It’s been an “interesting” week to say the least and my absence from this little corner of the internet was completely unplanned.
On Monday an old medical problem reasserted itself and at 4pm I found myself in the A & E Department of my local hospital. In the past this problem has been quite straightforward, go to A & E, get admitted, have surgery sometime around midnight and be let out the following afternoon.
This time, however, things didn’t quite go to plan and I eventually went down to theatre at 11:30am on Wednesday. In all that time I was allowed to eat one sandwich and was given a cup of coffee and a cup of hot chocolate.
Having finally had surgery and got over the anaesthetic, with a drastic drop in blood pressure and a completely unexpected loss of core temperature, I was finally seen by the consultant at about 8pm and told that I had to stay in to have an MRI scan on Friday afternoon.
I eventually escaped at 7:30pm on Friday evening and made my way home to be reunited with Gary and Kyril.
So, what I’d expected to be a day’s absence became almost a week and I was getting quite worried at one point that they were going to keep me in over the weekend as well.
This is about the twelfth operation I’ve had on this particular bit of me and the problem isn’t actually curable so it’ll happen again and again.
Thinking about it I hope that raping me when I was 19 was the best shag that a certain person ever had. That would be some small compensation for the operations I’ve been put through.
Sorry to hear about all this, I’m glad you’re back home reasonably safe and sound though. Stay in there, take any recovering time you need!
Much Love
Daniel
Daniel
Just somehing I’ve had to get used to really. It is good to be home again though, I really don’t enjoy trying to sleep surrounded by people snoring, coughing and farting!
Love
Malcolm
My mother would have prescribed beef tea – which I think is just beef stock with the fat (largely) taken out. But then, you’re not a fan of beef, are you?
I bet that’s what’s really wrong you know! We’re supposed to all be big, butch carnivores!
Anyway, I guess you could always take up knitting while you’re, er, ‘confined’.
Micky
I always wondered if beef tea was just strained dripping. It’s not that I dislike beef, I just don’t go out of my way to eat it the way I do lamb or pork.
I think the internet might just help me get over the boredom of convalescence
Love
Malcolm
Now I know what caused your absence from the blog. I am so sorry that you have had to go through all of these operations and with no end in sight. I am not a vengeful person, but I hope the guy that did this to you is suffering something terribly. I hope you are recovering quickly and back to normal in no time. Love and extra hugs, JR
JR
I feel pretty much the same way. I’ve tried to tell myself that in some ways it was my own fault, I was well known as a “generous” teenager but the simple fact is that I said no and that was my right. To make it worse he very casually informed me the next day (he was the head waiter at the hotel I was working in) that there was “a lot of blood” and then walked away as if nothing had happened.
I’m mostly recovered but it’s pretty depressing to know that it’s all going to happen again at some point.
Love
Mac
I don’t hope he is suffering terribly. I just hope he is genuinely remorsful for what he has done.
I am very sorry you have to experience this for me.
Ian
I wish I could believe that he ever had the slightest remorse but he was a very self-centred guy and quite robably saw nothing wrong with what he’d done, just a bit of rough sex. Given when it happened there was no possibility of reporting it as rape anyway, my somewhat liberal behaviour would have got me laughed out of court.
Love
Malcolm
Sorry. Typo!
I meant to say that I am sorry your have to experience this.
Hi Mac – welcome home
U were missed by many 
hugs,
Andy
Thank you, David, it’s been a bitch of a week but things are looking a bit better now.
Love
Mac
Ya know in the dark of night when our worst moments come to haunt us, I would be surprised if he didn’t feel a twinge of regret. People often do mellow as they age.
The important thing though is that you are on the mend. I hope your recovery is swift. And thank you for your lovely comment you left with me.
Yeah, I like to think that maybe occasionally he thinks back and regrets being quite so vicious.
I’m definitely on the mend but it’s a bit of a downer knowing that it’s all going to happen again at some point.
Hope you’re feeling better.
Love
Mac
Hello Mac, I wish I could have been there to help take care of you. If nothing else I could have just spent time with you, as I have found most people go stir crazy with nothing to do but just lay in the beds. In our hospital we have free WiFi internet access for anyone who brings a laptop with them.
As to the sleeping in a hospital, I have started joking with the PTs that it is against our union rules to let them have sleep, and we are required to file a grievance if we see a PT sleeping. I know the ICUs would drive a Saint nuts with the bongs, bings, beeps, and the glass walls and large open room doors, not to mention people coming and going at all hours and carrying on right out side the rooms.
Many warm hugs, and a pillow for where you need it,
Scottie
Scottie
Internet access would have been a godsend. Luckily Itook a very large book in with me which kept me occupied but the days are so long and empty. When the most exciting event in your day is dinner arriving or a trip to the MRI scanner then something is wrong. On the second night I got no sleep at all, not a wink, and the night sister told me I should have gone and seen her, we could have had a chat which would have cheered her long night duty up a bit as she so rarely has anyone interesting to talk to, quite a compliment.
Sleeping in an envoronment like that is so difficult, it’s nobody’s fault the sort of noises that other patients make but it is very annoying. I think I’d actually prefer all the machine noises in ICU, I could probably get used to that after a couple of hours.
Love
Mac