Pleased to hear you wife’s recovery is going so well Steve… 
The physiotherapist’s been today @ 10 o’clock and said she’s coming back in two weeks - we didn’t know about this until now.
She was livid that my wife still hasn’t had a definite response regarding removal of the staples and said she’s want it done TODAY and my wife rang up the surgery while she was here - physio didn’t half have a go at them too!
She was told that someone’s coming around about 3 o’clock now but another person rang to ask what kind of operation then what kind of dressing 10 minutes ago then said she’ll be round between 3 & 5 o’clock so we don’t know if we are getting one person or two - perhaps it’s job-share?! 
Been out for another long walk today but she’s been advised to rest her leg in a raised position if she walks further than 400 yards at a time so she’s upstairs now.
We’ve had a bit of a problem today too.
I’d done one machine wash and hung out the clothes and had another on the go when the physiotherapist was here.
There was a couple of loud bangs and a burning smell so I turned it off quick! :shock:
When the physiotherapist had gone I got the thing to spin and got the clothes out.
They were almost finished so I put them out too but we don’t know about the machine now! 
We might need a new Washing Machine - this Servis machine’s 18 years old so no real point in trying to get it repaired as it’s probably impossible to get spares!
Couldn’t have come at a worse time either. stevmk2
Well, as anticipated, we got TWO nurses turn up to take my wife’s staples out!
All done now and they’re both happy with the condition of my wife’s rather long, operation scar!
No signs of any infection, thank Gawd so, now we can actually see the thing we can keep a eye on it! stevmk2
Bad communication between services by the sound of things steve.
All done now and they’re both happy with the condition of my wife’s rather long, operation scar!
No signs of any infection, thank Gawd so, now we can actually see the thing we can keep a eye on it! stevmk2
That’s good news.
It all seems to be so efficient at the hospital end Pats - they told us everything that would happen and, until she left the hospital, it all followed the route that they told us, albeit a bit later than we were told but still, Top Marks for them!
It’s the support that’s supposed to follow on that’s failing, but that’s not unusual in Milton Keynes.
We have something of a crisis here and although I tend to bang-on about GPs and the NHS quite a bit, to be honest, the infrastructure is there but it’s creaking at the seams with not enough medical staff and greatly-reduced budgets and governments just make things worse all the time!
A long time ago we got a big boost in staffing levels in Milton Keynes Hospital and elsewhere but the thing what got me at the time was only 40% were Medical Staff - the rest were pen-pushers.
A few years down the line and they’re laying them off but at the hospital it was clinical / medical staff that went - no pen-pushers!
I’ve got nothing against clerical staff and I may well be wrong here because I don’t come from an NHS background but surely a reduction in staff- the “foot-soldiers” - means less pen-pushers are required?
That just doesn’t seem to happen does it?
Why is that? stevmk2
Sounds about right steve.
Good day today - she’s doing very well with the walking now - still gets a bit tired but won’t admit it until there’s nobody else around!
Women eh - why do you all have to try to prove you are strong when us men already know that, especially the ones that love you?!
I dunno!
I’m just happy she’s fine - moaning about putting on weight of course, (Doh!!) but I was expecting that!
I’m going back to work next week so she’s got to get that all sorted in her mind but I think she’ll be fine, especially after today when I flooded the kitchen 'cos I forgot I’d left the tap on!
Oooops!
See ya’ll tomorrow maybe - gotta watch the football soon! stevmk2
It’s great that you sound a lot more relaxed now Steve 
Full marks to your wife for doing so well … you’ll have to start thinking of booking that meal that you promised her soon 
Well done your wife she’ll soon be old self.
You are lucky getting a physiotherapist coming to your home and nurses coming to remove the staples. My hubby didn’t have a physio and I had to drive him to a clinic to have his staples removed twice, he’s had two hip replacements.
We had to make a noise about though, but really, it was the physiotherapist that did all the shouting on the 'phone!
