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Up early (for me) to hospital for a scan to check results of back operation - question on form to fill in first: "Do you understand French perefectly?" - not quite - does anyone ? :-) Fortunately I don't suffer from claustrophobia (but I think speleologists are crazy) - it takes a lot longer than the "dizaine" minutes the nurse told me.

Feel OK so walk to Prom des Anglais and have breakfast on the beach - first time in two months. Didn't bring camera (no excuse, it's small) - but it was like this and almost deserted:

Able to sit with little discomfort and feel fit enough to walk back, popping into FNAC and buying latest versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements.

Get back home with some energy left ! Back to 65% YIPEEEE !! :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 10:14:51 AM EST

Re: Nice recovery (4.00 / 2)

good to hear your up and about.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 10:19:09 AM EST
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Re: Nice recovery (none / 0)

really! nice to be in Nice this time of year i bet.

how's the jaw ceebs? it didn't seem to hold you back from blogging too much, i'm glad to remark!

~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 05:55:24 PM EST
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Re: Nice recovery (none / 1)

Discovering that if I laid on my back with the laptop on my knees I could get the fluid to drain out of my sinuses was a good thing to find out.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 06:22:36 PM EST
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Re: Nice recovery (none / 0)

err "perfectly" :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 10:39:02 AM EST
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Re: Nice recovery (none / 0)

Parfaitement.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 10:45:59 AM EST
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Re: Nice recovery (none / 0)

Yay!!! Good news!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 10:45:12 AM EST
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Re: Nice recovery (none / 1)

Glad you are better. Few things are so incapacitating as severe back problems. The wife and I were both struck down with some mercifully transitory back inflammation a few years ago. I had to roll out of bed onto my hands and knees in order to get up!

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 11:59:28 AM EST
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Re: Nice recovery (none / 1)

I hope my problem is "transitory" too - my problem getting out of bed has been remembering to do it slowly - so that I don't feel dizzy :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 01:11:19 PM EST
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Re: Nice recovery (none / 0)

Good to see you up and about. Must be a real reliev to you.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 01:04:44 PM EST
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Re: Nice recovery (4.00 / 2)

It is - and this evening, after my session of physio, I had a glass of wine in a cafe terrace and then another standing ! (legs have been affected) in another bar - ah these taken-for-granted simple things :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 01:09:00 PM EST
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Re: Nice recovery (none / 0)

Way to go, Ted!

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Wed Oct 15th, 2008 at 05:46:34 PM EST
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