That's heartening to read, ferry23, wishing you all the best for Tuesday.
As I thought, my surgery hadn't referred me for weekend dressing change with District Nurse.
However, that left me speechless (but not surprised!). 😡
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This sounds much more positive ferry 
Good luck tomorrow Ferry 
Hi everyone (well, those who haven't got too bored with my leg blog!)
The appointment at the wound clinic went very well.
There are 4 specialist nurses there and whichever one I see will follow the same treatment plan - which was agreed upon by the nurse and me after much discussion. So that's one box ticked.
After listening to my sorry story, the nurse said that what she was hearing is that I was disappointed, frustrated and felt that I'd been let down. Another box ticked.
She said that from now, for the purposes of getting my leg healed, I draw a line under the past 8 months and treat this as a new start - purely from a mental health point of view. She said that the clinic and I are now partners and we will work together to get the best outcome for me.
The wound is shallow, healing and clean. It is the shallowness of the wound that's has been causing so much pain (I won 't go into medical details!). She offered me alternative medications to the morphine but as it's been a lot easier in the past few days I decided to try and keep off heavy duty pain relief if I can. She was surprised I was on antibiotics as she said there's no sign of infection - but in fairness to my surgery, they did take a swab and only prescribed them as a result. I must assume that the antibiotics plus the trimovate cream has zapped any infection.
She has used compression bandages - goodness knows how many layers - but they're not overly tight which is good. She also supplied me with what she called her "Gucci Special" shoe which I could get over the bandaging in order to get home. An uglier contraption I cannot imagine but serves its purpose.
So once a week there until they're happy to discharge me.
It seems there's a disconnect between services run under the NHS and those run under the CCG. The surgery doesn't have access to the wound clinic and it was only because of the excellent district nurse who first came two weekends back that I got the successful referral. It seems she fought very hard for me to be accepted there and I shall be eternally grateful. Whilst I understand the surgery couldn't refer me, I wish they'd encouraged me to self refer, it may have saved me a lot of distress and themselves a lot of appointments!
The thought of not having to get to the surgery every day or almost every day has made me feel better regardless of any medical improvement.
I was encouraged by the knowledge and attitude of the nurse, and the clinic seems to have lived up to it's very good reputation. I'm trying to be muted in my optimism as I've been let down so much since last December but I really do feel that a corner has been turned.
I will post updates as and when there's something significant to say. Thank you all - I can't say that enough times. When I first posted I was in quite a scary place and you all dragged me out of it and made me feel I was not in this alone. You're all stars!
Once I get to thinking about how I'm going to handle the debacle of the last 8 months I shall start a new thread for your input 
[ferry23] very positive news
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