Looks like I'm going to have to go under the knife(again).

Holy crap this was all very fast. I missed the surgery date. Glad your OK and out of there. Jeez, you will do anything for attention won't you? Seriously wish you a most speedy recovery.
 
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Forgot to mention now I'm dizzy and lightheaded with the shortness of breath still even though I stopped the blood pressure meds. They said it should hopefully go away in a few days. So after all of this all I needed was a shower and some Benadryl, but had an overnight stay and pumped full of crap I didn't need that made me sick:nut:.
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I do not trust hospitals at all any more. The one my mom stayed in this April literally killed her with misdiagnosis and wrong treatments. Glad you're away from there! Now get better quickly.

The lightheadedness and being dizzy are usually the symptoms of low blood pressure. I get it from time to time whenever doc adjusts my BP meds.
You just have keep a close watch on your BP since not doing so can have such dire consequences.
My entire family has chronic high blood pressure... My mom, dad, all of their brothers and sisters, and all my brothers and sisters...but we usually live into our mid 90's so I'm not too worried.
 
sorry to here about your hospital screw up ( thats why they call it practicing medicine) I hope things get better for you and your family and you are in our prayers,
 
Back at you, hope you are getting some fishing in, it's been 72 dg here the last 2 days, we woke up to 78 this morning at 6 an by 8 it was 82.
 
Getting by OK right now. Going through some bad withdrawls coming off the Percocet, and still have some of the redness left from the allergic reaction, but I'm getting by. Most would say I'm nuts, but I stopped taking pain meds after about 9 days out of surgery. I deal with pain pretty well, and the Percocet was getting to me. This is the first time I have taken it for any length of time, and I don't like it. But I can't take VICODIN, and there isn't a lot of pain pills they are aloud to give now that aren't on the FDA list of addictive drugs they don't want to prescribe. Hanging in there, and can't wait until I can get back up and going. It hasn't even been 2 weeks and I'm going stir crazy.
 
Hope things get better for you Ferm. My father in law recently spent a week in the hospital for some BS meds his doctor was switching around on him. I hate hospitals. When I get old and ready to die I think I'll be like an old Indian and just walk off into the woods and sit down against a tree and croak.
 
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Hope things get better for you Ferm. My father in law recently spent a week in the hospital for some BS meds his doctor was switching around on him. I hate hospitals. When I get old and ready to die I think I'll be like an old Indian and just walk off into the woods and sit down against a tree and croak.
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LOL the way things are going in this country you'll probably need to buy a "woods use" license, a "walking permit", sign an affidavit and pay a fee to the Sierra Club that you will not harm a tree while leaning on it, and last but not least a "Croaking" fee. Then of course, your heirs will have to pay the same fees and obtain the same permits, plus they will have to pay a "removal" fee to take your body out of the woods. Additionally, if a wild animal chews on you at all, they will have to pay a fine for possibly poisoning the wildlife, the EPA will step in and demand that the ground you sat on be certified as free from all contaminants, 4 tests over a years time will have to be performed to verify the ground is clean, and, of course, the local Indian tribe will sue your heirs for desecrating their chosen way of dying.
 
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I'm with ya Destroyer. I was talking to someone a little while ago and we were talking about spreading ashes at sea. Supposedly you have to pay some kind of fee and get permission from the state I believe. I told my wife when it's my turn she'd better not be paying any fee to anybody! Take me out and dump me in bull river between lazaretto creek and wassaw sound and send me off on an out going tide. It will be my last chance at sticking it to the man.
 
Well since I'm part indian I could probably circumvent most of them permits and fines. For the icing on the cake, I was walking the dogs this morning and they were froggy because of the cool air. The youngest(and biggest) one caught my left crutch when I was starting up the ramp, and down I went in the dirt on you guessed it, my bad side. So today aint been a good day. Had to break the Percocet back out, but not until after I had went down and got my haircut(he got a good laugh about that one as I only go in about 3 times a year for a haircut). So ought to be a fun Christmas.
 
The Dr says I have to wait until the 23rd to go full weight bearing on my hip. Getting tired of the crutches already ,and it hasn't even been 4 weeks yet. Going to be fun chasing the little one on crutches for the next few weeks.
 
You all but said it yourself, you need to be 100% if you plan on keeping up with junior. It is only a few more weeks, you have made it this far, don't mess it up now. Did they do good or can you tell yet?
 
Today is my first day at home watching him by myself Ridge, and the bad part is he knows I can't keep up with him so he monopolizes on it. They won't do any X-rays or anything until I go back in 4 weeks to check it, but he showed me pics and stuff he took while he was in there, and showed me where the cartilage was ripped out of my hip and where he had to take out some bone, and nail the cartilage back in my hip. He origanlly told me 4 weeks and I could put weight back on it, but due to how much bone he had to grind out he wants me to wait 6 weeks, and then another 6 weeks before I do anything to really speak of on it. Was hoping for 12 weeks and I would be healed, but now it's looking like it could be 4-6 months because of how badly it was damaged.

To bad Christmas break is over as it was nice having momma here to chase the little one, all I can do is crawl to get him or yell.
 
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Today is my first day at home watching him by myself Ridge, and the bad part is he knows I can't keep up with him so he monopolizes on it. They won't do any X-rays or anything until I go back in 4 weeks to check it, but he showed me pics and stuff he took while he was in there, and showed me where the cartilage was ripped out of my hip and where he had to take out some bone, and nail the cartilage back in my hip. He origanlly told me 4 weeks and I could put weight back on it, but due to how much bone he had to grind out he wants me to wait 6 weeks, and then another 6 weeks before I do anything to really speak of on it. Was hoping for 12 weeks and I would be healed, but now it's looking like it could be 4-6 months because of how badly it was damaged.

To bad Christmas break is over as it was nice having momma here to chase the little one, all I can do is crawl to get him or yell.
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Apologies for just now catching up w/your situation...ouch!...I snapped my right femur long ago and still have the rod they took out a year later...if you need it, brother it's YOURS!!
Listen to the doc and if/when he advises physical therapy, do it, do it, do it. Hope ya get better soon!
 
I got the one they took out 3 1/2 weeks ago, and I may still be able to get back the broken one from 11 1/2 years ago. I've got all bone now in my left femur, gonna be interesting the next time I go swimming. The stainless rod was heavy enough I would sink to my left side, now maybe I will float semi normal again(or sink normal).
 
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