After the fact

They tell me surgery went well. That was a week ago. I'm still bruised, swollen and unable to walk without a walker. Found out my blood is sticky.. fun stuff. They had put me on coumindan as a precaution when they did the surgery. Have to go twice a week for blood work. Last time I went they upped the coumindn. Don't like that.

Too many pain pills keep my head in a fog and it's hard to type and even to think. Hard to focus so it's hard to read.

I''ve gone back to good low carb way of eating. I got off it about a year ago... Pretty sure that's why my blood isn't as good as it was.

Trying to wait till ten for a pain pill.. I am prescribed 1 or 2 evry four hours. I never take two at a time but sometiimes i do take them at three hoour intervals. I see the mistakes but am too tired to fix them. J

Oh my I'm tired

Had to go to the doctor, get another xray of my knee... then to the hospital for pre-registration. All in all it took so very long. I was starving and in a hekka lot of pain. Tomorrow I get the new knee. Not looking forward to more pain but at least there's an end to that pain. Won't blog for a few days I guess.. J

getting there.

Today I went for blood work... tomorrow I see the surgeon and go to the hospital for the pre-check in or whatever that is they call it. Tomorrow night I fast and Wednesday morning I go to the hospital but I don't know what time yet... I'll find out tomorrow. Getting anxious and yet I want it overwith.. pain is getting to be too much to bear. I'm sure the worst part of surgery is the anxiety just beforehand. Can't remember having anxiety like this for any other surgery.


J

Oooops falling down

on the job.

Haven't posted for a few days but maybe that's cause I had nothing to say... we did go and take the flowers to the cemetery.. glad I went as the others were faded. Hate faded flowers in the cemetery. I will probably take new ones again around Nov 1st. I want to make a holiday arrangement next time.

Cleaned house somewhat yesterday.. a lick and a promise, but that's good enough. Both Mac and I feel like we did too much but we didn't. The problem is we haven't been doing near enough.

Ramon and his family came today and brought everything for lunch.. That was the nicest thing anyones done for me in a very long time. So good to spend some time with them. They brought us a combined birthday present.. a wii. I wonder if I can learn how to operate it. I think I can. It looks like fun.

Tomorrow is a day off.. Monday fasting blood work. Tuesday an appt with the orthopedist and the hospital pre reg... then wednesday my new knee.. Boy do I dread this.. but also want to get it done. J

The day is done

My birthday. Hm don't feel any older than yesterday. Had calls from Lola and Ramon. Had facebook greetings from Elena and Gloria, Jacob, monica, julie and Jessi. That's nice. Got a lot of nice cards yesterday and a pretty one from mac today... that's good.

Got all the green lights for surgery on wednesday... hate it but will be glad when it's over. Need this new knee now.

Tomorrow we will take the wreath to put out for Kiko...

Now it's time to go to bed. J

Yesterday...

we took Jerri for another appt with the SSI doctors. Hope they get it all together soon. I tend to think they just might approve her the first time but if they don't we will contest it. or appeal it, whatever one has to do when they don't agree with the decision

We went to costco and bought chicken broth and dried apricots.

We went to trader joes and bought salad mix.. so much cheaper there than anywhere else.

Today we are going to the casino for dinner... hard to eat there and lose weight. Whatever.

J

Did not do

housework.

Didn't do anything. Went shopping for a few things.. stopped at safeway for grapes. They were on sale. I like them frozen. Just like eating a sweet mini popsicle.. so delicious. High carb but don't seem to bother me unless I eat too many of them.

What else did I do? Nothing. Didn't cook cause there were too many leftovers. Maybe I'll cook tomorrow.. maybe not cause we are to be gone to Redding at dinner time. We won't be able to go out and eat after Jerris appt because that would mean being gone too long for the dog. We'll have to leave here about 3:30, her appt is 4:30. They told her it could be two hours long. That would be 6:30, then half an hour to get home, 7PM.... that's long enough to leave the dog. Might cook something in the morning that we can just warm up when we get home. We'll figure it out.

Ok well it's almost my bedtime and it will be time by the time I get through the process... brushing teeth and all that stuff.

J

What to write

When there's nothing to write?

I slept good, thanks to a whole pain pill. I never take a whole one but I was so tired and needed sleep. Been a long time since I slept decent.

Wonder what's up with the dog? He's been having to go out two times every night. I actually think it's because he wakes up with people going in and out. And sometimes my moving all around trying to get comfortable bothers him.

Not supposed to be hot today... should do some housework. I'd like to get it cleaned up before I have surgery. It's getting pretty bad. J

Short post again

Hot in here... air off at 85 degrees. geesh. what the heck..

Went for the artery scan. The girl said it looked good to her.. so I'm not gonna worry about it. I've been checking my blood pressure and it's been fairly good so am not gonna worry about that either.. Just want to get the knee done and the pain overwith. I know it will be more pain for a little while but hopefully once that's over things will get better. I need to be able to get out and drive.. hate being dependant.

Going to bed and put the fans on.

