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Hello everyone!!!
Thank you for the messages.

It's all rather a long story.
Two weeks ago I suddenly got scared. Not of anything, just really scared and suicidal. SO i decided to go and stay with a friend to make sure I didnt do anything. So I got on a train going south, but decided I was too scared and it wasnt safe enough, so i got off that train and onto one going to liverpool, decided that wasn't safe and got on one to Manchester, decided that wasn't safe enough and finally got on a train to cambridge.
Once i got to cambridge i immediately walked to the hospital casuality and told them I was going to commit suicide. after waiting there for 5 hours i finally got taken to the psychiatric unit and got to stay the night.
The next morning a psychiatrist came to see me and said that i didnt need to be in hospital for my condition. I said that i did and if they discharged me i would do something serious and it was important. She insisted that i didnt need to be in hospital but that i could wait and talk to the consultant if i really wanted. By this time i could see that she wasn't taking me seriously and i was starting to question myself because if a professional said i didnt need to be in hospital then maybe i was wrong.The consultant came and said "you can go"...that was it. So they turfed me out of the hospital.
I ran to Nick's college and grabbed her out of a lesson, told her what had happened and that i couldnt deal with it. She said that i had to go home or to a hospital in birmingham. I said i was too scared and couldnt deal with it.
I then walked infront of a car!
So there i was on the road screaming nick's name, and the car driver was standing over me yelling that id just walked out and what the hell did i think i was doing!?
So, rushed to hospital, clothes cut off me, leg set with 3 huge nails inside my leg on the bone, 43 staples in my leg, 10 stitches in my arm, and a cast on my arm....all on my left side.
No sooner do they wheel me into a ward, high on anesthetic and morphine then i start to scream and scream! I'd got this rare thing called, i think, compartment syndrome. It means that the muscles tense up so much that no oxygen can got to them and effectively your leg starts dying! The cure is to slice the leg open to make the muscles loose. So THEN i also had a HUGE hole in my leg! They then took a skin graft from my thigh and put it over the hole. A skin graft is where they remove the top layer on skin and stretch it over the hole and it grows onto the surrounding skin and over the hole. It looks like a bag of minced meat with plastic netting over it!
So two weeks in hospital later and Im at home finally! I had been in a ward FULL of old loopy people!
I've got crutches and am doing pretty good on them. One is a gutter crutches because of my broken wrist. This means that the top of the crutch has a groove for my arm so that its bent 90degrees at the elbow, so effectively the crutches goes from my elbow instead on the normal one using your whole arm.
On the psych front...well not a lot of new stuff is happening right now but i think that people will be more inclined to listen to me and sort things faster...and of course the psych unit in cambridge is being VERY quiet having cocked up so amazingly. If i turn up there asgain i think they may have a different approach!

So yes all in all a very extreme form of self-harm which i wouldnt recommend at all. Ive also lost a LOT of friends over this because they cant deal with it and "have to look after themselves first".

Girl, I'm so glad you're back! What an ordeal! More s and es. Jeezuz, that was scary for you and your hootoo friends too.

you should try being in a ward with 12 completely loopy old women!!! that was possibly one of the worst bits! they moaned and yelled and accused and rambled and fell out of bed!

Well you made it back to us and thats what matters.

*is speachless*

Whoa...

Are you ok?

You know what you should do now, walk through one of those metal detectors, and then be all like "No, it's the 40-something staples and 3 pins in my leg".



Well, ok, i'd find it funny...

One of the comedians at the Melb Comedy Festival one year one of the guys was talking about how he has a fake foot, and every time we walks through a detector they go through the whole "Do you have any metal on you?" thing and he's like "my foot's fake" and then they're all like "oh, that's fine, go through" and he's going "Don't you want to see it to make sure? Check I don't have a knife or anything?" and they're going "No, no it's fine, go ahead". And then when he was talking about this at the festival he's all like "They're so afraid of offending the cripple, I might claim discrimination,t hat they're not even checking!"

... That's probably another had to be there moment.

I think I should shut up now...

Whoah that is a whole lot of trouble to get noticed.
Too bad they did not listen earlier and attempt to help you sooner.
I feel for the person that hit you
Bet they are very glad you lived!
We are!

