Steve has undergone the operation on his left elbow yesterday. Following the operation Steve is now back at Chorley Hospital and resting. Pauline Steve's Fiancee has told us that the operation went according to plan with the elbow joint being operated on and loose bone fragments cleaned from around the area. We do not know yet if Steve will require further operations on this elbow but we are hoping that this will not be the case. He has to return to the hospital where he had the op done to have it checked in 2 weeks time. The elbow has you would expect is swollen at the moment, bandaged and aching. Steve wants to thank those that assisted him in reducing the time he had to wait from 18 weeks to several days to get this surgery done.

Steve will now have approx 70 degrees of flexion in his left arm and hopefully with more physio this will extend to enable him to fully straighten his arm.

Some more positive news is that some of the deep scar tissue in his right leg has broken up which has allowed Steve to fully straigthen his right leg. This has made his walking a little easier and sitting down and standing up easier to. Today he walked for 25 minutes non stop. Along with Pauline who was pushing his wheel chair in case he got tired Steve walked from his hospital room down to the hospital shop to buy some chocolate. He found his way there without help from Pauline and used the hospital lift to get down to the ground floor where the shop is. After buying his choccy supply he walked back to his room unaided. Pauline said he did fantastic and was chuffed with himself.

Steve is at the moment resting in his room. Content with the fact that he has had the op on his elbow done and with a belly full of chocolate.