Riverbees Surgery Part I & II

[riverbee]

   

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my tricked out walker !  what do you think lee?  who says gimp gear can't be 'fun'!.........
i did use this in the hospital minus the fanny packs.

thank you all for all the encouragement, puns and pokes at me in fun, sure lifted my spirits. 
lazy, very funny sign, and very funny comments jack and zweef!  lazy, if you think you need a fast horse with me........you ought to meet my sister.....

my surgery went very well, and better than my surgeon expected, as far as blood loss.  i only lost 2 ml's of blood vs 7 ml's last time around.  my surgeon said he made a smaller incision to minimize this and some other things.  even with this my hemoglobin dropped daily and last thursday when i was released it was at 7.5. and i am very anemic again. last surgery, it dropped to 7.2 and required a blood transfusion. my surgeon felt confident that i would be alright, so far so good! i will write more later, when i am not so narcotictoxicated  but...........I HAVE 2 NEW WHEELS!!!!..........

[Lburou]

 Looks like you'd need a license for that walker RB!  When I first saw the walker, a voice in my brain said, "Danger Will Robinson!  Danger!"     

Welcome back.  :-)

[apisbees]

In a couple of weeks she will have a smoker hung off one side and a hive tool sticking out of the fanny pack
Nice to have you back River.

[Les]

Here's to a speedy recuperation and I am hopeful you will be back tending bees before you know it. 

[Perry]

And don't forget about Jack. He has been running amok here while you were gone and he needs some serious reigning in!
Luv ya RB.

[lazy shooter]

Welcome back Riverbee.  I posted above that they couldn't kill you with a .38 pistol. 

Perry sicking you on Jack is a subterfuge.  While you were gone Perry grew a beard that shames the Smith brothers.  I fear he is auditioning for the "Duck Dynasty" TV program.  Jack has just been Jack, although at times he seems to be Jack on steroids.  Perry is attempting a second identity. 

Seriously, it's good to hear that all went well and you are back among us.  Like the last time, I am going to remind you to FOLLOW ORDERS.  I know that's hard for you to do, but remember we are bee people and the therapists are human people.  Hang in there and as we say in my country, "vaya con Dios."  (Go with God)

lazy

[brooksbeefarm]

Welcome back Squirt i don't think i've ever seen a walker with two lolly pop suckers sticking up like that You and my mother are the only two i can think of that wouldn't have to bend over to eat them. Watch out for Lazy Shooter, he's just trying to draw the attention away from him for things he said about you. There's a lot more hiding behind that beard that perrys wearing, so watch him to buddy. And he's not the only one either. Jack

[Zweefer]

Welcome back River!

[kebee]

 Praise the LORD the operation went well, as thing are going you will be up and about before to long, take it easy until then.

Ken

[lazy shooter]

@Bakersdozen:

My people migrated to West Texas from Alabama after the Civil War.  (We still call it the war of Northern Aggression)  They fled the carpet baggers and moved to Stamford Texas in the late 1860's.   It was Comanche and Kiowa land at that time, but many southerners preferred them to carpet baggers.  Don't blame this on me, as even I am not that old.  Riverbee's ancestors were very early settlers of Montana.

Those of pioneer spirit were dreamers, schemers, misfits, and whatever.  They were willing to leave comfort and safety to live free and follow their dreams.  They all had one common trait.  They were tough.  They lived without doctors, law and order, and in most cases without close neighbors.  They were islands onto themselves.  My dad was born in 1886.  He died in 1973 at 87 years of age.  He worked hard on a small ranch until he was 85 years old.  At that time, Parkinson's disease robbed him of his health.  He and my mom were twice as tough as me. 

When a knowledgeable person refers to you as being from "pioneer stock," it high praise.  I meant it that way when referring to Riverbee, and I'm sure your old friend was of similar mind.

lazy

[Bakersdozen]

lazy, that is exactly how  I took it.  High praise, indeed!  My grandmother was so amazing!  In her 70's and 80's she would "take care of old people" in their homes.  That was older people that were convalescing or nearing the end of their lives. 

riverbee, glad to have you back with us!  Some of these men folk need to be kept in check.   

[riverbee]

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some funny stuff!  me thinks us beeks are getting restless?  made for some fun reading this morning.

