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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A retired husband is worth his weight in gold. He’s wonderful.

Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Surgery on arm number one tomorrow. I think they put me on the complicated cases brains trust list. Or they felt bad for leaving me in A & E for 40 hours.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’m chronically hyper competitive. Comes from having a narcissistic mother 😂

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It was the painkillers that finished me off tbh. First night out of hospital after getting the left one fixed for the second time and I slipped in the bathroom under the cosy fog of morphine. Followed by 40 hours of waiting for emergency treatment. 🇳🇿

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Drinking tea with a straw wasn’t on my 2026 bucket list either.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Aaargh! It’s the creature from the black lagoon 🧌 There’s a joke in here somewhere but I’m struggling to find it funny. I now have two badly broken wrists and I can’t walk. 😭😭😭

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Surgery tomorrow morning. Hopefully they can reconstruct and realign my very wonky hand and wrist. Wish me luck. 🍀 🇳🇿

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Today’s grotesquerie - surprisingly, my fingers still move.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thank for the good wishes. The pain is manageable but my arm is looking more frightening every day. My radius and ulnar bones are on a very disturbing angle. I’m insisting on getting photos of the op so I can see what the heck is going on in there.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yay! There’s been a cancellation and my surgery has been brought forward to next Wednesday. I’m partly very happy and partly terrified. They are going to fuse my wrist to my hand for a few months so I can’t bend it. Then another operation to take that metal out. 😱

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#TheRestisPolitics with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart semi-seriously interviewing Count Binface is definitely worth checking out. Of course he can quote Homer’s Odyssey in Greek like all British public schoolboys dabbling in politics. He’s a more erudite & socialist version of Boris Johnson.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’m not expecting 100% but at least it’s not my dominant hand. So long as I can go sailing again.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’ve got Tramadol. That’s the best they can do unless a specialist prescribes something stronger.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Yup. Where the lump ends is the exposed end of my radius, which has disconnected from my hand. 😱

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

😭😭😭 it’s getting worse every day. More swelling, more pain. Four and a half weeks until surgery. 🇳🇿 #kikorangi

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I saw the CT scan of my hand. It looks like a steamroller has run over the metatarsal bones. Fingers are all good. Radius and ulna have the ends snapped off and the palm of my hand bones are a crunched up mess and have kind off slid up my arm behind the radius and ulna. None of it makes sense. 😭😭😭

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I hope you got Chat GPT to write it. Nobody human is ever going to read it.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

That’s what one of my kids said. “Holy moly, that’s kinda cool” to be exact 😂

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Someone should do a case study of me. Surprisingly, I slept like a dead person last night.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Definitely worth thinking about. There’s one on each side of the arm. Imperial and metric.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sorry to hear that you’re dealing with pain too. It really does shrink your world and steals a lot of joy. Arohanui.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I think I’m still in shock. It doesn’t seem quite real. More painkillers needed and I’ll face it in the morning.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yep. Twice. The surgeon had the grace to look mortified.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I’ve got some Tramadol which takes the edge off. This time they’ll have to take bone tissue from my pelvis, instead of cadaver bone. All a bit much really.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Well, this didn’t turn out very well, to put it mildly. Failed bone graft. Back to surgery in a few weeks. Hurts like hell. 🇳🇿😱

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just starting to wake up after nodding off to sleep all day. Pain last night was extreme so I barely slept. Feeling better now though, although I can’t do much with only one arm.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Post wrist surgery. Thanks to Morpheus for the milk of the poppy. 🇳🇿

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Isn’t the very definition of catholic to have broad, wide ranging and inclusive interests? From the Greek “katholikos”, meaning universal.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Nothing so exciting. Tripped over something on Raglan wharf and stuck out my hand to protect my knee. Automatic response.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I had a Buddhist friend who taught comparative religion in Catholic schools as a visiting teacher. He thought the education was very broad based.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yes, and no. The bone has grown back together so the plate isn’t needed anymore

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I tripped over something and broke my wrist again, five months after the first time, plus bent the plate and a couple of screws. It hurts all the time, so it needs to come out.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I’m looking at six months’ recovery. I hope yours is quicker. I’ll still be glad to get it gone though. Good luck 🤞

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Surgery has now been confirmed for next Wednesday. They’ll reopen the scars on either side of my wrist and take out the damaged metal plates. Hopefully it can heal properly then. I feel like I’ve had an operation in every hospital in Auckland over the past four years. #kikorangi

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We’re just a bit higher up in Eden Terrace. No frost but definitely nippy.

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We got a lot of geography too - how different rivers form, urban development models etc. I finished HS in 1973.

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