Afternoon all 🙂
Today, stoned on Oramorph, MST and Diazepam, I have been jotting ideas down all over the place. Whether I can read what I wrote when I've weened off the pain killers is yet to be seen. I've suffered really annoying and somewhat excruciating phantom pain since I lost my leg in 2007 and like most amputees, nothing really helps it. No amount of prescribed medications have ever come close to easing the pain but morphine takes the edge off it. Today's 'non foot' feels dead, like I've been sitting on it for hours. Then there are those beautiful 'Freddy Kruegar' stabs into the bottom of my foot that make me shriek out, Tammy jumps out of her chair, the dogs bark and so the cycle continues. Today I've formulated a questionnaire to get some other amputees input in a bid to give you readers as broad an idea as possible on what an amputees life is like. No, we don't just hop onto our prosthetic and go skipping down the beach in our flip flops. Speaking of which, I only own a flop....my flip sits redundant under a kids dirty bucket and spade.
For the people amongst you that can take some gory facts and images, I have located links for you. The watch list so far sits at:- Above knee amputation surgery
Below knee amputation surgery
Arm amputation
Osseointergation
My, what a lucky bunch you are 😂😂😂😂
If anyone has ideas on any other links they think may be helpful, feel free to drop me message ✌🏻️
Karen
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