Copyright 2007-2010 Ian Reed - Legless in Thailand http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm The Legless Blog - By amputee author Ian Reed / John McMiken in Thailand http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Cover1a.jpg http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm 90 36 Legless in Thailand book legless@reedinter.co.uk (John McMiken) ian@reedinter.co.uk (Ian Reed) en-us http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm For some reason these days I never seem to sleep more than three or four hours at a time but then I get quite tired again after about ten hours of being awake and I have to sleep again for a few more hours. In the land of ZZZZZ So now my routine is that I sleep after a few beers in the late evening, I wake up in the early hours of the following morning and then I have to sleep again mid-afternoon that day and I generally wake up again in the late afternoon / early evening. A bit of pleasure and being a little sociable! I have got quite used to this routine now, but every time I wake up the first thing that I do is to ask myself if it is morning or evening, because generally I cannot remember when I last went to sleep. what day is it? Oh well! Such is the hectic life of this legless hermit these days. Retired and legless! Cheers! - Beer is my evening sleep juice More beer less pain! Sir Ian Reed FBE - King of my own bed space! King of legless hermits! Beer Connoisseur! http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm%20040911 http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm I haven't posted on here for a while again because I am still fighting daily with the pain in my hip. It doesn't seem to matter what I try to do these days, nothing ever seems to change. It is like I no longer have control of events in my life at all and I just have to accept events as they happen. When I had my accident almost two years ago, I thought that with time things would get better and that the physical pain would just be a passing phase in my life. Well I was completely wrong, the pain in my hip is still as evident as ever today and with two year's experience now, I know that it will still be there tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that, etc., etc. A real pain the leg! I seem to have hit a point in my life where change is not an option for me. I am living like a hermit now confined to my room/bed most of the time to avoid any extra physical pain caused by unnecessary body movement. The only action that does not cause me any physical pain and gives me a little pleasure is modifying, editing and changing my websites and writing on this blog. A bit of pleasure and being a little sociable! I wish that I could live out what time I have left just doing this, but at the same time I have to be practical. I have to eat, so I do have to move to go shopping for food. I have to pick up my pension so I have to go to the ATM machine sometimes and also my only luxury these days; I have walk to the local shop and buy my beer. A bit of pleasure! All of the above actions cause me physical pain but I cannot avoid them, is anything ever going to change for me? I don't think so! I just have to live with it now. So I appear to be living in a kind of limbo world now. Nothing that I can do is ever going to change this, there is no acceleration, no deceleration and no change to this general status quo. So I just have to accept that I exist in a complete zero Doppler shift, legless state now and that there is nothing that I can possibly do to change it. A real pain the leg! Oh well! Time to make some food and have a beer, cheers for now! A bit of pleasure! Cheers! - At least beer helps with the pain More beer less pain! Sir Ian Reed FBE - King of my own space! King of legless hermits! Beer Connoisseur! http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm%20030911 http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm I don't really understand how Palestine lost it's country status in the first place. My father was a British soldier in the late 1940s and his only overseas posting was in Palestine and it was active service there because they were policing borders. My father received a medal for his tour of duty and on the medal it stated Palestine and the dates that he served there, so the UK obviously recognised Palestine as a country then so how did it get lost? Palestine has always been a country in the same place The international community were very quick to recognise South Sudan as a new country this year so why has the international community not yet recognised Palestine even though it held country status before?? I know that the US and Israel are against a Palestinian state, so do these two countries rule the UN and the world now?? UN recognise Palestine! This Palestinian state recognition is the longest outstanding injustice in the world to date and it is about time that the UN put an end to this injustice! Recognise Palestine as a state! Palestine is a state! Cheers for now I'll drink to that! Cheers! - Do they make beer in Palestine? More beer! Sir Ian Reed FBE - If I ruled the world, there'd be major changes! King of legless hermits! http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm%20140811 http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm Sitting having a beer outside the supermarket this evening after doing my weekly shopping and relaxing my leg which was quite painful after walking around the store. A guy that was using a nearby ATM turned to me and said Hi how are you? I then recognised him as a person that used to live in the same apartment block as me a very long time ago and I replied to him that I was generally okay but that I now had problems with another leg injury, which he didn't know about. After explaining to him how I had smashed my right hip two years ago, he then said to me You don't have very much luck with your legs, do you? He left me after a couple of minutes of chatting and I carried on sitting on the bench, drinking my beer and I reflected on his statement and just how true it really was! My destiny! Thinking back over my life; in 1956 at the young age of 5 years I developed a problem with my leg that was diagnosed to be Perthe's hip, this was a fairly common disorder with young boys at that time and I spent two years in a hospital being treated for it. When I was eventually checked out of the hospital I was fitted with a caliper on the problem leg and a built-up shoe on the other leg and these I wore for a further two years until I was eventually pronounced by medical examiners as being cured and fit enough to walk on my own two legs again. Just leggging it! After that, I never had any problems with any of my legs again until 1982 