Friday 31st July 2009

Where do I start?  This last week has been an absolutely nightmare from start to finish!!

Both Gordon and I have been in pretty low places with regards to our depression, neither of us wanting to worry the other so not really talking all that much.  Neither of us are sleeping much cos we’re worrying about things which in turn makes us grouchy.  The worry is adding to our stress and depression so we’ve no motivation, etc to work on getting things sorted out… a bit of a vicious circle!!

Gordon’s knee is giving him a  lot of pain at the moment and he’s taking his maximum dosage of painkillers every day (some days an extra dose) and still getting no form of relief.  He’s tried heat pads, cold compresses, sitting with his leg raised, all the exercises recommended by his physio last time around and still he doesn’t seem to be able to get any relief from the intense pain.  At the moment he has been told they can’t do anything else until he restarts physio and they do another MRI scan, but how long we’ll have to wait for that is anybody’s guess.

My back seems to be slowly mending itself, though as soon as I sit for too long or try to do too much walking then I’m back to square one and as for getting in and out of the bath, that’s still a nightmare.  Hopefully it will continue to improve though as it’s been almost four weeks and I’m getting a bit fed up of not being able to do what I want, when I want to… I have no patience!!

We got a phone call from Gord’s aunt Lynn last night with yet more bad news… her husband (John) had an accident while working on their caravan last Saturday which resulted in a one inch cut on his finger, cut to the bone… so they took him straight to A&E and he had five stitches and was told to take the dressing off in 2-3 days to check the wound. Lynn took the dressing off on Tuesday and said it was obvious the wound had become infected so they went straight back to the hospital and a nurse confirmed there was an infection and made an appointment for John at the hand clinic on Wednesday and they were sent home.  Tuesday night, John couldn’t settle as he was in so much pain with his hand… (him admitting being in pain or needing medical help really means something is wrong as he’s a real man’s man and never sees his doctor and usually just gets on with things!) so by 6am on Wednesday morning Lynn was back at A&E with him where they instantly admitted him.

In the meantime, Lynn started showing signs of Swine Flu and ended up with the paramedics at the house on Sunday night as she could hardly breathe as her asthma was really affected – she was told that because her breathing was so bad she really needed to be in hospital but because she was at the contagious stage of the Swine Flu they wouldn’t admit her so she had to stay at home in quarantine for 48 hours!! and ended up with the doctor visitting three times on Monday and again on Tuesday night but is thankfully a lot better now though struggling with a dreadful cough.

On Wednesday afternoon John was taken to theatre where they had to re-open the wound and make a ten inch incision from the tip of his middle finger (which is the finger he cut) along the palm of his hand to try to extract the infection, and they had to leave it as an open wound.  Lynn and John spoke to his consultant yesterday and they now think that they may have to take him back to theatre today (Friday) to make a further incision from his hand along his rm, beyond his wrist as the infection is spreading quite rapidly, so it’s a case of waiting to see what the doctor says this morning to find out whether he’ll be going back to theatre later today but either way he’ll definitely be in hospital over the weekend.

On a brighter note, it’s my Dad’s birthday next week (8th August) so we’re busy seeing what handcrafted goodies we can make for him and looking forward to him coming to visit in two weeks time… he’s working on his birthday so it’ll just be a phone call and no doubt an msn conversation.

We’ve got a few craft fairs booked at the moment so we’re trying to build up stock for those in between orders, although motivation has been lacking lately so we really need a swift kick up the butt to get sorted otherwise we’ll have no stock!!  The next  event isn’t until the end of August so we’ve got a few weeks to get our act together.

So today’s plan of action, I hear you ask… the kitchen and livingroom are tidied and Gord is asleep so I can’t do the bedroom at the moment so I think I might browse the internet for a little while and then try to do some crafting.  Later we’ve got to go out and then it’ll be a nice long walk with the dogs so fingers crossed the rain stays away and we get some decent weather!!!

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