charlie4dancin Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Lovely to hear hope your recovery continues and you have a healthy happy holiday Cx 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 So the journey back was a bit of a disaster. They left her on the train for half an hour at Euston. I was waiting at the taxi rank as they wouldn't let me go on the buggy. We were keeping in contact and she had been told they knew she was there and they would come back for her. In the end I went down to the platform myself and collared a member of the Virgin staff. I'm ashamed to say I used words I'm not supposed to know. I was worried she would end up going back to Glasgow. Fortunately a member of the cleaning staff had got her off the train. They had to find another buggy and it took ages. This is now 45 minutes after her train arrived. Consequently we missed our connection at Victoria and missed the buggy there. They did find us another buggy and we caught a later train. I shall be lodging a complaint for dd being left on a train, but I will be complementing the gentleman from Virgin who shot off down to find her. I had wondered if I was making a lot of fuss having arranged the assistance, but having walked to the last but one coach and being told that the Virgin trains are 1/3 mile long I am glad I booked it and will be booking it back. Just hoping it all goes right next time. She has only one crutch and is getting around quite well. My mother had a similar bad experience.Was going to visit her sister who lives in Cormwall.My mum was very frail,and only weighed six stones.I put her bag on the train at Stockport and mum`s sister had telephoned and arranged for mum`s bag to be lifted off the train and carried for her on to the connecting train.[Can`t remember where the connecting train was now;my aunt and uncle live in St.Austell].Anyway, there was no-one there to help my mum with her bag and my mum got all panicky about it. When my Aunty Rita found out she was furious. She sent a very strongly worded letter of complaint,for which she received a letter of apology [as did my mum].Plus the two of them both received a £25 discount voucher to be used on any train journey they wished. It was all very nice of them and everything,but it should never have happened in the first place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Lovely to hear hope your recovery continues and you have a healthy happy holiday Cx LOVE your quotation Charlie.!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 It is lovely to see your news, dear Anjuli. I hope you recover apace and that you can indeed do a some gentle work in your beloved garden. They do need love. Mine looks very forlorn as I have had no time since September. It is V's to love now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 What good news Anjuli glad to see your are progressing well Could the person who looks after your garden make you some raised beds or a raised planter? We have over here wooden planters that look like overgrown mangers and are almost waist height. You can apparently plant quite a bit in them. I'm not much of a gardener but I would be very upset if I couldn't touch or deadhead. Hope your progress continues at this nice pace. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 thank you very much, Porthesia......I'll have to give the planter idea some thought. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 It's amazing what you can grow in pots as well. We do have a lot of plants.... and trees...in pots....including a lebanese cedar!.......and flowers/bulbs as well in the summer. This is because the garden rises uphill behind the house and so is sort of tiered and paved so only the very top bit has soil and is the garden bit. So we have lots of pots on the paved bits growing all sorts of things including herbs. Bulbs are great once the pot has been planted up......so there is a spring display of daffodils followed by day lillies a bit later on etc and they seem to come back every year.....or so far at any rate. So not too high maintenance. A few of the pots are quite big so once they are in place you don't have to do too much bending. In fact we've probably over done it with all the pots a bit. One of our Australian friends visiting last summer said (wish I could write in a Sydney accent) "you guys starting up some kind of garden centre here then" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thecatsmother Posted December 23, 2013 Author Share Posted December 23, 2013 So pleased to hear your news Anjuli. Let's hope next year brings continued progress. I had my first social outing this evening for some time. No walking plaster although it feels a bit strange having got used to it. A glass of champagne to celebrate as no pain for two days. The prospect of foot healing after 17 months is all I want for Christmas and new year. I could manage another glass of champagne though maybe???? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Good news from both of you, Anjuli and BT. I hope you both continue to progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 So pleased to hear your news Anjuli. Let's hope next year brings continued progress. I had my first social outing this evening for some time. No walking plaster although it feels a bit strange having got used to it. A glass of champagne to celebrate as no pain for two days. The prospect of foot healing after 17 months is all I want for Christmas and new year. I could manage another glass of champagne though maybe This is real progress! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Oh, for crying out loud.... Just picture the scene - it is Boxing Day and we are at the emergency out-of-hours GP surgery, certainly not somewhere we yearn to be at this time of year, but we thought it was reasonably urgent... DD has hurt her foot (not dancing, ironically), and it isn't getting better as quickly as it ought to be after a week's complete rest, ice, nurofen etc, and we have come to the conclusion that maybe she has actually damaged something that requires medical attention ASAP. After telephoning the helpline, they tell us to come down pronto as she might need an x-ray. So far, so good. We explain to the GP (not one of ours) that dd is a dancer and has a rather important engagement very soon, and we are worried that she might have done something that needs looking at urgently, because there isn't much in the way of improvement after a whole week of TLC. We mention several things that we think she might have done, ie: ligament damage / sesamoid / stress fracture and so on, and that we don't want her to do any further damage by dancing on what could potentially be something nastier than a bog-standard bruise. We also mention that she is well used to having sore feet but this is out-of-the-ordinary, and is giving us considerable cause for concern. He looks at the offending foot, and prods it a bit. He casually pronounces that in his opinion it is probably a bruise and that it will get better in its own good time so she merely needs to rest it, which might take as long as 6 weeks, bearing in mind that there are lots of bones, tendons and ligaments in the foot... (Really? Fancy that! Why do you think we are here, you pillock????) Does he ask her to stand on it? Wiggle her toes? Point to where it hurts? No. So... what else, I hear you ask, does he suggest? He says that dd seems to have quite a lot of hard skin on her feet and she really ought to remove it with a pumice stone which will make the skin nice and soft. Er... I have to remind him that she dances rather a lot, which is why the hard skin is there. Doh! At this point dd and I both realise that we are wasting our time, and he hasn't really been listening to a word we have been saying, so we give up in disgust and go home. AAARRRggghhhh!