So, nearly 2 weeks on and my leg is finally looking a lot healthier and I can pretty much move as normal. Gets to the end of the day and is very stiff and sore, but a different kind of soreness to what it used to be like all through summer. Look away now if you don't want to see gory photos!!
Before - ugly fat, swollen veins. Before - on the day, after being marked up the the surgeon and ultrasound technician.
After - the next morning (about 16 hours post surgery) - best shot I could get, because it was incredibly painful to stand on. After - 4 days, behind my knee and all up the inside of my thigh and groin look like I have been through a beating! Incredibly ugly shade of yellow! Today, it has almost all gone, some of the darker bruises are still there and there are a few patches of hard, dense, painful scar tissue that will take some time to disappear, but so far so good.
As for surgery number 2 - the day before my op, we stopped in to see Henry's ENT to discuss his progress (or lack of) and he decided to go with my request and put Henry on the private list for grommets. Yay! Then he said he could do it in 6 days - OMG! So the Wednesday before Xmas James and Henry were up early, heading up to SJOG Bunbury for a 7am checkin. This was a hard day for me - my baby was having surgery (yes he is not a baby anymore, and yes it was a minor 20 minute procedure, but he is my baby!!), and because I couldn't drive nor sit around a hospital I had to stay home! Thankfully James took lots of photos for me and sent a lot of text messages.
Bert went along for the ride and even got a hospital tag and a surgical hat - silly Daddy however wrote Ernie on the tag!!
Waiting and wondering just what on earth this place is and what is going to happen next!
Thankfully he has got over his tendency to scream and vomit whenever someone tries to put medicine into him. **Oops, 7 hours after posting this James read it and informs me that no Henry is not over the screaming when it comes to medicine. In fact he flatly refused to let anyone near him with a syringe full of medicine, nothing was working, until James suggested that he take a picture of Henry having his medicine! "Would that be OK buddy?" "oh yes" .... what the!!!**
In the waiting area, wearing yellow "pyjamas" about to get the IV inserted. Apparently he was very brave, and the worst he did was maintain this frowny face at everybody. He also told the anaesthetist "I not having a sleep"..... funny bubba.
All done, and enjoying a late breakfast ... what could be better than jelly for breakfast!!
A ha - an icypole as well!!!
Well done super bubba - you were so brave. And amazingly, he has not stopped talking since and has been coming up with some incredibly complex sentences daily!!! Awesome!
Enjoy.
Amanda
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