[BILATERAL THRs] Oh 'dreams' exactly as visioned

How you doing Barbaraj? I envied that food you had at the hospital. Well maybe it was a good thing I had dog food as it got me out of the hospital so quickly. I might have stayed longer.

 

This is my new mantra ''I want to beg you as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.Do not seek the answers,which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.And the point is to live everything.Live the questions now.Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.'' Rainer Maria Rilke

I am writing letters of thank you to my OS , his staff and the nurses on 8West who have made my life better for a reason I dont know why but hope to live into the answer.

 

@Layla I have been looking at gift baskets and plants and there is so much online it is mind boggling.And since June 4 I have wanted to do this just got so indecisive about what to write and send and here I am 7 weeks down the road the nurses probably dont even remember me but I most certainly remember them -those angels of mercy.And the amazing OS such precision ,skill, genius I am totally in his debt.

 

I second that.I could not bring it as I don't have the car ---anyway it is a nightmare driving in this city because of construction and this hospital is huge better the drivers from these places I order from--one is edible stuff fruit/chocolate dipped and a letter with the time I was there, rm etc. They can look me up in the logs if they care to but it really doesn't matter if they know me as I just want them to know they are appreciated and they were instrumental on my road to recovery.I am sending the doc a letter--he will get an exposé a veritable on my knees thank you and plant and his sec as well as she was pivotal in all the dealings and she worked /works tirelessly.

 

@Cecropia how time flies and the roller coaster of emotions fearful, reluctant, anger, sadness, frustration,depression, joy, elation, gratefulness,oh and finally humility have crossed my path and many others I am sure.And you are right 'no regrets'. But I must do something with this gift.

 

Well week-end over got another bite even though I did not venture outside. This one became blood blister had to take anti-histamines which always sends me backwards on the recovery road as muscles get stiff and sore and won't co-operate. Had to go to emergency clinic for antibiotics as this thing was spreading. On the brighter side received all my records from the hospital which I had asked for and see in a detailed report the surgery that was performed. This assures me no end.Have PT tomorrow-want to walk outside for awhile if I can.

 

There aren't too many mosquitoes in the city strangely enough not even in the garden but I think this was another spider bite. Unsure if the antibiotics are working and the bite looks hideous.I appear to be allergic to all insects since that recluse spider bite several years ago.
I am back to sleeping on my back deliberately because I have been tossing side to side and I can't get any sleep--who knew? Maybe that is why I had such poor quality sleep turning like a chicken on a spit these last years.
My hospital report:What I discovered from my hospital report is that the hip replacements are cementless and they gave me a drug with vancomycin that decreases the possibility of transfusions and I lost only 400ccs of blood.Apparently I was not made like most anatomically speaking (in terms of the hips) and they compensated and did a bang up job. Maybe it was the reason I had hip arthritis to begin with.I love more info. Hubby could not hear as he said it would make him faint.
@julesglass Is it all bugs and how are you doing?
@Cecropia I can't or at least will limit the antihistamines because it wreaks havoc on me in a strange way. It is more potent than narcs and my muscles don't work the next day. This is a recent phenomenon since the last 6 months.I am reading about all things to repel those bugs. Will wash with citronella and spray lemon juice--a concoction--on me and around me. Thanks for all the info folks.PT today.

 

Thanks Mojo333.

 

I think we used skin so soft a while back and not sure where I can get it again. I'll look up the other thanks.It is becoming a huge problem. I wish there was something I could take orally.
@CricketHip. I had to write for it. It was epic-pre-op every department and the entire surgical procedure what was used and done. I have everything I keep at home. Also I can get it on line thru the gov. but it takes over 30 days. I guess you like I like to have all these things.