The Adventures of Poppet & Other Stories
- Thread starter Sam Luvit
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Please can my life just tick over in a normal boring fashion. I’m too tired for the crisis after crisis. I thought that was supposed to end with the “journey” …
Hey ho, it ain’t so
A few weeks ago I felt a “pop” in my back. I took it real easy and I think I got away with whatever that was
Last week, I felt something “pull”, not so lucky thus time. First it was back pain, then hip pain, then my knee swelled & finally my ankle kept giving way. That and the incredible thigh cramps .., boy they made me scream … after a week, I gave in and phoned the GP
GP told me to go to A&E. Nope. I don’t need that. I managed one more night .. then I called 111 (like you are supposed to). They told me to get to A&E, even booked me a slot less than 30 minutes later
20 hours in A&E, it’s not a TV slot, it’s hell on earth. First things move real fast, I’ve got a visible bulge (no confirmation). Some higher up needs to authorise an MRI for confirmation
Thats where my disbelief kicked in. Four hours for a decision. This means the MRI suite is closed for the night!!!! Seriously. They close it at 17.00, it also shuts over the weekend. un … be … live … able
So. MRI is shut. I need an urgent MRI. Guess what. They get an ambulance to transport me 80 miles to another Trust hospital (research shows that is not a cheap decision)
The second hospital does not trust the tests of the first hospital… so they retest. More costs.
As it’s 05.00 they then pay for a taxi to send me back to the first hospital for discharge????
Two days later I get a call to say I have physio in two days.
No, I don’t know what is wrong. I just know I’m in enough pain to be back on pain killers. I’m even off work
I slept on & off for the first 48 hours. Last night I woke at 04.30 & tried to find my way to bed. It took me at least ten very confusing minutes to realise I had been in bed and go get back in
If I can stay awake long enough …. I might need to research a new career
Life is rubbish
Hey ho, it ain’t so
A few weeks ago I felt a “pop” in my back. I took it real easy and I think I got away with whatever that was
Last week, I felt something “pull”, not so lucky thus time. First it was back pain, then hip pain, then my knee swelled & finally my ankle kept giving way. That and the incredible thigh cramps .., boy they made me scream … after a week, I gave in and phoned the GP
GP told me to go to A&E. Nope. I don’t need that. I managed one more night .. then I called 111 (like you are supposed to). They told me to get to A&E, even booked me a slot less than 30 minutes later
20 hours in A&E, it’s not a TV slot, it’s hell on earth. First things move real fast, I’ve got a visible bulge (no confirmation). Some higher up needs to authorise an MRI for confirmation
Thats where my disbelief kicked in. Four hours for a decision. This means the MRI suite is closed for the night!!!! Seriously. They close it at 17.00, it also shuts over the weekend. un … be … live … able
So. MRI is shut. I need an urgent MRI. Guess what. They get an ambulance to transport me 80 miles to another Trust hospital (research shows that is not a cheap decision)
The second hospital does not trust the tests of the first hospital… so they retest. More costs.
As it’s 05.00 they then pay for a taxi to send me back to the first hospital for discharge????
Two days later I get a call to say I have physio in two days.
No, I don’t know what is wrong. I just know I’m in enough pain to be back on pain killers. I’m even off work
I slept on & off for the first 48 hours. Last night I woke at 04.30 & tried to find my way to bed. It took me at least ten very confusing minutes to realise I had been in bed and go get back in
If I can stay awake long enough …. I might need to research a new career
Life is rubbish
I know @Spamar … TV has a lot to answer for in terms of high expectations 
Hospitals have always been pretty boring places to hang around, but now they are lonely too. I read a whole book, not a very good one either, but when it was finished I had nothing to do but think. There aren’t even any old magazines lying around to thumb mindlessly through.
I even had a full blown panic attack around midnight, never had one of those before, but I had to get out. I ended up sitting in the car park bawling my eyes out and hyperventilating while on the phone to a friend.
I can’t begin to imagine how my mum wouId have coped if her various hospital visits had been, if the pandemic had been going on then.
In other news …
Lovely man has been messaging to see how I am, bless him. More worried about how I am coping than his own state of affairs. I know the office wouId not tell him anything, I’d just have come off his rota, leaving him to think he’d upset me and I’d walked away from him.
I gave big brother an edited version of events, but he’s texting me every morning to see how I’m doing.
Pooch has just about forgiven me. I had to arrange fir him to have a sleepover lol. He loved it, but he did cry every time my friend went out the house, but her dogs played with him, snuggled in bed with him and looked after him. Pooch refused to come to me, snuggle or be near me when she brought him home. He is now anxious if he can’t see me, but it’s gradually reducing
Finally, it’s raining after promises for the last few weeks. The garden is being watered by nature … good thing too, as I can’t do it
Hospitals have always been pretty boring places to hang around, but now they are lonely too. I read a whole book, not a very good one either, but when it was finished I had nothing to do but think. There aren’t even any old magazines lying around to thumb mindlessly through.
