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Reading through the thread and wondering how things are with you today McB? Hope that everything is healing and the pains are less for you. Take care now.

Dear McB

Hello


Catching up with the different posts on GR.


I am very sorry to hear of your accident.

I hope that finance situation can be sorted out for you.

Wishing you well.


Take very good care of yourself
With best wishes
Elizabeth
xx

Thanks Liz, got to feel positive & got to get back to work asap, if i aint working i aint earning & the bills are pouring in, funny they always arrive at the wrong time.

McB,. you are in a difficult position with being self employed. I hope your stumps heal well and the pain eases. It will be good if you can manage to get back to working soon altho it will take a bit of getting used to, I expect. It's disgraceful that there's no follow up help, hope the washing up tip helps when you are able to do it.

It must have all been quite traumatic for you so as I said before, treat yourself kindly and let's hope you can feel positive about the future.

All the best,

Lizx

Sorry to hear about your accident, I hope you have speedy recovery.

It is good to hear the NHS praised all to often we only hear the bad things.

Lesley x

what a terrible accident ,i really hope you will recover quickly.

xx

Ha ha, i am the dishwasher, not at the mo though, soon as i get the dressings off i'll try the warm water.

McB, many years ago my dad lost the same fingers in an accident with his circular saw. When he came home from hospital, he found it helped to wash the dishes! The warm water and moving his hands in it seemed to help, so you can now be the chief washer-up. If you have a dishwasher, forget using it. It is now obsolete.

Back in March I'd a very nasty accident in a fall.I wrecked my L knee and tibia.

I've had 4 operations on it and 1 biopsy,several weeks in the RVI.

All the nursing staff and doctors and nurses and others were excellent.

My leg's mending but still has a long way to go.

I don't think so!!!! Nice try though.

I feel ok even the stumps don't hurt much, a bit sore on the ends, it's the phantom pains that hurt, boy do they hurt.

Question i lost the big & ring finger on my left hand, does that mean I'm no longer married ? lol

Sorry that you are having such a bad time. The accident sounds horrific!

I hope you will soon be feeling a little better before long, although it seems being self employed that you won't have support from a Company, that must be an added worry for you..... take care now.

There's no support from the hospital except for outpatients for dressing changes, got to go back next Tuesday & if the weeping has stopped then i can return to work.
Being self employed & owning a business i am not eligible for any kind of financial support, trying to claim is a total nightmare unless you know the system, when i had my prostate done i tried to claim, i was told as i had a business then i had assets ie my machinery & tools of my trade which i could sell, ok great what happens when I'm fit to return to work & can't because i don't have the tools, not our problem they said.

a lot of people think the self employed are coining it it & have a great life, yeah right,
No income now, no holiday pay, no sick pay, if i don't work then i don't earn simple as that, a lot of the time i have to go looking for work to survive.
Be a good idea for other out of workpeople. No i'll stop there but you get the idea !!!!

McB, sorry to hear about your accident.

I'M GLAD YOU RECIEVED GOOD CARE ,NICE
TO HEAR SOME DO XXX

Brian I am so sorry to hear of your accident,
I've been in that situation but only lost one part, top of 4th finger right hand,
I hope you get over the trauma soon, will take a while for your "missing bits " to finally not cause you any more pain,
I was a little dismayed at what my injuries at the time looked like, but now it doesn't bother me at all,
wishing you well,

Bob

So pleased that you came out of that, how frightening. And now, as you are self employed you will be itching to get back to work but I am sure it would be sensible not to rush it. I hope things work out for you. Is there any support from the hospital (a group or something) that you could go to, somebody might be able to give advice on the phantom pain.

I'm sorry to read this McB, especially since you are self employed.

I hope you the pain will go soon and that you will have some support dealing with the trauma and also financially.

Thanks all for your kind messages.
Liz.
Unfortunately there's no company support, i am the company, a one man band joiner, ins premiums that cover the use of woodworking machinery are mindbogglingly expensive, 20k a year plus, it's out of reach in the current climate of little work so here i am sitting at home healing, no pain at all from the stumps but loads of pain from the missing digits, it's called phantom pain & boy does it hurt, after the op which was done ( three hours of sheer agony under a local anesthetic so i could talk to the surgeon about what was the best thing to do with the damaged fingers i went back to the ward & felt ok, an hour later my blood pressure dropped to 60 & i only remember coming round with a crash team around me full of lines of plumbing, apparently i was out for about half an hour & it was a close thing, they think it was shock/trauma.

McB Sorry to hear this. So pleased that you were treated well in Stoke M. I suspect that, as usual outpatient waiting times are down to having to cram everyone into 10 minute or less slots and it doesn't work like that, things happen that skew the timimings. Annoying though isn't it. (Mind you my hospital appointment (20 minute one) yesterday was for 4pm, I went in about two minutes past and was out before 20 past so not bad at all Glos royal).

I hope your hand will heal well and that the injury was not because of a missing guard on the machine. :-)