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Just seen this thread. Sorry to hear about your accident but very glad to hear you're on the mend. I know rehab won't be a walk in the part (pun intended) but with the positive attitude you've shown in these posts I'm sure you'll make great progress.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help and get well soon.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help and get well soon.
dudleybloke said:
How's things now Dib?
Hello BBersWell I'm still in hospital... A bit over 9 weeks now. I'm medically fit for discharge but the walking/mobility is still an issue. I'm hoping to get out in the next week/ten days but the physios won't let me out until they're happy. The physios and OTs do push me but that's what I need to get the most out of their limited time.
I'm making slow but steady progress with the crutches but it's bloody hard work. I'm on a 4 bed bay with quite a turnover of other patients, apart from one guy who has a badly fractured pelvis but who is also making steady progress. We get on really quite well and have all sorts of random chats with each other through the day. Our frequent respective guests also "know" each other by now, so on days when one of us might not have a visitor, we sort of share!
The food has become tedious. It's fairly bland but edible and hot or cold as appropriate. The menu is the same every week, so it's a bit limited in scope and you tend to find there's either three options you want or none...
I'm hoping to be able to use the damaged leg a bit more by the end of the next week, but that is subject to a further X-Ray. I've had a couple of sessions in the hospital gym on the parallel bars, using my arms to take my weight while I "walk" backwards and forwards. Again, hard work. The big achievement is I've finally managed my first "standing up"* piss in nine weeks!
One of,the other patients is 90 and has had a really adverse reaction to some anaesthetic. He came in quite lucid, but post surgery has spent the last 48 hours trying to get out of bed and fight with the staff, quite aggressively. It's quite exhausting for everyone but as usual, the staff are fantastic and so patient with him and us. I couldn't do their job and they really don't get paid enough for what they do.
I've had a couple of trips out from the hospital, once to work for a couple of hours and a couple to a supermarket cafe (Booths - northern Waitrose) across the road so I've had some different meals. Just getting out, even in a wheelchair, is a massive boost but more tiring than you'd anticipate.
And just to keep you all happy, another photo of me, from the gym. My hair does need a decent cut, but the photo looks like I've started growing a mullet (it's actually a poster on the wall behind me)! Thanks for the continued good thoughts, it really does mean a lot to me.
- Standing means balancing on one leg, arms jammed against the cubicle sides like a fat, pissed up flamingo...
....beautDibble said:
Ian Lancs said:
Is that the main gym at Royal Preston?
It is indeed (or at least one of the ones in the Physio Department). It smells and feels exactly like the school gyms of my youth, 40 odd years ago!good grief that's a nasty off, hope you recover well.
that's going to make me think about getting some decent legwear when I plan to redo my CBT and get a full license (hopefully by the time summer comes round next year). I ran a 125er for a year during uni going from east to west london, 40 miles a day with just normal jeans and jogging bottoms underneath it for extra warmth in winter.
that's going to make me think about getting some decent legwear when I plan to redo my CBT and get a full license (hopefully by the time summer comes round next year). I ran a 125er for a year during uni going from east to west london, 40 miles a day with just normal jeans and jogging bottoms underneath it for extra warmth in winter.
Get well soon mate.
And i thought i'd made a good job of my tib/fib/ankle break last year! The big positive is you're not in a cast, so recovery can start straight away. I was in a below-knee cast that locked my ankle solid and getting that back moving has been the hardest part of my recovery.
The next 12 months (and more) are gonna be tough mate. I'm at 19 months since surgery and i still can't do my right bike boot up fully thanks to swelling. And numerous issues all over my right leg.
It's amazing what the body can cope with though, but the more you put in the better the outcome will be. Once i could i was on an exercise bike at home for up to 2 hrs a day. That really helped to get mobile. I did a half marathon exactly 1 year after the accident, which was a great target that i set for myself once i was off crutches. Granted your injuries look a hell of a lot worse than mine!!
There will be low points (as you've found). It can feel like you're making progress each day and then suddenly for no reason you'll take a step backwards. That can be hard to take. Recovery isn't a linear process, but you'll get there.
And i thought i'd made a good job of my tib/fib/ankle break last year! The big positive is you're not in a cast, so recovery can start straight away. I was in a below-knee cast that locked my ankle solid and getting that back moving has been the hardest part of my recovery.
The next 12 months (and more) are gonna be tough mate. I'm at 19 months since surgery and i still can't do my right bike boot up fully thanks to swelling. And numerous issues all over my right leg.
It's amazing what the body can cope with though, but the more you put in the better the outcome will be. Once i could i was on an exercise bike at home for up to 2 hrs a day. That really helped to get mobile. I did a half marathon exactly 1 year after the accident, which was a great target that i set for myself once i was off crutches. Granted your injuries look a hell of a lot worse than mine!!
