Not a blog, but a vlog for you, in which I discuss pain management and the options my GP offered me.
Julian Radbourne - www.julianradbourne.co.uk
Formerly Britain's longest-running professional wrestling & MMA blog. Now a blog with a ton of other stuff on it as well!
Friday, 17 January 2025
Thursday, 16 January 2025
Friendship
If there’s one thing I’ve really missed about my life it’s this: long-lasting friendships.
Let me explain. If you’ve followed my blog over the past few years you might remember when I wrote about my time at Cromer High School, about the problems I faced after my mother passed away in 1983, about how I was bullied and how I’ve suffered from mental health problems off and on ever since then.
At the time it was determined by “those in the know” that the best thing for me was to move schools from Cromer to North Walsham High School. When that didn’t work out I was moved to the North Walsham Senior Tutorial Centre, a place where kids who had problems were sent to. I lasted there for a couple of years before I was sent back to Cromer High to end my schooling, an end which couldn’t have come soon enough for me.
Being shunted around made it difficult to maintain any kind of friendship. I lost touch with the people I grew up with, guys I first met at infants school and ended up with at the high school for the first couple of years. There were quite a few people I thought of as good friends at the time, and quite a few others I would quite happily avoid if given the chance.
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Ever Fallen in Love With Someone?
Have you ever fallen in love with someone? Who am I kidding? Everyone’s fallen in love with someone at some point in their lives, haven’t they? Even me.
Sure, there were women over the years that I knew that I found attractive. But it wasn’t until about twenty-odd years ago that I actually met someone and thought that this could possibly be it.
She was everything I wanted in a woman. She was beautiful, charming, witty, intelligent, and I got on with her like a house on fire. We flirted with each other, we had our fair share of banter, and people could see that I was really, really interested in her.
Saturday, 11 January 2025
Imagine If Football Management Was Like Retail Management
Think about it. You're a regular player for your team and you hear from a team-mate that your manager is leaving and that one of his underlings is taking over on a temporary basis. Then, while you’re on the pitch on Saturday afternoon, three-nil up against your local rivals, you see a bloke in the dugout that you’ve never seen before, and towards the end of the match one of your team-mates tells you that he’s the new manager.
Tuesday, 31 December 2024
My Worst Moment of 2024
Nope. For me the worst moment in 2024 was losing Tinker. Her passing didn’t hit me hard because it was unexpected, or because she was at a relatively young age. It hit me like a ton of bricks because of what she did for me.
Tuesday, 24 December 2024
A Sudden Aversion to Christmas Songs
This morning I decided to try and get into the Christmas spirit a little, so after I got out of the shower I connected my phone to my Bluetooth speaker and fired up the playlist, but when the songs began the music didn’t achieve the effect I’d originally envisioned.
Monday, 23 December 2024
The Festivus Airing of Grievances 2024
Anyway, it is a Festivus tradition that one should air their grievances to their family and friends. If I were to do that it would probably take me an age, and if some of my family (and I use that word loosely) are reading this they are probably getting ready to leave a comment here. They can feel safe in the knowledge that this grievance is not aimed at them. It is aimed at a company, one of the many I’ve been employed by during my working life.
You see, if you’ve been reading this blog you’d know that about nine months ago I lost my job because of my ongoing health problems, mainly because I couldn’t provide a date for when I’d be able to return to work.
Friday, 13 December 2024
December 13th
I’ve found myself thinking about her, and about Dad, a hell of a lot over the past eighteen months, particularly when I was in hospital. As I approached my 52nd birthday I really thought that I could be heading down the same road she did.
I also found myself thinking about how Mum and Dad would have handled my being in that situation. I quickly came to the conclusion that was a daft thing to think about. If they had been alive I have no doubt that they would have been fussing over me and making sure everything was okay because, simply put, they were my Mum and Dad, and that was what they did.
Friday, 29 November 2024
I've Got Some Nerve
So here goes. For the third time in three weeks I ventured to the big hospital to see someone I hadn’t seen since last year, the surgeon who operated me. If you’ve been reading the stuff I put on here you’d know that the cardiology team suggested getting in touch with the thoracic team because I was still in a great deal of pain from my diaphragm repair and chest drain operations last year.
I was more than surprised to get an appointment with them just a few days after I contacted them, but then again, given what I went through last year perhaps it shouldn’t be such a surprise.
Saturday, 9 November 2024
So I Made It To 53
I really thought that I'd be joining them this time last year as I lay in hospital stitched up, taped up, tubes in various parts of my body, with so many needles having been jabbed into me and feeling pain the likes of which I never want to feel again.
The truth is I'm still nowhere near a hundred percent, but getting so many birthday wishes means a lot to me, and I will gladly take that support with me when I'm back in hospital for further treatment soon.