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What a nice compliment, thank you
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How can a nursing home lose medication! Absolutely awful...
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It's actually worse. I was complaining I couldn't breathe and they told me it was anxiety. They refused to call an ambulance t9 get me to the emergency room. I took an Uber and discovered I have pneumonia in all four quadrants of my lungs. Absolute incompetence.How can a nursing home lose medication! Absolutely awful...
Sorry Pug I didn't mean to hijack your thread I'll move my woes elsewhere.
Keeping you in my prayers
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Ted, I sympathise.
The same happened to me during the last stint in Rotherham Hospital.
My protestations fell on deaf ears until, after 5 days without I couldn't get out of bed at all!
What a s--t hole that was!
First the wind blows one way and then another...
Today I had an audience with a prosthetics consultant, who did his job and listened to me.
Nothing guaranteed, but subject to a favourable initial chat with 'musculoskeletal' re physio assessment of my elbow, he opened the way for a return to continued physio with 'Mel', with the prospect of developing skills where I can demonstrate walking with minimal aids, with the further prospect of being issued with a fully articulated limb!
My gratitude to Ettienne, for his kind words.
A proper gentleman.
''Don't give up the ship''.
EDIT 23rd February...
Had a call from Mel (physio) today.
She's agreed to take me on for 6 sessions but has serious reservations about my expectations.
I said ''you never know unless you try''.
So I have a 9.30 booking next Monday.
The same happened to me during the last stint in Rotherham Hospital.
My protestations fell on deaf ears until, after 5 days without I couldn't get out of bed at all!
What a s--t hole that was!
First the wind blows one way and then another...
Today I had an audience with a prosthetics consultant, who did his job and listened to me.
Nothing guaranteed, but subject to a favourable initial chat with 'musculoskeletal' re physio assessment of my elbow, he opened the way for a return to continued physio with 'Mel', with the prospect of developing skills where I can demonstrate walking with minimal aids, with the further prospect of being issued with a fully articulated limb!
My gratitude to Ettienne, for his kind words.
A proper gentleman.
''Don't give up the ship''.
EDIT 23rd February...
Had a call from Mel (physio) today.
She's agreed to take me on for 6 sessions but has serious reservations about my expectations.
I said ''you never know unless you try''.
So I have a 9.30 booking next Monday.
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Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
Good to hear your still moving forward one slow step at a time.
Hello Pug..late to the party here, but know that we are all thinking of you..wished I lived in UK, we would help you.. what Peter said...my sister suffered a massive stroke at age78..we were all celebrating together at Christmas..in one day she lost her house, dog and cat..now in a nursing home Her husband died of MI three years to the day of her stroke..These events remind me again to enjoy every day we have... remember, you are a tough old Limy, and from 78 year old biker to another, that helps a lot... this is your Trafalgar..fight on ,o;d bean!
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Moving the mountain.
Before winter set in I spotted on fleabay one of these strollers/glorified zimmer frame things, which looked as if it could have its uses in the garden, then put it to one side for the duration.
Last week I found myself staring at it... and decided to try it out for the first time, in an attempt to minimise my use of crutches, to lower the stress on my dodgy elbow.
It was a revelation, in that it encouraged a vertical posture, enabling weight transfer more directly onto the prosthetic and less reliance on placing that weight through my arms via crutches.
The difference was immediate!
Please to let you know my journey today using the stroller to, from and during physio was a complete success.
Against the better judgment of the crews and physio and their protestations, I climbed the steep ramp into the ambulance and climbed back out using the 3 big side steps.
Made it up my steep drive (first time) and into the house up the 2 steps.
Dead chuffed.
As I've no doubt said before, 'until you try, you'll never know'.
Before winter set in I spotted on fleabay one of these strollers/glorified zimmer frame things, which looked as if it could have its uses in the garden, then put it to one side for the duration.
Last week I found myself staring at it... and decided to try it out for the first time, in an attempt to minimise my use of crutches, to lower the stress on my dodgy elbow.
It was a revelation, in that it encouraged a vertical posture, enabling weight transfer more directly onto the prosthetic and less reliance on placing that weight through my arms via crutches.
The difference was immediate!
Please to let you know my journey today using the stroller to, from and during physio was a complete success.
Against the better judgment of the crews and physio and their protestations, I climbed the steep ramp into the ambulance and climbed back out using the 3 big side steps.
Made it up my steep drive (first time) and into the house up the 2 steps.
Dead chuffed.
As I've no doubt said before, 'until you try, you'll never know'.
Great to hear good news Pug. That type of stroller really helped my dad for many years. His had a seat where you could turn around and sit for a few if walking became too stressful.