Ill Health

thanks again everyone for all your kind messages

sit rep: still in hospital getting rehab and physio but hoping to get home the end of this week (after 5 weeks I've become institutionalised!!). the back surgery appears to be a complete success with all nerve pain in my legs now gone so I am (slowly) mobile with the aid of a frame and have a wheelchair waiting at home so I can at least get out and about.

my little white macbook has been a Godsend in here - keeping me in touch with this wonderful, friendly forum and the outside world in general.

my cancer is reducing in line with expectations so it looks like I'm on track for the stem cell work in April and the hopefully remission.

again, thanks for all the kind messages of support - they really have helped.

Fantastic news! We'll keep praying for you here!

just had some fantastic news - can go home tomorrow!!!

Really good to hear that, I'll bet you can't wait. Keep getting better, the prayers must be working.

nickyr said:

just had some fantastic news - can go home tomorrow!!!

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Glad that all is going well and as expected, and sure that you will love coming home! Continued good luck -Dave

That's great! I can't help but see the irony in the avatar you've been using since before this diagnosis.

Even better! Nothing like being home!

Great news! Will keep you in my prayers for a full recovery.

Lisa

Absolutely brilliant news. Let's hope you have no more trouble.

I have a friend over in England who seems to be hovering around the edges of Myeloma and the uncertainty of not knowing for sure is driving her nuts.

All the best of luck for the future.

my thoughts are with your friend hoody - please pass them on

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That's great! I can't help but see the irony in the avatar you've been using since before this diagnosis.

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I know - you couldn't make it up!

nickyr said:

just had some fantastic news - can go home tomorrow!!!

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Excellent. Careful though. It would be my luck I'd start to dance a jig, injure myself, and end up in the same hospital bed.

Nickyr.

Thanks. I will pass it on. Also, I've just watched that you tube vid' and have sent the link to her and her hubby.

Well it had to happen.

On Sunday I decided to make my first journey outdoors since coming home. I walked to the door with the aid of my frame with the idea I would then make the small step outside onto the driveway and get myself into the car (don't worry - the passenger seat was my destination). Half way through that move I realised I wasn't going to make it, took a step back and somehow fell backwards right onto the site of my surgery.

I had visons of a trip back to the hospital that carried out my surgery and a row off the surgeon.

A trip to A and E followed where luckily x rays showed that I hadn't damaged any of my surgery or anything else for that matter. Doctor reckoned this was down to me doing nothing to break my fall and that I fell straight back without twisting. This in itself was down to the back brace I have to wear whenever I am out of bed.

We've now had a ramp installed so I can be wheeled in and out of the house.

I got lucky.

nickyr said:

Half way through that move I realised I wasn't going to make it, took a step back and somehow fell backwards right onto the site of my surgery.

A trip to A and E followed where luckily x rays showed that I hadn't damaged any of my surgery or anything else for that matter.

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Phew…my heart sank there for a second. STOP being such a WILD-MAN!!!

- Nick

Ok, that was a warning from God. Stop.

I'd take His advice, personally.

Just can't hold a good man down. Don't worry it was bound to happen, if you weren't a trier you wouldn't have gotten this far. Take it easy, one thing at a time an keep getting better.
On a completely different here is a pic of one of the things I like about Dark Mode in Yosemite. Always liked shots like this for desktop images but now I can make the menu bar almost invisible as well.
Cheers,
Rod

Hey you have to take it easy. It sucks I know - two hips replaced, lower back disc issues, but my walker was my best friend. I can imagine you were really worried when it happened. So glad you are alight. I will keep praying for a totally full recovery - barring any more klutzy moments on your part!

Lisa

Love my little white macbook. I will be so sad when it finally has had enough.

Hope you get well soon. And for gosh's sake don't fall anymore!

What's that saying--Pride Goeth Before the Fall? Maybe in your case it was "during."

Thanks again everyone for your kind comments and prayers. I guess after so long staring at 4 walls I just had to get out.

Anyhow, we have now had wheelchair ramp installed so I can get safely in and out of the house so bar the transfer from chair to car and the reverse at our destination I should be safe from any further accidents!