It just seems trivial to comment now, given what's happening in TX and FL. My life
will turn around, and it
will happen in a relatively short time. The same can't be said for alot of folks that have lost so much at the hands of a couple of very nasty storms, and those are my thoughts about it tonight.
I am under the influence of Oxycodone,..and while it's effect hasn't been as hard to cope with as the "other" Oxy that I encountered once a long time ago,...It still makes my cognitive thinking process very "patchy". I can only compare it to a movie watched at a "too slow" frame rate....I tend to skip in and out of real time, so writing something here that isn't all WTF is waay more challenging. But since you asked, I'll try to accommodate.
Therapy round one happened today at 11AM.
I got kudos from the therapist, amazed that I walked across the waiting room w/ a walker to shake his hand. My range of motion is at 90 degrees,..but I cannot "lock out" my knees straight.
He says that I have to accomplish that as my goal.
Bottom line: He's confident that I'll be back at work well ahead of any conservative time frame...4-6 weeks is the actual target now,...not just my wild ass hope.
The staples come out on Friday.....
Bottom line:
Maybe they'll look less like a monster Friday afternoon.
My personal "blockage incident" forced me to take the drastic measure(s) that I was trying to avoid,...and it in of itself,was an ordeal to rival the knee surgery.....Words like Hazmat, biohazard, and images of skulls w/ crossbones on diamond shaped signs keep popping back to haunt me,..
But I got it all worked out.
Bottom line:
I managed to lose about 5 pounds in an hour.
Given my close proximity to a giant jump in mobility,..the therapist wants to ramp up my therapy to 3 times a week over the next couple of weeks...
Bottom line: I need to get off of this oxy crap, and onto some degree of self-sustenance. Hurricane Irma will probably force my M.I.L. living in PC Fla to live here in the event that Hurricane targets the panhandle, and I'm almost certain that it will..
And she lives in a ground floor apt,.......200 yards from the beach.
Bottom Line:
I'd hate to have gone through all of this just to turn around and end up putting a gun barrel in my mouth over a choice to not push through a little therapy pain..