For me the greatest news stories in MY life time all centre around the time i was in the Army

1) Russia pulling out of Afghanistan as a teenager i always thought i would be Rambo (not a nerdy, drunk my army life turned into)
2) The Berlin Wall coming down, Night Rider David Hasselhoff standing on top of it, Nov 89. I was Based in a garrison called Osnabrück,
the whole country was buzzing at the time and the months after. I got confirmation that was going to be able to tun the Berlin marathon
1990 the first one to run both sides of the old border. Unfortunely i lost an argument with my mate's bike and i was not fit enough to run it.
3) Iraq invaded Kuwait. Was just back to Scotland for rehab.

Ironside wins thread!

didn't know it was a contest sometime its good to vent though

Hope you get your operation soon and things improve for you.

Wishing you a speedy recovery Ironside.

All the best Iron

thanks guys been out of hospital a few days now i feel better than i did a fortnight ago which is always a plus.

You get pain BELOW the break Iron?

yeah my Spinal Cord was not completely severed, it was partial severed and the rest merely crushed, T1,T3 and T4. My classification is a T1 incomplete.
I cannot feel if someone is touching me but it constantly feels like a hot liquid is pulsating through my whole lower body.
On bad days i get really badly tempered and lock myself in my room as when i am really sore i can seriously offend. Which is properly why i like to act the jestor on good days.

[I got a rice cookin' in the microwaveGot a three-day beard I don't plan to shaveAnd it's a goofy thing but I just gotta sayHey I'm a-doin' alright]

late Sunday night last week i started feeling a bit queasy, started getting into my bed and my body collapsed, i wasn't able to lift my legs into my bed so spent the whole night half in half out the bed. About 3am i started convulsing, unable to actually vomit, this carried on until 9am.
9am nurse visit to change my many wound dressings, i am not quite with it. At same time a SKY engineer turns up to fix my TV (was kicked to touch still got a broken SKY system). Nurse helps me get my legs into my bed, this allows to start vomiting a lovely black and red muck.
Nurse calls health centre DR calls 999. Ambulance arrives at 3:30pm after i text the nurse at 2:30 asking if their was any update on ambulance and the nurse chased it up. By this stage my vomit bucket was kinda full with me throwing up every 5 or 10 minutes. At this stage i was told i couldn't even take sips of water to hide the vile taste in my mouth. Get to the hospital just after 4pm.
Was in the ambulance till 7pm and then taken into a waiting room to allow the crew to get back to their base (35 miles away). Finally got admitted to A&E at 11:30pm was put on a drip and given some anti sickness meds stopped vomiting around 2am. Scans and X-rays taken in the morning, still no fluids allowed until they could "scope" me. Had the scope around 1pm and allow to "slowly" sip on water. They found i some of the vomit in my lungs. Taken to the ward on a drip, and fed antibiotics and some other crap. Wednesday morning was feeling much better just needed Dr's approval, letter and drugs. OH and of course transportation. No wheelchair taxis available, patient transport knocks off at 4pm. So their i was bed blocking for the next 18 hours. The wheelchair cab they found for me didn't have contract with the hospital so a nice chunk of change lost there but worth every penny to get home.

Other than that just a constant pain in every part of my body below my spinal cord break (pretty much everywhere lower than the chest).
But i am alive on waiting list for one more operation then nothing for 6 years and hopefully get my head round to throwing chips into pots again.

I got a rice cookin' in the microwave
Got a three-day beard I don't plan to shave
And it's a goofy thing but I just gotta say
Hey I'm a-doin' alright

DRUG list
Duloxetine
Pregabalin
Nefopam
Atorvastatin
Cetirizine
trazadone
zolpidem
Docusate
Bisacodyl
Omeprazole
Non Prescribed
Iron
Magnesium
Vitamin D
Wellman 50+
rescue me night



and people wonder why i get snappy and fly off the handle every now and then, Being a hermit and rarely leaving the house has solved that problem though. :-)))

Saw the butcher win last night in Dallas, started the week around 180 mark, a win tonight against Cillic and he'll be into top 120

RIP John Virgo, his last commentary was only 17 days ago.

oops someone dropped a clanger letting this wildcard entry in.

Never been was planning for my 40th and then my 50th but health and then covid got in the way.
Got 1 more operation in planning and if they don't try and kill me this time (last 3 all went badly wrong) thinking of going in 26 or 27 at latest.
Got some cash saved up but not sure how much I need to have a fun time.
I am assuming as its USA everywhere is good for wheelchairs and the people in them.
a few questions
1) Outside of the WSOP when is the best time to go. I might try and go during WSOP and enter 1 or 2 smaller events but don't think my body would hold up to the ME.
2) Is it best to book for hotel and flights together or separately
3) Strip or off-strip
 

Kartal looked good today British number 2 next week

personally i try not to travel with a dildo in my pocket, ergonomic or not.

Where do you hide it then?

last one i had i hid in my hair do

personally i try not to travel with a dildo in my pocket, ergonomic or not.

Red button on sky for the doubles untill the later stages which makes recording it for mum impossible but they did show the 3rd set ok the Boulter/Kartal  on skymix
Mum loves the wheelchairs so hoping they arent on over night.

All the singles gone in the US Open.

Think both were pretty much expected.  I think Rybakina is effectively the 3rd best player in the World after Sabalenka and Swiatek, so drawing her then Sabalenka is as bad a draw as Raducanu could getm. I don't think she played very well, but Rybakina was on fire and it is hard for anyone to stop here.

Norrie wasn't really expected to beat Djokovic, but both him and Raducanu should be back in the top 32 by Australia, as both have very few points to defend (something like 180/110 respectively by the end of the year).  I don't think either is really struggling with injury either. 

Not convinced Draper gets back quickly.  He was struggling in the mixed doubles too and only really played because it was the US Open.  Wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see him for another month.

putting my mystic meg hat on
think Draper will come back too soon to try and get into RTD top 8 currently 7th but might drop out after the US open
think he makes it then pulls out as he came back too soon

Draper pulls out injured. going to make getting the Dubai end of the season hard espically if he cant get back on court soon

Emma first Brit up on Sunday Vrs a Qualifier.


https://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/schedule/schedule7.html