PKR Oops, I did it again...Round 2 complete!

[Dabber]

Maybe you can count your pills, rub a little of the residue off on your fingers and lick them. Maybe that will be like a sedative.

My first quote post
I needed sedative when I got there this morning as I had a right old battle to get them to do the right bloods, Dh was in the chemist at the same time trying to do battle to get my monthly meds. Oh dear, sometimes you're just not up to battle mode after no food or sleep, I did feel if they didn't do something PDQ I was going to run out in tears AND I didn't take my walking stick otherwise known as comfort blanket. I'd have been shaking that at them if I'd had it.
Sue.

 

[daughter stalker]

Bionic woman2 I thought we agreed that the ODIC card was not to be whipped out. Since when did ODIC start mailing coupons to your house? The 20% off kind? UGH It is okay for the ODIC card to cause a ruckus in your purse. Kinda like a party there, but not show it's ugly face. THEN you have to go home and ice. That's how you do it! See...I haven't totally lost my card. It is just hiding in my purse.

What am I to do with my Scorpio Buddy? October 26th. I have you beat by a few days! I'm with you! No birthday this year! Two next year is okay with me. I hoard emotions, too! I think that is one of my worst traits.

Stay away from ODIC. It causes your freezer to be angry at you for turning on the accelerated ice button cause you have used all the ice for your ice machine. My poor freezer went on strike and stopped putting out. My husband had to go to the store to buy ice. I really can't use my ice machine because my freezer just isn't up for the massive amount of ice it takes to run it. I'd have to get to the store and people might follow me because they think I am having a party only to find out that the ice is just for a machine I strap to my knee. It is only 6 am and I am already getting slap happy/silly stupid. :rolleyes: I thought people only went to the store to buy ice when they were filling up their beer cooler. I wonder if my husband had a beer cooler and he didn't want to make me feel bad that I could not have any at the time!!!

Will check in with you later. I hope you have a wonderful day!

 

[Bionic woman2]

AND I didn't take my walking stick otherwise known as comfort blanket. I'd have been shaking that at them if I'd had it.

Sue, I'm so glad you left your cane at home, no need to get arrested. You've been through enough already. Glad you had your back-up drug handler with you to get your meds. Sorry you had a rough experience this morning. Hopefully, you're home now icing your knee with your feet up... taking a nap!

daughter stalker, you literally made me laugh out loud today. I'm going to attempt to run some errands today without whipping out my ODIC card, although I can hear it rustling in the back of my purse already.


As far as ice goes, I'm surprised a group of college kids haven't showed up at my door in sheets chanting TOGA, TOGA! Yeah, we need to buy some stock in packaged ice, since I don't have an ice machine in my frig. Whenever someone asked me if I need anything, I say ICE!

Speaking of ice and ODIC, you're gonna FLIP when you hear what I have planned for the weekend. Sssssh! My girlfriend wants to take me out dancing before my next surgery. Now before you go all APB on me let me just say, she's gonna let me out at the door and then I will sit my behind somewhere. I'm gonna try to be a seat dancer. This is gonna be hard because, I LOVE music and dancing. It makes me happy and I think we can all agree that "happy" right about now is good. Although I can't make any promises that I will stay in my seat if they play reggae. lol Yeah Mon! I will have ice and drugs ready in the car for the ride home. Oh, did I mention that I was gonna leave my cane in car. Can't very well walk in looking like Hobble Granny, or Big Granny Cane. I working on my walk now. Hmmm It won't be a Catwalk. I think it's gonna be something with a slight limp and a little hip action. Think, if Quasimoto was a woman.

Soooooo, with that said. I'm taking it easy up until "the big day."

Gonna head out now and run some errands. After typing about my outing on Friday, I think I WILL save my ODIC card that. I'm going to take it out of my wallet right now and lock it in the safe.

