Hi everyone, I would like to give you all a update on my recovery,to give you a little inside to what injuries I got from the accident, I ended up with a broken pelvis in 2 places, a broken left femur, my lower left leg between the knee & ankle was shattered in multiple places with some coming through my calf muscle where I've had to have a skin graft done.
I spent 2 days in ICU as I was on the critcial side of things at the start.
I had a total of 3 months in chch public hospital then 2 weeks at Burwood hospital for a rehab to get me home. I went home in the middle of May 2017 I was still unable to work and was very limited to what I was allowed to do, which was basically do my breakfast and lunch, then my days for 6 months were spent sleeping & sitting in my lazy boy with my leg up doing not a lot. It was a frustrating time for myself and my family, I could not do day to day things with my daughter which has been really hard on us. I finally went back to work part time in November 2017 slowly progressing back up to full time in february 2018, then my surgeon told me I was in for more operations, so 2 weeks ago on June 5th I had a rotation done, where they removed the titanium rod in my thigh to break my leg & rotate it and put a new rod in, then in a few months time I need to go back for another operation on my lower leg between the knee & ankle where they will remove all the pins n plates, break the leg to rotate and then put a titanium rod in my lower leg also, with a recovery time of around 7 months to a year. Im currently off work again for 6-8 wks at this stage.
I have put a few pictures up from the time I spent on hospital,to a recent photo a few weeks back. I would like to thank you all for your kind donations which will go towards my recovery and my on going treatment I'm going to need for quite some time yet, as ACC only cover partial payments. "Never Give Up" David Pickles 🤙
