Today I had an appointment to see my Plastic Consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The 11:35 appointment meant no rush hour traffic, no stupidly early morning and a fighting chance of getting a car parking space. Dad drove me there and we headed straight for our usual car park but unfortunately there were no spaces. We […]
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A trip too far
March 27, 2013 
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On Monday I was at the Doctors, as I needed to sort out my prescription quantities for some of the medication I was prescribed from the Hospital. I didn’t see my usual Dr, but the one who sent me to Hospital with the knee abscess New Year who is also very good. She increased the […]
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March 20, 2013 0 Comments
Monday 18th March Since the appointment at Addenbrooke’s I had a couple of days in bed with cold like symptoms but it wasn’t a cold. All I know is it wiped me out yet again, which if have to say I wasn’t very impress with. The rest of the time was same old, same old, […]
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March 20, 2013 0 Comments
Monday 11th March My alarm went off for my 08:00 drug fix and I had to get up as I had an appointment with my Rehab Consultant, at Addenbrooke’s Hospital at 10:30. I thought I was getting a cold yesterday and this morning I felt bunged up with a bit of a sore throat too, […]
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March 19, 2013 0 Comments
Sunday 10th March Bloody hell done it again and missed the last liquid meds, had the mass intake at 08:00 then rolled over and slept again. With only light breaks in the sleep I stayed there till someone phoned and woke me up not long before lunch. I did have time to squeeze in a […]
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March 19, 2013 0 Comments
Saturday 9th March All the alarms went of and all medication taken and my stump felt much better for it. Mum came in to wake me for my 08:00 medication binge but was a bit late as it was actually 08:20 tut tut, note to self set yet another alarm for the morning medication. I […]
Continue reading Medication still knocking me out
March 19, 2013 2 Comments
Friday 8th Oh God it happened again! The second night alarm didn’t go off so when Mum came in at 08:00 I was in loads of bloody pain again, you would think by now it should be getting a bit easier. So had my pills but was totally knackered still so stayed in bed, they […]
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March 19, 2013 0 Comments
Tuesday 5th I spent most of the day in bed sleeping as much as I could, setting a timer for each dose of breakthrough medication I was due. Mum did check that I’d taken my pills at the right times just in case I slept through and missed them. Although I was sleeping really well […]
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