Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

My Broken Body

Hey hey homies! ( forgive me)

I felt I ought to pop by, blog a bit and explain my absence as a hard core WDCer. There is A LOT I need to do around these part, so I wanted to tell people why it ain’t been done!

It is currently 3:35pm and I have been awake for 13 hours and counting. No, no you haven’t read wrong! I got up at 2:30am. Why would someone do something like that, I hear you ask. The answer is very simple: my body hates me and finds it completely hilarious when I get hardly any sleep.

Quick backstory:

• Broke my foot in August (because I was desperate for a wee)
• The hospital cast my foot in a dodgy position - pointing down – so all I could get on the floor was my big toe. I firmly argued against this for obvious reasons AND because of surgery I had 10years ago. They ignored me.
• 8 weeks later the cast came off and my foot was a big ol’ mess
• Despite the fact I practically had to learn to walk again, the hospital Physio was a pile of shit.
• I got myself walking (very short distances) again and the physio discharged me – not that he did ANYTHING
• A week later, my foot started to crack and hurt (I knew what it was but kept it pretty much to myself).
• Went to see my Dr: “it's just tight and getting used to working again”
• Started anti-depressants
• It got worse
• Went to see my Dr: “it's just tight and getting used to working again… I’ll refer you to physio”
• It got worse
• Went to see my Dr: “here’s some tramadol”
• Worse
• Went to see my Dr to say I wanted him to refer me to the guy who did my surgery and tramadol wasn’t working. “Yes, I’ll do that – I think you’re right and there is tendon damage. Try paracetamol with the tramadol”
• Upped the dose of my anti-depressants
• Received a referral letter from the ‘Clinical Assessment team’ NOT the guy I wanted to see. Fine. Whatever *waits*
• Gets worse
• I called the Dr to say tramadol definitely wasn’t working


That took us up to last Thursday. The tramadol was thrown out of the window and replaced with slow release morphine. I started the morphine on Friday night and was hopeful that it might work. I slept loads (finally) at the weekend and felt pretty much ok (not that I left the couch).

On Monday, the morphine stops working (my body gets used to drugs VERY quickly). Not only that, but I seem to have develops more pain in my foot, which has come from nowhere! Interesting!

Tuesday morning, I woke up at 3:30am and realised I was pretty much back to normal (AKA not normal). So, I called the ‘Clinical Assessment team’ to see where we were up to with my referral… nowhere. “err why?” … Because I’ve been referred as a non-urgent case!! REALLY? Sooo lets see:

• Ignored by Drs
• Been told I’m wrong by Drs
• Ignored by Drs
• In constant pain, which, apparently, bloody morphine doesn’t help
• Can’t sleep
• Can’t walk
• Driving causes extreme pain. Therefore, so does my job.
• Oh, and I’m pretty sure it is the hospital’s fault anyway

Non-urgent … silly billies!

Annnnyway, Chris got SO angry (eek moment) and called the surgeon guy’s private office and got an appointment for tomorrow morning. All we can really afford to do privately is a consultation and maybe a scan. But at least I might get answers and find out what course of action might be waiting for me round the corner – I think I already know, but I’m trying not to dwell on it too much!

So, I haven’t been around much because I am in pain, annoyed, upset and really really really tired! Sleep please?

Generally, I’ve been pretty upbeat and I didn’t mean for this post to turn into a big ol’ moaning session. However, I think it has got on top of me a little this week. So, thanks for reading, it’s been good to get it all out.


I do have a lot to do…

I think the current "Merit Badge Projects"  round is due to close about now. I’m considering a month’s hiatus for MBP.

It’s 18th March and I STILL haven’t updated "CLOSED!The Monthly Reading Challenge"  - I am loathed to put this on hiatus but it is a possibility

I need to judge "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  - this’ll be fiiiiine

And other bits, bobs, odds and ends. If you’re waiting for me to do anything, you have my permission to wave it under my nose to remind me. BUT, I’m afraid I cannot guarantee that I will get anything done in the very near future.

So, Fran is temporally down..... but NEVER out!

Love you guys