when I smashed a disc in my spine whilst carrying out my normal work and moving some large technical equipment for the company that I was working for. The strange thing to me at the time was that the pain from this back injury was felt in my right leg and I was in pain with my leg and I couldn't walk properly. Eventually I had a surgical operation called a discectomy and laminectomy where they removed this disc and fused my spine together and with a lot of exercise over a period of three months following the operation I was soon walking around normal again. What next?! I had no further problems with any of my legs until my serious motoring accident in May 2001 when I had my left leg amputated below the knee. This caused me problems for most of that year until I was eventually fitted with a prosthetic leg by the Prostheses Foundation of Thailand in December of 2001. For the next eight years my legs never really gave me any problems, the prosthesis on my left leg worked fine and to see me walking down the street, anyone who didn't know me would think that I didn't have any problems with any of my legs. Then in September 2009 I was just returning to my room late one evening and the foot on my prosthesis twisted through 90 degrees and I tripped over it and fell very heavily onto my right hip. The pain from this fall was far greater than anything that I had ever felt before and even though I was only 30 metres from my room when it happened, it took me more than two hours to crawl that distance due to the pain that I was experiencing. I eventually had my hip replaced in a Thai hospital, but the difference with this injury compared to the others before, is that this pain has never noticeably receded. So when my friend said to me You don't have very much luck with your legs, do you? I think that he was very correct after looking back at my life and it makes me wonder if there really is such a thing as fate? and if so, is it in my destiny to be legless? Legless for life Cheers for now Legless and disabled! Cheers! - Another pint of painkiller please! More beer! Sir Ian Reed FBE - Long drink the legless King! King of legless hermits! http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm%20040911 http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm I am still receiving hundreds of scams each day and I am still playing with them. What never ceases to amaze me with these scammers is that they think that all people are impressed by titles and maybe some people are, but not quite as many as they think. All scam and no work! Most of the scammers on the internet these days are still mainly Africans and Asians even though they do operate out of many different countries now. It is still their own cultural backgrounds that leads them to believe that titles impress people. I could have used many other titles in my heading such as; King, Prince, Chief, etc., but that would be a bit over the top even for me. King Legless Hermit! These titles may be ten for a penny in African nations but they don't really mean anything in the Western world. What these scammers don't understand is that respect is earned in our societies and not something that is automatically given just because of some given title. Scamming idiots Just today I received scams from three doctors, two professors and one reverend, oh I almost forgot, I received one from a so-called senior diplomat too. It does make me laugh though and anything that can put a smile on my face is a plus these days, so I shall carry on playing with all of these upper class senior scammers just for the fun of it. All scam and no work! Cheers for now Give them the clap! HRH. Earl Prof. Rev. Dr. Ian Reed FBE. Esq. Cheers! - One pint of Royal Stout please! More beer! Sir Ian Reed FBE - Long drink the King! King of hermits! http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm%20060811 http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm I am sixty years old now and I would love to give people the benefit of my many years of experience in life. I openly admit that I have been manipulated / used myself before and what I am trying to do now is to help other people to understand what drives otherwise normal people to the bad side of life. Throughout our lives we are occasionally faced with choices which do not seem difficult at the time, but which will eventually come back to haunt you. People are usually quite open-minded and judge any new character that they meet by the way he/she comes across to them in total initially. This is exactly what I used to do myself until with experience, I started to look at every aspect of new people's appearance. Anyone can learn to deceive people by use of facial expressions, body language, etc., etc. But I now know that the one thing that cannot be easily manipulated and used as a tool to deliberately deceive people is the eyes. The eyes really do show the character of the person inside and it is something that cannot be very easily hidden. So basically what I am trying to say on here today is; always watch people's eyes because the eyes will tell you more about a person than many years of intensive investigation and detection ever will. Unfortunately, learning to read people's eyes is something that cannot be taught, it can only be learned with experience! Such is life! Cheers for now Sixty years young today! Cheers! - Happy birthday again Ian! More beer for the birthday boy! Sir Ian Reed FBE - It was a birthday treat fit for a King! King of hermits! http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm%20020811 http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm Today is the start of Ramadan and it is also the start of my seventh decade of existence. What the two have in common today is fasting, during Ramadan muslims do not eat or drink during daylight hours and today I shall be abstaining from alcoholic beverages until the end of daylight hours too, but then I shall be drinking copious amounts of beer followed by Scotch Whisky and soda chasers. Sixty years young today! Scotch on occasions At the grand old age of sixty now I think that it is only fair that I treat myself to one night of legless abandon. I shall be hiding it well though, I have decided to put the whisky in an empty beer bottle so that to other people it looks like I am just drinking beer mixed with soda water and also this way it will not attract strangers who think that they can scrounge a free whisky off me. My party for me! So all that I have to do daytime is prepare my whisky disguise and make some sandwiches for later. Party time! Cheers! - Happy birthday Ian! More beer for the birthday boy! Sir Ian Reed FBE - A birthday treat fit for a King! King of hermits! http://www.reedinter.co.uk/Blog.htm%20010811