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Terri, aka, Abunnybabe, Aka Mein Dumplink Recovers

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It makes a HUGE difference once the staples are history. Not to mention you can shower more easily and things just look better.

Terri....you are doing so well!!! Great ROM this early, gal! You're gonna be hoppin' down the bunny trail really soon.
 
Hi Guys,Who's runnin' that joint anyway???? Dr Mengle???? I sorry about the pain
management situation NO excuse for that! I'm glad your coming home friday!
There's no place like home to get your spirits up, and to be at least a little more
comfortable! Feel better soon and All My Best!!!!!
 
Hi Terri! Hope you had a good night and you're ready you are take on.........well, whatever! Take care, Girl!!:evil::pzld::sct::pnc::thmb:
 
Hi guys, I am between PT sessions right now. Have to grab a quick lunch and be back at the gym at 1PM. My leg is really killing me! They increased my pain meds today and then made them every 6 really' hours instead of every four. Go frickin' figure!
I am never having surgery again! This knee rehab sucks! During the day I work myself up to 90 on the CPM machine, I'm walking pretty good and I feel loose. When I wake up, my knee is stiff as a board! re's a fun tidbit that happened to me yesterday. A strange doctor walks into my room and informs me that he is a psychiatrist. Ok, I say, why are you here? He says it's institutional policy that a psychiatrist see all patients who are on cymbalta. I say, OK, but I have been on the cymbalta and lyrica for about 3 years now for peripheral neuropathy. OH, he says, sounding sad, you are not on it for depression? No....I'm on it for my feet, peripheral neuropathy, I say. So he leaves. Comes back in about 2 minutes later and says that Angela, the head nurse told him that I cry alot. I tell him that I cry because I am in alot of pain, and that if he was in my position, he;d probably cry too. Then he asks me if I ever wanted to kill myself. No....I think....but I;m about to kill YOU, YOU FREAK! now get out of my room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, just 2 more days, 2 more days, 2 more days....
 
Ohmigosh. That is so funny. I had one come into my room one morning. He just stood there and told me with my surgery it was normal to experience so much pain. I thought he was a minister. Then I started to figure out he was a Dr. So I thought he was a Dr. minister. Well I got his bill last week. 350.00. He was a Neuropsychologist!?!?!

Glad you are going home. There's no place like it!!
 
Awww Miz Bunny Dumplink,
You missed your chance to really screw with his mind!!! You could of really had him going!!! And then you could have looked at him and said is that what you wanted me to say??? I told you the first time you were in here why I am on those meds! But you did not seem to like my answer so do you like the one I made up just for you???? Now who do I turn You and missy Nurse into?? As a Nurse she should know why and what for I take my meds for!!! She should not have been spreding rumors!!!!!

Thank the Lord you are out of there Friday!!!!
 
:hissy::doh:Hi Terri! No wonder they have rehab and nursing home care in the same facility! Half those patients probably were waiting for answers from their doctors,too! Boy will you be HAPPY when you are outta there!! You're almost there!
Keep your sense of humor! You can "kill them" when you get out! :pnc:
 
well, the saga goes on....today I got fired by my physical therapist! She yelled at me for using my good leg to help move my bad leg and went off on me, said that at this point I shouldn't have to do that, blah blah, blah. Then she gave me the cane and told me to walk in the hall. So I'm walking downing the hall and she finally catches up with me and I said in a very civilized tone that I don't appreciate being yelled at and talked down to my my therapist. Well....she turned into a wild woman, started screaming at me. I honestly can't even remember what she was ssying, but finally she said that if I didn't want her , someone else woulf work with mr for the rest of my stay. I said that would be wonderful, got in my wheelchair and left. Needless to say, this did not help my already very tender psycological system and I have been a wreck the rest of the day. Good thing the psychiatrist didn't come TODAY----I would have been comitted LOL!!!!
 
Oh Terri! What a horror! EWhen you leave....write a letter to the administrator...mspare someone else the horr or you suffered and name names,!, Can't wair to read the book!! (:)0)
 
Oh Terri! What a horror! EWhen you leave....write a letter to the administrator...mspare someone else the horr or you suffered and name names,!, Can't wait to read the book!! (:)0)
 
Well Terri, bless your heart. What a mess. I wish we could just wiggle our noses and get you home. I think you cannot catch a break. If it isn't one goofball, it is another.
Please realize that only here on Bonesmart will you find a group of people who will honestly believe that "THEY" are all crazy, not you. You are probably starting to feel a bit victimized, and I am starting to believe it for you.
You need to be at home, where you have a little bit more control over many of the aspects of your recovery. You can determine when and how much to exercise, and you can determine when and how much pain relief you need.
I can remember when I was in the hospital, doing many things just to humor the staff, knowing that what I was being required to do was a stupid policy or protocol for the facility, not necessarily to my benefit. I was able to tolerate that for just a few days. I do not think I could have taken it as long as you have.
This institutionalized setting may benefit some folks without all of their faculties, but that is not you, and I am confused as to why you needed to be there in the first place. :sct:
I don't say these things to further frustrate you, but just know that at home, you will feel so much better.
Also, I was encouraged to use my good leg under my op leg for support for quite a long time. So, the heck with that mean lady.

