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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / September 2004FAO Andy
I was just wondering today Andy, if you have had any developments or news about your leg op? Jayne >I was just wondering today Andy, if you have had any developments or news >about your leg op? > >Jayne Hi Jayne, Yes, in short, I elected not to have it. Not an easy decision, but there you go. The short version, is basically, the consultant said while going though all the possibilities that those fixators have a reasonably high risk of infection to the wound, and with a "normal person" if they got that they would combat it with antibiotics & the persons immune system. With someone with RA, obviously the immune system would be less than capable (dmards and the like) thus if the antibiotics did not work, it would be amputation time. I weighed that up versus having an ankle fusion sooner, and opted for the fusion when needed. I still like to wiggle 10 toes for as long as I can. -- email replies via - http://www.andyspages.org.uk > >I was just wondering today Andy, if you have had any developments or news > >about your leg op? [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > an ankle fusion sooner, and opted for the fusion when needed. > I still like to wiggle 10 toes for as long as I can. Bugger me sideways Andy mate......... now I feel bad about all the gags......... >Bugger me sideways Andy mate......... now I feel bad about all the >gags......... No, don't, honest, that's the last thing I want. It's just the way life deals it's cards. When I use to go to Sheffield to see the surgeon, I used to walk out of there thinking "even after all this, you got off better off than some you've just seen" so count your blessing, that what I say ( you must know that saying? being a Norwich supporter - LOL). Anyway, Jayne will be pleased, she was just asking after you the other day. -- email replies via - http://www.andyspages.org.uk > No, don't, honest, that's the last thing I want. It's just the way > life deals it's cards. When I use to go to Sheffield to see the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > -- > email replies via - http://www.andyspages.org.uk I always feel like that Andy - there are things we could have that are a lot worse, so you have to just count your blessings that we don't have to deal with them. You only have to visit some hospital wards (I will never forget the people I saw on the neurosurgery ward when my dad was operated on). And you are right - it was nice to hear from Alan - ABOUT TIME!! Jayne > And you are right - it was nice to hear from Alan - ABOUT TIME!! > > Jayne Why? NG needed dragging down in tone, has it? Hadn't noticed.......... :o) > >Bugger me sideways Andy mate......... now I feel bad about all the > >gags......... [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Anyway, Jayne will be pleased, she was just asking after you the other > day. Well it's good to see you're as philosophical about it as I'd have expected, but even so...... jeez Andy, mate, I'm lost for words, a bit. So *some* good has come of it, then......... And exactly why does 'LOL' follow 'Norwich supporter'? Hmmmmmmm? > Well it's good to see you're as philosophical about it as I'd have expected, > but even so...... jeez Andy, mate, I'm lost for words, a bit. So *some* > good has come of it, then......... > > And exactly why does 'LOL' follow 'Norwich supporter'? Hmmmmmmm? Hey Alan - it could be worse. The only matches my John goes to are either Torquay or Sunderland! Jayne >Hey Alan - it could be worse. The only matches my John goes to are either >Torquay or Sunderland! > >Jayne LOL (tell John I didn't mean it, just trying to get myself out of trouble with TGAF....) -- email replies via - http://www.andyspages.org.uk > >Hey Alan - it could be worse. The only matches my John goes to are either > >Torquay or Sunderland! [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > -- > email replies via - http://www.andyspages.org.uk No worries Andy - he is used to having the mick taken! (is TGAF "the great Alan Fisher" or "the god Alan Fisher"?) ROFL Jayne > No worries Andy - he is used to having the mick taken! (is TGAF "the great > Alan Fisher" or "the god Alan Fisher"?) ROFL Look.....it's like this: obviously you're FAR too young to remember the late 70s, and FAR too classy to have spent any time in pubs at around that time... but the fact remains that big arcade-style video machines started to appear in boozers around then, or maybe the early 80s. Probably early 80s is more like it. So anyway, you could put a 4- or 5-digit 'name' into these machines when you got a high score. And one of my mates was called Alan too. So I used to put 'tgaf', and it's kind of stuck. And you were correct with 'great'.............. oh come on, I was 20......... > Look.....it's like this: obviously you're FAR too young to remember the > late 70s, and FAR too classy to have spent any time in pubs at around that [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > And you were correct with 'great'.............. oh come on, I was > 20......... Far too young? You have to be kidding! I was at the end of my teens in the late 70's Alan, so hanging around pubs and getting lads to buy bacardi and coke for me was what I was best at!! Jayne > Bugger me sideways Andy mate......... now I feel bad about all the > gags......... ROFL Alan - you have a wonderful turn of phrase! Nice to see you at long last! Jayne > Hi Jayne, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > -- > email replies via - http://www.andyspages.org.uk Oh Andy, I am sorry to hear that. It must have been hard to make that decision, but like you say, the risks of infection are really seriously, as are the consequences. A friend of mine recently had ankle fusion (she had an awful compound fracture last year and several repairs didn't work well), and she seems to be doing okay. Jayne >A friend of mine recently had ankle fusion (she had an awful compound >fracture last year and several repairs didn't work well), and she seems to >be doing okay. > >Jayne Nice to know, ask her if I may ask some questions, when I get nearer to mine? -- email replies via - http://www.andyspages.org.uk > >A friend of mine recently had ankle fusion (she had an awful compound > >fracture last year and several repairs didn't work well), and she seems to [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > -- > email replies via - http://www.andyspages.org.uk Certainly Andy. Poor woman, she has really been through it though. She was thrown off her horse when riding through the woods, alone. The compound fracture was so bad her foot was only partially connected. Luckily, she had her mobile phone with her, but she lost a lot of blood. Jayne |
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