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[PattiEvans]

Good luck making all the adjustments you need to🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

So good to see you back. And at least they left you with an intact bum!

All best.

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

So glad to see you back, Lin - I've been worrying about you too x

I tried to find you some balloons, but all I found out was that it takes several thousand of them to lift up a person - https://www.omnicalculator.com/everyday-life/helium-balloons - will this do instead? - https://stickmancommunications.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Can-poster-.png

 

[Flower]

It’s good to hear from you Lin, I’ve been hoping you’ve been recovering as well as possible.

 

[Stitch147]

Good to see you back Lin. I'm sure you'll master the bum slide.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Ah lovely to see you posting @Ljc

Glad to hear you are getting on OK, and battling through the technology gremlins best efforts.

You’ve been missed, and i am sure lots of us have been thinking of you often.

 

[MikeyBikey]

Hi and thanks everyone.
I hope you all behaved yourselves during my absence coz I’m back now so beware lol.
Was a bit rough for a while , main lining anti biotics plus oral ones, now just on tablets .
Am now trying my best to master the bum slide from my wheelchair onto that darn plinth but the flipping wheel of my chair keeps getting stuck where it ought not to be , can you send me some balloons so I can get more lift please.

Hi...

Sorry for the long delay in responding. I have a lot going on at the moment and have virtually given up on forums for the time being. One though it hardly worth bothering with as there are endless debates about the vaccine. Most are so rediculious as to be laughable.

I felt awful for weeks losing a lot of weight before and after the amputation with mainline antibiotics and painkillers.
Are you on Gabapentin for phantom pain or have you escaped that?

The bumslide improves with time and I stopped using the banana board after a few months. You will find your strength builds up in the other leg (hopefully it is relatively problem free - I have PAD and hope with statins and good control will keep things stable) with ongoing physio. I got a prosthetic after 9 weeks but much depends on how your stump heals and how you progress with physio.

Any questions just ask.

Cheers. Mike

 

[Ljc]

Hi everyone. Just a quick update . I’m home at long last 🙂 and not doing to bad apart from having my third bout of C-Diff atm , it’s all those anti bs I had to have.

Dads doing okish too, he’s 96 now . He bought himself a new toy last week , a laptop as the old one was on its last legs lol, in fact it died the day before the new one was due to be delivered lol.

I trust you are all well.

 

[Nayshiftin]

Glad you are home and wishing you better. Oh that’s lovely he can surf the web. All the best.

 

[Grannylorraine]

Hi Lin

Pleased to hear that you are finally home. Hope dad is enjoying his new laptop.

 

[eggyg]

So glad to hear you’re home. And glad dad seems to be fine, hope he enjoys his new toy. 🙂

 

[Robin]

Good to hear from you, Lin, @Ljc , and so glad you’re home at last.

 

[Inka]

Glad you’re home 🙂 I hope you beat the C Diff quickly. Not nice.
Your dad sounds amazing!

 

[Eddy Edson]

Glad your home & that Dad is connected 🙂

Sorry about the C Diff. I'm doing some work with a biotech start-up developing new therapies for it, so I have some idea how unpleasant it can be. Hope it gets sorted soon!

 

[rebrascora]

So good to hear an update from you Lin and lovely that you are now home although I imagine that is challenging for you, especially with C-diff. Hope you are well supported. Have you perfected the "bum slide" technique yet? 😉 Please keep in touch.
Sending lots of love and (((HUGS)))

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Hello Lin,
lovely to hear from you and more than pleased to hear you are home and doing well.

PS.,
Please send your Dad to visit my Mum who refuses point blank to have anything to do with computers 🙂
At 85 Mum has dug her heels but funny enough is more than happy for me to do anything she wants on my computer 🙂

 

[SueEK]

Hi Lin and great to hear you are finally home, dad too. Wishing you and your dad all the very best xx

 

[trophywench]

Welcome Home Lin! Big {{{Hugs}}}

@Pumper_Sue - I'm like that with my phone - the screen is 100% far too little to use it for doing anything useful THOUGH I do actually think, having seen any number of screenshots from people using phones to scan their Libre, that the info available that way looks a great deal more easily accessible than eg having to come off whatever I happen to be in on the puter, open Libreview blah blah - and doesn't need me to be cheek by jowl with my lappy - perhaps I'll have a go, cos I can use both reader and phone as long as I start it with the reader, so I can download it to Libreview for the clinic.

 

[Ditto]

Excellent news. 🙂

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Sorry I missed this on Friday @Ljc

So pleased to hear you are home. Gotta love your Dad getting a new laptop at 96!