So they've decided I've done enough rehab and can go home. I'm all packed up and waiting for the ambulance which could be here anywhen between now and five o'clock ( Read more... )

So this evening two guys from Hospital Radio come on the ward to see if we wanted any requests played. Apparently the E wards are always on the Sunday show. The mail in the bed next to me asked for Blondie and the Sex Pistols. The older man at the end of the ward wanted bagpipe music as he plays himself. Not surprisingly they played Amazing Grace. ( Read more... )

I've had the dressings taken off for a while to let the scars get some air so I took advantage to get some shots of what has been done to me.

( Pictures under the cut to protect those upset by such things )

All the tubes and wires have been taken out of me and the support vest I have to wear until my sternum heals no longer looks like a suicide jacket and more like a police hazvest or, more correctly a haz crop top. I ache all over, particularly the legs where they took the veins for the grafts and the hip joint. Not being allowed to lift anything or ( Read more... )

I've been having some trouble changing the charging lead between my phone and tablet. It was too short for me to be able to reach the wall socket. Today the man who had been in the bed next to me was discharged. Knowing the problems I had been having,he gave me one of his spare leads before he left. This is long enough that I can charge the tablet ( Read more... )

Ironically,apart from the broken back, I'm probably healthier now than I've ever been! I've lost 14kg and my blood pressure is down to a more normal level. I am trying to control my blood sugar by basic carb counting (the dietitian managed to get me a special menu for this) to fit the insulin that they are giving me, and hope that I can start ( Read more... )

Although I probably should be ( Read more... )

Dawn spent the time in Winchester. We tried to keep in touch by phone but unlike Southampton General (where they have cordless phones that can be taken to the patient's bed) the wards in Winchester only have a phone on the desk so we had to send messages via the nursing staff. The information we received went from "She's very tired and I think ( Read more... )

Saw Dawn after lunch today. She was still very tired but her blood sugars are coming down and she was a lot less confused. She wouldn't be fit enough to come out until after the weekend at the earliest. She said that the rest of us should go to Worldcon as it was already paid for. So we stopped to pick up a few things from Tesco's and went home ( Read more... )

When I phoned Southampton Hospital they suggested that I get Dawn to the local (Winchester) A&E for a check-up ( Read more... )