Not the day I planned… but I got an ambulance ride!

[Errin Paddywack]

Good luck for today, everything crossed here too.

 

[ycbm]

GOOD LUCK!

 

[southerncomfort]

Good luck scats!!

 

[Trouper]

Have just been catching up with several pages of posts. Great news - sitting here now with fingers crossed for that 9am phone call today.

 

[catembi]

Me too! Everything crossed…

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

Good luck today!

 

[julesjoy]

Hope you get in today, good luck!

 

[BallyJ]

Good Luck today!! Got my fingers crossed for you.

 

[scats]

Unfortunately my surgery has been cancelled ?

Been given this Thursday at Broadgreen hospital rather than Aintree. They don’t have an A&E department there so hopefully that surgery won’t be cancelled.

Trying to keep my chin up!

 

[Bradsmum]

So sorry Scats. Mine was cancelled twice and I know the disappointment. Nearly there though and at least you already have another slot. Take care.

 

[ITPersonnage]

Bad luck but big picture time, you will be sorted soon! NHS really is overstretched, try not to take it personally.

 

[catembi]

Oh how disappointing for you ?. At least it will still be better than the 2-3 weeks that you were originally told, and you can now have some breakfast.

Hang in there!

 

[scats]

Yep, disappointing but not the end of the world. I enjoyed my breakfast!

 

[Ample Prosecco]

Oh how frustrating but hopefully Thursday will go ahead and the wait is not too difficult for you.

 

[Marnie]

So sorry, keeping everything crossed that Thursday goes ahead x

 

[twofatladies88]

Oh no Scats - that’s awful- I wasn’t expecting to read this. Hang on in there - you’re doing amazing- much better than I would do!

 

[wren123]

Oh no that's awful.
I hope Thursday goes ahead, not too long to wait.

 

[scats]

The swelling pain is really quite intense, far worse than it was. I keep it elevated all day and night but getting up for the toilet and the throbbing is excruciating- like my foot is on fire and might burst. It does, however, settle as soon as I get it elevated again.

The A&E department at Aintree still haven’t emailed across my prescription to my doctors for my fragmin injections so Im now without my blood thinners. This was meant to get sorted yesterday after I chased them up and they promised me they would email it over straight away. GP can’t go anything about this until the prescription is sent over. Not sure what I do now other than ring A&E again. Frustrating.

 

[scats]

God Aintree are a nightmare!

Rang A&E again and explained no-one had sent my prescription for Fragmin and I’ve ran out. They told me they don’t deal with that and ring the pharmacy. I told them that yesterday the lady I spoke to said she would get it done straight away so I was surprised to hear that wasn’t their job.
Anyway, rang the pharmacy who told me that no, A&E do that. I told her A&E said it wasn’t their job and she said it was and they’ve got it wrong. She said failing that, try the fracture clinic as I am also on their system. So I rang the fracture clinic to be told, “that’s not our job”. FFS.
They gave me the number of a nurse who will “definitely be able to help coz it’s her job” so I rang her and a confused woman answered and said that’s not her job at all. By now I was getting a bit annoyed. Explained how I’d ended up on her line and eventually she said that she could issue a new prescription for fragmin but the problem is it will only go to the hospital pharmacy so someone will have to come over (45 minute journey to hospital from ours). I Agreed because I have no injections left. But now my mum is annoyed because it means she has to drive back over there so I feel like a right pain in the backside.

 

[twiggy2]

God Aintree are a nightmare!

Rang A&E again and explained no-one had sent my prescription for Fragmin and I’ve ran out. They told me they don’t deal with that and ring the pharmacy. I told them that yesterday the lady I spoke to said she would get it done straight away so I was surprised to hear that wasn’t their job.
Anyway, rang the pharmacy who told me that no, A&E do that. I told her A&E said it wasn’t their job and she said it was and they’ve got it wrong. She said failing that, try the fracture clinic as I am also on their system. So I rang the fracture clinic to be told, “that’s not our job”. FFS.
They gave me the number of a nurse who will “definitely be able to help coz it’s her job” so I rang her and a confused woman answered and said that’s not her job at all. By now I was getting a bit annoyed. Explained how I’d ended up on her line and eventually she said that she could issue a new prescription for fragmin but the problem is it will only go to the hospital pharmacy so someone will have to come over (45 minute journey to hospital from ours). I Agreed because I have no injections left. But now my mum is annoyed because it means she has to drive back over there so I feel like a right pain in the backside.

Chin up, it's not for long in the grand scheme of things and you would do it for your mum if things were the other way round, we all take our turn needing and giving- its what makes the world go round.

 

[twofatladies88]

OMG Scats my blood pressure has just risen after reading this - I cannot stand being passed around from pillar to post like this. It makes me so angry when people are treated like this and no one will take ownership. I won’t say anymore as I will probably get banned from the forum ?

 

[Rumtytum]

Exactly what tfl88 says, my life scats they make it bl00dy hard for you, as if life wasn’t hard enough.

 

[Trouper]

It is not surprising that nothing happens properly in the NHS these days with nonsense like this. Sorry about the delay and hope you get the meds you need soon.
I think I might be whiling away the time with a complaint letter to the hospital about this after-care debacle.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

In fact your GP could have written you a prescription, if the hospital emailed your notes across but it would come out of their budget not the hospital's. Every department is trying desperately to get someone else to pay.

 

[AmyMay]

Your GP should have done that for you. They did when my OH needed some post surgery.

 

[SEL]

Your mum is cross with the hospital not with you - I'm betting she's very worried about you and happy to drive to get your meds.

Naughty of your GP. They could have sorted that for you

 

[scats]

Pain has ramped up today after settling a bit the last couple of days so feeling very uncomfortable. My toes are freezing, but I can move and feel them.
Bruising is a lovely yellow now

 

[AmyMay]

I’m wondering if it’s worth getting a district nurse around to check everything is ok??

 

[scats]

I’m wondering if it’s worth getting a district nurse around to check everything is ok??

It seems to have settled a bit now. I’m wondering if things are trying to heal or something in there. I’m not really sure what displaced bones do or how they even attempt to heal? Obviously whatever efforts it makes will be fixed in surgery anyway.

Ive definitely discovered that I have to keep on top of the pain meds. It’s tempting to not take any until the pain is pretty rough, but the reality is I need to take them every 4 hours really, regardless of how it feels.

Had a couple of visitors today- my Aunty (not my aunty but one of those people you’ve always called Aunty) baked me a huge lemon drizzle cake. Then my mum and dads friends came round this evening and brought me some chocolates.
You definitely get spoilt when you’re injured! ?

 

[ycbm]

It seems to have settled a bit now. I’m wondering if things are trying to heal or something in there. I’m not really sure what displaced bones do or how they even attempt to heal? Obviously whatever efforts it makes will be fixed in surgery anyway.

Ive definitely discovered that I have to keep on top of the pain meds. It’s tempting to not take any until the pain is pretty rough, but the reality is I need to take them every 4 hours really, regardless of how it feels.

Had a couple of visitors today- my Aunty (not my aunty but one of those people you’ve always called Aunty) baked me a huge lemon drizzle cake. Then my mum and dads friends came round this evening and brought me some chocolates.
You definitely get spoilt when you’re injured! ?

I'm not sure if you've broken any bones before, Scats, but the one bonus is that it takes a phenomenal amount of energy to fix them and every time I've been able to scoff whatever I wanted without putting on an ounce. Silver linings and all that ... ?