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Glad you arent dead

20kg to go.

Cheers sugar x

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Sounds like quite the experience!

I too had the misfortune of spending a 2 night break in hospital the year before last.  I had an emergency appendicectomy. It seems my poor appendix could not stand the boredom and tried to take its own life.

I had to shower on a chair akin to Daniel Craig's "Le Chiffre" torture scene..  Crotchless chairs for the win!

All power to your recovery my friend.

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Glad you're out and home.

You can't explain it to anyone unless they've actually been, it is borderline terrifying in my opinion.

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Sounds like a right nightmare, mate. Glad it's all gone OK op wise tho. Best of luck with the recovery.

Diet wise, hell, I wouldn't stress too much. Eat clean where you can but don't get too anal. Just try and ensure as much wholesome and nutritious food as poss, drink plenty and milk as much attention off the GF as you can.

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Sounds a bit **** mate. But good that the op went alright. Back to normal in no time. But milk the attention whilst you can ;) .

Everything going okay?

Hopefully just off enjoying your painkillers;

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hah! love the picture. And pretty spot on too. However i've only got a couple days worth of pills left now

Things are indeed 'ok'. I'm not wearing the sling today as I'm desperately trying to extend my arm out as far as possible. I'm having nightmares about it permamently being locked at a 90degree angle! I sincerely hope they didn't **** up and that i'll be able to fully extend my elbow in a couple days... it's feeling really tight at this moment in time!

*touchwood* I'll be ok to start lifting in a few weeks time. For 6weeks I'll be following the routine in this thread by TonyStarks (http://www.muscletalk.c...ost-Routine-m96584.aspx)

...but with a few minor adjustments which i'll outline when I actually get started!

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Sounds a bit **** mate. But good that the op went alright. Back to normal in no time. But milk the attention whilst you can ;) .

Cheers mate, unfortunately the girlfriend is working constantly at the moment so have barely seen her. My mum however has been cooking dinner for me everynight

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How you holding up champ?

20kg to go.

dont worry about diet too much mate, just get plenty of good food and calories in, a little fat gain is easy to diet off later on!

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Dave; as well as can be expected I guess. I've been told to expect some physio sessions afterwards. Problems with my grip will be a problem, I can't clench my fist yet.

Hey daz, thanks for stopping by. Yeah i've been trying not to stress too much about, especially after devouring 12 M&S simply food profiteroles last night. Going to put my expects into coming up with a decent diet/training plan for when I'm to full fitness.
Hope your coping alright with your arm too mate.

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Unwrapped the top layer of bandages earlier to have a sneak peak. I'd been trying to get my arm as mobile as possible and to try and 'stretch' the arm out.
It's been abit painful, pretty sore and very stiff to the point of me getting downhearted. I've yet to fully extend my elbow and it seems as though I'm miles away as there was an odd sensation, not pain, but something else, which was frustrating.

Upon said sneak peak, the hard patches underneath the bandages that I though was glue or something similiar, is actually a rather substantial amount of dried blood. It's quite disgusting actually, it looks as though my arm has scabbed and grown into the bandage
While this means it's going to be disgustingly painful when it comes to removing the stitches, the plus side is that this is the reason for the lack of mobility, no skin tightness/muscle issues as I feared. My arm is pretty much welded to the dressing, so when I extend my arm, it's trying to bring to the stitches and scabby bandages with it. As I said, pretty disgusting.

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Sounds nasty, in a gammy/yucky sort of way. Must be a weight off tho to know what was limiting your mobility. So that's week 1 over with, yeah?

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Heh, if you really want pics I'll get them up tomorrow

Well, 6days. One week tomorrow. Two weeks and dressings/stitches should come out. Then I'll give it 1 more week before attempting stretching/light weights. And then operation-get-buff-ripped-strong-fit-best-flanker begins!

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hopefully with a bit of a soak the bandages will come away without too much problem

could even be worth going back and asking them to clean it up a bit if its causing you discomfort, i got them to take my pot off other week because a dressing was digging in!

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Happy birthday mate, hope you're back in action asap!