J

I did it

Passed my drivers license with flying colors. Missed one question but I actually knew the answer to that one too. So one thing less to do this week. Tomorrow it's the artery scan. Monday Jerri has an appt in redding with the psychologist for SSI... Wed she has an appt with general assistance and friday there's something else I've forgotten what. Either tues or thurs I want to go to the cemetery... bought flowers and stuff to make a halloween arrangement for Kiko. He absolutely loved halloween.

Need to go to bed now.
g'nite. J

Not gonna write much

Cause I'm really very tired. Ate more protein today but that doesn't seem to make any difference.. I bet it's the pain pills that keep me tired. Took only half last night and half twice today. Still tired. J

Report...

Ok so I went to the cardiologist. Did not like the male receptionist,, he was sour. Did not like the girl who called me in, she too was sour.. And she pinched my arm with the blood pressure cuff. I told her it hurt and she just kept on. Obviously she needed a bigger cuff or she needed to learn how to put it on right. She kept going till I told her That really HURTS. Still she didn't stop and so I said OK that's one sure way to make my blood pressure go up. And guess what. It went up. I have never had blood pressure so high. Then she grabbed it and checked on the other arm. I tried to relax so it wouldn't be so high but it was high anyway.

Still I did like the cardiologist. She seemed caring and knowledgeable. She had copies of my records there with the blood tests I'd had done about 3 months ago. She said the LDL was a little too high and that I needed to bring it down. It wasn't high enough to warrant medication though... They did an EKG and that was fine. She cleared me for the surgery but told me if I get in there and my blood pressure is that high they won't do the surgery. I'll be checking it daily for a few days. If it's higher than usual I'll go see my doctor and see about getting a bit more medication for it. But for now surgery is still scheduled for the 23rd...

J

Tomorrow is it?

Tomorrow should be the deciding factor on if I'm going to have my surgery on the 23rd or not. I'll see the cardiologist in the morning and should have some idea then. Scan isn't till friday but I'm fairly sure she will know if it's something or probably nothing. I'll be glad when tomorrow is over I think.

Boring nothing kind of day... a bit of yard work but nothing I can call exercise. Food was boring too. And I'm finding myself wanting to go to bed earlier and earlier. I think the pain pills are sapping my energy. Today I skipped the after noon dose.. I'm going to cut down on them as much as I can. Of course when I have to go shopping or somewhere I have to walk a lot I'll probably always have to take them. Not sure getting the knee fixed will be enough. Back still has a problem that can't be fixed.. just have to deal with it.

J

Eeeek and egads...

I forgot to post something here yesterday... whoops. I thought I had posted. Maybe it was something else I was thinking of.. my mind gets scattered sometimes and I dont know what I'm doing.

So what did I do today? Went to trader joes and the dollar store. Not really anything exciting. Came home and had sorta pizzas. Washed two loads of clothes and got those hung.. then I went out in the back and pruned a few things that were getting out of hand. I pruned the crepe myrtle a little bit. It wasn't looking like a tree but rather like a very unruly bush.. didn't trim it all because I didn't want to cut off the flowers. but it does look much better out there now.

See the cardiologist on tuesday...

J

Hey it's getting cloudy...

What do clouds tell me? It tells me winter isn't far away.... I am not ready for it...nor am I ever ready for cold, cloudy, rainy weather.. I hate damp.

I went for the blood work and the xray.. They changed my cardiologist appt to tuesday morning instead of afternoon. That's good.

I made an apple crisp with a teensy bit of stevia, a teensy bit of brown sugar twin and of course the apples are canned with splenda. I ate a bit, not more than half a cup and it wasn't 15 minutes until I got a headache. Dang. All sub sugars are doing that to me now. Can't figure out what to do for sweets. I know we don't really need sweets but I love them. I know I used 1 t. of real sugar in my yogurt one evening and my blood sugar went up. What to do.. what to do?

Making chicken for dinner.. I'm hungry too so think I'll go get that started. J

Well darn...

Ok so I went for the ekg.. and then the doc listened to my carotid arteries and guess he didnt like the way they sounded so I now have an appt with a cardiologist and have a scan of the arteries scheduled before I can get clearance for the surgery... hopefull the scan will show NOTHING. Two more appts on top of the four thousand we already have scheduled. I'm tired. Another early morning tomorrow... going for blood work and a chest xray... gotta go to bed in a few minutes. Maybe I'll sleep better tonight.

I walked all around walmart without the basket to lean on. Forced myself to walk. And I did five minutes on the exercise bike but the seat is too low and it really bothered my knee. I'll raise the seat tomorrow and try again. Hate the fact I've had no exercise for so long.. no wonder things are getting clogged.

J

Went to a class

for people who are going to get knee replacement surgery... It was interesting and I learned lots of stuff. Tomorrow I go have an EKG and get my doctors clearance for surgery. I really really hate the thought of surgery but I don't think I have much choice. If I wait much longer I won't be able to walk. It's hard now. I'll be glad to be able to move around again.

Things here are not good.. not getting better. J

Ok I did it..

Went to the orthopedist office and got things done... surgery is set for the 23rd. I'm actually looking forward to it even though I know there is considerable pain afterward for awhile... but once that pain is done, the knee should be ok and not hurt anymore and my leg should be straight again. Just want this episode done... hoping everything else gets done at some point VERY soon too.

J