyway all the best for 2014
To all new tilers i echo Doug's warning '' wear the pads''
anyway all the best for 2014
To all new tilers i echo Doug's warning '' wear the pads''
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