Teaching your Grandmother

[Justchillin]

This is my first post here, and I write in intrepidation. I’ve been playing this game for approx 12 years

I’d just like to tell you all that you need to look after yourselves.

I nearly died eariler this year by kneeling without kneepads – I ended up with septicemia and the worse pain ever – worse than the heart bypass 4 years ago.

I broke my wrist last year pushing myself off a commercial washer in a launderette onto a wet floor because I wasn’t wearing appropriate footwear.

Knee pads and quality steelies every time.

If you haven’t already tool up.

Best

Steve
Stillchillin

[maltheviking]

Re: Teaching your Grandmother

Welcome to the madhouse Steve 😉

Your advice is sound advice and we appreciate it. Do you think my high heels qualify? 😆
Keep on posting 😉

[robbo1973]

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Hi Steve good advice as i ended up in hospital for a week with something in my knee but there was no mark so didnt know what couldnt walk the pain was unbearable.Iwas on a drip every 4 hours 24 hours a day then after 5 days it started to come down after they said they where gonna cut it open and have a look.now when i cant kneel on hard surfaces as it feels like i am kneeling on rocks so always where pads.

cheers chris

[hotpnt]

Re: Teaching your Grandmother

mine are getting worn out, anyone recommend suppliers for work trousers etc?

[Martin]

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In the past 15 years or more I’ve always carried a kneeling pad and use it without exception every time I kneel on anyones floor. The advantage toward one joints is quite obvious but it also acts as a waterproof (and shoosh proof) barrier against what maybe already present on the floor!:wink:

[silverbroom]

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Hi hotpnt,

Worth a look is this web page http://www.ebrookes.co.uk they do lots of workwear.

silverbroom

[simonb]

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Blimey! 😯

Hello Steve that must have been really a horrible experience, septicemia? thats a serious full body infection isent it? i had a chronic groin infection (unrelated to work) thats not too bad now but at first the pain was awful, i cant begin to think what it would have been like if it would have spread, you poor sod, this job can be dangerous only last month i set myself on fire with a can of dust-it spray i was under a washer at the time, it was unplugged i sprayed loads of the stuff onto a motor and it went up in flames with static i went running into the guarden onfire! it took quiet a bit of morphine to knock out the pain from the burns, 🙁

[Justchillin]

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Simon

It took three days on IV antibiotics to stop it spreading, it got to the top of my thigh and to the ankle at the bottom.

I asked the consultant “How close did I come to losing my leg?”

He said “It would have killed you first”

Had a week in hospital, then followed 6 weeks of severe diarrhoea, they thought I’d contracted CDif but it turned out that the antibiotics had destroyed all the good bacteria in the gut.

All in all not a good time, and it cost me a fortune in lost income.

If only I had worn kneepads.

Best
Steve

[bagman]

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Have had septicaemia due to an infection from the knee, nearly came to having in IV but the antibiotics the doc gave me did the job.

Funny thing is that only the month before, a guy I knew got the same thing in his knee through gardening, within two days he was in hospital having his leg amputated, it wasn’t enough…he died the next day 🙁 He was only in his late 30’s and he left a wife and daughter behind.

symptoms of septicaemia can very similar to flu, but with aches and pains in the infected area as well. Take no chances guys.

[silverbroom]

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Maybe a bit late but Aldi were selling kneepads just last week so bought two pair at £3:99 per pair and excellent value.

silverbroom

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