What are you doing?
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Back in January I went to a Medfit program at the health club at our local hospital. I rediscovered that treadmills and my knees do not have a good relationship. My right knee got sore and swollen but over the course of a few weeks it went back to normal. Until a few days ago. This time no real pain, just a lot of fluid on the same knee that acted up earlier this year. Trying to take it easy for a few days, elevating, and icing it.
70 has its disadvantages.
@wtg said in What are you doing?:
Back in January I went to a Medfit program at the health club at our local hospital. I rediscovered that treadmills and my knees do not have a good relationship. My right knee got sore and swollen but over the course of a few weeks it went back to normal. Until a few days ago. This time no real pain, just a lot of fluid on the same knee that acted up earlier this year. Trying to take it easy for a few days, elevating, and icing it.
70 has its disadvantages.
It does indeed. Knees are tough. I've had a couple shots in my left knee that were very effective. Now I have no pain, but if I move certain ways I can feel cartilage or meniscus or something kind of shifting around like there are multiple pieces. Now that I'm pretty much over the foot surgery I think I'll go see my ortho and see if there's anything proactive I can do.
70 is high maintenance.
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
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@Daniel. said in What are you doing?:
I'm reminding myself I don't have a violent bone in my body and at the same time ironically having fantasies about beating the sociopath to a pulp.
This is the human condition. You DO have a violent side, it's just suppressed by living in civilization.
Do keep it suppressed.. it's not worth going to jail for.
@Mik said in What are you doing?:
@Daniel. said in What are you doing?:
I'm reminding myself I don't have a violent bone in my body and at the same time ironically having fantasies about beating the sociopath to a pulp.
This is the human condition. You DO have a violent side, it's just suppressed by living in civilization.
Do keep it suppressed.. it's not worth going to jail for.
Got it.
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I love gin and tonic! It's the only alcohol I drink except for occasional vodka shots and champagne.
I got the roof tarping done two days ago. Yesterday they came and attached metal hardware around a few corner areas they missed. I paid to have a huge debris/ garbage piled hauled away per polite but firm personal visit from the manager, and every day is one day closer to the day I'm off the waiting list and my new roof is out on.
It's no longer raining in the house and a hurricane (and there will be one) is no longer necessarily any kind of unthinkable disaster.
I'm done. I did this to save my life.
I told the other resident not only do I not want to live with him, I don't want to know him.
He woke up before me and started to assemble my adult tricycle that I bought to haul garbage to the dumpsters.
He was paid a nominal amount of money to do this six months ago.
It took him a year to organize his possession. They were basically all over the carport for six months, two separate times
The neighbor finally complained.
I don't know what took her so long.
I would have complained about two weeks after he made the mess.
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MrsTuner had a shoulder replacement surgery last year and then experienced a couple of dislocations this year. Had another surgery a few days ago to tighten up the joint so I've been home managing ice rotations and trying to be helpful...
@Rontuner said in What are you doing?:
MrsTuner had a shoulder replacement surgery last year and then experienced a couple of dislocations this year. Had another surgery a few days ago to tighten up the joint so I've been home managing ice rotations and trying to be helpful...
Yikes. A friend dislocated her replaced hip and said it was very painful.
Hope MrsTuner feels better soon and this tuneup surgery keeps things in place.
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@Bernard thanks for explaining that! It's fun how different places call these same facilities by different names!
@ShiroKuro I think it's a New England thing. Our previous town didn't have curbside pickup. It had a relatively wealthy demographic and maybe they didn't like to see the trash cans on the street. Instead everybody put their trash into their Lexuses and Mercedes and hauled it to the transfer station themselves. The garbage was then "transfered" to various processing plants.
My new blue collar town has trash and recycling pickup at curbside. And half the people drive oversized pickup trucks. But there is no dump or transfer station where you can take stuff.
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@wtg said in What are you doing?:
Back in January I went to a Medfit program at the health club at our local hospital. I rediscovered that treadmills and my knees do not have a good relationship. My right knee got sore and swollen but over the course of a few weeks it went back to normal. Until a few days ago. This time no real pain, just a lot of fluid on the same knee that acted up earlier this year. Trying to take it easy for a few days, elevating, and icing it.
70 has its disadvantages.
It does indeed. Knees are tough. I've had a couple shots in my left knee that were very effective. Now I have no pain, but if I move certain ways I can feel cartilage or meniscus or something kind of shifting around like there are multiple pieces. Now that I'm pretty much over the foot surgery I think I'll go see my ortho and see if there's anything proactive I can do.
70 is high maintenance.
@Mik said in What are you doing?:
the foot surgery
What kind of foot surgery did you have? I’m having a lot of problems with my right foot/heel (arthritis, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinitis and Haglund's deformity). I did six weeks of OT earlier this year and the PF has mostly resolved but the heel/ Achilles tendon problems are intractable. I’m starting to get discouraged about the possibilities for a non-surgical resolution.
