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On the ward for Monday 4 th Jan opp on Tuesday 5 th

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Hailea
Hailea

hello fellow hippies

had a phone call this morning to confirm operation is deffinatly going ahead. There will be me and two others having there hips done next week on a 15 bed ward. The other two will be first timers so at least I can put there worries to rest I am still scared but that is natural for me because I don't do needles. 

At at least I can keep you all posted from my iPad now I can get on here with it. They are giving me a room on my own because the other two paitents are men. The ward is a mixed ward but it was the last time I was there in April. 

I really cant wait to be off all these meds and just have pain I can deal with. This has been a heck of a journey and a long ride to the end. The light at the end of the tunnel at last is shining bright. 

I will have to stay in hospital for at least a week because of what went wrong the first time. ( nothing to do with the op ) 

so I know I can count on my hippie friends to keep my spirits up. 

If if all goes well again like last time I should be sitting in the chair by my bed by Dinnertime I hate laying in bed being in so much pain and having to lay here day in and day out has done my head in. 

My my surgeon has sorted out all the same people on his team even the anethatist so at least I know them all 

any way woo hoo not long now 😊👍

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  • gertie61
    gertie61 Hailea

    Posted

    What a relief eh? Nothing is as bad as hanging around waiting, spesh when you are in such pain.

    Must feel like home from home by now!

    • Hailea
      Hailea gertie61

      Posted

      Hi gertie

      my hospital is like home from home I have had so many things done to me in the last 5 years I have become the local NHS labrat

      i still have two more operations after this one so that will make 9 procedures in 5 years 😳

    • gertie61
      gertie61 Hailea

      Posted

      Oh bless you, I sympathise. This op is the most life changing for me, as I hope it will be for you as well 😊
    • Hailea
      Hailea gertie61

      Posted

      Having my left one done back in. April was fine for a few days till my right one collapsed. Been waiting in chronic pain for 9 months to have the right one  done. I should be back on my feet and able to get outside for the first time in months other than trips to hospital in an ambulance on a streacher for my pre op. I don't care if it is cold and raining once I am home I just want to feel some fresh air 👍
  • cathie38426
    cathie38426 Hailea

    Posted

    At last it is happening for you. You have been very

    patient throughout.. I wish you a Happy and healthy new year.

    Cathie

    • Hailea
      Hailea cathie38426

      Posted

      Hi cathie

      I have had to be nothing I could do it was out of my hands. I just had to shout louder each time to make them listen 

  • sue1957Geo
    sue1957Geo Hailea

    Posted

    Congrats on your date, wow new you for 2016.

    have a good new year, and a couple of good nights sleep.

    see you on the other side xxxxx

    suexxx

    • Hailea
      Hailea sue1957Geo

      Posted

      thank you sue

      hope the new year is a good one for you too 👍

  • Kikeena
    Kikeena Hailea

    Posted

    Hooray! I'm so pleased for you Halea and I hope you're out of pain very soon.

    BTW we have mixed gender rooms in Australia. I've never been in one but a friend has, with a man who was paranoid and had to be restrained. I would hate it, lying next to some strange man.

    • sarah1996
      sarah1996 Kikeena

      Posted

      Im pretty sure it is illegal could be wrong but here but we deffo dont have mixed gender rooms anymore. Its hardly appropriate if you need a bed pan/bed bath or wearing very little clothing is it haha
    • sue1957Geo
      sue1957Geo sarah1996

      Posted

      I Was told that it was a mixed ward,   But how it was arranged was a ward of so many beds all seperated into 4, womans and mens, so all ok.

      sue xx

    • Hailea
      Hailea Kikeena

      Posted

      Hi kikeena

      I wouldn't be that bothered I had a male nurse looking after me part of the time. I find the guy nurses a great laugh.I asked him to take out the needle drain in my leg. I also asked him to take out the canular in my hand. He just whipped them both out and I never felt a thing. I hope he is still there this time and is looking after me again we had a great laugh 

    • Kikeena
      Kikeena Hailea

      Posted

      I don't mind male nurses and we have plenty of them in Australia. I trained as a nurse in the 70s and asked why we didn't have male nurses. I was told we didn't have staff bathrooms for them! Nursing was fiercely protected from men by quite militant nurses who wanted a male free zone.
    • Hailea
      Hailea Kikeena

      Posted

      Yes I remember those days as a kid and a teenager. Never saw a male nurse on the wards till I was about 25 or 30 I think it was
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