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You're alive! When you're able...give your physical therapy effort 110%.
OUCH!UPDATE: June 11, 2017
here is an updated picture of the surgery area. the scar/stitching is nearly 6.5 inches long. i had a difficult time holding the tape measurer, and even after i explained in detail where the end of the tape should be, my camera person still didn't get my directions clear.....
but it is still (nearly) the same length as my last operation.
i have already printed up a pic for the attorney and including that in with the sales receipt for the meds i had to pay out of pocket.
i pretty much make copies of everything for the attorney and me as well, as yet another way to continue my miles upon miles long paper trail....
this is a pic of my operation back in July 2014, (i got hurt on April 10, 2014)
you should be able to clearly see, the incision goes closer to my butt crack on this recent cutting...(the newest pic)
the older pics, looks like about 1 to 1.5 inches of space is still there untouched.
this is nearly exactly like the table i w as operated on. it is called a Jackson table....
i thought of it as a boat trailer..
yeah, this time i was not given the "happy juice" till i got into the room and met many other people there. i'd only assume that table rotates like on a rotisserie and comes down on me, then they strap me in, place the breathing tube, then rotate me around. i weigh a mere 200 pounds and i cannot see anyone lifting me and placing me down face first.That's the table that they heavily sedate you, strap you in and water board you to make you verbally settle for pennies on the dollar and than finish the surgery.
I think they forgot to tell you the first part.........Back to work you go! j/k
I never got to see the table that was used on me. I know I fell asleep and got plopped onto another fusion table.
i had to brush my teeth and use some mouthwash, when i went back a bit to gargle, i felt the limits of the new fusion. she is "guesstimating" my weight restrictions will be about the 20 to 30 pound range, like my last operation, i was documented at no more than 25 pounds of weights.
i was tempted, to show more....lol!A fictional assumption considering your pro-clivities in many posts BEFORE your debilitating injury:
Your inflatable girlfriend weighs less than 20 pounds so you're home free.
Just give a go at not getting overly excited and thanks for not a longer inclusion of rear cleavage in your picture of the incision.
CHEERS!!
i have no grabbers. i think my late dad had one, but it may have been thrown out.Satin sheets or anything that helps you slide or glide off the bed as you do the "Log Roll Technique", works wonders. Certain soft cool clothing helps too.
For me it was actually a children's sleeping bag opened up that helped me slide off the bed into my awaiting chariot....oops.....I mean walker.
Do you also use those grabbers to grab certain things until you can actually feel better at squatting?
Seriously, if it's not too late, try the satin or any soft sheets to help glide off the mattress, it also stays somewhat cool.
i have no grabbers. i think my late dad had one, but it may have been thrown out.
as far as squatting, it isn't any easier to do this. i have to angle my feet outwards and that is uncomfortable as the pain in the leg shoots up to my back.
so i limit any squatting for anything that i drop on the floor. i just wait till i get a visitor to pick it up.
i never gave satin sheets any thought. nor any clothing that would allow me easier on/off the bed. as it is now, my (weakly) benefits checks are all i can do to keep up with my current bills and such, so any more expenditures may be out of the question.
i do have a sleeping bag, but am not sure on how you mean to set it up on the bed, as you say.
ok, i'd "assume" the fabric (insides) down on the bed, slippery side up?I hear you on the expenditures.
The sleeping bag has to be made of that satin type material. (Slippery if that makes sense......I think it's Polyester)
Just spread it out on the bed and you can slide and adjust as you please. It helped me tremendously as the other fabrics seemed to make me stick to the bed when I wanted out.
Such "more" would violate the "Rules Of The Road" much like did the racy pictures (NON Family Friendly) of women when we had such allowed thread.i was tempted, to show more....lol!