General Icing On The (christmas) Cake...

[Sighs]

As if the holidays weren't bad enough as it is my vet had an accident on Christmas Day and broke three vertebrae in his lower back.

Couldn't persuade him to go to the hospital until 27 Dec despite being in obvious agony. They wanted to admit him but he talked them into discharging him into my care. Then proceeds to ignore my pleas to rest. Then lashes out at me because he is in pain.

Has taken until today to make him understand that it will not heal if he doesn't rest. Turns out he thought the doctor had the power to order him to remain in the hospital and the fact that he was released meant he was ok for "normal duties". Talk about institutionalised! Finally made him understand that in civvy street no one can order you to stay in the hospital if you say you want to go home and they'd rather you leave to free up a bed.

Aaarrggghhhhh! Shouldn't they put them through some kind of "what you can expect from civvy street" course before they let them out? Where is our equivalent to the Chelsea Pensioners? These tough old bastards who bleed green just don't cope without the Army systems in place!

 

[Sweetpea76]

Ugh.

Ask him if he'd like to be bent over on a cane forever, or if he'd rather just take it easy for awhile now to heal and rehab?

Crimony, it's like they're still waving off the dust off. Do they not know they're allowed to be hurt now? :banghead:

Good luck with him while he's on the mend! Sounds like man flu x's 10!

 

[Purplemunchkin]

Ouch, sorry to hear this. Hope the patient's patience improves.

Good luck :hug:

 

[Peach]

I'm super late....freakin working my ass off! But I'm sorry to hear that, Sighs. A broken back must hurt like a sonuvabitch which is no fun for you either. Hope he's chilled out these past weeks.

Keeping busy with an injury like that must be especially difficult. I'm trying to think of something he can do while resting in his recliner/couch. Probably nothing he wants to do...puzzles, crosswords...cross stitch? Knitting? :p

 

[Lucycat]

I spent a fortune on a Christmas Cake. I should not have bothered - my guests do not like it and I will still be eating it until the summer. It was not even a big cake although very tasty!

 

[Deleted member 28812]

Can't you make him maybe phone with his gp and ask him what he can do and what he can't do?

 

[Sighs]

@Lemontree - Have you ever tried to MAKE a combat vet do anything he/she doesn't want to do? ;)

He has ignored all medical advice, rode a horse within 3 days of the injury, rode the horse that injured him within 2 weeks of the injury and spent the last week or so falling trees and mustering cattle on horseback. I've reached the point where I just shrug my shoulders.

His physio says she has never seen anyone resume normal activities so quickly after that type of injury. She doesn't think he has healed physically - just pushing through it on mental toughness. Sigh!

 

[Sweetpea76]

:banghead::banghead::banghead:

 

[Peach]

Hard headed men.:facepalm:

Mustering cattle...what an adorable turn of phrase! LMAO!

 

[Sighs]

@Peach - what is it called Stateside? ("It" being when you go out into the bush and bring the cattle into the yards either for sale or to be wormed or tagged or sorted. In open country here its often done by helicopter, in less open country by quadbike or motorbike but in our neck of the woods the terrain is so rough that horseback remains the only way to do it.)

 

[Peach]

I'd say wrangling. Don't know if mustering is used out West perhaps, but I've never heard it in that context before. With mustering I envision troops getting into formation. Easy to see how it could be used for livestock as well. Any sort of coming together, I guess.

 

[Sighs]

Wikipedia says its known as a round up in the US. Isn't it funny how we all speak English but we use it so differently.