Post, FFS!

["couldbecousin"]

  I hope the new hip is soon up to par and you are going places at top speed! 

[odeon]

Good luck with the new hip.

Thanks.

Waking up after the surgery, realizing that you can not move half of your lower body, is the worst of it. Or you think so until you have to fart or something that demands involuntary movements down below. 

At least that is what you think, knowing you are done moving for a day or two, until an A-Team of large nurses stands you up and makes you take a few steps, barely conscious after four and a half hours of general anesthesia.      (REALLY!!???!!)

It is amazing how quickly they set you on the road to recovery these days!

Now, fives weeks after surgery, I am still on pain meds, but I am doing  great in physical therapy.

Bloody hell. I don't ever want to experience that.

[P7PSP]

Good luck with the new hip.

Thanks.

Waking up after the surgery, realizing that you can not move half of your lower body, is the worst of it. Or you think so until you have to fart or something that demands involuntary movements down below. 

At least that is what you think, knowing you are done moving for a day or two, until an A-Team of large nurses stands you up and makes you take a few steps, barely conscious after four and a half hours of general anesthesia.      (REALLY!!???!!)

It is amazing how quickly they set you on the road to recovery these days!

Now, fives weeks after surgery, I am still on pain meds, but I am doing  great in physical therapy.

I hope your recovery goes well. 

[DirtDawg]

Good luck with the new hip.

Thanks.

Waking up after the surgery, realizing that you can not move half of your lower body, is the worst of it. Or you think so until you have to fart or something that demands involuntary movements down below. 

At least that is what you think, knowing you are done moving for a day or two, until an A-Team of large nurses stands you up and makes you take a few steps, barely conscious after four and a half hours of general anesthesia.      (REALLY!!???!!)

It is amazing how quickly they set you on the road to recovery these days!

Now, fives weeks after surgery, I am still on pain meds, but I am doing  great in physical therapy.

What?? You got a new hip?

Well, yes, two, actually.


Do I know you?

I am sure you know of me. I am Duckfetishgirl

Sorry, I have no previous knowledge of who or what you are. I have been offline for a bit, attending personal health issues.

Either way, you presume to post to me as if you know me.

All forgivenesses for such presumptions are established as given in my realm upon first whim at contact with a "new" entity.

Now, tell ME at some point soon about yourself. I could put up a link to my previous posts, in order to introduce myself, but such assumption on my part would be, let us just say, most presumptuous on my part, since you surely know how to find my previous gagillion posts if you actually cared to know anything about me before presuming as much as you have.   

Looking ahead, I will find your posts, digest them, interpret them and come back with a determination of my own attitude toward your presentations to this board before I answer you again. I am fair.

Otherwise, without knowing anything about you ...    ... it might be difficult for you and I to  communicate in 2D.

 

Upon a decidedly expressive protrusive gesture of established proper manners though, thanks. Really, thanks.

[Jack]

That was great. Have been wanting to say welcome back to you too, dirtdawg, but have avoided for this very reason, as you do tend to blaze in and out and only remember a certain few. You however, are more memorable than some of the rest, it would seem.

[DirtDawg]

Posting, FFS:

Had another complete hip joint replacement, three weeks ago. I am now a bi-pedal bionic man.

 

First one done ( a year ago, remember?) is well healed and working like a charm. Second hip replacement is still a work in progress.

Good times ahead!!

WOW!

Hope the recovery after this one goes easier than after the first one.

All is well!! Thanks!
 

Long time no see mate. Hope you recover quickly and as painlessly as possible

GAWD, yes thanks for the humble prayer 

As to pain on a daily basis, one thinks ... is it compounding and multiplying to some sum you will eventually give up on or is it counting down to a level upon which on can live and begin to tolerate ... on a daily basis. I have to admit that as the days progress forward, I am a bit less dire to kill myself each day. 

TBH, a bit of positive feeling comes with each new degree of new pain, unlike before the surgery.

I have been through this before!! (last year, remember? I am a tougher old bastard than most can know and my second trial will be a piece 'o cake compared to the first)  I will get through this latest with my BOOTS on!!!

Thanks for your thoughts!

[DirtDawg]

That was great. Have been wanting to say welcome back to you too, dirtdawg, but have avoided for this very reason, as you do tend to blaze in and out and only remember a certain few. You however, are more memorable than some of the rest, it would seem.

Honestly, I really enjoy new people ...  (I often mark their posts ... ) (I am NOT all that fucking autistic.  )  ... and anyone who displays an interest in my interests show themselves instantly to be my "friends" without notice.

[DirtDawg]

Good luck with the new hip.

Thanks.

Waking up after the surgery, realizing that you can not move half of your lower body, is the worst of it. Or you think so until you have to fart or something that demands involuntary movements down below. 

At least that is what you think, knowing you are done moving for a day or two, until an A-Team of large nurses stands you up and makes you take a few steps, barely conscious after four and a half hours of general anesthesia.      (REALLY!!???!!)

It is amazing how quickly they set you on the road to recovery these days!

Now, fives weeks after surgery, I am still on pain meds, but I am doing  great in physical therapy.

Bloody hell. I don't ever want to experience that.

I have to tell  you, though, one can reach a point where one counts down to the day when the "knife,"  with all the ensuing implications,  seems so much more desirable than continuing on as you have been for months with what you have been suffering.

