Rictus

Good luck for tomorrow mark. I really hope they don’t have to open you up again after all the progress you have made.

Dan

[rictus01]

***king Hospitals Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

As you may have guessed, I'm not there, no beds, come back tomorrow 7am, FFS, THAT'S DAY SURGERY THEN!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeez dude.

Perhaps you should take a camp bed with you tomorrow... bring your own kinda thing.

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by K

Jeez dude.

Perhaps you should take a camp bed with you tomorrow... bring your own kinda thing.

Annoying thing is they could have done it last week as planned then.

Sort of got my head in Hospital mode, now it's all messed up, won't sleep tonight I know.

sorry to here about that even thought i am a little late on finding out. all good riders wreck so you must be good. good luck getting back to normal

[rictus01]

OK, lets try that one again

*still holding my breath*

[rictus01]

Hi Peeps, back again.

So there I am 7am at the ward, got admitted, Oh Mr Horridge, you can go first, cool.

8am into surgery, 11.00 wake in recovery, back to ward,12.30 ask for my lines to be removed, 12.45 outside having fag.

time to play the game, knee killing me athough when asked said it wasn't to bad, had a burger king meal and demonstrated I could do my own insulin, asked if I had to stay the night and why, an hour later gave the physios a sterling display of stair climbing, not showing once the effort needed but there didn't need to know that.
Signed off by physio, spoke to consutant, then asked the nurses if I could have a word with the ward doctor, upshot of which was a double quick collection of drugs and letters and out by 4pm, result.

So no night before, no night after, sounds like day surgery to me, although of course I know it can't be as Mayday don't do diabetics on day surgery

And the results of all thing, well not fantastic, Flushed out a load of cr@p from the joint, the PCL is totally shot, can't be repaired at all, so he's trimmed it back, the ACL on the other hand is repairable, but not with what i've got left, so a reconstruction with donor tissue will be needed; a future 4 hour OP apparently, six weeks more until they will look again.

Good news, well the consultant said give it 3 or 4 days and I can start using the gym again, and I was told as all the surgery was done "key hole" once the swelling goes down I should have the same mobility as prior to going in.

So all in all, not great news, just confirmed it's never going to be anywhere near right again and at least one more major surgery to go.


Oh and I didn't have to face any hospital food

Cheers Mark.

Oh right. Not sure what to say after reading the good & the bad news.

What does that mean in English about riding a bike?

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by Law

Oh right. Not sure what to say after reading the good & the bad news.

What does that mean in English about riding a bike?

Not quite yet, still a wait and see thing