"Brian G" wrote in message
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When the surgeon saw the adhesive on my plaster a few weeks later he gave
me
one hell of a rollicking as I was supposed to have been 'taking it easy' -
not much chance of that at the time though - ahhhh.. the things we do when
we are young!

Not just young. When Spouse had a hip replacement two yearsago - might have
been three - he was well over sixty anyway and he was up a ladder installing
double glazing in the bedrom a fortnight after coming out of hospital.

Mary