Tag: vascular surgery

Vascular update

Life is not always happiness and smiles.. even though social media might make it look like that sometimes.

Following a limb centre appt 5 weeks ago due to unexpected left leg pain, the possibility of further vascular issues was raised.

I’ve not been allowed to walk for 5 weeks.

I asked ACC to make me an URGENT vascular appt.. I am yet to hear back. 🙄😒

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‘Difficult’ wait for accessible bathroom continues. [pub ODT 8/6/24] & my comments

As you know if you follow me online, I have been waiting 3 years and 7 months for ACC (the Accident Compensation Corporation) to modify my house and make it wheelchair accessible following my left leg below knee amputation (which was a result of medical negligence and was 100% avoidable).

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#280 Medical waiting game: what else is wrong?

I have been pretty quiet these past few weeks on socials, frankly I have had a lot of stuff to deal with. Here’s what’s been going on.

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#279 More medical issues: not allowed to walk for a while

Well this was a bolt out of the blue. The old vascular damage caused by my original missed diagnosis comes back to bite me, meaning I’m now not allowed to walk for a while.

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#276 Donating blood – or so I thought

For over 12 years I have been banned from giving blood due to CJD in the 1980’s in Britain. Finally that ban was lifted. I attended my first blood donor appt in NZ today. But CJD was the least of my problems.

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