Yes I know - I've been really crap with this blog lately. Let me start with Day 16 - Sunday. I walked dog by the river - approximately 4 miles at a fast pace on even terrain. That's the extent of my 'training' since Sunday. Feeble effort by me. I then had some lovely friends come from Cardiff early evening to help me and some other lovely friends from Swansea celebrate my 27th birthday. (Ahem). We drank wine, Bud and tequila (well I did anyway) we had a lovely burger at Eddie Rockets - coz there ain't no finer diner and we danced the night away. That was all good. We all then piled back to my house where I 'fell over' in my kitchen and ended up with a big gash in my right elbow. Ouch. My house ended up covered in blood as did my guests but I was double hard and only cried a little bit!
Day 17 I asked my lovely neighbour to take me to Boots to buy plasters and antiseptic stuff. I was, at this point, unable to bend my arm and my elbow had a big lump on it and my right hand was puffy. Needless to say it was extremely painful. Around tea time I realised I needed something more than a plaster as I was still bleeding everywhere so I rang my other lovely friend who lives by the stadium and asked him if he could pop to boots for me and pick up some butterfly stitches. He did and came over and stitched me up. He's a star. I was unable to move freely by this point and was finding myself in a whole new world of hurt so I went to bed. I didn't sleep a wink which brings me on to today, day 18. I woke up and my entire right arm was swollen, my fingers were like chipolatas and the pain in my elbow was such that I thought - hospital.
The thought of having a nurse get in there with swabs and antiseptic was the only thing that stopped me from going yesterday but I figured it had to be done.
The doctor took a look at it and commented on the fact that she could see bone. Nice. She also commented on the fact that it was infected which was causing the swelling in my arm. She cleaned it without any anesthetic and my GOD she got stuck in there! I really thought she'd have to peel me off the ceiling by the time she was done! She left the wound open (yak) and put an iodine dressing on it and prescribed me a course of strong antibiotics and have to go back on Thursday for a check up and possibly stitches. Messy.
I did take dog out for a walk this evening though. We had an hour down the beach and walked probably about 2 miles. She wasn't happy with me though because my throwing arm was lame and had to throw her ball left handed... generally landing about 6 foot away from me. Rubbish.
I've eaten quite well though but I guess that's all been cancelled out by the copious amounts of alcohol consumed. I really am quite crap.
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