Today has been really good in most ways but a bit weird in others. My parents picked my Nan (94) up this morning as she is staying with us over the Holiday period. I was a bit apprehensive as it is the first time she has seen me as an amputee. It felt a bit […]
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The quickest physio session ever!
December 23, 2011 
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I can start today’s post with a little good news in the shape of a slight improvement with the phantom issue. The increase in Morphine does seem to have helped and I manage to get a better nights sleep last night. I felt disappointed that I had to increase the Morphine again but then I […]
Continue reading Off to see the Wizard, no not of Oz
December 21, 2011 0 Comments
Last night was hellish again. I wore the Relax sock from about 17:00 and still had the same level of discomfort when I went to bed. It took me ages to get to sleep and I just kept waking up, at some point the sock tried my patience and I took it off. Later on […]
Continue reading A new sock
December 20, 2011 0 Comments
Yesterday when I went for physio I stuck my head in Clinic 9 to see if my new evening/night sock (Medi Relax Night Care) had arrived. The receptionist disappeared and came back with the sock box in hand. I had been looking forward to getting this sock as this is the one that is supposed […]
Continue reading One tough physio session
December 19, 2011 4 Comments
Last night was a nightmare, it was the first time since the surgery where I could have actually screamed. It wasn’t that it was more painful than it has ever been, because it wasn’t, it was what it was doing that drove me mad. Pins and needles or a tingling sensation is nothing new, I […]
Continue reading A mixed bag
December 18, 2011 0 Comments
Today has been a bit of a mixed bag really. I had a real pants night, get up a bit late, got a phone call from a friend to say I have inspired them, had a visitor and knackered myself having a hose down. I have been having a few problems with the stump the […]
Continue reading Help for all amputees
December 18, 2011 0 Comments
Today a package arrived and I noticed by the postmark that it was from the Limbless Association http://www.limbless-association.org/ . I had decided to join them the other day and joined as a lifetime member at a cost of £150 as opposed to the yearly £20. There was stacks of brochures and information in the pack […]
Continue reading Prosthetist saves the day
December 16, 2011 0 Comments
Today was my first Friday physio session and it was grey, sleeting and miserable when we left home, at various places on the journey it was snowing. If you saw the post ‘A day when nothing got done’ you’ll have read that I was having problems with my prosthetic leg, yesterday I didn’t wear it […]
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