Wishing you all the best for tomorrow, ACE. xxx
I hope it won't be long before you're having a celebratory 'knees up' in the glow of those red chandeliers.
Good luck Ace or should that be good luck to the nurses ;) ;D.
Don't be cheeky until after the op Ace cos you might come back from theater with less than you went in with ;D
Hope all goes well Ace.
Good luck with the knee Ace and beware of cold bedpans :o ;)
Good luck from "Granny Tin-knees"
Can't wait to hear all about in your elegiac prose. Good luck and no stealing extra gas from the anaesthetist for recreational use when you get home.
Best of luck from no-knees ;D ;D ;D
looking forward to hearing about your experiences, from one knee, one hip knackered ;D
its not ACE that needs wishing luck :o its the nurses that have got to put up with sense of humour ;D
But ill wish him good luck anyway ;)
this won't hurt a bit, ACE.......just a little prick with a needle.......
I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH IT!! ;D
Best of luck Ace its only a girly op so u should be up and at em in a day or two. ;D ;D ;D
Good luck ACE - if the hospital is anything like the one where I had my knee replacement done you will be up within a few hours of coming round from the anaesthetic and home within 48 hours - on crutches.
Tricia
Hope it all goes smoothly Ace and you're back with us soon in fighting form!
I agree with Tricia, ACE will be up on his feet within no time. It's the best way to help prevent a thrombosis.
I wonder how he will get on with the surgical stockings too? ;) ;D ;D
Joking apart, it is very painful recovering from this operation and even though morphine is used to alleviate the pain, it is still severe.
Get well soon ACE, we are thinking of you.
Any news on the knee? from no-knees ;D
Quote from: asj on October 29, 2010, 17:09:24
Any news on the knee? from no-knees ;D
What knee! I don't know what all the fuss is about ;D. First class service, first class nurses and first class aftercare. They had to let me go today to give their aching ribs a rest after too much laughing and joking over the weekend. They also wanted to give the other patients a bit of a rest after my challenge to a race down the corridor on crutches and zimmerframes ;).
Had some lovely grub as a mate of mine works in the kitchen. I ticked every box instead of one in each section except for today when my order comes to my bed and the next patient has to have my choice just for today so he has macaroni cheese and curry sauce tonight.
It sounds like you had a big knee's up not an oppo, I bet they let you go early because the jokes were so bad.
And your car was taking up two spaces so you couldn't afford to stay any longer.
;D ;D ;D
Glad you are doing ok
Nice one ACE, welcome back. :)
Glad everything has gone well for you ACE and it was not as bad as you thought it would be.
Glad you had such a nice time Ace ;) ;D.
Quote from: grannyjanny on November 02, 2010, 08:16:59
Glad you had such a nice time Ace ;) ;D.
Yeh, bit different at home though, She's nicked my bell, mobile, and the phone has dissapeared from the bedroom, and to think she works as getting care put in place for old people! But she is working from home, downstairs at the moment so I will send her an email.
I am not allowed downstairs until the overnight stiffness has gone and I am safe to negotiate the stairs so I have to try and get all the exercises done, but a bacon sarnie and a coffee would certainly help in the healing proccess.
I will scan and post the xray pics the surgeon gave me just in case others are going to have this done just to show it aint as bad as it seems.
District nurse will be around later so a splash of brut and a bit of ACE charm should get her on my side and get her to insist that regular supplies of nourishing food and drink are delivered when ordered. She will see straight through her pretending to be the model caring wife when there are others around. I mean who else would put the malt whisky up high where you can see but not touch. All I've had offered today is fruit and fibre! Who in their right mind eats that stuff anyway? She's been rabbiting on about healthy eating, being regular, do your excercises, comb your hair and stop farting (on fruit and fibre no chance) Nag, nag, nag
Better stop now, there's footsteps coming up the stairs, but no smell of bacon cooking.
Glad to see you're so happy, ACE ;D ;D.
Glad to hear all went well Ace. Probably taken the ward longer to recover from your stay than it has taken you to recover!!! ;D Take care and make sure you do as you are told.
Quote from: ACE on November 01, 2010, 14:58:17
Had some lovely grub as a mate of mine works in the kitchen. I ticked every box instead of one in each section except for today when my order comes to my bed and the next patient has to have my choice just for today so he has macaroni cheese and curry sauce tonight.
