Important ....your help is needed

ty xxx

Signed.

hey Ron... Nice to see you..

I dont know if signing the petition has done anything other than let kohai know she has a lot of people who want her to start feeling herself again.

  Her surgery and its success is my christmas wish for her.

Its been a long hard struggle, lots of tears, lots of pain, sleepless nights..

but for those of you who have known about my shoulder injury and the horrible time I've had trying to get a surgery date, it finally arrived this morning !!

I'm going in for two major surgeries on my left shoulder on Saturday 14th June.

(Yes, I made sure to check the letter that it is June this year   )

Thank you so much to everyone who was so kind and thoughtful with messages and well wishes, and to those who supported me through this.

You have no idea just how much that support from you has helped me through this :)

good!

Hope all goes well for you!

good luck!

Yep

        Click on what link? Hope this is not a silly question.

There was a link on the initial thread that lead to a petition page I created. The petition was created in the hopes of getting the politicians to actually say what was going on with the 1'300 hip and shoulder operations they'd postponed/cancelled instead of them just contradicting each other and never giving answers.. they couldn't even get their excuses in conjunction with what the hospital and specialists were telling patients. Needless to say the politician who made the decision to cancel the operations dug his heels in and refused to change his mind and let at least some of the operations go ahead, he made everyone wait. I've been on the urgent list for surgery since January last year.. i'm finally having surgery in two weeks from now.

                          Where do we send flowers ??    Can we visit ??

        I'm very pleased to hear this.

It's awful that you had to wait so long. Best wishes for your operation.

Get well kohai and read the important email I sent u

That's wonderful! Make sure they're doing surgery on the correct arm though

Flowers are thoughtful (if you weren't joking  ) but I really don't think I'll actually be in that long. It may be wishful thinking from my side that I'm home that same day or late evening, but all being well I may get to come home the next day.Even though I was a nurse for 18 years, I really hate being a patient, once they've done what they need to do, I just want to get home and recover in my own bed :)

Hahahaha yeah, I'll make sure I see where they draw the line and arrow before they knock me out just to make sure they get the right arm.

I may be in luck though, the hospital i'm going too also does plastic surgery so if I'm sneaky, I wonder if I can draw a few arrows across my belly and get a free tummy tuck while I'm in there having my shoulder fixed ;) hehehehe

                           Your gonna love the anesthesia.  I did.

update - 15th June - Finally had the very long awaited surgery !!!

Got to hospital early so got processed early. Was third on list to go to surgery. Was in surgery for 4 hours !!
Funny type of place, i was walked to the anasthetic room, actually looked like i was walking through a kitchen with huge freezer containers. Got in there and oh wow it was freezing in there. I vaguely remember saying some rude word as the anasthetic knocked me out. I was told it'd hurt 'a little' going into the needle in my hand, it was like nothing i'd felt before, but they had to give me a lot more stuff to knock me out for two reasons...
1. The level of pain meds i was already on and immune too
2. I was in operating theater for 4 hours !
Its now sunday morning. I got home mid evening yesterday and just slept. I just got up now for a drink.
Anaesthetist said i'd have a really sore throat due to the length of time i had the tube down my throat in theater and to expect dehydration.
I managed to sleep ok last night at home, Jon pfropped pillows around my shoulder.
It is strapped even though i find myself gripping my stomach with my arm tightly, scared of moving it at the moment as even the slightest movement is excrutiating now the pain killers injected into the joint have worn off.
Did get some good news though, i dont have that cut muscle .. so no weak arm or popeye bump.


Surgeon told me one of the reasons for so much of  the pain was, that as the bones grinded, parts of it chipped off, was floating around in my shoulder and arm, so each movement was causing the bone chips to dig into the muscles and literally tear at them more and more.
The bicep muscle she wanted to cut so was severely torn and shredded from the bone chips, she said waiting much longer and that muscle would have severed itself causing all manner of problems - 
So instead of her cutting it, which she said, after viewing, would have been worse at that point, she managed to repair the muscle and get a load of stitches in there before then clearing out the floating bone fragments and shaving down all the shoulder bones as well as the ball and socket area.
I just told the surgeon - you do whatever you have to do that will leave me little to no pain as the outcome"


She’s given me paperwork to pass to my doctor, physiotherapy will be at the local hospital  so thats a 20 minute car trip instead of a 1 hour train trip each time.

My whole body still feels shaky, my body and brain feel better for that sleep, but my eyes are sore, same as if i'd been awake days. It'll take a day or two for all that to settle which is expected.
Glad my mouth doesn't taste of anaesthesia any more lol.

I have external stitches out in two weeks, internal ones will dissolve by themselves as the wounds and muscles heal. 
My shoulder is completely covered with this - what feels like rubber type backed dressing, like foam against the would and rubbery stuff the outer side.
No idea what its called, funny how surgeons etc tell you all the most important details of what they found, what they did etc while you're still completely out of your head on the pain meds and anaesthesia.
If i missed anything, i'll wait till surgeons docs arrive with my doctor updating him, he'll put it into lamens terms for me and tell me anything i missed yesterday.
So theres the update.  Just got to rest it now and slowly get it moving again.
I  could actually cry at this point after re-reading what i've written. I'm just so sooo relieved its over finally after all this time. I guess part of me kept expecting another cancellation as soon as it got closer.

Adding here as I write this part hours later than the bit above -
I have to see the doctor in the morning,  give him the paperwork I was given,  it doesn't say much,  just which procedure was done and for him to arrange the physio for me. 
The nurse takes the stitches out in two weeks.
One thing I will ask the doctor when he gets the full write up from the surgeon is why they had me kept in a oxygen mask for so long after surgery. Because I was so thirsty they took the mask off me and replaced it with tubes that went from the large oxygen cylinder by the bed,  around the back of my head then clipped a small oxygen tube one up each nostril on my nose. 
I remember they said something about low blood pressure but I told them I had that and they saw it before I had surgery. Maybe it dropped too low?
I've taken the tape and padding off now,  that said it was ok to remove after 24 hours,  now is close enough ;)
I have 3 large white plasters covering the three entry areas where the stitches are.
In myself I do feel brighter,  maybe there just the relief of knowing its finally done now.  Can't believe the complete mess my bicep muscle was in though,  and so bad that it almost tore apart by itself!
I guess that's the price of being marked urgent for so long instead of critical. At least it was saved,  that's something to be grateful for.

Sorry for typo's, my eyes are tired still and typing one handed isn't as easy. I don't have my 'dragon naturally speaking - voice to  text' on this pc so its taking me forever to type.

I'm now off work two weeks recovering.