And just like that I'm back in hospital having another surgery to remove the Ex-fix frame from my leg.
I don't really remember this one a great deal and nothing in my trauma diary says anything about it so it must have been kinda routine.
Knock me out, get the Makita hand drill out and remove those screws.
I'm back home again before I know it with a review appointment made for the 23rd of February just six days later to check things out.
In between this I get a text reminder that I am due for my infusion of Ocrevus, the meds I have to get to keep the MS under control. I am not sure this is such a great idea and I ring my neurologist to check it out a bit.
He tells me that the accident is simply a mechanical issue and that my MS is a neurological one and the two don't really mean anything together, so best I get booked in and get the infusion.
Just another day in hospital, who cares right?
The doctors appointments seem endless but honestly I look forward to them because it means I can leave the house and talk to somebody else for 10 minutes or whatever.
I go take pre-infusion blood tests at a pathology lab nearby us, Scotty drives me in the Transit of course and I wheel myself in and out on my knee scooter. My leg feels absolutely horrendous but there is no frame anymore and I can live on Endone for these appointments and then back home at night I just dose up on Cannabis Oil and drift off into nightmares. I often wake up in cold sweats and shivers but I can't remember what most of the nightmares are about.
My body and mind are a mess of anesthetic and drugs and everything is jumbled around in my head. I have my first physio appointment by Telehealth which is pure idiocy. I have an iPad that I have to hold with one hand while balancing myself in bed to show them my mobility status and what is happening with my leg and they try to instruct me in some basic movements that I can do, leg ups while laying down and that sort of thing but it's honestly so pointless I don't ever want to do it again. Fuck the pandemic! Fuck Telehealth! Fuck everything!
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