Nige cycled in this morning.
Looking the picture of health that anyone over 40 who has just ridden a bike for 30 minutes can look…
He brought in some fruit of course, plus a bag of kettle crisps. My body is a temple, so none of that deep fried rubbish for me. Well, not yet anyway.
I had a drain tube removed from the upper part of the incision. Since then I have been gradually moving my leg more, and it has meant I can move more in the bed.
It was going to be on Monday 18th May, but I had a fever, and they wanted to make sure that was under control first.
I left the room at 2pm to go down to the operating room. When I was put onto the slab, they spent 30 minutes trying to find a vein for the IV. Eventually, they put one in my neck. 30 minutes on a cold steel table with no support formy leg was not the best have ever felt…
I got back to the room at 7pm, so around 4 hours of surgery.
In the surgery, they fitted a Titanium plate, and 11 Titanium screws into my bone. (Total cost of parts – £2832).
Jim, the American guy who is sharing the room with me is being discharged today, so I will have the room to myself. Jim has had 3 discs replaced in his neck, and has been here since last Wednesday. He had the op on Thursday, and so today he has the stiches removed, and is being discharged.
Me and the bar they hammered through my leg.
I broke my thigh bone right at the top near the hip joint at around 10:35pm on the Friday 15th May. I did this by slipping in the bath, just as I had finished my shower, and was getting out.
Once I got to the hospital, I was x-rayed, and I was told that I had broken my leg. I had hoped that it was just dislocated, but the x-ray proved the cause of my pain.
They hammered a steel bar through my lower leg as they needed to put my upper leg in traction to make sure that the muscle did not contract too much.
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