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Thanks again all.
I’m currently in a rented flat, so installing a shower, rather than using the one over the bath, can’t happen. I was part way through buying a house when the metal snapped last year, so I had to pull out of that, having already spent money on a survey, some more specialised follow up surveys, searches etc, then of course I’m around 18 months into paying rent, rather than a mortgage.
The one plus is that my landlord is an absolute superstar, so I’ve really landed on my feet with him. He really couldn’t be more helpful. He comes and cuts the grass in my garden for me and even picks up the dog eggs if I’ve not been able to for a couple of days! He really is a nice, genuine guy and hearing/reading so many “nightmare landlord” stories, I realise just how lucky I am.
I’ve recently started browsing Right Move again, as it’s finally beginning to feel like an actual end might be in sight. It’s obviously not the “end end”, as Micky Flanagan would say, but definitely a big part of it.
I’m currently in a rented flat, so installing a shower, rather than using the one over the bath, can’t happen. I was part way through buying a house when the metal snapped last year, so I had to pull out of that, having already spent money on a survey, some more specialised follow up surveys, searches etc, then of course I’m around 18 months into paying rent, rather than a mortgage.
The one plus is that my landlord is an absolute superstar, so I’ve really landed on my feet with him. He really couldn’t be more helpful. He comes and cuts the grass in my garden for me and even picks up the dog eggs if I’ve not been able to for a couple of days! He really is a nice, genuine guy and hearing/reading so many “nightmare landlord” stories, I realise just how lucky I am.
I’ve recently started browsing Right Move again, as it’s finally beginning to feel like an actual end might be in sight. It’s obviously not the “end end”, as Micky Flanagan would say, but definitely a big part of it.
Dibble said:
Even bigger news is that the consultant is happy for me to shower! She says there’s no issue getting the pin sites wet just as long as I dry them throughly with a clean swab each when I get out. I went from 8 April last year to 7 May this year without showering
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king time you stinky !Nah honestly Dibble, it has been good to see you progressing and healing (although could have done without the squashed nut-sack piccies!).
I'm glad it is finally starting to come together for you; and now that you're starting to check out websites for the house move, may I also recommend https://www.autotrader.co.uk/bikes ..... no harm in looking, with a dodgy knee you could even join the old fart cruiser brigade; from your piccies we all know you'd suit arseless leather chaps and as many tassles as your man-bag can sport!
I hadn’t realised just quite how fed up I’d been after seeing the consultant eight weeks ago. Getting the better news last Friday has been a MASSIVE boost to my mood. I’m doing more “stuff” instead of just hiding away in my bedroom watching rubbish, sleeping too much during the day and endlessly looking at Facebook. It’s not big stuff, it’s going out for a coffee, making sure I keep on top of the cleaning/tidying in the flat, having a much better sleep pattern, getting into a routine for my couple of hours working from home.
Plus a huge thanks to everyone here in BB who’s read/commented/messaged/emailed me. I can’t tell you how much a bit of (light hearted, well meaning) abuse from a load of internet randomers has helped. When you look at some of the other sections of PH, you realise just how good BB has remained. It’s how good forums used to be a few years ago.
I’ve said before I’m completely cack-handed with anything remotely mechanical, so seeing threads where people build/repair stuff are brilliant. I genuinely enjoy seeing people’s pictures, hearing about trips, seeing questions helpfully answered. Yes, there is piss-taking, but 99.9% of the time it’s all done in a very well natured way. There’s no cliques or ganging up on new people (for the most part - I think we still have a healthy “north-south divide”!). People freely give time and advice to try and help each other out. It’s nothing short of brilliant.
Plus a huge thanks to everyone here in BB who’s read/commented/messaged/emailed me. I can’t tell you how much a bit of (light hearted, well meaning) abuse from a load of internet randomers has helped. When you look at some of the other sections of PH, you realise just how good BB has remained. It’s how good forums used to be a few years ago.
I’ve said before I’m completely cack-handed with anything remotely mechanical, so seeing threads where people build/repair stuff are brilliant. I genuinely enjoy seeing people’s pictures, hearing about trips, seeing questions helpfully answered. Yes, there is piss-taking, but 99.9% of the time it’s all done in a very well natured way. There’s no cliques or ganging up on new people (for the most part - I think we still have a healthy “north-south divide”!). People freely give time and advice to try and help each other out. It’s nothing short of brilliant.
Dibble said:
I hadn’t realised just quite how fed up I’d been after seeing the consultant eight weeks ago. Getting the better news last Friday has been a MASSIVE boost to my mood. I’m doing more “stuff” instead of just hiding away in my bedroom watching rubbish, sleeping too much during the day and endlessly looking at Facebook. It’s not big stuff, it’s going out for a coffee, making sure I keep on top of the cleaning/tidying in the flat, having a much better sleep pattern, getting into a routine for my couple of hours working from home.