I do have two new hips and there is a degree of pain still, but I can exercise, I can ride my bike, I can garden, I can sit and write my poetry, I can live  to see another day with wonder in my heart, unlike before!!  I am looking ahead, now, instead of just wishing I could find a painless drug to die for.

Life is good! Feeling good is good for life!

 

[DirtDawg]

I can not express (you know, now, how deeply I am reaching)  how much this worries me about the possibility that we had ever "talked."

 

(the smiley I keep trying to post is most inappropriate, so I'll just go with a request for my need for (no, of) your assessment ...)

 

[Jack]

That was great. Have been wanting to say welcome back to you too, dirtdawg, but have avoided for this very reason, as you do tend to blaze in and out and only remember a certain few. You however, are more memorable than some of the rest, it would seem.

Honestly, I really enjoy new people ...  (I often mark their posts ... ) (I am NOT all that fucking autistic.  )  ... and anyone who displays an interest in my interests show themselves instantly to be my "friends" without notice.

Not really sure if you're response is one of being offended, but my post wasn't intended as such. Anyway, Welcome back, DirtDawg.

[DirtDawg]

That was great. Have been wanting to say welcome back to you too, dirtdawg, but have avoided for this very reason, as you do tend to blaze in and out and only remember a certain few. You however, are more memorable than some of the rest, it would seem.

Honestly, I really enjoy new people ...  (I often mark their posts ... ) (I am NOT all that fucking autistic.  )  ... and anyone who displays an interest in my interests show themselves instantly to be my "friends" without notice.

Not really sure if you're response is one of being offended, but my post wasn't intended as such. Anyway, Welcome back, DirtDawg.

Uhm, please, tell me that you do not think that a Dawg dropping a marker is an insult.
 

Nah, I do not know anything about you. The reverse is also true.

I have to admit to being a bit glad, even overwhelmed, at experiencing most anything beautiful , these days.

I will get over myself, eventually. Do not hold your breath.

 

[Jack]

Nah, it was this frowny face in your post that made me wonder if you were offended. This is getting spazzy and weird now. Jack will stop being awkward eventually. Don't hold your breath.

[DirtDawg]

Nah, it was this frowny face in your post that made me wonder if you were offended. This is getting spazzy and weird now. Jack will stop being awkward eventually. Don't hold your breath.

*exhales*

:^)

[odeon]

Good luck with the new hip.

Thanks.

Waking up after the surgery, realizing that you can not move half of your lower body, is the worst of it. Or you think so until you have to fart or something that demands involuntary movements down below. 

At least that is what you think, knowing you are done moving for a day or two, until an A-Team of large nurses stands you up and makes you take a few steps, barely conscious after four and a half hours of general anesthesia.      (REALLY!!???!!)

It is amazing how quickly they set you on the road to recovery these days!

Now, fives weeks after surgery, I am still on pain meds, but I am doing  great in physical therapy.

Bloody hell. I don't ever want to experience that.

I have to tell  you, though, one can reach a point where one counts down to the day when the "knife,"  with all the ensuing implications,  seems so much more desirable than continuing on as you have been for months with what you have been suffering.

I do have two new hips and there is a degree of pain still, but I can exercise, I can ride my bike, I can garden, I can sit and write my poetry, I can live  to see another day with wonder in my heart, unlike before!!  I am looking ahead, now, instead of just wishing I could find a painless drug to die for.

Life is good! Feeling good is good for life!

 

Happy for you, mate.

Do you need a cane or some such help at all?

[DirtDawg]

Good luck with the new hip.

Thanks.

Waking up after the surgery, realizing that you can not move half of your lower body, is the worst of it. Or you think so until you have to fart or something that demands involuntary movements down below. 

At least that is what you think, knowing you are done moving for a day or two, until an A-Team of large nurses stands you up and makes you take a few steps, barely conscious after four and a half hours of general anesthesia.      (REALLY!!???!!)

It is amazing how quickly they set you on the road to recovery these days!

Now, fives weeks after surgery, I am still on pain meds, but I am doing  great in physical therapy.

Bloody hell. I don't ever want to experience that.

I have to tell  you, though, one can reach a point where one counts down to the day when the "knife,"  with all the ensuing implications,  seems so much more desirable than continuing on as you have been for months with what you have been suffering.

I do have two new hips and there is a degree of pain still, but I can exercise, I can ride my bike, I can garden, I can sit and write my poetry, I can live  to see another day with wonder in my heart, unlike before!!  I am looking ahead, now, instead of just wishing I could find a painless drug to die for.

Life is good! Feeling good is good for life!

 

Happy for you, mate.

Do you need a cane or some such help at all?

Cane for now.  Mainly for when I feel pain in the joint.

Pain meds are ongoing for another six months, I am told. Off the massive 15mG Percodan - on the ten mG Hydrocodone/ double every four hours ... for now.

Still a little rough without the meds, but my exercises are ahead of the game, according to the docs.

At Physical Therapy yesterday, I was doing a leg press exercise at 220 lbs/five sets of twenty (nurse tried to give me 80 lbs to start - I told her to give me something to push against.) Some particular movements that you would think would be easy are next to impossible, however.