The blonde aches & pains thread

[Ironside]

late Sunday night last week i started feeling a bit queasy, started getting into my bed and my body collapsed, i wasn't able to lift my legs into my bed so spent the whole night half in half out the bed. About 3am i started convulsing, unable to actually vomit, this carried on until 9am.
9am nurse visit to change my many wound dressings, i am not quite with it. At same time a SKY engineer turns up to fix my TV (was kicked to touch still got a broken SKY system). Nurse helps me get my legs into my bed, this allows to start vomiting a lovely black and red muck.
Nurse calls health centre DR calls 999. Ambulance arrives at 3:30pm after i text the nurse at 2:30 asking if their was any update on ambulance and the nurse chased it up. By this stage my vomit bucket was kinda full with me throwing up every 5 or 10 minutes. At this stage i was told i couldn't even take sips of water to hide the vile taste in my mouth. Get to the hospital just after 4pm.
Was in the ambulance till 7pm and then taken into a waiting room to allow the crew to get back to their base (35 miles away). Finally got admitted to A&E at 11:30pm was put on a drip and given some anti sickness meds stopped vomiting around 2am. Scans and X-rays taken in the morning, still no fluids allowed until they could "scope" me. Had the scope around 1pm and allow to "slowly" sip on water. They found i some of the vomit in my lungs. Taken to the ward on a drip, and fed antibiotics and some other crap. Wednesday morning was feeling much better just needed Dr's approval, letter and drugs. OH and of course transportation. No wheelchair taxis available, patient transport knocks off at 4pm. So their i was bed blocking for the next 18 hours. The wheelchair cab they found for me didn't have contract with the hospital so a nice chunk of change lost there but worth every penny to get home.

Other than that just a constant pain in every part of my body below my spinal cord break (pretty much everywhere lower than the chest).
But i am alive on waiting list for one more operation then nothing for 6 years and hopefully get my head round to throwing chips into pots again.

I got a rice cookin' in the microwave
Got a three-day beard I don't plan to shave
And it's a goofy thing but I just gotta say
Hey I'm a-doin' alright

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trazadone
zolpidem
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Non Prescribed
Iron
Magnesium
Vitamin D
Wellman 50+
rescue me night



and people wonder why i get snappy and fly off the handle every now and then, Being a hermit and rarely leaving the house has solved that problem though. :-)))

[doubleup]

Ironside wins thread!

Hope you get your operation soon and things improve for you.

[RED-DOG]

You get pain BELOW the break Iron?

[Kev B]

Wishing you a speedy recovery Ironside.

[booder]

Wishing you a speedy recovery Ironside.

All the best Iron

[Ironside]

You get pain BELOW the break Iron?

yeah my Spinal Cord was not completely severed, it was partial severed and the rest merely crushed, T1,T3 and T4. My classification is a T1 incomplete.
I cannot feel if someone is touching me but it constantly feels like a hot liquid is pulsating through my whole lower body.
On bad days i get really badly tempered and lock myself in my room as when i am really sore i can seriously offend. Which is properly why i like to act the jestor on good days.

[Ironside]

Ironside wins thread!

didn't know it was a contest sometime its good to vent though

Hope you get your operation soon and things improve for you.

Wishing you a speedy recovery Ironside.

All the best Iron

thanks guys been out of hospital a few days now i feel better than i did a fortnight ago which is always a plus.

[RED-DOG]

Ironside wins thread!

didn't know it was a contest sometime its good to vent though

Hope you get your operation soon and things improve for you.

Wishing you a speedy recovery Ironside.

All the best Iron

thanks guys been out of hospital a few days now i feel better than i did a fortnight ago which is always a plus.

"My head is bloody, but unbowed"


You're an amazing man Iron. It's my privilege to know you.

[tikay]

Crikey Alistair, God only knows how you cope.

Hope you are soon over this latest setback.

[I KNOW IT]

My Daily Supplement Routine

Alongside 10,000 steps a day and gym training 4 times per week (walking is usually along the beach which makes it easier ), this is the supplement routine I currently follow.

Morning (with breakfast)
• 1 tsp Psyllium husk with water ( many health benefits )
• Daiteca Vitamin D 3 + K2 – 2 capsules (5,000 IU D 3 + 200 mcg K2)
• Omega-3 Fish Oil 1000 mg – 1 capsule

Lunch (with food)
• Turmeric Joint Complex – 1 capsule
• Omega-3 Fish Oil 1000 mg – 1 capsule

Evening (with dinner or before bed)
• Magnesium Glycinate 450 mg – 1 capsule

[vegaslover]

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I turned 60 in December ...
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Well I'm okay then - I only turn 50 next week.

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 can confirm that from 50 onwards is all downhill so far.
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oh.... I see...   :|             Probably not for much longer, apparently...lol