It's like a never-ending bad joke

And I'm not even talking about all of my joint issues!

Today, after a night of no sleep from a sore throat, I was sitting at work and realised my bum was hurting. It felt like it did before I had the abscess diagnosed/drained. This totally freaked me out. I investigated and lets just say I found something that was wrong. I immediately rang the doctor at NY Pres that did my wound check, but they first said they couldn't see me till the 5th, and then said someone would get back to me. I was not v. trusting after my first experience there so decided to ring my regular doctor who is just a few blocks away from my office. The best thing about having the same doctor for a million years is you know the staff and they take care of you. Her amazing assistant A. got me in withing an hour! That was impressive! So, she looked and said yep, something is definitely wrong and that I needed to see another specialist. I told her about the NY Pres doctor and that (I had found out after a call from one of the nurses there) she was going away. Dr. Rosen said there was someone in her building she referred to and rang down to see if he could see me. Amazingly, he could, and did so v. promptly. I was v. impressed with him and his staff. He's v. direct and to the point and laid it all out for me, which is what I need. Between crying I got the gist of it all, and it is not pretty, in any conceivable way! Basically I need to have surgery again, but he wants to wait at least two weeks so the area can calm down and heal a a bit, and he's put me on antibiotics for the interim. There are many case scenarios and I don't want /can't even begin to think about right now. I'm just praying very hard. He said the wound will be bigger than last time and takes about two to three months to heal. Well, I guess the upside is he said it would be okay for me to go swimming whilst it was healing. Silver lining somewhere I guess!

Recap & 36 Week Post-op

So the test run in Tampa went fairly well. My right hip was pretty amazing, especially since I have not been in the pool for two weeks! Unfortunately my left hip has really been hurting the last couple of days. I do not even want to consider what we may need to do at this point. I mentally can not handle the idea of another surgery, at least not presently.

So, we did a lot of walking around mixed with driving every day. I think the most walking I did though was on Thursday. I am definitely happy that the right hip did so well. I was also shooting with my Hasselblad so was bending over and kneeling more than I have in a long time. I was a bit sore but nothing too bad. It helped that I iced it after the long walk on Thursday.

My wrists were a different story. My left was hurting from using the H and my right, well, it just doesn't like me anymore and constantly likes to hurt me. Another surgery I'm not ready to contemplate, so we will pretend it's all fine. Jeepers, I feel like Humpty Dumpty!

There was a message on my VM at work from Friday from someone at the Clinical Appeals Department at Oxford. I rang her back but she wasn't there. Can't wait to hear what she says. I guess they received my letter from last week!

It's good to be home though. Florida is nice, but for a visit. I could never live there. I am definitely a city girl!

PS-I've added some photos from the trip on my Flickr site :-)

Achy

It ended up raining last night. We kept changing our mind to go on the ghost walk, and eventually decided to do so. That was a mistake. Even though we booked and gave them our info, when we arrived at the hotel for the start, no one was there. We rang them and they said they thought we meant for tomorrow night - buggers! Anyway, it really started to rain then so it probably worked out for the best.

My left wrist was killing me last night - it hurt so much that I wrapped it up in a lidocaine patch. I think it was from holding my Hasselblad. I will try to be more careful today. The sun has come out for the time being and I'm just waiting for my friend to get back so we can go to Ybor City. It's meant to rain later in the afternoon - not looking forward to that. I also put a lido patch on my right hip last night before we left. Today we have a twist though because the left one is unhappy. Oh well, if it still hurts when we're leaving I'll toss on a patch there! Shame I didn't bring more!

Other than all the achy bits, I'm having a great time.

Rain

It seems that no matter where I go, the rain follows. At least lately! So, what can be said for Tampa other that it's rainy and close? Oh yes, the sewage reeks! I mean, stinks to high hell! But other than that I had a lovely walk this morning. Wish I had my pedometer so I can see how far I went without my hip flipping out. It was a good test. I did some shooting along the way, so working out my eyes as well as my hip :-) I miss playing with my Hasselblad! It felt great to have it in my hands again.

I am keeping this brief because:
1) it's 12.30 and I still haven't eaten anything so should feed
2)I am thinking I should really ice my hip - just in case!

:-)

Break time!

At least I'm hoping it is. I so need to be able to just relax and not have any nutty things go on for a bit. My hip is not agreeing with this thought though and has decided to become quite achy the last few days, even with my taking the Mobic. Hopefully it cheers up soon and the weather (touch wood) will be brill on my trip. My wrist is in cahoots with my hip, so I did bring my splint to wear at night again and I am hoping that will teach it to behave! I won't mention my right shoulder, it's decided for an encore! But I have brought my arsenal of drugs. I've left them in their prescription containers just in case security things I'm a drug dealer!
Leaving the office in about an hour and cannot wait.
Yay!

PS - I sent in my letters of appeal to the state and Oxford, registered mail. Please pray they work and I get more PT!!!!!!!