Have a great day everybody

 

[Bionic woman2]

Just got back from running my errands which included returning some ill-fitting items I bought online. No fat jokes please, some of the items were shoes for my boys. Anyway, while at the register I had the pleasure of I had the pleasure of meeting a cashier who couldn't understand why I didn't do both knees at the same time. He (of course it was a man ) told me that studies show women heal faster than men. I promptly told him, that's because you guys are babies and can't take pain. :p We laughed... ha ha haaa, up until the part that he told me his 70 yr old grandmother had "both of hers done and she was back doing her thing in 2 1/2 weeks." I wonder what her thing was... Using the restroom? Getting an ice pack? Grabbing a snack? SERIOUSLY DUDE! Was that supposed to make me feel good, that I was dusted by your grandmother and I only had ONE knee done! No wonder I'm single.

If it were not for Bonesmart I would've left there with my head hung down low, feeling inadequate. If such a person does exist I would love to meet her, or any other 70, no 60, no 50, shoot, 30 year old woman who can "do their thing" at 2 1/2 weeks after a Bilateral! I would gladly give up my "Bionic Woman" username and "Big granny Cane" title. ditzy dinah and Jesse for the Fight, there's a new sheriff in town. The recovery time bar has been raised. lol I'm sure it would be a totally different story if we heard it from her.

Some people do not know what to say. I've decided from now on I'm not even gonna mention knee replacement unless absolutely necessary, like at the Dr's office.... or the airport.

 

[daughter stalker]

Hey Bionic woman2, you are doing great! Don't listen to dudes who exaggerate! He probably doesn't even pay much attention to his granny. To make conversation he thought he would guess how long it took for her to get back to doing her thing. Maybe it was that long before she was released from rehab. Maybe before she had her bilateral she was in a wheelchair. I am guessing this dude was in his early to mid 20's, right? I honor him with 5 rotten tomatoes!!! SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT! Okay I am finished bashing him. On to better things...

I hope my stand-up, sit-down, fight, fight fight comedy act didn't stink! Have an awesome evening!

 

[Bionic woman2]

He was in his 50's lol Apparently there's no age limit on exaggeration.

Yeah, now that I think about it, he was probably recalling this event from his childhood. I think he said she was deceased. He did mention that he's trying to get his mom to get hers done, but he's taking care of his knees so he won't need one. lol From hence forth NWIS, will stand for No Wonder I'm Single.

 

[Bionic woman2]

Ladies and Gentlemen... I have I come up with a CURE FOR BALDNESS... Knee Replacement Surgery. Well at least on your legs. lol Today I actually saw the hair on my bionic leg. Let me start by saying that I have never had to shave my legs a day in my life. "I'm inside the brown skin", as my son use to say when he was little. The hair on my legs is very fine in texture and light in color. It evens turns reddish blond in the summer to blend in with my skin tone. So you can imagine my surprise to see all these little hairs standing up all over my leg.
Don't go cashing in your savings to have your bald hubby's knees done yet. I'm thinking it's from the swelling. Since yesterday I decided to end a perfect day by attempting to squat? MmmmHmm, everything was going well until my kneecap did some crazy move. I didn't even get far because my left leg was like... "Yeah, right." Thank God, I'd probably still be stuck in a squatting position if it had cooperated.

So, my question for today is... How soon after knee surgery where you able to squat? Also, Where you able to squat before surgery?

Okay so that's two questions, but who's counting.

 

[daughter stalker]

Bionic woman2, now why would you want to go and squat? I could squat before having my TKR, but I couldn't stay that way very long. I would need to hold on to something to get up or put my back side up with my hands on the floor to get up to a point where I could stand. Kinda like a very small squat with a push off the floor.
I've tried to write checks my body couldn't cash, but WHOA! I am sorry that your new knee did a number on you and it has you in pain! I hope you feel better soon!

 

[Bionic woman2]

I would need to hold on to something to get up or put my back side up with my hands on the floor to get up to a point where I could stand.

Sounds like a raunchy dance move, but I get the visual. It's how I use to get up from the floor. I wouldn't dare get down there now... not yet!

Hey, I dream about squatting down! lol One day I'm gonna run through the school squatting down and tying shoes... who want some! I may even pull a few a loose (like the kids do on the carpet at circle time) so I can show off my new knees.

For now, my knee is better, I actually got a little bit more stretch out of it today, so yay!

I need to get OFF of here and run another errand. I'm NOT bringing my ODIC card w/me, saving that for tomorrow and Friday night.

