Thursday night saw me get very little in the way of sleep and as the clock struck midnight I became another year older, Happy Birthday to me. It didn’t get off to a great start, 04:30 and I was in a lot of pain so I rung for some Oramorph (thankfully they had switched the […]
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Free at last
March 18, 2013 
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Monday 4th March The lady from the plastic team came round quite early and said the drain could come out, from their point of view they were happy for me to go home. Before the drain and catheter came out I asked if it was possible to experiment the process of going to the toilet. […]
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March 17, 2013 0 Comments
Saturday 2nd March A lady from the plastic team came round early and said we were still waiting on the drain, no change there then. I’d had about 3hrs sleep again and was just totally knackered, I asked her if it would be OK to just rest and try to sleep. She was quite happy […]
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March 15, 2013 2 Comments
Friday 1st March The most exciting thing about Thursday 28th February was the physio coming round. She still wouldn’t use the stump sock on as the drain was still in. She did advise that I lay completely flat for short periods of the day to stretch the stump out. The only other action was the […]
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March 15, 2013 0 Comments
Wednesday 27th February Today was the first time since Saturday evening that I saw my Consultant. I explained to him that I’d mentioned to every member of the plastic team I’d seen that he had asked for compression but nothing seemed to happen. I was concerned that he had done all that hard work in […]
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March 14, 2013 0 Comments
Tuesday 26th February At 06:00 the second unit of blood came along, they hooked me up and I just lay there waiting for it to go through. It didn’t actually take too long before it had finished, I just had to wait and see if it did it’s job or not. A little later in […]
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March 10, 2013 0 Comments
Sunday 24th February I forgot to mention in yesterdays post that while they were doing all the tests they also took another set of MRSA swabs for testing. I have also forgotten to mention that I went in on Tramadol, after the surgery they stopped the Tramadol and started me on Oxycontin with Oramorph for […]
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November 13, 2011 0 Comments
Wow today has been busy. The first eventful thing happened just before lunch when I saw the physio (different one from yesterday). She came in and said about me sitting out in the chair for lunch which of course I had to give it a go. Although I was off the PCA and just starting […]
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