Great start to married life. New wife in hospital.

Tropez

DigForVictory wrote: »

How are you both?!
Anyone thrown anything? (idle curiosity)
Need any whodunnits, or a resupply of JD?!
Is this wet an issue or are you preoccupied above the flood line?

Hoping you're both sleeping at the very least!

Everything is alright, quite calm... at least for now. Some discussions going on at work which could prove to be problematic for the pair of us but I shall wait and see on those.

Nothing thrown at me and she is taking much fewer pain meds now. She is still using crutches but finding it easier to get around and should be starting physio soon.

No flooding to worry about where we are.

lizziebabe

With regard to making your wife happy - just do all the housework, in fact Spring clean the house from top to bottom. Keep all the washing/ironing up to date, cook lovely meals and clear up afterwards.
That should make her very happy :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Seriously though - hope she is making a speedy recovery, sounded like a nasty accident.

Tropez

lizziebabe wrote: »

With regard to making your wife happy - just do all the housework, in fact Spring clean the house from top to bottom. Keep all the washing/ironing up to date, cook lovely meals and clear up afterwards.
That should make her very happy :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Seriously though - hope she is making a speedy recovery, sounded like a nasty accident.

Other than the cooking and setting the dishwasher going I'm rubbish at household chores, so I've been paying a housekeeper to do that stuff for years. Worth every penny!

Thanks for the kind wishes. She's doing alright. I too hope for a speedy recovery. I'm currently banned from playing a lot of the music I tend to listen to when she's at work.

DigForVictory

How are you both?

I'm guessing headphones aren't an option on the music issue? As in sort her some Senneheisers & turn your deck down a bit?

All the best with recovering!

Tropez

DigForVictory wrote: »

How are you both?

I'm guessing headphones aren't an option on the music issue? As in sort her some Senneheisers & turn your deck down a bit?

All the best with recovering!

Well normally I have Spotify playing while I do work. Lately, whenever I had my headphones plugged in there was a crackling when the computer would do anything else and it became impossible and distracting to try and listen to music this way.

Fortunately, this appears to have resolved itself recently and is no longer presenting an issue, though I am not fond of having headphones on all day.

Everything's mostly fine. I've had a stressful week for unrelated reasons. She's doing much better, started physio which is going well. She's got a brace for her knee and can put weight through it, though still needs a crutch to steady herself but she is a lot more mobile.

Her wrist and arm are also much better and she's no longer in a cast. She has some sort of brace/support thing on now. She's got a lot more movement back in the wrist. Docs reckon she'll be back to 100% in about 2-3 more weeks.

Hopefully it won't be much longer than that because I have booked a surprise trip for us to the Channel Isles for the end of March

Savvy_Sue

Tropez wrote: »

Her wrist and arm are also much better and she's no longer in a cast. She has some sort of brace/support thing on now. She's got a lot more movement back in the wrist. Docs reckon she'll be back to 100% in about 2-3 more weeks.

I don't want to put a dampener on proceedings, but please don't be surprised (or let her be surprised) if she's not back to 100% that fast.

If these things were bad enough to need surgery, I'd have said there was a big fat ? over whether things would ever be back to 100%.

And I'd also say that a year is a more likely timescale for assessing when recovery is complete / as good as it's going to get.

She needs to grab any physio offered with both hands, AND do her prescribed exercises religiously, AND I'd thoroughly recommend hydrotherapy.

I know everyone's different, and every injury is different, but if I don't do my exercises every day, I start to stiffen up. And I overdid it last weekend and am still feeling the effects ...

But you are still lovely, and I'm sure the Channel Islands will do you both a lot of good.

Savvy_Sue

BTW, I remember my first physio appointment, when she asked what I wanted to get out of the appointments. "Right now, I'd just like to be able to dress myself. And cut my own food up. And drive! It would be nice to be able to drive again!" I can now do all those things - even a manual car!

The physio said it's always worse if you have an accident and are suddenly hugely limited in what you can do. If limitations have crept up on you slowly, you just get used to them.

Tropez

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

I don't want to put a dampener on proceedings, but please don't be surprised (or let her be surprised) if she's not back to 100% that fast.

If these things were bad enough to need surgery, I'd have said there was a big fat ? over whether things would ever be back to 100%.

And I'd also say that a year is a more likely timescale for assessing when recovery is complete / as good as it's going to get.

She needs to grab any physio offered with both hands, AND do her prescribed exercises religiously, AND I'd thoroughly recommend hydrotherapy.

I know everyone's different, and every injury is different, but if I don't do my exercises every day, I start to stiffen up. And I overdid it last weekend and am still feeling the effects ...

But you are still lovely, and I'm sure the Channel Islands will do you both a lot of good.

The only surgery she had was to check that there was no ligament damage in her knee and that the knee bone itself was undamaged. She hasn't required any other surgery as her fractures in her wrist and arm were both clean breaks.

The consultant seemed very positive that there would be no long-term weakening of the knee joint and that she was healing at the rate that he would have expected her to do so.

Of course, there's still a certain level of speculation involved but we've been given no indication that there is a likelihood of any complications (ex-nurse that she is, has she been forthcoming with the questions!) and she's not required any form of pain relief for a couple of weeks now, even after physio or while doing the exercises she's been given to do at home, so things are looking good.

Savvy_Sue

That's great. It all sounded fairly horrific.

DigForVictory

I'm so pleased! I know a couple of medical types whose brains switch off in the presence of consultants (just "yes, Doctor" etc) & it's both hilarious & terrifying & infuriating. It's also Much Better for the consultant to be (politely) Interrogated, although as the observer it's a bit tricky to know *when* to murmur "Human Rights"...

Plus one for hydrotherapy where possible - don't think there's anyone who remains unconvinced the the power of water this month!

All the best with recovery, & a significant improvement in the weather, in time for the Channel Isles!