Have to take a hiatus for a week or two? from our Brownsboard
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I feel for ya Cal I'm having surgery on the 29th...totally
different type but I'll be in 7-10 days after! I'll check in asap
when I get out! GO BROWNS!!!
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Get well cal, and Merry Christmas to you and yours!
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Cal, I had a total hip replacement 7 years ago, and we share the same extreme dislike of needles.
Not to worry about the epidural--they gave me Propofol and I have no memory of the epidural.
A word of advice: take your rehab seriously and apply yourself and you will indeed be asking,
"Why did I wait so long?"
Merry Christmas and good luck!
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Thanks, guys, and great outcome for Mopar, too !
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You'll be fine. My dad was like you, the docs said he needed both knees replaced (he had his own moving company and worked 45 years doing that). He waited until he was 75 to do the first one, then he did the other the following year.
He always said "why did I wait so long to do this?"
You'll be playing golf by April.
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Thanks. Will I be good at golf ?
I never was before....
old joke. It's good thing my surgeon is excellent... or I'd worry that
my knee was so screwed up, that the new knee wouldn't fit unless they
put it on backwards...my foot would face toward.my butt, and even though
I'm no "tough guy"...I would be able to kick my own ass.
What would be sad, is that when I walked, I wouldn't know if I was comin or goin....
Worse.... maybe I wouldn't be able to walk at all....I'd only be able to hop around
in little circles....but I wouldn't know whether to hop clockwise or counterclockwise....
But, no worries here, I'm in great hands, and the well wishes are very much appreciated.
I remember years ago, when my Dad had his second knee done.... he had a bit of a cold,
so they gave him a spinal... and he let Dad watch them replace his knee ! He said that
was the most fascinating thing he ever watched !
My surgeon just laughed and said "no, no, no". Probably for the best.
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Indeed ! I have heard that from so many. With me, I have a needle phobia.
Don't like em, I think it's irrational to allow one to be used on ya.
But, my surgeon just thought that was funny, and assured me that
the epidural is not a big deal at all. And different women have just laughed
and said they had an epidural when they had their kids, I'd be fine.
Well, they are braver than me.... we'll see if I pass out or not. lol
It's hell when you can't see a stab in the back coming......
Indeed ! I have heard that from so many. With me, I have a needle phobia.
Don't like em, I think it's irrational to allow one to be used on ya.
But, my surgeon just thought that was funny, and assured me that
the epidural is not a big deal at all. And different women have just laughed
and said they had an epidural when they had their kids, I'd be fine.
Well, they are braver than me.... we'll see if I pass out or not. lol
It's hell when you can't see a stab in the back coming......
Then you're like me- hate to get knocked out. If your knee is totally shot, no sense waiting any longer. It will go well, and make sure they give you plenty of happy drugs to kill the pain.
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Good luck my friend. Mine are waaayyy past due!
WSS
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and I was going to ask a favor of all you fellow characters.
See, it all started when I was born a middle class, goofy comedian child.
Then, when I was older, we'd go on vacations, and by the time we got there,
my knee was killing me, but I figured my cousins' knees hurt just as much,
so I just ignored it.
fast forward some years, I had developed a trick knee, but it wasn't magic.
fast forward some years, and it had to be fixed so it would stay together.
I had major surgery. They gave me all the sodium penathol sp? they were
allowed to give me, and I was still awake. My dr said I was fighting the
anesthetic, and I had to relax and let it take effect so he could fix my knee.
I think I'm the reason they don't use it anymore.....
I'd had osgood-schlatters disease/inflammation however you spell it,
but they didn't know about that back in the day.... at least the drs where
we were at down on the farm for 3 yrs in S. Ohio....
Then, I became a machinist right out of hs for a year, to pay off my awesome
1966 Chevy Belaire, 3 on the stick, four door, metallic cherry red, 250 straight six,
155 hp..
I loved that car. But the machinist shop hired about 13 of us for only one year, because
they got gov funding for our apprenticeship. I was #12 to be let go, at the very end of the year,
cause the other guy had a bunch of experience working in his uncle's shop....
And sure enough, before I could go to college and still be draft deferred..... I got drafted.
haha, very funny. But at the physical, I was well on my way to the army, when they
got to my knee. "Son, you aren't going anywhere near the service with that knee",
and I was permanently draft exempt unless it was some national emergency.