Ha ha ha, he just makes me laff and laff that one. ;D ;D ;D
Hope you get up and about soon.
Adrienne
VBG! I can picture it!
Hope you will be out and about in no time at all.
Best wishes (and 'good luck' to your wife and the district nurse)
I was wondering how long it would take for the bell to be removed ;D
Whatever medication they've given you, Ace, can we all have some please?
Glad to hear your home, it's good to have you back again. Take care and get downstairs soon. xxx
Seemed like a step backwards last night, but I have worked it out that the cocktail of tablets and pills have to be spaced out so as to get the maximum benefit and don't get lazy with the excercises.
Still it's less than a week ago I went under the knife so I shall have to learn to stop rushing things.
But I have stopped using the crutches to get about indoors apart from the stairs and just had a stroll around the garden with just one and the other ready just in case. All my gardening tools have been hidden, even though a bit of hoeing would not hurt.
District nurse, blimey! I reckon she would be be better employed as a scaffolder and her helper wasn't much better, she could have least had a shave before she came to see me. Turns out she sometimes works with my wife when one of my wifes clients needs care, so what with the 3 of them plotting in the kitchen they came under the collective noun of a 'murder'. The brut was wasted on them I will try carbolic next time.
My faithful hound will be back tonight, he has been staying with his mates over at the nursery. Evidently the visiting health workers have been attacked by 'friendly dogs' when they treat their patients as the dogs get protective. Old Flynn would not hurt a fly but I ain't letting them know that. It should stop them just dropping in and interfering with my recovery.
They are also great believers in fruit and fibre for their patients but I bet the pie shop takes a beating when they are about, anyway, number 2 son is sneaking me in a bacon baguette later when old vinegar drawers has to pop down to her office.
Lovely weather out there so I think I will get a blanket and have a sit in the garden for an hour. I've located my bell, minus the clanger, (ain't she a wicked woman) but I ain't beaten yet. I will whack it with a little rock from the garden that I can smuggle back in.
I thought I was hard done by when I had my knees done, I didn't have district nurses popping in & I lived on my own above the pub that I was running on my own, but your life sounds sooo much harder, at least I could have a bacon sarnie when I wanted one after I had got downstairs to the kitchen but at least I could spend my evenings with my mates in the bar.
Yes do keep the painkillers spaced out properly & turn the exercises into a religion & you will soon be gardening, but no digging till the spring.
I bet you are living a life of riley really. ;D
Make sure your boy sneaks in a few cans as well. ;D ;D ;D ;)
You be careful how you treat the District Nurse because she will get her own back when she has to take out your staples or stitches.
Glad all is going well for you.
Glad you are doing so well, and haven't lost your sense of humour ACE. Keep doing what you are supposed to be doing and before you know it you will be back to full mobility again. Please to hear you are being kept in check in the meantime. lots of love, busy_lizzie x
I had me bacon baguette yesterday, big mistake I've now got a bed full of crumbs. The bell has dissapeared altogether now, so has the air horn my nipper brought me. Bloody thing nearly blew the chandieler off the ceiling and rattled the widow panes. I went deaf for a few minutes after. Don't try these things in enclosed spaces!
She took me out for a drive last night to try and cure my cabin fever. What a nightmare, Dolly Parton on the stereo, stopping at amber lights, driving in a convoy at 25 mph instead of putting her boot to the floor. Every Nissan Micra (spit) driver was out last night I swear there was a conspiracy going on. We passed hundreds of pubs without a break.
As for my faithful hound, he dropped me right in it. I slipped him my bowl of fruit and fibre and he got stuck right in, only trouble was he left all the fruit bits in the bottom of the bowl, she soon sussed that one out and I have been given double rations of the bloody stuff today.
I'm on icepacks today to try and get a bit of swelling down. 'Has the swelling gone up to your groin' she said approaching me with a lascivious look in her eye. Blimey! you could have entered me in the paralympic races. I would have won a medal. I had to remind her that my notes say 'no contact sports'
Ace, sounds like you are doing nicely, OR are you hiding the fact that you are in agony really?.
Get well soon , you are cheering us all up with your updates ;D ;D.
Good luck.
Ace, glad your doing well ;)
You should write a TV script for this, reminds me of the classics, all better than the crap we have on these days.