Good for you mate - the more you do the more you will want to do if that makes sense - the mind is a great thing that sadly doesn't always get 'physio' at the same time as your limbs so if posting on here is part of your release we are all happy to listen!I had similar chapter in my life years ago - think about setting yourself some goals for 'stuff' would be my tip!
Thats great news Dibble 
I completely agree on the NHS, when you really need them, they are brilliant, in 2008 they saved my life and my mobility.
After a car RTA My pelvis, back and hip had a few additions ......and feet/ankles/arm/face too. It all worked out in the end and im still enjoying riding. Stay positive, do the physio, set some goals for you to achieve each day and you WILL get there
I completely agree on the NHS, when you really need them, they are brilliant, in 2008 they saved my life and my mobility.
After a car RTA My pelvis, back and hip had a few additions ......and feet/ankles/arm/face too. It all worked out in the end and im still enjoying riding. Stay positive, do the physio, set some goals for you to achieve each day and you WILL get there
Edited by bogie on Tuesday 9th July 12:13
Dibble said:
Im good, thanks. Finally feel like I’m getting to the other end of it all. It’s still a way off, but definitely making progress at last.
How’s things with you mate?
Good to hear you are making progress always help when the general direction of the passage of time in this that manner! I'm good I'm off to see my Consultant tomorrow to be 'discharged' so to speak my physiotherapy has finished now so all that is left to do is make sure I'm happy enough with everything so far and then I guess that's me just left to get on with it. I can do everything I need to do, no challenge is daunting now. Came home to me the other day went to the local shops and was on and off escalators like it was almost second nature. I'm still very much in the system with my socket, knee shenanigans but next step is heading back to work. I'm signed off sick for a little while yet and I am waiting for the motability car before I go home and go back to 'normality'. Work look to be working with me and there isn't any reason why I won't be back to full duties very soon. We'll see how that pans out How’s things with you mate?
RemyMartin81D said:
Dibble said:
Im good, thanks. Finally feel like I’m getting to the other end of it all. It’s still a way off, but definitely making progress at last.
How’s things with you mate?
Good to hear you are making progress always help when the general direction of the passage of time in this that manner! I'm good I'm off to see my Consultant tomorrow to be 'discharged' so to speak my physiotherapy has finished now so all that is left to do is make sure I'm happy enough with everything so far and then I guess that's me just left to get on with it. I can do everything I need to do, no challenge is daunting now. Came home to me the other day went to the local shops and was on and off escalators like it was almost second nature. I'm still very much in the system with my socket, knee shenanigans but next step is heading back to work. I'm signed off sick for a little while yet and I am waiting for the motability car before I go home and go back to 'normality'. Work look to be working with me and there isn't any reason why I won't be back to full duties very soon. We'll see how that pans out How’s things with you mate?
My car came back from a service, MOT and valet yesterday and I can actually “drove” now - I had a spin around the block. I’m confident there’s enough strength in my right leg now that I can safely do an emergency stop.
Another milestone is that today I managed a few steps, just using one crutch. I’m not confident enough to just take one crutch with me, even inside my flat, which is all on one level. I’m “cheating” slightly, by putting WAY too much weight on my left arm/crutch, but I can see/feel the improvement over when I managed about three “one hand supported” steps on the parallel bars at physio a week or so back. I reckon in another few days I’ll achieve a HUGE benefit, that of being able to carry a brew from my kitchen to my bedroom or my lounge! I’m not that bothered about carrying a pint of beer yet, as my “local” has very good bar staff who will not only bring my pint to wherever I choose to sit, they’ll then keep an eye on me and “top me up” as required!
It’s great to hear you’re looking at getting back to work and even better to hear they are being good with you. I bet just being able to get that bit of normality ticked off will be a huge boost as well, although I guess it’s a double edged sword, because there are ALWAYS work colleagues we’d rather avoid (or murder...). As daft as it sounds, even being annoyed with someone at work who’s a complete dicksticle is another “normality” point achieved.
What have you gone with for your car? Have they had to do any adaptations for you, like hand controls, or will you be driving normally? As always, feel free to pm me if you need/want to.
Not to derail your thread too much , quickly mentioned in the thread I started went for a C5 aircross, I'm into french cars, love a quirky Citroën, closest thing they make now to the hydra active suspension, plus stupidly comfortable seats.
