Frag back in hospital

Called in to Frags yesterday but he wasn't there. From text messages
from him I gleaned the following:

"in Milton Keynes hospital. Phoned 999 after muscles on bad leg all
went into spasm. Fucking agony. Should get transferred to Oxford I
hope."

Fingers crossed that it gets sorted this time.

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Knowing his luck he'll get MRSA.

 

Ouch! The poor sod /

Quite.

 

He's been pumped full of morphine by MKGH staff who are "sneery and
confused" in attitude and is still waiting for transport to Oxford.

All this will address is the current acute problem, afaik. I have all
my fingers firmly crossed for the old boy though.

 

Or a large hairy Orderly with a curious medical/sexual fixation

 

Tell him good luck.....

 

Halla wrote:

And from me, if you'd be so kind.

 

ditto
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Jesus, not again.

Pass on our best wishes if you get to see him.

 

Tim wrote

aol

 

Awww Shit.

Hope he is more comfortable now the meds are kicking in.

 

The poor sod, he's been through hell. Get well Frag.

 

Indeed, seconded.

 

One of the foremost things with a frame on is preventing
infection.

Like never let blood/ooze, swabs, cottonwool, etc thats been
on one pin site touch another.

So when the stupid fucking cow in MKGH used the same swab
to take samples of 4 pin sites to check for MRSA I did call
her a stupid fucking cow IIRC.

Hope I did anyway.



frag

 

Wha? "sneery and confused"? That must have been me. Describing them
or myself. Duh!


frag

 

Thanks Adie, sorry I wasn't there when I wur supposed to be

And thanks to everyones best wishes, this will be the last
unscheduled visit. I've got one more to remove the frame in just
over 5 months time, few out patient visits between now and then.

For the more curious (or gruesome, or all three) more details:-

I have three solid metal "pins", 4mm dia, going from upper two frames
into top of femur.

Immediately below the bottom of these three the new break was broke,
some fancy name they give it.

Below that theres another couple of these pins and a wire to hold the
middle bit of femur, then below that three wires going through bottom
bit of femur.

Difference between pins and wires : pins 4mm thick, screw into bone,
poke out of leg on one side. Wires, 0.5mm thick, go though bone and
come out other side and are held under tension.

Problem : the break immediately below the third upper pin decided
that being a horizontal break would be a boring life. It wanted to
break places no other break had broken. It wanted to be a high
flying break. It wanted to go places. Up. And indeed it did. It
went diagonally, right across the bit of the pin going through
the bone.

End result : break goes across pin, pin therefore holds top and
middle part of femur together. Adjusting frame to move top and
middle parts of frame apart result in, err, nothing, apart from
a shit load of tension around that third pin. Oh, and a lot of
pain.

Anyway, they saw this on x-ray and told me to crank it "open" at
twice the speed in the hope it would give and go "ping" and then
all would be good. It didn't. It hurt more and more and more.
And then for whatever reason the upper leg muscles went into
amazingly painful cramp. As if I could stand on the leg in the
first bloody place, not.

Dawn judged from the volume of my screams I was experiencing what
women go through at childbirth. Just have caeserians, ok?

Anyway, the paramedics decided they'd better cart me off to MK A&E
after I'd gone through 3 bottles of Entenox (2 ambulances) and
they didn't have any more after the 4th bottle.

And in between spasms whilst lying in a hospital bed, I nagged
them enough to take me to Oxford ASAP Monday. TBH MK docs didn't
have a bloody clue what to do, the morphine made no difference
to the pain when the leg did spasm.

At Oxford they gave me enough Entenox I didn't care about
anything (shit, that stuff rocks! The *only* stuff that made a
*big* difference) and then unscrewed the offending nail and
released the tension. Yes, apparently the leg did lengthen
before his eyes when he did this (!).

So, here I am, back on track, back at home. With more drugs.
5 weeks of stretching to go, then 4 months drinking shit
loads of milk whilst bone hardens and it comes off. Woo!

And if anyone recommends an Iilzarov frame to any of you,
tell them to FOAD and go grab a bone saw. When they say
"It'll be painful" by JHC do they mean it.


frag

 

Richard Wood wrote

Gif. Gif.

Just in time for summer ride outs.

 

Richard Wood says...

Welcome back frag.

I hope you did too. Stoopid woman.

--
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"Richard Wood" wrote

{{hugs}} You poor thing! Not so much fun then huh. Well glad to hear
you're back at home anyway medear. Will drop in when we come down to pick
up me mates bike.

 

Cheers.

But you'll need to give me a *looooong* time to get to the front door if
Dawns not here. Like ring me when you're going past Birmingham



frag