Sue has had her operation. Her thumb has, despite earlier hopes, been “wired” her elbow re-opened and debrided, or cleaned, and restitched. Her head wound has been debrided but a skin graft has not yet been carried out as more healing has to take place before Sue herself must make the decision as too wether or not to have the graft. With it healing will be quicker but the scar may be more noticeable, she will discuss it with the surgeon later, at the moment she has regular outpatients appointments to redress the head wound.
We both seem to be healing, slow, very slow, but getting there.
Monday 3rd August - Sue went back to outpatients to have her wounds re-dressed. The nurses were very unhappy that the head wound dressing had been left so long and it was a painful and distressing time when changed necessitating the closure of the unit while it was done and me going into the hospital to collect her with a wheelchair, however she recovered from that ordeal quickly and on Tuesday little bro Richard took us north to recover what we could from the car after which we went to where our “stuff” was stored. We had so much “stuff” in the car which the emergency services removed to enable them to cut the roof off that two recovery vehicles were used, one for the car and one for the “stuff” which was taken to a dry inside storage area. We were allowed to sort through the “stuff” chuck out the obviously unusable items then load the remainder onto the car and trailer and return to the boat where a more in depth sorting took place.
We returned home to Little Henham on Wednesday exhausted but glad that that horrible task was behind us.
On arrival back at Little Henham we learned that the insurance had paid the agreed “total loss” sum into our bank account. It does not make the pain go away but we received more that we expected to get selling the car.
Friday 7th August - Another hospital appointment for Sue, this time with her brother Paul as the driver. The appointment was at 10:30am and before 11:30am we were driving away with head wound redressed, elbow stitches removed and an assurance from the charge nurse that the healing was going very well and a skin graft was less likely to be needed than originally thought.
Next Fridays Sue has two appointments, the first with the consultant so she should find out the next steps and the second with a therapist for more hand therapy - things appear to be moving forward. The kings men (and, of course women) obviously work for the NHS and have learned that they CAN put Humpty together again.