"Danger Will Robinson!  Danger!"
 lee, i tell ya, i do feel a little 'lost in space' lately, and as ef said earlier a 'dizzy dame'..........

keith, i almost shoved a hive tool in one of the pockets and strapped a mini smoker on!!!!  LOL!

perry and jack.......what would this forum be with out you two picking at each other?  perry, jacks just running amok cuz he hasn't had me to pick on or spar with.  he's just been missing me............

thanks for the compliment lazy. yesterday i made the mistake of trying to do the 'pioneer stock' thing and wasn't so tough.  the narcotics i am on are a synthetic morphine and really do kick my butt. my surgeon said i wouldn't make a very good junkie, because i asked my nurses early last week to reduce my dosage, or give me half of it, but they couldn't without his order to do so; so i refused the dosage for that 3 hour period until it was changed.  gee, i don't think folks do this very often...........he paid me a personal visit ...........   (l like him, he's a great guy, i think he was dumbfounded at someone who would rather tough out pain than take a necessary narcotic, and also just to talk with me). 

anyway i digress, so yesterday i decided to try not taking the stuff at 3 hour intervals, and go to 4 or 6 hours.  this was a mistake and i paid the price. and so did someone else ..........

lol, perry's beard.........
perry's perfect for duck dynasty!  funny, i rarely watch tv but those guys are funny.  one sleepless night in the hospital, i flipped the tv on and watched/dozed to duck dynasty for hours!

[Gypsi]

Glad you are on the mend Riverbee

[brooksbeefarm]

Hey Squirt, have you seen the duck dynasty part, of them robbing bees. . Kind of put me in mind of my buddy perry. Jack

[Les]

Riverbee, be careful with messing around with your pain meds.  You could go into withdrawal and that is VERY bad.  When I busted up my knee and subsequent surgery, they were throwing every darn pain killer they could at me  in the hospital.  Even when I did not ask for it.  They sent me home on Tuesday with Hydrocodone 'as needed'.  I stopped it on Wednesday and started on Ibuprofen.  I will spare you the description of my withdrawal side effects but by Friday 2;00 am the rescue squad was here and my blood pressure in the ambulance was 190/110.  I was diagnosed as opiate withdrawal. So please be careful, you do not need to go through that.

[neillsayers]

welcome back RB, best wishes to a speedy recovery!

[riverbee]

thank you les, i wasn't trying to cut myself off, my intent was to start tapering off. right now i'm at every three hours for this and it's driving me. so i thought i could start tapering off at 4hrs then 6 hrs per the doc's instructions.  so 4 hrs.........i fell asleep before the 3 hr mark, woke up, it was 5 hrs, took one, but by then pain had already set in, so i spent the rest of the day playing catch up to the annoying pain and i messed up my schedule.    can't imagine the withdrawal you went through! yikes! like you said, i can definitely do without it!

wow, this morning i accidentally found a new 'shelf' to add to my walker to carry stuff with, (had one before, but not as cool as this one).......

jack, yes i did see the duck dynasty episode, it was PLAN BEE.......it was totally funny!



and did you see this ?
every male beek probably knows this stuff, but this is JUST FOR YOU, as a refresher................

"Phil takes Cole, his grandson, out in the wilderness to take down a bee hive. And in the process he explains to Cole that bees are just like women. You have to treat both the same way, nice and easy."

[efmesch]

RB, I've been reading some of your latest posts-----No dizzy dame there.  I take them as an indication that you are progressing nicely.  Please keep it up--both your recuperation and your straight to the point responses.

[riverbee]

thank you ef, i appreciate your comment/compliment.

tomorrow i have an appointment with my surgeon's assistant, just for a post op check up and he will take the staples out that he put in.  he's a neat guy too, really like him.  hopefully i can start backing off the dizzy drugs 

[Bakersdozen]

Riverbee, be careful with messing around with your pain meds.  You could go into withdrawal and that is VERY bad.   I will spare you the description of my withdrawal side effects but by Friday 2;00 am the rescue squad was here and my blood pressure in the ambulance was 190/110.  I was diagnosed as opiate withdrawal. So please be careful, you do not need to go through that.

Holy Cow!  Les!
I think those opiates effect people differently.  But now you know your reaction for future reference.

riverbee, pain management is tricky.  When it puts you to sleep it's easy to miss a dose.  Been there, done that.
After knee surgery, last summer, I experienced sleeping problems when I tried to taper off.  The surgeon slowly reduced my dosage and quantity of pills.  I still had some trouble sleeping for awhile, but all worked out.

riverbee, it looks like your ready to harvest honey with that walker.

P.S.  It reminds me of an old Monty Python sketch.  The video was of people using walkers, but the narrator was speaking about a military unit known as The Walker Brigade!  Too funny!