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Going under the knife

JimR

JimR

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Word to the wise. Should you ever slip on ice and go horizontal. Don't put your arm out to break your fall. I did this a few weeks ago and tore two tendons in my shoulder just from jamming the arm into the shoulder when I hit the ground. Tomorrow, I'll be paying a visit to the hospital to have them re-attached. I hope the nurses are cute since they are keeping me overnight.
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Which hospital are you going to??? I spent 3 months in UMass Medical in Worcester and the food was terrible and the nurses reminded me more of Nurse Mildred Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Hopefully you will be out of there quickly and not have to experience the Dragon Ladies. Usually the ones in OR and recovery are very nice. The surgery is the easy part, the physical therapy afterwards is going to be the tough part. They will push you to do more than you think you can, but in the end, all will be well. Good luck.... Junk..
 
Good luck Jim. I know what it's like. I had shoulder trouble for years. All better now though. :)
 
Best wishes! I put off having elbow surgery to repair a 90% torn ligament for nearly 3 years in hope that it would magically heal (I was told that it was possible) because I did not like the two previous knee surgeries I had. My elbow surgery turned out to be one of my better choices. Rather than being in pain 24/7, I had what I'd call moderate pain for a few days and then the normal pain of rehab and then the pain was all over. I only mention this in hopes that surgery has progressed to where it is less painful and the results are better than they were back when I had my knee surgeries. Good luck!
 
Hey junk, I'll be at Memorial Hosp. The nurses there are better than U-Mass. Food is pretty good too. Oh Nurse, I need a back rub. Can you go a little bit lower please. Ahhhhh, that feels better.

Thanks for the best wishes guys. This won't be my first. I've had a tendon re-attached in my right elbow back in 97 and had a spur removed from my left (same) shoulder in 98. I remember the re-hab very well. I also remember my first visit with the surgeon after my other shoulder surgery. He asked me how my shoulder was doing. I lifted my arm right up over my head and shocked the hell out of him. I'm not one to sit idle after surgery. I removed the cast from my right arm after the tendon surgery. I should say it fell off. I was out in my paddle boat when my dog came swimming out and tried to hop in the boat. I pulled her in and got my cast soaked. I got yelled at for that one. Hopefully it will be a smooth thing as this shoulder has been a real pain in the ass for many weeks now. I'll be back tomorrow sometime.
 
Never used Memorial........ I always thought of it as a maternity hospital more than a general services one. Hope that when I get home, you will be filling us all in on how it went, and that all went well. I hear that the women at Fairlawn aren't bad looking and also very young. Will you be headed there for therapy???
I have a torn rotator cuff, and have successfully avoided the surgery for 10 years. Not looking forward to it.... Junk...
 
Surgery was yesterday afternoon at 3:30 pm. It was a rotator cuff repair accorrding to the surgeon. I'm home and doped up real well on Vicodin. I feel like I have had a dozen beers. Boy, does my shoulder hurt. I was sick as a dog from the anethesia after surgery. I couldn't even drink water without puking my guts out. I shut off the Morphine machine at 8pm last night. I was getting trigger happy with the button. I was able to eat breakfast and keep it down. The day nurses were the best there. I was in a stupor last night and don't even remember the 2nd shift nurses. The 3rd shift nurse was a bitch. She told me that if I didn't pee in the bottle by 3am she was going to have to make me go (cathetar). I made sure I did by then. That's all for now as I am going to take a snooze. I'm beat and didn't sleep for shit last night.
 
Well going into day three and feeling so much better. I got off the Vicodin yesterday morning. I was tired of feeling like a doped-up teenager with a mushed mind. I did however suffer the rest of the day with lots of pins and needles pain. Woke up this morning feeling like a new man. I still get a few sharp jabs here and there but they are nothing compared to the last few days. I can even move my arm from the elbow down today. I could barely move it yesterday without using my other arm to move it. The Surgeon told me to keep it moving as much as possible but no lifting as of yet. The arm doesn't want to move yet. That I am not supposed to do until the metal staples come out. This was open surgery and not orthoscopic. The wider the cut the more pain you get. Was it worth it? I'll let you know when it is back to normal. As it was I, couldn't drive with my left arm. My shoulder was catching on the tendon or whatever in there and my arm would just go limp. Not a good feeling when making a turn or going around a sharp corner.
 

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Yeow, those staples look rather, er, well, painful. I've had plenty of stitches and even looked up pictures of where I had elbow reconstruction a couple of years ago, and I've never had anyone take a staple gun to me. I wonder what is a deciding factor between using stitches and staples? Also, I am wondering if they wrote "NO" on your other shoulder? When I was going in for my elbow reconstruction the nurse wrote "NO" on the elbow that was not to be operated on. In my groggy state of mind, I read what she wrote as "ON". As such, I was panicking that they were just going to cut my other elbow "off". :eek: :o

Hopefully all goes well for you. It appears as if you have no noticable swelling or any infection of any sort. Good luck!!
 
Dargo, I had to initial my shoulder that was to be operated on. Then the surgeon had to initial that same shoulder right after. They try hard to not make any mistakes these days. The staples are easier to remove. I had ten of them in my right forearm a few years back. The doctor gave me the tweezers to remove them. You don't even feel it when they come out. I removed them myself.

I did however do a clean pee test for the guy next to me in my room. His first name was Robert which is my last name. I told the nurse that the test was not neccessary. She came back later shaking her head that I was right and she picked the wrong patient.
 
Jim....... I assume that you had heard about the guy that went to UMass Medical for an amputation of his left leg due to infection, and by mistake they cut off the right leg. When they realized the mistake, they took him back in to the OR and took off the left leg also. After he woke up and learned about the mistake, he started to scream loudly and called his attorney. The attorney told him that it was a mistake, but he couldn't sue the hospital or the doctor..........
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He told him that he didn't have a leg to stand on!!!!!! :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:
 
Junk, Many years ago I did hear about a guy that went in to get his appendix out and came out missing a leg. The guy sharing his room was a diabetic and was supposed to have his leg removed. I think that was when all the paperwork and signing of body parts started.
 
Did you hear about the Rabbi that was late getting to the circumcision?? He came running in yelling...... don't worry folks, it won't be long now!!!!! :whistle:
 
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