Category Archives: Events

Pulse.

Events

Resting pulse now 74 beats per minute. 

A Sh…. Load faster than my pre accident 39bpm but much better than the 105 bpm two weeks ago. 
Think that means I’m healing fast and my heart consequently can take its’ foot off the gas. 
Good news. 

I knew something wasn’t right!

Events

Turns out, after today’s x ray and ultra sound, that I broke both my right clavicle ( collar bone) and scapula ( shoulder blade ) too. 

Explains why the right shoulder hurts so much when the physios get me to do pretty much anything. 
So… They’re gonna take it easy on the right sided stuff until it gets better. 
Or that’s the idea anyway. 
It seems to be up to me to keep reminding the guys here which part of me hurts. 
I’ve got some amazing pics of my broken body  ( or at least my skeleton ) from scans done in France that I’ll post tomorrow. Not for the feint hearted… Be warned. 
Hope you’re all fabulously well out there. 
Russ
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Sept 11th.

Events

The journey continues apace.. Practising trying to get from lying down to sitting up. 

Sounds easy? Well, before it was. Now..really not. 
Shoulders feeling the pain. I’m extra reliant on them now that I’ve lost half my body. I seem to have injured the right arm in the crash. My right elbow ‘was swollen like a balloon’ I’m told. So I’m having a scan tomorrow to see what I’ve done to it and my right shoulder . Fingers crossed. 
Mentally I’m strong (ish). I only get depressed if I think about getting depressed. So I generally flick the switch to ‘thankful I’m alive’. 
My voice continues to sound a cross between Larry Grayson and Mariella Frostrup ( if you know who they are !). 
I can’t speak loudly, and I sound like I’m on helium supplements. It’s sort of husky and high pitched at the same time. 
Big thanks to my father in law, Dr Al, for treating us to dinner tonight. 
And thanks to Dani for not crashing my wheelchair… Well, it was close a few times. 
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