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Bravo! I've had two knee surgeries with that stuff or Vicoden for only a week or two following, and it's amazing how quickly your body becomes dependent on it. Weening from that makes your whole nervous system whig out. And that feeling doesn't just go away after a day. Good job with that.
If you only asked I could have installed those joints too.1 Ton king pins.
I had surgery similar to yours back in the early 90s. I had my tonsils removed and had my throat roto-rooted so I could breath better. I was in my early to mid 30s. It was a rough recovery and my doctor warned me that type of surgery only gets rougher with age. I feel for you and I'll pray 4 U.
Wow, I thought this was "old person's surgery". I am very interested in getting you to answer a question. See, surveys show that over 60% (I think it was 65%) of those who have this surgery state that they'd never allow it again. Not that you'd ever have it done twice, the implication was that it was not effective enough AND it was difficult to recover and that they'd do something else to deal with their problem.
Jaci,aged 3 had this surgery .it was risky and they had no choice.
My son has to take everything he eats and places it all in a blender. He blends in all to a liquefied form until it is the form of tomato bisque soup. I weep inside every time he tries to prepare something to eat. He said trying to keep eating is like being a fighter pinned to the ropes. He's just trying to hold on. I told him he should make a video of all he has to go through just to eat. I can feel your pain about the liquid diet because I see my son go through it every day.
First real, solid, typical food that I've had since March 9th. I have REALLY needed to GET OUT and MOVE AROUND.
I've not had to worry about health care coverage, ever. My line of work does not pay super well, but I've never been unemployed since I was 19. (I turn 57 next week.) I"ve always had good coverage, tho I've NEVER had the coverage I have with JVCKenwood. Ours is a group of what has to be no less than 500 people, I really don't know how many are in our group. Our HR people as well as corporate leaders seem to place a high priority on good health care coverage. They provide no coverage for dependents, but because the group is so large, an employee can buy coverage for the family for several thousands of dollars a year. Sounds like a lot of money, and it is, but again, what it covers is really surprising. This surgery will most likely cost me less than $200.
Glad you are doing better PizzaI can tell that the swelling is easing up a bit. I was able to eat two sausage biscuits today.
So..................
The weather was wonderful today, it got to 71F in North Georgia and I went and got the car, put the top down, and drove around to do some errands and then headed to a six lane highway not far from here that is not traveled much on weekend. THis allowed me to to my "brake pad set" - ten hard brakings from 60 to 10mph. (This distributes compounds from the pads onto the rotors and sets up the pads and rotors to work together well - the brakes get really hot but that heat is needed to perform the required action.) I then drove for about 15 miles to cool things down before coming to a real stop anywhere - this to avoid distorting the rotors.
I've been home since, relaxing and I've only taken two pain pills today, one when I got up and one about an hour ago. I still can't drink Coke or anything like that, but I ate two more mini biscuits and had my fiber and nutritional supplement 'shake' and am no longer starving. I think I've consumed perhaps as much as 1200 calories today - the most since the 9th.
My weight is down a bit over 10 pounds.
