So, what on earth do you do with your last 5 days standing on your own two feet? I’ve had a number of suggestions including taking up tap dancing! But here’s what I actually do with the last 5 days before I become physically disabled.
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D Day: do I get to save the leg?
As you know, we have been round and round multiple surgeries to try and restore the blood flow to my leg, with no avail so far. Last week I was in for a (failed) angiogram. Then we noticed it had started opening up again and worse still, a sudden bleed.
Continue reading “D Day: do I get to save the leg?”#Savetheleg – the final straw?
As you know it has been a long complicated and emotionally challenging journey thus far and we are nowhere near done yet. Here is a summary of what has been done so far and what they planned to do on my latest hospital admission. Finally, I will end with an update on how it all went.
Continue reading “#Savetheleg – the final straw?”Next stage plan: save the leg
It continues to be a long and complicated road, made more complex by the ‘uniqueness’ of my problem (great – on this occasion I do NOT want to be unique!). But, here is what the plan is for the next stage in the ‘Save the Leg’ process.
Continue reading “Next stage plan: save the leg”Should you have to fight to save your own limb?
If you have followed my whole vascular surgery you will know that I have now equipped myself with some sound Vascular medical knowledge. I am also very self aware, and since the diagnosis was placed in the vascular camp, everything that has gone wrong since, I have known before anyone else. What is more, I have been right every time when I tell them WHAT I think had gone wrong.
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