Doctors needed to remember which leg!
Live.
I type this ‘live’ from my hospital bed as i start a long recovery from the large surgery that i had today. I spent about 5 hours ‘out under anaesthetic’. I realise that it was about time that i posted, so i begun to make some notes, earlier this week. I don’t think there will be pictures, but i will try and work out how!
Anyway, my notes, so far...
Live.
I type this ‘live’ from my hospital bed as i start a long recovery from the large surgery that i had today. I spent about 5 hours ‘out under anaesthetic’. I realise that it was about time that i posted, so i begun to make some notes, earlier this week. I don’t think there will be pictures, but i will try and work out how!
Anyway, my notes, so far...
I type this post in ‘extended note form’. I am not typing as one piece, but this post will be a collection of extended notes. I am not in a coffee shop, but in hospital. It pains me to tell you that currently, I feel to have spent much of current life (since October 2006) in one, as much as the other!
A ‘temporary blip’!
... the name given to my fall, last Saturday. Totally out of surprise to me, I fell transferring from my wheelchair, in my bathroom. I couldn’t get back up. I felt that I had fallen on my left side (my weaker of both). I called my Careline, ending up going to hospital.
I spent much of the following week trying to recover (invaluable support, supplied by my parents). Only in reflection do i find that I had forgotten to take my meds. Having been reducing my medication under observation, I then forget to take a portion anyway!
Did you forget to take your meds?
Over a week later, I started my weekly journey into my local supermarket. I ignored the quiver I felt in my leg, when I turned, reaching for a bunch of bananas. I continued on, into a refrigerated aisle aiming for a packet of gnocchi.
ooooOOOOAAAAARGH!!
I screamed with pain. I could do nothing.
I have always been confident of owning my mental, cognitive abilities. The pain was affecting me so much, that I lost these! I didn’t realise at the time, but I was also having a panic attack! No stop. I felt my chest imploding! WHAT? (I had never had anything like this before...
OW! My leg!
Breathe. What, I can’t breathe?!
My leg!!!!!!
Oh man, the whole supermarket must looking!
My chest is imploding!
The staff first-aider was very helpful, even though no one knew what was wrong.
That was Monday. Today it is Thursday (almost two weeks since my ‘bathroom fall’), and I have had a CAT Scan.
I was told fairly swiftly afterwards that I have fractured my hip! Tomorrow I will hopefully have surgery! At least I now know the reason for my sudden screams of pain, Monday.
I lay in hospital awaiting surgery, on Friday morning as i type this. The neck between my femur (thigh bone), and one of the main sockets in my hip, is broken and being replaced. Not the whole hip, but a key part.
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