Monday 23rd December 2013
At my first checkup - since getting into my boot, and the EWB protocol - my consultant had a good look at the achilles after my crutch slip incident. He seemed happy emough that there was no major damage “possibly pulled a few strands” was the official vertict. The main thing was [...]
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Tuesday 17th December 2013
My referal to the new consultant went well apart from the fact that he has larengitis and has lost his voice, so with a bit of mime, a tad of lip-reading and a good bit of scribbling he fitted me to the medi.Rom walker boot.
As speculated by others this boot is a [...]
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After finding a consultant who uses an Early Weight Bearing protocol, I got my GP to refer me to him, the initial response wasn’t good the first free appointment he had for NHS patients was in February, (not much use for EWB). However my GP said she’d fax the consultant to see if he could fit me [...]
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Mon 9th December 2013
I spent a bit of time on the internet collecting as much medical evidence for an Early Weight Bearing protocol to confront my consultant with, this was mainly abstracts from the Bone & Joint Journal, but put together they made quite a strong argument for EWB.
On entering the consulting room I realised [...]
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With my last Posting (1 week on…) I have managed to bring my achilles blog up to date.
Everyrthing following shoul be more as and when it happens. The twitching, pulsing and throbing is still happening in my calf but I’m putting that down to the mending process.
I’m really hoping my consultant will listen to my request for [...]
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Monday 2nd December 2014
Having spend a full weekend in the house watching TV & surfing the web, I have been convinced that I need to something about trying to get onto an “early weight bearing” protocol. I tried phoning my consultant and managed to speak to his secretary. At first she was a bit stand-offish about [...]
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Monday 25th November 2014
The fracture clinic the next day was busy due to the weekend referals from A&E, and it was inevitable that my appointment was delayed. When I finally got to see the consultant he removed my backslab, spainfully queezed my calfs and pronounced I’d ruptured my achilles. He went on to explain that [...]
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