Seroma - edit: massive infection, Take 2...

[fossyant]

Fingers crossed you get some answers.

At least you can move about. 6 weeks lying flat on my back, not being able to move even for a pee wasnt fun.

Are you allowed out of the ward, even if just a walk to the hospital cafe ?

 

[DCBassman]

Fingers crossed you get some answers.

At least you can move about. 6 weeks lying flat on my back, not being able to move even for a pee wasnt fun.

Are you allowed out of the ward, even if just a walk to the hospital cafe ?

I've actually spent some time back home, between IV antibiotics, and to the nearest pub for a meal and non-alcoholic drink, so some insanity avoided.
It seems that the previous bottom line has been amended, and a 2nd joint is possible, if needed, so that's a bit of a relief. But it's still a waiting game for the microbes...

 

[ColinJ]

I think you are being incredibly brave about this nightmare!

Try to keep your spirits up, and let's hope that replacement shoulder #1 is saved by the drugs. (I don't quite understand how an artificial joint can be damaged by a bug so I assume it is the tissue that it is attached to that is the problem?)

 

[DCBassman]

I think you are being incredibly brave about this nightmare!

Try to keep your spirits up, and let's hope that replacement shoulder #1 is saved by the drugs. (I don't quite understand how an artificial joint can be damaged by a bug so I assume it is the tissue that it is attached to that is the problem?)

It's because the bugs actually do contaminate the joint, rather than damage it as such, and it's very difficult to get them off it. Sometimes they will do a partial disassembly and replace just the plastic bits, already ruled out in my case. So it's just sitting here binge-watching Star Trek TNG on Netflix for a few more days...

 

[DCBassman]

One good thing (sort of...) is training the catering staff to always give me a pack of Custard Creams with my tea!

 

[fossyant]

One good thing (sort of...) is training the catering staff to always give me a pack of Custard Creams with my tea!

A whole pack... blimey. I remember two of us asking the early morning cleaner if we could have a cuppa - she wasn't supposed to, but we were wide awake at 6am before the nursing assistants and volunteers were round with the brews.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

One good thing (sort of...) is training the catering staff to always give me a pack of Custard Creams with my tea!

No wonder the NHS is on its knees with profligacy like that!

 

[DCBassman]

I eat maybe half of what's on offer otherwise, so I'm happy! But it's not difficult to see where waste occurs, especially in non-joined-up services. I'm taking a bed purely to receive medications, because there's no longer any way to do this properly outside a district hospital except for the simplest things.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That is bloody shocking that they brushed off your concerns and you now have this to contend with.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

That is bloody shocking that they brushed off your concerns and you now have this to contend with.

Yes, now they spend all their time brushing up custard cream crumbs, seemingly

 

[DCBassman]

That is bloody shocking that they brushed off your concerns and you now have this to contend with.

Because I "wasn't unwell". Tick-box medicine.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Because I "wasn't unwell". Tick-box medicine.

That is part of the problem if you are a reasonably fit and healthy cyclist most of the time. You fall outside of their norms (which are based on sedentary people), your body is better able to handle illness and stress, but that does not mean you are immune to it.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Because I "wasn't unwell". Tick-box medicine.

Being serious for just a second, it's all just a bit mad, isn't it? My dad's finally been diagnosed way too late and is now on a massively expensive life-prolongation drug which won't cure him, unlike earlier intervention. Sad on many levels, but you seem to be keeping a sense of humour, which helps.

 

[DCBassman]

Being serious for just a second, it's all just a bit mad, isn't it? My dad's finally been diagnosed way too late and is now on a massively expensive life-prolongation drug which won't cure him, unlike earlier intervention. Sad on many levels, but you seem to be keeping a sense of humour, which helps.

Gotta keep thinking I'll be cycling again soon!

 

[DCBassman]

That is part of the problem if you are a reasonably fit and healthy cyclist most of the time. You fall outside of their norms (which are based on sedentary people), your body is better able to handle illness and stress, but that does not mean you are immune to it.

Exactly so.