There will be low points (as you've found). It can feel like you're making progress each day and then suddenly for no reason you'll take a step backwards. That can be hard to take. Recovery isn't a linear process, but you'll get there.
PTF said:
Get well soon mate.
And i thought i'd made a good job of my tib/fib/ankle break last year! The big positive is you're not in a cast, so recovery can start straight away. I was in a below-knee cast that locked my ankle solid and getting that back moving has been the hardest part of my recovery.
The next 12 months (and more) are gonna be tough mate. I'm at 19 months since surgery and i still can't do my right bike boot up fully thanks to swelling. And numerous issues all over my right leg.
It's amazing what the body can cope with though, but the more you put in the better the outcome will be. Once i could i was on an exercise bike at home for up to 2 hrs a day. That really helped to get mobile. I did a half marathon exactly 1 year after the accident, which was a great target that i set for myself once i was off crutches. Granted your injuries look a hell of a lot worse than mine!!
There will be low points (as you've found). It can feel like you're making progress each day and then suddenly for no reason you'll take a step backwards. That can be hard to take. Recovery isn't a linear process, but you'll get there.
I'm 33 years on from a 'life changing' injury, lost 2" out of my femur (knee first into a car, the joint exploded) and went into theatre consented for amputation. I'm wearing out a little now but with a lot of work I kept improving for at least twenty years.And i thought i'd made a good job of my tib/fib/ankle break last year! The big positive is you're not in a cast, so recovery can start straight away. I was in a below-knee cast that locked my ankle solid and getting that back moving has been the hardest part of my recovery.
The next 12 months (and more) are gonna be tough mate. I'm at 19 months since surgery and i still can't do my right bike boot up fully thanks to swelling. And numerous issues all over my right leg.
It's amazing what the body can cope with though, but the more you put in the better the outcome will be. Once i could i was on an exercise bike at home for up to 2 hrs a day. That really helped to get mobile. I did a half marathon exactly 1 year after the accident, which was a great target that i set for myself once i was off crutches. Granted your injuries look a hell of a lot worse than mine!!
There will be low points (as you've found). It can feel like you're making progress each day and then suddenly for no reason you'll take a step backwards. That can be hard to take. Recovery isn't a linear process, but you'll get there.
When you can exercise do it for all you're worth. The body has a huge capacity for healing/adapting if you don't stop trying
Sorry for the lack of updates recently.
I escaped from hospital on Monday to my girlfriend's house. The downside is her bathroom is upstairs, so I'm reduced to a strip wash from a bowl in the kitchen and using a commode chair. I think the commode chair was designed for an evacuated child. I'll never take a "full sized" loo seat for granted ever again. It's like s
tting through a Polo mint...
I've graduated from "toe touch" weight bearing on my damaged leg to "partial weight bearing". This is tricky because I still can't straighten that leg, so when I do try and put weight on it, the knee bends so it's a bit tricky. I'm still using crutches/walking frame and I'm in the process of getting a wheel chair from the Red Cross. It's a bizarre situation, but my injuries aren't serious enough to get a wheel chair from the hospital, so I have to organise one myself.
I also earn too much to qualify for any benefits or assistance with carers, so anything "extra" I have to fund myself. But I'm glad to be out, even though I'm sleeping downstairs on a day bed. I'm getting proper food and the lack of hospital noise is fantastic! I can watch crap to, open the French doors and basically relax. I feel like I'm catching up on three months worth of no/broken sleep.
Altogether, I spent two days shy of 12 weeks in hospital. The bone in my femur isn't healing properly, so I may still need reconstructive surgery before too long. Not ideal, but if I need it, I need it. I'm looking at 12-18 months for a full recovery.
I escaped from hospital on Monday to my girlfriend's house. The downside is her bathroom is upstairs, so I'm reduced to a strip wash from a bowl in the kitchen and using a commode chair. I think the commode chair was designed for an evacuated child. I'll never take a "full sized" loo seat for granted ever again. It's like s
tting through a Polo mint...I've graduated from "toe touch" weight bearing on my damaged leg to "partial weight bearing". This is tricky because I still can't straighten that leg, so when I do try and put weight on it, the knee bends so it's a bit tricky. I'm still using crutches/walking frame and I'm in the process of getting a wheel chair from the Red Cross. It's a bizarre situation, but my injuries aren't serious enough to get a wheel chair from the hospital, so I have to organise one myself.
I also earn too much to qualify for any benefits or assistance with carers, so anything "extra" I have to fund myself. But I'm glad to be out, even though I'm sleeping downstairs on a day bed. I'm getting proper food and the lack of hospital noise is fantastic! I can watch crap to, open the French doors and basically relax. I feel like I'm catching up on three months worth of no/broken sleep.
Altogether, I spent two days shy of 12 weeks in hospital. The bone in my femur isn't healing properly, so I may still need reconstructive surgery before too long. Not ideal, but if I need it, I need it. I'm looking at 12-18 months for a full recovery.
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