BTW I also have osteoarthritis in my knees and I had a cortisone shot in my right knee about three weeks ago and it has been a godsend!! I’m going to talk to the doc about a shot for my foot but I’m less clear on that because of conflicting things I’ve been reading about it.
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@Mik said in What are you doing?:
the foot surgery
What kind of foot surgery did you have? I’m having a lot of problems with my right foot/heel (arthritis, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinitis and Haglund's deformity). I did six weeks of OT earlier this year and the PF has mostly resolved but the heel/ Achilles tendon problems are intractable. I’m starting to get discouraged about the possibilities for a non-surgical resolution.
BTW I also have osteoarthritis in my knees and I had a cortisone shot in my right knee about three weeks ago and it has been a godsend!! I’m going to talk to the doc about a shot for my foot but I’m less clear on that because of conflicting things I’ve been reading about it.
@ShiroKuro I had a myopericytoma removed from the top of my right foot right behind the big toe. Looked like someone stuffed a golf ball under there. It’s a form of tumor, but benign. I thought it was a lipoma like old dogs get but it wasn’t. Longest pathology report I ever saw and I have reviewed many thousands of them. I had to run it through AI to figure out what it really said.
This was May 9. The scab is almost gone, only a half inch left.
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams -
@ShiroKuro I had a myopericytoma removed from the top of my right foot right behind the big toe. Looked like someone stuffed a golf ball under there. It’s a form of tumor, but benign. I thought it was a lipoma like old dogs get but it wasn’t. Longest pathology report I ever saw and I have reviewed many thousands of them. I had to run it through AI to figure out what it really said.
This was May 9. The scab is almost gone, only a half inch left.
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Why did the universe make human being so fragile? I'm not talking about 14 year olds who can lose control of a bicycle going down hill, land on asphalt, and walk away with some cuts and pains that miraculously heal within three days.
I'm talking about the over 50 demographic who seems to live as if on the Father Time section of the Baby New Year/ Father Time wheel of life and death.
Health issues seem to get exponentially worse as time passes once a person gets over that hill.
There are exceptions.
There are also babies and younger adults who drop dead.
I wonder where birds go to die. You see them living in all their glory. You almost never seen one dying. I've seen that once.
I guess it's a big world.
I think death has become too sanitized in our society, and I also worry about people loosing autonomy over their health care.
Get well soon, every one.
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@ShiroKuro I had a myopericytoma removed from the top of my right foot right behind the big toe. Looked like someone stuffed a golf ball under there. It’s a form of tumor, but benign. I thought it was a lipoma like old dogs get but it wasn’t. Longest pathology report I ever saw and I have reviewed many thousands of them. I had to run it through AI to figure out what it really said.
This was May 9. The scab is almost gone, only a half inch left.
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Starting week two of living by myself. No, my wife didn’t leave me, she’s traveling with our daughter, DIL, and the two grandsons. I decided to skip that trip and I’m glad I did. I can’t even imagine…
On Friday I leave to meet her in Munich for the start of a bus tour around Central Europe. I know little about that area and I’m looking forward to learning more about it. An all-inclusive bus tour is my preferred way to travel these days - no hassles with rentals, reservations, etc. Less road time and more personal time to explore on this tour and that sounds good as well.
Knees here too, and the doc told me I’m a candidate for new ones if I want them. Got cortisone shots instead which worked miracles, and being as the last cortisone shots I got lasted two years I figure to worry about them then.
Commiseration, sympathy and support for all of us who are learning how to deal with the rapid and sudden onset of geezerhood. It’s not so bad, really, at least not so far, and if it does get bad we can deal with that too.
Cheers!
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@Steve-Miller wow sounds like a fun trip!!
Knees here too, and the doc told me I’m a candidate for new ones if I want them. Got cortisone shots instead which worked miracles, and being as the last cortisone shots I got lasted two years I figure to worry about them then.
Wow, I’m sorry to hear you have this too! But it’s very encouraging to hear that your shot lasted two years! I’ll check back in two years and let you know if my lasts that long too!
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Apparently it’s rare for cortisone shots to be effective for that long and you don’t want to get them very often. The ortho said he was very surprised.
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Steve, I've been a bachelor this past week too. Janet went on a free junket to Vegas with a gambling friend and got to see Kelly Clarkson and spend her birthday with our daughter. Just been me and the cats, but great for the diet. I've been able to make fish every night!
I've gotten the cortisone shots twice over the past ten years. They work like a charm. I haven't had any knee pain for several years, but if my foot is planted and my torso twists, causing the upper leg to rotate a bit I can feel that things are moving around in the knee - not crunchy exactly, but loose. I'm going to see my ortho and find out what I might do to prevent it from getting worse or if it's nothing to worry about.
