Up at 6.15 am in order for me to get ready, everything takes so much longer to do now, and then I have transverse to the other side of the bed as that's the only place the wheelchair will fit. But we did it and wrapped up like nanook of the north we headed for the bus.
I've noticed since being back in a wheelchair how very rude people are, they jump on the bus before you, without a thought, and most of the bus drivers don't want to put the ramp down to help. Kev has started to do it himself so they
have to raise the bus platform.
It was definitely a case of hurry up and wait at the hospital. My appointment was for 9.45am I finally was seen at 11.45am. I had X-rays to kick off with. So much nicer than Durham. Nurse pushed me into the room and wheeled me to the bed. I thought here we go, but the radiographer said no, push her over here as it says on the paperwork "CP, has difficulty moving". So he pressed a button and the equipment came to life in a robotic ballet and rearranged itself so I could lift my cast on leg to it and they could take the necessary there. I said how clever and he said that all X-ray equipment can do it, but not all radiographers are willing to move it as they like their set ups! Just goes to show...
Then I went back to the waiting room and was then taken to the plaster room. Again, asked if I could move to the bed I pointed to the note at the top of the page. The nurse got a dremel type tool and set too remove the cast.
She checked the wound site and then proceeded to take out the stitches ( ouch) I wasn't going to look but I did, and it looks very neat. Two rows of 14 stitches on the right-hand side and where the bone went through quilt type stitches on the left. The guy doing the plastering was just barking at me to get on the bed as He wasn't plastering on his knees just because I was willing to move, when the lovely consultant from last week walked in.
She looked at the wound sites, and then to the guy, and said, " Michelle needs to stay in her chair, I clearly wrote on her notes here on the top that she had Cerebal Palsey as a child and struggles to move with her left-hand side. So you can plaster her on your knees, and if you struggle to get back up, it might make you realise how it feels to struggle to move. She had enough ignorance at Durham, and we deliver better here at Nottingham" Nice timing lovey...
So he plastered me where I sat and was a bit nicer with it.
Once that was done, we could go. No more appointments for a month now. Then the work starts. We couldn't get the first tram back as it was heaving, but we got the next one, luckily they are only ten minutes apart.
We got back home, I was knackered, and in a modicom of pain, so I got into bed and rested. The photo is a picture of my Emma Bridgewater Dandelion mug that I bought to mark being a Dyan Dandelion member. Beautiful mugs...
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