- Aja Jin
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Re: A place to quarantine ranting and venting.
nighthawk wrote:
... I have a place at the other end, same square footage but a different configuration, and I'll be in a condo two miles from my daughter. Walking trails outside the door, strip mall with supermarket, pharmacy, restaurants across the street, bus stop right there, a mile from the nearest Metro station with access to Washington DC and Dulles airport. But it's still hard.
Welcome to Virginia ! I'm about 2 hours away (depending on exactly where you'll be), in Harrisonburg Va. NOVA is super-crowded, but has everything and it's all pretty close.
- Griffinmoon
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I'm beginning to feel my age, methinks: actor James Caan and--more importantly for me--Larry Storch have died in the past few days.
- joekc6nlx
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Well, I thought today would be the day that we decide when the surgery will be. Nope, the MRI that I had done last week wasn't the type of scan he wanted and specified in the order. So, I have to get another scan, set up a new appointment to see him, then maybe we'll set up the date. He said he will put in a plate to secure the bone where it broke away. Fine by me, as long as it stops the pain, gives me back some mobility, and lets me use that arm as normally as I can. I wish the numbness in the little finger would go away so I can go back to typing like I did before. Not just that, but it's the most frequent thing that seems to be affected by the numbness.
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- joekc6nlx
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Finally!!!! The third MRI was acceptable, although not perfect. He's going to put in a plate, attach an Achilles tendon instead of the supraspinosus tendon he used in February. I've had to drive to Cincinnati 3 times in the last 2 weeks, twice for the MRIs, a 76 mile drive each way, and then once to a Jimmy Buffett concert (for which I am NOT ranting - it was a great show). Surgery will be at the same hospital as the previous 4 operations, about 50 miles each way. It will be same-day surgery, so I'll be kicked out after they figure my anesthesia has worn off enough that I won't stop breathing on my own. So, it's now scheduled for August 10. I could have had it done earlier, but that gives me no time to arrange for someone to drive me home.
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- starexplorer
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Hope it goes well, Joe!
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- joekc6nlx
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BTW, August 10 is Euforic Mania's birthday, but I will do my best to put out the word before I go for Surgery
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- joekc6nlx
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Surgery went well. Reported at 8:00 AM, but they said surgery was scheduled for 12:40 PM!!!! Actually started at 2:10, but was over at 4:20 PM. The end of the bone that broke off was dead, and he removed it (it was loose), put in a steel plate, and grafted the Achilles tendon to the triceps and the ulna. Another bionic part.. I am home, and I can drive tomorrow. I'm going to spend the rest of the night in bed, I think. Percocet every 6 hours for pain, NO Boat Drinks! Once again back to left handed typing, one-handed showers with a plastic bag over my right arm, no more classes in the pool at the YMCA until winter, no trapshooting or offhand shooting, but can do bench rest. Therapy on Friday morning, then again next Wednesday. The bandages gt changed Friday, and I'll go back into that hard brace for about 3 - 4 months again.
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- scenario_dave
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Good to hear it worked out well.
The doctors always want you in 5 or 6 hours before surgery. I'm not sure why.
- Smartcat
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Keep up the good healing. Is physical therapy in your future?
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- HRHSpence
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Hopefully this will do it.
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