Fast forward 2 1/2 years, and the tire plant was going to have a very, very serious long
strike. Everybody was worried that they would lose everything, but the company was
going for broke to break the union. I'd never seen my parents worry about anything before.
Jobs were scarce, and I knew what to do. I enlisted in the Air Force.
Sure enough, most of the way through the physical, a doctor said, "Son,
what on earth are you doing here with that knee? Your knee will never make it through
basic. I'm sending you home, son."
However, I told him, no, I was serious,..and was enlisting. So, he frowned, and went
and got a couple of other doctors, and all three were examining my knee, they took some xrays,
and were asking all sorts of questions about who the excellent surgeon was, etc.
And, they said my knee would never make it. But, I told them I couldn't enlist in the Navy,
which I had always wanted to do, because my Dad had been in the Navy, and I had
read his Bluejacket Manual many times, and wanted to command my own landing craft
like he did.....but the family physician said my only chance was to go into the Air Force, which had a
much easier basic physically on the knees. And sure enough, they went and talked
together out of the room, and they said okay, but they felt like they were doing me a disservice.
And so it was, I was in the Air Force. The knee held up for about 5 weeks, then went south on me.
But, as much as it was hard to march on, letters from home and friends about the Browns
kept me going, it was Nov/Dec, 1973.
There's another story on how I ran the qualifier 1/4 mi, 1/2 mi, 3/4 mile, and 1 mile
in combat boots, on a damn asphalt track....
and how I made it through the required 1 1/2 mile qualifying run. But, that would make this story
twice as long, so, if anybody wants to really know, let me know, I'll send it to you in an email.
And so, all these years...I'm retired now, the old knee is like two greased cue balls stacked
vertically, and our friends and my Wonderful Cute Wife have worried a lot about me,
so, for Christmas, actually, Dec 28th...
I have a total knee replacement happening, and won't be able to get online much, and trying to
type on my tablet ...is just stupid, the tiny little keyboard whatchacallit is hell trying to type on.
The first time a surgeon said I needed to let him replace my knee was six years ago.
I am a little bit stubborn...........
So, the only reason I explain all this stupid stuff, is to ask a favor of all of you.
I may not be on the board for a week or two, only 3 days in the hospital, unless for
some complication with my knee being weird (prominent surgeon says of thousands of knees
he's done, he never has seen a big screw in a knee at the angle mine is in)...
and hopefully, I don't end up in four days of rehab out of the surgery being complicated...
because I told my wife, that if I end up in one of those rehab places, as an American and
a veteran of the AF, it will be my duty to escape. And, I said I just have to remember
to take my wire cutters with me. My Wife says "oh,...what the heck for?"
I said to cut the barb wire....
Anyways, starting the 28th, this Monday, would all you characters please stop saying funny stuff,
and stop with the great football insight stuff, etc, for at least a week?
I don't want to miss anything.
If the Browns do some crazy trade or something,
Canton Mike will keep me posted, if my Wife doesn't hear about it on the local news first.
Maybe they have wifi at the hospital for the 2-3 days I'm there, but probably not.
So, don't say any really great stuff until I can at least log on and lurk and catch up.
Thanks, everybody, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and GO BROWNS.
and I was going to ask a favor of all you fellow characters.
I'd had osgood-schlatters disease/inflammation
and my Wonderful Cute Wife have worried a lot about me,
so, for Christmas, actually, Dec 28th...I have a total knee replacement happening, and won't be able to get online much,
I am a little bit stubborn...........So, the only reason I explain all this stupid stuff, is to ask a favor of all of you.
and hopefully, I don't end up in four days of rehab out of the surgery being complicated...
because I told my wife, that if I end up in one of those rehab places, as an American and
a veteran of the AF, it will be my duty to escape. And, I said I just have to remember
to take my wire cutters with me. My Wife says "oh,...what the heck for?" I said to cut the barb wire....
Anyways, starting the 28th, this Monday, would all you characters please stop saying funny stuff,
and stop with the great football insight stuff, etc, for at least a week?
I don't want to miss anything.
Thanks, everybody, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and GO BROWNS.
God bless ya Cal! Good to hear you're gonna slaughter the osgood damages for a new knee. I've watched more than a few people get knees replaced come out of it wishing they did it sooner. They were all very pleased to be feeling like they had 2 healthy knees.
