Tag Archives: crutches

A trip too far

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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A parcel arrives

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 […]

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A Birthday visit

Yesterday was the first trip out again in ages, this time it was back down Essex to visit Nan. She has fallen a couple more times since being been back home, so she’s in a care home for the next 6 weeks. It is her 96th Birthday today so we took down her cards and […]

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The first fall in ages

Only the other day I was thinking to myself how well I had done in not having a fall for ages now. Patting myself on the back thinking I hadn’t done anything stupid and been balancing a tads better. It now appears that was probably the worst thought I could have had, talk about jinx […]

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Feeling under the weather

Thursday and Friday was the latest installment of the Practical Skills For Business Course. It was great to see Andrew and the Group again but I really didn’t feel with it at all. We covered Business Management and Operations on the Thursday and Costing & Pricing on the Friday, I managed to get through both […]

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Back to using bloody crutches!

Not surprisingly, after the epic Open Day on Saturday, I didn’t wear my prosthetic leg at all on Sunday. I have to say on a slightly positive note the redness around the groin had gone on Sunday morning, although I was a little bruised inside my tendon. Monday I put the leg on and went […]

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A stunning resting place

Today was a semi productive day really. The weather was OK so we headed straight for the Rhondda Heritage Park close to where an ancestor lived and worked. We really wanted to go on the colliery tour but it was cancelled as the earlier tour was running late. We had a quick look round at […]

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R&R in Wales

Yesterday was pretty epic as I travelled to Wales for a few days R&R, sightseeing and photography. It all started Friday evening when we took Cody to the kennels. He is staying with the people we bought him from and where he will see his Mum, Brother and friends. He seemed quite happy and I […]

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