Recurring Symptoms

Thank you SO much Kath, you've no idea how reassuring that is! I'm terrified of having the operation with an epidural, I've begged for a general but the surgeon is determined that epidural is what I'm having!! I've no idea what sort of hip replacement I'm having but I feel so much better after getting your message!

Moira x

Thank you so much Sarah! I'm feeling better today with no further nasty symptoms so far! I honestly think even the stoma nurses are sometimes stumped too!  As for going into hospital! To be fair, general nurses are wonderful but to get mixed up between stomas and catheters is just not on! Even though it's not their specialist subject, you'd think they'd have some knowledge!

I think I'll just wait and see how things go with the whole stoma thing, hopefully it was just a one off! Thank you for your good wishes for the hip operation! Kath has really put my mind at rest!

Take care,

Moira xx

Moira

Nurse confusion. 

When I had my reversal I woke up in a single room at the end of a very long corridor. My dressing as soaked in blood. Every nurse that I saw I asked if they could please change my dressing at least three ran out like I’d asked for the impossible 

Four p.m a nurse came in an said I’ve come to do your dressing. She leaned me forward to look at my bottom!! 
Good grief she didn’t know where a stoma was. 

No wonder they were all terrified of me.

It was an ENT ward
. 

Oh Ann, you never fail to make me laugh! Those poor nurses and poor you! I know they pushed you in at the end of a very long day but what a place to put you! I wonder if the nurses ever got over the shock!

You're better than a gin and tonic for cheering me up!

Take care,

Moira xx

No they didn’t they were terrified of me. 

Then when I went to have my staples out at my GPS keep in mind I’d had an agency nurse handling the dressing at home and she’d had a stint in A&E 

Anyway I knew it was an open wound so there am I in the nurses room and off she took the dressing aghast she said I’m just going to fetch a senior colleague. In comes another nurse aghast I’m just going to fetch the doctor. 

Aghast I looked up at the three of them peering down at my wound and said.

Anyone here seen alien. I feel like I’m John Hurt and an alien is going to jump out at you

The doctor said get an overnight bag and go to. A&E 

Long day short my consultant saw me within half an hour and removed the staples. He really laughed at me when I said

My guts are all going to come out 

And 

Whoopis making a come back 

hey ho. What fun these stomas are

Have a good day all. Keep smiling xxxx

I've got a bad stomach laughing! Oh dear but it isn't really funny, can you imagine, some old dear, she'd think she really was in Alien! Oh heck, that's made me start off again! Nurses in a GP practice should be trained in all sorts of dressings surely? Saying that, I remember having a strange growth on my finger and none of the nurses nor 2 doctors had a clue! I was flying to the USA a week later, terrified something was going to burst out of my finger! Still don't know what it was, it just gradually disappeared!

Maybe we should start a petition for a stoma nurse to be at every GP practice, it would be great!

Take care,

Moira xx

Hi Moira 

I have been wondering how you are now? 
I hope that you’re much better 

Best wishes 

Hi Ann,

Thanks for thinking of me! I'm doing ok, I had my hip replacement operation 12 days ago, the original date was cancelled but I actually got in earlier! All went well and it was done under spinal anaesthetic, now it's the bad part, waiting for it to heal! I'm managing stairs and walking better every day but how I'm longing for a bath! Can't have one for 6 weeks as bath is to high and even shower is over bath! 

Brooke has decided to voice her objections by going on strike! 

Hope you're well and enjoying this gorgeous weather!

Take care,

Moira x

Glad the op went well.concentrate on your recovery and you will soon get there

Kath

Thanks Kath, I'm getting there but oh so slowly!

Moira x