Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

Here's a pic of my consultant/surgeon chap, the very nice gentleman who oversaw my case and who's wife is one of the stoma nurses.

http://www.colorectal.co.uk/

He really needed a better website name :P But it does what it says on the tin! Anyway, there's a pic, so you can see what he looks like :)

I'm feeling thoroughly lazy today, with no inclination to do much at all. Not that I have the energy to do much but that's besides the point :P Anyway, it seems a good time to put down events and thoughts about recent experiences, so I apologise in advance if I spam. :)

I feel like talking a little bit about the sequence of events that led me to go to hospital and what happened while I was there, plus I really want to highlight some of the fabulous nurses and doctors I had dealings with and a little about the not-so-fabulous. I may get carried away so I'll break this up into LJ cuts. There will be no gruesome medical details so no need for the filter and you can read without fear :) ETA: OK, it's gotten so long I'm going to talk about the nurses in a separate post! Spam! :D

( Wot was wrong with me, anyway? )

( Being admitted and facing surgery )

( The hammer drops )

( Post surgery )

( The tube comes out! )

( Escaping! )

Now I'm home and every day I can feel myself getting a teeny, tiny bit stronger. Gill reckons I'll need a least a month at home, maybe 3 weeks, to get more mobile and feel more human. In terms of long term recovery, it'll be nearer 2 or 3 months but this first month is when the spade work is done. Getting up and down from the sofa is getting easier, bust stitch and all :) It's still kinda strange to be home though. I'm a solitary person by nature but I spent a month in a very social, noisy, busy environment and I'm actually finding it kinda odd to be somewhere that's so quiet. I put the TV on as background noise a lot and that helps. And of course, I've got you guys back online, which is invaluable. I was telling Gill today how everyone keeps track of me online and she was impressed. She's worried about me being on my own, I think. However, I know folks from work will visit of a lunchtime, probably next week, and so will other friends, so I won't be totally isolated. And I'm sure Janey and Troo will take me out and about when I'm up to it :)

So that's my hospital story, broadly speaking. It got longer than I thought so there will be further posts about nurses and other things. Hope you found it of interest :) Now, I need to find me a medical type icon for posts like this. Oh woe, I'll have to find or make one. My life, it is so hard! *giggles*