Category: Recovery Starts
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I’ll Be Back! Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2024
November 28,2024 I love Thanksgiving Day! The food! The family! The Turkey Trot! Rats… no Turkey Trot for me this year. For the first time in forever, no Turkey Trot. Occasionally ‘reality’ sucks… and it certainly does in this case. Every year since the mid-90’s, on Thanksgiving Day I’ve located a local Turkey Trot, registered…
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Faith in Humanity… Restored. November 25-26, 2024
November 25-26, 2024 In all things, life does go on. As what usually happens in life, plans are constantly being made and adjusted along with out-of-town visits requested by grandkids via Facetime… All regardless of my still-recovering surgically repaired ankle’s ability to cooperate. My wife and I have been blessed with several grandchildren. I’ve made…
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Splints? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Splints! Thursday, November 14, 2024
Thursday, November 14, 2024 Recovery Milestone Day # 1… splint removal! Following my surgery to reattach my ruptured Achilles tendon, our first circled calendar date was Thursday, November 14th… the day my post-surgical applied splint and wrap would be removed and replaced with a more ‘permanent’ cast. My wife drives us to the appointment that…
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Wishing My Life Away… Monday, November 11, 2024
Monday, November 11, 2024 This article took me forever to start. Reason: I wanted to make certain the feelings I was experiencing toward this subject were truly real. Turns out… they were. Any recovery process is a series of milestone events… next ortho appointment… first splint removal… cast removal date… physical therapy start, etc., etc.,…
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Say ‘HELLO’ to my little friend… Saturday, November 9, 2024
Saturday, November 9, 2024 Bored. I am bored. Too much TV. (How many ‘Good Morning America’ TV shows are there? And no… I’m NOT watching ‘The View’. ) I must get out… but taking crutches more than 20 feet is truly a workout… even for a marathoner. Our cat and I take turns staring outside…
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I’ve Fallen & I MUST Get Up- Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 Don’t be ‘cocky’ Whatever you do… when using crutches, NEVER- and I mean NEVER- be COCKY. You see… crutches have a way of biting back when you least expect it. I truly have a LOVE/HATE relationship with my crutches… mostly HATE. They MOCK me constantly. How may you ask? Easy… I…
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Today’s Daunting Task… Sunday, November 3, 2024
Sunday, November 3, 2024. There’s a famous line from the movie “Dirty Dancing” I think we all know… “Nobody puts baby in the corner.” That movie line came to mind as I was in the downstair guest bedroom for the 3rd day in the row… slightly modified in my head to read “Nobody puts Ken in…
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Night # 1- October 30-31, 2024
Wednesday/Thursday: October 30-31, 2024 Finally home following surgery. My head was still trying to clear itself of the propofol created ‘cobwebs’. We own a 3-story townhome and have a guest bedroom on the first floor. (No stairs… WINNING!) My wife helps me get set-up in the bed… including the special knee raising wedge pillow required…
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Let’s Do This! (Wednesday, 10-30-24)
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 Surgery day. No food or drink/water since midnight. Showered both last night and this morning with special antibacterial soap. Dressed is very lose fitting clothes. My wife drives me to the hospital for day surgery. We use the valet parking for one less thing to worry/think about. We work our way…
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The ‘Amazon’ Approach to Medicine (Tuesday, 10-29-24)
Tuesday, October 29, 2024. At the start of any medical issue, you want answers… NOW. In this ‘order today, get it later today’ Amazon world, doesn’t this also apply to medicine? No it doesn’t. But in this case… it came close. The drive from New Orleans to Houston is a not-so-fast and a not-so-easy drive…
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