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- Thread starter Bob The Skutter
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And i'm back to hating you all. They say i'll be in a week or more now. They're putting something called a vac pack on which might cause a hernia, which they will then fix when i am/the tissue is healthier. Can't say i'm looking forward to the next few weeks at all.
Damn, they must've forgotten to take the bibliography out!
Best of health to you, hope you heal soon.
Trekker, had his acknowledgements removed last year.
Best of health to you, hope you heal soon.
Trekker, had his acknowledgements removed last year.
Shit, sorry Bob, I hope it all goes well.
At least your texting thumbs will be well exercised at the end of all this
yeah i'm glad they're not being told to knock it off with the phone, it's my main source of entertainment at the minute but they seem to be allowing everyone to use them with no complaint.
My parents have brought in my netbook with a few tv shows and 8 gig or so of music on. I was hoping to get a wireless broadband dongle but i don't fancy forking out £75 or whatever just to go online for the week or so i'll be in. I might see if my brother can copy a few more shows off my media centre on to a memory card to watch in here.
Does your hospital have bedside internet/email/TV (used to be called PatientLine, now taken over by someone else I think)? It's pretty good and about a fiver a day I think. Incoming calls can be pricey though, so use your mobile for phone calls, provided your trust is one of the sensible ones which have relaxed their restrictions (it sounds like it is).
there is a patientline thing but the one on my bed seems to have crashed, i called about it but nothing happened. And they guy in the next bed told me all java script is disabled so no logging on to most sites and no video streams. Why can't they operate wifi for patients? Lol
Well i've just seen the surgeon who did the op, he basically laughed when he saw it. Said they over reacted sending me all the way back to leeds, they were just worried about the possibility of having to put me out again so passed the buck here. He said just keep the wound packed and check on it till wednesday, then home, no need even for the vac pack. I just won't have a neat scar is all. I can live with that.
yeah chick digg a scar. Just have to come up with a better reason than appendectomy. Looks like they've changed their minds again though, i'm now waiting on the tissue viability nurse coming to check me for a vac pack and then they have to sort out cross trust funding for the home portable one.
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Good luck with that. I think you now need to sacrifice a goat and say "extra-contractual referral" three times while looking in a mirror to achieve it these days...
^i'm so sick of moving goal posts. The doctors decided yesterday i don't need the vac pack and i can go home today with it packed and dressed, then if the district nurse feels it needs the vac pack she can send me for it without the cross trust funding issues. But now tissue viability are involved it's their decision to make. Seems to me sending me home packed would be the simplist solution, but since when do the nhs go for simple.
Well, I'm home again. Wound packed, and dressed. I just need to get some rest now I think, finally get to recuperate some.
Good news Bob, glad you made it
At least this has happened at a time traditionally associated with sitting around doing bugger all.
Looks like it might be a long road to recovery. The nurse said perhaps 2 months for the wound to heal, maybe half that if they get the vac pack on me. Just got the wait for the tissue viability nurse to get in touch with me at home.
I'm glad to hear you're back home. That must be a relief, even if you're still healing. The last time I had a long stretch in the hospital the boredom was driving me mad.
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