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6th knee surgery
Topic Started: Apr 27 2011, 03:11 PM (287 Views)
Nobody's Sock
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Having surgery on my right knee tomorrow. 6th time. I don't know why they didn't install a zipper the last one.

For some weird reason, I actually look forward to these surgeries. People like George mix a drink like no other. The most heavenly feeling in the world............snore.
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Did you have some crashes on that scooter?

Sorry to hear it - hope it works out very well.

Enjoy the anesthetic!
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Damn, NS. That sucks.

I hope it goes well.
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Kincaid
Apr 27 2011, 03:14 PM
Did you have some crashes on that scooter?

Sorry to hear it - hope it works out very well.

Enjoy the anesthetic!
Naw, scooter riding's been no worries.

It's my baseball hobby.
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Sh!t, man, you're starting to sound like my wife (11 shoulder surgeries in 4 years)!

What the HELL is going on?
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George K
Apr 27 2011, 03:17 PM
Sh!t, man, you're starting to sound like my wife (11 shoulder surgeries in 4 years)!

What the HELL is going on?
Well if you think your wife and I are having a strenuous affair, you're quite mistaken!! I haven't been to Chicago in 8 years!

Let's see, 6 knees, 2 shoulders, 3 elbows, hernia, tonsilectomy, bladder, biopsy. Shoot, I've been put under 14 times. The first knee was an epidural and I will never, never elect that option again!
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Apr 27 2011, 03:20 PM
The first knee was an epidural and I will never, never elect that option again!
::Jodisnort::

People have this impression that any anesthetic that doesn't "put them out" is better than a general. As you point out, it ain't necessarily so.

Knee surgery requires a tourniquet on the thigh, and it's almost impossible to block the pain sensations from the tourniquet with an epidural or spinal (the sensations go via different nerve pathways than regular pain). Not only that, you'll spend much longer in the hospital after surgery (up to 4 hours) than with a general.

Then, there's the technical aspects of putting the epidural in. Having done this (in private practice) for more than 20 years, I've gotten pretty good at it (I can recall 3 that didn't work), but in hands that are not as experienced, it can be ... challenging.

Sooner or later, you'll have a general.
A guide to GKSR: Click

"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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Best wishes to you, NS! When you are ready to give up the baseball, I'll get you started on rug hooking and baking, OK?
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George K
Apr 27 2011, 03:25 PM
Nobody's Sock
Apr 27 2011, 03:20 PM
The first knee was an epidural and I will never, never elect that option again!
::Jodisnort::

People have this impression that any anesthetic that doesn't "put them out" is better than a general. As you point out, it ain't necessarily so.

Knee surgery requires a tourniquet on the thigh, and it's almost impossible to block the pain sensations from the tourniquet with an epidural or spinal (the sensations go via different nerve pathways than regular pain). Not only that, you'll spend much longer in the hospital after surgery (up to 4 hours) than with a general.

Then, there's the technical aspects of putting the epidural in. Having done this (in private practice) for more than 20 years, I've gotten pretty good at it (I can recall 3 that didn't work), but in hands that are not as experienced, it can be ... challenging.

Sooner or later, you'll have a general.
Well I must have had a newbie put in mine. It took him forever and at one point with his fiddling around for the right spot, I swooned. Then there was the total paralysis of my lower body. Watching them lift and move my leg and not feeling a thing! Made me understand a little better what parapalegics go through.
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brenda
Apr 27 2011, 03:48 PM
Best wishes to you, NS! When you are ready to give up the baseball, I'll get you started on rug hooking and baking, OK?
Oh no you don't! I've learned a bunch about hooking since you've joined, and that's just another contact sport asking for more ligament damage! ;)
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See now, if you were having this done at my hospital here in Cowtown, you'd be on my floor & we'd finally meet.

Hope all goes well.
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I was going to ask how you came to have 6 knees.

Good luck with the surgery. May you receive the drugs of your dreams.
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Mikhailoh
Apr 27 2011, 05:45 PM
I was going to ask how you came to have 6 knees.

Good luck with the surgery. May you receive the drugs of your dreams.
+1 on all counts.
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Apr 27 2011, 06:21 PM
Mikhailoh
Apr 27 2011, 05:45 PM
I was going to ask how you came to have 6 knees.

Good luck with the surgery. May you receive the drugs of your dreams.
+1 on all counts.
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Apr 27 2011, 08:07 PM
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Apr 27 2011, 06:21 PM
Mikhailoh
Apr 27 2011, 05:45 PM
I was going to ask how you came to have 6 knees.

Good luck with the surgery. May you receive the drugs of your dreams.
+1 on all counts.
+ 2
+3

You have quit playing baseball, right?!
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sue
Apr 27 2011, 08:44 PM
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Apr 27 2011, 08:07 PM
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Apr 27 2011, 06:21 PM
Mikhailoh
Apr 27 2011, 05:45 PM
I was going to ask how you came to have 6 knees.

Good luck with the surgery. May you receive the drugs of your dreams.
+1 on all counts.
+ 2
+3

You have quit playing baseball, right?!
Bite your tongue Sue!


Thanks everyone. Fasting now since last night and I can't even have a morning cup of coffee! Sucks.


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sue
Apr 27 2011, 08:44 PM
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Apr 27 2011, 08:07 PM
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Apr 27 2011, 06:21 PM
Mikhailoh
Apr 27 2011, 05:45 PM
I was going to ask how you came to have 6 knees.

Good luck with the surgery. May you receive the drugs of your dreams.
+1 on all counts.
+ 2
+3

You have quit playing baseball, right?!
Sue, it seems you and I will have to come up with alternatives to this baseball addiction he has. With some encouragement, I think he could get into baking. If I lived closer, he'd already be into rug hooking. (Oh, yes, you would, NS!)

Any more ideas for him?
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Good luck NS! Enjoy the time off work!
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Hope the surgery goes well NS! You should ask them to implant bionics while they're there.
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