My wife and I had a serious long discussion aout my future prospects for getting well and moving on to getting the hernia repaired.
First I need to muster enough nerve to go get the CT scan wih IV contrast. In my weakened condition I do not tolerate being used as pin cushion very well and am more than a little sensitive and "touchy".
I have kinda decided to postpone any consideration of my knee replacement until next year at earliest.. I wold like tos ee what else can be done to let me use the knee and right leg without replacing the joint...
My right calf and fot still swell and my toes as well. I have shin splints on right foot/splint area. I am still very weak. Yes, really. WHY? I cannot sleep at night because I can find no position to lay that I am not in pain and I cannot lay in my bed more than a couple hours, and then migrate all night long from one recliner to another to the sectional sofa I havemade up as a bed, to the spare bedroom and that bed. Eventuially morning comes and I may have been lucky to actually have slept more than a total of three hours max.
Granted, that is a lot more than I vere got when I was on patrol ib Nam with my platoon searching for Charlie on a mission. Sleeping in the jungles on the ground is not a favorite place to lay my head or my body. Ya never knew what may crawl over you... LOL!!!
Anyway, I am making some changes today to drink a whole lot more and hopefully that will get rid of the fluid in my foot and calf.. I am going tot ry to walk more but I cannot get a shoe on my right foot that my toes will fit into because of swelling. That has been a problem from day 1 at home.
Now it's time to adapt and overcome... I am pizzed at doctors and they won;t like me when I am angry because I really don't have much respect form any of them.. And I am pretty direct because I put my brain into drive and a good science education as an engineer with graduate degrees provided me lots of reasoning and education that I have continued over my lifetime. SO I do not get intimidated by doctors and will interrupt them when I feel they are spewing BS and not being factual and scientific on point to my problem .
So I cannot wait to see my surgeon again and ask a few pointed questions and see what this BOY has to say.. I amat least twenty plus older than him so he is a boy to me. I want answers and I do not like bull. Hopefully he will have some real answers. In meantime, I am not liking the recovery from this third spine surgery. The first two were normal and perfectly fine..
SO I am off to do some work and exercise and likely rest a tad and back to do some more....
Catch you guys later..
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