Getting better

As you will probably know from my previous post, I have a had a badly dislocated kneecap, which was broken by the surgeons in Dandy Hospital and needed two screws. It hurt really badly for the first couple of days, I was pretty depressed, coz I couldn't really do anything except lie in bed.

But two weeks on, I have reached a bit of a milestone. Today is Sunday, but yesterday, Saturday, I managed to get to my friend's house for the day to hang out with some friends. It doesn't sound like much, but it was great being able to get in the car and actually go somewhere.

Today I managed to get to church too, which is even better. I can walk around on crutches quite well, and I don't feel as inhibited as I did before. It's great, i've been feeling the prayers of my friends and people and church so strongly, it's amazing.

Tomorrow I am having my first outpatient's appointment with the surgeon, which should be interesting, as my mum is a bit miffed by the service that we got at the hospital. Should be interesting, yeah.

Anyway, I think i'd better go and do something useful now, so peace out and all that.

As things are at the moment

Well, now that I have done my introductory piece, I thought I should tell you about how I am at the moment. To put it bluntly, I have been in a leg brace for almost two weeks now. I will be in it for a month. Ho hum. It isn't anything that bad. I dislocated my kneecap rather badly on May 3rd, just when my future principal was walking in the door for dinner. Quite an interesting situation. Anyway, I was rushed to Dandenong Hospital in an ambulance with nice ambulance people in it, and lots of morphine :P. At the hospital they tried into the night to get it in without surgery, but after about 4 hours, they realised that they needed to operate. So in operating, they happened to notice that there was a fracture. A fracture that wasn't there when I came into the hospital.

So you could say that the fracture is the hospital's fault, and if it weren't for that, I would be up and walking this Monday. Ah well, they're only people and i'm trying not to be too annoyed at them right at the moment.

Oh, and while I am complaining about Dandenong Hospital, I may as well mention that they gave me about 5 minutes of physio, which I don't think was enough. I wasn't seen by an OT at all, and they didn't give me any of the equipment which I really needed. They also didn't teach me how to walk up stairs properly, which was annoying coz i had to figure it out myself. Oh, and when I was in X-Ray, before they fixed it, they bent my leg. How could they do that when it was dislocated. It frikken hurt!!

Anyway, apart from all my gripes about Dandepong hospital, after all it is in Dandenong so something must be excused about its standards. I am getting lots of visitors and starbursts, and extra computer time (like the whole day), and a great family who will do anything just to make me comfortable. And yes, in a month, I will be a non crippled, normal, walkable person. *sigh*

Yo

Well, I have created a blog, as you are probably well aware. I am not very good at writing, so bear with my all-over-the-place-ness. It seems like the right thing to do to start a blog with this sort of hello ramble, which I seem to be doing right at the moment.

Anyway, anyone who might actually read this, enjoy.

Peace out, yo peeps.