Only adaptation I need is a left hand throttle which is exactly that an additional throttle on the left hand side of the brake pedal, that said I test drove it on the regular setup fine enough. This is more for comfort etc
Only adaptation I need is a left hand throttle which is exactly that an additional throttle on the left hand side of the brake pedal, that said I test drove it on the regular setup fine enough. This is more for comfort etc
Well, today I saw the consultant. I had the usual set of X-rays done on my leg before I went in to see her (it’s all digital, so she can see them the moment they’re taken and it actually takes me longer to walk back to the clinic from the X-Ray department than it does for her to see the images). There is even more bone formed than there was six weeks ago. I’ve only gone and grown myself (with a little assistance from the NHS) a whole new bloody femur!
Mark this date in your diary, folks - 10 September. Yep, that’s the date of my next surgery, number ten in this lot, 14 overall including the original ones immediately(ish) after the accident. All being well, as long as I remain “infection free”, on 10 September I’ll be admitted for surgery to remove the external frame/blocks and also the pins embedded into my femur. The surgeon will also take a “wedge” out of my leg, a little bit wider than the pin holes, to create two “neat edges” to sew together, so I should have (mostly) only one scar.
I’ve been trying to feel pragmatic about it all, having initially not got everything out in time for my birthday in May. I was mostly prepared for it to be a continued waiting game and to be honest, a few more weeks after two plus years to get it right, rather than rush in too soon, was “doable”. So I’m feeling pretty darn chipper this evening, because in only a few more weeks, everything (bar that one solitary, pesky pin, buried right inside my knee) will be off and out and I can wear proper trousers again!
At the moment, thanks to the sadists in the limb reconstruction unit physio team, I can actually use my duff leg pretty well and I’ve been able to drive again for the last two or three weeks - only short distances, but it’s made a big difference. The down side of the surgery is that I’ll have to revert to “partial weight bearing” for four to six weeks and I’ll also be back to at least weekly physio, if not twice a week. Once I’m back to full weight bearing and the scar is completely healed, I’ll be heading to the Police Treatment Centre over in that there Harrogate, for the first two-week stint of intensesadism treatment. I’m looking at spending at least six weeks there over the next 6-12 months (it’s normally limited to 2 weeks a year, but I’ve made such a mess of my leg, they really need me for longer). It all counts as “duty time”, so I won’t have a load more time off sick to worry about.
Anyway, enough of you lot have said you like the updates and as I’ve said, I find it therapeutic writing it down for a bunch of Internet randoms that I’ve (mostly) never met, so that’s this week’s news, which for me at least, feels like a bit of a biggie and a big step towards getting properly sorted. I’m off out for a beer or two now to celebrate. Keep your fingers crossed I get through the next three weeks without the infection rearing its feculent head, yet again!
Cheers!
Mark this date in your diary, folks - 10 September. Yep, that’s the date of my next surgery, number ten in this lot, 14 overall including the original ones immediately(ish) after the accident. All being well, as long as I remain “infection free”, on 10 September I’ll be admitted for surgery to remove the external frame/blocks and also the pins embedded into my femur. The surgeon will also take a “wedge” out of my leg, a little bit wider than the pin holes, to create two “neat edges” to sew together, so I should have (mostly) only one scar.
I’ve been trying to feel pragmatic about it all, having initially not got everything out in time for my birthday in May. I was mostly prepared for it to be a continued waiting game and to be honest, a few more weeks after two plus years to get it right, rather than rush in too soon, was “doable”. So I’m feeling pretty darn chipper this evening, because in only a few more weeks, everything (bar that one solitary, pesky pin, buried right inside my knee) will be off and out and I can wear proper trousers again!
At the moment, thanks to the sadists in the limb reconstruction unit physio team, I can actually use my duff leg pretty well and I’ve been able to drive again for the last two or three weeks - only short distances, but it’s made a big difference. The down side of the surgery is that I’ll have to revert to “partial weight bearing” for four to six weeks and I’ll also be back to at least weekly physio, if not twice a week. Once I’m back to full weight bearing and the scar is completely healed, I’ll be heading to the Police Treatment Centre over in that there Harrogate, for the first two-week stint of intense
Anyway, enough of you lot have said you like the updates and as I’ve said, I find it therapeutic writing it down for a bunch of Internet randoms that I’ve (mostly) never met, so that’s this week’s news, which for me at least, feels like a bit of a biggie and a big step towards getting properly sorted. I’m off out for a beer or two now to celebrate. Keep your fingers crossed I get through the next three weeks without the infection rearing its feculent head, yet again!
Cheers!
I’ve not commented on this thread before, but I have followed all of it with awe. I am impressed by your stoicism, positivity, not so much by the x-rays of your squashed plumbs!!!
Pleased to hear things are going well and wish you all the best best with the next step, all power to you sir and I raise my glass of whiskey to you this evening.
Pleased to hear things are going well and wish you all the best best with the next step, all power to you sir and I raise my glass of whiskey to you this evening.
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