Bone surgery

Olive

I would have liked them [doctors] to have sent me to the hospital sooner, to get, to see what was the problem, you know. I know they sent me to have an x-ray on the shoulder but that didn’t help at all and then it was, oh dear, long, long time afterwards, me going back and forth.

Ken

You’re very unsociable. You’re very short tempered and it just, it’s because the pain that drives you there, so it’s just like become, you don’t want to get to, you just don’t want to go out or, you know, any place just in case somebody knocks you on the shoulder and it hurts.

Wayne

The weird sensation for me was obviously having the arm completely blocked with the nerve block, how did I cope with that? Oh, that was a bit, bit stressful the first night. Obviously trying to carry a complete dead limb around and very conscious not to sort of like turn around and smack it against a door or wall.

Lesley

And being in a room with four people was very helpful. Because four of us had different things. One had a back problem. I had my knee. And the other had hip replacements. And that was good because everybody was supporting each other.

And the staff were marvellous. They were friendly, sociable, attentive, did whatever you asked them to do. They, nothing were too much trouble for them, yes.

Penelope

Don’t get disheartened that you don’t think it's going fast enough – this was my problem this time. I've done really well but I had to keep telling myself I am doing well because I kept feeling…I think the thing is once you get back, the days are so long that you feel longer time has gone than has really gone on. So after a couple of days it's like it's been a week and you're thinking, 'Why aren’t I getting better quicker?' but not to be despairing, you will get better. So long as you do your exercises it'll gradually work, it has for me, yeah.