My leukemia's back.

[oldrooster]

Good morning folks, and Get a clue, and that 6 million dollar man, all those shows were great shows, and far from reality at times and clean, strange if network tv starts a similar show, usually it gets a loyal and sometimes large following and they drop it because "the other tv networks are making fun of us" or something like that (not phrased that way but it amounts to the same) with so many pulling the plug on tv esp. paid tv one would think they'd want viewers even more...

 

[getaclue]

I think most of the networks have gone a little too far with language, and sex. I'm not saying shows have to be puritanical, but that the pendulum has swung too far the other way. There should be a bit more balance.

 

[Blooie]

Had my right hip replaced November 16, 2002, so it’s now 16 years old. I was 52 years old. I remember the date so vividly because 2 days later my 8 year old nephew Coty was killed in a house fire. I wanted to go back to SD and be with my family so badly but I was stuck in a hospital bed. I didn’t have an easy time of it, physically or emotionally.

Back then when they did a replacement, they cut through the IT band for access, then they used dissolving sutures to close it. Well, I was just a year out of a 6 month fight with gangrene. The surgeon who saved my hand, Dr. Dean Sukin, was actually a hip and knee joint specialist but he happened to be on call the night I went into the ER. So when it came time for the replacement, my choice in surgeons was easy. He knew me, knew my history and what complications we might encounter, and I trusted him completely.

A few weeks after I got home, I felt a ripping sensation in my hip and upper thigh so I called him. Went in and I had ruptured that IT band. He had to go in and repair it. He said that the sutures had dissolved but because of my slowed healing, the tissue let go. So he put in non-dissolving sutures. That worked for a couple more months, then riippp - so back in I went for more surgery on that band with more substantial sutures. On Dec. 20, it happened again and I was back in the OR on December 23rd. He didn’t repair it this time. He went in, looked at it, and later told us that it looked like ripped denim - that the sutures were all still in place on one side just as he’d put them in, but you know how denim kinda shreds apart when it tears? That’s what the IT band looked like, with the sutures on one side and shreds on the other, with no sutures in that side. For a year that wonderful surgeon tried his best, and I did everything he asked, but in the end there was nothing more to do for it. So I have no IT band on the right side, which makes for a very unstable hip.

Now I need the left one done, and I’m absolutely terrified. I remember when he came back into my room after the last attempt at repairing the band, when he said there was no way to fix it. I looked at him and I joked, “You don’t like me very much, do you?” He rubbed his eye and said, “Oh, I like you very much - I’m just scared to death of you!” And it wasn’t because I’d hung him in effigy on my door when I had gangrene. If I have it done, there is still no one I trust more than Saint Sukin. He said that they no longer cut the IT band, but I dunno, guys. And after 16 years of unusual wear on the right one because of the instability, it should probably be redone too. Guess I’ll think about it when my only alternative is to go back to my wheelchair.

 

[ronott1]

Had my right hip replaced November 16, 2002, so it’s now 16 years old. I was 52 years old. I remember the date so vividly because 2 days later my 8 year old nephew Coty was killed in a house fire. I wanted to go back to SD and be with my family so badly but I was stuck in a hospital bed. I didn’t have an easy time of it, physically or emotionally.

Back then when they did a replacement, they cut through the IT band for access, then they used dissolving sutures to close it. Well, I was just a year out of a 6 month fight with gangrene. The surgeon who saved my hand, Dr. Dean Sukin, was actually a hip and knee joint specialist but he happened to be on call the night I went into the ER. So when it came time for the replacement, my choice in surgeons was easy. He knew me, knew my history and what complications we might encounter, and I trusted him completely.

A few weeks after I got home, I felt a ripping sensation in my hip and upper thigh so I called him. Went in and I had ruptured that IT band. He had to go in and repair it. He said that the sutures had dissolved but because of my slowed healing, the tissue let go. So he put in non-dissolving sutures. That worked for a couple more months, then riippp - so back in I went for more surgery on that band with more substantial sutures. On Dec. 20, it happened again and I was back in the OR on December 23rd. He didn’t repair it this time. He went in, looked at it, and later told us that it looked like ripped denim - that the sutures were all still in place on one side just as he’d put them in, but you know how denim kinda shreds apart when it tears? That’s what the IT band looked like, with the sutures on one side and shreds on the other, with no sutures in that side. For a year that wonderful surgeon tried his best, and I did everything he asked, but in the end there was nothing more to do for it. So I have no IT band on the right side, which makes for a very unstable hip.

Now I need the left one done, and I’m absolutely terrified. I remember when he came back into my room after the last attempt at repairing the band, when he said there was no way to fix it. I looked at him and I joked, “You don’t like me very much, do you?” He rubbed his eye and said, “Oh, I like you very much - I’m just scared to death of you!” And it wasn’t because I’d hung him in effigy on my door when I had gangrene. If I have it done, there is still no one I trust more than Saint Sukin. He said that they no longer cut the IT band, but I dunno, guys. And after 16 years of unusual wear on the right one because of the instability, it should probably be redone too. Guess I’ll think about it when my only alternative is to go back to my wheelchair.

I hope the next replacement is better for you!

 

[bobbi-j]

Blooie, they can do an anterior hip replacement now that involves fewer muscles and recovery is so much easier and faster. I’d look into that.

But I do understand, given your past experience why you’re terrified. I would feel the same way.

 

[bruceha2000]

We can rebuild you, we have the technology... from a TV show many more years ago than I wish to admit to. Why? I remember watching it on TV in prime time first run, along with a show with an orangeish/redish paint job with 01 on the side, and a show with a truck driver with a chimp, and a show about a diner owner and his 3 waitresses.....

That just makes you old, like most of us here!

and far from reality at times

Saw Mission Impossible III on the flight home yesterday. Talk about far from reality. The original TV show stretched things a bit but if you got the timing right, what they did was probably possible. Most of what was in that movie totally unrealistic and for me made it a poor "story".

If I have it done, there is still no one I trust more than Saint Sukin.

Better get on that @Blooie, the man may retire and then where will you be??

 

[N F C]

Good morning Team Rachel, hope everyone has a good day

 

[Blooie]

He can’t retire!! He still has two kids to get through college. I paid for the first two, or so he tells me, so I’m probably safe yet!

 

[drumstick diva]

Blooie and

 

[Blooie]

Diva, and