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  1. Sta

    Stahlrost Well-Known Member

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    Does anyone know where I can buy an X-Ray machine? It can be second hand as long as it works, and needs to fit in my back bedroom. I considered an MRI scanner but I think that would be too big.

    I need this because my wife keeps falling down and breaking things. She fell down in Germany in February and broke her leg, needing a titanium plate and 7 screws. She did comment that she'd never had so many screws at once before, but since she's German I don't think she realised what she was saying.

    Then in April we went to that place in London beginning with W, which I daren't mention, for the JPT final against Oxford. She fell down again on the Sunday night after the match, and cracked a bone in her foot, on the same side where the break from February was. She's still putting frozen peas on that regularly.

    This afternoon we were walking down Dodworth High Street and she suddenly decided to call in the little shop for some bits and bobs. She tripped on the step on the way in. Now imagine you're the lady behind the till - you're serving a customer and chatting, when all of a sudden my wife enters the shop horizontally, head-first, about a foot off the floor. She demolishes a stack of cheap gin and tonic cans with her head. The lady rushes to her aid and together we pull her up, she's ruffled but OK, but she'd banged her forearm on something.

    Having forgot why we went into the shop in the first place, we eventually bought a small pack of frozen peas, as we only had one in the freezer and that's already moulded itself to the shape of her foot. We then went home and she sat with one bag of peas on her foot, and the other on her arm, which by this time had swollen quite badly.

    We're now faced with a trip to Barnsley Hospital for an X-Ray in the morning, but it would be much easier if I had a machine at home to avoid messing about in the hospital in future. I blame her bifocals.
     
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    I'm Spartacus Well-Known Member

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    I'd suggest buying cheap freezer bags..get a shed load for a couple of quid...stuff em with ice cubes, save a fortune and you won't have to eat every meal with peas.
     
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    She is getting rather pead off with peas, I have to admit.
     
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    pompey_red Well-Known Member

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    A cheaper option might be a big roll of bubble wrap??
     
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    That story is not totally true...gorgeous neighbour just moved in next door...Stahlrost is hoping to see through the wall !!...doesn't work a mate of mine tried it..waste of money.
     
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    Stahlrost Well-Known Member

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    You're not going to believe this, but my next door neighbour is actually my ex-wife. Honest.

    I can provide independent corroboration of this, if required, from a couple of other posters on here.
     
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    sadbrewer Well-Known Member

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    In that case I formally withdraw my scurrilous accusation...please don't sue.
     
  8. Sta

    Stahlrost Well-Known Member

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    You're not going to believe this, but my current wife is called Sue. Honest.

    Please don't Sue takes on a whole new meaning.......
     
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    andytyke Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    Get her a big inner tube off a Lorry or summat, pumping up and tell her to put it round her every time she goes out
     
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    Lead walls

    You'll need a good builder to install lead walls, floor and ceiling in your house. This will probably require some strengthening to your foundations.

    Otherwise I can't see anything wrong with your plan.
     
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    As a temporary solution I've bought her this Susi 2.jpg If we get to W*****y she should be easy to spot.
     

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