Clearly clinical

Yesterday I had my appointment at the fracture clinic to find out what was wrong with my leg.

It was a 9.15 appointment at the hospital. It's not the best hospital I've ever been to (as you all know).

I got called in and the doctor barely looked at me, he didn't have my notes so he asked me what I'd done and why I was in a chair (again - I had to explain it multiple times at A&E) then he told me to get on the bed.

He walked out as I proceeded to get up on it. A guy walked in with bandage scissors and cut the Robert Jones bandages whilst hardly talking and being a bit of a grumpus. As soon as he finished he walked out leaving me and my mum alone in the room. We discussed what 'freebies' were in the room but we couldn't find any in sight. I changed the topic of conversation to my leg and foot. My leg looked substantially thinner compared to my 'good' leg. In 2 and a half weeks my leg managed to lose  a considerable amount of muscle wastage. I think that this happened so quickly because of my leg history - with it getting injured so often and I have ha a lot of muscle wastage in my 'bad' leg previously.

The doctor FINALLY came back in; he looked at my leg, he checked to see if the knee cap popped but he ruled that out and then he examined my leg thoroughly. The pain was very intense! He came to the conclusion that I may have damaged the cartilage or tore the ligament. He left the room once more and the grumpus returned with a leg splint (can't remember the name of it - it's tri something).

I have to have an MRI but it won't be for a few weeks and then I have to have another appointment with the fracture clinic doctor again.

In the mean time, I had an OT appointment earlier this week and my OT wanted me to make a follow up with her after we found out what was wrong with my leg. 

My OT is very kind to me. She is going to  contact my social worker to talk about getting Carers at home because at weekends my mummy is helping my sister with my niece and I can't go with because the toilet is upstairs but also it will be just me and my mum at home and I need more care than she is able to help me with. She's also going to talk about my rubbish Carers at Uni. My OT is also helping with my wheelchair debacle, my wheelchair keeps sliding into the road, falling on me and just overall not helping me and when we brought it home the maintenance guy decided there were too many things wrong with it so he had to take it away. my grandparents tried to talk to the wheelchair service about getting me a new and different one but the service said I should buy my own - my grandparents made the situation worse, so my OT said she'd try to help out. My OT also said she write to my Uni about helping me out more because I keep overdoing it and ignoring what my body is telling me because I want to prove to everyone and myself that I can do it all just like they can but I'm not like everyone else. I need to rest, look after myself and pace myself.

My mum called my OT after we went to the fracture clinic and she said I should wait until we have the results of my MRI before making an appointment for OT and physio.

Arghhh...

Oh well.

I hope everyone else is doing well.

*huggles* for everyone!!