Author Topic: Riverbees Surgery Part I & II (Read 22529 times)

Gypsi · « **Reply #80 on:** February 12, 2016, 09:10:59 am »

I guess there are good and bad things about being allergic to pain meds. I had an allergic reaction but no withdrawals. They had to send me home without anything.

Glad you are feeling better RB

Jen · « **Reply #81 on:** February 12, 2016, 12:32:10 pm »

Opiates, make me itch to beat the band. Have had a couple surgeries and thank goodness there is morphine for that, but I try and get off of opiates as soon as possible.

riverbee · « **Reply #82 on:** February 15, 2016, 02:36:58 pm »

the past few days i have really been suffering from FSB.........foggy brain syndrome.

i mean, more than the normal age stuff..........

thursday morning, i thought i had really muffed something up. did my morning pt, (very simple exercises) and got this excruciating pain from the buttocks to the ankle. i had an appointment with my surgeon's pa on friday morning for a post op check and removal of the staples. my incision looks great.
the excruciating pain; turns out, it is the sciatic nerve; this nerve runs from the buttocks to the ankle and is covered by different muscular groups; the piriformis and gluteal muscles. these muscles were released (cut) during my surgery, and sutered, but have become inflamed and swollen, (big knot a little larger than the size of a golf ball on my backside) and are squishing that nerve against bone. well whatever, sure made me wake up and pay attention. so i left with a script for a muscle relaxant and instructions to ice/heat; stretch the nerve. took the flexoril and the morphine and i have been a lost ball in the high weeds for 3 days...........

i finally got smart and quit taking the morphine the same time i took the flexoril, and now i am awake and everyone can understand me........

i think?!.........

lazy shooter · « **Reply #83 on:** February 15, 2016, 08:28:43 pm »

I don't remember the muscle relaxer that I took, but it made me dead headed until about mid afternoon each day. When I had my first knee surgery i got into a phase where my foot would twitch at night. It was cutting down on my nights rest, as it would violently twitch and awake me. My surgeon subscribed the muscle relaxer, but it was a total body relaxer. I took them two nights and decided that I would rather be awakened. They really muddied my mind well up into the day.

Jen · « **Reply #84 on:** February 15, 2016, 11:25:59 pm »

Awe Riverbee, that's awful! I work on those booty muscles on people all the time. Such a niggling sharp pain for sure. I wish I was there, I would rub nice liniment oil on your booty hon ~hugs~

Lazy, I know the muscle relaxers and how they work... You're right, every muscle in the body is put to sleep including the brain. Healing time is just frustrating, boring, agravating. Maybe it's good that those meds keep us dopey

riverbee · « **Reply #85 on:** April 28, 2016, 10:40:51 pm »

i am 12 weeks out now from the surgery on the right thr, 7 months from the left thr.
(thr= total hip replacement)

darn, takes awhile to get strength/flexibility back to the muscles. ditched the walker some time ago, no crutches, but do use a walking stick or two (if need be).
i walk everyday, 2 or 3 times and right now up to 2 and 1/2 miles and do my pt. i saw my surgeon about 2 weeks ago, and started back with my physical therapist last week. i have some muscle and nerve anomalies going on, in time they will get worked out, the nerves are the complicated ones, but whatever, in time may resolve. my surgeon and pt doc are awesome. i am impatient and want my legs back, it will take time.
i guess i forget i have two prosthesis..........

looking back. i wish i hadn't ignored all the pain i was in. water under the bridge.

on flat ground i do pretty well, (sidewalks, roadways etc) on uneven ground, not so well, steps are a real stinker, and i get frustrated. my legs and feet don't work well just yet and my docs get after me for my impatience, but yet give me great encouragement for the progress i have made.
i started driving about 2 weeks ago? (at nine weeks) getting in and out of a jeep wrangler sport was/is a bit of a challenge, i use the roll bar to pull myself up and in......

4 month restrictions; i'm in now at 2 months, two months to go..........no bending over, no crossing a 90 degree plane, knees below the operated hip....this is to prevent dislocation and/or tearing of the muscles that were cut during surgery...........so a challenge, but i sure have figured out and maneuvered around pretty good! looking forward to JUNE 1, 2016..............

okay i will stop whining now........i found a use for that walker i had..............

i purchased two new fly rods the past few months and a reel (hard to find, not made anymore). so the fly reel and another fly reel needed spooling with backing and fly line..........normally i would take the reels to a fly shop to have it done, none around here and i don't own a spooling gadget.......so i did this:

fly reel, backing and fly line ready to be spooled:

i knew that walker was good for something:

all spooled up and ready to go!

