March Madness

I received yesterday a new pair of glasses from GlassesUSA.  They are dynamite, I can see clearer than my usual glasses, they look nice (photo in a few weeks, I guess) and fit my face.  There's just one teeny problem - they aren't sunglasses.  So after being on hold for 30 minutes, I got the Return Authorization form and put them in the mailbox to go back.  I hope they just spritz the sunglass coating on them, dry, and send them back, instead of re-making the entire pair.  That's why I said I would show them off in a couple of weeks.  Fingers crossed.

C slipped and fell Monday going to the mailbox, hit his head and sent his glasses flying.  He went to Med Express after the dentist urged him to go, and he has quite a goose egg on his head.  They checked him all out and said no ER necessary, but watch for symptoms of concussion.  I was way worried, he was very sleepy that afternoon, but OK after a nap.  That was the day we cancelled my PT session, the driveway was all ice and I don't need to fall either.  THIS is why I scheduled my knee replacement to be done in June (of 17), so all the therapy would be done in the summer, ho ho.  Instead this second knee went in Feb. 19th  (of 18), and this winter has been bitterly cold, like a lot of the US.  It has been a year since the surgery, and I still need the walker, and I still fall.  Now I have a brace to wear any time I am up, and it feels like a tourniquet on my leg, it goes from my upper thigh (groin, really) down to my foot and under it, to keep it from sliding down.  It was custom made and I am sure it cost the earth, but I hate to have it on in the house.  Although in the house is where I have fallen and actually need the brace.  I'm divided on wearing it.  For one thing, it has to come off when I need to pull my jeans down, like, er, peeing?  And my diuretic has a lot to say about that.   It isn't made to be placed directly on my skin...

 

The comic is the story of my "infected" knee, although I will never know if the surgeon was booted out because of problems like mine, or if he was booted for other reasons. Update:  Guess the rumors about that surgeon were correct.  He was on the front page of the local paper, as part of a sting operation on pain med oversubscribing and/or using  I hope he wasn't the cause of my botched knee surgery. The surgeon I have now is great.  He is injecting my good left knee with cortisone every three months, and it helps enormously. He does explain another surgery that would involve a cadaver kneecap and "major" attachment of tendons and ligaments, and if it is not done perfectly (or even if it is), I could end up with a locked straight leg.  I explained my stand on surgery is "do or die"  and I am sticking to it.  Two close calls in the OR is plenty warning for me.

Lunch time, Bye for today!