Sorry for my lack of blogging but there's been a lot going on! Anyway, new updated! I have a screw loose..(insert joke here)..I have a screw in my back that has come loose. The very last screw at the bottom of my back has come away & is now poking out if my skin (minging I know).. So I noticed this happening pretty much straight away, one night I was in my nana's bathroom putting moisturiser on my legs & I felt this twinge in my back on the left side where I would imagine my kidneys to be. I came downstairs to tell my nana as I could now feel a round lump under my skin, she couldn't feel anything nor could my uncle mark or my mum, but you know you're own body & you know when something doesn't feel right. At the time that all my crazy heart stuff was going on (previous post) I told every doctor that I saw, maybe 6 or more & they all told me there was nothing to worry about that I could feel it purely because I was very skinny. Well, HA! They were wrong. I met with Mr. H, my consultant here in Belfast in December. He did two X-rays, one from the front & one from the side. He had a look at them at said they looked good & that everything was healing well. I told him about the lump I could feel, he went & had a second look at the anterior X-Ray, low & behold there it was, my loose screw! I wasn't going crazy, I wasn't too skinny, I was right! So he said first of all that I needed it fixed, sent me for an MRI to see if there was any damage to the bone (suggesting movement) or if it had always been like that since I first had the surgery. The MRI showed no movement so then Mr. H (who is a bit of an arse tbh) decided I didn't need the surgery & that I'd have to wait to see my London consultants in mid January. At the end of January after many threatening phone calls we finally got an appointment with Mr. L (a surgeon from RNOH), he took one look at my X-ray said yes that isn't right let's fix it for you, no questions, no fighting, just plain & simple it needs fixed! So that takes us to now, I am off to London tomorrow & am being admitted to RNOH at 7am on Tuesday morning short 20 minute procedure, few days stay & home again, hopefully this will FINALLY be the end of my surgeries, for this year at least!!
LJ xo