Ace, you're making me laugh out loud. Your sense of humour reminds me of Spike Milligan - even more so as I'm (still) reading his war memoirs. Glad you're home and on the mend :)
Well done Ace. you have a good sense of humour
Hope you go on o/k.
June.
Everybody is smiling today, the daughter who passed her test last week has found a nice cheap little VW polo, half the price of what I had in mind to give her. My course of tablets have finished, so a small drinkies tonight :D The Yeti in pink nickers has got me wallpapering and hanging a new chandieler, in exchange for a steak dinner this evening, don't worry it's her dolls house.
There might be one miserable little grandson when he stays next and he finds out I swapped the inner bag out of his sugar puffs for my bag of fruit and fibre. Nobody has twigged it yet they are all happy I ate my breckie without complaining.
Another sad note is that she has got me to sell my banjo, the Yeti hates it and reckons the best way to play it would be with an angle grinder. Evidently 'Oh do what you bloody well like' meant the opposite when I first got it.
I might have to go and see the doc as I am a bit worried that the swelling ain't going down on the knee as fast as I thought it would, some of you have had it done, how long will it be before I can stop this elevation and ice lark? I know I won't be prancing around with a top hat and cane but I thought I would be a bit more mobile by now and the bloody thing clicks now and again which they said it might.
Still I could apply for the Xfactor as 'Ace and his amazing musical knee' a one man band with the knee providing the percussion.
The faithful hound has redeemed itself, he takes messages downstairs tied to his collar, I might invest in a small brandy cask to hang around his neck like a St. Bernard. ;)
The swelling will take a little while, don't be so impatient. both mine still click 3 years on.
Glad you've finished the mega pills so that proper drinks are now allowed (keep the paracemol handy though)
I can't believe the Yeti could be so cruel getting rid of your banjo, :o a redneck just ain't a redneck without his banjo.. ;D ;D ;D ;)
Yay! ACE is back - banjo-less but bionic!
Glad it all went well. xxx
Quote from: cornykev on November 05, 2010, 16:57:04
I can't believe the Yeti could be so cruel getting rid of your banjo, :o a redneck just ain't a redneck without his banjo.. ;D ;D ;D ;)
Ah bet you got a sweet liddle mouth Kev. ;)
If you ever fancy a canoing holiday, head down this way ;D
"Squeal boy"!
I can't remember either of my knees swelling after replacement operations but I had some horrible open sores on the calf that took ages to clear up. I don't have nor ever had mine clicking.
If you are worried about the swelling then give your GP a ring and see what she says. They will usually ring you back when they are free to discuss any problems. Is the nurse still coming in and what does she say about it?
Ace take your wallet out your pocket, it might just relieve the pressure on your knees. :-X ;D ;D ;D
How do you ladies put up with waxing? I had to change the dressing, but having hairy legs does not go with having sticky plasters ripped off your leg. When I went for a vascectomy years ago they gave me a dry razor and sent me into a booth to shave the family jewels. They ommitted to tell me it was only a small patch to shave so in my ignorance I shaved the lot off and came out of the booth looking like the last turkey in the shop. I know, I know, too much information. But I did not have to suffer the same when the dressing was removed.
They never bothered getting rid of the hair on my legs this time and it really makes your eyes water. 'Sadie' the nurse looked like she really enjoyed herself. Next milestone is going to see the physio terrorist, I bet they are going to hurt as well.
Anyway had a bit of fun this morning, she took me to sainsburys to get me out of the house, they let me have a shop mobility scooter, don't think they will do that again. whizzing around the shop tooting the horn certainly had all the other shoppers on their toes. Great fun.
well thats put me right off turkeyAce.... chicken for christmas then.
hope Sadie the sadist is gentle with you next time. xxx
How is the knee now Ace? And how are you?
Quote from: galina on November 15, 2010, 16:44:09
How is the knee now Ace? And how are you?
Yes - Ace - you're being much too quiet!! Are you ok?
After the honeymoon of the hospital medication, it wore off and I am now in a lot of pain with sleepless nights.
The physioterrorists have had me in the gym and assure me everything is going as it should, but with a leg like the elephant man ain't no joke.
Cabin fever sets in quite regulary and I have been branded a miserable old sod.Which has had the desirable effect of getting rid of the visitors who seem to pop in just to see how I am. I have a lot of work to do researching the themes for next years gardens, so I am often at the computor in the wee small hours, where I can lose myself for a few hours.
