Graham Dawson
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Graham Dawson
@Grahamdawson13
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Katılım Mart 2009
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spoke to soon
Pain too bad and collapsed
3x last night
back to Cleveland it is 😔
James Noake@DrJN_SportsMed
So - finally wheelchaired out of hospital Only so many times you can watch Ace Ventura Nice to get back home and get on with life Thanks to everyone for their support - it’s been overwhelming & quite an eye opener Just 6 weeks of daily PICC line antibiotics then i’m good to go
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@1988ryanbrown @RichKettle07 Especially if you’re on a run bonus in the t n cs 😉
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@DrJN_SportsMed Great summary of some very real issues that patients have James.
Wishing you all the best for a full recovery
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Felt i had to post & update here
I could only handle 6 days of savage radicular leg pain - mostly at night
And foot drop (this bothered me less tbh)
God knows how pts deal with this for weeks / months (should they have to deal with it?)
I’m incredibly lucky that I have a support group around me - friends
& clinicians - and ease of access
to timely care - enormous thank you to Mr David Cummings at the Cleveland Clinic
Some suggested to me to ‘wait it out’ - maybe i’m not strong enough, but there was no way i could hold out - it was killing me physically & emotionally
Discectomy at 4pm yesterday - massive sequestered fragment stuck in canal & recess squishing L4 & L5 roots (so a bit of quad involved took as well as tib anterior)
I’m now pain free, slept in any position i cared to and foot drop already improving) - at home now doing Zooms & boring people on SoMe again
Lessons -
In some radicular presentations early surgery is the right decision
How big a disservice / how much harm are we doing to NHS patients with delayed access to ortho services - when the ‘ship has sailed’?
Radicular pain can be just as much extension related as flexion (the latter relieving for me)
The only analgesia that gave me decent relief was old school diclofenac
Neural flossing ain’t going to cut it - and really f*+king hurts
MRIs are not evil


James Noake@DrJN_SportsMed
Consent ✅ Some things are sent to test us 😕 You build momentum, then the obstacles appear It feels so unjust - I don't feel I deserve this - but we go on It's how you deal with it that defines you as a person & your character #meanstoanend
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“do you want the bad news - or the really bad news?”
I actually found this statement quite refreshing from my consultant Ophthamologist - no beating around the bush 🤣
“I’ll go with the really bad news please”
Retinal detachment - your clinic isn’t happening this week, or for a few weeks - surgery tonight
FFS
We will come to the bad news when this is sorted - apparently Central
Serous Retinopathy 🤣🤣
Never had a course of corticosteroids in my life

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It’s Kevin Pressman’s birthday today. You remember him.
You know where can stick your bastard Panenkas…
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