Now I understand when I hear of people hating hospitals...
MInd you 15 years ago they would have chopped off the leg :ph34r:
So,
15 sick'os wanna see/hear.
History:
September 03-2003 I was moving some empty water cooler bottles down a narrow stairwell from the loft in my garage. My right sandle slipped and got caught in behind the stair (unfinished) and then I fell backwards. Snapped it like a twig.... I was pinned between my 67 bug and an extra motor and tranny that was under the stairs
1 rod and 3 screws at ankle & 2 at top/side of leg=
- 8 months of rehab return to work April 1 2004.
- Complications set in in Sept 2004, at my ankle, the surgeon then removes the the ankle screws.
- 2 months later, a 'Staff' infection sets in where the screws were removed.
- a week of work for I.V. penicillian injections (twice a day at hospital)
- more days of work due to pain
- Dec 24 off to emergency, 'Staff infection back'
- After Christmas holidays another week off work for Hospital I.V. visits
- Lots of days off due to increasing pain.
- A family member who works at Surrey Memorial hooks me up with the 'Infectious Disease' doctor
- He orders a P.I.C.C. line to be inserted ( an IV line that is inserted in my arm and into a vein that goes straight into my heart.
- This line is then hooked up to a waist battery operated pump that pumps penicillian 24/7 in to my blood.
- This lasts for three weeks as it becomes infected.
- RCHospital sets up an appointment with their infectious disease doctor, another PICC line is inserted ( this lasts 6 weeks) and then gets infected.
- By this time my surgeon has decided to remove the remaining two screws and rod and referred me to a plastic surgeon to reconstruct my ankle where the infection lay.
Off work Feb 1 2005 - present
April 1 off to RCH for removal/reconstruction.
Another PICC line inserted
-7 hour operation
- 1 hour removal of hardware
- 6 hours reconstructive surgery(remove a muscle on the inside of my thigh 'Grisles' and inserted into the ankle. Miscroscopically hooked up vein to vein; artery to artery.
- Skin graph taken from my leg (a flap over the donor muscle)
- PICC line gets infected again!! (removed)
- 3 days later the muscle/flap failed and off I went again another 6 hour surgery.
Everything was fine this time round
3 weeks in hospital
Nurse using a mini-Doppler to find pulse in muscle...
I'm at home now NO PICC lines and learning how to walk again.
Now this is closure to this part of my life.
Kate is due next Saturday, I'm ready for some good times!!
