I rarely come on because I really have bugger all to say although like Aunt Mona, I do swing by to check although not ev-er-y day :o/ I've said it before, I do post on facebook but it's just silly one-liners which is all facebook is anyway.
Oooohhhh so Miss Hannah had a wee boy then? That's lovely, pics please? Yes, Mim is a Nana now too, funny isn't it? They all seem too young. Bless them :o)
Uncle Steve and Aunty Marj are both looking really well. Nice all the kids are able to come together for Mothers Day. Mine (mothers day) was a nice one. Tony had taken the kids out on Saturday and did some shopping which I was none the wiser for until Angelina piped up and told the Minister from my church (he and his wife had come to visit that day) that "We got Mummy a present too but she's not allowed to have it until tomorrow".
Sunday morning comes and I'm rousing to the usual household noises when the kids come in and plonk a couple of pot plants onto the bed next to me, followed by a couple of boxes of chocolates and Tony brings in a cup of tea. The kids had bought me gifts from the school stall, a couple of pens and a bath bomb (salts). I think Hokey took the money to the canteen and shopped up there first then went to the stall with the change. Hmmmm sounds like my boy...
Bernice your new Baby looks like a cheeky boy. I do love cattle dogs. Very smart breed.
I do have a couple of bits of news today. Firstly, Mum asked last night if she could come and live with us. No news there because we've been here before but Greg phoned me this afternoon to let me know Mum had organised a removalist for about ten days time.
Oh, thanks brother, Mum was supposed to call me and let me know if she could find a removalist and I thought Greg was already aware of her wanting to come down but he heard of it through the removalist. He got a bit of a shock, poor bugger.
I was completely taken aback myself as it's been 'happening' for so long then BANG! it's already organised. Well it's great news anyway, so so sooooo happy :oD
Bernice, Marks mate told him on facebook that his haircut made him look like a priest, hahaha haaaa. Seriously though, it did look nice. Lovely pictures too, thank you.
Tony is in the lounge stoking the fire, I adore that fire but we're thinking of putting a gas heater back in there as our fire 'wood' is only what we manage to scavenge off the streets when ppl throw out rubbish or trees that have been cut down and up.
Also there is a tile warehouse next to the pub which is next door and the fellow there has old Tony we can have all the old pallets that are too broken or old for re-use. That's great but we'd easily burn a couple of pallets a night and it's a bit difficult loading them up onto the trolly and pull them around here then break up and get the nails out etc etc etc and it's getting to be real hard work every second day.
Oh, I've been seeing my rehab doctor and bugging him for ages to chop my arm off. It drives me nuts the way it's always bent up tight like a chicken wing in the frozen meat section at the supermarket. My hand is a balled fist all the time and it's harder and harder to put my glove on each night, which I wear for comfort as the pressure (of the tight ones) brings relief to the stiffness and the glove in general helps the hypersensitivity in my hand. It always feels frozen and any hand hurts if it's knocked or even touched by anything.
Anyway, he chased down and sent a referral to a Hand Surgeon at Royal North Shore Hospital. I went to see her 2nd May. My appointment was at 9am, I think I got in at 1:30pm and by that time the thirty or so ppl who were there when I arrived had whittled down to about five. I saw the sidekick first for while then the Doc' and three more sidekicks came by and she tried to pull my arm out as the first bloke had tried but neither could do it. They all had a go at it but couldn't pull my arm out straight, much less my hand without pulling me off the chair with it. I showed them how I manage it then they all had a go at trying to bend it back. Wasn't happening. I showed them and the Doc explained what she could do and asked if I was up for it. "Bring it on" I said so they booked me in for the 22nd, last Tuesday.
By the time I walked out of my appointment with her the waiting room was chok-a-blok full of people again And they were lined up out the door and down the hall. STREWTH I was lucky to get in 'early'!
So I went over there last Tuesday morn' and checked in, I tried to send Tony home because the dog was in the car (it was a cold rainy day) but he stayed with me until it was my turn to get changed and hop on a bed. I sent him home then and told him not to come visit because it was too late to bring the kids across the city after school and frankly, I didn't want visitors because, well, what do you do? Just sit there and once all the days events etc have been sorted I don't feel comfortable sitting there, feeling like I have to entertain..
I hated it when Tony was in RPA as, like I said, it's uncomfortable. It was ok when he was in ICU and too crook to talk, I just put my head on his bed and went to sleep.Anyway, they said it was a two night stay so I looked at it is a brief break of parental duties ;o)
So I get wheeled down to the surgery and they start prepping me, takes a while and we go in to theatre and slide me across onto the table. Was right about then that I dropped off and seemingly woke right up again, as you do after coming out of surgery. The doc' came out and told me it took longer than she'd thought it would, four instead of 2 to 3 hours.
Basically she's taken the tendon from under me wrist and pulled it around to the top and attached it there so as to pull my wrist out straight again. She also cut or blocked (or something) to stop my fingers curling under and my hand in to a fist. She did not however, reverse the tendons in the elbow and shoulder for concern of my arm going to the opposite extreme and ending up dead straight, not being able to bend at all. Although, these joints may even loosen themselves with the main offending joint being mended.
So they wheel me back to my ward and I'm feeling pretty good because they've put a nerve block in my arm which is supposed to stop all feeling and did, for a while but wore off before the twenty four hours it was supposed to last. Then the pain kicked in, good and proper. My arm is in a cast from below my fingertips to up under my armpit. It's plastered at a slight angle but I can feel at times when my elbow tries to bend and also when my arm tries to press up against my body but the cast is so fricken heavy that my arm can't go anywhere. I swear I'll be looking like an Orangutan when it comes off, red hair and all...
I came home last Thursday, against their concerns and as it turned out I should have gone along with their concerns because the pain-killers they were giving me weren't doing much good. I went to my doc on Friday and got a script for a different pain-killer but these ones don't do much good and the ones that do ease the pain make me sick. I spent Friday throwing up into a bin by the bed, Saturday I got up and dressed but was back in bed by lunchtime with the bin wrapped in my good arm. Sunday was much the same as was today.
I go back to the hospital on Wednesday for a follow-up when I assume they will take the cast off to check the wound and the result of the op' then bind me up again. I'm hoping they might be able to script me some different drugs. I'm not one for taking pills at the best of times but hell, if it's not the pain then it's the vomiting and whilst experiencing one the other doesn't seem so bad, until I'm experiencing the other...
Anyway, here I am, this post doesn't seem so long as I see it here on the page but when it loads it seems to be too big. So this is why I try to break it in to extra paragraphs for easier reading. So I'm going to break it up into a few more before I post it...
... There, that's better. I'd better post this now. Will try to upload a couple of pics first.
This is Frank just now. Mad Mutt.
Nope, all the others are on my phone and it's already 1:15 in the morning. You'll have to wait another three months for me to try again ;o)
G'night folks
xxxxx
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