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 I'm sorry to hear that you received this attitude taxi. DD had a similar experience at her local hospital. Although cannot praise them enough for the care so far with the broken metatarsals. Can you get an appointment with a physio or podiatrist? DD's chiropodist/podiatrist would never touch the hard skin on her feet. She's seeing him this Monday so he can cut her nails and give her feet the once over. We're lucky as his sister was a dancer and he has a very good understanding of dancers and their feet. Hope there is some improvement soon. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Sympathies!! The problem is with holiday emergency type doctors it's always a bit hit and miss. You could have had a gem who would possibly even have pushed the boat out more than own GP or as happened with you a rather non seeing average Doc. We have experienced this range with emergencies for my partner on our travels with his prostate problem which is now fully sorted since his op thank goodness. But the lack of weekend/ main holiday expertise that the NHS are about to address hasn't really got going yet. And it's also amazing how often real emergencies needing doctor/dentist trips do manage to coincide with main holidays or weekends! Hope it's sorted soon for your DD anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 We're seeing someone privately early next week, and hopefully things will be a fair bit better by then anyway. What really got to me was that he paid no attention whatsoever when I tried to explain about her dancing and the level she's training at - I suspect he thinks it's a hobby and she prances about in a pink frilly tutu for half-an-hour once a week... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon2 Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 So pleased you have managed to secure an appointment so promptly at this time of year. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery for your dd. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Quick update on DD. Boot came off on 8 January and had first physio today which seemed to go very well. Fingers crossed, touching wood. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Great news Porthesia was wondering how she was getting on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thecatsmother Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 Has any dancer or dance teacher had experience of complex regional pain syndrome and did it go into remission? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieW Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Porthesia - what did they think was wrong in the end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 She'd broken the 4th and 5th metatarsals in her left foot. She had her second physio treatment yesterday, waiting to hear how that went. Their first show was last night so I expect she's feeling a bit miserable as everyone will be on a high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janice Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 DD home from school she has a medial ligament sprain ,so no dancing for a least two weeks . She is already fed up and to top it off she has Central audition in three weeks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Eek Janice and Ellen, my sympathies. Wishing her a speedy recovery. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legseleven Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Oh no, Janice and Ellen! Sending her speedy healing wishes x 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Oh no! Try to get ultrasound on it, it helped my then dd to heal faster, her dance teacher was convinced of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2dancersmum Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Wish her all the best from us and hope she heals fast. Good luck for Central. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janice Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thanks everyone. Have managed to get an appointment with a local physio on Thursday for some treatment. Fingers crossed for some improvement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Your poor dd! Keep us posted - everything crossed for a speedy recovery. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaris Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Thinking of your dd and really hoping her recovery is swift x 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janice Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Thanks S & P and Klaris. Dd had some massage and ultrasound yesterday and is feeling much better today, trouble is she itching to get back to dance and is trying to talk me into letting her go. Have told her she will have to wait until after her second treatment on Monday and see how it is then. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Hmm, dd has had 3 sessions with physio after the boot was taken off and has been discharged. Told she can start doing plies etc. Somewhat concerned as no x-ray was taken when the boot was taken off - or am I over-reacting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 They usually only x-ray about a month after plaster/boot whatever to check the bone is healing okay. If it is they don't usually x-ray again once the plaster comes off......well not unless you were in a lot of pain. Looks like she will soon be back to normal now then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Hi LinMM she's had one x-ray - when she broke the foot and not one since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Can you get your doctor to re-refer her for an x-ray to set your minds at rest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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