After a Few Months

so I haven't been keeping up with this blog as much as I had originally hoped.  I think this is probably for a number of reasons; mainly as the adrenaline and medication from operations and actually being in hospital was forcing me to empty out brain information by writing it here, so I could concentrate on other things!  That probably doesn't make much sense.  Also, there have been a few times in the last few months where it hasn't seemed like the accident happened to me, or even happened at all, so there was no need to write anything about it anywhere.  Don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly grateful for my rescuers, hospital staff, friends, family etc and I'm not 'in denial' about anything, it just seems like I should be experiencing a lot more pain than I actually am...although I keep reading 'every amputation is different' etc, so no-one really knows what to expect.

Over the last few months I've come off all my medication, have been going back to Addenbrookes hospital twice a week for rehab and been sorting other stuff out like wheelchairs and adaptions for cars.

Starting with the medication; when I left hospital I was taking 300mg of gabapentin three times a day, followed by three diclofenac and a renitatine tablet.   I also used a dressing pack to change my left leg dressing daily.  After a few weeks the district nurse decided that I no longer needed to dress my leg as it was healing well, so I just continued to wash it as normal without covering it at all.  After a few weeks of being on the gabapentin (used for nerve pain), I realised I was forgetting a lot of information such as names of my friends, important dates etc, so I decided to lower the dosages.  A week later I was off all the meds, pain was a little 'noticeable', but in my view it was better than feeling spaced out and becoming forgetful!

Rehab has been great - I now have both prosthetic legs and progressing well. 

I now have the pleasure of working on an awesome project with Will and Kevin - this has been the highlight of my career so far and I look forward to the challenges ahead.