I’m getting more new parts

Looks like on January 18 I’ll be in the hospital in Central Florida to finally have my hip replaced. My doctor up in St. Louis said it wouldn’t be till late February early March before he’d be able to do it. I happen to be here in Florida with April at the hospital while she was getting hardware removed from her shoulder when my hip decided to pop out or pinch a nerve or whatever is causing my problem. Let’s just say I screamed like a 12-year-old little girl because of the pain and her doctor come running in asking what it happened. And I told him about my hip and he said that he could fix it. Getting the testing done and I have had the scan done to build my new hip. So hopefully next Monday my new parts will be working flawlessly. One down two more procedures to go, I got too badly pinched nerves also one in my neck and one in my low back. I guess I get to add to my collection that I have accumulated over the past 50+ years. Hope everybody’s having a great day........joe

Here's hoping that all goes well for you, Joe. Prayers for a quick recovery and that you'll be better than new with that titanium hip!

Glenn

You're going to start setting off the security alarms at the airports now.
I've got stainless steel pins in my right hand, and very often that will set the alarms off.
It's actually quite annoying.

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You're going to start setting off the security alarms at the airports now.
I've got stainless steel pins in my right hand, and very often that will set the alarms off.
It's actually quite annoying.

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LMAO, I know it happens already. I’ve got hardware in my neck, low back, right shoulder, and both knees :rolleyes:

Hoping it all works out well for you Joe! I hope you get a good warranty with all those new parts, hell you might make it to like 245 years old!

Sorry Dave, I don’t wanna live that long LOL

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I hope you get a good warranty

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I'm at the age now that everything I get, has a lifetime warranty. LOL..

:( :( :( My surgery is being postponed because I’m in A-fib according to the nurse doing my pre-testing for the surgery. Have to see cardiologist and get clearance first.
I wondering why it didn’t show up 3 months ago when I was at the doctors getting a physical. Better to catch it now.... joe

For me it was the anxiety / knowing the surgery was coming up. Doc had to ensure the surgeon understood that my anxiety was going to raise my blood pressure, they compensated with "something" when they put me under I returned to a normal reading. As soon as I awakened, my BP rose again. Stayed there the whole hospital stay too.

Hang in there Joe - Praying for some peace and rest so you can get this out of the way.

Good luck with it Joe! Man, not 1 but 3 pinched nerves? That is no good. Here's wishing you a speedy surgery and recovery sir!

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For me it was the anxiety / knowing the surgery was coming up. Doc had to ensure the surgeon understood that my anxiety was going to raise my blood pressure, they compensated with "something" when they put me under I returned to a normal reading. As soon as I awakened, my BP rose again. Stayed there the whole hospital stay too.

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Tell me, yesterday I was so depressed and pissed off that I could a bit the heads off of 10 penny nails. It’s just getting aggravating especially since I’ve been dealing with this so long and none of my other doctors would actually do anything for me. Next to the pain the insomnia is the worst. I can only take pain medication for two or three days and then I’m up for a day or two because I can’t sleep because of the pain meds. Not wanting to take drugs but I sure would like to have a pill that would let me sleep for 12 hours straight. Give me three or four of them, That would be sleep I would enjoy. Uninterrupted sleep would be a blessing. It will get better before it get worse, I’m just thankful that I got a good woman to take care of me. Everybody take care, I’ll let you know what’s going on..... joe

I'm not saying this is for everyone, but Gaberpentin works for me. It relieves the nerves (I have 5 herniated/de-generated disc in my neck). It doesn't do much for arthritis, but it does help my neck enough I can get through the days and nights. Might be worth checking with your docs to see if it might help you.

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I'm not saying this is for everyone, but Gaberpentin works for me. It relieves the nerves (I have 5 herniated/de-generated disc in my neck).

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Glad it works for you. Never helped me, I might as well be eating M&M’s when I took them. And what makes things worse is I get the major side effects from drugs if I get any. Some of them have been horrible. The cholesterol medicine they had me on made every bone, joint and muscle in my body hurts so bad that I wanted to walk out in front of a truck. So needless to say I don’t take them.

Yep, the cholesterol meds did / do the same to me too. The docs started me on them while in the hospital, with a couple days I was suffering all over and couldn't get comfortable. I asked the docs why 'cause I wasn't hurting when I went in... It wasn't until I got out and I went to see my chiro cracker and I told her my story, she didn't beat an eyelash and said stop taking these, you'll
start to feel better in a couple days. And she was right! D_mn doc at the hospital he must've known this... grrr.. I only take a half dose now, but they don't need to know that.

