Under the Knife

[loghousenut]

Here I lay, flat on my back, awaiting the Angels in Blue who will whisk me away to yaya land. I'm at OHSU in Portland (look it up, Bo) and getting a new left hip.

I don't know how much I should oughta trust this outfit. The have apparently not paid their natural gas bill... the place is barely above freezing in here.

Anyway, I'll see you all on the other side of the surgical theater.

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[jgrajiola]

Lord please give the doctors and nurses steady hands and sharp eyes as they work on LHN. Amen

Be sure someone employed there marks the correct hip with a marker so that you don’t come out with a newer right hip and a bummed left hip! [emoji2957]. That is usually the best free a/c.


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[allen84]

I wonder what kind of crazy stuff LHN says when they have him on all the anesthesia drugs? Good luck with the new hip! The food is the only decent thing about hospitals. Always ask for extra pudding.

[loghousenut]

I broke my right hip twice in 1973. It has done very well considering it all, but if they accidentally replaced the wrong hip, it would not be the end of the world.

I'm still getting prepped but every nurse I talk to says that someone is on their way to sterilize and mark the proper hip. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231002/9d841ccbc44b186dc309ad06e7e03bb5.jpg

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[Mosseyme]

Seems like we should have a follow up report by now.

[eagle]

are they going to put in a wooden log joint?

[Shark]

I wonder what kind of crazy stuff LHN says when they have him on all the anesthesia drugs? Good luck with the new hip! The food is the only decent thing about hospitals. Always ask for extra pudding.Probably logs and gutters and telehandlers....
:)

Here's for a speedy recovery!

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[loghousenut]

Surgery successful. Now enjoying my first meal of the day. This place is amazing. Ahhhh... the pain meds. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231003/e238e882e1a45207dc045f2ef7e76f9e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231003/e50bd52e38a702c9a78101e41e519af3.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231003/7dece1fbdb2559e15576ae4f289a5370.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231003/99d6a9c183627f6b8a69943da1015a7a.jpg

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[allen84]

They let you keep your old hip?!? Is that what I'm seeing? Seeing as they're mans best friend, you really should give that to your dog.

[loghousenut]

Shifter knob!

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[loghousenut]

Once a dog gets a taste of human bone, they play more aggressively.

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[loghousenut]

Well I survived long enough to walk quite a bit, eat a gourmet breakfast, and leave the hospital. What a fantastic operation they have here to perform operations.

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[mudflap]

glad you are doing ok!

[loghousenut]

We are in Portland, slowly headed toward our friends from a motorcycle forum I frequent. Well spend at least one night there with Patrick and Rizza. They have already had lunch so we stopped at a 4.8 rated Thai restaurant.

I had to walk on uneven ground for 40 yards and Patty and I are both amazed at how quickly I am taking to the walker. Currently sitting in a moderately hard chair with much less pain of any kind than I have had for a year or three. We arrived just in time to witness a tableful of Monks, in full Monk garb, going through their prayer ritual after their lunch. The restaurant staff is participating from wherever their work station is.

We just don't get to see that back home.

Anyway, I think the hard part of the battle was over sometime yesterday.

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[Shark]

Glad you made it through safely!

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[Mosseyme]

Well look at you, I will not be surprised to see that thing on the stick of the motorhome!
Now take care of those knees, the recovery from that is usually much harder than the hip. PT, PT, PT. Then when you finish that a good massage therapist will make your day. Glad you are doing well.

[loghousenut]

Thanks to all of you. I already know this was a good thing. Now I'll probably be chomping at the bit to do the other hip.


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[BoFuller]

Glad it all went well Bro. It probably wouldn’t have needed replaced if I hadn’t needed to kick your ass so many times when we were younger. But you just never learn.

Prayers for a speedy recovery!


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[donjuedo]

Glad to hear the good news, LHN. I look forward to your speedy recovery.

[loghousenut]

Thanks Peter.

Thanks for nothing Bro Bo.

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[loghousenut]

Home is where the pup is! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231005/3039eaa4b3f61c3a95a61694baea274c.jpg

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[dchurch]

Ron, so good to see you're recovering well. That hip ball looked like it had some hard miles on it. Speedy recovery, do the PT.

[loghousenut]

Thanks.


It ain't the years, it's the miles.

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[Plumb Level]

Shifter knob!

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I can't like this enough! Hope your recovery goes well.

[loghousenut]

Well here it is 8 days from climbing down off the bloody slab and I am feeling great. With minimal assistance from the walker, I am striding normally for the first time in years. I think this thing is working. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231011/1bf6300161abcef789b042c7c9b9001f.jpg

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[allen84]

Might as well take the bandage off. Let's see that thing.

[loghousenut]

I don't know what solar system that dressing came from, but it is stuck on tighter than a litter of newborn possums hanging on to momma possum.

They say I can shower and everything but I've been doing spit baths just because I feel like the longer that dressing is on there, the less chance I'll have for infection.

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[eagle]

Glad it all worked out. Must be a great feeling, running marathons soon. Oh BTW, you have a streaker in your house!

[allen84]

I don't know what solar system that dressing came from, but it is stuck on tighter than a litter of newborn possums hanging on to momma possum.

They say I can shower and everything but I've been doing spit baths just because I feel like the longer that dressing is on there, the less chance I'll have for infection.

