Anyone Seen itsbruce

^Has he not been through enough already? There is no end to your cruelty

Great to hear from you Bruce! Heal up quick.

Ooof multiple staples in the head, sounds like a ram raid on Rymans. Sorry to hear of your spill Bruce and glad you're on the mend and hope you're back on two wheels ASAP.

I'll happily take any get well Tunnocks off your hands if their presence offends you.

He lives I tell ya! He LIVES!!!!

Someone send that man a shipment of whiskey and crack cocaine to aid in his recovery stat.

It's amazing how many bones Bruce broke when he fell off that bridge- unbelievable, almost.

Didn't lynchman also work in IT?

So does Velocio...

Bruce, hope your recovery is quick and comprehensive!

This sucks Bruce. Get well soon!

Just read the middle of the this thread.. as opposed to the (move along nothing to see here beginning) and the end (lets make light of serious head injury)

Get Well soon.
Hope the scar is impressive.
AED's are not fun but probably worth taking.

Eeeesh - hope the recovery is speedy.

Bruce if you need anything brought to you, at hospital or fingers crossed at home, just ask.

i echo your thoughts Si.

We are here for you if you need anything.

The services at Kings College Hospital are variable and often unreliable. On the one hand, I'm grateful to the surgeons who cut open my skull and drained blood to reduce pressure on my brain. On the other hand, they stitched my head back together quite oddly, with multiple scar tracks covered with metal staples (some of which also bound with tissues held in place by the staples).

I was kept in the ICU department for several days, where the nurses were completely unreliable and poor communicators; they put huge mittens over my hands and would not explain why. When I said I wanted the mittens off, they seemed to believe that I was going to start a fight and couldn't be trusted without the mittens on. Insane.

Things improved some when I was moved up to a middle ward, but while if I worked hard at communication, I could have a reasonable conversation with a doctor about once a day, but the nurses would follow constant procedures which didn't satisfy the path the doctors talked about. I got zero sleep for 6 days because the nurses insisted on checking my blood pressure, heart rate, blood and urine standards every 2 bloody hours; they seemed incapable of reasoning that denying me sleep meant that my blood pressure got worse over time. Even though the surgery improved my perception and reactions (as did my determination to try and impress them and talk the way they understood), they kept making life difficult and depressing. Also, because the nurses refused for a long time to remove any of the staples, it was even more difficult for me to sleep because even slight pressure on my head pushed the staples into my skull. Fucksticks.

Eventually I managed to have a conversation with a smart doctor who explained what simple things still needed to be done, and who said I could be checked out within two days. However, the nurses refused to cooperate; it took two days just to persuade one of them to remove most of the staples. So after that I just left the hospital and took my stuff home, checked myself out and went to see my GP. As a result, I'll have the remaining issues sorted out by the weekend and am getting rest and recuparation.

If I ever have a serious injury again, don't want to go anywhere near that obtuse and destructive team.

Was great to see you last night Bruce, I know what you mean about the hospital, in order to heal you need rest and nutrition and it can seem set up to deny you those things explicitly. Let us know if you need anything.

Great to see you posting Bruce.

For what its worth a close family member of mine spent a month in Kings with a serious brain condition last year and he/we found it to be the same. In the end they decided that as he was't improving they wanted to diagnose him with something else and send him off to another hospital as he was starting to get expensive to them. Unbelievable.

Luckily, the hospital that took him in for the next two months reversed all of Kings diagnoses and were fantastic.

That's inneresting Stonehedge....what do you and your' GP think itsbruce? Maybe another hossie to sort out that infection and the fluid on the lungs? Stonehedge which hossie did your close family friend get helped by?

Ive sent you a PM.

Glad you're up and about Bruce! What a thread...

STH fo' lyfe.

Good to see you posting again Bruce. Getting home is always a great step in getting back to normal. Keep healing up.

welcome back dude

Fast recovery, Bruce! Hope you find the right balance between resting and getting back into normal life.

the nurses would follow constant procedures which didn't satisfy the path the doctors talked about. I got zero sleep for 6 days because the nurses insisted on checking my blood pressure, heart rate, blood and urine standards every 2 bloody hours; they seemed incapable of reasoning that denying me sleep meant that my blood pressure got worse over time.

Exactly the same at St.Georges - wake you up, interrupt you talking on the phone, interrupt your meals, wake you up having only just dropped off to sleep. I understand why they have to do it but ffs - I had 7 weeks in there last year and must have had at most 4 or 5 days worth of sleep in the end.
I'm only just starting to get back in to sort semblance of a decent sleeping pattern now, 9 months on!

Heal up dude. You'll be back on the bike soon.