‘Twas a little more of a difficult night last night here. I knew from the moment I got in bed and my surgery leg started “jumping” and “twitching” with a slight burning sensation. It was my first night without gabapentin… Continue Reading…

Visiting nurse called this morning to set up time to come. I recognized the number so answered, “City Morgue, you stab ’em, we slab ’em”. ….. Silence for about three seconds then peals of laughter as she said, “I guess… Continue Reading…

After days of watching the red sea of my blood and body fluid creep closer and closer to the edge of my dressing, and strain the plastic covering so that it looked like a fat red slug, it finally breached… Continue Reading…

I needed this today… Don’t feel sorry for or fear for your kids/grandkids because the world they are going to grow up in is not what it used to be.God created them and called them for the exact moment in… Continue Reading…

One week out from my TKR (total knee replacement) and things are moving along. After a few days on full strength narcotic pain killers I decided again yesterday to wean myself back to Tylenol. Frankly, I was beginning to feel… Continue Reading…

It has been five days now since my left leg was sliced open and my knee was forcibly torn out and replaced with a synthetic and metal one. The first two days were relatively painless and I was naively basking… Continue Reading…

I am into the therapy stage of things now. and having significant pain management issues. Those are being addressed. An obstacle exists however due to the fact that my right leg is not at full strength after that knee was… Continue Reading…

Knee Update: Well, as was prophesied by the visiting nurse and the therapist, the “pain train” has arrived and unloaded its freight! ;-( I do remember this from last Fall, but had forgotten it until now; probably due to selective… Continue Reading…

It was a long day of 11 hours at the hospital yesterday. It took 7 hours after surgery for the spinal block to wear off enough for me to urinate, thus narrowly avoiding the next step of a catheter! Linda… Continue Reading…

With only an hour left before I check in to the local “slice and dice” center (a.k.a. “hospital”), I am enjoying my last moments of mobility and comfort before several weeks of immobility and “pain and torture” (aka PT-Physical Therapy)… Continue Reading…