Thanks for your good wishes,at least I know I shall be home by lunch time and not tea time so the healing can begin I wish now I had plucked up the courage to see about getting it done over last winter when we had the long winter days but it took some time for me to get in the right frame of mind to go for it as so many people told me not to get it done because of the recovery time and pain @clanless i don't suppose you can remember what sized needles you had to use for the injections? One of my older brothers has terminal lung cancer and he is on blood thinning injections.He got his wife and daughter to do them as they are trained nurses but I am not.I don't mind having needles stuck in me by someone else I can cope with that,but don't fancy having to do it myself.I am dreading the day I have to go on insulin Sorry to hear you broke your hip whilst learning to fly in your loft.That is something I always dread when I am working in ours and that is falling out of it @silu I am already trying to put Mr Kandy right on watering everything in the greenhouse although I have already brought out my trays of cyclamen seedlings and put them in the shade and then there are the five trays of Fritilaries Melagris I have got shooting.I have to watch home like a hawk when he has any gardening tools in his grubby little hands as it means only one thing, and that is some poor plant is going to be in for it...
Hiya Kandy, you will be fine. I had to do the needle in the stomach for three weeks after I left hospital after my hip replacement ... well, t'other half had to do it for me. Just slightly uncomfortable momentarily but you cannot use the same spot every time so I had mini bruises all over my tummy!
Oh Kandy all the best! You'll be back on your feet in no time and don't worry too much about the injections I'm sure they will show you and give you some leaflets on it. Will be thinking of you
Hiya Kandy. I had that for a week in hospital and then to do that for three weeks after I got home from my hip replacement ... well, t'other half had to do it for me (they trained him in hospital) as I can be a wimp at times! As it could not be done in the same place every time, I had mini bruises all over my tummy! It is not painful, just uncomfortable for a moment, believe me. I was given Lovenox. Be thinking of you... you will be fine. xx Edit ... my computer went amiss so this is my real post!
I'm the other way around, got in trouble when I picked up my flu jab from the chemists and there was a set of works in with it. I asked if I had to do it intravenously or intermuscular. Chemist frowned at me and said I was to take it across to the nurse and get her to do it
Mrs S. and myself wish you all the best. Last year (or was it the year before ) they thought I had a heart attack or something similar (I kept insisting it was an muscular pain from overdoing things and that the doctor had made a mistake when taking my blood pressure ) and I spent 7 hours in the Emergency Assessment Unit having loads of tests. Blood taken every 90 minutes, x-rays, ECG, blood pressure every 30 minutes and even an eye test! The cardiologist said I could relax and it wasn't a heart attack (I kept telling him that). As it was going to take almost a week for the assessment of all the other test I was told I had to have the injections in my stomach every day. I have a needle phobia so I said that I couldn't possibly do it and they said that I should tell my surgery and they will arrange to have it done. They organised for the District Nurse to call in every day but she didn't work on Saturdays so I went into the surgery and the nurse did it for me. So, if you really don't think you can do it then you can get your surgery to arrange it. Just tell them that you don't think you can do it and that if your husband had to do it you don't think you could pick him up off the floor when he faints!
The best thing for healing will be a positive attitude That's a bummer about not being able to get out and about; but, if the weather of today continues while you are recuperating ... this will be a fab opportunity to sit in the garden soaking up sunshine while you "Project Manage" Mr Kandy Oh no, wait!! He's have to keep bringing you cups of tea and regular nibbles/meals Stock up on some good books
@shiney I have looked at our village website and there is no mention of a District Nurse linked to our practise and our surgery doesn't open on a Saturday.For the first two days I am only allowed to visit the loo at home so there isn't any way I can go out and visit our surgery and walking excessively is a no no.I have asked my niece on bookface and she has replied and said that the needle is quiet small and said if her dad could do it then I can as well Hope that you are feeling better now after your health scare the ther year @Victoria, do you think you can send your other half over to Blighty then he can stab me with the needle every day The nurse showed me how to grip the roll of tummy fat on her body and said that it has to be in a different spot each day.I am not sure yet whether it is going to be for a month or six weeks,there was so much to try and take in today and this was something I wasn't banking on having to do.I can't see Mr Kandy being able to do it although when I cut myself he is good at that but on himself he is on the floor rolling around @"M" I will have to be nice to Mr Kandy or else he might not feed me at all let alone do the washing,ironing,cooking,cleaning allotmenteering etc I have already got some books lined up plus puzzle books and the Consultant said I shall be able to watch Jeremy Kyle or Judge Rinder so I said I don't mind the judge but can't stand Jeremy Kyle.I said to him I would rather watch Professor Noel Fitzpatrick aka The Supervet to which he replied that he has met Noel lucky devil. @Linz the nurse said she is going to show me how to do the injections so I hope they don't practise too much as I will be like a pin cushion. They forgot to give me information on exactly what I can and can't do when I went before Xmas so I now have that to read up on,all eight pages of it
It was only a small needle - certainly nothing to worry about - it took a couple of seconds and didn't hurt at all. I looked at how the nurse injected the drug and copied her. The real 'trick' is (WARNING GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS) - don't tense up. Stick the needle into loose skin - which is not flat on your tummy - you want to inject into the skin not into the bits below. I had/have a smallish beer belly - so this wasn't a problem for me . Thanks. I was retrieving a Christmas tree from the loft - it was carnage, broken baubles everywhere . I ended up in a hospital ward called the 'Pantomime Ward'. The people in work dined on this one for several months!
I'm not saying the needle is long enough to reach to the bits below - it's really quite short - so don't worry - you'll see what I mean when you see the nurse
I wish you all the best with your op Kandy, and enjoy Mr K waiting on you hand and foot while you've got the chance. Hmmm, perhaps I should have omitted the foot there but you know what I mean. Don't worry about the injections the nurse will probably be with you to guide you when you do the first one. I'm talking from experience of injections for arthritis. If you have to inject insulin at some point later, you can use the pen type of injection that injects itself by you just pressing a button, it's quick and easy.
:huh: :scratch: :th scifD36: That's one way to raise your blood pressure ... I can think of better alternatives! :heehee: As has my friend and neighbour (a Met officer who rescued a Belgian Shepherd who developed chronic hip dysplasia: it may have always been present, but, I know he had had her for a good couple of years prior to diagnosis). He was very impressed with Prof. Noel ... but, methinks, for slightly less reasons than yourself :heehee:
The more you think about the needle the more you will be nervous. So don't think about it. I wish you a speedy recovery.
