Much the same thing really. Diagnose - fix! Only it isn't so straight forward on old things is it? You take your van into the garage and say " She isn't running right, I think the carbs letting in air !" They then sit there and ask a zillion probing questions until you narrow it down to what you said it was in the first place, they then set the spotty little ike who was busy texting his girlfriend for the whole twenty minutes of the previous conversation. He then spends the next half hour trying to get your van into gear, before finally working out how to move it forward and open the deck lid. the next three hours are spent trying to work out what ' the carb' actually is before confessing to his Boss that he doesn't have the remotest idea of what it is he is actually trying to do. The boss then steps in googles ' pict 34' fiinds how to set the volume screw and how to spray carb cleaner or similar to find the air leak, finds it in ten minutes and phones you with the price of a new carb! Then you pop into the Doctors and tell him your knee or stomach is playing up. he asks a zillion questions before deciding, it is indeed your knee/stomach that is playing up and not your ankle or your gonads or anything else within a metre of your knee/ stomach and sends you for a blood test. At the blood test a otherwise engaged 'texting her boyfriend at the garage' is a thirteen year old dressed loosely in nurse like garb who nonchalantly dabs your arm and extracts copious amounts of your blood before labelling it and adding it to the pile of others in the fridge next to her... Or in the case of a dodgy knee you are packed away to see some Matronly Physio who is stressed out about her kids going out with car mechanics that smoke strange fags, spend all day on their phone and smell of petrol. She spends the next half hour getting you to do things you haven't done for years ( walking and bending) feels prods and stretches and sends you away with list of exercises you know you won't do after the first day attempting them and you await the call from the Doctors receptionist: who talks exactly like your mum does on the phone.. The wait for results takes weeks, the Doctor eventually allows you a moment of his precious time and declares your knee/ stomach is indeed fooked and you need a new one ( good job we don't get a bill for that one) or your stomach is ulcerated and need six years supply of aludrox or similar. I hate going to either, but I prefer the garage to the Doctors, However, they can't fix my knee. So, My question is --- Has anyone done a how to on knee replacement? Cos mine are knackered!
I Know a couple of peeps who have had this done , one nhs the other private 18k , both not that impressed good luck malc .
I can can do you a knee replacement, 10 hours at £50/hour. The knee joints are Chinese ones off eBay, but should be fine. Don't have anaesthetic kit, but do have a very large rubber mallet. Is that ok?
You won't know what's hit you... Post-op treatment involves lying on the garage floor for a bit, but I'll have a good sweep up first and put some plastic sheeting down
Two years ago I had an athuroscopy or was it a arthroscopy any way it's where they trim the cartlidge through a keyhole incision there was some subcutaneous fibrosis which disappeared and within 3 weeks I was back dancing
pends where you get it done , but 9k each is about average , essex n london is most expensive spire n alike
