July 14 201 - Stump trouble, and a visit to Maddie

I am in George visiting Maddie for about 10 days.

Last week I was supposed to go for an Oncologist visit. She called me the morning before, and said that she was cancelling my appointment, and could I come on the 29th of August. That was on the 5th of July.  I can't believe the next available date was 7 weeks later. So...I did not make an appointment. That will teach her. If I die before then, that would show her. I can't be made to wait 7 weeks. I'll just die, so there! I have a feeling that it wouldn't bother her at all if i died before the next available appointment date.

On Tuesday I spent many hours at the prosthetic place. Bradley was busy, so I was attended to by a cute Serbian lady. She did everything right, and had a new socket that was hopefully going to allow me to be able to walk, while the torn muscle in my stump has time to heal.
This socket also was not using a silicone liner, but had direct contact between the socket, and my skin on the stump. We got the socket on, but the skin was stuck to the socket. e couldn't get the socket off. it would not slide on the skin.
This socket was able to take the full weight of walking. I was pleased with how the alignment of the leg made it very easy to walk.
We finally got the socket off after 20 minutes of pouring soap down inside the socket to release the skin to socket grip. We then washed out the socket.
She went to correct a small place that was hurting me, and returned. We again put on the socket. It felt good, and would take my full weight without any pain. She asked me to go to the parallel bars to re check the alignment. I used the crutches just in case of a problem, and when I went to swing my leg forward on the second step, I got a sharp stabbing pain in the stump. I collapsed and fell, But the Serbian lady caught me. It hurt so bad I had tears.
It hurt exactly where it hurt a month earlier, when I initially hurt the stump. About at the end of the femur, where it comes into contact with the folded over muscles from the amputation.

We all agreed that I should just go visit Maddie, and be totally in the wheel chair for a few weeks, and try to let the wound heal.

I drove down yesterday from Pretoria To George. About 1300km (800 miles) I stopped a few times to nap, and the whole drive took me 19 hours.
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July 16
I am a terrible blogger.
Very little happening in George. The licence plates on the cars registered here all start with CAW---. That stands for "Cold And Wet"....How very true.

All we do is sit around staying warm, and watching TV...It is great :-)
My stump is getting better, but it really must have took some strain, as it still is painful.
later
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