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

[Skib]

That is odd about horse peope and pain. I had no pain releif when my daughters were born but that was my choice and was years before i startted riding.

 

[twiggy2]

Glad your home scats, hope everything from here is straight forward for you.

 

[tda]

Ooh your own bed, sleep well and continued healing vibes.
How long does the cast stay on for ?

 

[Jeni the dragon]

So glad to hear you are home!

??? for a speedy recovery!

 

[southerncomfort]

Hoping your recovery is smooth sailing from here on. ?

 

[Marnie]

Really pleased you are home, everything crossed that healing is speedy x

 

[teapot]

Glad you're home and fingers crossed for a quieter night

 

[wren123]

So pleased you're home and that things feel normal.

 

[Esmae]

Hooray!! Home!! Now you can have peace, your own bed and chips whenever you want, and start mending. Well done.

 

[Peregrine Falcon]

Great news that you're home. May the recovery time be swift.

 

[Bradsmum]

Great news. Time to listen to your body now and rest up - have that afternoon nap if you need it and let yourself mend. It gets a bit frustrating and boring but keeping that leg elevated is important though I still had swelling when the cast was removed. Have they told you they will see you in 2 weeks to remove cast to take out the stitches and put a new cast on? By the way, what colour cast have you got? I had a rather fetching purple!

 

[Barton Bounty]

Hi all, Surgery all done. It took 4 hours rather than the expected 2. Unfortunately I had a bizarre reaction to the anaesthetic in recovery so have landed myself a spot in the high dependency unit overnight. My poor mother was frantic!

You dont do things by half scats ? so glad its over! Here to a speedy recovery ?

 

[Barton Bounty]

I’m home! Mum and Dad said they’d head up for visiting hours, and then mum went up to the nurses desk and said she’d come to collect me. Still took over an hour to get out! Eventually handed a huge bag of meds and we were on our way. Foot has swollen a bit in the car but it’s up high now. Reunited with my dogs and cats. The dogs acted like I’d been gone for three years ??

Had a lovely hot chocolate made by my Dad and being treated to a take away for tea. Then going to have a shower, wash my hair and have an early night.

I can’t thank you all enough for your support over the last week. It’s the most horribly lonely time breaking a bone, even when your surrounded by people, so to have an escape I can come to here with people who understand the enormity of an injury like this for a rider and horse owner is just overwhelming really.
Love to you all, I genuinely mean that xx

Keep those painkillers in your system till you genuinely dont need them, if you think ‘oh im actually ok’ you might not be in a few hours ?
Enjoy your time being pampered. Take full advantage ?

 

[Red-1]

Fantastic news! Here's to an uneventful recovery.

I too am curious as to how they left a tourniquet on!

 

[rabatsa]

Now rest and recover.

 

[scats]

Fantastic news! Here's to an uneventful recovery.

I too am curious as to how they left a tourniquet on!

No idea but it did get taken off swiftly! I didn’t know they used one in ankle surgery, so I read up about it and apparently some surgeons do and some don’t. It leads to an easier working area as less blood flow to deal with but the after pain for the patient is worse as the blood flows back in to the leg. The pain in recovery was pretty intense, even for me, but that explains it ??

I slept well but the pain has ramped up a bit after pottering about to get washed, so teeth etc. So Im on the sofa with leg up and a blanket and have taken all my pain meds. I’ve set a load of alarms on my phone to remind me what to take when. Think today will be mostly napping as I feel a bit washed out.

 

[Supertrooper]

No idea but it did get taken off swiftly! I didn’t know they used one in ankle surgery, so I read up about it and apparently some surgeons do and some don’t. It leads to an easier working area as less blood flow to deal with but the after pain for the patient is worse as the blood flows back in to the leg. The pain in recovery was pretty intense, even for me, but that explains it ??

I slept well but the pain has ramped up a bit after pottering about to get washed, so teeth etc. So Im on the sofa with leg up and a blanket and have taken all my pain meds. I’ve set a load of alarms on my phone to remind me what to take when. Think today will be mostly napping as I feel a bit washed out.

Definitely rest as much as your body is telling you too. You need to sleep for your body to heal and it takes a huge amount of energy

I couldn’t believe how much I slept!

Big hugs x

 

[LeneHorse]

Glad to hear you're home and on the road to recovery. Having a general anaesthetic can really knock you for six and your experience sounds worse than most. No wonder you are feeling tired. Just enjoy the opportunity to have a good rest. How's your headache today?

 

[HorseMaid]

With regards to the tourniquet and I hope this helps, we do use them in surgery but they're a bit like a blood pressure cuff that gets put on and attached to a machine that inflates, so if something was left on it would have only been the deflated cuff as it would have been detached from the machine in order for you to go to recovery!

 

[scats]

With regards to the tourniquet and I hope this helps, we do use them in surgery but they're a bit like a blood pressure cuff that gets put on and attached to a machine that inflates, so if something was left on it would have only been the deflated cuff as it would have been detached from the machine in order for you to go to recovery!

To be honest I was so out of I have no idea, just something was taken off my leg, but that would definitely explain it ?

