Welcome to the Army Rumour Service, ARRSE

The UK's largest and busiest UNofficial military website.

Join ARRSE (free) to join in and remove this advertising

Like Tree11774Likes
Discuss Arrsers self taken photo collection. in The NAAFI Bar on The Army Rumour Service; Leg problems are a shit! I got a dose of cellulitis which had me laid up (literally) for a month during which time my favourite aunt and my best friend died. I missed the chance ...
  1. #7671
    Senior Member pongo6863's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2009
    Posts
    5,475
    Images
    6
    Leg problems are a shit! I got a dose of cellulitis which had me laid up (literally) for a month during which time my favourite aunt and my best friend died. I missed the chance to say 'bye and attend the funerals of both of them - it still rankles.
    What your average soldier wants -- really, really wants -- is no-one shooting back at him. (Sir Terry Pratchett)

    Nothing in the universe has a shorter half-life than a polilitian's memory for inconvenient facts. (David Weber)

    Confucius say: Sex like army, closer to discharge, better you feel.

  2. #7672
    Moderator ugly's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2004
    Location
    Gods Waiting room
    Posts
    23,957
    Images
    25
    Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Mafia65 View Post
    The leg's not broken. He does want to watch out for compartment syndrome though...
    I have that in my right leg and right arm, no fun at all!
    "I'd rather be a tired old Has been, than a tired old Never Has Been!!"
    "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
    Semper in excremento sum, solum profunditas mutat
    According to Ispeakcrabandpongo "Typically Island Ape Brits," That suits me!
    http://bashingbambi.blogspot.com/
    http://www.dogtrainingsupplies.co.uk/
    http://www.tcswoodlands.com/
    http://urbanfoxcontrol.weebly.com/

  3. #7673
    Senior Member bokkatankie's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    South Africa
    Posts
    7,250
    Images
    1
    Try this for self portrait of a leg, now that is cellulosis!:
    Attached Images Attached Images   
    Dry books of tactics are beneath the notice of a man of genius, and it is a known fact that every British officer is inspired with a perfect knowledge of his duty, the moment he gets his commission; and if it were not, it would be sufficiently acquired in conversaziones at the main-guard or the grand sutler's.

    Advice to Officer's of the British Army, published 1782

  4. #7674
    Moderator ugly's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2004
    Location
    Gods Waiting room
    Posts
    23,957
    Images
    25
    Last time I saw that sort of leg it was being removed by a vet!
    Recce19, Kirkz and Grey_Mafia65 like this.
    "I'd rather be a tired old Has been, than a tired old Never Has Been!!"
    "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
    Semper in excremento sum, solum profunditas mutat
    According to Ispeakcrabandpongo "Typically Island Ape Brits," That suits me!
    http://bashingbambi.blogspot.com/
    http://www.dogtrainingsupplies.co.uk/
    http://www.tcswoodlands.com/
    http://urbanfoxcontrol.weebly.com/

  5. #7675
    Senior Member pongo6863's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2009
    Posts
    5,475
    Images
    6
    That's it! Except that mine was mostly open sores that wept a really yucky load of gunge. It's also bloody painful!
    ugly likes this.
    What your average soldier wants -- really, really wants -- is no-one shooting back at him. (Sir Terry Pratchett)

    Nothing in the universe has a shorter half-life than a polilitian's memory for inconvenient facts. (David Weber)

    Confucius say: Sex like army, closer to discharge, better you feel.

  6. #7676
    Senior Member bokkatankie's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    South Africa
    Posts
    7,250
    Images
    1
    Quote Originally Posted by pongo6863 View Post
    That's it! Except that mine was mostly open sores that wept a really yucky load of gunge. It's also bloody painful!
    Luckily mine got better:
    Attached Images Attached Images  
    ugly, Recce19, DavidBOC and 1 others like this.
    Dry books of tactics are beneath the notice of a man of genius, and it is a known fact that every British officer is inspired with a perfect knowledge of his duty, the moment he gets his commission; and if it were not, it would be sufficiently acquired in conversaziones at the main-guard or the grand sutler's.

    Advice to Officer's of the British Army, published 1782

  7. #7677
    Senior Member Pantsoff's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Location
    In the cam net store sleeping it off.
    Posts
    606
    When I got it I had just finished my Armd Recce cse at Warminster and went straight onto the Engr Recce Cadre we were running at 26. Got in my doss sack next morning jump in the panzer and my thigh hit the side of the seat- Ouch says I that feels strange. It got worse during the day and I started running a bit warm. By the evening I was in bits and went to Med Centre. Diagnonis of the obvious. Anyway two weeks later, during which a baby MO decides to stick a needle into my leg to get some fluid(!) the SMO cuts the fecker open and stick his finger in to "pop" the cells or something like that. Once they had plied me off the ceiling I duly fainted!
    Well Tally Bally Ho!

    "When you refer to Bailey crap I take it you mean that glorious, precision-made, British-built bridge which is the envy of the civilized world?"

    Cry God for Lizzie, England and St. George!

  8. #7678
    Moderator ugly's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2004
    Location
    Gods Waiting room
    Posts
    23,957
    Images
    25
    Quote Originally Posted by bokkatankie View Post
    Luckily mine got better:
    Sorry mucker I'd forgotten you were one of the one shoe mob!
    "I'd rather be a tired old Has been, than a tired old Never Has Been!!"
    "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
    Semper in excremento sum, solum profunditas mutat
    According to Ispeakcrabandpongo "Typically Island Ape Brits," That suits me!
    http://bashingbambi.blogspot.com/
    http://www.dogtrainingsupplies.co.uk/
    http://www.tcswoodlands.com/
    http://urbanfoxcontrol.weebly.com/

  9. #7679
    Moderator ugly's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2004
    Location
    Gods Waiting room
    Posts
    23,957
    Images
    25
    Quote Originally Posted by bokkatankie View Post
    Luckily mine got better:
    Worst bodged ingrowing toenail op I've ever seen!
    "I'd rather be a tired old Has been, than a tired old Never Has Been!!"
    "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
    Semper in excremento sum, solum profunditas mutat
    According to Ispeakcrabandpongo "Typically Island Ape Brits," That suits me!
    http://bashingbambi.blogspot.com/
    http://www.dogtrainingsupplies.co.uk/
    http://www.tcswoodlands.com/
    http://urbanfoxcontrol.weebly.com/

  10. #7680
    Senior Member bokkatankie's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    South Africa
    Posts
    7,250
    Images
    1
    Quote Originally Posted by ugly View Post
    Sorry mucker I'd forgotten you were one of the one shoe mob!
    But the Vet did a good job, in SA most doctors multi-task, some even got into property development.
    bigeye likes this.
    Dry books of tactics are beneath the notice of a man of genius, and it is a known fact that every British officer is inspired with a perfect knowledge of his duty, the moment he gets his commission; and if it were not, it would be sufficiently acquired in conversaziones at the main-guard or the grand sutler's.

    Advice to Officer's of the British Army, published 1782

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •