Hello ladies and gents. Alive. Pain. Yeah.
I am alive and kicken. Okay not quite kicken yet but definitely alive. Feeling surprisingly good though. My whole right leg is numb due to a spinal block (loving the epidural) and I was even sent home with a local anesthetic pain pump drip thingy. I have been very light on the pain meds as a result so I don't really feel all that loopy and haven't seen even one penguin or fairy in my living room...damn it.
The surgery wentiffy okay depending on perspective. ACL reconstruction = good & successful. Unpredicted meniscus repair = bad & disappointing. The doc found my old ACL to be very stretched out (real shocker) and he removed a screw in my knee. Unfort, he also found both my medial and lateral meniscus to be torn. I can see the pics, it's not a little tear. So since last time I did the same thing and it was repaired by stitching, he just removed the offending flaps. I am sort of bummed by this because of the whole "future knee pain thing", but realistically, that is going to happen anyway so I am over it.
The doc said my knee was "tore up" and that I should "quit running and stick to biking". Well I say "fix it up doc and lalalalala I can't hear you". It is not that I really like running (on a road), but seriously, I am not an old woman who can just give up on moving at faster than a walk. Why are orthopedic docs such weanies? Probably because they are rich and fake bake. Okay maybe just mine. I don't know, he is just really tan and it is the winter time.
One last bummer. MY. ICE. MACHINE. IS. NOT. WORKING. Waaaaa. It is from my last surgery and I may or may not have used it for 3 months straight 24 hours a day. So the fact that the moter died isn't surprising but my Cigna insurance won't give me another one so I may have to buy one from the Elite Care people who are like the crack dealers of the hospital. The chick called me offering liquid frozen crack and I just can't say no.
Well I am super busy with all my important activities so I gotta run. I may have to get up to use the restroom within the next hour and I must mentally prepare.
I am alive and kicken. Okay not quite kicken yet but definitely alive. Feeling surprisingly good though. My whole right leg is numb due to a spinal block (loving the epidural) and I was even sent home with a local anesthetic pain pump drip thingy. I have been very light on the pain meds as a result so I don't really feel all that loopy and haven't seen even one penguin or fairy in my living room...damn it.
The surgery went
The doc said my knee was "tore up" and that I should "quit running and stick to biking". Well I say "fix it up doc and lalalalala I can't hear you". It is not that I really like running (on a road), but seriously, I am not an old woman who can just give up on moving at faster than a walk. Why are orthopedic docs such weanies? Probably because they are rich and fake bake. Okay maybe just mine. I don't know, he is just really tan and it is the winter time.
One last bummer. MY. ICE. MACHINE. IS. NOT. WORKING. Waaaaa. It is from my last surgery and I may or may not have used it for 3 months straight 24 hours a day. So the fact that the moter died isn't surprising but my Cigna insurance won't give me another one so I may have to buy one from the Elite Care people who are like the crack dealers of the hospital. The chick called me offering liquid frozen crack and I just can't say no.
Well I am super busy with all my important activities so I gotta run. I may have to get up to use the restroom within the next hour and I must mentally prepare.
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oh my poor girl! want me to come over on friday???
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