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Sick Man Blues

We had a few excursions to A & E over the years we were together.  Once it was on my account, when I cut my hand on a broken glass.  Mostly, it was David who was the patient .  There was the time when he tripped over an uneven paving stone on the first day of our summer leave and broke  a bone in his ankle, only the hospital said it wasn't.   We duly went  on our few days away and walked (or in David's case, limped) all round York.  On our first day back at work, David got a phone call from the hospital - "We've had another look at those x-rays and we think you've broken a bone in your ankle".  When I went to collect him at the end of the day he was in a plaster cast from the knee down. Our next run-in with the NHS was when he managed to put his kneecap out of joint while turning off the TV. I should say at this point that he had hyper-motile cartilage in his knee - in other words. the "elastic" holding his kneecap in place was loose...