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Yep, the cholesterol meds did / do the same to me too.

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Use Red Rice Yeast, it brought mine into the normal range and mine was always high. And no side effects either. Yes I have changed my diet a bit also but I know that had little to do with it.

Well I’ve be in the hospital since yesterday with ad chest pains and out of control afid. They’ve done testing and say they are redoing my drugs and may have to chemically stop and restart my heart to get it back in beat correctly. Not looking forward to it. But I am at the best place, getting the best care of though possibly can get. Crazy part hospital has really great food. I had Parmesan chicken, pasta, the best cream of chicken soup I’ve ever eaten and gave me applesauce. I’ll keep you guys updated, hopefully I’ll be out tomorrow or the next day. Susie’s a bit upset that I’m not there to take her for walks and we both need them. Talk to you soon guys, Joe

Hang tough, Joe! Better to be where you are than dealing with unknowns at home and wondering if the end is near! Upsets to the flow rate in your system aren't trivial. Prayers for you & Susie.

Thoughts and prayers your way

Lots of aroha coming your way from Godzone Country downunder mate!

johnboy and Rosie.

I got both knees and both hip's done by the VA.
I tell them everytime make sure you knock me out real good because I take pain meds 3 times a day.
3 our of 4 times I came too on the operating table, the one time I woke up and was telling the nurse's jokes.
The last time I came too, I looked at the guy who was druging me and said hey, I am awake, am I supposed to be awake???
He's looking at me right in the eye's and I say what the heck is that pounding??? LOL!!!
The doc was pounding the new hip in to place. HA! HA! HA! Good Luck.
I sure am glad that they had that sheet up, I probably would have passed out, had I seen my bone sticking out. LOL!!!

They released me, changed my meds, got my blood pressure under better control got blood thinners & gave me clearance for my hip . Go back see my cardiologist, still may have to shock my heart but I’ll find that out when I see the doctor in a week or so. Thanks everybody for your thoughts and prayers hasn’t been easy, it was the first time in my life so I was actually scared for my life....joe

If everything goes as planned tomorrow morning around 9:30 AM they’ll start cutting on me and I’ll go have a new hip later that morning. I just hope that it goes as easy as all the other implanted prosthetics that I have. Let you guys know what happens in a few days. Thanks for all the well wishes....joe

Great news, Joe! We'll be looking forward to hearing the minute by minute replay from behind the curtain of anesthesia, and the stories of first steps! Praying for steady hands for the Doc, attentive care from the nurses, and a speedy recovery! Oh, and more great food, too!

^^^ I could not say it better!
God speed

Well I’m going to do what I normally do when I have surgery, I always asked to look at the equipment and what not. So I’m probably going to ask the surgeon to take a picture of my prosthetic just so I have a picture of it and know what it looks like. I have found that normally most of the tools they use I have the same brand name as the stuff we have in our shops.
thanks for the kind words....joe

Joe: something your doctor WILL NOT recommend is homeopathic medicine.

A half-teaspoon of minced garlic washed down with a glass of water each morning WILL bring down your blood pressure. Also your cholesterol.

I started the garlic therapy coupled with eating two bananas each morning. It lowered my BP fast! After a few months, cut back to one banana, then none, and halved the garlic. Now I just take the half teaspoon daily. My numbers stay in the green.

You may notice that I told you to start with a half teaspoon: that's because you are already on meds. If you start with a whole teaspoon like I did, plus the meds could be too much.

Somewhere around the third week it really started knocking the numbers to the basement. I could totally feel when my BP was down. I had no energy at all. It took some time to get used to it. Now I can totally "feel" my BP and it's totally managed with the half teaspoon of garlic daily.

Your mileage may vary.

Good vibes coming your way from Downunder Joe!

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I got both knees and both hip's done by the VA.
I tell them everytime make sure you knock me out real good because I take pain meds 3 times a day.
3 our of 4 times I came too on the operating table, the one time I woke up and was telling the nurse's jokes.
The last time I came too, I looked at the guy who was druging me and said hey, I am awake, am I supposed to be awake???
He's looking at me right in the eye's and I say what the heck is that pounding??? LOL!!!
The doc was pounding the new hip in to place. HA! HA! HA! Good Luck.
I sure am glad that they had that sheet up, I probably would have passed out, had I seen my bone sticking out. LOL!!!

