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

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

Scats do you have a kindle ? You can download so many books free and they are often not that expensive even if they aren't free. Though for me nothing beats a book in my hands.
I hope each day you feel a little better x

Even if you don't have a kindle, you can download the app and read on your phone. You can no longer buy books through the app but you can download all the free ones and access more free through Kindle Unlimited. I spent almost all my time in hospital reading via Kindle.

 

[scats]

Feeling wiped out today. I’ve had a shower and Im now downstairs on the sofa with my leg up, but I reckon I’ll probably need a nap soon.
Tried to ring the doctors to get more Fragmin injections but they are constantly engaged so will try later.

Bruising on the left side of my leg is impressive, it’s come up round the back of knee. It was pretty sore and stiff when I woke up but my foot had sort of fallen off the cushion and was hanging a bit and I’d obviously slept with it like that. Ive ordered a proper leg rest pad thing with raised sides to stop that sort of thing happening, which should come today, with my waterproof cast cover.

My other leg muscles are starting to tire now, particularly the thigh of the bad leg that’s being constantly tensed to help move my leg around. Getting up and down stairs on my bum, but relying on these muscles to keep my cast off the ground, is really exhausting! I feel pathetic ?

 

[scats]

 

[SEL]

Ouch. Not pathetic - you're broken and you need fixing xx

 

[Tiddlypom]

@scats please get on to PALS today - they will advocate for you and push you to be operated on ASAP. Also, worth telling them you'd be happy to go geographically anywhere to get it done quicker (Robert Jone & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital is only at Oswestry which isn't that far from you)
Waiting list may not be as long elsewhere.

Very good shout. I know roughly where you are based, scats, and the world renowned Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt orthopaedic hospital is only about an easy 40 mile/48 minute drive away from you, according to Google maps.

Defo you want a specialist who sees your sort of injury everyday on the job for this. Your long term mobility depends on the surgeons getting your treatment done optimally.

Written as a lay person but as someone who is both a surgeon's daughter and sister (though not orthopods), and that is the advice they would give.

 

[twofatladies88]

That looks horrific Scats - as others have said - chase up with PALS. Definitely agree about Robert Jones - it is a fantastic hospital - very clean and well run. If you manage to get in there I will come and visit you and bring you some grapes! They have voted for strike action though so don’t know how that will pan out re surgery. Sending you some famous HHO vibes?

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

That looks horrific Scats - as others have said - chase up with PALS. Definitely agree about Robert Jones - it is a fantastic hospital - very clean and well run. If you manage to get in there I will come and visit you and bring you some grapes! They have voted for strike action though so don’t know how that will pan out re surgery. Sending you some famous HHO vibes?

I rather think that Scats will have had her surgery before any strike action occurs! I certainly hope so, for her sake, it will be weeks if not months before any walkout. And emergency care, which is what Scats is waiting for, will be unaffected anyway.

 

[Birker2020]

OMG how horrific for you, they call that a 'reduction' I've seen it on telly. It must have been agony. Get well soon.

 

[scats]

Very good shout. I know roughly where you are based, scats, and the world renowned Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt orthopaedic hospital is only about an easy 40 mile/48 minute drive away from you, according to Google maps.

Defo you want a specialist who sees your sort of injury everyday on the job for this. Your long term mobility depends on the surgeons getting your treatment done optimally.

Written as a lay person but as someone who is both a surgeon's daughter and sister (though not orthopods), and that is the advice they would give.

Im happy to travel anywhere to get it done. Came across some studies about the long-term implications of being left too long before surgery and it’s not the most fun reading for someone in my position.

The swelling when I get up now is ramping up further, but I will say that the swelling when it’s elevated is definitely Improving coz my cast feels loose. When I get up though, it feels like the cast is far too tight. Crazy how fast the swelling comes and goes.

 

[Tarragon]

I have only just read this thread from start to finish - My goodness, you are one tough cookie! Incredible what we can do and put up with when needed. I really hope that you get things sorted and can start the long road to recovery. It must be such a comfort to be able to go home and be looked after by your parents! The lovely people you need most in these circumstances

 

[Annagain]

as someone who is both a surgeon's daughter and sister.

