The latest news....

As some of you might have heard I've had an interesting couple of days and I thought it was about time I wrote a blog post to tell you all about it, and hopefully explain why this might be my last entry for a few weeks.

As I was walking home from church on Thursday I slipped on some snow and threw out my left arm to keep my balance- it worked and i didn't fall, but it also hurt- a lot. I got a huge amount of pain shooting through the top half of my arm and had to sit on a nearby wall for 5 minutes to gather myself. Next I phoned Pete, our minister, who I had just been in a meeting with, and he came to get me with the intention of going to A&E. Turned out though that i couldn't bend my arm enough to get into the car, so we called an ambulance. At that point i was thinking that my dodgy elbow had finally given up entirely, but had no way of knowing.

When that arrived i was given huge amounts of morphine and then taken to Morriston. After a bit of sitting around Cat arrived and I had some x-rays and got put in a half-cast- before being put on a trolley and taken to the Surgical Decision Making Unit where I ended up staying the next couple of days. It turns out I had basically snapped my humorous bone in half near the bottom end.The X-Rays revealed I had a cyst in said bone which makes it very weak and explains why such an innocous action led to such an extreme reaction.

At ths point the consultant told me the 3 options i faced to get my arm fixed. The first, and best case scenario was to scrape out the cyst and then do a bone graft from my hip into the hole and then it should just heal in a cast. The next option would be to put a plate over the cyst and pin the bone back together, and the last option was to send me to a specialist in Birmingham and leave to them.

However for any of this to happen they needed to find out more about the cyst, and that required an MRI scan. Annoyingly the machine was so busy, that after a day and a half of waiting they sent me home, and requested I come back on Monday to the fracture clinic.

So right now I am sat at home, drugged up to eyeballs, hoping that tomorrow I get my scan and we can start making some progress. I'll try to keep updating on here when I can, but in the mean time thanks to everyone who has sent messages of support, visited me, been praying and all the rest-I really do appreciate it!