Kettering already feels very far in the past.
I've made so much progress since I got home.
I've returned to Uni, I've got 6,000 words of my research completed and I'm preparing for winter OSCE's. I haven't gone back to the hospital yet, but I'm meeting with Occupational Health later in the month. I'm confident I'll be healthy enough by then to return to work, and I can get delivering the last 14 babies I need to qualify. My leg is generally getting stronger, although I seemed to have a bit of a regression in sensation and movement this week. I'm sure it's just a blip; the trend is definitely an improvement. I'm also catheterising pretty infrequently.
The only other things which haven't returned to normal is my handwriting and my speech. My mum noticed my handwriting when I was writing my dad's birthday card - it was completely different to my normal writing. I used to love how I wrote, and got quite a few compliments about it, but now I've got a fairly messy scrawl. I initially attributed it to only having pillows to lean on in hospital, but unfortunately it looks like it might be a permanent thing! My speech is generally fine, but sometimes I get moments where a (completely irrelevant) wrong word slips out, or letters within a word get jumbled. I know this happens to everybody to some extend, but it's definitely happing to me a lot more regularly than it was pre-infection. Reading aloud is the biggest issue: something in the process of converting written words to spoken ones seems to be a bit broken.
Other than that, life is good.
Love Emily x
Hi Emily, Sam mentioned your blog and then I came across it on Twitter so I've just had a read. I felt a bit intrusive reading about you when we know each other a little, I hope you don't mind. I think your blog is really good and you should keep doing it. Good luck with the 14 babies-a-birthing!
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