Well he's home, we've had two mornings with our District Nurse and Carers and so far so good. We have to start our mornings at 7.30 so getting up and having to get Mark up at that time of the morning is tough going. Hopefully MY body will eventually get used to such torture.
The morning Mark was supposed to come home we still hadn't been told he was definitely going and he was still waiting for a final visit from the Consultant with their views of the MRI. Their verdict is that they are confident that nothing has changed with the fixings, which is good, but they can't tell why he has the clunking in his upper back when he moves. Their best guess is that the vertebrae above and below the fixing needs to move more to compensate for the fact that it connected to an immovable vertebrae when he moves and that movement can be sudden therefore causing the clunking feeling. Basically they don't know and are not prepared to do anything further to find out!!
The swelling in his legs is just the same and they're not prepared to do anything further about that either. We just have to hope that the Community Nurses will be able to help and from our dealings with them so far we've got more chance that they will try harder. The down side of Community Care is the constant form filling and risk assessments. Everyone has to cover their backs for everything they do.
Tomorrow - Mark and his exercise machine.....
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