Well, is it still a cast update if I don’t actually have a cast on at present? Details, details… I am currently cast-less; admittedly 3 weeks earlier than usual, but without-cast all the same. Yesterday while watching a film with Mum, we noticed marks/stains around my right knee on the cast. I’d been feeling more [...]
Photo owned by Daquella manera (cc) I’ve been given a wheelchair for the period I’m in a cast for maneuvering through the school, which even I must admit makes some sense. There are 1,200 students at my school and the corridors at lunch breaks are quite hectic – I don’t know how anyone manages, actually. [...]
6am starts have never been, are not and never will be welcomed in TommyLand. If I could pay money to never have to be woken early, I would. I was awake that early because I was due in Cappagh Hospital at 9am for surgery. The car journey up passed in a haze of trying to [...]
Since Saturday night last, I’ve been dealing with very bad knee pain — the worst in several years of pain. We had a meeting with the physio and a surgeon on Wednesday morning who told us that since we’d exhausted other methods of relief (painkillers, ice, electronic stimulation), we should try cortisone injections into the [...]
Recently, I’ve noticed that my old cane (picture) had been getting a wee bit small for me — to be expected; I’m in that age of rapid growth and the cane was fitted for me in June 2009. So I went ahead and ordered a new cane from my cane website earlier this week. Thus [...]
If you could get all your Simon Cowell facelift jokes out of your system right around now, it’d be just great, thanks :) Botox is also a muscle relaxant, which means that a rigorous stretching system of the muscles involved could yield greater motion in said muscles, which is why I got it. We left [...]
Woo, Bewleys’ hotels finally have actual working wifi in their hotel rooms. This is a big step forward. I wrote my emergency, last-minute debate speech during the car journey up. It was rather excellent actually. All my thoughts flowed coherently and I’ve discovered the awesomeness of WriteRoom, after I managed to get a free copy [...]
I’m afraid I’m becoming hypocritical. Everyone (especially after the Times) now knows my cane has a name, Aislinn. That’s fine. It’s a very pretty name and if naming it makes me feel better about having to use it then that’s what I shall do. I did it with my old walking sticks, when I used [...]
Just out of a meeting with the doctor who operated on me in 2004, and also the doctor who would have operated on in 2010. Best possible news: what’s causing my knee pain isn’t going to be able to stick around after I’m fully grown. Quite relieved it’s not longterm :D
Firstly, okay guys, the House jokes were funny at the start, but c’mon, give them a rest, will ya? Last night I had between 3.5 and 4.5 hours sleep. Knee pain, which is chronic at this stage, was worst it’d been in a long time, so sleep just wouldn’t come. I finally drifted off some [...]