Star date 24 April 2012
As dictated by Julie to Norm
Hi everyone firstly thanks to you all for your well wishes emails presents and visits. After a difficult week last week and frightening tracheostomy tube change this morning I am feeling surprisingly well. The days go quickly particularly those with visitors and even more so with scrabble playing visitors. I am still in the acute section of the SIU and likely to be so for the next fortnight - assuming I can cough up enough gunk to satisfy the physios and they will let the tracheostomy be removed and let me go to the main section.
I would like a room by myself but apparently the only way to get one is to contract an infectious disease, I am considering bribery.
Movement of my left arm has improved and I can now lift it off the bed, which is very pleasing. Unfortunately the right arm has not progressed as well. I have finally have had an ultrasound on my right arm/shoulder which has revealed nothing except That it should have been X-rayed first.
Norm and I are sitting outside on the balcony but we can't quite see the Aramax roof on the car park. It was one of the earlier Aramax roofs that we did.
Out of five beds in the acute ward three are from Townsville and Home Hill and another is from Daru in PNG. This shows the need for a spinal unit in Townsville.
Julie is sick of this now so she said to sign off.
Great news about your arm JB. The right one will follow soon enough, then the legs, then the walking then the running, dancing, you name it! :)
ReplyDeleteLarissa xx
Hi Julie
ReplyDeleteApologies for popping in unannounced when you were having nap. Had a work function in Brisbane and a brief window to sneak away - sadly I couldn't come back later as had to head back up the coast. I left some chocolate brownies with the nurse (so hope you got these .. they are for energy for all the hard physio work you have to do!) Will pop in again .. but with notice next time. Love to you & family.
Fleur xxx
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ReplyDeleteHi Julie, sorry to hear about the accidient. Great news about the recovery though. My thoughts are with you, and would love to come and visit sometime soon (i live in Brisbane now), but will let your recover first.
ReplyDeleteWishing you a speedy recovery to running those marathons again lol.
Best Wishes,
Stuart Leary
Hi Julie,
ReplyDeleteOlga sent me this link so I hope you dont mind. I also was desperate to get into my own room so I hatched a little plan that actually was successful. I waited until they got me up to have a shower, then i managed to hook my arm around one of the rails in there. I calmly turned to the nurse and said "I am sorry to have to do this to you, but I absolutely refuse to move from this spot until you have either provided me with a private room or moved me to a hospital that can." They could tell by the look on my face that I was absolutely serious, and after about 30 minutes in the shower they moved me to my own room! They werent happy about the stance that I took, but they got over it. Best of luck, I get where you come from.
Anna Palmer
Well JB, you can't hook your arm just yet, but perhaps sink your teeth into one of the nurses and refuse to let go until you get your own room?? :)
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