I’ve got a date, approximately
2pm 16th August: Hospital check-in arranged
After nearly 5hrs witing at the RBH fracture clinic a young lady wearing a white jacket and stethoscope tells me what’s going on. Hooray!
There’s a hand and wrist specialist surgeon on duty covering Accident & Emergency over the weekend. Since the operation will be tricky they want a specialist to do it so they’re going to book me a bed in the Trauma ward for the weekend and the specialist will operate on me inbetween the accidents coming-in.
So, hospital checkin on the 17th August after 7pm.
Meanwhile, I provide Pre-op information to a nurse in another building. The nurse gives me a large glossie brochure about coming into hospital.
Don’t you just want to climb onto that trolley? So welcoming…

September 18th, 2012
wilting? writing? – oh, got it: waiting!
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September 18th, 2012
Hey Wendy! FIVE HOURS?! Were they waiting for it to fix itself?! Still, glad you got a specialist on it. Indigo x
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September 19th, 2012
Who’d have guessed that a broken wrist would adversely affect my spelling and grammar!
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September 22nd, 2012
the Hospital’s patient brochure cover now reminds me of the fourth episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who – “The Power of Three” whicch makes the idea of getting on the trolley even less appealing
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