Our thoughts and prayers are with Bob for the best result, come March.🤞🤞 He’ll be home by my birthday, so I’ll be having an ( extra :good: ) tipple that night, on his behalf, wishing him well.
Brutal truth is what you need, even though it may not be what you may want!! Full information, full facts. I well remember my diagnosis. Initially, at local level, the consultants tell you to stay off the internet, phrase things specifically, couch things in vague/arcane terms and terminology, staying away from the “C” word, so much so that when we transferred to the Marsden and the consultant in conversation said “Your cancer……….” the wife wanted to hit him!! After that, I told every consultant and registrar to give it to me straight, and bless them, they did.
Bob’s first challenge will be mobility, extended hospital stays are the worst, especially in later life, where things stop working the way they used to as a norm!!!
During my first hospital stay after the car crash, which was extended by a fortnight waiting for a special piece of equipment to insert a rod inside the bone between my knee and ankle, I was laying still, with one leg operated on and plated, while the other was in an open cast. The worst pain of almost the entire stay was after the op and recovery when, after 5 weeks of not moving under my own steam, I got physio to get my joints mobile again. That was pillow biting stuff!! Only exceeded when they thought that I’d been on morphine for too long and wanted to use a local in my leg. It had to be administered just above the bone and the only way they could precisely locate it was by the needle touching the bone, then coming back 1/4″. They pulled me off the ceiling for that one.
Stay strong and stay safe Bob.👍👍
I look from time to time to see if Bob had made any progress.
Great to hear from you, Richard, hope all is well with you and your family. :good: We miss you and Bob – your missives would keep us smiling, which is what we all need these days. 🙂 :yahoo: It’s a quieter forumite without you both. :yes:
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