Full Bill of Health

Buses confused me so this morning was inevitably very confusing. Firstly locating the correct bus stop then locating the direction I wanted to go in and then finding the right bus. Tricky but I managed it.
I'm always impressed by the Northern General, you don't seem to spend ages waiting about like most places.
Sat down, young doctor came in and asked me a lot of questions about my hand so I pointed out (politely) that it was my back that was the issue (this time) as she managed to spill all of my previous x-rays all over the floor (there are a lot in that file now!). Ah. No x-rays from the Hallamshire (faulty towers seemed to be what they were calling it). She disappeared and Royston appeared a few minutes later, he's a right character but seems nice enough to me. As I was a student and wasn't in a rush (he did ask) he took full advantage of my x-ray (that he'd found) as a teaching case.
I won't repeat everything, basically one of my vertebrae has been squished at the front. It's therefore no longer rectangular ish its definitely a trapezoid. Alignment is good and its stable, i.e. I'm not incontinent and can still walk! He then proceeded to explain about two different spinal models, two column and three column models that both showed that my back isn't going to drop to bits. On the bad side of things he said that I WILL experience pain with it and he can't really say for how long however it is extremely unlikely that I can cause damage. Beer was recommended as a good solution.
I surprised myself whilst being examined when asked to touch my toes: I actually managed. You hear that Vicky, Zips and everyone else who took the p*ss so much!!!