 

[Bionic woman2]

Welllll, I may have pulled out my ODIC card with a walk to the mailbox. The jury is still out on that one, right now I feel fine. Now this is no ordinary at the end of your drive way mailbox. It had to be at least 1/3 of mile there and back. It seemed more like The Green Mile to me. Did I mention I didn't bring my cane? It seemed like a good idea at the time. Actually, it went well. I walked without much of a limp until the end, when I was tempted to drop on my belly and crawl the rest of the way.

All in all I'm glad I did it. It was good exercise and it helped me to practice my walk for my upcoming night out. When I felt like limping, I told myself there was a cute guy coming and I sucked it up like a princess Knee pain. lol

daughter stalker, my neighbors are probably ready to have me committed as I walked along giggling to myself at the thought of adding a little swag, or is it swing, back in the day we called it switch. Whatever it's called, I was considering adding a little, but I didn't want to throw my hip out. I'm gonna need that for my Friday night seat dancing.

I even walked up the stairs like a big girl. I thought about ending with another squat, but decided against it!

Unfortunately, I have to go back out and get ice because my older son won't be coming home for a while. That's something I wish I knew AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS! I have 2 flights. Oh well, I may let my teenager drive.... Lord save the Queen!

 

[daughter stalker]

Bionic woman2
Okay let me get it straight...The sucked up princess walked the green mile up the stairs like a big girl?

At age 5 I would slide down them bouncing and laughing all the way down. At 16 I would go up and down the stairs on my bottom one stair at a time leg straight. I don't know if your stairs are carpeted or wooden, but this is how I did it. When we bought the house we are living in today it was understood that we were going to have a one level house. I wouldn't even consider a house with stairs. This was about 20 years ago.

You are going to have a blast on Friday! I am so happy you are going out.

 

[Bionic woman2]

Well, it looks like BW over did it yesterday with the "green mile" walk. I'm a little stiff today.

Heading out to my son's Senior night. I decided to skip the curriculum night that follows. My knees I will not find it cute rushing all over the school and changing classes every 10 minutes. Not to mention the parents who take over the limited class time w/individual questions like it's their very own mini conference. Nope, I'm good. Just tell me what he needs to do to get out and how much it's gonna cost me. lol The thrill is gone!

My son DOES NOT want to go, so I have to go drag him out of his room now.. kicking and screaming.

 

[daughter stalker]

Did you ice and elevate today as you should have? I hope you feel better soon. Please don't do too much tonight. I am not sure I have another day like yesterday in me right now. I am tired from the long day I had. I'm elevating right now.

I don't blame you for not wanting to rush around the school changing classes. We did that in 6th grade with my daughter, but the principal at the new school for 7th and 8th grade just didn't feel it was necessary to have parents run around like kids. What a concept! My daughter helped open the school she currently goes to.

How do you know you live in Florida? Your kids change schools every other year because they keep having to build more schools. We have lived in our house for about 20 years and my daughter changed schools 4 times. She is in 8th grade. I am so hoping when she goes to high school next year that this will be the school she goes to all 4 years. We are not planning to move.

Take care! I can't wait to hear how it went tonight.

 

[Knee pain]

Good evening Girls, I hope your both kicking up your heals..Lol. I'm just lying around bed, waiting for pain meds to kick in, then time to get my act together and shower. Going for a drive today, down the Great Ocean Road, a beautiful drive, only 20 minutes away from here, goggle Great Ocean Road Australia. The reward is an hours drive to the best seafood restraunt in Little down on the coast called Lorne.
My poor man is desperate for an outing, I am pushing my self to go, just feeling a bit blaaaa. Once I make the effort it will be good for both of us. Hope both your evenings turned out great, and not to painful. XO

 

[Bionic woman2]

Well ladies... I didn't whip out my ODIC card, I had it snatched out of the back of my wallet! daughter stalker, it wasn't my fault. I went to the sit down senior night session as planned. As I was about to leave my son said, "Are you sure you're ready to go." Just then I started twitching and I could feel the OAA in me rise to the surface. Then he told me that his IB LA teacher wanted to meet me. Turns out she wanted to meet all of the parents but it made my feel special. I'm sure that's another club but we won't go there. lol

I decided since her class was 6th period and I'd NEVER last that long, I'd go there first and just say hello. I also wanted to thanks his math teacher for a successful junior year, so he was my next and last stop.

