Changing of the Guard...

You wait for ages. Hope to see catch a glimpse and take a picture. Watch those fury cap squares get taken away and replaced with new ones. I've been waiting to change my dressing since the operation and this is how it was photographed!!

These ones aren't so pretty...

Why I love Harry Redknapp...

Time Killer update: Dhol vs Car Alarm

I've decided to occassionally add stuff that I'm using to kill time whilst I have nothing physical to do during my rehab.. Here's a funny video from Youtube...

The biggest apology to women....

I've been one to lack sympathy for women over the years who have spent countless hours at the Salon getting waxed, believing the pain was just an over reaction....

Until my surgeon stuck some of my dressing on my leg hair!!!!! FUCK ME it hurts. Its possibly been the most painful part of this ordeal so far. Pulling them off definitely put a tear in my eye but on the plus side I do have incredibly smooth legs.. or A leg for that matter. :D

Not for the squirmish....

The unveiling of Newcastle's latest signing.. Oversized, not fit for action and clearly not what it used to be... No, its not Sol Campbell... Its my knee 2 days post surgery!! loool.

Making Crop Circles.....

Walking around the house, in a lot of pain on crutches.... I realise that I've left a trail of 'crop circles' in the carpet...

I had an clean out a few years ago but i don't remember it being this bad. I've been given a list of exercises to do. I know the NHS are making cut backs... but to give someone a physiotherapist after surgery is a cutback too far!!! Campaign anyone?? I think I need someone on my behalf because I don't feel like im going to walk anytime soon!!! :(

Today was the day....

Getting to the Hospital....

So knowing that you're going to the operating wards, knees and ankle to be specific.... They put this ward as far away from the car park that is imaginable to man. Good planning St.Albans. But finally got there and booked in. Shared my bay with 5 other guys, all who had knee replacements.

Was first into the operating theatres but not without drama!! Oh my god.... they wheeled down the wrong man at first and I was waiting for my anaesthetist (the man who puts you to sleep) to come in and the wheeled the first guy BACK OUT. 'This isn't Samir Domah!!!'... No shit sherlock... a 60 year white man with presumably wrinkly balls isn't really me. So they finally got me in (they made walk there the cheap bastards) and put me to sleep... ZZZzzzzzzz..

And I woke up in Port-Louis Mauritius, I kid you not! 4 nurses in the recovery room.. All mauritian... and guess what... they knew someone I knew.. We've even been to the same weddings! It got me special treatment and dose of morphine which I'm still riding out some 8 hours later...

THE NEWS YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR: They didn't fix it completely. It was too big a job. It was like having your polish builder turn around and tell you that he didn't have enough bricks to finish your house. I'm going to need (or knee-d shall I say) another operation to get it all fixed later in the year. They only cleaned out the cartilage today and they'll have to graph out of my hamstring and make a totally new ACL :( So we wait...

Back in the ward, got some smashing fish and mash and dozed off for a bit.

In Other snap news:

• Indian man gets admitted and puts his gown on the wrong way round. I think he wanted someone to tickle his tackle... Terrible stuff!
• Man next to me has reasonable fit wife and daughter
• I don't want to have a knee replacement - Looks like it hurts after man almost passes out
• People get a bit headfucked with anaesthetic - Woman doesn't want the operation (After she's already had it!!) and man threatens to punch staff who touch his dentures (which he doesn't have)

Click older posts for some snazzy pictures... stay tuned for some bad-ass updates....

Some swanky images.....

My damaged leg....

My leg next to my other leg
My finished hospital food. It was well tasty.....

Surgery in the morning!!!

The surgery is booked in for 7:30 tomorrow morning and my how I'm bricking it! I trust the Surgeon that's doing it, I'm just not looking forward to the months of rehabilitation that are lying ahead. Kicking a football again is the inspiration and I fancy another Mountain Trek in the future! Here's goes nothing!