You cheer up. This has been very hard for you, and it will get better very soon. I promise everything will be just fine. Make those PT lunatics go through the entire employee roster until they produce an acceptable person to help you. Jerks. Tell the psychiatrist that the PT staff is screaming at you, and it makes you cry. Tell him the screaming PT lady needs some meds. Good grief.
Keep talking to us, we want to know what is going on. Keep being a good advocate for yourself, you need it there!

Do not worry about those jerky people, they are none of your concern. You did the exact right thing by telling her not to talk to you like that.

Sincerely, Kimberly
 
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Good thing the psychiatrist didn't come TODAY----I would have been comitted LOL!!!! :shk:

Hey little dumpling,things seem to be going pretty well huh?? :sct:
Terri ,,I am betting you are really starting to be a true hero there.:thmb:

Just think of all the old peeps that thought there hearing was gone? With all that shouting and screaming going on,,they are saying ,,praise the LORD ,I can hear again.

Bunny ,bunny bunny,,your such a inspiration for all peeps there,,first them old guys eyes have improved looking at you,,and now their hearing is better.
WOW!
I am thinking maybe after your home for a month or so,,you will ask to go back there to visit and just say hi to some peeps?? Or would that be wrong??:hehe:

Now please smile,,we all know your hurting and that makes us all hurt. Once your home ,thing will start improving quickly,,time does heal all in many ways.

Please get better soon,this is about as nice as I can act,,I still have not forgotten your cowboy remark,,lol.


Very good luck girl!!
 
Mark that was so true every word of it!!!!
Our Miz Bunny Dumplink needs to start planning how she can help all of those poor people exscape from there.. I mean if she would yell like that at Bunny I do not want to even think about what she might do to the older people that are stuck in there. Oh how bad she must make them feel and they have not one to listen to them!!! Dang now I am crying for all of them!!!!!
At least Our Little Miz Bunny Dumplink will get sprung on friday. Amen!!!!!!!!
 
I know how I would have dealt with both the tric-cyclist and physical terrorist, I would have walked away and ignored them!

Thing I don't get is - you all get pulled through to hell and back by these jokers and - this is truth - you do no better nor worse then we in the UK who just get left to do exercises on our own and see what happens! Of course you get the odd ones like Dawnie who don't to so well, but one of her knees is great. 1 out of 2 ain't bad!

My sister had both knees done - no PT whatsoever and has terrific ROM. A friend had one knee done, also no PT and is great. I could name (if I could actually remember the names!) a few clients who saw me for medicals and patients who came to theatre (OR) for other procedures who'd had TKRs - exactly the same. Go figure!
 
Terri just bouncing in again and reading all this; I am so glad I didn't have to go to a rehab place. I just went home and the PT guy came to me. It was so good to be at home.... You really seem to be having a very tough time of it and I really feel for you. But somehow you seem to be keeping your sense of humor!! And you're a great story-teller!!! Hang in there; you'll be home shortly and you will really feel so much better!
 
You know, Jo, I would like to know that too. I have told my Physical Terrorists that you all do not get PT over there. They are very interested to know what the stats are on whether it is necessary or not.
I am very concerned that they could cause more harm than good. Not to mention, who needs physical therapists with stinky attitudes when you are trying to recover? It seems that there is more than a little personality conflicts going on with them for a lot of people.
Stress caused by dealing with them does not help the recovery process,in my humble opinion.

Terri, you did not need this extra stress during this very delicate time in your recovery. I am very mad at them for you.

Please take care of you, and come home soon.
 
Well, according to my (not part-time!) knee surgeon, who spouted various studies right off the top of his head, there is plenty of evidence to show, quite categorically, that the results in the UK are no better and no worse than those in the States! And he's no supporter of the use of CPMs either for the very same reason.

Of course, I wouldn't like you to think that UK patients never get PT because they do if they need it (like Dawnie). But most people just get an assessment by a PT at 3, 5 and 7 weeks and if they're getting along okay, then that's it.
 
Terri.....this is enough to make your bunny ears flop!! I agree with Judi, though. When you're feeling better, you really do need to make a complaint...especially about the therapist. She should know better. I'm still trying to come to terms with the fact that she wanted you to walk with only a cane this soon after surgery! Heck, I was on a walker for several weeks!! Sounds like you are better off to be rid of her.
 
With all the rediculousness you're having to go through physically and mentally, you sure sound like you're fighting through it with a super strong awesome attitude! Keep it up! Don't let them get you down!

Gale
RTKR 10/5/09
 
I was told by my surgeon that he would authorize PT for me, but to be very careful about the therapists....that they tended to get overly enthusiastic about the workouts and that was not needed and he didn't want me going through that. So I was very wary. But I must say that I really benefited from my home therapist. She was so good at showing me specific things I could do on my own to work my knee. She was so positive during each visit that it helped my mental attitude as much as physically. I liked her so much, that I asked to stay with the home PT and her for the full 6 weeks that the surgeon authorized.

While I think it's true that I could have managed on my own, I believe I did better with someone guiding me and convincing me that I COULD do the bending and movements without hurting my new and tender knee. Confidence building as much as anything.

I was fortunate to get one of the good ones!!!
 
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