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could even be worth going back and asking them to clean it up a bit if its causing you discomfort, i got them to take my pot off other week because a dressing was digging in!

Daz makes a good point to be honest. You shouldn't have to sit around in discomfort for two weeks just because that is how long till your follow up. You shouldn't necessarily need to go back to the hospital either your G.P. surgery should have a community nurse dealing with such things. I had to see one when i had an allergic reaction to the waterproof dressing on my appendix.

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Thanks guys. And yes DK, I am indeed 22 now

The hopsital itself is over an hours drive away and would no doubt also result in a 2hour+ wait as per.
I did ask whether or not I could have the dressings changed at my local GP (5mins away) and the nurse promptly replied "Nooooo".

For the sake of 5days I'll just keep I'll just wait. I actually faffed around with the dressings last night which has made it more comfortable. The only painful part now is the bit right on my elbow joint where the skin is at it's thinnest and theres the most amount of 'scabbing'.

Keep in mind that the bandages are upto an inch thick in places.




Notice the black-marker pen arrow... drawn just so they knew which arm to operate on

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That looks ****ing painful!!!

20kg to go.

oo-er I can't see the pic.... I missed the birthday part. Belated congrats. Altho knowing you are 15 years younger than me is a tad depressing TBH

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Hmm, must be your dodgey works computer mate!
If it's any consolation, I think Dave's only 14years younger than you mate

Right. Got home from the hospital yesterday. Stitches...are....OUT!

Appointment was only delayed 90mins this time, again with no explanation. Eventually went in to see a nurse who straight away started to defend herself about the miscommunication in my appointment or something. Even though I hadn't even opened my mouth by this point. Very bolshy and in your face type pain in the arse nurse. My vision of soaking my arm to ease away the dressing and scab was pretty short lived and the bitch pulled them all off. Then steri-strips came off. Then the dreaded tweezers came in to pick the scabs off, which drew blood. However was pretty happy with the results aesthetically, even though that wasn't what I was after initially.

Then it was time to remove the stitches. Stitches which were under the skin?!? I didn't even know they could do this. But I had 3 long stitches, all about 3" long that had to come out. As she pulled them out from under the scar it was like a burning sensation

First one came out fine. Second one she had to give it a good 'ol "yank" for it come out Third one was pretty painful.

So not a nice experience. The nurse didn't put my at ease whatsoever, and kept telling me how she had 20 years of experience and therefore knew more than the doctors in the hospital and everyone should listen to her

I've got to keep steri-strips on the scar but the next few days, and it's still bleeding in places, and I can't yet lock out my elbow. But when I got home my girlfriend noticed that there was about 2mm of a stitch still poking out. When the nurse had yanked the second one, she had obviously snapped it and never got in to dig the rest out. So I had to pull it out with my fingernails
Mrs "20 years of experience" had left over an inch of it still under my skin. In your face bitch.

Anyway, hope to be lifting again by next week

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*sigh
Why are nurses getting like this?
Very sad.


Glad you're through the worst now though mate.
So it's looking good then? I don't just mean aesthetically but functionally also. Are you pleased with the result and the fact that you are going to be a bit less disrupted than you thought?

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Hey mate. The nurses at my local GP are great. However as this a big hospital they probably deal with some right characters, and no doubt go in guns blazing so to speak to prevent any hassle. I won't be rushing to go back anytime soon.

Looks wise, it's a definate improvement, which is great as I wasn't really sure what to expect. It's pretty much flat now whereas because it was 'lumpy' and unsightly. Both my gf and flatmate are pretty shocked by the results, pretty impressed with what the surgeons done with so little skin.

Functionally, it's better now the dressings are off but a fair way off from 100%. Just need to keep at it and keep applying E45 cream and stretching my arm. Though I think I may attempt some squats end of this week

It's been just under 3weeks since my last weight session and I feel horrible, weights down, fat is up. However I predict only 1 more week before I'm sorted, really looking forward to getting back into shape. Extremely glad I didn't end up having a graft as I'd be out for twice as long with twice as much discomfort.