Gosh darn, take care of yourself girl!
Hope you are up for the healing challenges ahead.
Good Luck getting the help you need from here on.
It is nice to hear from you again

welcome home sweets... x

the person who hit me was fine. i checked up on her as soon as i came round from morphine hallucinations of guinea pigs. she was just shocked but knew that it was in no way her fault so it was alright. the police just had to record it as an accident of my fault and thats that.

my main issue at the minute is everything itches!!! my skin is peeling off in huge pieces and im having to change my sheets everyday even though im sponge washing every morning. anyone got any suggestions?

i played scrabble with mam today and actually won....by two points

hey my sweet little werepanther...are you going to come and see me at home seeing as ill never get into brum myself? no worries if you dont want to.

Do you know why you are peeling Kat?
Is it a side affect to medication?

An antihistimine might help but you should ask a Dr, especially if you are on any other medications.

An oatmeal scrub or something similar might be soothing and speed up eliminating a lot of excess peeling skin. Does not sound like you can move real well though to do that on your own!

im not on any meds at all. i was only on penecillin because my bone went on the road and everything. im not sure if its to do with that, the fact i havent washed properly in two weeks, or because im not moving very much.

mam's having to help me which makes me feel rather daft! i have to sit naked on a chair in the bathroom whilst she scrubs me down!

oh by the by i had the staples taken out yesterday. it was one of the most painful things ive had done when conscious! i will have to keep the nails forever though...

Ouch! The staples sound icky
Never had them taken out before!

Gosh some soothing scrub might be best and light lotion if your Mom is up to it.

I'm incrediably accident prone but never broken a bone. Which everyone finds amazing. I've torn ligaments, dislocated, done a million other things, but never fractured a bone... Half my friends don't believe me. I'm constantly on crutches and having arms in slings and all sorts of stuff. And I fall over stuff... I fell over rocks that had been painted red to stop people falling over them... Felt like such an idiot...


Hope you're feeling ok, Kat

bored...too much scrabble and boggle. do you get them in other countris except england?

the nurse came to change the dressing on my leg today...anyone who likes gross things, ill take a pic of it on friday.

im still itchy and my skin is coming up in big weals where i scratch it.

before this i never ever broke, tore or even just needed stitches. that doesnt mean i havent done daft things but hospitals were never needed before. oh well at least if i turn up in cambridge psych unit again they might actually take me seriously.

whats good food etc to have whilst im getting better? and any suggestions as to what i can do during the day? im a bit stuck and i cant read ALL the time and typing isd tiring with one hand.

kat

Re: "I fell over rocks that had been painted red to stop people falling over them"

Where's Kat, anyway?

*prods you*

im lurking in your left shoe

There you are! We had a simulpost.

*goes back to read Kat's simulpost*

We have Scrabble and Boggle in usa. I love both of them. Are you playing in RL or on line? I haven't found an on line Scrabble that works with my older Mac. They would get tiresome if that was all I had to do, I'm sure.

Sorry you're still itchy. Sometimes asprin helps. but you're probably already on painkillers.

I've never broken anything. Well I broke my tailbone in 4th grade but no-one believed me. It was extremely painful.

Do you have tv and vcr or dvd player? If so you could rent movies. I eat tomato soup when I'm sick. And crackers. But you're not exactly sick. Grilled cheese sandwiches too. Does your mum make the food for you or do you cook yourself? Too bad it's hard to type cause you could hang out here. Of course you could surf to other sites where you just look at stuff and don't type much.

RL. mam plays and i keep winning

im not on any painkillers!!! thats right ladies and gents! i havent been on any for about a week actually! i must be some super hero...or very thick.

i would watch films but im falling and am in that sort of "umph cant be arsed to do that...but im boooored" mood. ive nearly downloaded the truman show so ill watch that.

mam cooks cos im upstairs. im leaving pock marks in the carpet from my crutches shes making nice things and keeps telling me to eat certain things cos theyre good for...blahblah.

Here's some entertaining links:

http://www.dreamwv.com/shrink/shrink.html
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/
http://rumandmonkey.com/

Yeah, and soon after I tripped over the red rocks, like the day after or somehting, I gave myself a concussion, and then the day after I had a concussion I went on one of those spinny things where you're in a seat and there's 3 rings and you spin round like mad. Was not a good idea. I couldn't walk straight or think straight for about 24hours.

When I'm sick but bored I cook cakes and stuff, cause then you can eat them . But if you're stuck upstairs and the kitchens downstairs... Play The Sims, or Worms, or something qually as time-consuming. But don't play them forever they can get really boring after while...

DVDs are good. Got any you haven't watched all the special features on yet?

And yes, we do have Scrabble and Boggle out here in Aus too.

Cat