The Amputee

One night only (Part 2)

July 23, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

Saturday night I got hardly any sleep as I wrestled with the shower room situation. The room layout consisted of a massive rectangular room (longest length from side to side as you look from the door) with the door on the far right hand side. It was that big you could have easily got a […]

Continue reading →

Daily Life

ACF, amputee, bedroom, Cambs, chair, disabilities, disabled, facilities, frustrating, grab, leg, light, mobile, Padre, prosthetic, pull cord, rails, risk, room, safe, seat, shower, sink, situation, surgery, wheelchair

More surgery is a real probability

July 11, 2012 by theamputee 2 Comments

Yes you read the title right and can you believe it! On Monday I saw my Rehab Consultant’s Registrar, I had not met him before but he was nice and explained things well. I explained that following my surgery I got severe cramp and spasms which I expected as the muscles had been rebuilt. This […]

Continue reading →

Daily Life

Addenbrooke's, amputee, anti-inflammatories, bone, Bursae, Consultant, cramp, femur, groin, gym, Hinchingbrooke, Hospital, inflamed, inflammation, limb, muscles, nerve, operations, pain, physio, plastic, prosthetist, Registrar, rehab, scar, spasms, stump, surgeon, surgery, tender, thigh

A Grant Update

July 6, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

At the beginning of March my Community OT (Occupational Therapist) forwarded the paperwork for the wet room and Disability Facilities Grant to Fenland District Council. At the end of last week I received a phone call from West Norfolk Care & Repair who take up the case to get the process and work organised. They […]

Continue reading →

Daily Life

A happy bunny

June 14, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

Yesterday was the first physio session for a couple of weeks and as long as we weren’t doing a whole session of stretching I was actually looking forward to it. I had taken the belt of my prosthesis along in my bag but decided to try it without the belt on, I managed the whole […]

Continue reading →

Daily Life

amputee, belt, body, cambers, challenge, clinic, drum, dumbbell, exercise, foot, gait, gym, hills, kerbs, leg, length, pace, padded, painful, physio, posture, practice, progress, prosthesis, prosthetic, prosthetist, ramps, session, snare, stick, strengthen, stretching, stride, surfaces, surgery, tendon, terrain, trainer, weight

I really regret doing that

June 1, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

Wednesday was, although I didn’t know it at the time, the worst physio session I have had. A super-hot day and my physio didn’t want to work us too hard so we had just over an hour and a quarter of stretching. Looking back I think I would rather have tried an hour on the […]

Continue reading →

Daily Life

ached, achievement, amputee, back, camber, extend, extending, gym, knee, kneel, kneeling, limits, machine, multiple, pain, painful, Paracetamols, pavement, physio, route, rowing, stretches, stretching, surgery, Tramadol, walk

Employment & Support Allowance Stopped

May 19, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

Before I went away on holiday I had to go to Cambridge for my medical assessment as part of my renewal claim for ESA (Employment & Support Allowance). When I got home from Wales there was a letter waiting for me from the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) dated the 3rd May, it told […]

Continue reading →

Daily Life

adviser, allowance, amputation, amputee, appeal, assessment, benefits, Cambridge, centre, Consultant, Department, Disability, DWP, Employment, equipment, ESA, job, JSA, manual, medical, Pensions, personal, propel, prosthesis, rehabilitation, Seekers, Support, surgery, Wales, wheelchair, work

I entered a discomfort zone

April 27, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

I had been looking forward to yesterday for a while as it was the first day since the surgery that I was going out to do some photography. Every year Cambridgeshire Army Cadet Force has the recruiting trailer at the Army Careers Exhibition held at the Army Training Regiment Bassingbourn (ATR(B)). I missed last year’s […]

Continue reading →

Daily Life

(ATR(B)), Afghanistan, air, airfield, amputee, army, Artillery, ATR, Bassingbourn, Beds & Herts, cadet, Cadets, Cambridgeshire, camera, career, Careers, casualty, centre, civilian, disabled, discomfort, Display, equipment, Exhibition, experience, eye, Flying, force, forecast, grenades, Gunners, Hospital, Infantry, Instructors, lens, limb, magnet, motorcycle, Navy, Officer, Parachute, parking, photo, photography, Princess, PRO, Public, rain, recruiting, Regiment, Regiment's, regulars, Relations, Royal, smoke, sunshine, surgery, teachers, Team, teenagers, Tigers, trailer, training, uncomfortable, uniform, Wales's, weapons, weather, weight, wheelchair, wheelie, zone

Motion & Emotion

April 17, 2012 by theamputee 0 Comments

I woke up this morning in a particularly happy and excited mood, it has probably been the most anticipated day since the surgery (bar rehabilitation and prosthetics). As I looked out the window and saw the wet miserable weather, not even that could put a dampener on my day. Unfortunately I had to wait until […]

Continue reading →

Daily Life