{"id":363,"date":"2009-06-04T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-06-04T06:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T06:33:00","slug":"overrun-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Overrun Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although this is normally the time for Mama Kat’s<\/a> Writers Challenge<\/a>, today has been a bit too overloaded for me to do the prompts justice. So I encourage you to visit Mama Kat and read the responses, I really hated not to be able to do this weeks prompts since they appealed greatly to my sense of the interesting.<\/i><\/p>\n

Today started with me getting up 4:30am. I had to pick up and take XXX to the hospital for surgery check-in at 5:45. I took her over walked her in until until the admission process was underway, then escaped down to the radio station for the weekly radio show, came back and got a little work done until 10:30am when recovery called and asked me to be there for the instructions from the physical therapist and to bring XXX home once she was fully aware.<\/p>\n

XXX was having some shoulder and arm damage from a fall on the ice this winter surgically repaired. I am somewhat the family expert on shoulders and the associated therapy since I crushed my shoulder a few years ago. (You know it is not good when you go to the hospital and the X-ray tech calls everyone in radiology over to look at the pictures with words like “You have to see this, I’ve never seen one of these before!”)<\/i> After three surgeries and months of some of the most painful therapy I’ve ever done, I have at least 90% of the function back. So XXX has my full sympathy for what is coming.<\/p>\n

In XXX’s case the bone was not involved and so she should be able to avoid the locked shoulder and other problems that are attendant with immobilized shoulder joints. Given that I have experienced what happens if the manipulation exercises can’t be or aren’t done, I am probably the appropriate fanatic do the manipulations four times a day for the nonce. It will be interesting to see what develops. I don’t think that XXX realized how much therapy was involved early in the recovery process.<\/p>\n

In any case, the PT had a set of four external manipulation exercises to be performed in sets of 10 on the joint 4 times a day for the next four weeks and a start on on “official” (as in at the rehab center) next week. So I am currently the designated “fake” PT therapy person for XXX to do the four times a day exercises.\u00c2\u00a0 L got into town this afternoon and so I got a chance to get some stuff done this evening while L stayed with XXX. Right now it isn’t too bad because XXX still has a continuous nerve block running. It will get a bit more interesting after Friday when I pull the nerve block canula and she begins the standard oxycontin and vicodan regimens for the pain.<\/p>\n

In spite of all that, I was all ready to respond to the Writer’s Challenge prompts<\/a> when I got a phone call from L over at XXX’s where she is spending the night with XXX. They couldn’t figure out how to rehook the sling and pads, so I ran over and performed some velcro magic. Given it is now close to midnight, think of me playing PT as you read the Writer’s Challenge<\/a> responses. I’ll be back for the next challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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