Trick Or Treat

Just a quick note to say that I don’t understand this trick or treat thing :-( We are told that a lot of old people feel intimidated by masked kids and teenagers knocking on doors asking for something, like sweets or a pound, At the very least they are trespassing by coming onto somebody's property uninvited, at worst, this is legally demanding money with menace; so why is it tolerated, I don’t understand. I personally am not going to donate anything to them as I think it only encourages them, and in any event, sweets rot their teeth and most kids these days are too fat anyway. Certainly they can buy their own sweets, I see loads of them walking around with skull candy headphones, new MP3's and Iphones.
Do we really have to copy the Americans at everything ?
It also endorses kids walking round the streets at night, they get used to it and turn into car thieves, muggers and rapists.

If absolutely nothing else they knock on the door and interrupt your evening meal, TV film, or bath etc. that’s even if you don't get your nice clean car egged.
It should be outlawed and discouraged. (apparently it already is in some parts of the USA)

Bankinter vs common sense

Bankinter have withdraw all of the incorrect and bogus charges against me and cancelled the court summons at the 11th hour :-)
I have been given a clean slate with no financial or legal charges
A big thank you to Jaime my solicitor in Spain

I  am glad it's over, it's been an eigh month struggle which I  don't deserve and cannot afford, but with eh Spanish system you are found guilty by default if you don't go to court to defend yourself

Cervical Dystonia post opp

I  have just got back from Plymouth after my post opp 6 week follow-up, I  thought everything went OK, my tests results showed a big improvement on movement, now 38 degrees left, 34 degrees right, I'm very pleased, surgeon, Dr. P said results were excellent, BUT he didn't seem very interested, I  only got a few minutes with him after travelling for a three day round trip, two over night stays and two seven hour trips. Anyway, he;s not there to make friends so I  guess he did his job.

Main damper on the event was that out of the blue, he tells me that there is a 10% chance the nerve connections will grow back, there is nothing I  can do to prevent it, and if they grow back, I  have to hope I  can get a second operation.

I  think it was at the forefront of his mind because as I  was there a lady had been re-admitted for the same reason, I'm told the critical time is six months to a year, so a follow up appointment will be needed in six month.

I  was also told I  would have to do the exercises 4 or 5 times a day forever; I  was not told about this before the operation, I  was told I  would need to exercise or the operation wouldn't be much use, but I  understood that was to build up the muscles, and then I  would be OK'ish.

I  realise I  could be looked on as complaining, maybe I  am but I  waited three years for the operation, they messed it up once, sort of got it right in the end but aborted the operation twice; now show no interest or support in my progress, because I  had to have the check-up I  have to travel from Leicester to Market Harborough, about seven hours each way, and a day hanging around the hospital while the physio's measure the change, so a three day trip, very tiring and expensive (trains and hotels), and the result is an uninterested overpaid neurologist face to face meeting for five minutes and then says come back in six months when it may be re-growing.

On a positive note, the lowly paid, humble physio therapist (Miss Z) was brilliant! she seemed really diligent and was obviously pleased and excited by my test results, she looked like she was going to cry, she is a star, I  wish I  could think her properly, I  got her some chocolates :-)

cervical dystonia operation checkup

Next week I'm going back to Plymouth for them to see how well my operation on 11th Aug 2011 worked, they already told me that I would never be cured, but I do definitely have a much better posture, reduced pain and reasonable left and right movement, I'm really pleased I got the operation, but have already been told that because of the delay in getting the operation, (I was diagnosed with cervical dystonia since February 2009) that some of the bones in my neck have knitted together and so even when I  was completely unconscious in the operating theatre my neck movement to the right was restricted, They will measure the angle of my head and how far I  can turn, then I  have another follow up in three months, then six months, then a year. I  have read that SOMETIMES they need to perform a second operation to get the right muscle's, I  don't think this is likely in my case because they did so many video tests with electrodes in me weeks before the operation, to me, it seems unlikely they got a false positive, but we will see.