What's New ~ Wednesday

Glad you could see his smiling face. 

Hello Joyce and my OFF family:

I hope all goes well for you. You should be out of your operation by now, I would imagine. It's after 11:30 a.m. ... I turned off the ringer on the phone last night and decided no one was going to wake me up ... then I forgot: it's Wednesday and they mow. The mowers were out at 7:30 a.m. going past my bedroom window. That woke me up (even with the windows closed).  I rolled over and went back to sleep. Slept til nearly 10, but still woke up with various aches and pains (head, knee, back, butt). It's going to rain, I can feel it.

Tried to make an appointment with the ortho doc in Ann Arbor I had heard about; these guys stick together, though. He won't see me unless I have a letter from my first doctor saying I've already had a revision. Well, that stinks! The guy here  says I don't need a revision; my knee hurts for no stinking reason but no one will help me. I called the pain clinic to see if they have any suggestions (a neurologist was suggested by some folks on the knee message board, or a rheumatologist); called my PCP too.

I think I am stuck living with this pain. I don't think anyone wants to help me. I wish I had never had this knee replacement. What a bad decision! I wish I had the plastic surgery instead ... although with my luck, that would have gone badly too. All I wanted was a better quality of life. All I wanted was to walk without pain. I didn't want to run a marathon ... I didn't want to run, period. I just want to walk comfortably. I can't even do that ... I can't even walk as well as well as I did before the surgery.

Not much going on today. The White Sox play at noon; they better get their butts in gear ... they've lost two to the Indians and are now tied for the lead in the AL Central. Luckily, the Twins also lost yesterday. The Sox haven't been playing well lately. I hope they can step it up a notch. Their pitching is really in trouble.

Well, have a good day.

I'm sorry you aren't having an luck with this.  It doesn't seem right that you can't just go for a second opinion without needing info from your first doc.  I thought that was the whole point of getting a second opinion?  Hopefully your PCP can recommend someone/something else to you.  You shouldn't have to be in so much pain.

The PCP didn't have any ideas for me. He suggested I call my pain doc, which I had already done. I'm waiting to hear back from him. I talked with his nurse, who said she had my doc (the second one, who I saw yesterday) do her hip replacement, and she still has pain on it. So I guess I'm not alone. Still doesn't make me feel better. They promise you that you're going to be able to have a better quality of life when you get this, and then it's worse.

I was grousing to my brother that I'm going to wind up in a wheelchair anyway, just as the pain doc said when he recommended I have WLS ... I said I could have skipped the whole process ... didn't really mean it, but I'm just fed up with the whole thing. I'm glad I had the WLS ... it was life-changing. And I would never have met y'all. But the way this is going, I am going to end up in a wheelchair, so what was the sense of having the knee replacement?

eileen can't your pcp help you go to another dr about your knee??? how about a teaching hospital?? those seem to work better anyhow when the dr can't figure out what is wrong!!!

hugs

Judy:

That was the idea of calling the doc at UM, but like I said, he won't even see me without a letter saying I have had a revision ... and since I haven't, and won't get one/don't need one, I can't see him. I think that's going to be the same song from everyone. I am so frustrated. I hope my pain doc has some ideas for me. I'm going to ask my friend Rox the nurse if she still has some contacts in Chicago ... I know she wasn't in ortho, but maybe her nurse friends know of someone; or maybe my cousin who's a nurse knows of someone in Chicago. I just don't know what to do.

have you told the new dr that you want someone else to do the revision??? not sure if that would hel*****t but dam you need to get some help soon!!!! wish i could help you more....(((eileen)))

 

No, Judy, from what I've been told, I don't need a revision. I would just like someone else to look at it at least. I still think it's a tendon/ligament problem but I can't even get anyone to consider that ... they just look at the replacement joint. It's totally frustrating. I really wish I had never had this done.

Eileen, I just called you with the information of a Ortho doctor at Northwestern who did a knee replacement for a man I know. He did a wonderful job for Bob and he highly reccomends him to others. I do know that someone else is going to him and have a replacement done in a couple of months. I just talked to Bob's wife Mary Beth and she said that he did a wonderful job for Bob and he has had no problem with it since. I thought it would be worth a shot. Mary Beth said that Dr. Turi is a very popular doctor. I will call you again later on tonight.

I am sure you are all done with your surgery and in LaLa land right now, prayers going up for you.
I love your hair !! Chuck made me keep mine short, so of course I want to grow it out now, but really I like it short. maybe I will grow it out enough to get it permed, I like curls. The point is it is MY decision.. yippeee. I have activities the next 3 nights where he may be. tonight is church, tomorrow is Legion and Friday is a Church council meeting, all things he is involved in. But also all things  where there will be a number of other people around.I have not seen nor heard from him since the meeting Sunday so I am a bit nervous, but generally ok. I will smile , look him in the eye and treat him like any other friend. I am waering a skirt and blouse today that are very uncomfortable..too tight, when I first got the skirt it was so loose I would have to roll it up.Ok Jean, time to get the lead out and step AWAY from the carbs. South Beach diet and I are starting a relationship very soon. Have a wonderful day..blessings