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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Rehab Consultant and goodie box
March 20, 2013 
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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, […]
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 It all begins to go wrong
March 9, 2013 0 Comments
Saturday 23rd February 05:30 and this is where it all started to go wrong. I felt like I wanted to go to the toilet quite badly so I called for the nurse, the nurse who had helped me before was on a break so a HCA (Healthcare Assistant) and the Trainee Nurse came. I explained […]
Continue reading Surgery Day
March 8, 2013 0 Comments
I apologise for the lack of blog posts but since my surgery, on Friday 22nd February. I’m so far behind and so much has happened I could probably write a book on the past week alone. As things are starting to improve slowly I hope to be able to get a couple of posts done […]
Continue reading It’s like Russian Roulette
December 5, 2012 0 Comments
I seemed to have been waiting for yesterday to arrive for ages, in the morning I was off to see the Plastic Surgeon for the first time. 45 minutes late the registrar eventually came in to see me, he was a really nice guy so all is forgiven. It started off same old, same old, […]
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The Amputee 