Today was a momentous day really as it was the day I was fitted with my new leg. It was up at a sparrows fart this morning to get to Addenbrooke’s for 08:00, even though we left really early we were still 10 mins late due to the traffic (note to self, get up before […]
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The walking lessons begin
December 12, 2011 
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Hmmm this title makes the blog sound like a baby album! In a way though it is a bit like that. There are lot’s of things as an amputee that you have to start doing in a totally different way, goals and milestones to achieve and some things that you have to learn again, in […]
Continue reading It’s only been a month!
December 11, 2011 0 Comments
Although I met a couple of amputees before my surgery I had not met any that had recently had their surgery done, which meant I have had nothing to gauge my progress with. Yesterday was the 10th December and a full month since I had my surgery. Part of me can’t believe it has gone […]
Continue reading Medication mayhem
December 10, 2011 0 Comments
Today’s blog has a moral to it. I am normally well on top of my medication and have only left myself short a couple of times. Now in the week I can go to the GP’s Surgery, explain the problem, they check the system, the receptionist raises a prescription, a GP signs it and I […]
Continue reading A visit and some realisations
December 9, 2011 0 Comments
The best thing I will take away from all the time I have spent in Hinchingbrooke Hospital over the years will be two new friendships. One of those friends popped round for a coffee today and it was so nice to see them. It was nice to see them socially and not with all the […]
Continue reading A dinning experience
December 8, 2011 0 Comments
Today I went out for lunch with two friends from Cambs ACF, we went to a local pub that I had not been to before. This was my first dinning out experience since the surgery and I was quite looking forward to it. After squeezing the wheelchair into the car it was off on the […]
Continue reading Banned, banned and …….. well maybe
December 7, 2011 0 Comments
Compared to the last two monumental days on the road to recovery today seemed a bit of a trundle down a track. After getting up late this morning (slap wrists), trying to catch up on some sleep (bad night last night) I decided I would write out my Christmas cards. I am usually ahead of […]
Continue reading My first casting
December 6, 2011 2 Comments
No not that sort of casting, I don’t think I would be cut out for a film role. It was off to Addenbrooke’s this morning to see the Rehabilitation Consultant and thankfully we got a disabled parking space today after a few laps of honour round the hospital. The first thing was to get weighed […]
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