Thread: Come Monday I'm down for the count

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Thanks again everyone, I had to get up and sit it a str8 back chair because it felt like someone has kicked me in my a$$ real hard and its the only thing that helps it. Hell I'm barely getting high off the drugs but I don't want to take alot of them in fear I'll become addicted to the again like I did back in the 80's when my right leg was crushed. Not a fun thing to have happen but I realized it before it went full blown, It's going to take some time, BUT HEY if there's one thing I have a lot of that is TIME ...joe

Joe,
Don't know you personally but glad to hear your procedure went as or better than planned. As for getting to 100%, sometimes that reference point gets redefined for us as we learn to compensate. Hope all goes well for you.

Joe, glad to hear everything went well and that you are home. Take it easy and hope your recovery is swift and complete.

glad to see your back up and moving hope it all works for you

Great news. Every day should get better and better, I hope.

Those drugs can be quite a bit of fun, can't they?? When I had my heart attack they gave me the button to push to activate a morphine drip. Whole days passed by and it seemed like only a few minutes. They finally wised up and told me it was still hooked up, but I wasn't getting the same results when I pushed the button...........darned cruel Nurses!!

Don

Glad to hear you're home and up and moving. It will get better; just don't be goin' and runnin' any marathons, yet.

Originally Posted by Rrumbler

Glad to hear you're home and up and moving. It will get better; just don't be goin' and runnin' any marathons, yet.

Well each day it's getting better & I have just about weaned myself off of the walker But it sure does come in handy when trying to roll out of bed & a hellva lot easier to get to the john at 3am when the pain just seems to want to show its evil head Still feels like someone kicked me in my ass w/steel toe boots but hopefully that'll go away in time also. Stitches come out this friday thank God, because I'm getting tired of having to wear a T-shirt to bed so I don't pull on them or rip them out. From what I understand I now have 2 or maybe its 4 rods in my back w/a cage around my spine w/6 or 8 screws holding it all together. Should be interesting trying to go through the airport now

For thoughs who are into PAIN & Gore/Guts here's what my back looked like the day I came home after I took my back brace off & as you can see I had this done once before.. I think my next set of personalized license plates will read "PRO PAIN"...joe

I saw a t-shirt once that read (scars are tatoos for the brave). Good luck with the recovery!

Glad to hear your doing better. Hang tough, you'll be bending under the hood in no time!

One day at a time, keep moving as much as you can. I can't stay in bed it puts too much pressure on my back so I get up to sit up. It takes a while for me to get to the point to where I can move then I try to work a little at a time.

Hope you can get too moving around better soon.

Richard

Hoo, Boy! Joe!

When I saw the picture of those nice parallel decorations on your back I was reminded of some racing stripes I tried to put on a Duster I once owned!

It's good to see your sense of humor showing through what has to be a very tough situation.

Incidentally, I sanded my self-inflicted racing stripes off as soon as the paint dried.

Jim

Well with as many surgeries as I have had over the years, a sense of humor is what has gotten me through most of it, cause at time ya just gotta laff about it. PLUS laughter is the best medicine anyone could ask for.
Jim if a good sanding would of fixed me up I would of been glad to have let you get out the DA w/some 60grit and worked on my back. Sure the hell would of beat the heck outta 10hrs on my stomach while they sliced me open...joe