.......................

kebee · « **Reply #86 on:** April 29, 2016, 07:23:12 am »

Glad things are going better for you and hope soon you will be running instead of walking.

Ken

Lburou · « **Reply #87 on:** April 29, 2016, 10:58:43 am »

I like your repurposing the walker. I was able to use a discarded walker for holding a NUC, repurposing would make my grandmother proud.

Here is another use for a discarded walker in the bee yard or during a takeout. Note rb, it is a great day when you discard a walker!

Had to put this walker back into service after my good wife's knee surgery last month. It is mine again.

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #88 on:** April 29, 2016, 11:49:57 am »

Hey lee, what a great idea, i can roll that out under the shad tree and use it to put my beer can and cooler on and watch the wife mow the yard

Thanks. Jack

Lburou · « **Reply #89 on:** April 29, 2016, 12:08:57 pm »

......

That is funny Jack!

Chip Euliss · « **Reply #90 on:** April 30, 2016, 12:50:00 am »

Sounds like the fellow that said it takes an incredibly lazy man to not find a second job for his wife!

Lburou · « **Reply #91 on:** April 30, 2016, 08:47:11 am »

Hey Chip, you talk about finding another job for a wife...I have to tell you that we'll be married 49 years in June, and part of that success is leaving her to her own devices, and she leaving me to mine. It sounds like rb and her husband have a healthy balance too, are you back to tap dancing yet riverbee?

iddee · « **Reply #92 on:** April 30, 2016, 09:24:00 am »

Lee, from March 31st until June, we have been at it the same number of years. You will pass me in June. I would guess you found those two magical words like I did...............YES, MA'AM.

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #93 on:** April 30, 2016, 09:46:17 am »

On June the 5th we will celebrate me being King of my castle for 57 years

7 years longer than i've had bees. Got to go now to get my wife 5 gal. of gas for her lawn mower so she can mow today. I was going to plant garden today, but it rained last night? guess i'll set in the shade and watch her mow,.It's supposed to be in the low 80's F.

Jack

Chip Euliss · « **Reply #94 on:** April 30, 2016, 09:58:54 am »

All in jest inspired by Brooks' response. We're 40+ years together and celebrated the big 40 last year in the Galapagos. We're both avid bird and wildlife folks so a time we both deeply enjoyed. Betty even had a red-footed booby land on her head as we walked along the beach on one of the islands.

I offered to gently nudge the booby off but she enjoyed the company so he went along for the ride, for a little ways at least. I always try to listen to my wife and avoid criticizing her decisions--after all, I was one of those decisions so many years ago

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #95 on:** April 30, 2016, 10:43:03 am »

Hey Chip, did you yell and tell your wife i see your Booby.

Jack

lazy shooter · « **Reply #96 on:** April 30, 2016, 04:07:35 pm »

Does the below sentence sound strange?

Oh my gosh, you have a booby on your head.

CBT · « **Reply #97 on:** April 30, 2016, 08:15:35 pm »

I guess it depends on where your at at the time. Hee hee.

Chip Euliss · « **Reply #98 on:** April 30, 2016, 08:37:04 pm »

I emailed that pic to our 2 grown children (29 and 36) as soon as we had internet access and titled the message line "picture of mom's booby". Our eldest said she was almost afraid to open the email

We did have fun there and want to go back and see the other islands we missed last summer. Really cool place if you ever have the desire to visit. One funny thing while there was a trip to a bay on one of the islands where the old whaling (sailing) ships would anchor and row to shore where they set up a barrel for mail. Aptly, they named it Post Office Bay and the tradition was to deposit your mail, then look through the mail and deliver any letters that were on your route. The tradition continues today and we looked through the mail when we visited PO Bay and my wife deposited 2 post cards; 1 to me and 1 to her mother in North Carolina. 3 weeks after we came home, a woman drove up the driveway and said "Are you Chip Euliss?" Then she told me she had a post card for me and hand delivered it!! A few weeks after that, someone delivered the post card she sent to her mother!! No stamps, south of the equator, and on an uninhabited island. Puts our mail system to shame

Lburou · « **Reply #99 on:** May 01, 2016, 12:26:22 am »

Quote from: iddee on April 30, 2016, 09:24:00 am

Lee, from March 31st until June, we have been at it the same number of years. You will pass me in June. I would guess you found those two magical words like I did...............YES, MA'AM.

"Yes Ma'am, will that be all?"

Congratulations iddee!

Author Topic: Riverbees Surgery Part I & II (Read 22529 times)

Gypsi