That's wonderful, Carol. I tried to post through Google but messed up somehow. I had tried to find your OT - Crash Update post yesterday but it disappeared somewhere.
Anyway, tell Crash to take it slow and easy and do his exercises faithfully, even if they hurt like hell. I had knee replacement about 18 months ago - at the time, the surgeon said, "For the first three months, you will wonder why on earth you had the surgery. At the end of six months, you'll forget you had." I feel all Crash's pain but it *will* get better.
That's wonderful, Carol. I tried to post through Google but messed up somehow. I had tried to find your OT - Crash Update post yesterday but it disappeared somewhere.
Anyway, tell Crash to take it slow and easy and do his exercises faithfully, even if they hurt like hell. I had knee replacement about 18 months ago - at the time, the surgeon said, "For the first three months, you will wonder why on earth you had the surgery. At the end of six months, you'll forget you had." I feel all Crash's pain but it *will* get better.
Any surgery is physically painful at post-op, that's a given, and some worse than others. Physical pain wise these two are right up there with the worst of the worst; having a pilonidal cyst removed and having a deviated septum repaired along with a turbinate modification. Fortunately neither is particularly life threatening... but the pain is unimaginably intense (nothing can prepare for what comes) and lasts a long, loooooong time. But when adressed in an adult-like manor the actual physical pain is not so terrible compared with the emotional pain experienced by those with low emotional threshholds, which is what I see demonstrated in this particular case. Try to stay strong, Crash... you're breathing, the worst is over.
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That's wonderful, Carol. I tried to post through Google but messed up somehow. I had tried to find your OT - Crash Update post yesterday but it disappeared somewhere.
Anyway, tell Crash to take it slow and easy and do his exercises faithfully, even if they hurt like hell. I had knee replacement about 18 months ago - at the time, the surgeon said, "For the first three months, you will wonder why on earth you had the surgery. At the end of six months, you'll forget you had." I feel all Crash's pain but it *will* get better.
Any surgery is physically painful at post-op, that's a given, and some worse than others. Physical pain wise these two are right up there with the worst of the worst; having a pilonidal cyst removed and having a deviated septum repaired along with a turbinate modification. Fortunately neither is particularly life threatening... but the pain is unimaginably intense (nothing can prepare for what comes) and lasts a long, loooooong time. But when adressed in an adult-like manor the actual physical pain is not so terrible compared with the emotional pain experienced by those with low emotional threshholds, which is what I see demonstrated in this particular case. Try to stay strong, Crash... you're breathing, the worst is over.
Many years ago I had all the cartilage removed from my right knee. The incision runs about 6 inches - this was not a Band-Aid surgery. The perception from movies and television is that the drugs take care of everything and surgery is like falling off a log. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I woke up from the general and asked "Who the F*** hit me in the knee with a sledge hammer." Damn it hurt. I can not imagine Crash and what he went through.
Anyway, tell Crash to take it slow and easy and do his exercises faithfully, even if they hurt like hell.
He's very willing to do anything and everything it'll take to feel better. Personally, I'm a wimp that way, but he seems to be a real fighter. I think the biggest problems with the exercises to date have been because he was too drugged up to be able to consciously direct his body to do what it needed to do. I think he'll make much faster progress now.
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I had knee replacement about 18 months ago - at the time, the surgeon said, "For the first three months, you will wonder why on earth you had the surgery. At the end of six months, you'll forget you had."
I'll pass that along. His knees are in really bad shape, too.
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I feel all Crash's pain but it *will* get better.
I'll let him know. Actually, I'm going to try to get him to Google "his" threads.
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Must run ... he's already calling me Nurse Ratchet.
Carol
Good that's what you have to be (Nurse Ratchet). I don't know what the 'going home orders were but I'll bet they were not "complete bed rest" - A little sympathy goes a long way - after that you can tell him to get up and get it himself.
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Yeah, everyone kept telling him about the pain relief from the original bone disease. No one got into the post-op pain, so he was shocked at the pain. On the other hand, he had anywhere from 10-20 on the 0-10 pain scale before the surgery. The last 2-3 days, it's been averaging about 7. So he hurts, and he's not happy about it, but it's far less than what he was suffering before. It's just a different kind of pain.
Crash's favorite quote was, "Mother-F***!"
Damsel, it's great that Crash was able to come home from the hospital... I know you've both been having a rough trot with this op, but things will get better from here.
So a little bitty visit from me and he is ready to go home!!!!!!!!
Tell him we have a date for mexican... you can even come along!!!!!
Pam
Oh, and thanks again for taking me on a break from the hospital and feeding me great Mexican food. That restaurant was a real find! I can't wait until Crash gets his appetite back so I can take him there. Or even bring home some take-out. My shredded beef chimichangas were excellent, and I loved the tamale that you shared. Yup, I'm pretty sure there was cinnamon in there.
Crash wants the cowboy boots with a cannabis leaf on them (we went to a little Mexican store that sold food and shoes when Pam and Barb came for their visit). Somehow, I can't picture him putting on a pair of cowboy boots, can you?
Yup, had this about 4 years ago. Worst pain in my life... They actually gave me something to bite down on in the doctors office while they lanced it. I felt more pain from the administering of the local anesthetic than from the actual lancing itself. Let's just say everyone in the hospital heard my screams that day... *everyone*
But when adressed in an adult-like manor the actual physical pain is not so terrible compared with the emotional pain experienced by those with low emotional threshholds, which is what I see demonstrated in this particular case.
Thanks. This was particularly traumatic for him because of those issues. Next time, we'll be prepared. The medications will be planned for and I think he'll do much better. It *has* been a nightmare, but we've learned a lot from it. At this point, he's still saying he's not going to have the other side done (like he even has that option, given the bone disease). I think that once the surgical pain is gone, he might be more willing to go ahead with the other hip. Or, he may just decide to wait until the other hip is unbearably painful. Fear can be crippling. Literally.
That's especially true. I had to have a scope (top and bottom) I'm a gagger and was petrified about the throat part...so much so that my blood pressure was 240 over something (I was in such bad shape that I don't recall the lower number) I could have "stroked out" over the fear....
Sharon
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Try to stay strong, Crash... you're breathing, the worst is over.
"Damsel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > Yeah, everyone kept telling him about the pain relief from the original
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bone disease. No one got into the post-op pain, so he was shocked at the pain. On the other hand, he had anywhere from 10-20 on the 0-10 pain scale before the surgery. The last 2-3 days, it's been averaging about 7. So he hurts, and he's not happy about it, but it's far less than what he was suffering before. It's just a different kind of pain.
Crash's favorite quote was, "Mother-F***!"
AND it's MAN PAIN! Men suffer far worse pain than women Dams.. I thought you knew that by now! 🙂 Sarah
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"Damsel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > Yeah, everyone kept telling him about the pain relief from the original
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bone disease. No one got into the post-op pain, so he was shocked at the pain. On the other hand, he had anywhere from 10-20 on the 0-10 pain scale before the surgery. The last 2-3 days, it's been averaging about 7. So he hurts, and he's not happy about it, but it's far less than what he was suffering before. It's just a different kind of pain.
Crash's favorite quote was, "Mother-F***!"
AND it's MAN PAIN! Men suffer far worse pain than women Dams.. I thought you knew that by now! 🙂 Sarah
Ok, I am LMAO off at this one! DH FINALLY admitted I was in horrible pain when my disc blew, AFTER he ended up with a couple of compressed discs-yes, sometimes there IS justice!LOL
