Hi Mike,
I liked your earlier post about the impacts that things have on us & how we have to learn to deal with this. I have been most impressed at your final positive attitude and your earlier stoic take on the whole sordid mess. And I am cheering from the sidelines /albeit Australian ones and hoping that you will return triumphantly to the Getaway next year.

I share a little of your angst. I merely fell down a flight of stairs in my duplex by tripping over some laundry on the stairs. As a surgeon put it, better your arm than your head. I have to differ! The broken wrist has been given a plate & seems OK but the elbow has had 3 seperate operations (the last 2 totalled 7.5 hour).
So now I have 6 more days till I go back to the surgeon and find out if third time the bones have healed.

I can cope with the months of physio once I get the all clear (famous last words) but if there is more surgury to come, followed by the weeks of healing after that I'm not sure that I can cope. I don't want any more aenesthetics, I don't want that endless wait to be taken to theatre and I'm tired of reconstructing myself as the ethet wears off.

So think of me as I have of you on Wed 6th when I will find if the elbow has been fixed or wqhether the surgeon is still completing his training at the expense of my elbow.

And, in case you are wondering, I am self-employed (software testing) and no one is jumping up & down to secure a one armed man.

Enough bleeding - Mike, get very well and continue to be my example!!
Dave From Oz