[spikematthews]

Mike not heard from you for a long Time. how is Warwick getting on??. Will we see you both at a meet this summer. ??

[trebor1959]

spikematthews, on 08 February 2010 - 07:05 PM, said:

Mike not heard from you for a long Time. how is Warwick getting on??. Will we see you both at a meet this summer. ??

yes can we have an progress report please

[mike (Walsall)]

Thanks for still thinking about us ...We are still pretty much housebound...

Warwicks is here ... sitting back on an electric relining chair doing a puzzle book ...!!!

I promised Warwicks (late) mum I would take care of him ... If I had'nt I could have left him wrapped in a blue blanket on the Vicars doorstep...!!

He was back in Hospital all over Christmas and the new year ... his legs had swelled up like tree trunks with Celulitis ... a Bacterial infection under the skin ... but thank fully not a return of the origional Necrotising Fasitis (the flesh eating bug) that zapped him the 2009 spring bank holiday TEOC Earls Barton weekend ...

They only let him out when they did because they had to close the Hospital down because of some kind of infection on the wards...

So I have to bath his legs with Potassium permanganate and rub some 50/50 'Vasaline' stuff on ...

The district nurse still comes in every other day to dress his origional wounds which are coming along nicley ...(although when he was admitted in Hospital December they found pockets of MRS bugs 'lurking' in there) ...


I took him to hospital last Friday to see the plastic surgeon ... trouble was I was exactley one month to early ... the appoinment was not untill March ..!!

The Physio sevices have been brilliant and very supportive ...coming in every week to help get him motivated ... arranged for for various 'aids' for him .(includeing the custom made lecky 'Parker Knoll' recling chair) and have aranged for a Hanna stair lift and the upstairs bathroom to be converted into a full blown pukka 'wet room' ... to be fitted within the next six weeks...

Maybe a bit to soon to think of him 'roughing it' on a camp site but who knows .......

I took some loans out against our house that only have to paid back if I die ...or the house is sold off within the next ten years ...!!!

So we have had new central heating with ten radiators and a Combi boiler ... cavity wall / loft insulation...the house re-wired ... and the downstairs windows double glazed to match the upstairs I fitted myself a few years ago ... and a new flat pack solid oak fitted kitchen (which I have had to pay for and fit)..!!!

At the end of the day it's all about quality of life ....

[mr mince]

Thanks for the update, been wondering how he's been doing recently.

John

[Vanmanone]

Must be hard,My hat go`s off to the both of you Mike,I will never complain again reckon you'll be looking forward to the Summer,regards Davy&family

[spikematthews]

Vanmanone, on 09 February 2010 - 01:35 AM, said:

Must be hard,My hat go`s off to the both of you Mike,I will never complain again reckon you'll be looking forward to the Summer,regards Davy&family

Thanks Mike, always thinking of you both. Hope to see you sometime this yr be i at a meet or we pop up to your neck of the woods mate

[trebor1959]

you are doing in brilliant better than this bit of stupid technology or would i be right in saying could be better used



http://www.telegraph...-commuters.html

[petehutt]

happy alls well & the best of luck. pete

[baranigirl]

hope the new chair and other bits make a difference, those chairs are amazing things eh!

[Townaceclive]

Tell Warwick we are thinking of him.

It's a slow road to recovery, but he is getting there.

Our thoughts are with you as ever.

Phil and clive

[mike (Walsall)]

baranigirl, on 10 February 2010 - 10:33 PM, said:

hope the new chair and other bits make a difference, those chairs are amazing things eh!

Warwicks had a lecky 'Parker Knoll' chair for some time ... For the first six months his life revolved around it..!!

With his limited mobility ...he was finding it difficultgetting up the stairs and not being able to get in / out / comfortable in bed..

I took the house deeds to the Town Hall (Civic Center) just before Christmas to secure a loan against our house ...

Good thing is ...it's only if I die or sell the the house within ten years do I have to pay it back ...

Yesterday the Occupational therapists (OP) bought the finalised plans for the stair lift and the wetroom conversion ...

If all goes well the conversions should be done in the next four to six weeks...

Warwick spends time on the computer and reads through the posts and is always pleased when he gets a mention ..

[TLC]

I'm glad he is getting better.
Well done on the loan and getting the place sorted out to make it easier for him, and you :)
Hope to see you again soon and have a chat

*hugs*
Pet