OT: Fat Fingers Calling

[Guest guest]

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, 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

in

Oz

IPF:

Fibrotic NSIP/UIP ??

Reynauds'

May

2007