Pretty busy on BoneSmart, Rich! I'm taking a little vacation starting tomorrow and I'm trying to get caught up on posts before I go! I am happy to hear you're doing so well.
I am so sore but grateful I had the surgery
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Yes my recovery has been pretty amazing,im so fortunate but i know i have done so well because of all the weight i lost and the good health im in , im convinced, thoroughly convinced of this.I hope you'll be on here for a few,if not have a great vacation...you deserve it.
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I took a chance today and walked without my cane and was able to do it, i had no problems i shocked myself Jamie it was amazing.
I'm truly happy for you, Rich! I know we told you that you'd be fine, but I'm thinking you didn't believe us...did you....:th_heehee:. It makes me smile to think about you getting out and about normally again. And, it will keep getting better and better with time!!
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Honestly before the surgery i didnt know what to believe or who i shoud believe because i was so filled with fear you could have told me the new hip is hot pink but until i saw it for myself believing anyone wasnt part of my vocabulary, i just didnt have it in me , now look at me im practically walking on my own.
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its pretty cool,it almost matches my car lol
Hope I got the blue one! :hysterical: You are doing great Rich!
We merge you threads to keep your recovery story all in one place. That way we don't loose track of you!
We merge you threads to keep your recovery story all in one place. That way we don't loose track of you!
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Todays been a long day my wife and i are having a HUGE mothers day cookout at our home on Sunday and we went shopping for the food, i regret it because i over did it AGAIN my leg feels like its been through a meat grinder ,the throbbing is unbearable and my knee, which i did not have surgery on is killing me, my hip is achey otherwise its perfectly fine, i give up trying to figure out why one part of my leg is sore and its not and another part is should be and isnt, im dont trying to figure this out i am done im so fed up that i wish i didnt even bother having the surgery to begin with, im not getting any bette only worse ! !
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Oh Rich
You have to be more gentle on yourself
Me thinks you are doing a little too much... You know for the first six weeks, I did nothing, but rest, sleep, elevate, ice and walk around the house.. I didn't venture out except to get the staples out..
You need to ease back hon, rest, elevate, ice and take you pain meds..
No point in wasting energy wishing you hadn't had the surgery.. you just have overdone it...
Rest, rest and rest some more...
You have to be more gentle on yourself
Me thinks you are doing a little too much... You know for the first six weeks, I did nothing, but rest, sleep, elevate, ice and walk around the house.. I didn't venture out except to get the staples out..You need to ease back hon, rest, elevate, ice and take you pain meds..
No point in wasting energy wishing you hadn't had the surgery.. you just have overdone it...
Rest, rest and rest some more...
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Im going ot of my mind you can only watch so much tv, im going stir crazy, if the weather wasnt so lousy i would have had more days like today i am tired of sleeping and i am out of pain meds, i ran out last friday, i called the hospital to get a re- fill and spoke to the secratary firdt thing this morning and no one called me back , i was quite angry to say the least....rest,ice, i get it but i cant take much more of this Sandy.
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Sorry honey, you have run out of pain meds, do hope you can get a refill soon.
But truly, this is very early days recovery for you Rich and is going to require lots of patience, but you now that right?
But truly, this is very early days recovery for you Rich and is going to require lots of patience, but you now that right?
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Unfortunately i lack patience thats just the way it is,its been like that for most of my life, even in the Navy and that was 18 years ago, i try to be patient but slowly but surely they run out,hopefully with this recovery i will regain those much needed patience, asfar as the pain meds when i called this morning the secratary felt the need to put in her two cents and said " oh mr cooper you're gonna have to see the dr before he gives you any medication" i really wish some people would just keep their mout shut and do their job, i was not going to say anything because i didnt want lose it on her not to mention have her hang up on me.
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If you can give me an idea on how to even begin to be patient i will give you my word i will use your pointers and / or teqniques because this inability of having no patience is really effecting all areas of my life and its really getting old FAST...patinece is somehing i need to adapt to otherwise my life is only going to become more difficult,i'm ready to change and become a patient man, i deserve the happiness that goes with a man who is patient i mean i have moments of patients im not totally useless, help me out if you can find it in your heart i will be forever grateful.
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ok here I go...... do not take any of this the wrong way
1. first thing.... Just stop. Catch the mind ranting that you shouldn't be in this situation - because you are. Give up the fight. You've lost the battle, but not the war
2. Settle into the moment. You might feel your body ease down, yielding to gravity (wise move). Your shoulders and belly relax, your jaw too.
3. Go into your body with your mind's eye and find out how you know you are impatient. Are you tight, tense, breathing shallowly, clenching, jiggling? Where exactly? focus on those sensations as closely as you can. Touch them with your mind.
Once your brain slows down, your powers of reason return.
And really, its all going to be okay....
Above all Rich, slow that busy mind of yours down and try to distract it.. it is not doing you any favors, my friend... and you know I mean this in the kindest of ways
You are in recovery Rich, you are not even one month out of major surgery, you need to be gentle with yourself :yes 4:
p.s. it comes with age as well .... I am heaps older than you and used to have very little patience, but now I don't sweat the small stuff. I am alive and I have no bone on bone pain and I am walking......... and you are too honey..
1. first thing.... Just stop. Catch the mind ranting that you shouldn't be in this situation - because you are. Give up the fight. You've lost the battle, but not the war
2. Settle into the moment. You might feel your body ease down, yielding to gravity (wise move). Your shoulders and belly relax, your jaw too.
3. Go into your body with your mind's eye and find out how you know you are impatient. Are you tight, tense, breathing shallowly, clenching, jiggling? Where exactly? focus on those sensations as closely as you can. Touch them with your mind.
Once your brain slows down, your powers of reason return.
And really, its all going to be okay....
Above all Rich, slow that busy mind of yours down and try to distract it.. it is not doing you any favors, my friend... and you know I mean this in the kindest of ways
You are in recovery Rich, you are not even one month out of major surgery, you need to be gentle with yourself :yes 4:
p.s. it comes with age as well .... I am heaps older than you and used to have very little patience, but now I don't sweat the small stuff. I am alive and I have no bone on bone pain and I am walking......... and you are too honey..
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I already love it so before i fnish reading it can you email it to me pleas so i always have, i have far to man bonesmart in ' my inbox can you copy nd paste it fo me and send it that would be so helpful Sandy.
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