Post script. Breaking (!) news

At last got seen at fracture clinic .

 

Yep. Foot is officially broken … in 3 places . .. The clicking noise proved it when surgeon flexed it. Oops..

Xray report was ‘lost’ orthopod had to lodge ‘serious’ incident.

 

Booted .. hope to avoid surgery. Fff

 

 

 

 

 

Well after the ups and very downs, of last week surely this week just had to be better.

You will be forgiven for thinking I spend most of my week at appointments of my own or my family. Well…you are not mistaken…in fact I could not possibly recount all of them.

Since August, well 18th August to be precise I have had a bruised and swollen right foot.

I did trip on the 18th but was too busy that weekend ferrying family members to fro hospital to do anything about painful foot.

Over the weeks since then I had thought I might be reacting to some medicine or other. Albeit joint pain and oedema in only one foot would be a bit weird. I kept trying to ignore it.

My second daughter. D2, the Physio, nagged me to be checked out .

Cutting a very long story short…I managed to persuade the Rottweiler gp receptionist to get me seen first by nurse, that was 4 weeks ago….then by one of the gps …who then sent me for an x-ray…

and I did indeed get X-ray..

in the end…

Lo and behold nice Saintly GP rang me this week.

Jacq. He said. Did you realise you have a fracture?

In fact you have a broken foot like David Beckham’s fracture pre his disastrous World Cup.

Ah. I said. Good job I’m not playing football. How did Becks recover so fast?

He lived in an oxygen tent …said Saintly gp.

Oh said I Sounds fun.

Alas now I’m to go to fracture clinic…no rush I guess.

Meanwhile Saintly GP said he’d email me an image.

Assuming he meant the X-ray image.

imagine my surprise when Rottweiler/GP sent this photo to me today from his alma mater….

The lovely Caius porters clearly have a sense of humour! But then my allegiance is to ‘Tit‘ Hall !