Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
A nursery rhyme from my early childhood
Speak of the devil …
I remember saying to family and friends that constant itch is worse than pain. Be careful what you say: words are messengers to the Cosmos, spiritual guides, God, angels … [please fill in your preferred entity and bear with me], so mind your thoughts and their verbalizations. ‘You want to prove it? – here you go!’ Well, it worked: for forty-eight hours the itch was numbed by the threshold pain in my hip, larded with explosive cries at every not-yet tolerated move, accompanied by utterances that would make my religious friends cringe (sorry!).
Is it a blessing in disguise that since my stay here in revalidation, the itch took over from the pain?
… A new paradigm since last Friday; much has changed.
There’s much to tell; so much that I haven’t found time (or physical composure) to keep you informed. So for now, a seriously abridged account …
Knocked off my bicycle by a traffic barrier closing on my forehead, my right hip was fractured. Ambulance staff diagnosed ‘most probably not broken’, so they brought me home, helped me up the stairs and onto the living-room sofa, from which I couldn’t rise for three nights.
Monday morning (22nd) I couldn’t cope with immobility and excruciating itch, so after a call to my family doctor I was soon fetched for an X-ray; trachantus major fractured, two thirds of the way down. Lucky and happy: no operation needed! Again two hours later I was in bed at the adjacent revalidation centre, where I’ve been in ‘good’ (empathetic, caring and knowledgeable) hands since then.
(Tuesday 211130)
An advantage of being in care in an institution adjacent to the hospital, is the shorter physical and bureaucratic distance from specialistic treatment: the extraction of a molar suffering long-term infection in all three roots, was a bit uncomfortable, though the operation went well without collateral damage and the after-pain is manageable with paracetamol. My hopes and trust are high that the chronic sinusitis above my upper jaw will soon be no more than a memory. Seeing that the place adjacent to the extraction has been vacant for decades, fattening my piggybank for an implant is a new focus point. Well-chewed food lies at the base of efficient digestion, which in turn is the foundation of good health, I believe.
To be continued …
Als je het over de duvel hebt …
– zie het kinderversje uit mijn vroege herinneringen, hierboven.
… ‘n Nieuw paradigma sinds afgelopen vrijdag. ‘Krak! Aauw!’ ambulance, thuis op de bank, vervelend, gedeeltelijk hulp- en hopeloos; na drie dagen, Röntgen, opname in revalidatiecentrum, onder de pannen, kundig, empathisch en liefdevol verzorgd. Geluk bj ‘n ongeluk …
(Dinsdag 211130)
Daar kon de extractie door de kaakchirurg van een achterste kies waarvan ik decennialang onrust in mijn bovenkaak voelde (alle drie wortelpunten waren ontstoken), gerust bij. Het is gebeurd zonder complicaties, beetje napijn die met paracetamol binnen de perken te houden is en nu hoop en vertrouwen dat de chronische sinusitis boven die kaak door mijn lichaam spoedig wordt opgeruimd. En sparen voor een implantaat, want op de plaats aangrenzend aan de verwijderde kies is decennialang een vacature. Effectief gekauwd voedsel ligt aan de basis van optimale spijsvertering, die weer de grondslag vormt van gezondheid, naar mijn mening.
– wordt vervolgd.