But on the bright side. It can only get better.
my mother reacted badly to both her bionics (and still does sorry to say :-X) - I reckon she was/is allergic to the titanium, fwiw
Quote from: ACE on November 15, 2010, 18:19:33
After the honeymoon of the hospital medication, it wore off and I am now in a lot of pain with sleepless nights.
The physioterrorists have had me in the gym and assure me everything is going as it should, but with a leg like the elephant man ain't no joke.
But on the bright side. It can only get better.
Seriously hope so - our local physio has just sorted me out with an effective set of exercises. All I needed to do, was to actually do them. Hope you are sleeping better and start feeling the benefits.
Love your wicked sense of humour. ;D
Bit of a setback yesterday when I went @rse over breakfast time on some slippery stuff. But went to the physio terrorists later and they said no damage done. The gin treatment worked well last night, after emptying the contents I put the bottle in the fridge to rub on the sore bit, loverly!
The exercises can be a bit tedious and sometime painful, but I have to get back to normal before Xmas as we are having a huge family do over the holiday. Which should be fun scaring the grandkids with my scar if they start getting out of hand.
So glad you didn't hurt yourself Ace. It would be shame not to be able to scare the grandchildren wouldn't it. You are awful ;) ;D.
ACE, if I haven't said so already I wanted to tell you that you're attitude to this whole business is an inspiration. I don't doubt for one minute that it's as trivial an inconvenience as you make out and I wish I could think about my own aches and pains as you do about your lot. I'm really pleased you're making good progress and I'm sorry about the tumble. Gin treatment - priceless!
Chin up Ace, you are doing very well.
June.
take it steady Ace :)
Both chins up Ace. ;D ;D ;D :P
I have just done 10 minutes on the exercise bike this morning, crutches will be handed in the afternoon when I see the physio terrorists. They should sign me off as well today which means I can get out and terrorise some micra (spit) drivers tomorrow when I get the truck back on the road.
Still in pain and sleepless nights which is when the nerve endings decide they want to join up again and send shooting pains to my leg muscles. A really weird side effect from my medication causes my skin on my hands and feet to dry right up then it all peels of, the rug rats call me snakeman ;D
I have worked out a way to lubricate the knee joint with a diet of toasted teacakes for brekkie absolutely loaded with butter, just a snack mind you, followed with a good fry up, sausages, bacon, kidneys, black pudding, fried bread, eggs sunnyside up, mushrooms, tomatoes and a couple of slices of crusty bread also loaded with butter to dip into the yokes.
Should see me through to my elevenses.
Blimey ACE :o..after all that for breakie you will need new knee for carry your full tummy around.
All Micra drivers are out and about with their excellent winter vehicles..It will be for while before you have chance to catch them up..even without crutches. ;D
Good to hear that your "ASBO" is over and from underneath all that shedded skin there might surface a new.... ???
Good news - keep going, but PLEASE mind the ice!
It's less Gin with the ice he needs to watch ;D
and the peeling Ace, that happened to my mother's knee and hip ops (allergy to the titanium) went on for months and they won't let her have any more bionics :o
So it's back to old washing up,hovering and chandelier dusting for you then my lad eh Ace. ;D
Quote from: calendula on December 06, 2010, 10:21:55
and the peeling Ace, that happened to my mother's knee and hip ops (allergy to the titanium) went on for months
Blimey! I did not think of that. Did it clear up? That's all I need, I refuse to pay for anything in the shops, because it looks so terrible. I will have to wear gloves.
Ace, ask the DR or nurse for some DERMOL CREAM excellent stuff.
take it easy when you go out & about .
All the best. ;D
Quote from: ACE on December 06, 2010, 12:17:27
Quote from: calendula on December 06, 2010, 10:21:55
and the peeling Ace, that happened to my mother's knee and hip ops (allergy to the titanium) went on for months
Blimey! I did not think of that. Did it clear up? That's all I need, I refuse to pay for anything in the shops, because it looks so terrible. I will have to wear gloves.
not wanting to be alarmist, although just writing that induces it ;D but it has never gone away completely - it peeled and peeled, was very hot and red (both ops) and it also looked awful, actually looked worse than it felt sometimes, swelled up sometimes making the skin stiff - but overall extended her suffering considerably - hope this is not the case for you
My daughter had a problem of allergy to steel from a spinal op. I understood that titanium was supposed to cause fewer problems. I rather felt that they should have got her to wear a metal bracelet first. I would suggest you try a titanium bracelet and if that causes problems if might indicate where the problem lies. Just seen the price of titanium perhaps not such a good idea.
