I have been across to Addenbrooke’s Hospital this afternoon for my Pre Op Assessment. The letter I received said that the Assessment could take up to 2hrs, which I thought was excessive, unless that included waiting room time where they were running late. Dad drove me over there as I’ve been having a lot of […]
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A Birthday visit
February 10, 2013 
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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 […]
Continue reading Operation No.2
January 4, 2013 0 Comments
Yesterday morning I was totally hanging after a horrendous night with two of the ladies in the bay feeding off of one another. I know we all have different levels of pain tolerance, I appreciate how confused and scared people with dementia can be and they sleep most of the day so awake at night […]
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, […]
Continue reading Amputee Space Dust
December 2, 2012 0 Comments
In my last post I mentioned there was a connection between a chocolate orange, I was given as a gift, and a thought I’d had a couple of days before, in this post I am going to explain the connection. Apart from the pain in the stump from the bone issue I think I have […]
Continue reading Shocking treatment by the DWP
November 28, 2012 2 Comments
As regular readers will know I have had an exceptionally worrying time over the complete cluster by the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions). I have not been paid anything since I came off JSA (Job Seekers Allowance) in July, even though I applied for ESA (Employment and Support Allowance) and sent in a doctors […]
Continue reading The first fall in ages
November 27, 2012 0 Comments
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 […]
Continue reading The Wet Room is finished!
November 26, 2012 2 Comments
Last Monday, a year a nine days after my amputation, they finally started work on the Wet Room. With a total of 6 people (doing various different bits for different lengths of time) and a few delays on parts they got it completed on Friday. We did have to call them out late Friday afternoon […]
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