My wife says they’re pretty aggressive with surgeries because so many surgeries around here seem to be slow in providing or organising what we’re entitled to on the NHS.
The physios get fed-up hearing of people struggling or even suffering when there’s things that CAN be done and it happens to the over 50s the most - they told my wife that!
I’ve even encountered this reluctance with my hearing aids, as if I’m some kind of scrounger!
Yesterday I had to ask the audiologist to change the aid filters, even though she could see they needed to be changed; clogged filters make a Hell of difference when your hearing’s as bad as mine is! stevmk2
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My wife’s been a bit down today for some reason.
I kept my head down and got on with the housework - she did some dusting while I did upstairs but she’s still a bit quiet. 
She says her leg aches a bit today but I’ve noticed that if she doesn’t get some exercise she gets the leg aching the next day and yesterday she didn’t do a lot because I was doing the garden again!
I’m actually wondering now about going back to work on Monday. 
We really can’t afford for me to take a second unpaid week off and of course I can’t now ask for a 2nd Holiday week - that’s just not fair on my employer so I’m stuck.
Doing a nice roast Gammon Joint tomorrow with our own spuds and Cabbage!
That’ll cheer her up!! :hug: stevmk2
Yum - yum, sounds good 
As for your lady being a bit down today, remember, she’s done you proud Steve, allow her those moments, we all get them and its understandable she will feel a little down from time to time - keep cheery for her x
As for work, I would go in on Monday, see how she copes, if you then have to take a day off, you do. It may be best to give her that independence now and see how she copes
Not going to be easy Patsy!
Still, it’s only 4 days then I’m off again.
There are times when I think a full-time job would be better but right now it’s the opposite - all I’d do is lose more in Tax & National Insurance!
Would you believe they docked me £0.24 Tax last month?!
stevmk2
NO !! … Well I never …
Well this week’s been fine with me back at work Monday to Thursday.
My wife’s been fine, apart from a few mishaps with losing her stick in the garden!
If she drops anything she’s stuffed and she was in the garden, doing dead-heading and she dropped her walking stick so she had to totter over to where I’d left a rough stick of my own, used that to get back indoors, got her grabber, went back outside and picked up her walking stick!
The whole thing took her ten minutes!
She told me all this by text!
She’s been pretty fed-up though this week and she says there’s one spot where the staples were that really hurts and is uncomfortable but I’ve checked and there’s no sign of infection so it’s the stitches / staples themselves that have caused the skin to knit back together in this rather odd, dipped way.
It’s odd because the scar is fine for 80% then it goes in quite a way into her - can’t describe it any better but I’ve got a scar on my left knee from a Norton-Triumph 650cc that I decked on Wood Green High Road a long, long time ago and that’s straight as a die, despite the awkward “terrain” it covers!
You’d hardly know it was there now.
She’s happy now it’s Thursday - big smile on her face - doesn’t know I’m typing this at the moment!!
Gotta go though - stocking change!! :shock: stevmk2
Sounds like you are both doing well, stevmk2
Just logged on to answer your post, pleased to read of her progress despite a couple of mishaps.
Keep going ! You are both doing so well
Steve matey, a dent where the scar is is quite normal I have scars across my upper thigh and glutimus Maximus and they have dents in too.
Glutimus Maximus?
Wasn’t he a Legate (Leg-ache - geddit?!) under Gaius Julius Caesar?
Thanks for that Joe - she worries mate, all the time, “Does my B** look fatter to you?”
“Why d’you think I have I got a bigger lump THAT side?”
Women!!!
We’ve been together for 20 years - married 18 of 'em.
I love her - she loves me so what do I say eh? ;-)
stevmk2
Your wife’s scarring pattern sounds like a ‘depressed’ scar steve .
This happens because the wound from the surgery was especially deep, when skin cells are trying to recover from this type of surgical wound they produce very tough scar tissue with very high tension so the wound can heal ASAP.
Glad to hear that all is going well.