Hi CB,
Thanks for asking,
Recap
Sept 24th pain flared up--possible reason being that most of swelling has disappeared
Oct 7- to hospital to see Dr. Leung, and new x-ray showing the non-union (Internet verifies that non-unions are usually discoverd at about 6 months) then sent for blood test re infection, then holiday weekend and no results until I called Oct 13.
Oct 21-to hospital to see my surgeon, O'Farrell, who specified that I require a Girdlestone Arthroplasty, which in our simple speak is to remove the head (ball) of the femur and my leg with likely be shorter (Internet say 1"-3") but could be less..these are my thoughts. (If) When I have therapy and have my leg pulled, then enough cartilage will grow in that spot to keep the shortage down to centimetres. The space might be only a centimeter or two and the worst pain is when sitting and I hear noises (bones rubbing together) and when I am prone, there is less pain and more sleep, but nothing stays the same. It's always changing so keep me guessing. He wanted me to see another Ortho Surgeon to have a second opinion, so I had an appontment with Oliver on
Oct 26 Oliver made rounds in hospital when I was in before but didn't recognize me with no make-up. (He had dealt with my leg that healed crookedly in '07-'08) He is the one I called a Narcissistic money-grubbing Psychopath when I was influenced by drugs, morphine and codeine and was hallucinating. (I apologized the next day.--said I was ½ asleep and felt I'd said something un-called for. He smiled.) For my 9:15 am appointment, I had been up since 3:00 am, went by taxi, and was still not taken by 9:45 when he was called away to surgery. I felt a bathroom trip coming on, can't use public, as too painful to wiggle back into being dressed, so cancelled, made one for Monday, Nov 2 and came home.
The pain was just as excruciating as when leg was first broken and I had no meds, I called my GP and he wanted to see me. I just told his nurse, to never mind, as if he couldn't do this over the phone, as he promised, to the drug store and the drug store deliver on my Visa, then forget it. I asked if she had not received the paperwork from my hospital trips and she said "No...(pause) well my filing isn't done) I just took 3, instead of 2 Tylenol Extra Strength when I needed. I'll get that guy and have an answer or know why--which it seems I already think I do.
So since Sept 24th, I have been out 3 times only, to the hospital. Been watching plenty of movies and pretending I am having fun.
O'Farrells Office called already to have a workup on me for the surgery so it could be very soon after I see Oliver this Monday. O'Farrell is surgeon and Oliver will assist. (I asked her for it that way and told her what I called Oliver and that I didn't want to be alone with him under anesthetic....she just howled!) WOW another scar, but the GA is to fix the pain. After seven months, I might wonder who I am without it! I still have my house helper, but therapy was pulled at end of Sept. I was furious that Mary Jo felt she could make that unilateral decision, and contacted my lawyer. The point is moot now, that because of the pain, which I didn't know to what it was leading, would have been painful, or might it have prevented some of the agony in spite of the non-union? MJ had already pulled therapy before Sept 24th!!! So would I have discovered the non-union? Likely somewhere along the way. (Read of one guy, 32 months non-union.)
My lawyer jumped on her, incensed, as she said I could do my therapy on my own. 2 exercises , with pictures, show a therpaist working with the patient, and the rest were for me on my own, but I always did them better will my therapist here, cheering me on.
So it's the knife again, and I just came on to see about Hallowe'en.
Love to all
Izzy
