Re: OT: Fat Fingers Calling

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/Gio/and SGIO

Glad to see the three of you back and well. A bit of each in your post.

As MB said, milk this for all its worth. You deserve it. Be Queen and

let them take care. Bet the doggies missed you.

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> So happy to hear it's over and you are home. Just worry about you and

let them flutter about taking good care of you. Be the queen!

> Love and hugs,

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> From: Francis gina.francis@...

> To: Breathe-Support ; pulmonaryfibrosis

> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:46:54 PM

> Subject: OT: Fat Fingers Calling

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> Mornin’ Air Fambly…..I’m Home..one set of fingers

frozen from Raynaud’s .. the other frozen from ‘R’

+ swollen like  5 little cheerio sausages from the Carpal Tunnel

Experience.

> I must say having local anaesthetic was interesting for a

Curiosity Cat like me! Unpleasant, but fascinating at the same time. It

did feel like they were preparing my arm for some sort of gruesome

experiment when they began, wrapping my arm, incredibly tightly, Â in

a downwards direction from the wrist, with wide stretchy rubber tape to

drain all the blood out. Then the double tourniquet took over the job of

keeping the blood away. Then they started pumping in the local deadener

which felt like I was being burnt on the inside, as it flowed

through,…quite startling, it was VERY HOT, that sensation. In

spite of being given ‘sedation’ I was fully awake…I

must be as hard as a horse to knock out…..

> Actually it was like a super-giant dose of Raynauds…everything

cold, stiff & numb…..

> I’ve also discovered that I can add Endone Analgesics to my

list of not tolerated medications… I was looking forward to being

nicely drowsy with the pain killers last night but instead had to

concentrate hard on not throwing up! Bumma! So its only Paracetamol for

me & lots of distraction (like writing to you lot!)

> My hubby goes to work at 7 am….way too early for me to want to

be up, showered & dressed..my lovely man is popping home from work at

10am to get me sorted for the rest of the day. Tomorrow my daughter will

come by & help with the ablutions. Crikey it’s odd having to rely

on help for this basic personal stuff…at least I can use the Loo

unaided…..THAT I would find intolerable!

> I’m supposed to keep checking my ‘done’ hand for

blood supply…mmmmmm….since there are only fingers poking out

above a big fat bandage, full of wadding & even my undone hand is numb

from Raynauds this morning, how am I meant to tell if the lack of

sensation in my ‘Done’ hand is only the

Raynauds…..if you get my drift…….

> All I know is Don’t Move Anything or it’ll hurt like

HELL!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

> Currently I feel like Stumpy the Clown!

> Now I’ll catch up on the Posts until Shower Experiment Time!

> Cheers,

> GIO

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