Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo
That'd be about what 95 Kg [210 pound]? I'd hardly consider that overweight, Unless you are quite short in stature....Doesn't seem fair - or is it moe the fact that you're a smoker? oh well, Good to hear about the death star...

I know it isn't that overweight, and i'm 5ft 10inch, but before i had all the problem with my back & leg joints 6 years ago then i was only 10.5 stone and had been since i was a teenager. The funny thing was that up until she asked me if i smoked she was really nice then suddenly changed her attitude. She was giving me a lecture about how much damage i will have done to my body through smoking and she said that i will soon see when she does the medical. Well she tested my blood pressure first - perfect, so no problems there. Next was my cholesterol level - perfect too. She wasn't too happy at this point because so far there was nothing that she could blame on smoking but then she tested my lung capacity . Now this really pissed her off when she consulted her chart and had to tell me that i had the lung capacity of a 19year old NON smoker. So out the window went the theory about the smoking part of things and i have been smoking for 23 years. So to be told that i won't be able to have the op because i smoke was a joke. i have been to a solicitor to see what can be done but he has said that its doubtful that i will be able to pursue things because its happening up and down the country now and getting more widespread as hospital policy.