*** birthday

Today is my 46th birthday.

It's also the day I went for a new x-ray on my femur, followed by a
chat with the consultant. The x-ray looks exactly the same as 6 weeks
ago i.e. there's still a 20~30mm gap between the bits of bone. So, I'm
going to be having another operation, involving removing the nail,
putting a reamer down the middle of the femur, taking a bone graft
from my hip, cutting my thing open and applying the graft, and
re-fitting a new nail. This should be some time in the next three
weeks.

As you can imagine, this isn't the best news I've ever had. Apparently
the operation has around an 80% success rate, which is not as high as
I'd like; if it doesn't work, we're onto external fixators, so let's
hope I get lucky this time.

Having been almost continually postive about this whole process, I'm
going to allow myself a day of sulking. It's my birthday, and I'll
sulk if I want to.

--
Champ

Two standard issue crutches
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