The Mini Moss Project

At last, I’m free to go home, after nine days in hospital. Just as well, I feel like a pin-cushion, and the heating and hot water at home have packed up!
Another week of antibiotics and I can finally celebrate New Year [...]

I can’t hold it much longer!
Apparently it’s not actually green, it’s orange plasma, trapped beneath a purple blister.
I did some walking tonight. To the toilet and back. My toes still don’t reach the ground, so there’s still some swelling, but I’ve only got 9 more batches of antibiotics, and one more canula, to go then I’m [...]

Something’s happening to my leg. I think a new landmass is developing. A bit like in Superman Returns.
Apart from that, it’s beginning to get a little better, although I still can’t walk. My consultant told me I need to stay in until Sunday, which means I’ll have been in for eight days. By Sunday I should [...]

My attractive leg has stabilised a little now, and has even started to get better – not that you’d say so if you saw it.
Because people are back at work today, I was able to make some phone calls and get a bed at the London Bridge Hospital. Which is a hospital near our house in [...]

Day three
Well I’m still in Margate hospital, and my leg is still on the gammy side, so I’m starting to get rather bored now.
The man in the bed next to mine managed to not shout Bert every thirty seconds all night, and also retained his dignity throughout, which was a big improvement on the first night.
Currently [...]

Happy New Year everyone. I’m writing this on my iPhone, from my bed at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother hospital in Margate, where I’m beginning to go a little mad, and I haven’t been here 24 hours yet!
I’ve got a cellulitis attack in my leg, which buggered New Year right up. Pip thinks it was probably [...]