Bike crash part 6
Apr. 19th, 2023 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenPart 6...
(Previous instalment: https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159066260761691&id=608866690 )
Feeling very rough and sleepy but I feel I owe you all an update.
No fluids from 3AM. Met the consultant at about 10. Preliminary op before the real one(s). Meet the anaesthesiologist at about 1. Tomáš, a Slovak. I managed to hold a conversation in Czech with him despite my poor condition.
They took me down about 2ish. Lots of banter between the very ecologically minded Tom and the other surgeon, who's a biker, who broke his back in a crash the same year as my big one. Got a ZZR 1100 as rehab! There aren't many bikers in the medical world.
The premeds were good and I drifted off without noticing.
Was very spaced when I woke in Recovery. Lots of drugs, little pain.
When I got back to the ward, I got dinner. Roasted potatoes, veggie gravy, bread and butter pudding. They're trying hard for this veggie on Spudfit! 👌
I ate about 1/4 of it then started vomiting. 🤢
Been on anti emetics since then and drifting in and out of consciousness. Still on supplementary oxygen.
Jana and Ada visited me, which was lovely but wore me oJana Štůlováuite quickly. Poor little mite is scared of Sick Daddy with tubes going in & coming out of him. She's been sick too, maybe from stress and fear.
I think they're going to monitor me for a day or 2 then maybe fly me to Liverpool Aintree.
(Previous instalment: https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159066260761691&id=608866690 )
Feeling very rough and sleepy but I feel I owe you all an update.
No fluids from 3AM. Met the consultant at about 10. Preliminary op before the real one(s). Meet the anaesthesiologist at about 1. Tomáš, a Slovak. I managed to hold a conversation in Czech with him despite my poor condition.
They took me down about 2ish. Lots of banter between the very ecologically minded Tom and the other surgeon, who's a biker, who broke his back in a crash the same year as my big one. Got a ZZR 1100 as rehab! There aren't many bikers in the medical world.
The premeds were good and I drifted off without noticing.
Was very spaced when I woke in Recovery. Lots of drugs, little pain.
When I got back to the ward, I got dinner. Roasted potatoes, veggie gravy, bread and butter pudding. They're trying hard for this veggie on Spudfit! 👌
I ate about 1/4 of it then started vomiting. 🤢
Been on anti emetics since then and drifting in and out of consciousness. Still on supplementary oxygen.
Jana and Ada visited me, which was lovely but wore me oJana Štůlováuite quickly. Poor little mite is scared of Sick Daddy with tubes going in & coming out of him. She's been sick too, maybe from stress and fear.
I think they're going to monitor me for a day or 2 then maybe fly me to Liverpool Aintree.
