The Bluestocking, where Maud reigns supreme...

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... & Magpie regularly drains the hot chocolate bowser.

If you understand that, or you're just cool with it, come on in & bagsie a chair by the fire.

Previous thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5410054-the-bluestocking-the-one-where-the-nights-start-to-draw-in?page=1

You beat me, I only have dental implants.

Thank you Marie- you're always so kind. It hasn't gone unnoticed.

this.

@MarieDeGournay is very kind and it is most definitely noticed and very welcome.

I’ve nothing except one bridge which I don’t think counts.

@FuzzyPuffling wrote
Thank you Marie- you're always so kind. It hasn't gone unnoticed.

And I agree, too.

Isn’t there some metal in that?
Every little helps.

I did have two plates and 19 pins in my leg in 2019 and surprisingly it did not set off the airport metal detectors when we went to Vienna in early 2020. However the Walrus set it off both times as a random selection. He was miffed.

I then had the metal removed in 2021, but I had three screws inserted into my heel in August. I'll let you know if they set off the detectors.

Sadly the top of one of my incisions keeps opening up and bleeding every time I walk on it, so I've been immobile again for the last couple of days. I need to change from gauze to a foam dressing. Had the very knowledgeable surgeon used the deep mattress stitching I requested because of my connective tissue disorder, I wouldn't be in this position. But he knew best.

Bluestockingy hugs, Myrtle. 😢

I have three dental implants and it never occurred to me that they might set off the airport metal detectors - at least, they didn't this summer. I'll be getting another one soon,when I can afford it. Maybe the detectors will pick me up then.

Big sympathies Myrtle - that must feel a bit like going backwards when you've been doing so well.

My pins and plates don't set off detectors, I think because they're titanium. My fixed dental retainers (surgical steel) set off the Eurostar detectors, but not airport ones, which is slightly weird and very annoying when travelling by Eurostar. I'm basically a cyborg at this point.

Recently went through an airport scanner arch and of course set it off. Rather toothsome young security guy just looked at me and said "Hips?".

I'm so used to having to explain why the alarms screech that for a few moments what he said didn't register and I just stood there, mouth agape.

Then I said "Oh, yes, sorry" in the usual British manner, and spent several minutes thinking "How did he know? Can he tell by the way I walk? Is it just the most likely at my age? Do I really look that old? Or does the screen show details of people's metal bits?"

I was so busy contemplating this that my daughter had to grab me and point me at the trays backing up on the conveyor belt with my stuff in them.

Blimey, reading about all you wounded veterans bearing the scars of your battles with life is filling me with a strong impulse to find a safe corner to huddle in while I wrap myself in cotton wool.

And Taztoy and Beetle's words the other day.

Massive sympathy to all

I think you all deserve the Bluestocking survivors medal: I have heard a rumour that the gerbils are arranging a ceremony.

You look very serious, particularly Magpie (unrecognisable!), but I hope the gerbils have set up a buffet for a post-ceremony party.

ps, the gerbil medal (they insisted on getting one)

I am very proud to be the recipient of a Bluestocking medal. Thank you.
< takes a bow>

There were several other recipients but Bing collapsed whimpering in a corner and wouldn't put them in.

Of course they did!

I am equally proud of my medal. Many thanks.

Poor Myrtle. How utterly infuriating for you to be immobile again because a surgeon wouldn't listen.

Ohhh no, @MyrtleLion, how utterly infuriating! As a former nurse, I can tell you we got really pissed off with arrogant surgeons too.

This might be a stupid idea but I saw someone the other day who had a cast on his foot and he had like a crutch attached to his knee while the lower leg with the cast was in a 90 degree ankle to the upper leg and the below the knee crutch. He walked along the road quite speedily and there was no weight on the injured foot. Maybe something like that would take the stress of the wound.

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Thanks to everyone XX 💙💙💙

It's an ankle fusion so I need to be move the ankle asap to ensure maximum range of motion.

Unfortunately this opens the wounds.

I've now got foam dressings which may help. I would post images of the wounds but I appreciate not everyone likes that sort of thing.

Congratulations to everyone on their well-deserved medals!

And thanks to Myrtle for not posting those photos. Last time, I avoided them but then found they appeared unfogged in the thread gallery. Barfarama.

That is not good if they're not fogged in the gallery. MN should fix that.

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Humble thanks for the great honour of my medal.

A student today told me that chickens have mohawks. Chickens with mohawks definitely belong at the Bluestocking!