aja8888
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Played 18 holes of golf today with an old friend from the mid 1980's. Great day, great memories of things we did back then.
I'm sorry to hear that, jollystomper. Here's hoping she will recover quickly and fully.
I wish both of you the best and hope for a full recovery.
Hope it's not too bad Jollystomper. Last time I broke a bone they did not think twice, off to the surgeon with you.
Σας ευχαριστώ, φίλε μου.
Many of my days will be now occupied with helping DW for a while, who challenged the title of 2 recent forum threads and is unfortunately paying the price.
The end of last week a long slip and slide was set up as a community event. Teenagers and younger children were primarily using it. A few younger adults were as well. DW's adventurous streak exceeds her athletic and balance capabilities. So thread #1, "8 Things To Stop Doing After 60", she felt did not apply to climbing up a platform to try a slip-n-slide.
Younger adult friends who with her advised her against it. But she decided that her answer to Thread #2, "Do You Listen To Younger People?", was no. Young whippersnappers, what do they know, I want to have fun.
(I was not present, or I would have challenged her on her choices).
So, she goes up onto the platform - and sadly slips on the slick surface and does not slide. She falls off the slide of the platform - not a long drop, but lands on her leg hard enough to result in a fractured ankle and sprained knee.
She is now in a cast. so my day, like the last few days, has been tending to her needs. I am not complaining, this is part of the "for better or worse" marriage vows, you just deal with it and serve the other person. I feel sorry for her. She is very contrite about the situation, and fortunately with crutches and a wheeled office chair (knee scooter will be here tomorrow, hopefully she will be able to kneel on it) she does the best she can to move around our house (though I limit her, and she listens). I have had a couple of scheduled fun (for me) events that she has insisted I attend.
Later this week I will take her back to the doctor for more x-rays, to determine is surgery will be needed. She has not put any weight on it since the incident, so hopefully that will help.
Life imitating the forum threads, who would've thought?
I’m on day 4 of being bedridden with a terrible attack of sciatica. An early Monday morning foray to the local ER via a gurney in an ambulance finally helped out when after 4 hours there, and several incremental and useless steps, they decided my pain was bad enough for morphine.
I wanted to stay with that nice nurse and his morphine syringe, but nooooooo, they stuffed me into DH’s pickup and sent me home.
It’s been a tough couple of days with my doctor’s office telling me gabapentin and its cumulative effects were just the thing. I guess they don’t know that cumulative means the pain will eventually stop—but I want relief now. That pill is as useless as all the NSAIDs I’d been taking.
My most recent Amazon purchase was crutches. Ugh. DH also got me a walker, but I can’t stand or walk too far, just between bed and bathroom. Mostly I lie on my back.
The doctor’s office finally decided to call in a prescription for a little opiate when I told them I’d eat my beagles’ Tramadol if they could not do something better for me than gabapentin for pain.
I also have prednisone, which has fired me up a little bit.
I did find and read all the sciatica posts here and feel confident I’ll feel better soon.
Just last Tuesday, I was sweltering in Austin, eating BBQ, and seeing Jackson Browne at ACL. Three days after that I was suddenly an invalid.
Thank God for DH taking such good care of me. He’s a great combo of Jeeves and GrubHub.
DW suffers from sciatica attacks and they are beyond miserable.
My empathy. I used to get sciatica and understand the pain. Oddly, steroids were one of the best treatments for me and copious opioids. Gabapentin isn't the same.I’m on day 4 of being bedridden with a terrible attack of sciatica. An early Monday morning foray to the local ER via a gurney in an ambulance finally helped out when after 4 hours there, and several incremental and useless steps, they decided my pain was bad enough for morphine.
I wanted to stay with that nice nurse and his morphine syringe, but nooooooo, they stuffed me into DH’s pickup and sent me home.
It’s been a tough couple of days with my doctor’s office telling me gabapentin and its cumulative effects were just the thing. I guess they don’t know that cumulative means the pain will eventually stop—but I want relief now. That pill is as useless as all the NSAIDs I’d been taking.
My most recent Amazon purchase was crutches. Ugh. DH also got me a walker, but I can’t stand or walk too far, just between bed and bathroom. Mostly I lie on my back.
The doctor’s office finally decided to call in a prescription for a little opiate when I told them I’d eat my beagles’ Tramadol if they could not do something better for me than gabapentin for pain.
I also have prednisone, which has fired me up a little bit.
I did find and read all the sciatica posts here and feel confident I’ll feel better soon.
Just last Tuesday, I was sweltering in Austin, eating BBQ, and seeing Jackson Browne at ACL. Three days after that I was suddenly an invalid.
Thank God for DH taking such good care of me. He’s a great combo of Jeeves and GrubHub.
Spent (another) day scraping, digging out the dirt floor basement of our 120 year old barn. This after removing several sections of raised floor and discovering trash, old car parts, animal skeletons and other things. Dirty, hot work, but I am 98% done. We have owned this property 4 years this month and this space was all but useless for anything. Another day or to two to dig out the last section, and bring in and level new gravel. I have also recently re-done all the lighting with linear LED fixtures. I think there were two working 40 watt incandescent bulbs in this 55 foot long barn when we bought it.
Very interesting project!!! I remember you talking about that project before if my memory id correct. Please give us some more pictures of the finished project. The barn is a very interesting structure and too good to not use in some fashion.
Thanks for sharing your day.