On a side note, does anyone suffer from a naturally high heart rate? This is something that I’ve had mentioned to me at pretty much every hospital appointment over the last 10 or so years, but it just gets glossed over and I shrug it off as I had no idea it was an issue. But I seem to have a very naturally high resting heart rate. I’m slim, I don’t smoke or have any heart problem that I know of, but I do get palpitations occasionally. It was mentioned that this might be why I react so badly to drugs because my blood pressure is naturally very low (I get dizzy when I stand and it’s always on the verge of being a bit too low) and my natural body temperature is very low (34.4-35.1), but my heart rate is high. So when I have a drug that causes my body stress, those things go too far the other way and I’m in trouble. Not sure if this should be a concern or if it’s just me. I’ve always been a bit of a medical mystery so I guess I can add this to the list of things! Anyone ideas?
Im not too bothered really, just curious as to why I’m like this.

 

[HorseMaid]

Well if your blood pressure runs naturally low anyway, anaesthetic drugs basically make it crash then they're pumping drugs in to get your BP up to a safe level! I was in surgery yesterday and the patients BP was 48 over something at one point. With regards to your body temperature that is classed as hypothermia and I'm not sure how your body is still functioning properly at that temperature!

 

[scats]

Well if your blood pressure runs naturally low anyway, anaesthetic drugs basically make it crash then they're pumping drugs in to get your BP up to a safe level! I was in surgery yesterday and the patients BP was 48 over something at one point. With regards to your body temperature that is classed as hypothermia and I'm not sure how your body is still functioning properly at that temperature!

Yes, it’s on my medical notes that I am considered hypothermic but I continue to function completely ‘normally’ so no-one is concerned. I’ve had these problems since I got ill when I was 11. I will admit that when I drop to 34.4 I don’t feel well, but I function fine above 34.6, albeit I feel like my bones are cold and slow and my system is sluggish.
It came to light when I started having endless kidney infections and they realised my fever was anything above 36. I am happiest around 35.1-35.4. I feel like I’m dying if I hit 36 degrees. The amount of times I’ve been in hospital and caused a lot of head scratching among medics.
Nearly 30 years after getting ill and I still don’t have a real answer about any of it. I’ve been passed from pillar to post and was eventually just told it’s a form of auto immune disease that has affected my hypothalamus. No idea if it is or not, but that’s all I have to go on.

 

[Tarragon]

There is no place like home and M&D to make you feel better

 

[sky1000]

Very glad you have had op and are home. Also sending good wishes to your mum - must have been terrifying for her when she couldn't find you and learnt there had been complications.

 

[nagblagger]

How high is your resting heart rate (pulse)?
The hypothalamus does control/influence body temperature so could be related to your low temperature.

 

[catembi]

So glad that you're home. Once you're allowed, it will be nice when you can be taken out n about. Won't be long, hopefully!

 

[mum_gone_rogue]

So glad you’re home! I’m a smidge over 2 months down the line from a similar injury and surgery ( though only one plate), and a tendon graft. Elevate as much as you physically can for as long as possible. Fingers crossed you have a smooth recovery!

if it gives you any hope/reassurance at all, I had my cast and stitches removed after 2 weeks and was put into an air boot and was non weight bearing for a further 6 weeks. Since then, I’ve gently started walking and have started riding again!

mid you’re not squeamish, at your check up, ask for the X-rays. They’re awesome to see the before and afters!

 

[scats]

So glad you’re home! I’m a smidge over 2 months down the line from a similar injury and surgery ( though only one plate), and a tendon graft. Elevate as much as you physically can for as long as possible. Fingers crossed you have a smooth recovery!

if it gives you any hope/reassurance at all, I had my cast and stitches removed after 2 weeks and was put into an air boot and was non weight bearing for a further 6 weeks. Since then, I’ve gently started walking and have started riding again!

mid you’re not squeamish, at your check up, ask for the X-rays. They’re awesome to see the before and afters!

So glad you’re getting back to normal. I’m desperate to see the X-rays with the plates and pins. I was saying to my mum that I wish they filmed the ops coz I’d love to watch it ?

I get this cast off in 2 weeks but have got to go into a normal one then for 4 weeks. Then after those 6 weeks non-weight bearing I’m going in to a boot and will start physio. I’ve been given some exercises to keep my quad strong so I’ll start those this week when I’m feeling less knackered.

I’m absolutely washed out just going to the loo at the moment.

 

[Bernster]

Been following this epic journey. Adding my good wishes and glad you’re home and hopefully on the way to a full recovery.

 

[Tiddlypom]

Continued wishes for a really quick recovery, scats.

You've had a similar break to that which my late Dad did when in his early 50s. He was trying to push my mum's car off our drive in the snow in the infamous 1962/3 winter. He knew what he'd done, and lay on the ground directing everyone including the ambulance drivers!

He was back working in the operating theatre propped up on crutches before long ? - I don't think that health and safety would permit that nowadays! Though he had lost the sideways stablising ligaments in his ankle, so he always had to be careful not to roll an ankle on rough ground, the break healed well and didn't give him on going problems. He lived for nearly another 50 years.