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Re: Ribs

By: micro in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 12 Oct 21 12:48 PM | 17 view(s)
Boardmark this board | 6th Edition Pope Board 		Msg. 25270 of 60008
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thanks Ribit. Appreciate you takin time to give me some things to think about. It sounds like this replacement joint stuff is just a long road downhill. Steady, but definitely downhill.
Like you I loved that wall. It was a challenge. As a four sport athlete in High School and ALL STATE offensive lineman for two time Big School football team I always had enjoyed challenges that tested my physical abilities. I was just naturally gifted by God and things usually came relatively easily to me.
It seems as if I am now paying a price for those years of physicality and having lots of collisions with other guys bigger than myself physically but not as strong.

I was benching over 300 pounds in high school and doing reps military presses of 220 to 240 lbs. daily. 220 pounds of 5 % body fat and lots of muscle. Including my head.. lol!!!
I was still exceptionally well coordinated up until about five years ago. But arthritis has been eating at my joints for longer than that and it is catching up to me..


So I am a little bit leary of all these things.

I don't suppose docs can open your hip area and just clean up the arthritis and remove it like they do on one's spinal bones and get rid of a lot of it can they?

I have ZERO rotation in my right hip.. It is not allowing the leg to move normally which is what is causing it to hit and land at an awkward angle and just crusching my foot at the anklke joint and the anterior of the shin part of the leg. ALWAYS highly inflamed after walking anywhere due to that awkward walk and planting of the foot step.

I hate it. I told my grandson that although he loves playing football that one day when he gets older a lot of those impacts are going to bite him in the butt.

PI sure brings back some youthful memories. Some better than others but that was where we grew up and left "self" behind and went to fight for the country.

Now a bunch of moronic imbeciles who know nothing of what it took to have a place that was free from government tyranny and one could live in peace want to throw everything under the bus and enjoy what we worked our butts off to get to th epoint we are at in our lives.

Sacrifice and doing without and Work are not in these socialists vocabulary.. Apparently their mommies and daddies never taught them anything other than how to take things from other people.

Oh well, need to move on.. Sorry for ramblinig and reminiscing a bit.. You jarred my memories when ya mentioned our favorite wall.... I'm pretty much done challenging walls like that except with a ladder. lol!!1


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Re: Ribs
By: ribit in 6TH POPE
Tue, 12 Oct 21 3:04 AM 		Msg. 25258 of 60008

I just slipped and fell falt on my arse as my foot missed a step and I caught myself enough to land squarely with a thud on my arse . 

...ya never seen anybody with a cast on their ass have ya?

I have told the PA's I don't want that cortisone shot, I want my right leg and foot back so I can walk normally again 

...the cortisone shot is likely required by the ins co. They want to try the cheapest fix first. As far as walking normal, ya might get to walk better, but walking like you did when you were young isn't going to happen. It will get better, but it will never be normal.

...six months or so and ya should be in pretty good shape pain wise but gettin used to the new joint and learning to walk with it plus rebuilding the strength in the leg will take about a year. The leg will tire easily and ya will have difficulty gettin on or off a sofa that is sitting too close to the ground. When you first come home you will need a walker. Afterwards you will need at least a cane just to help with balance.

...scaling the wall at PI is over. Walking the length of the horizontally mounted telephone poles on the other side of the wall is out as well. I have a tendency to fall over anything left in the floor. Shoes, throw rugs, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader uniforms left in the floor by the bed, you name it. At one time I scaled 8 foot falls without assistance. Right now a wall just slightly higher than my knee would hold me indefinitely.

...I gotta have my left knee replaced soon and my right one is not far behind it damage wise. That will leave only one of the major joints left. (Left Shoulder) and it is getting to be painful in the morn when I get up. I am not sure I want to go thru the pain of getting these things fixed at 76 years of age. I believe I will be in recovery as long as I live. I just about as soon go sit on a rocking chair on the front porch of a old folks home and spend the rest of my days drooling in kmy beard and crappin my pants.

...thing for ya to remember here is that you are not going to correct a condition. All the doctors can do for ya is slow the process of falling apart.

...I would go eat my gun but that would be like slapping nemo right in the face.

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