By Any Other Name

[Mi-Amigo]

With comedian Joe Lycett changing his name by Deed Poll to Hugo Boss see here , got me thinking...

Would you, or have any of you, ever thought of changing your name? Or know someone who has?

And if so, to what?

This is gonna be fun - and, if possible, try and keep it decent and repeatable 

To kick this off, I`ll tell you a true story...

Years ago, I went out with a girl, who was a huge heavy metal music fan and, well before I knew her, she had changed her name to Zinc Alloy...

My mum, not knowing her name or who she was, told me to bring her for tea - as mum`s do.

I introduced her as my girlfriend and my mum asked her her name... When she said "Zinc Alloy", my mum`s reaction was priceless  

[jonsie]

I try not to remember the bad bits like the pain, the not eating for over a month and their quite unique way of setting of bones and fitting of a cage when that was the wrong option all along....

mmmn...come to think of it, the hospital wasn't that brilliant but the six at a time nurses giving me a bed bath was err...ok, and they were very pretty in their white uniforms (think I better stop there now )

[Cleoriff]

Yes.... I seem to remember you enjoying the bed bath(s)

Though I did see the pictures of the xrays you posted, showing the post surgery fixators in place!!!

My little orthopaedic brain was screaming WTF!!

[jonsie]

I still have those fixators under the sink. I was supposed to either post or take them back. I was scared of taking them personally in case they tied me to a bed until I'd paid (if only...)

[Cleoriff]

Never heard of a hospital giving a patient their fixators to take home

No wonder it cost a fortune to stay there!

[jonsie]

They wanted to discharge me after 2 months in ICU for Mauy to take care of me, yeah right, her with a broken femur! They wanted to charge me the equivalent of a tenner a day until my leg healed. Mmn, the way the bones had been aligned I would still be paying the daily charge now. 

[Cleoriff]

We all thank god your lad (and others) managed to get you back here @jonsie 

[Anonymous]

Yes to all the above @jonsie and @Cleoriff  

We were all willing you on at the time, Lovely Lancashire Lad who you are 

and Nurse @Cleoriff who was keeping us all informed of your escapades with the 6 nurses at a time re: bed baths  

[Anonymous]

What they said!

[Bosta]

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[MI5]

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