Distracting myself, hopefully!

  • Trying to be positive

    I'm trying to be positive, but I've been really struggling to deal with how the surgery has changed my life.  I had a grumble about my hearing in my last post so we won't go there again.  Next I still can't speak.&...
  • Hospital visit yesterday

    We went to the hospital for my weekly clinic visits yesterday.  Started off with the dressings nurse in the MaxFac clinic.  My dressings have to be changed twice a week, the hospital does it once and then the district nurse comes round for ...
  • New feeding tube today

    I got a new feeding tube today.  I suspected it may be on the way after the nurse mentioned a possible fungal infection last week, and I had to get the swabs done.  I'd not had any control over my feeding when I was in intensive ca...
  • Things to help

    Today I'm going to write a list of a few things that have really helped since I got home from hospital.  Apart from the toilet frame with handles, everything else we already had around the house. The toilet frame with handles is brillia...
  • Cut it all off!!

    This refers to the note I handed H when he visited me at the hospital last month.  It was the day I'd finally got out of Intensive Care and into a High Dependency Unit.  The problem was my hair.  I didn't get a chance to have i...