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  • From: bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] SJ in ME
  • Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:38:17 -0700 (PDT)


Goodness, Susan Jane; I don't know what to say, except that I am glad that
things are improving for you; and to congratulate you for your perserverance.
take care ......bob

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--- On Wed, 3/25/09, sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net> wrote:


> Thanks for the wb :)
>
> I'm a little over halfway there; the surgery last fall
> was to stabilize
> the upper back. This last one was to rebuild the bowed
> right leg and
> replace the knee (stainless steel, titanium, silicone), and
> rearrange
> some muscles and ligaments that had long ago gone bad.
> Then began the
> PT, 6 hrs a day, punctuated by an hour of OT after lunch
> each day. I
> had no clue how much work it was going to be, and although
> I'm really
> not much of a wuss, was completely taken aback by the
> amount of pain
> this time; I'm told most of that is the muscles trying
> to reform
> themselves according to Hoyle. Amazing that they can do it
> at all,
> given that this surgery is 60 years "too late".
>
> It is indeed a weird thing to be able to walk upright now,
> also weird to
> have so much less pain when I put weight on the right
> foot/knee/leg. I
> still have a couple of months of PT 2X/wk, but feel like
> I'm flying high
> now! I can put my right foot where I want it to go, and
> have 100%
> extension in the new knee, 120% flexion....all better than
> when I was
> 20! So far, all has gone as expected/predicted by the
> orthopedic guy;
> he says that when all is said and done, will be painfree in
>
> legs/knees/ankles/feet.
> The upper back is as good as it's gonna get, but even
> so it is much
> better than it has been for 50 years or more.....I'll
> go for that!
> Still stuck with the walker until sometime this summer,
> after the
> muscles/ligaments/etc in the right leg are all working
> correctly, the
> left lower leg bones will be done and that knee also
> replaced. That leg
> doesn't have as much bow, and the knee is not nearly so
> far out of line
> as the right one was so hopefully this one will be faster
> and easier to
> get past.
>
> You people who still have small kids about: for crying out
> loud, make
> sure they don't have scoliosis, and if they do, that it
> gets treated in
> timely fashion. All this (and everything that led up to it
> over my
> entire upright lifetime) could have been averted with one
> surgery 'way
> back when if my mother hadn't decided it not necessary.
> My brother
> also deals with a congenital issue which should have been
> easily
> corrected when he was an infant..... Some people
> shouldn't be allowed
> to have children; our mother was one of those.
>
> SJ, where we have about a foot of snow still on the pasture
> but have had
> warm days and the syrup run has been fantastic. My job
> since I'm not
> too mobile is to keep the fire going under the evaporators.
> Grade A
> syrup $60 this year (maple, not sure about birch).
>
> SJ
>
>
> EarthNSky wrote:
> > Glad to see you back my friend. You and Donna should
> compare notes as
> > you both are on the mend!
> >
>
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