Ash had the right idea. Gimme that chainsaw...

Take my advice: if you have some kind of medical trauma, save yourself the long-term agony and just saw it off. Sure it'll hurt, but you can save yourself the annoyance of dealing with over-stressed doctors and frustrated nurses who, when it doubt, stick a cathoder in every orifice until you can't even reach the little red button next to your bed.

sarahcarotte is experiencing complications from her surgery. The leg is swelling unexpectedly and the doctors are at a loss to explain it (although it took 14 hours of sitting in Emergency to get that esteemed conclusion). sarahcarotte's physio guy suggested this morning that the infection might stem from the body rejecting the metal plates in her leg.

Argh. This must be why there are posters all over the hospital that say things like "Violence is not welcome here".