My mother wanted nothing to do with my sisters children. I don't think she ever even held them as babies!
Good grief!I'm at home from a 4 day hospital stay for a broken hip. On Monday morning i missed one lousy step and fell to the floor. As soon as I hit the floor I heard a loud snap. I knew instantly what had happened. EMS took me to a fantastic hospital here in town. Sure enough x-ray showed I snapped the bone where the thigh bone meets the ball in my hip. Had surgery the next day. After 2 rods 2 screws and a nail put things back in place.This is absolutely horrible pain. I'm going to be using a walker for awhile. I saw the surgeon later in the day. I was walking the hall. He called me a show-off for walking the distance I had. I knew rehab was going to be a long time. I just wanted a head start. Came home yesterday afternoon and had to learn to do things that we all take for granted like taking a pee. Had a PT assessment today for home place safety. Since it involves bone there's not much actual physical therapy to be done. Just making sure things don't get all wonky on me. Muscles respond to therapy, but not so much with a bone. They just will take some time to get the bones to start knitting back together. Just make sure things don't move.
So far the therapist was impressed at what things we had already done. Already had grab bars installed for bath/shower. Laptop tray to help if I want to be in the living room. Swivel stool for shower on order.
Every few minutes I'll take a walk around the house with the walker. Keeps muscles from cramping up on me. My ass gets tired from just sitting. Can't sleep too much at any one time. But I do look sexy walking around in compression stockings LOL. Since they are white I call them my nurses hose. I'm really glad we live in a single floor plan house. I was gone for the better part of 4 days. The dog will not leave my side. Have to make sure he doesn't get run over with the walker. I have some good pain meds that I hate to take because they are an opiod. I don't want to get addicted to the damn things. But if I need them, I have them.
I have a computer room but it's in the basement. Haven't gotten the nerve to try to go down there. I confiscated my wife's laptop for a bit. The therapist said that on his next visit, we'll try to go down there. He can teach/help me go downstairs and back up with the walker. I use my phone to keep track of all the activity here, but I can't post or reply with it. The forum app I have on the phone has not been supported since 2003. I'll need to correct that. Maybe tomorrow I can talk my wife into going downstairs and grab my laptop.
More updates are going to come, in time.
Yeah getting old sucksGood grief!
Oh Jerry, rest up and take care.
I used Forum Runner for my phone and that is no longer supported. If you get an app and it does not work here let me know and I'll see if I can find the ad-on for VB software. It's usually pretty easy to add so no prob. Take care man.
I'm at home from a 4 day hospital stay for a broken hip. On Monday morning i missed one lousy step and fell to the floor. As soon as I hit the floor I heard a loud snap. I knew instantly what had happened. EMS took me to a fantastic hospital here in town. Sure enough x-ray showed I snapped the bone where the thigh bone meets the ball in my hip. Had surgery the next day. After 2 rods 2 screws and a nail put things back in place.This is absolutely horrible pain. I'm going to be using a walker for awhile. I saw the surgeon later in the day. I was walking the hall. He called me a show-off for walking the distance I had. I knew rehab was going to be a long time. I just wanted a head start. Came home yesterday afternoon and had to learn to do things that we all take for granted like taking a pee. Had a PT assessment today for home place safety. Since it involves bone there's not much actual physical therapy to be done. Just making sure things don't get all wonky on me. Muscles respond to therapy, but not so much with a bone. They just will take some time to get the bones to start knitting back together. Just make sure things don't move.
So far the therapist was impressed at what things we had already done. Already had grab bars installed for bath/shower. Laptop tray to help if I want to be in the living room. Swivel stool for shower on order.
Every few minutes I'll take a walk around the house with the walker. Keeps muscles from cramping up on me. My ass gets tired from just sitting. Can't sleep too much at any one time. But I do look sexy walking around in compression stockings LOL. Since they are white I call them my nurses hose. I'm really glad we live in a single floor plan house. I was gone for the better part of 4 days. The dog will not leave my side. Have to make sure he doesn't get run over with the walker. I have some good pain meds that I hate to take because they are an opiod. I don't want to get addicted to the damn things. But if I need them, I have them.
I have a computer room but it's in the basement. Haven't gotten the nerve to try to go down there. I confiscated my wife's laptop for a bit. The therapist said that on his next visit, we'll try to go down there. He can teach/help me go downstairs and back up with the walker. I use my phone to keep track of all the activity here, but I can't post or reply with it. The forum app I have on the phone has not been supported since 2003. I'll need to correct that. Maybe tomorrow I can talk my wife into going downstairs and grab my laptop.
More updates are going to come, in time.
Well, downtown is Arp's Dairy.
Right on Clinton St.
Heavy traffic, impatient drivers and rain equals..
No one was seriously injured.
Ty got a free milk for helping lol
We're all a bunch of old cripples. Lmao. I bounce from walker to cane depending on the day.Take it easy but keep moving! They taught me using a cane on the stairs. Be sure your handrail is solid.
I had an upstairs walker and a downstairs walker. I graduated from the walkers a year ago but it looks like the cane is here to stay.
Wasn’t there a saying back in the CB Radio days?
“Keep the shiny side up and the dirty side down?”
It's always amazing to me how do all these cars wind up upside down?
Saturday, I'm going to the boat! I may not return.