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Pretty sure the bandage on my back stayed there for about 5 or 6 weeks, even with getting wet in showers. After I was home for about a week I realized they didn't give me any instructions on changing it, so I called and asked. They took it off at my post-op visit.

[loghousenut]

I have to say, I am sooo darned glad I had this surgery. It is less than three weeks and I am going wherever I want you with the aid of a cane. I am sleeping in a bed for the first time in a year or more. I can walk up stairs using both legs, also for the first time in a year or more.

Until last week, I have not been able to lift my left leg for a high step without pulling it up by hand. Heck I can walk like our President now!

https://youtu.be/3_ecuzoBrCs?si=gHcyylTu6A9-mYyK

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[jgrajiola]

Good to hear you doing great. It be long before you get rid of the cane.


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[loghousenut]

Well, in two days my bionic parts will be two months old. Holy moly, what a game changer this has been.

It's about a week since I have used a cane. I can practically hop into the telehandler. I climb into a car like a human. I CAN PUT ON MY OWN SHOES AND SOCKS! Yesterday I was up and down two ladders for several hours on a little project... I am considering applying for membership in the "Useful Members of Society" club.

I will start PT in a week or two but my range of motion and pain level is imitating my good hip (though my good hip has been at about 85% since I broke it in 1973).

I can climb stairs while holding two bowling balls (I'll never tell why). The hot tub feels like a long lost friend. And everywhere I go, folks ask where's my cane. This is wonderful.

I still can't figure out how they did all that dislocating, cutting, reaming, screwing, glueing, and tweaking, all through a 3" cut. Kinda like gutting a fish through the mouth I suppose.

Anyway, I know this crowd is wise enough to not worry too much about me, but I want to say thank you for all the thoughts and prayers. It is all working out to be a 100% dream come true. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231201/a57b4393b47d1ebc9f403bd839a7ea02.jpg

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[LarryNut]

Good deal. I spoke to a relative on Thanksgiving who said they were having hip replacement surgery this week. I told them about you and told them to ask if they could keep what was cut out for a gear shifter!


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[loghousenut]

It's really cool. I have it in one of the compost bins getting scrubbed and licked by grubs n bugs. The cold weather has stabilized things in the bacteria pit. I think I'll bring it in and soak it in peroxide til spring.

Like all of life, this boneheaded gear shifter thing is an experiment and an experience.

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[Mosseyme]

It is amazing what can be done these days. Do the therapy anyway. It will help keep the internal scar tissue from tightening down. There is an ointment called Mederma, you can pick up over the counter at a pharmacy or Walmart. It is wonderful to reduce the scar tissue. It is not about making it pretty. It helps keeps it from tying things together that aren't supposed to be tied together. Glad it is going so well.

[rckclmbr428]

Somehow I've missed this thread until now, but I had my rotator cuff rebuilt, turns out I had 2 full tears of rotator cuff tendons, a tear on my bicep and a significant bone spur in my shoulder. I'm about 3.5 months post op and feeling pretty good

[Mosseyme]

I worked recovery room for a bunch of years. We hated when we had shoulder pts because it was impossible to get them pain relief. Shoulders were really worse than almost any other surgery.
Then they started doing blocks before surgery and it was a miraculous thing for pts and nurses. If you didn't have surgery without a block you have no idea. When I was thrown from a horse and tore up my right shoulder I cried not from the pain but from what I new was coming. After 4 surgeries and 4 miserable post op recoveries my hospital finally decided to start providing nerve blocks for shoulder surgery. Didn't help the me patient but did help the me nurse a whale of a lot.

[rckclmbr428]

I had a shoulder block, watched them put it in with the ultrasound, the anesthesiologist explained everything he was doing, was very interesting. My arm was numb for a day

[Mosseyme]

Yup, it is amazing how that blocking the pain initially generally makes it so that even when the block wears off you generally never get that excruciating post op pain you get without it. Usually can be managed with moderate pain meds.

[loghousenut]

I have foolishly resisted each of my rotator cuff surgeries (two shoulders, 3 surgeons). It was while I was still working for a living, but fortunately working for an outfit that allowed me a position that did not require the use of both arms at one time.

Two different times, for about 6 months each time, I wore an arm sling to allow a rotator cuff to heal. That meant shaking hands left handed, etc etc but, in the end, I have avoided shoulder surgery.

No, I will never again throw a 90 mph fastball. But I can shift the 5 speed and I do suspect that my healing may have happened faster than if I'd had surgery.

As for this hip... All I can say is WOW!


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[Mosseyme]

You might be wise on the rotator thing. With my injury I had little choice. The landing tor muscles loose and complete ac separation as in I could not lift my arm, like, at all. After the four surgeries ( have you ever heard medical people aren't good patients)? I did physical therapy for months got som return of rang of motion but not great, then I visited this evil massage therapist. She could make a person scream UNCLE. She was awesome. Took her a year of weekly torture sessions but she got me back to full range of motion. If you were gonna be a sissy she'd tell you to go somewhere else. 25 years ago and I can cringe just thinking about it.

[Mosseyme]

Double post.

[DoubleJRanch]

Shifter knob!

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Now that is funny, let the dog clean off all the meat, then when its all cleaned off, tape on a shift pattern and then coat it with some Stone Coat drill and tap to fit your shifter.

When I first saw that, I thought they cut the wrong item out and now you would be down to just one. ;)

[loghousenut]

Won't need to see the shift pattern. I have had the pattern memorized since I was your size

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