Yesterday made three weeks since 'it' happened, my arm being kept immobilised ever since - though the exposed left hand itself works fine. After several visits to hospital, involving a number of x-rays, I went once more yesterday, hoping to get final verdict as to whether surgery will be - or far, far preferable - may not be necessitated. Well, that's not quite what happened, but it is looking rather more hopeful than otherwise. Following a further number of x-rays, on examination the consultant told me that under the bandage and plaster, it appears that self-mending is progressing satisfactorily. A dull pain around the elbow joint is ever-present though bearable, not really requiring alleviation via paracetamol. I am to return after a further three weeks when the plaster will then be removed, hopefully permanently, and if on examination the 'repair' has continued it could be likely that an operation should not be needed. You can imagine the relief I've felt, albeit not yet definitively a 'no operation'.
So, I've been coping thus far since the 1st Oct (in a period which included my turning 78 - not exactly the 'happiest' of my b/days!) and since I've managed the last three weeks alone without any assistance, I'm pretty sure that if I'm careful I can certainly manage another three. For the first time since Sept I'm at last feeling a bit elated.
Tomorrow I go to another hospital again, one that specialises in head injuries, to (I hope) have it confirmed that my facial injuries (extensive dental damage excepted) need no further treatment. So of course I can only hope that that will bring further better news for me.
Thanks to all those of you who've sent so many sympathetic messages to me. Pussies Bobby and Sloopy send you their own thanks too!
That is good news that you probably/most likely won't need surgery. It's always a long process to heal especially as we get older. Dental work is so expensive so I don't envy you that and hope you can get it done to your satisfaction. These things are really not nice. Thinking of you and do let us know how things progress. Sending you a virtual hug.
ReplyDeleteThanks again, Carol. It's good that things are starting to look not quite as bad as they might have been, though still being serious enough. As to dental works necessary, at my age now I'm less concerned about appearances than if I'd been younger. It's not as though I was looking for someone to shack up with for the rest of my days - or even just to spend one single night with! I think it can now be said that that part of my life is, in all probability, firmly in the past now. No, when it comes to dental remedial works, functionality is much more important than how it looks, so I'm hoping that it may turn out to be not TOO expensive.
DeleteI agree w/Carol: so glad it looks like surgery won't be in your future. And happy belated birthday!!
ReplyDeleteThank you indeed yet again, Elle. Here's hoping!
DeleteSuch good news, sir! Take it slow, listen to the doctors, love on the cats ... that's my advice.
ReplyDeleteSending all good thoughts your way!!
Much gratitude to you for your continued support, Bob. It means an awful lot.
DeleteWell, I guess we must trust what they say, and glad to read your mending, and your spirit seems to be on the mend as well. That is good news. And I'm sure the kitties are happy, and one less worry to have by not being there for a period of time. I turn to 54 on the 25th...and after your story, I making sure I'm approaching it carefully!!! Take good care friend.
ReplyDeleteTa, M.M. At my visit to the 'other' hospital this morn (the one that deals with head/facial injuries) was told that there's now no need for me to return there again. My body is doing its work at self-repair and the consultant I saw this time (middle-eastern of some sort, late 30s at a guess, and bearded - but of course! Looks I would have died for!) said that progress is very satisfactory, and I am just to avoid hard-to-the-teeth food for about 6 weeks more, which is no problem at all. So that was precisely what I'd hoped to hear.
DeleteYes, do please treasure your middle-agedness. The last thing one wants to hear in one's more advanced years is a calamity like I've just experienced. There will come a point for everybody when 'late' becomes TOO late!
Go well and safely yourself, pal.
So glad you are healing well and the outlook is more optimistic. I will continue to wish you full healing without the need for medical or surgical intervention. Aging is not for the weak and timid, for sure. Keep getting better, buddy!
ReplyDeleteYour kindly encouraging words are very much appreciated. S/b. Rest assured that I'll be trying my darned best to comply with your wishes - every bit as much as I'm ever concerned about your own health and sometimes precarious condition. Do keep yourself well - please! :-)
DeleteYes! Thank you for the updates. xoxo
ReplyDeleteAlways glad to have you popping by, Sir.
DeleteRay,
ReplyDeleteYou really took a fall didn't you? A big time faceplant. Falls are one of my major concerns now. I am so unsteady on my feet. I'm glad you didn't have to have an operation. Minimize those operations!
Ron
Continues to be the biggest physical disaster of my life, Ron - or (at the very least) easily my greatest 'inconvenience' EVER! And now to top it all, coupla weeks ago got informed that a callous has developed at the point where the forearm bone has separated from the elbow 'hinge' joint. So it's now rather premature to view an operation as being 'unlikely', which I'll only know when I next visit the hospital on, of all days, Christmas Eve! But at this stage even if surgery is to be advised I'm inclined to ask whether, if I forgo it, will subsequent pain get worse. So as at now it's all up in the air for another 3 weeks or more. Meanwhile I have to be ultra-csareful about avoiding yet another fall as if I do have one, and I fall on the injured side, the way I feel at this moment it could very well be the end of me! Been feeling somewhat depressed, which considering your own past difficulties I know you'll appreciate. but I really am grateful for your asking.
DeleteVery best wishes to you - with a happy Xmas and a great 2025 to follow.
Can we get an update? we are thinking of you.
ReplyDeleteThank you VERY much, Sir. My not-very-encouraging update is all in my reply to Ron's enquiry directly above. I'm moved that I'm thought of at all by others, and value such visits here like yours very highly indeed.
DeleteThanks for asking - and to you too I wish all and only the best for the coming festive season, and a happy, healthy and prosperous 2025. XXXX.
Sorry to see that this is still ongoing. Do keep us updated. Really hoping you have a better year next year.
ReplyDeleteThanks muchly for your re-visit here, Carol. It gives me a badly-needed 'glow' inside.
DeleteNothing new here since the callous development, so unless something else untoward happens it'll be a fortnight tomorrow when I learn from the hospital whether further intervention, of whatever kind, is advised. Meanwhile, the nervous wait carries on...... :-(
Thanks yet again, Elle. It's a long, loooooong wait until 24th comes, but I've got no alternative but to sit and wait. Meanwhile, nothing 'new' has happened and I'm still of the same mind, to only accept having surgery if the alternative, leaving it alone, is liable to get intolerably painful. I still go through every day dreading going arse-over-tit yet again, indoors as well as outside. Hopefully that doesn't happen (of course!) and I get a not-so-negative reading of the next x-rays.
ReplyDeleteThanks for asking, Elle. I do hope you're well and I renew my best wishes to you and yours for the Xmas season and for all of 2015, most especially regarding your health.