hello everyone. Finding myself not as busy as usual and spending more time at the computer I found this place. please excuse spelling and bad typing but due to a fractured shoulder/arm I am one handed, also fed up I’m a really bad patient. I like to be out and about a lot, I love animals, all kinds, apart from cockroaches and wasps. I don’t like pain either but getting a lot at the minute, one trip I don’t want to take again!
(thank you for pointing me in the right direction meg)
Hello Loretta 
welcome, I look forward to chatting with you.
Hi Loretta and welcome to the forum. Its a very friendly place. Whereabouts in Spain are you, I have a house there near Albuñol on the Costa Tropical. 
Hello Loretta, hope you enjoy it here, it’s a good place to be.
Now you have found us I hope you enjoy being here.
welcome to the forum
Thank you all for the welcome. I live on the Costa Blanca, Murcia area, we’ve been here now for 12 years now and a couple of years in Kenya before coming here. Not planning on moving again, but you never know.
Hello and welcome
thank you Jean
Hello Loretta, nice to meet you…wish you better soon.
You are very welcome Loretta, I hope that your recovery is swift and complete. Look forward to seeing more of you…
Hello Loretta, a warm welcome to you!
I hope your painful, fractured shoulder/arm heals soon.
Hope you enjoy your time with us:-D
Hello Loretta, nice to meet you - hope you enjoy the forum:-)
Hope your shoulder/arm improves quickly…
Wellcome from me two
Hola Loretta! Welcome to a warm and friendly forum and hope you enjoy your stay. Hope your arm/shoulder recovers quickly.
Hola Loretta darlin’ - do I presume too much Sangria and not enough care 
- Only kidding.
I know all about pain - am recuperating from replacement hip surgery over Xmas. I have Oromorph and Co-codomol for analgesics - in combination they work very well - if your pain is too much for comfort - perhaps you need to chat to your Doctor.
thank you all for the welcome and the sympathy. no alcohol involved, in fact I must be one of the most sober Brits in Spain, I don’t drink, well maybe a glass of sangria in summer but even that is rare, no religious reasons or anything like that, just never acquired a taste for it. I quite simply went for a “trip” in the garden but unfortunately landed with my arm right on the edge of a concrete step. can’t fault the treatment I got in any way, I was dealt with in less than 10 minutes at the hospital, scanned and xrayed, told operation needed and taken to my room where I was made comfortable, no wards as such here, mostly single occupancy rooms with en suite and all mod cons, even pull out beds in case someone wants to stay with you. no complaints from me about spanish national health service, everyone was so nice. I was in for two nights then at our local clinic every other day for dressing changes etc, got the rest of the staples out on Friday and I see the specialist again towards end of February.
I hope your hip replacement is going on well Uncle Joe, you’ll be climbing mountains before you know it!
today, so far, has been better, not resorted to any pain killers yet
Hello and welcome to you Loretta, you will enjoy it here.
Sorry to hear you have a fractured shoulder, hope it gets well soon.
Loretta darlin’ - if you but knew - I used to do a lot of mountain climbing in my ‘youth’ , but Arthritis has pretty much put paid to that now. I have metal implants in both hips and both knees and will be chatting to the surgeons again in June about possible ankle implants.
