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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    chadwick said:

    oh im very sincere, rgambs. it's my curious nature wanting to know these things. i found myself yesterday wanting to know which company manufactured my new knees. guess i'll make a note of this & ask the dr when i see him next. i remember you saying the operating rooms you were working in they had music turned up. this is a amazing visual to me

    thank you, lux. im on my feet & zooming about like a turtle or some other slow ass critter

    The Dr. I worked with did Depuy rreplacements almost exclusively. We used his IPhone for music...Ozzy was his favorite and lots of Alt stuff like REM and NIN. Plenty of volume, enough to aggravate anesthesia lol
    After all the prep they slice right in, and the patella gets folded back with a tiny crowbar, and let me tell ya, it puts up a fight! If you let go all at once, the patella would flip down hard enough to fling the instrument across the room. What follows is a whole lot of bone sawing, hammering, chiseling, drilling, and nailing. It truly is alot like carpentry. Your leg gets bent and unbent with lots of force and a tight grip. The tibial plateau is kind of like a fist held with fingers away from you, and they saw it down flat below the ridges that correspond to the knuckes on your fist. Same with the femur. The bone bleeds purple and fat pours out, the room smells of burning plastic if your bone is very hard. Your femoral canal gets reamed out and hollowed like a flute, a very bloody messy process. The cement is a powder and liquid that get mixed, they heat up and set slowly and then BAM! pounded in. Of course this is the super simplified summary, but any specific questions (no medical advice lol) about the process I'd be glad to answer!
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    oh my god. wow! you have my attention although im speechless pretty much
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    2 inch pins with pegged heads get pounded in to hold templates in place, which guide the saw cuts, and sometimes a little touch-up is done free-handed. Your patella is sawed flat and a big plastic button is cemented on in it's place. Anywhere there is cement the bone will probably be pocked with shallow holes for the cement to gain purchase. When the implants are hammered on, sometimes blood flies all the way to the ceiling!
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    I am feeling so Zen right now... :whistle:
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    Well then,I'm not going to bitch about any aches and pains today.Thx boys
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    hedonist said:

    I am feeling so Zen right now... :whistle:

    Do you have the Nag Champa burning?
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited March 2015
    let me tell you something, rgambs. when coming around after surgery im lying there in thorough agony. i literally felt/thought i had been hit by a car, took out at the legs, lying in a ditch unable to get up & walk. the nurse was telling me to calm down as i was moaning rolling back & forth. she was telling me i could rip the IV line out. she told my g/f i was misbehaving hence the delay on me getting to my room

    it was so painful coming back around once anesthesia was wearing off. unreal how terrible that felt. just the worst ever. see i did not get the 4 nerve blocking shots. they tried but couldn't get it right so they gave up
    Post edited by chadwick on
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    chadwick said:

    let me tell you something, rgambs. when coming around after surgery im lying there in thorough agony. i literally felt/thought i had been hit by a car, took out at the legs, lying in a ditch unable to get up & walk. the nurse was telling me to calm down as i was moaning rolling back & forth. she was telling me i could rip the IV line out. she told my g/f i was misbehaving hence the delay on me getting to my room

    How's the pain now Chad?
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    i hurt but the pain is slowly lessening
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    I'm going to be nice to my knees from here on out!

    Gambs!-- 9 lb baby?!!! Oooh Weee! Hope all's going well.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    love the nag champa
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    rr165892 said:

    hedonist said:

    I am feeling so Zen right now... :whistle:

    Do you have the Nag Champa burning?
    I wish! I just have a weak stomach for medical procedures.

    Hello, my name is hedonist and I am a pussy =)
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    chadwick said:

    let me tell you something, rgambs. when coming around after surgery im lying there in thorough agony. i literally felt/thought i had been hit by a car, took out at the legs, lying in a ditch unable to get up & walk. the nurse was telling me to calm down as i was moaning rolling back & forth. she was telling me i could rip the IV line out. she told my g/f i was misbehaving hence the delay on me getting to my room

    it was so painful coming back around once anesthesia was wearing off. unreal how terrible that felt. just the worst ever. see i did not get the 4 nerve blocking shots. they tried but couldn't get it right so they gave up

    Yeah if you have a bad back that can kill ypur chance for the block. The way you woke up is pretty typical, patients need restrained often... It is really confusing to come out of anesthesia, add immense pain, bright lights, unfamiliar people, that's a recipe for some "drunk strugglin" as I call it.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Dunno why, but watching the Simpsons, Mayor Quimby was at some event thanking the band who does Spinning Wheel.

    "Thank you, Blood and Tears. Sorry about Sweat."

    Hilarious - this show rarely fails!
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Well, that first sentence up there made no sense.

    Color me buzzed :glasses:
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    Shit,I knew what your saying just fine.What does that say about the buzzed state of mind of the reader.:)
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    It says that buzzed minds think alike!

    Test-driving the Scion tomorrow - can't wait. Assuming there's an initial level of comfort, fingers crossed I'll be getting it this weekend or next.
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    hedonist said:

    It says that buzzed minds think alike!

    Test-driving the Scion tomorrow - can't wait. Assuming there's an initial level of comfort, fingers crossed I'll be getting it this weekend or next.

    Good luck.Asphalt right?
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Thanks - and yes!
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    SWEET !
    Post pics?

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