By now my legs were already killing me, as I had forgotten to take my meds. YES, I forgot to take my meds, it's not a typo. After calling myself stupid 3 or 4 times I proceeded to the classes. Speaking of stupid, having not communicated verbally with adults outside of my small circle of friends and having drugs running through my vein, I felt this strange "medicinal stupor" when I tried to verbally communicate. Just being in a room full of people who have been communicating normally was a trip. My crazy personality didn't help much, I yawned out loud and I almost burst out in laughter while watching a staged and very bland PTSA president's video. Clearly I need to get out more.

Anyway, what follows next can only be describe as surreal! I have been in my son's school plenty of times and it never looked as HUGE as it did tonight. The minute he opened the door to the classroom corridors, it was like I was on LSD or something. :rolleyes: To make matters worst my son would nonchalantly point in the direction of the class and say, Oh, it's around the corner. The only thing was there's a corridor with another corner around the corner! I kid you not. Don't believe me, well a picture says a 1,000 words. I stopped and took the one below to prove I wasn't trippin' on something. lol This is just a hall within a hall. It does not include all the corridors within corridors, with the corners within the corners off to the sides. Diminuata this made me think of your earlier post. lol

Again, this is just the tip of the iceberg, there are several halls off to the side that branch out into branches. It's like a big Redwood tree or something. This was my starting point. I makes my trip to the mailbox yesterday seem like a trip to the bathroom. I did take the elevator, and skip out after meeting with the two teachers. I'm glad I went to his LA class, because she promptly handed me a list of books he needed to purchase. I'm gonna get that out of the way before my second surgery.

When I got home I immediately chewed 2 Tramadol pills, slapped the cryo machine on and put my legs up. I think my knee has cooled off. On the way home I was singing... THIS GIRL IS ON FIRRRRE! lol More like this knee, but I improvised.

Whew! Goodnight, Good Morning, Good Afternoon!

 

[Bionic woman2]

Yum, Leoni! the drive sounds wonderful and the food... let's just say my tongue is hanging out of my mouth. :p
Glad you're pushing threw to hang out with your honey. You got your new hair-do right? Let the wind blow through it if it's not too chilly. I forgot, we're on opposite ends of the seasons.

I just covered by grey today. Trying to figure out what to do with it for my outing tomorrow night. Debating on braiding it, with takes forever, a head-wrap or el natural. We'll see... right now I'm recuperating from the school trip. Aaaah!

 

[Bionic woman2]

but the principal at the new school for 7th and 8th grade just didn't feel it was necessary to have parents run around like kids.

Smart dude, it was cute in the beginning but it got old, FAST!

I am so hoping when she goes to high school next year that this will be the school she goes to all 4 years. We are not planning to move.

I hope so too, I hate moving and definitely not fond of changing schools. Not only is it hard on the students, but the teachers as well. Some teachers look at kids in a bad light when they move a lot, like it's their fault. Duh!
My slogan is, "Kids can't raise themselves and somebody raised those parents." I'm just glad I'm almost done with school. I was just thinking how wonderful I t would be to be able to move without having to worry about the school district or calendar year. HALLELUJAH!

 

[daughter stalker]

We haven't moved. That's the point! We just keep getting new schools and the school lines keep getting changed. That is how I know I am in Florida!

 

[Bionic woman2]

Oh, my gosh! We have a little of that in Ga with redistricting, but not our school district. The elementary school I work at started out with 700+ kids, now we have over 1,700. Think we'd create another school.. nope, just slap another wing or floor on it and add some trailers.

 

[Knee pain]

OMG, you just bought back memories, I still remember those school days, with my two boys. It was probably easier in Australia, boys stayed in the one school until the year 12. Then they left home for university. Then they both had 3 and 4 years at uni.
I was so happy when the school fees finished. Could have gone around the world 3 times on what it cost. Lol I would never change it, if I had my time over again, now the boys are 36 & 37 years of age.....lol I was a young bride. And I think they are going to work out ok...lol