bilateral knee replacements

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  • oceaninmyeyes
    oceaninmyeyes Posts: 4,646
    If you have a plastic lawn-type chair and your shower space is big enough for it, you could try that while waiting. Any sturdy chair that won't get ruined if it is wet will work, so long as you are able to safely get up off of it. And if not, bed baths could be fun, if administered by the appropriate lady friend. :wink:
    And the sun it may be shining . . . but there's an ocean in my eyes
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    i am told the hip replacement healing is a vvalk in the park compared to the knee replacement healing. more than one therapist told me this. i'll be damned

    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."
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    https://youtu.be/tWKj2s7cKF8

    dude might shoulda done his exercises. this is not vvhat my therapist is doing to me but i am having a bad time like this poor bastard. im no expert but i don't think this guy done his leg bends. vvait till his dr. put him under & vvrenches on his legs/knees breaking thru all that nevv scar tissue & healing tissue, muscle & titanium teddy bears & vvhatnot
    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
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    oceaninmyeyes said:

    If you have a plastic lawn-type chair and your shower space is big enough for it, you could try that while waiting. Any sturdy chair that won't get ruined if it is wet will work, so long as you are able to safely get up off of it. And if not, bed baths could be fun, if administered by the appropriate lady friend. :wink:

    yeah i been bed bath guy as of late.

    one thing i learned vvhile in the hospital & in the therapy center... nurses are some of the hardest vvorking folks knovvn to mankind. i mean i knevv nurses busted their butts but this experience here shoved me some unreal skilled, friendly, comedic & professional vvork ethic, just incredible really.
    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
  • oceaninmyeyes
    oceaninmyeyes Posts: 4,646
    Well there are a few turds in the punchbowl, but for the most part, we are a good lot.
    And the sun it may be shining . . . but there's an ocean in my eyes
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    true that. there vvere a couple turds i had to deal vvith. they simply did not give a hoot & that as obvious. the good outshined the rest
    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
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    plus as the saying goes, don't let a few turds spoil the whole punch.....
























    ....keep drinking.......
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,296
    well, hell....I shoulda been over here sooner to wish you well.

    I had ONE knee worked on a few years back and my leg was BLACK from groin to knee. my physical therapist was a nazi in a previous life,
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    chadwick said:

    oceaninmyeyes said:

    If you have a plastic lawn-type chair and your shower space is big enough for it, you could try that while waiting. Any sturdy chair that won't get ruined if it is wet will work, so long as you are able to safely get up off of it. And if not, bed baths could be fun, if administered by the appropriate lady friend. :wink:

    yeah i been bed bath guy as of late.

    one thing i learned vvhile in the hospital & in the therapy center... nurses are some of the hardest vvorking folks knovvn to mankind. i mean i knevv nurses busted their butts but this experience here shoved me some unreal skilled, friendly, comedic & professional vvork ethic, just incredible really.
    I must agree with you about those therapists who worked with me in strengthening my foot. I begged for more therapy sessions two more weeks but my 12 was enough. On my doctor visits I'd pop in to see how they were doing.....they even wanted to set me up with a date.

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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    http://youtu.be/pj5gvKJuVy4

    Learned a lot on that video. My right knee certainly has the requirements for this kind of knee replacement surgery. I wonder how much such a surgery cost?

    Peace

    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Dang! Looking at the vids- doesn't look like fun Chads! Scary thing is I'm fairly sure my knees will wear out because when I was a kid my brother and I kept trying to out-do each other with jumping off of things. That one time off the roof might not have been such a good idea. :confounded:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    g under p said:

    http://youtu.be/pj5gvKJuVy4

    Learned a lot on that video. My right knee certainly has the requirements for this kind of knee replacement surgery. I wonder how much such a surgery cost?

    Peace

    son of a bitch, dude! thanks for sharing this educational video. even this vid makes me squirm & squint my eyes a bit in my chair. but i think my knee caps/patellas are novv vvhat i heard called, 'space age plastic'. they sure as shit aint using the old ones. i'm pretty sure the artificial patella looks like a rectangular cube.

    another thing as to vvhy i had severe pain after vvaking up, they couldn't hit the nerves vv/ nerve blocking injections. they hit one out of four & after a bit gave up.
    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
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited March 2015
    brianlux said:

    Dang! Looking at the vids- doesn't look like fun Chads! Scary thing is I'm fairly sure my knees will wear out because when I was a kid my brother and I kept trying to out-do each other with jumping off of things. That one time off the roof might not have been such a good idea. :confounded:

    go get checked out, lux. do your knees or knee ache like a real bastard, vvalk vv/ a cane, difficulty standing & vvalking vvhen out of bed, shooting pains dovvn the tibia, grinding, snapping, popping & unstable vvhen standing or vvalking? pain scale 1-10, 10 being vvorst.

    yes i am dr. chadick orthopedic surgeon. i rebuilt my ovvn damn self
    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
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    I always wanted to meet a Diane...I missed her at a PJ show because her flight got messed up and the cell service in Milwaukee sucked.

    Dianes are awesome.

    Will those big bouncy exercise balls help you chad?
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • oceaninmyeyes
    oceaninmyeyes Posts: 4,646
    :open_mouth::nuh_uh::giggle:
    And the sun it may be shining . . . but there's an ocean in my eyes
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    RKCNDY said:

    I always wanted to meet a Diane...I missed her at a PJ show because her flight got messed up and the cell service in Milwaukee sucked.

    Dianes are awesome.

    Will those big bouncy exercise balls help you chad?

    hi lisa
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    rollings said:

    RKCNDY said:

    I always wanted to meet a Diane...I missed her at a PJ show because her flight got messed up and the cell service in Milwaukee sucked.

    Dianes are awesome.

    Will those big bouncy exercise balls help you chad?

    hi lisa
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    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • oceaninmyeyes
    oceaninmyeyes Posts: 4,646
    How are you feeling by now Mr. or is it Dr. :giggle: C?
    And the sun it may be shining . . . but there's an ocean in my eyes
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    im doing ok, could be worse i guess. not being able to sleep is probably my biggest complaint. it's been a real bastardt though. i never knew in my wildest dreams that total knee replacements were such a serious surgery as well as the physical therapy treatment. it has been 4 weeks & i have made huge strides in this difficult time.

    "i don't think im man enough," he says
    https://youtu.be/swFByfCal8g
    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
    Sounds like you're viking through it, chadwick - bravo!

    (and I see your "w" is back in svving?)

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