Sunday 3rd March After an exceptionally disappointing day rest wise yesterday, it didn’t get any better over night. I only managed to get about 3hrs sleep during the night so was still totally knackered. I’d been able to lay on my left side for some time now with no major problems. In order to lie […]
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Not a great idea
March 17, 2013 
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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 […]
Continue reading Signs of improvement
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 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 […]
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 […]
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