Wow!  I didn't know they would come to the door to pick up the trash.
Wonder if they will do that here?  I got an online supermarket delivery once
and it was great!

Do you hate stairs?

Quentin Grady said...

Thanks!

I'm trying to reduce to one crutch. I'm clumsy with both. My armpits are
killing me. They didn't give me the "Crutches 101" class at Emergency
before I left, rather just sized them to me.

They wished me well, Doc and I shook hands and then they disappeared (the
ghost treatment?). They didn't even wheelchair me outside. A frantic place
24/7 no doubt.

I see the bone doctor on Monday.

Best,

Andy

Isn't it just? Especially when it doesn't present "normally"?

First she had a pain in a finger, which had a papercut in the end of
it so we thought that was the problem and I gave her my tub of Lotil
(another good thing about getting my BG in line, the dry skin and
cracked knuckles are much better than they were and my ointment
consumption is a fraction of what it used to was).

Then her knee started to swell up, the GP reckoned it was some form of
arthritis and may have been infected so gave her some ibuprufen
ointment and a course of antibiotics.

Suddenly and with alarming speed the finger turned into a warty
banana, the knee swelled up and the ankle blew up to alarming
proportions, with absolutely excruciating pains. In between calling
the GP out and his arriving a couple of hours later her ankle had
doubled in size: this time there was no doubt as to the diagnosis!

They gave her Indomethacin, which caused her kidneys to shut down. So
they substituted ointment for the pills, and I think another course of
steroids and antibiotics, which got her pretty much working again and
the joints went down nearly as quick as they came up. But it took a
couple of weeks before the pain subsided, presumably as the crystals
dissolved out of the joints.

Yes that's what the problem was, we've both been eating a similar
high-bioflavinoid-and-useful-stuff diet thanks to Quentin, only she
eats more carbs than me. AFAIK she didn't eat anything particularly
out of the ordinary, it's possible the effect of the rhubarb added to
our high-calcium water *plus* the whitebait *plus* some other factor
like an infection interracted whereas all the individual items in her
diet didn't cause any harm previously.

Last winter there was a rather nasty infection, it started as a mild
virus, the kind that makes you feel like you're going to get a cold
soon, then you feel like you've just had a cold without actually
getting one - *then* a bacterial passenger moved in (streptococcus)
and caused havoc with a number of people's kidneys, mine included:
it's possible she got another round of something like that and the
lack of kidney function tipped the balance (she takes Lasix and drinks
a rehydrating drink containing glucose and sodium bicarbonate as well
as her usual tea and coffee so the fact she stopped peeing altogether
for a day or two may have been relevant).

Trouble is she hates being bedridden but couldn't bear to put her
socks on let alone shoes. Or have her left hand touch anything.

Eh well it's gone away for now

<crosses fingers.>

A friend went on a walking holiday last year: she managed to slip on
the stairs in the hotel on the first day and break her toe.

They wouldn't set it, and of course it didn't heal properly. Then they
said "of course" it should have been set and plastered originally so
no wonder it hadn't healed <sigh>

Finally (this is nearly a year later) it was much better but still not
right, and she stubbed her toe on something. There was a loud crack
and she thought "here we go again!" but actually since then it's been
completely better, she thinks perhaps the bone set but they missed out
on the dislocation and the stub reset the joint . . .

. . . I suggested this year she should stay in a bungalow . . .

. . . hope you get better service than that.