Rebuilding

Mmmm. Rebuilding. Tommorow. Southampton. If the transport turns up... It better had. Not really looking forward to it, unsurprisingly. It'll be good to be properly on the road to full recovery, rather than this limbo, excuse the pun. I plan to continue not smoking after my stint in hospital. It's not good for me in any way..

Hopefully I'll be out by Tues, hopefully.

Should be able to start working from home in about a week or two, once I'm off the morphine. Of course I still have withdrawal to look forward to. Meh

Things

Saw the surgeon yesterday. My arm is not broken anymore! Got crutches this morning, one of which is a gutter crutch, dirty... So should be much more versatile in my mobility, hurrah!

I've really cut down my pain killers to minimum now. Tried stopping the morphine altogether though and it went a bit trainspotting... hot and cold flushes, squirting both ends, cold sweats, back on minimal morphine again. I'll leave it til after the op on the 27th I think but it's not going to be good.

After the 200mg/day I.V. for a week in hospital I now realise I was going through withdrawal despite still being on 120mg/day as slow release caps. Involuntary limb kicking anyone?

Also got the letter for work today, 60-80% odds my leg will be saved, good odds but scary in black and white... Will post letter here soon...

Celebrating the 3 month anniversary of surviving being run over with some lovely, calciyummy, red wine.

Going to post about the excellent advice of citizens advice soon. They were awesome today. I need to lead with a title highlighting how considerate debtors, in particular lloydstsb, are in this sort of situation...

Online at last! Cripplerant

Damn patientline, I'll see those bastards in court! So yeah, patientline is balls, the internet access included in the daily charge of 2.90 consited of a super slow connection with sites such as lloydstsb, flickr, blogspot and gmail being excluded, for some reason, by their content filter. No customer service whatsoever, no discounts for long stays, no clue, and up to 79p/min to call the patient, nice!

So, after 2 months in hospital someone comes to see me, they barely knew what a computer was, bargain!

Now, as of oneish yesterday, I'm home! Well, Greenhill, an awesome spot to recuperate, full of groovy people. Wow. What an improvement on hospital! Simple things like chillaxing with a few friends, fantastic.

The plan is now a rambling, piecemeal rant about those two months, interspersed with live rants. Various insights and morphine enhanced observations of interest to patients and carers alike, may transpire...