Monday 19th Sep. – Sunday 25th Sep.
Appointment 9:55.  We got there about 10am, quite surprised I managed to fit in Neil’s little Nova, length ways on the back seat.  Getting in and out of cars is difficult.
We waited about an hour, lots of people in the fracture Dept waiting to be seen.  Think the am appointment are for all the people who were in A&E the night before.
I got called into see the Dr. Neil came in with me, he looks at the swelling and says – as they tried to drain it last night without any luck, rather then sticking me with another needle again today, we’ll just put a splint on and see me next week.  We went back out into the waiting area.  About 10-20 mins later was called again, think time to have the splint on and a new dressing and bandage.
I was told to keep the Velcro splint on for the first day or so and keep it on over night, but try and move my knee after a few days.
So I was off back home again.
 
It was either Wed or Thur when I first took off the splint and bandages, knee was still massive, but had gone down in size, my leg was black with bruising all under the inside of the leg.
 
Baz came around Fri and I took everything off to show him and the swelling had gone down again – but even Baz said it was impressive!
 
 
As I’m quite a big guy, 6” 3¾ and about 15½ stone getting around on crutches takes a lot out of me.  I need to rest if I go up or down stairs – even taking the splint / bandages on/off tires me out as I have to lift up with my arms my left dead weight leg.
 
I was hopping to go and watch the beach play on sat but I really felt bad on sat and late on Fri it was like my leg had got worse.  I was having trouble walking on the crutches.  I was having to move my left leg with my right crutch – that I didn’t like.
 
Needless to say I didn’t watch football, the pain might have been because I wasn’t taking the pain killers every 4 hours and only when I needed to, or because my leg was getting better and I was getting feeling back in it.
 
Monday was only a few days away.
I didn’t have any idea what
the diagnosis would be
 
Didn’t sleep great on Sunday night, but saying that it was the earliest I had been to bed all week and I had a good meal inside of me as I’d gone down to Steve’s and Sarah’s for Sunday dinner.  Have to say – Neil’s been great, booked the Monday off so he could go to hospital with me, made me a flask every day in the morning when he went to work, so I would have a drink in the sitting room.