I'm going to sign up with the Aquatics centre in Manchester to do my cardio/perv. So hopefully I can get stuck into some sort of cardio regime too.

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Other than the frustrating experienace accompanied by the discomfort of the stitches been tugged I'm glad things have gone well for you, mate.

I'm sure once the arm crosses the next healing phase things will start to improve more dramatically but it sounds like things are progressing as well as you could expect, so all good.

While taking the time out is bound to do your head in, rest assured that as soon as you can get back to regular training and full intensity you'll get 90%+ back with 6-8 weeks I reckon.

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Cheers buddy. I've got a charity match I've put my name down for which is on the 8th May, so thats my target. Will have been 12months almost to the day since I would have last played!

Yeah I suppose I couldn't expect a quicker recovery really. However it has dawned on me just how bad 6-8weeks out with dressings on and more hospital appointments would have been!

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Glad you re doing well mate. 

20kg to go.

Your going forward. Good to hear its alright.

You'd be surprised once you start lifting again, how quickly body comp and strength comes back.

Thanks Dave & Fun meter, getting better every day now. Am able to <almost> lock out my elbow now with abit of pre-stretching. Squats tomorrow perhaps

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lol Heal up pal
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Just do what you can but do something!


The stiches under you skin will desolve. I've had a few in my head like that. Cement step vs head = loss for head :)

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Just organised an induction for Friday. So at least some cardio can commence then!

These stitches weren't dissolvable unfortunately, due to the nature of the op. Headbutting a step sounds painful, I hope it didn't affect your looks too much?

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These stitches weren't dissolvable unfortunately, due to the nature of the op. Headbutting a step sounds painful, I hope it didn't affect your looks too much?

lol What looks! I was only 10 but I lived.
 
My head must have toughened up as I aged because in my early 20's I fell head first down a flight of concrete steps and did nothing but take a few layers of skin of the side of my face lol I am guessing the booze formed some protective crainal layer :)

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Heh, Make a habit of falling over then do you? And there was me thinking all these powerlifter types were a professional bunch

Just tried benching with an empty bar. And then with 10kg each side on. Whole arm was shaking under the weight. Baby steps I think...

Also just to add, walked into town today as my iphone had been playing up. I've only had the thing for 2months and never opted for any insurance/cover. I had reserved an appointment with the 'genius bar' in the Apple shop. Great customer service, all the staff were pretty helpful and very knowledgable. In and out in 10mins with a brand new iphone, no hassle whatsoever.

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You are back well ahead of schedule so no need to rush it.
Get plenty of nice light reps under your belt for the first couple of weeks would be my advice.

Just checked the first few pages of my journal and I went from practically nothing on the bench to 100kg in 6 weeks after surgery, so no need to go too fast and risk a setback/injury.


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Just tried benching with an empty bar. And then with 10kg each side on. Whole arm was shaking under the weight

Dont worry mate, that quite often happens when you build up to a weight close to your 1RM 

20kg to go.

Do not fear matey, I definately won't be pushing myself too much. For the next 10days or so it'll be a case of stretching and getting flexibility back into my skin/muscle and joints. Then as from the 22nd Feb for a period of approximately 6-7weeks all training will be light(er) hypertrophy based as I aim to put some size on. Then the I'll jump back down to 5x5 or a similiar strength based routien, which'll take me up to my first match.

At that point I'll take it from there to see which is the best approach to get in good shape for pre-season.

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Dont worry mate, that quite often happens when you build up to a weight close to your 1RM 

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Good to hear it progressing well, tread lightly and all will be well. But sounds like things are certainly looking up.

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He's back! 40minute session. And I suffered. Not so much strength, but more in the way of aerobic capacity. Got out of breath rather quickly and saw stars on a few occasions.

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Squat
20 x 10
50 x 10
70 x 10
85 x 10
90 x 10

Front Squat
40 x 10
40 x 10

Goodmorning
40 x 10
40 x 10

And a few BW situps.

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Must have felt good, should get some nice doms tomorrow too considering the lay off.

No problems then?

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