Get a grip woman!

Cheery_Daff

Crikey, how very dramatic! 😮 Hope you have a good speedy recovery x

shangaijimmy

Oh no. That's one of Mrs SJ's worst nightmares. As you know patience and time is the key. In terms of healing, as much as we have little patience for it, you can't cheat time...Go easy on yourself.

Suffolk_lass

Poor DH went to collect the prescriptions for ibruprofen gel and the dressings I need for Monday morning and the pharmacy does not have the prescriptions. Accused me of taking a photo-copy - it was a print that the nurse practitioner gave me at the urgent care centre. - I was so impressed that he could see my records and who my pharmacy is, but it seems different areas work differently and they cannot issue the gel. I just hope the GP practice nurse has a good supply of dressings as I won't be taking any.

In the meantime I doubled the pain relief overnight and feel pretty groggy this morning, but it definitely takes the edge off the rib pain.

Suffolk_lass

Thank you everyone, for the well wishes, they are much appreciated. I'm very impatient as a patient and I must make sure I do enough to keep moving and filling my lungs, but not so much that I damage myself.

In the meantime, poor DH is coming down with a cold and feels dreadful. On his abortive trip to the pharmacy he picked up a pack of Lateral Flow Tests - it was negative so it is "just" a sore throat and cold. He only managed one of the two apiaries yesterday so needs to go to the other one today.

I did sit on a low seat and pick gooseberries yesterday. I really need to do the blackcurrants today before the pigeons get them. We also picked a show-box sized box of French beans and a trug of broad beans. 

A fun evening was had by me, shelling and peeling the outer skins off the broad beans, while DH sat with scissors, topping and tailing about a third of the gooseberries. I think my rhubarb got left out overnight though. Everything seems to have exploded while we were away!

trix-a-belle

Oh SL, gentle and healing hugs to you both xx
Perhaps DS can come up and play nurse maid for an afternoon and get some of the urgent tasks done to take the edge off so you & DH are not trying battle away to get things in

greent

Sending lots of gentle get well soon wishes your way!

Don't dismiss any covid type symptoms even with negative lat flow test - it seems they are perhaps not so good at detecting the delta variant - I know 3 people alone this week who have had positive pcr tests with negative lat flow tests both before and after the pcr results x 

LadyGnome

Your DH hasn't been in contact with any Cabinet Members has he?

I am very sorry to hear about your accident.  Take care of yourself and take it easy.

Karmacat

Good heavens, SL, you poor thing, and DH too, you sound in a *lot* of pain.  Sounds like a really random accident that could have happened to anyone too  

All the best.

enthusiasticsaver

Sorry about your accident and the dental problems.  Hope you recover soon.  

Suffolk_lass

Teeth are sorted courtesy of a quick dental appointment on Tuesday - in about 15 minutes ( £23.80 NHS) and my bruises are definitely yellowing, not black. Dressings removed from my arm and shoulder and the skin has healed well. I am applying aqueous cream daily to reduce the scaly thing that scar tissue does.

Monday I am back to see the nurse to get my steri-strips removed from my brow (although on day 9 they are peeling and I keep snipping off the tips as they catch in my clothes, hair and fingers!). The whole thing is soo itchy - it must be healing. No idea of the scarring implications or whether it will still look like my eyebrow. It is stuck in a slightly surprised arch at the moment, to ensure the two sides were stuck together. Oh well, at 63 I do not expect to look like Marilyn Monroe - just as well, I never did, lol!

Meanwhile the free fruit and veg period has started and we are harvesting in competition with the pigeons in the garden. We have over ten kilos of potatoes from 8 plants and the courgettes are starting to grow bigger. Onions need lifting today while the weather holds. We have raspberries, blackcurrants and gooseberries, and I want to pick more rhubarb for the freezer.

Monster shop this week was missing biscuits as the shelves were bare - we need to go to Sainsbobs for DH to buy replacement T-shirts and underwear so I will look to buy cane sugar (own brand 5k bags) and get biscuits there I think. I could do with some replacement underwear too but I know M&S fit for size so may order online. Might leave this until next month as my credit card bill is larger than my budget this month!