Re: Caretaker
 

I will have the chocolate one please. Got any fresh whipped cream to go with it?

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I don't have any alcohol swabs, so when I shoot myself up in the belly with blood thinner I use Scotch and a piece of toilet paper, pretending I'm hardcore.

Re: Caretaker
 

I'm diabetic. I inject 3-4 times a day into my belly. For at least 20 years.

Have NEVER used alcohol swabs and never got an infection.

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Well, it's an excuse to get the Scotch out. I only have to do it twice a day for another week.

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😱 I could not stick myself. :eek:

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Shouldn't you be biting down on something? ;)

I gave up with the swabs a few years ago too.

Re: Caretaker
 

I used to think like that... 6 or 7 years back I got kicked out of hospital with a month's worth of syringes with the instruction "one per day".

After a few days I couldn't hack it any more, so progressed to self-medicating with Irish whiskey.

Despite moving countries a couple of years ago, I found just the other day in a wardrobe that I still have half of the syringes left.

No Irish though. :(

Re: Caretaker
 

I bite the cap and pull the needle away to get it off, looks pretty butch.

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Excellent strategy. A splash for the loo paper, a glug for you :thumbsup:
Yes, you could. You might not like it but you could!

I had to give my daughter injections for a year when she was 9. Then she developed insulin dependent diabetes when she was 15, took a while for her to work up the courage to self-inject but got there in the end. In the meantime I did it for her.

Then my RA diagnosis meant I had to self-inject methotrexate for 2 years. All that jab training paid off :lol:

Re: Caretaker
 

I like your style.

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First trip to physio today, but not much they could do but introductions and a lot of questions due to 0 movement in the brace. I was given an easy exercise and a mitt full of appointments, 2 per week for the month of March when I can work outside of the brace. Load bearing capability on the leg is getting better, but I have to be careful not to take risks (I still carry my phone around my neck when moving anywhere). An acquaintance who recently had a hip transplant got cocky last week and fell, and spent 5 hours on the kitchen floor before his kids checked on him.

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Gawd. It's going to be a long old one before you will be ice fishing again. At least physio is being set up to get started.

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Yo man, how's it going? Plenty of horizon on that scope, one trusts?

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Trust, but verify. It's been pretty much equal parts of boredom, pain, misery and discomfort. Drugs and liquor help to a degree. My quality of life is going to improve drastically when I lose the brace and can sit on the toilet again instead of using the commode chair, and twice as much when I'm able to drive again. Next week I begin my twice weekly physio, and I have an appt with the surgeon on friday. In the meantime all I can really do is relish small pleasures as they present themselves.

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Ach mate :( Big poopoo.