Friday, November 10, 2006
BACK ON ONE LEG AGAIN............
I had my first attempt at standing up today.
It needed two extra people and a zimmer frame, but I got there.
I put up token resistance by asking if we could do this tomorrow, but it didn't work.
Painful? Yes.
Painfully slow? Yes.
Slow process.
I kept myself nice though.
Even when the physio and nurse were trying to convince me that I should feel really good about myself to have achieved something today, I managed to restrain my mouth from letting fly with some acerbic vitriol aimed squarely at them and their saccharin approach.
Yeah right............achieve this M.F.!!!
I've noticed the drip machine pump makes this strange sound constantly.
It really reminds of the bloody pigeons at home sometimes.
It's even rather haunting.
Can't get away from the little rats!
Or maybe I'm just going troppo?
Quote of the day: "Gee it's a lovely day outside today isn't it?" - one of the nurses.
Ah yup. Whatever.....
I try to keep this non political, but joy oh joy!!!
The Democrats control Congress in the U.S. and that little turd who's been causing nothing but trouble for decades is out.
That's right Rumsfeld is gone.
And who should he be replaced with?
One of Bush Senior's good buddies.
Jobs for the boys eh.......
One thing I will miss is the Rumsfeld quotes, although I'm sure George W. Zoolander will pick up the slack.
Here is a selection of classic quotes from the former Defence Secretary that Roger sent me:
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." - this quote won the "Foot in Mouth" award from the British Plain English Campaign in 2003.
"I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think... and I assume it's what I said."
"We do know of certain knowledge that he (Osama Bin Laden) is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."
"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past - I think the past was not predictable when it started."
"Oh goodness ... I shouldn't say 'I don't think so', although that's what I think."
"If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be done which would not be accurate ...
necessarily accurate ... it might also not be inaccurate, but I mean ... I'm disinclined to mislead anyone."
.
It needed two extra people and a zimmer frame, but I got there.
I put up token resistance by asking if we could do this tomorrow, but it didn't work.
Painful? Yes.
Painfully slow? Yes.
Slow process.
I kept myself nice though.
Even when the physio and nurse were trying to convince me that I should feel really good about myself to have achieved something today, I managed to restrain my mouth from letting fly with some acerbic vitriol aimed squarely at them and their saccharin approach.
Yeah right............achieve this M.F.!!!
I've noticed the drip machine pump makes this strange sound constantly.
It really reminds of the bloody pigeons at home sometimes.
It's even rather haunting.
Can't get away from the little rats!
Or maybe I'm just going troppo?
Quote of the day: "Gee it's a lovely day outside today isn't it?" - one of the nurses.
Ah yup. Whatever.....
I try to keep this non political, but joy oh joy!!!
The Democrats control Congress in the U.S. and that little turd who's been causing nothing but trouble for decades is out.
That's right Rumsfeld is gone.
And who should he be replaced with?
One of Bush Senior's good buddies.
Jobs for the boys eh.......
One thing I will miss is the Rumsfeld quotes, although I'm sure George W. Zoolander will pick up the slack.
Here is a selection of classic quotes from the former Defence Secretary that Roger sent me:
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." - this quote won the "Foot in Mouth" award from the British Plain English Campaign in 2003.
"I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think... and I assume it's what I said."
"We do know of certain knowledge that he (Osama Bin Laden) is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."
"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past - I think the past was not predictable when it started."
"Oh goodness ... I shouldn't say 'I don't think so', although that's what I think."
"If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be done which would not be accurate ...
necessarily accurate ... it might also not be inaccurate, but I mean ... I'm disinclined to mislead anyone."
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