Docs did not like the word allergy and called it an adverse reaction.
Ace has always wanted to be apeeling, anyway all the best Flakey. ;D ;D ;D ;)
Quote from: cornykev on December 06, 2010, 16:32:49
Ace has always wanted to be apeeling, anyway all the best Flakey. ;D ;D ;D ;)
that would be corny flakes then would it ;D
Quote from: Digeroo on December 06, 2010, 16:00:28
I would suggest you try a titanium bracelet
Wear a bracelet!!! I would rather have the gloves than walk around like an old Doris with jangley bits on my wrists. I got great big pot of jollop from the doc, that should do the trick. Takes a bit of rubbing in so the dogs coat looks nice and shiney where I have been stroking him to get rid of the excess.
I was not suggesting that you need to walk around in it jangling etc. It only needs to be long enough to see if you are sensitive to it.
people have been admiring my aligator shoes, trouble is I am barefoot. Soon be sorted though, it ain't an alergy, I need more vitamin c a bit like scurvy, suites me I am partial to a slice of lime in my gin ;D
Not long now and I will be able to fulfill a lifetime ambition and dance a tango, which is like doing something in the vertical position that should really be horizontal. ;)
I shall go to dancing classes, because I will need a partner, the Yeti will not entertain it in any way but to be fair she really isn't built for the job. She's, er, how can I say it? well you wouldn't call her dainty.
Ace - I hope im nowhere near you, but if you so see me in my mums micra (spit) please dont terrorise me, I hate the car enough as it is.
Im uaed to driving an MPV not a tin can on wheels but i'd need a winch to get my mum in my car, so I have to drive hers to get her to her hospital appointments.
Glad your recovery is going well and I hope the snake skin improves soon.
See if you can get it into spacewarp 25mph.You will hit the headlines if you could manage it. There I was feeling sorry for myself, but it just goes to prove there are people who are worse of. You could take it in for its 45mile service, they might lend you something else for the day, then forget where you left it. ;D
Quote from: ACE on December 10, 2010, 10:23:14
....Soon be sorted though, it ain't an alergy, I need more vitamin c a bit like scurvy, suites me I am partial to a slice of lime in my gin ;D
You deserved all that was coming to you ACE, because I remember you saying you gave your fruit and fibre to your dog!! Had you had eaten it yourself, you may have avoided peeling hands as the cereal has fortified vitamins in it. ::) ;D ;D
We are going "abroad" to the IOW with our caravan in May and will be staying near Sandown. I can't remember what side of the road they drive on over there but I expect we will take up most of the carriageway and hold everyone up. ;D ;D
Quote from: Paulines7 on December 11, 2010, 00:40:07
We are going "abroad" to the IOW with our caravan in May and will be staying near Sandown. I can't remember what side of the road they drive on over there but I expect we will take up most of the carriageway and hold everyone up. ;D ;D
We don't do sides over here, the roads are too narrow. ;D Where o you go, Adgestone? I often stay on the Andover road at Hillside near you when we venture to the North island.
Just stand in the garden Ace and pretend you are one of them trees that the bark peels off. ;D
Quote from: ACE on December 11, 2010, 04:27:15
Quote from: Paulines7 on December 11, 2010, 00:40:07
We are going "abroad" to the IOW with our caravan in May and will be staying near Sandown. I can't remember what side of the road they drive on over there but I expect we will take up most of the carriageway and hold everyone up. ;D ;D
We don't do sides over here, the roads are too narrow. ;D Where o you go, Adgestone? I often stay on the Andover road at Hillside near you when we venture to the North island.
We will be staying at the Caravan Club site at Winford Road, Newchurch. It was refurbished last year.
The last time I visited the IOW on holiday was almost 50 years ago. ::) I have been for a couple of day trips since then though. ;D
Nice spot, that valley was found to have the maximum sunshine as you will realise when you see the acres of greenhouses up the road. I had a go on the caravan club site to book one of the london sites for the wedding not a chance sold out in under an hour from the opening booking day.
Just a warning don't let your other half buy any shoes in Newport, I needed a pair with odd sizes as my foot has swollen up with the op. No sorry we don't do that was the answer. Well they do now but they don't know it ;)