Health

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]