I don't how stubborn you are but I had to tell my dad you can't edit the success of innovation and technology here with old school stubborn. When he gave me a WTF expression - I said you heard me. Stop being a Flugel and listen to what he says. I was nice. I didn't add and you can wipe that cranky old bastard look right off your face.
Good luck and best wishes on a speedy recovery!
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Spoken (typed) like a true Browns fan!So you're gonna miss this epic Steelers beatdown?
First we have to throw a wet towel on the KC Chiefs party.
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Great post. Many people in my generation can't fathom "being drafted." I had a young man once ask me, "You mean men didn't have a choice whether or not they went to war?" I was like, "Uh...no. One day you're an 18 year-old kid, and the next you're in a swamp in some god forsaken land witnessing some of the most awful shit in history, and then when or "if" you come home, many people hate you." I work as a case manager for a federal program that houses homeless military veterans. I have the utmost respect for people like you.
You just get your damn knee feeling better. Surgery has come a LONG way with replacement surgeries, and you'll feel better in no time. Like others have said, I think you'll be saying, "Why in the HELL did I wait so long?!"
Merry Christmas, and have a happy new year.
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Great post. Many people in my generation can't fathom "being drafted." I had a young man once ask me, "You mean men didn't have a choice whether or not they went to war?" I was like, "Uh...no. One day you're an 18 year-old kid, and the next you're in a swamp in some god forsaken land witnessing some of the most awful shit in history, and then when or "if" you come home, many people hate you." I work as a case manager for a federal program that houses homeless military veterans. I have the utmost respect for people like you.
You just get your damn knee feeling better. Surgery has come a LONG way with replacement surgeries, and you'll feel better in no time. Like others have said, I think you'll be saying, "Why in the HELL did I wait so long?!"
Merry Christmas, and have a happy new year.
I work as a case manager for a federal program that houses homeless military veterans. I have the utmost respect for people like you.
You've been a great addition to this board but this might be your best post. It's great to see vets have people like you fighting for them long after they're capable in their own country they once put their lives on the line to protect.
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I work as a case manager for a federal program that houses homeless military veterans. I have the utmost respect for people like you. Jiggins
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nah, I wasn't drafted - I have the utmost respect for people like you, who work to help homeless military veterans...
that really rocks...
and all veterans, but especially the veterans who served in combat. That really honors me to be around them on
veterans day at at restaurant.
One day in the AF, we were on alert for a weekend, and a msgt and I were on 24/7 duty for our 24 hr shift..
and he told me about how he became a military man. He said he grew up in a poor side of town, and his only choices
after hs was to get a job, join a gang. Well, no black folks owned any businesses hiring, and no black kid could get
a job. And his Momma would have beaten him silly with her cookie dough spoon if he joined a gang. But he said
Uncle Sam didn't care what color he was, and he got drafted because she would never let him get into drugs and trouble and gangs...., and Uncle Sam gave him a job, and he moved his
Mom out of that neighborhood, got his sisters into college, and his own two kids got college degrees just
like his Wife had. He served back in the day toward the end of the Korean fighting.
Guys like him, and the vets who served in WWII, Iraq, anywhere. They amaze me. But I always thank all vets
for their great service.
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Believe me that guys like me (and others on the board) who served in a combat zone have all our respect for those who gave all. Nothing brought that home more for me than this past Oct. standing in an American cemetery near where my grandfather served as an Artillery Captain in WWI France. Over 4000 on a forgotten battlefield who never returned home. And reading the names and ages on the tombstones I could imagine the dreams they may have had that never came to fruition.
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Cal good luck with the surgery, heal quickly but you're still a douchebag
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good luck cal!
my best friend had a hip replacement 4 years ago and 2 days after the surgery he was in a physical rehab center walking around. 2 days later was at home. now you'd never know he had a prob even though he had a neck a back surgery and the hip replacement. the new technology is incredible (just don't be surprised when the hospital wants to kick you out the door like they do with women who have just given birth.............insurance doesn't want to pay for extended stays).
my girlfriend/wife had both knees done after ripping out all the muscles and tedons in both in an industrial accident over a decade ago. then they diagnosed here with early stages of MS. she's basically walking bone on bone and it's difficult to watch. i would've given up years ago and gone with the ol' hover round or private golf cart but she refuses. strong ass bitch.
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Get well soon.
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