Hardware Removal Surgery Scheduled

So on 25th April, the specialist decided that the pins need to come out! He thinks that I've progressed "better than I thought you would" and that it was time to give me some help by removing the hardware. The Xray didn't show any significant shifting, but on comparison to earlier ones, the whole arrangement of pins and wires does appear to have moved downwards. It makes sense. All of the places where I feel to pokes and twinges have areas of spikes, knots or wire loops under the skin somewhere.

Bye Bye Pins, you did your job but now its time to get the hell out of my leg!

I realise that if they're not removed I'm just not going to progress any further as the anticipation of when the next stab is going to strike is just too restrictive during physio therapy sessions. He said he would mark my surgery request as urgent, but it could take up to 3 months! So I resigned to just "getting on with it" and doing what I can in the meantime. Until last Friday .....

I got the call to tell me my surgery had been scheduled for 16th May, to be fair to the hospital, just over 3 weeks after the request, now that is pretty good going for the NHS! I went in to sign permission forms on Monday and am due for a pre-op assessment tomorrow.

So instead of starting back to work full time next week, I'm preparing to be inactive again, for a couple of weeks at least. Oh well, one step forward and all that jazz ......