Welcome back Treefrog

I dont know who treefrog is but hope hes feeling better as by the sounds of it must have been quite ill or injured.


All the best treefrog hope you keep well
 
cleanbluesky said:
I'm glad you let him surf in peace...
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Aw, shut up moaning mate! Treefrog has no issues with people giving him a welcome back!

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Welcome back Treefrog, or should it now be "Flash" ? :p ;) :D

Great to see you tonight Jim, both in person and back here my friend. :)
 
G'day mate!
And everyone else.

Thanks for your thoughts, it's nice to be back. [geek]Lack of internet connection in the hospital was one thing I really did miss.[/geek] My mate suggested bringing a laptop and a mobile, but it wouldn't have been fair on him 'cos I'd have spent all the time he was there online!
Although I watched more TV while I was in there than in the previous 8 years or so, I still didn't watch a single episode of a soap or of Big Brother - I wasn't that bored/desperate! It was more fun to chat to the nurses and have a laugh with them. Like when the night staff came round and wished us goodnight I'd reply with "Night night - sleep well" :D
Or when they put me in a double room, wheeled in my room-mate and said "This is Jim, don't worry about the last four people who shared a room with him, they were all accidental deaths."

And then there's little blonde Sarah ... but we won't go there.
Unfortunately, that's what she said too. :(
 
cleanbluesky said:
So what's the lasting damage and what strange and curious sequence of events lead up to the unfortunate accident?
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Lasting damage is staying covered up from the sun, both on the grafts and the donor sites - which means pretty much everywhere. Due to the scar tissue trying to contract I have to do stretching exercises everyday for the next two years or so, although it eases off after ~6 months. My nipples have fallen off, but as I'm not planning on breastfeeding that's not much of an issue :D

All I remember of that evening is being in the woods while it was going dark; then being on the ground in pain while it was fully dark and realising that something was seriously wrong - I then stumbled towards the streetlights and flagged down an ambulance or police car (blue lights and it wasn't a fire engine).
The next thing I remember is waking up in the burns unit in Selly Oak about two weeks later.

As they were using a silver based type of dressing to see how effective silver is in speeding the healing process, they took photos of my wounds from while I was in surgery at the beginning through till when I was discharged. And they kindly gave me a copy of most of them on my USB memory stick. As all I'd seen while I was there was fairly healed wounds (the rest being covered by dressings) I had no idea of just how horrific some of them looked when I was brought in.

Estimates of how long I was likely to be in varies from 3+ months to between 6 months and 3 years. I was discharged after nine and a half weeks! It would have been a week/10 days earlier but they were waiting for Social Services to pull their finger out. I eventually convinced them that I could function well enough in my own home that Social Services interference wasn't needed. I can wash up, cook, clean, bath AND wipe my own arse unaided! :D Digging over the garden and shifting large chunks of sandstone will have to wait a while though.
 
Welcome back mate.

Glad to see you back online and healing well.

Sorry for being a bit slow on this, but what exactly did happen to you? I know you were electrocuted, but how did it all happen? :confused:
 
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