wobblyoldgeezer

Hello again - posted twice previously, once about breaking my leg from a low speed tumble off my bike, and later about getting a couple of additional stress fractures in the same leg from moving before the original break was knitted

Anyhow, I seem to be healing up ok. Advice, which I'm following, is to keep weight off the leg for a while yet. I went for xrays today which indicate that the healing is progressing well.

All was fine until a social meeting this evening (at a Carol concert, very pleasant) with a South African medical friend.

I like South Africans. I like Geordies. I'm a Yorkie. I like people who talk straight.

He asked after me. He's a medic. I explained. He commented. I summarise with some forum acceptable abbreviations ( I trust)

'Buxxer me. You been 40 blxxxy years on insulin. You got bones like blxxxy balsa. You snap a bone, the biggest in your blxxxy body, for no blxxxy reason. Then you think you're ok so you start blxxxy strutting around like a blxxxy buxxer. So it blxxxy snaps again, so no surprise there.

'Now you want to get back on your blxxxy bike again. Well, blxxxy good luck, but the next time, you're buxxered'

So, I think I'll take that as a 'full speed ahead'. Wouldn't you?

dwilbur3

But how does he REALLY feel about it. LOL

wobblyoldgeezer

As as I gather, he was wholehearted in his support and encouragement.

Or the reverse. Confusing accent

Louis

Glad all is going well with the injuries. I would have loved to have heard that accent.

I think it's okay to say " buxxer", "blxxxy", and "buxxered" for us yanks. We've got no manners, whatsoever.

stapfam

South Africans are great but difficult to understand due to their accent. Only bit I understood was "Good Luck"

So full steam ahead but only on half power till you have checked out the con rods. Don't want to damage anything till you have checked out that everything on this veteran machine is in working order.

tsl

Maybe it's time to add some blxxxy weight training to the regimen so you won't be buxxered next time you fall off the blxxxy bike.

Or something.

tsl

Makes me think of that old comedy routine that starts, "I've come before you to stand behind you…"

JanMM

Balsa is light. Light is good.