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Life in a Coronavirus Pandemic: A Third Solitary Week in Lockdown
As the UK is entering the third week of lockdown the number of confirmed cases and deaths from coronavirus and COVID19 continues to rise and it is expected the end of this week will see the biggest increase yet. The situation regarding lockdown will also be reviewed then but it does not seem the…
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Life in a Coronavirus Pandemic: Locked Down in Dorset
It is the second week of lockdown in the UK. Home alone I am sticking to the rules but many people are not as they are failing to understand the seriousness of the situation. This week sees the first death of a child from the virus and even our own Prime Minister becomes ill. As the number of…
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Life in a Coronavirus Pandemic: Self-Isolation Merges into Lockdown
On Monday 23 March 2020 restrictions were introduced that effectively put the UK into lockdown. By then I had been in self-isolation for eleven days and was looking forward to returning to a normal life. But that was not going to happen as the world around me started closing down and closing in.
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Life in a Coronavirus Pandemic: Days 8 - 12 in Self-Isolation
As I came to the end of my first week of my self-isolation following a sudden curtailment of a trip to Northern Italy I was looking forward to getting the second week over and life becoming normal again. I had decided I would spend some more time in Dorset and volunteered to do some shifts on…
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Life in a Coronavirus Pandemic: Week One of Self-Isolation
As Italy attempts to control the second most serious outbreak of coronavirus in the world events move fast. Four days after my arrival there the whole country goes into lockdown. I escape to the UK on one of the last flights out of the country and head for two weeks’ self-isolation at home. The…
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Life in a Coronavirus Pandemic: Caught in the Italian Lockdown
On Wednesday 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization declared that the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak was now a pandemic acknowledging that the virus is likely to spread to every country on the globe. At the time I was being re-patriated to the UK on one of the last flights to leave…
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New Knees and New Adventures
Following the total replacement of both my knees I was delighted to find that I could still participate in my favourite activities at the same level that I had done prior to surgery. Now I was ready to find out how my new knees would react to trying new activities and experiences like bog walking…
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Skiing – After Total Knee Replacements?
When I asked the question, would I be able to ski after surgery to replace both knees my surgeon, Professor John Skinner responded that there was no reason why not. Conclusion, the knees had the technology so success or failure was up to me. As skiing is one of my passions I was determined to…
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A Trip to Myanmar
It had long been an ambition of mine to visit Burma (now known as Myanmar) and I was not going to let the fact that it was only a few months since I had undergone total replacement of both knees in the same operation put me off. I was still doing exercises every day and my range of movement was…
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Back to Work After Total Knee Replacements
After several weeks of prehabilitation followed by a simultaneous total replacement of both knees and then six weeks of rehabilitation it was time to go back to work as a tour manager. My first trip was a walking holiday in the Italian Dolomites. I was looking forward to testing my new knees on…
