Haven't had a chance to read any post yet, though.
I settled Mummy into the nursing home (well as settled as she's likely to be). Unfortunately, over the last two weeks she has become completely non-weight bearing, and has been having excruciating pain in one leg. On her GP's instructions, took her to A & E for an x-ray (to rule out fractures). After repeated episodes of "where's your yellow referral form: your GP should have given you one" and repeated explanations of "no, I was told over the phone to come" I finally had a hissy fit with the last person to tell me I should have this stupid yellow card and told them that there was no point having a go at me about it: it was the GP they should have a go at (this is the edited version). Anyway, it turns out that although there is no new fracture, she has a healing pubic bone fracture (!) Apparantly when they did all the x-rays in January, nobody thought to do a full pelvic screen, just a hip x-ray so it wasn't picked up when it happened. Can you believe it? Well yes, you probably can. Strangely, as well, the pain is coming from the hip that still has cartilage, not the the one that that has no cartilage at all (although I must confess it has occurred to me that perhaps the films were flipped). However, it doesn't make any difference to the final outcome as she is not a candidate for hip replacement. So, she's now on tramadol for pain.
On a lighter note, my DD and I spent a couple of fun days in London being tourists (Tate Modern, Globe Theatre and Patrick Stewart in The Tempest). The journey back was interesting (I have never seen Gatwick in such a mess: we were candidates for the world's longest line going to security).
Hope everyone is OK
Jennifer
I settled Mummy into the nursing home (well as settled as she's likely to be). Unfortunately, over the last two weeks she has become completely non-weight bearing, and has been having excruciating pain in one leg. On her GP's instructions, took her to A & E for an x-ray (to rule out fractures). After repeated episodes of "where's your yellow referral form: your GP should have given you one" and repeated explanations of "no, I was told over the phone to come" I finally had a hissy fit with the last person to tell me I should have this stupid yellow card and told them that there was no point having a go at me about it: it was the GP they should have a go at (this is the edited version). Anyway, it turns out that although there is no new fracture, she has a healing pubic bone fracture (!) Apparantly when they did all the x-rays in January, nobody thought to do a full pelvic screen, just a hip x-ray so it wasn't picked up when it happened. Can you believe it? Well yes, you probably can. Strangely, as well, the pain is coming from the hip that still has cartilage, not the the one that that has no cartilage at all (although I must confess it has occurred to me that perhaps the films were flipped). However, it doesn't make any difference to the final outcome as she is not a candidate for hip replacement. So, she's now on tramadol for pain.
On a lighter note, my DD and I spent a couple of fun days in London being tourists (Tate Modern, Globe Theatre and Patrick Stewart in The Tempest). The journey back was interesting (I have never seen Gatwick in such a mess: we were candidates for the world's longest line going to security).
Hope everyone is OK
Jennifer
