On Monday I phoned the Doctors Surgery to book and appointment with my GP (she only works Wednesday and Friday), I was told there were no pre bookable appointments and to phone on Wednesday morning. The reason for the call is that my foot and ankle have been swollen for about two weeks I think, […]
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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 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 […]
Continue reading Drain and pain still an issue
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 […]
Continue reading More blood and goodies
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 […]
Continue reading No Choice left
March 11, 2013 0 Comments
Monday 25th February Monday morning and normally you get everyone wanting a piece of you, especially your Consultant, but as he said on Saturday evening he would not be in today. Yet again I get a different person from the plastics team so even this wasn’t consistent. I had mentioned to the plastic person the […]
Continue reading A big decision to make
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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The Amputee 