That made me chuckle Tiddlypom. It sounds like the surgeon is your father AND brother (or Mother AND sister, no gender bias here) which is all kinds of wrong .

Hope you get the surgery sooner rather than later, Scats. The NHS is a wonderful but woefully underfunded organisation.

 

[scats]

Rang the GP for some more fragmin but they’d not had the prescription through so told me to ring Aintree. Got stuck in a loop on switchboard for a while but eventually got through to A&E and they are emailing my GP with the prescriptions so hopefully I can send my mum out later to get those.
Will try and get a sharps box too coz they sent me home without one last week.

I find it amusing how the leg feels at the break sites. Fib is loose and crunchy. I can feel those bones knocking together, but interestingly the bruising on that side hasn’t come up to my knee.
The tib/ankle bone break feels more ‘tight’. I can feel less bones moving there but that one’s more painful in general. I feel like there’s a vice-like grip on the side and back of the bone and that’s the one with the worse bruising, though that may be due to the dislocation that occurred rather than the break.
My foot is quite cold but I can move my toes easily. The pinch test takes about 4 seconds for the colour to return, but I did this on the good foot to compare and that wasn’t particularly fast either so I wonder if I may have slow circulation in general.

 

[catembi]

Did you manage to get hold of PALS? I feel so sorry for you and it would be fantastic if you could be seen sooner.

 

[scats]

Did you manage to get hold of PALS? I feel so sorry for you and it would be fantastic if you could be seen sooner.

Waiting to hear back from them but they’ve said there’s a high volume of calls at the moment so it might take a while.

 

[Tiddlypom]

That made me chuckle Tiddlypom. It sounds like the surgeon is your father AND brother (or Mother AND sister, no gender bias here) which is all kinds of wrong .

Haha, it was rather ambiguously written ?. My late father was a surgeon, and one brother still is a practising surgeon. Other brother is a retired GP.

scats, glad that you are exploring other hospitals where you can get treated earlier.

 

[scats]

Best news ever!

The trauma nurse has just rung me and said I’m down for surgery tomorrow! She said just to be on the safe side and to make sure they don’t drag me in for no reason- they’ll ring me about 9am to make sure they can do me and that no emergencies have come in, but obviously be Nil by Mouth from tonight.
If they can’t do tomorrow, she said the plan is to get it done Thursday so either way, it will be some time this week ? ?

 

[catembi]

Yay, brilliant news! I am so happy for you! ??

 

[NinjaPony]

I’ve been following this thread and I’m so pleased you’ve been moved up for surgery. It sounds absolutely horrific, you are being amazingly brave and stoical in the circumstances and I’m wishing you the very best for your surgery either tomorrow or Thursday.

 

[Esmae]

Oh my word. So pleased at the latest news. Really hope you get fixed tomorrow. Will have everything crossed for you.

 

[Annagain]

Great news - I'll be thinking of you tomorrow.

 

[Marnie]

Great news, fingers crossed that it goes ahead x

 

[Kunoichi73]

Brilliant news!

 

[2 Dragons]

Great news- You are being so incredibly brave and calm. I thought I was not squeamish but after reading about your grinding bones I had to go and look at cute Boggle pictures to re-regulate myself. Anyway, good luck tomorrow

 

[Tiddlypom]

That's great news!

 

[twofatladies88]

Brilliant news - hope it all goes well. We’ll be thinking of you x

 

[Red-1]

Fabulous news! I hope it all goes well.

 

[Tiddlypom]

Drink as much as you can before your cutoff point tonight in case you are hanging around waiting for a late in the day theatre slot. That happened to me, nothing by mouth from midnight, admitted before 8am next day for early surgery but op was delayed by emergencies til 4pm. I was so dry and parched, especially being on a hot hospital ward.

 

[ycbm]

I'm so relieved for you Scats, great news. Good luck for tomorrow!
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[Fraggle bells rock]

Hope it all goes well for you 2moz x

 

[SEL]

Great news! Very relieved for you