Medication, the bane of my life. That said, just recently I haven’t done too bad about withdrawing from some of it. I had manage to knocked out both the OxyContin and the OxyNorm. My next challenge was the Tramadol, which was going well but has since gone tits up! My cunning plan to change from […]
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A monumental achievement
June 15, 2013 
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Wednesday 12th June was supposed to be my first Physio session. In some respects I was looking forward to it and in other ways dreading it, that’s just how Physio is and it depends on what we do. For some reason, and I have no idea why, I felt really bad in the morning, I […]
Continue reading A long prosthetic session
June 14, 2013 0 Comments
The morning of Monday 10th June saw a three and a half hour session with Lynne (my Prosthetist). This is not a bad thing in itself but depends whether I come away with a better fitting socket or not. Did I come away with a better socket? Lets just backtrack a little first The first […]
Continue reading A poorly car
June 13, 2013 0 Comments
I have had a few cars where I have not been able to drive for months because of surgery, medication or both. They have all been good though, started and run well the first time they were turned over again. This car has had a slightly different story. Let me start by a medication update. […]
Continue reading Magazine feature
June 4, 2013 0 Comments
Back in January the Marketing and Communications Officer of ACFA (Army Cadet Force Association) invited me to be the person for their ‘People’ page, at the back of the next edition of Army Cadet Magazine. I was very honoured to have been asked and accepted the invitation. I just hoped that it would be interesting […]
Continue reading New socket fitting
May 30, 2013 2 Comments
This morning was met with both excitement and nerves, oh and of course tiredness. All this was due to my 08:30 appointment with Lynne (my Prosthetist) for the fitting of my new socket. I went in on time and in came Lynne, my leg and my old socket (for me to keep). The first thing […]
Continue reading Manic Monday
May 22, 2013 0 Comments
Monday 13th May was supposed to be the busiest day since my surgery, although not all of it went quite to plan I suppose it was really. I will try and cut an incredibly long story as short as I can and put it in blocks for easy reading. Socket Casting We were up exceptionally […]
Continue reading Me and my Nan
May 12, 2013 0 Comments
I didn’t know whether to write this post, as it is not about being an amputee. The blog is about my life, and the people in it, as an amputee so I decided I would go ahead. My Nan passed away at 96 years old, people will inevitably say ‘she’s had a good innings’, ‘she […]
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