I even had a full blown panic attack around midnight, never had one of those before, but I had to get out. I ended up sitting in the car park bawling my eyes out and hyperventilating while on the phone to a friend.
I can’t begin to imagine how my mum wouId have coped if her various hospital visits had been, if the pandemic had been going on then.
In other news …
Lovely man has been messaging to see how I am, bless him. More worried about how I am coping than his own state of affairs. I know the office wouId not tell him anything, I’d just have come off his rota, leaving him to think he’d upset me and I’d walked away from him.
I gave big brother an edited version of events, but he’s texting me every morning to see how I’m doing.
Pooch has just about forgiven me. I had to arrange fir him to have a sleepover lol. He loved it, but he did cry every time my friend went out the house, but her dogs played with him, snuggled in bed with him and looked after him. Pooch refused to come to me, snuggle or be near me when she brought him home. He is now anxious if he can’t see me, but it’s gradually reducing
Finally, it’s raining after promises for the last few weeks. The garden is being watered by nature … good thing too, as I can’t do it
What a total pain in more ways than one @Sam Luvit . Try and take care of yourself as much as you can and I hope things start to slowly improve.
It was very reassuring to be told that although it hurts like a “beep”, moving will not break anything, so I’m to try more moving @Sarasa
I must admit that I’ve tried two short drives and holding in the clutch in traffic feels like I’m pushing something out of my back. It’s a strange feeling.
I’m trying to do little things and hopefully this will help. Time will tell
I must admit that I’ve tried two short drives and holding in the clutch in traffic feels like I’m pushing something out of my back. It’s a strange feeling.
I’m trying to do little things and hopefully this will help. Time will tell
it might be worth just pottering a little bit as you could get stiff and not be able to move. a doctor called it active rest
Hi @jennifer1967
I am walking Pooch a few times a day, although it’s more of a waddle Hoovering .. I tried, but won’t do that for a while (a friend is going to help)
I’ve been told I need to “wiggle” .. the physio had be in giggles as he demonstrated
I am walking Pooch a few times a day, although it’s more of a waddle
Hoovering .. I tried, but won’t do that for a while (a friend is going to help)I’ve been told I need to “wiggle”
.. the physio had be in giggles as he demonstratedthats all right then, otherwise i stiffen up and it gets more painful. i do the shuffle quite often when i first get out of bed. hoovering hurts and any other house work so i do one thing a day.Hi @jennifer1967
I am walking Pooch a few times a day, although it’s more of a waddle
I’ve been told I need to “wiggle”
You'll have to walk like Marilyn Monroe! Hope you feel better soon and the pain goes off. My brother has back problems and the doctor said to him "motion is lotion" - easier said than done. I wonder what is wrong in your case - did you ever find out?Hi @jennifer1967
I am walking Pooch a few times a day, although it’s more of a waddle
I’ve been told I need to “wiggle”
I used to say “it’s mind over matter … I don’t mind n pain don’t matter” @jennifer1967
It’s a slow burn, from shuffle to waddle in the morning … or every time I’ve stopped
A captains measure of Morgan’s helps get through the evening ?
It’s a slow burn, from shuffle to waddle in the morning … or every time I’ve stopped
A captains measure of Morgan’s helps get through the evening ?
Hi @nita , how have you been?
I did try a little MM today, going to keep at it, but with a lot less “sass” as I am only supposed to do little wiggles
I like that, motion is lotion. I’m going to try to remember that one
My back gave out in my late teens … took a bunch of doctors, specialists & quacks to figure it out. Nothing special. Just boring old AO
This time I’ve managed to partly displace three discs, one seems to want to push out a bit more than it should
All I can do now is wiggle it back in and manage the pain
Im going to work on MM sass ??
I did try a little MM today, going to keep at it, but with a lot less “sass” as I am only supposed to do little wiggles
I like that, motion is lotion. I’m going to try to remember that one
My back gave out in my late teens … took a bunch of doctors, specialists & quacks to figure it out. Nothing special. Just boring old AO
This time I’ve managed to partly displace three discs, one seems to want to push out a bit more than it should
All I can do now is wiggle it back in and manage the pain
Im going to work on MM sass ??
One of the wiggles @Spamar …
Stand in the shower, position yourself with water hitting your back, left arm at your side, raise at elbow to right angles. Now, press your arm into the wall as support, so your body is at right angles to the wall
Now wiggle your left hip into the wall
Swop sides and wiggle your right hip into the wall
Couldn’t stop giggling watching the physio guy demonstrating that one
with me its my sciatic nerve that is impinged as the doctor said so no amount of wiggling is going to do it. i forget and do the twist.I used to say “it’s mind over matter … I don’t mind n pain don’t matter” @jennifer1967
It’s a slow burn, from shuffle to waddle in the morning … or every time I’ve stopped
A captains measure of Morgan’s helps get through the evening ?