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Good thing I very seldom take pain meds, can’t stand taking them. When I had one of my knees done only only had to take one pain pill and when they fused my low back I told him to pull the pain pump the day after the surgery because it didn’t hurt it was just sore. If I take any pain type med for more than 2-3 days I get insomnia. Last time it was about 60hrs, not good and I was ugly. I didn’t like me.. So hopefully I won’t need them....joe

Yes it’s 1 AM in Florida I haven’t been able to fall sleep yet. The hip is in and at this moment I have almost no pain. Will find out tomorrow how much pain I’m actually in, if it’s like it is now I’m good to go. Doc said my hip socket was worn out a lot more than normal and that the hip should’ve actually been replaced last April. So he told me that was going to be a few restrictions on things I can do because of the back of the socket being worn out. He told me it’s gonna take 10 to 12 weeks before I can finally do regular routine stuff again. Thought I’d give you guys an update, the kid might be down but I’m not out and I’m not going anywhere. I got too many people to bother in my life still....joe

Hope the healing process goes well for you Joe! We'll be thinking about you!

Thanks for the update Joe. I also hope that you can get healed up quickly and with little pain. rest easy and let the process happen. We'll be here waiting when you're ready.

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Thanks for the update Joe. I also hope that you can get healed up quickly and with little pain. rest easy and let the process happen. We'll be here waiting when you're ready.

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Well they got me up walking today a couple of times and I’m doing very good they say. I do have some pain but it’s nothing like before thank God, there’s a good possibility I’ll get to go home today so the healing has begun I just got to be sure to pay attention and do what the doctor told me to do. You can’t keep a good man down. So hopefully in a few weeks I’ll be able to take Susie to the park once again and have her walk me around the area. Thanks again guys for all the kind words. As I said once before I’m not going anywhere I got too many people to bother in this world. LOL...joe

WOW, that is great! Such good news. Yes, trust your Doc, and give the process some time. I'm so glad to hear you're already moving and the pain level is better than before.

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WOW, that is great! Such good news. Yes, trust your Doc, and give the process some time. I'm so glad to hear you're already moving and the pain level is better than before.

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Yes I’m going to listen to the doctor mainly because he told me how bad it actually was and I don’t wanna see him other than to have my staples removed and possibly him doing my left hip in the future. I have almost no pain the only time it hurts when they have me walking and my foot hits the floor. It it’s surgical pain and not pain from the bad hip. I am very grateful that Dr. Thompson what is there to take care of me when I needed it done the most. Hopefully everything will heal properly and I’ll be back on my feet in a few weeks walking semi-normally and walking the dog at the park. Thanks everybody, it’s been a long hard road to get to where I’m at right now. I just wish my doctors in St. Louis would’ve listen to me back in April. It took my neural surgeon telling me that it wasn’t my back that it was my hip causing all the pain and told me to get my hip done first. Sadly the St. Louis doctor so they were going to do it to the middle of March. I’m just glad I was here when it happened goes if I was at home I wouldn’t have my woman to take care of me. Thanks everybody....joe

38 staples were removed today, to do my therapy and they’d see me in 4wks. Using a cane most the time and drove today. Thank you Jesus, no more riding with eyes closed and knowing my brake didn’t work...
lol...joe

Reading throught this thread brings tears to my eyes, Joe. A lot of us can relate - at some level or another - and none of us likes to admit that as we age, some things need to be addressed. Maybe if we had been mindful in our younger years things would be easier now but that doesn't change where we are now. I am really impressed with your attitude throughout this ordeal - you're a fighter and an encouragement!

Blessings and praying for you to recover and enjoy a lot more good years with rich memories.

Glenn

^^Ditto, I wish I could add proverbial words, but I believe Glenn has said it best!
God speed Joe!

Thanks Glenn, life hasn’t been easy at times BUT I’ll look on the bright side, it could’ve been a hella lot worse. But being as beat up as I am, it has allowed me to do a lot of good things in my life. I got to be Mr Mom to my son while his mother worked. We got to do all kinds of great stuff together. I was able to take friends and family to their doctors appointments and other places. Most importantly I was able to take care of my best friend, in-laws, parents, sister in law and my late wife Denise before they all passed away.
Would I change anything??? Nope, I’d tell the Good Lord to just let it play out exactly the same way it did the first time. I wouldn’t be who I am today if anything changed.
Thanks again everyone....joe ;IGY6 :)

Remember, The object in life is not to arrive at the grave in a pristine body, But to come sliding in sideways screaming YeeHaa, Whata hell of a ride.... :whacked: