Posted on 03/21/2014 4:37:43 AM PDT by tioga
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “Word for the Day”.
Invidious
Adjective
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Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
i think it is much more difficult for the elderly than for th middle aged, to rehab. as long as she has a place she can be on a single floor for awhile she will be fine. and i swear with the second hip they had me doing stairs after one week at home.
your mom is elderly and ti is not, that’s the difference. it is much more difficult for them, i am not surprised they want Ti to go right home to stairs. I was in the hospital with 80 year olds when i had my hips done, believe me, it is very different as far as recovery time.
I believe right now I can push through the pain, I have lived with increasing pain for years. Now for my letter to the squad....I am taking a LOA until I recover. I am taking it now, so that I can prepare my house and get ahead on things before I am laid up. I need a railing on the steps from living room to kitchen. I need a cane or walker...rme. I have lots to get ready. Including buying sweat pants and clothing suitable for recovery. The book gives you the full info on planning ahead. I am overwhelmed right now, but will get busy.
I am informing the CA kids that they will not be coming home this year, but I will visit them when I am dancing again.
they will have both PT and OT people come to help you get ready to go home. You won’t be in the hospital all that long. And i don’t know about insurance now with Obamacare, but i had PT coming to the house after the first hip, for the first few weeks, and then was switched to the outpatient PT. with the second hip, the home PT was very very short, maybe one visit, bc i was getting around so much better.
Yes, but you are not an ordinary person. Come on, that was impressive, even for a stoic like you.
True, she was 74 when she had it done.
maybe insurance will cover the walker and the cane? ours did, and they sent me home with that stuff from the hospital, as well as a potty chair thing to put over the toilet. don’t go off half cocked buying this stuff on your own until you check with insurance.
and the pain of working/rehabbing the repaired limbs is a different pain then the debilitating pain of the bad ones, it IS easier to push through it bc you know you are going to be better and pain free on the other side.
well the second one was much easier than the first, and i don’t think i was unusual. i know ti can do this!
I had the cutest surgical assistant counsel me today. I asked him if it was HIS mother, what would he recommend and he said go with the total. He said if I was older and had health issues, the recovery time is only 6 weeks for the partial and would be a better fit for me. He is confident I can do stairs within 24 hours and be home. I sat there slack jawed, but hopeful. He thinks my age and physical health will let me manage. They do NOT like to do double knee replacements, as the lack of mobility is not conducive to full recoveries. Whatever the hell that means. Bottom line was better results doing them separately.
Ti does the elliptical with bad knees! i somehow doubt your mom was up to doing that either before or after the surgery. That kind of thing will aid her recuperating time, she is fit.
i didn’t have to decide NOT to have both hips done simultaneously, bc my doc didn’t do them, even though both hips were bone on bone as far as the arthritis. So i had an 18 mo period between them. but a guy i work with had them done closer together than that, maybe 6 mo apart, and i do know a woman had her’s done at the the same time. I think like i said, that the recovery from the second will be easier bc you will have one pain free knee at that point.
I think I still have my mother’s old commode...I can set it up in the living room. LMAO Yep, I can use it during the day.
and i think it’s wise to go the whole way with it. I knew people who were going to wait bc the lifespan of the hips was like 20 years, i said, well if i am 70 and need them re-done i will do them again, but i am not going to live like that and delay having them done, just bc of the lifespan of the replacement.
this is just an elevated seat so you don’t have to go down as far, it goes over the toilet. again, CHECK INSURANCE i am betting they pay for/provide all of this stuff for you!
oh, I am not doing the elliptical much at all lately....too much pain. I try, but nothing like I used to do. No elliptical with the partial...another reason to go with the full monty. I miss my elliptical.
well i doubt you went completely to hell in the amount of time since you stopped doing your full routine!
oh, no....I keep trying, just not 40 minutes full speed ahead anymore.
Thanks!
It appears that his grifter half is busy making a bigger ass of herself in China...
Uh?! Hi Teach... uhmmm.. I sort of don't have my note... my... ah, erhm... dog ate it! Yeah... That's it, Thena ate it!!
Uhmm... sorry I'm tardy, here's my homework and a bribe, er...teacher's gift. (hands over the bottle and scuttles back to desk.)
I'm sure that Prezzy Stompy Foot, and his bunch of manchildren endablers, are incredulous of the invidious and extreme mocking that the old KGB rearguard are giving them.
(sitting back, blinks innocently)
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