Five days ago I had full knee replacement surgery done. They sent me home with a nerve block. Basically, a long tube with a needle stuck into my thigh on one side, and a bag of narcotics on the other side. Had to be very careful with it, carrying it around, making sure not to […]
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For those of you just joining us, on Oct 4th, I had full kneed replacement surgery. I’m not going to go into too many gory details, but I’m still putting up a warning, in case that kind of stuff squicks you. Check in time was 5:40 AM, plus the hospital is an hour’s drive from
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The answer, at least for us, would be a, “no.” No, she shits in my front yard after knocking down my bird feeders, tearing through my garbage, and spreading the compost all around. *le sigh* Fortunately, it wasn’t that bad to clean up this morning. Blaze and I throw very little of what could be
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Weight went down this week. I’m now two pounds away from my goal weight. Though it might have seemed as though my weight stalled, it actually hadn’t. Not really. I was retaining water for a while. As soon as that drained, my weight dropped. I figure this is probably as good as it’s going to
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It has been A DAY. I would like for the rest of the month to be better, mkay? In knee-news, my surgeon’s office has STILL not submitted the paperwork necessary to get my insurance to approve my surgery. My care manager has been calling and not getting any response. I’ve been calling and not getting
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Accountability Sept 20 Weight is kind of in a holding pattern. I honestly can’t focus on it right now. I have too many other things going on. I’ve been walking…a lot. Averaged over 10K steps per day last week. But last week I was also insanely busy. Today I was very busy. Hoping to take
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Weight inched up a bit. I am not surprised. I over ate twice last week, and I though I did A LOT it wasn’t enough to offset what I ate. Can’t outrun your fork, as it were. I may try fasting for a day this week, just to get things moving in the right direction
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My weight continues to go down. This is a good thing. As I suspected, last week the scale didn’t show any weight loss, saving it all up for this week. If I can keep this up, one or two pounds per week, I’ll be at my goal weight by the end of the month. Hopefully
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There are actually a couple of things that I’m really worried about at this time in regards to my knee. One: though I was pre-approved for a knee replacement, I just received a letter in the mail from my insurance company telling me that they felt that my knee replacement was not deemed medically necessary.
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My surgeon wants me to have pre-hap, that is, to go to physical therapy and work on the strength and flexibility of my knee before my surgery. My insurance will pay for it as well. *SIDE NOTE* Yes, it concerns me to be going anywhere public right now. The infection numbers in the small towns
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