Messrs Oaty and Petey, MTX and Blue Monday

There is a novel about a woman that “wakes up” in a mental institution and, of course, is totally disoriented. She keeps hearing references to oatey and petey and how she must get ready for them. It turns out that ”oatey” is OT or occupational therapy and “petey” is PT or physical therapy. I know how she [...]

1 Week Later, Physical Terrorists and Other Updates

Well, here it is a week later and all’s well, mostly. I’m doing super. This afternoon I even chucked my walker for a bit and got around using a cane. I’d do that all the time, but Jack is keeping an eagle eye out on me. He’s out of town on day trips the next [...]

Surgery, T+5 Days

First of all, most if not all of the things I was afraid of have proven to be non events. I have very little pain. However, I was not expecting just the overall weakness that I feel. I guess I concentrated too much on the details of the hip surgery and not enough on the [...]

Escape from Presby

Escaped from Presbyterian yesterday. It was a whirlwind of activity and I got pretty tuckered, so I didn’t get a chance to update the blog. Whenever you come home from the hospital after surgery, you get to learn new ways of doing things — like getting in and out of bed. It’s neither easy nor [...]

Surgery T+2 – They Shoot Horses Don’t They?

There’s a particularly gritty Sidney Pollack film that has since passed into obscurity named They Shoot Horses Don’t They?  The backdrop of the film is one of the gruelling marathon dance contests of the depression era where desperate contestants win a few dollars by staying on their feet longer than the competition — literally for [...]

Hip Surgery T+1 Day

Well, wherat can I say. The surgery went great and I have absolutely no pain. Although that might change today for two reasons. First, Dr. Tucker put pain medicine directly into the surgery site, which wears off after about a day.  The second is they’ll start physical therapy today. But they believe strongly in pain [...]

Last Post Before Surgery

The surgery is day after tomorrow and I’ve started counting hours instead of days. This will be the last post until after surgery, although if Presby Dallas’ Wi-Fi works as promised, I hope to update the blog soon afterward.
I’ve got a busy day planned for tomorrow — all the things I won’t be able to [...]

Third Time’s a Charm

After two aborted tries to donate the second unit of blood, I was down to my last shot this morning because a week from today I have surgery. I’ve changed/upped my supplements in the hope that things would work out. I started them about noon last Friday and today, Monday, after only three days, my [...]

All Dressed Up and No Place to Go — Again

Went to donate blood yesterday. Hemoglobin is still 10.8 and it needs to be at least 11.0. I tried to get them to check it again, but they wouldn’t. They did say that if I came in first thing on Monday, they would try again. So I immediately drove to the North Dallas mecca for [...]

The Demise of the Dancin’ Pole and Other Non-Events

Not much significant has happened, but there are a few things worth mentioning for those of you who have been keeping up.
First of all, you’ll remember my determination NOT to have a grab bar in my bathroom and, instead, ordered a floor-to-ceiling pole. Time for Plan B. The wonderful website where I’ve been ordering my [...]