Scoilosis bad???

I awake refreshed from my night in the fridge which I hope brought me to my senses.

You know we should be shouting about the scoliosis. Why? Because if makes our (handsome) man even more of a hero. And it makes him a hero long before his stand at Bosworth. The Barnet/Tewkesbury campaign has always been acknowledged as tough; even for Edward. Our man fought Barnet, lost a lot of chums (and Warwick), was wounded, marched his troops at top speed in the heat to Tewkesbury, was a main commander there, oversaw the trial of the 'traitors', marched to Coventry and London and then, after a few weeks' rest at most was sent by brother Eddie to sort of Fauconburg in the south.

Then, far from frollicking in Yorkshire with Anne, he carried out a punishing schedule for the next few years culminating in the invasion of Scotland. All this as well as travelling to France, sorting out dad's funeral, trying to sort out George, being chief guest at his nephew's wedding and greeting sister Margaret and of course personally fulfilling all those offices that a greatful, but selfish, Eddie had given him. If he had a lot of rewards then, by jingo, he earned them. That schedule would have tested the fittest, let alone someone with a condition which would doubtless have made them tired and probably in some pain for some of the time.

He could so easily have taken the pen-pushing option; bet Eddie could have found him a nice slot in the Church, like Dr Morton. But he worked and fought with the best of them which is to his credit and makes him to me an even greater hero than I once thought.

And you know what, I bet if we start to celebrate that, the hump might suddenly start to diminish and the detractors will find evidence that he just had a slight touch of arthritis!

Sorry, but the oratory took over. Hilary

I did see one comment from a doctor who said he had a lot of patients with scoliosis and that the degree of the condition revealed in the skeleton would have resulted in a fair degree of pretty constant pain for the patient. So, yeah, doing all of that while you're uncomfortable is one more added character note.

Someone, I believe on the archeology team, also remarked that that degree of scoliosis would have squeezed the person's heart and lungs, though they didn't specify to what extent this might have been debilitating, if at all.

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> I awake refreshed from my night in the fridge which I hope brought me to my senses.
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> You know we should be shouting about the scoliosis. Why? Because if makes our (handsome) man even more of a hero. And it makes him a hero long before his stand at Bosworth. The Barnet/Tewkesbury campaign has always been acknowledged as tough; even for Edward. Our man fought Barnet, lost a lot of chums (and Warwick), was wounded, marched his troops at top speed in the heat to Tewkesbury, was a main commander there, oversaw the trial of the 'traitors', marched to Coventry and London and then, after a few weeks' rest at most was sent by brother Eddie to sort of Fauconburg in the south.
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> Then, far from frollicking in Yorkshire with Anne, he carried out a punishing schedule for the next few years culminating in the invasion of Scotland. All this as well as travelling to France, sorting out dad's funeral, trying to sort out George, being chief guest at his nephew's wedding and greeting sister Margaret and of course personally fulfilling all those offices that a greatful, but selfish, Eddie had given him. If he had a lot of rewards then, by jingo, he earned them. That schedule would have tested the fittest, let alone someone with a condition which would doubtless have made them tired and probably in some pain for some of the time.
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> He could so easily have taken the pen-pushing option; bet Eddie could have found him a nice slot in the Church, like Dr Morton. But he worked and fought with the best of them which is to his credit and makes him to me an even greater hero than I once thought.
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> And you know what, I bet if we start to celebrate that, the hump might suddenly start to diminish and the detractors will find evidence that he just had a slight touch of arthritis!
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> Sorry, but the oratory took over. Hilary
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