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About Gerald Ingolby

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

Room for improvement

Now about six weeks beyond my previous appointment, yesterday I had to report to my physiotherapist so that she could assess my progress in exercising in order to promote greater flexibility in my right thigh/hip and back. In anticipation of this version of a schoolboy’s visit to the [...]

September 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

Wealth advice

Typically a wealth advisor charges one to one-and-a-half per cent of the sum you give him or her to manage. He will also be required to identify your risk profile. Most classify themselves as cautious investors which results in a safer though lower return of say 3%.  So if you give them [...]

September 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

A slow start, but you watch and see …

Regular readers will be aware that just over a week ago I went for a physiotherapy appointment at which – due to a diagnosis of skeletal seizing-up, never mind the osteoarthritis in my right hip and compression at the bottom of my spine – I was given a set of exercises to perform specifically [...]

August 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

Getting there at last

Yesterday – about a month after my hospital consultant said I needed some, following my twin diagnoses of osteoarthritis in the hip and compression of the discs at the bottom on my spine – was the occasion of my first physiotherapy appointment. Inevitably, my first task was to fill out three [...]

August 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

That’s it – enough!

This could get me into trouble, but my hatred of cyclists knows no bounds and I don’t care. Never mind that, at the set of traffic lights just fifty yards from my home, my conservative estimate is that 40% of those pedalling on two wheels completely ignore red lights and simply keep going, at [...]

August 11, 2014 // 1 Comment

Back in the old routine

Yesterday I made my first visit to the gym since being given the all clear to resume physical exercise after my steroid jab for the osteoarthritis in my hip. It was not a success. The cardio-vascular room, which overlooks the swimming pool, has a bank of five televisions high on the wall, so that [...]

July 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Well that’s a relief!

Today I present another short bulletin from my current medical issues, following my return to a hospital clinic to see a consultant about my osteoarthritis-affected hip. There’s a media story doing the rounds at the moment about the ‘scandal’ of NHS hospitals making over £1 million per annum [...]

July 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

That same old story

As regular readers of my sports pieces will be aware, although cricket was one of my boyhood obsessions, it no longer holds much interest for me. I put this down largely to the world constantly evolving – a concept which, generally-speaking, I embrace – and me gradually falling off the [...]

June 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Once more to the breach

After my MRI scan last week, yesterday I returned to hospital for steroid/anaesthetic jab on my troublesome hip which contains the beginnings of osteoarthritis. It’s a general fact of life – well, mine anyway – that, faced with undergoing some sort of novel medical examination or procedure, [...]

June 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

A scan experience

Yesterday, because of my hip/groin problem, I went to hospital to have an MRI scan on my lower spine. I’m a veteran of MRI scans, in the sense I had one about two months ago on my hip. More recently I visited a new consultant who informed me I would probably be in line to have a hip replacement [...]

May 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

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