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Monday Again
Feb. 20th, 2016 09:36 pmMonday did indeed roll around. And I limped in with it. Into the doctor's office, that is. About the rotator cuff, he said, the joint is sound, nothing broken and nothing torn. Probably tendonitis which, I later read, can in rare cases be induced by the impact of a fall. Lucky me.
For that I received a cortizone shot in the shoulder joint. My first ever and, to be honest, I'd be OK if it was my last. Although, I must say, this doc is what Her Nurseliness would call "a good stick." Sat me down, swabbed the shoulder with two different antiseptics, froze the skin with an anesthetic spray, injected novacaine into the joint and followed with the cortizone a few minutes later.
Then, he said, take two Ibuprophen, ice the joint tonight and tomorrow, and no exercise for a week. Must've done this before. Oh yeah, for a legion of Division I athletes on the SU hill.
The knee, however, was what we'd feared. Well, what I feared. The report from Imaging described conditions at the joint "consistent with a partially-torn meniscus." (Don't ya love that wording? They never actually SAY that the menuscus is torn. That way, if the patient is lying there, his knee all jacked-up, and it's somehow NOT torn, hey, we never said it was! Total CYA, LOL.)
The doc said there were a couple of options. Some people, he said, choose to simply wear a brace for the rest of their lives and (here I managed to not blurt out, "Oh yeah, well f*uck that..." I know, amazing self-control) get along that way.
I think he knew, before he said it, that this WASN'T what we'd be doing. But, he had to offer it. And then ran down the list of stuff I had to do pre-op and gave me the surgery scheduler's card to set it up.
So that's where we are now. I had a follow-up with my internist previously scheduled for the following Monday, and his office assured me they could do the required surgical fitness report at that time. That would be tomorrow and I'm anxious to keep things moving.
And to get my legs moving again, the way they're supposed to. Not like some old cob hobbling around in the Retired Pirates' Home. I never swashbuckled very well anyway...
LPK
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2.20.2016
For that I received a cortizone shot in the shoulder joint. My first ever and, to be honest, I'd be OK if it was my last. Although, I must say, this doc is what Her Nurseliness would call "a good stick." Sat me down, swabbed the shoulder with two different antiseptics, froze the skin with an anesthetic spray, injected novacaine into the joint and followed with the cortizone a few minutes later.
Then, he said, take two Ibuprophen, ice the joint tonight and tomorrow, and no exercise for a week. Must've done this before. Oh yeah, for a legion of Division I athletes on the SU hill.
The knee, however, was what we'd feared. Well, what I feared. The report from Imaging described conditions at the joint "consistent with a partially-torn meniscus." (Don't ya love that wording? They never actually SAY that the menuscus is torn. That way, if the patient is lying there, his knee all jacked-up, and it's somehow NOT torn, hey, we never said it was! Total CYA, LOL.)
The doc said there were a couple of options. Some people, he said, choose to simply wear a brace for the rest of their lives and (here I managed to not blurt out, "Oh yeah, well f*uck that..." I know, amazing self-control) get along that way.
I think he knew, before he said it, that this WASN'T what we'd be doing. But, he had to offer it. And then ran down the list of stuff I had to do pre-op and gave me the surgery scheduler's card to set it up.
So that's where we are now. I had a follow-up with my internist previously scheduled for the following Monday, and his office assured me they could do the required surgical fitness report at that time. That would be tomorrow and I'm anxious to keep things moving.
And to get my legs moving again, the way they're supposed to. Not like some old cob hobbling around in the Retired Pirates' Home. I never swashbuckled very well anyway...
LPK
LiveJournal
2.20.2016
