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[lureswinger]

It has been a very serious accident and I was only given a 40percent chance of survival but I think my size and my ability to deal with seizures even while unconcious is what has saved me from something far worse

 

[lureswinger]

It was a. Very serious accident and having to learn to walk again is going to put me back a few dozen years but my prob is I can only partially weight bear on my right side so I have to learn to walk left foot first for a few weeks before changing it all back to my orriginal style of walking this is gonna drive me nuts but hey I don't care what I care about is I've jist been hit bu two and a half tons of transit and I'm still ALIvE let's face it how manu people do you know that can manage that without having the need for a wooden box at the end of it because I don't think there are very many people that would of surviVved what I went thjrough and come out laughing

 

[lureswinger]

Yesterday I thought I was doing well I managed to walk the corridor and then round the corner another 200yrds to the lift shafts then I came all the way back to the ward I was really on a high for managing it but I have been suffering this morning for it

 

[Bernard]

 

[lureswinger]

well i am finally home after all this time ive had a visit from the district nurses to give me an injection and i think we scared them to death showing them some of the animals in our house at present lol but believe me i will be a lot happier now i am back with the ones i love this is one thing that should be available by injection on the health service as i am sure it will make me feel better much faster lol

 

[travel bug]

Congratulations on the progress you've made already! I had to learn to walk again due to different circumstances - you're a miracle, you are! -and I know the feeling of triumph about even the littlest thing, and then the frustration when things don't go like you'd expect. Sounds like you're coming along really well, but as Bernard said, know your limitations. Have patience with yourself, you'll get there!

Glad your back with your critters I know my one little dog did me a world of good when I got home from the hospital. It was like she knew what was wrong and was trying to help me heal.

All the best!

 

[charwva]

WOW! Sorry to hear about your accident. Your recovering sounds great, keep up the good work, i know your birdies miss you. Once again keep up the work and good luck!! Keep us up to date :clap::clap::clap::clap::e:

 

[lureswinger]

Yes people I've now been home 2 days although coming out of the ambulance was a bit of a laugh as I had decided to take the easy route rather than all the steps in my front garden I suggested to the ambulance driver that I walk up the ramp in next doors garden and round but when I got to the front gate of next doors garden I thougjt sod it ill go diagonally so I se off between two trees and got my zimmer frame rammed in tightly between the trees so I couldn't move the ambulance driver had to come and help me get the zimmer out before I could continue after which the wife said I flew across the lawn and up to my front door and in maybe I just wanted to make sure I got into the house without giving the ambulance team reason to take me back to hospital

 

[lureswinger]

I feel so much better now that I am home I know I am not gonna be able to get right up the garden to see all my birds for at least another week but it means everything that I am back where I belong with those that are most dear to me and the fact that my wife went and bought me an all electric bed means that while I'm at home I don't have to rely on others to help me get up hard work though it is I cam manage on my own which means a lot to me as I hate having to rely on others but it meant that when that gaggle of geese flying over the house this morning at 4am woke me up I was able to get up and go make myself a cup of tea although I had to sit and drinl it in the kitchen before returning to bed but having done all this without the need to wake anyone else. Is a great feeling

 

[CQ:)]

Hi Lures,

Thats great news that you have been going well with your recovery. I can imagine how much better it will be for your recovery to be at home with your birds & family then stuck in hospital.

 

[Endless]

I'm so glad you are home, and that you are able to be up and around. Keep healing.

<hugs>

 

[lureswinger]

I have managed to get home now and am back in the love of my family tomorrow I have to get a taxi Back to the hospital tomorrow which is gonna be some fun

 

[lureswinger]

I appologise if it looks like I am typing things in that I have already put in but all this time I have been using a blackberry and when I enter one text one minute it seems like it hasn't gone in so I add something else I wind up repeating myself so I do appologise

 

[lureswinger]

Well I think things are deffinately moving forward both yesterday and today I have managed to wake up between 4 and 5 am long before anyone else and manage to walk through to the kitchen and make a cup of tea unfortuenately I have to sit at the table and drink it as I am not a lover of burnt wet legs which is where I'd be carrying a cup of tea on a zimmer frame but I am enjoying the fact that I can get up to do this on my own it means I am slowly managang to get my life back after the accident

 

[lureswinger]

Well people much to my wifes hatred I have managed this morning to get all the way up the stairs and all the way back down it now feels like I am really getting back to reality instead of just sitting around in bed while my backside turns square lol I won't be doing that again for a few weeks till our builder has put the banister back on the wall (it was taken off for building work not me ripping it off this morning lol)

 

[Nakamova]

Stairs! That's pretty great.

 

[lureswinger]

What I have yet to understand is how my epilepsy tends to rear its ugly head in the when I get stressed but throughout all of this from day one I have had no signs of my epilepsy rearing its head not even one myclonoc jerk. Just how stressfull is it being run over by a transit then spending three weeks of being put back together suffering the hiccups the projectile Vomit and everything else

 

[lureswinger]

I've just been told its a month since the accident and doesent time fly when you're having fun so my answer was oh yeah and when can I go and do all this again it was that much fun. Not

 

[lureswinger]

I thought managing to sleep on my side was a great idea and was glad when I managed it on my left side it is heaven as I have full weight bearing that side but on my right side after trying it I have put myself into a great deal of pain and it feels like I have put myself back a week or so just proves I hadn't really thought about what I was doing which is what I find hard as most of these things are what I would normally do without thinking about now I am having to think about every move well the selected few moves that I am capable of at this point as two days ago laying on my side was just something I could dream of as I was desperate to take the pressure off my bum as three weeks on my back had seriously depleted my muscles all over my body

 

[Nakamova]

Reminds me of when I was recovering from my very first seizures which were severe enough to do a real number on my back muscles. As I recovered, I would try and rush things, or do things the way the way I had done them in the past. My P.T. taught me temporary methods to do simple things -- like getting in and out of a car -- that would be less stressful for the muscles as they recovered.