This is another of those group emails - sorry I would love to write to you all
individually but don't seem to get the time. Hospitals are really busy places.I hope that you are all having a great summer and look forward so much to seeing as many of you as can visit us in our new home at 377 One Tree
Point Rd, One Tree Point!
Well, I've spent a comfortable sleep-filled night with my new shoulder and should be getting the drain and pain pump out soon out soon. I'm having no pain whatsoever.
I have just been given a lovely bed bath so feeling specially good.
The surgeon has been to visit and he is pleased with the operation and aftermath. The physio will come today and start moving my arm but at
this stage I am not to move it myself.
What did surprise me today though was that the surgeon wants to schedule me for another lot of surgery - this time to either my right hip or femur. I began getting pain there at the
weekend and thought that it was probably referred pain from right pelvis. But no. It seems that things are hanging by a thread there now and I mustn't weight bear on it at all.
So right now I have my left arm in a sling and
cannot take any weight in it or move it myself. Yet!! 4-6 weeks of healing and I will have a great tumour-free left arm.
My right arm has a good range of movement but limited strength still from the broken
clavical. But I can useMy left leg is fine especially since I had the radiotherapy to the pelvis which has taken away all the referred pain to the thigh area.
And my right leg is a no go area for the next two weeks when the
lovely surgeon Chris Fougere will take out the blemishes and give me new bits which will enable me to walk safely again.
So the plan is:
Stay in hospital til Friday 3rd feb when I can be discharged for the
long weekend, in the company of two adults and a wheelchair and a shower chair. I will leave hospital on the Friday after I have had the 4 th dose of radiotherapy to try to fix the double vision. So the radiotherapy will
all be done in house with the final one happening when I get readmitted on the 7th. Yah!!!!
I will go to one tree point for the weekend as planned and be there to welcome visitors and supervise some of the unpacking. The
new super de duper nursing bed which looks like a domestic bed should be in place by then, and I will really need it.
A weekend in my new home with my darling wolf and some friends and family around will be the perfect way
to heal from one surgery and prepare for the next one. I am so looking forward to that.
Then I will return to hosp on Tuesday the 7 th for final radiotherapy dose and possibly same day - surgery to either hip or femur. ( I
have to have another cat scan to determine exactly which is needed. ) and that will be done in next day or so.
I continue to be amazed at the coordination that the staff are arranging all around me - I do have to make sure
that I have all the pertinent facts to give them tho, so that they know what needs to be fitted in. They made a minor muck up of my medications ( at doctor level) which I will continue to pursue. No harm done but it should not
have happened. Apart from that I am being so well treated and cared for.
I've brought in some comforts for myself such as a mohair blanket a cuddly cushion my one cup coffee plunger and coffee bags, a pepper grinder,
my kindle and some food which fits my preferred diet and augments the perfectly good but bland and boring hospital meals.
So I'm well set up , very comfortable, can text or email friends and family - even take phone calls
while I'm in this single room and can make a bit more noise.
Except that during the day, things get really busy with the various healthcare professionals coming in and out. I specially relish the 1-3pm sleeping time which
seems to be strictly monitored in each ward I've been in. That is good for having a quiet zzz. Speaking of which I think I feel one coming on now.
Hope this does catch you up with things. Love to you all and my very
grateful appreciation for all the thoughts and prayers and messages.
I know why I'm not having pain - I 'm so lifted up by all your care and concern.
I am one very blessed girl.
Love to you all ,
Denise
xxxxxx
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