Thank you @Latimer … it’s been a hellish time, but the skill and dedication of the staff at Broomfield Burns Unit, the love and support of all Rob’s friends and colleagues from all over the world, and his stubborn determination to get his life back, means that he is making a phenomenal recovery. 🙏 We so nearly lost him …
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Rob drove himself to Broomfield yesterday and had a good meeting with the consultant plastic surgeon and the rest of the team etc at the burns unit yesterday … they are so pleased with him … photographs of his arms and torso were taken as his case is being written up for a medical journal, and he answered lots of questions from medical students training to be burns specialists around the world.
The team are amazed at his courage, determination and level of fitness and said that because he’s been ‘doing stuff’ so early he seems to have rebuilt a lot of the muscle tone lost when his body ‘went into shock’ and has escaped the generalised long term weakness that can so often affect burns victims. They think he’s on course to return eventually to the level of fitness he had before the accident, which is just amazing.
The plastic surgeon says that because of the rigorous application and massaging of the cream into the grafts, and his higher level of activity than most patients, he’ll be ready for laser treatment on the scarring sooner than in most cases - hopefully in around 3 months - and they should be able to reduce the lumps and bumps of the scars on his hands and arms, and give him more flexibility in his right elbow joint. He’s still wearing a splint on that arm every night … and this is adjusted at each visit by the OTs at the burns clinic so that it pushes the joint wider and wider as time goes on. Not a very comfortable way to spend every night, but he’s doing it and showing that it works.
He told the consultant that much of his progress was due to the specialist burns OT team’s toughness with him and thanked them in front of everyone.
I’m just so proud of him and so thankful to our wonderful NHS and all his friends and colleagues and everyone, known and unknown, who have contributed to keeping him feeling positive and determined to get back to his version of normal. 🙏 💙
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We so nearly lost him …
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Rob drove himself to Broomfield yesterday and had a good meeting with the consultant plastic surgeon and the rest of the team etc at the burns unit yesterday … they are so pleased with him … photographs of his arms and torso were taken as his case is being written up for a medical journal, and he answered lots of questions from medical students training to be burns specialists around the world.
The team are amazed at his courage, determination and level of fitness and said that because he’s been ‘doing stuff’ so early he seems to have rebuilt a lot of the muscle tone lost when his body ‘went into shock’ and has escaped the generalised long term weakness that can so often affect burns victims. They think he’s on course to return eventually to the level of fitness he had before the accident, which is just amazing.
The plastic surgeon says that because of the rigorous application and massaging of the cream into the grafts, and his higher level of activity than most patients, he’ll be ready for laser treatment on the scarring sooner than in most cases - hopefully in around 3 months - and they should be able to reduce the lumps and bumps of the scars on his hands and arms, and give him more flexibility in his right elbow joint. He’s still wearing a splint on that arm every night … and this is adjusted at each visit by the OTs at the burns clinic so that it pushes the joint wider and wider as time goes on. Not a very comfortable way to spend every night, but he’s doing it and showing that it works.
He told the consultant that much of his progress was due to the specialist burns OT team’s toughness with him and thanked them in front of everyone.
I’m just so proud of him and so thankful to our wonderful NHS and all his friends and colleagues and everyone, known and unknown, who have contributed to keeping him feeling positive and determined to get back to his version of normal. 🙏 💙
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I am extremely impressed with the determination and efforts by Rob, his family and all the hospital teams.