Not So Bad!?
on So Now It's Cambodia (Cambodia), 08/Sep/2010 09:36, 34 days ago
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I finally saw the Thai surgeon yesterday - the one I should have seen last week. He saw my x rays and confirmed it's a small break. In fact, it's so small - maybe "hairline" - that he plans to take the cast off next Tuesday!!That will be 3 and a half weeks after the accident. He says we can treat it like ligaments as there should be enough healing by then but I will still use crutches. He will x ray after removing the cast too make sure it's ok. He then wants me to move on to using one crutch only (on the good leg) and start using the injured (right) leg a bit. He demonstrated for me which was interesting - it seems the wrong way round but he seems to know what he's talking about!I'm going to Seam Reap tomorrow for 4 nights so I can meet up with Alison. It will also give a change of scene which I think I need now. The hotels have been brilliant here but maybe a change of scene will do me good. I've spent a lot of today sorting out a taxi which I think is the only viable option at the moment. It's hard enough getting in a tuk tuk with help yet alone a bus without help! I hope I can get in and out of the taxi!I'll travel back to Phnom Penh on Monday and it's back to the Pavilion. I've had a pool room for 3 nights which means you have a garden with a small swimming pool (still same price as Premier Inn and you get a good breakfast included!). Unfortunately I can't use it but it's pretty with the lights on at night and nice to have a private space for a while - yesterday's doctor said no swimming until cast is off then swim to work the ankle but the first doctor said ok to swim!! good job I didn't!Having said that, it wasn't very private today as I needed to lie down before they'd finished cleaning and there was a problem with the pool so they were in an out sorting that out!Alison has to come here next week for a meeting so there's a chance she'll come back with me.The name of a trumpeter I used to play with in Cambridge flashed up on facebook this week. I'd been meaning to get in touch so made I contact. I was amazed to see that he too has been on crutches due to a knee problem - which seems a bit of a coincidence. Thought we might have been able to do a joint item for two trumpeters on crutches! (jointitem???!!!).Soberingly, another guest here told me she saw a girl fall on the broken pavement this week - quite near to here - she landed on some sharp concrete and gashed her leg and had go to hospital for stitches.Fortunately, the guest was another international nurse advisor passing through from Hong Kong so she was able to help a bit just as the poor girl feinted! So it's not just me and it could have been worse - so why you may ask don't they repair the roads and pavements???!!! Now there's an idea!! Any volunteers?So those who bet on it being both a break and ligaments are sort of right because it's a break that we treat like ligaments! Life used to be so simple!!!