Thread: Medical Incident - Some learnings for your first aid kit.

As a young fella (think 12-15), I used to carry 4 & 6 cylinder cast iron engine blocks around the garage at home and sometimes at the part time holiday job.
Shoulders, knees and hips have been giving up over the years.
Osteo-arthritis caused by abuse of the 'chassis' over the years, from a young age is the end result.
Right hip was replaced at our cost, because we'd just moved into a new home, and couldn't wait for the public system (which rejected my case).
Apparently not being on morphine 3 times a day and still being pretty mobile was the excuse.
Getting into the long winded process, through the public 'non-system', of going for a right shoulder joint replacement.
Wish me luck guys - our health system is f##cked - compared to when we went to Aus in the mid 80's last century.