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Formerly a consumer journalist on radio and television, in 2002 Gerald published a thriller novel featuring a campaigning editor who was wrongly accused and jailed for fraud. He now runs a website devoted to consumer news. More Posts

Another report from the front line

For those who may have not the slightest interest in hip replacement operations, this is probably the moment to move on to another item. Today I am simply posting one of my irregular blogs on the subject because today marks the completion of nine weeks since I had mine. In terms of formal contacts [...]

September 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another report from the front line

They say pride comes before a fall, but I’m happy to record today that I now feel I’m ‘on the up’ as regards recovering from my hip operation (eight weeks ago this coming Friday). I won’t bother you with an exhausting recap. Suffice it to say that, after an initial period of making swift [...]

September 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Knuckling down to it

With apologies to those who have not been following my progress since having a full right hip replacement in July, and (now I think of it) probably also to those who have, I return again to my chosen subject rather more swiftly than I might otherwise have done for the simple reason that on Bank [...]

August 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stuck in the middle

This weekend I am down at the coast and trying to keep to a routine of doing my new, more strenuous, physio exercises. Now six weeks out from my hip operation (the point at which, anecdotally, most ‘hippers’ are told they should be fit enough to return to work) I am still some way behind where [...]

August 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

The next stage

Yesterday – five weeks and counting after my hip replacement operation – I went for my first physio session. Regular followers may recall that I only reached this stage because a couple of weeks ago, puzzled that I hadn’t already been called for physio as I understood would be the case, I [...]

August 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Grrrrrrr ….

Later today I shall be completing my original course of meds following my hip replacement operation in mid-July. Since emerging from hospital three days after going under the knife I have been wearing compression socks (designed to prevent deep vein thrombosis issues) most of the time and consuming [...]

August 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

On your marks – go!

Over the weekend I undertook a shopping expedition to a well-known supermarket not a million miles away from where I live. I’m not naturally a fan of shopping but – when it comes to food – I’ve gradually been trained over the years to become reasonably efficient at it. The only complication [...]

August 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hip-watch: probably about three stars out of five so far

Next Friday afternoon it will have been four weeks since I had my hip replacement operation and just two weeks until – received opinion has it – most people who’ve had the procedure are advised that they can return to work. Having made spectacular progress in the first couple of weeks as a [...]

August 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

A mid-afternoon incident

Here’s the latest in my occasional reports from the front line of recovering from a hip replacement operation. Yesterday I had nothing more planned than a ‘slow’ day at home – this after 48 hours of ‘not doing so well’ that involved a work-related outing requiring a couple of hours [...]

July 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Banking nightmare

Yesterday in the early afternoon when I normally take a nap I thought I would see what was in my current account after a cash withdrawal. I saw a payment to John Lewis on line which I could not recall. I thought it may have been a late reference to an  earlier payment as, like many on the Rust, I [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

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