I had gotten to my walker to make it to the dinner table when suddenly I felt faint. I mentioned it to my wife who helped me get to the walker and she ordered me to sit down immediately. Of course, I knew better and thought I'd just hang on tight to the walker and wait it out. Suddenly, I momentarily lost consciousness and fell down. I fell backwards trapping my folded legs underneath me, folding them backwards. It wrenched my legs so hard that my knees got severely bent and hurt like hell. At the same time, I managed to seriously twist both ankles. Now whenever I stand up I scream out in pain. Can only walk with a very slow shuffle while using the walker. I'm totally unable to lift my left leg up into bed at night. Wife has to pick up my leg and slide it onto the bed. At least I didn't hit my head. Don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow when I have to get out of my wheel chair and walk the two short steps to the dialysis reclining chair. I predict more screaming. Please, God, don't let me swear like a sailor. My wife has already chastised me many times for never listening to her.
Lanny be careful man. We need you around here. Listen to you're wife next time she says to sit. Glad you didn't break anything.
Oh LanMan, you are one tough dude. Please listen to your wife next time. Glad you didn't hit your head or break a hip. Im my thoughts dude!
Speaking as someone who has cared for someone with significant health issues....... Please swallow your pride and listen to your wife no matter what. Just accept that her judgement is better than yours and stop fighting it. Do it because you love and trust her and you want to be with her as long as possible. Also the Blazers haven't won their championship yet. You don't want to miss that!
I can't think of anything clever to say. I hope you recover quickly. I'm glad you have your wife to help you out.
I have no choice, my wife is my boss at home and now I have a painful reminder of that. Knees are getting better. Now I've to to face my primary care giver, Dr. Kansagara as soon as the nurse at the dialysis center tells him which has probably already happened. In addition, we are in the process of the VA declaring my wife my official care giver. In addition to making her my official medical boss at home there will be a few extra bucks in it for her. This way she becomes doubly my boss.
Glad your knees are feeling better man. She's already your boss anyway, making it official doesn't change much my friend.
Knees are getting better every day. The excruciating pain is long gone now. Still have the big bruise on one ankle. My bruises take a long time to go away.
I'd rather go deep sea fishing. My mother had a wealthy girlfriend that owned both a small hospital in SE Portland and an ice skating rink. She took up sky diving. One day she went sky diving and never opened her chute. We figure she must have gotten the rapture. Not that there's any possibility of me getting the 'rapture', and I'm not even sure there's any such thing, because that would be incredibly stupid. Things on my bucket list before I got badly disabled: Deep sea snorkeling in Hawaii or the Philippines; See the Sphinx; Go to India; See Mt. Everest close up (and if I didn't have asthma, climb it); Ditto for K2 (had a friend that climbed Mount McKinley and that made me jealous); See the alps; See Rome; See Athens; Go to Jerusalem; Go to the North Pole; Go to Antarctica for the winter; Play golf in Scotland; See the red hot lava up close to an active volcano; Catch a Marlin; Catch a large salmon (I've caught small ones between 7 and 12 lbs.); Go camping deep in the wilderness of Alaska or Canada; Become an Army Ranger; Win a military medal for bravery; Retire and travel the United States; Drink a more expensive bottle of red wine than I've ever had; Drink a bottle of 1954 Dom Perignon; Visit Germany during the Oktoberfest and eat and drink in a rathskeller and make friends with some locals there; Own a piece of the Berlin Wall; Get a PhD in anything at OSU; Own a share of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK A) stock [$384K]; Visit the places I was at in Vietnam; Have sex with Elizabeth Taylor when she was in her prime and I was single; Go to the Shakespeare festival in England; Spend the weekend in the Mayfair hotel in San Francisco; Live in Sausilito; Live on Lake Washington; Go fishing in the San Juan Islands; Live on Oswego Lake; Travel into outer space; Travel the world. To sum it up, nearly all of these require my not being disabled. Dammit, dammit, dammit.
