Thursday evening I was shuffling along the bed to try and transfer onto my wheelchair, so I could go to the toilet. I’ve been using a commode most of the time but every now and then preferred to use the toilet. I got my leg laying along the edged of the bed when all of […]
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Hospital averted, for now!
September 24, 2013 
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After the visit to Oxford I knew the infection in my knee was not cured and it would raise its ugly head once more. From how it looked when I left Hospital last time and only having a localised hot spot last Thursday, I thought I would make it to my Guided Knee Aspiration appointment […]
Continue reading I’m not a freak of nature!
September 20, 2013 0 Comments
There was a time, when I worked for Royal Mail, when getting up at 03:45 for a 04:30 start was the norm and there wasn’t a morning where I didn’t want to get up and go to work. That changed when I had to stop doing deliveries and started working in the office, then I […]
Continue reading Two very different decisions
August 7, 2013 4 Comments
I felt sorry for my Dad, we had been told I could get patient transport from Hinchingbrooke Hospital to Addenbrooke’s Hospital but last minute .com they said they couldn’t. Well that’s a small lie, they could get me a wheelchair taxi but my Dad would have to come with me, if he had to come […]
Continue reading You just don’t realise
December 15, 2011 0 Comments
If anyone is a regular reader and read the ‘Medication Mayhem’ post I mentioned about not being able to get into a well know chemist in our Hight Street. Today a friend of mine posted a link on Facebook to sign a petition entitled ‘Ban booking assistance on trains’. I started to read the post […]
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The Amputee 