Another update, more Jane v. bureaucracy
Sep. 15th, 2013 02:09 pmYes, the review last Monday did say I no longer need the Cyberleg (though I get to take it home, just in case I find I still need the support from time to time). So I went out of there still on crutches (it's a long walk), but with real shoes, and the ankle being asked to do strange things, like bend.
Since then I've been finding out where the new limits are, and being rather disappointed. Getting up and down the stairs still requires a hand-rail (though going up, I can sometimes manage to do it "properly" rather than one step at a time and making the good leg do all the work). I do get to go down forwards rather than backwards, since the foot fits on a step.
If we're out, I carry a folding stick in my bag, and try not to use it, but the distance I can walk hasn't changed much.
I tried driving. I can push the clutch down - once, and only just.
The fracture clinic said I'd need physio - yes, they seem to be right. They suggested the department there, I asked if it could be at my local health centre instead, they said fine, we'll write to your GP. So a few days later (allow a reasonable time for snail mail), we dropped into said health centre to see how that was going.
No, they hadn't had a letter. But it seems any such letter would have to go from GP to Bedford Hospital, since that's the local centre for organising physio, and from there to the physio department in the health centre, and when it gets to them, I can join the six-week waiting list. A bit of nice people phoning around for me - Bedford don't yet have me on the system.
Right....
I can also "self-refer", it seems. Here, fill in this form, and post it back to us... no, better idea, lend me a pen (scribble, scribble) - here, have a form.
Also, after discussion, I'll be phoning Axa/PPP on Monday. I'm covered for up to 10 sessions of physio a year, and there, waiting time is more likely to be in days.
In other health-related news, I got back on the scales, now I'm no longer weighing a cyberleg as well.
Oops.
Better get back on the WW Plan, then, with rather more points than I had last time. And get back to getting some exercise... I just need to find some aerobic exercise that doesn't involve much use of the ankle. Could be tricky. Yes, it needs exercise, but the limits of the ankle stop a long way short of me getting out of breath.
Yes, I'm still doing crafty things - painting of armies continues, slowly. I have more water lurkers, and soon the Temple Barge on the Zola Fel will have a tent to cover the "well" in the middle (due to the well not existing, and me not wanting to cut a big hole in a resin boat). That'll be the Stronghold done, once it's mounted, and decorated. Then I need to sort out the Watchdog of Corflu, and that's probably going to be a scratch-build - ooerr! Once that's sorted, I finish all the bases in one go, so they match.
And then, on to the 10mm Dragon-newts - only I keep getting tempted by them, and their Water Lurker is already complete. They're going to be hard - the riders need adapting, as at present they're some sort of horse archer figures, and need the bows chopping off and replacing by klanths. The Inhuman King (going to be a God) is a multi-part figure that I'm not quite sure how to assemble. The Dragon I want I have yet to acquire from Ebay, but it's going to be fun, for a 10mm army. It's a Warhammer figure (stop shuddering in horror), and comes on an amazingly small base. Intended as 28mm, so in 10mm, this is going to be a suitably impressive size. "Warhammer Fantasy Armies Dark Elves Dreadlord on black dragon" is what I'm after, and I'm hoping to get a ready-assembled one. We've got the Stronghold - a tourist shop in Devon sold me a rather nice dragon skull resin box for a tenner.
Since then I've been finding out where the new limits are, and being rather disappointed. Getting up and down the stairs still requires a hand-rail (though going up, I can sometimes manage to do it "properly" rather than one step at a time and making the good leg do all the work). I do get to go down forwards rather than backwards, since the foot fits on a step.
If we're out, I carry a folding stick in my bag, and try not to use it, but the distance I can walk hasn't changed much.
I tried driving. I can push the clutch down - once, and only just.
The fracture clinic said I'd need physio - yes, they seem to be right. They suggested the department there, I asked if it could be at my local health centre instead, they said fine, we'll write to your GP. So a few days later (allow a reasonable time for snail mail), we dropped into said health centre to see how that was going.
No, they hadn't had a letter. But it seems any such letter would have to go from GP to Bedford Hospital, since that's the local centre for organising physio, and from there to the physio department in the health centre, and when it gets to them, I can join the six-week waiting list. A bit of nice people phoning around for me - Bedford don't yet have me on the system.
Right....
I can also "self-refer", it seems. Here, fill in this form, and post it back to us... no, better idea, lend me a pen (scribble, scribble) - here, have a form.
Also, after discussion, I'll be phoning Axa/PPP on Monday. I'm covered for up to 10 sessions of physio a year, and there, waiting time is more likely to be in days.
In other health-related news, I got back on the scales, now I'm no longer weighing a cyberleg as well.
Oops.
Better get back on the WW Plan, then, with rather more points than I had last time. And get back to getting some exercise... I just need to find some aerobic exercise that doesn't involve much use of the ankle. Could be tricky. Yes, it needs exercise, but the limits of the ankle stop a long way short of me getting out of breath.
Yes, I'm still doing crafty things - painting of armies continues, slowly. I have more water lurkers, and soon the Temple Barge on the Zola Fel will have a tent to cover the "well" in the middle (due to the well not existing, and me not wanting to cut a big hole in a resin boat). That'll be the Stronghold done, once it's mounted, and decorated. Then I need to sort out the Watchdog of Corflu, and that's probably going to be a scratch-build - ooerr! Once that's sorted, I finish all the bases in one go, so they match.
And then, on to the 10mm Dragon-newts - only I keep getting tempted by them, and their Water Lurker is already complete. They're going to be hard - the riders need adapting, as at present they're some sort of horse archer figures, and need the bows chopping off and replacing by klanths. The Inhuman King (going to be a God) is a multi-part figure that I'm not quite sure how to assemble. The Dragon I want I have yet to acquire from Ebay, but it's going to be fun, for a 10mm army. It's a Warhammer figure (stop shuddering in horror), and comes on an amazingly small base. Intended as 28mm, so in 10mm, this is going to be a suitably impressive size. "Warhammer Fantasy Armies Dark Elves Dreadlord on black dragon" is what I'm after, and I'm hoping to get a ready-assembled one. We've got the Stronghold - a tourist shop in Devon sold me a rather nice dragon skull resin box for a tenner.