Non Gun Stuff...

[Teresa Heilevang]

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/013117.html

[Teresa Heilevang]

If you have had a knee replacement or are going to have to have one..You might want to look at this website.
 My brother in law just had his knee replaced. he is a retired professional body builder..and has one of the highest pain tolerances that I have ever known anyone to have. But this surgery has made him question his ability to block out the pain. he is doing great.. but he said it hurts like nothing in the world he has ever gone through.. My youngest son and my ex are going to have to have it done in a year or 2.. so I have really been looking at the pictures etc.. ( have to tell you that I got queasy as hell too.. about made me want to faint.. LOL )

Here is a website.
 Go to virtual knee surgery....You can see actual pictures of the surgery and then you can perform the surgery.

http://www.edheads.org/activities/knee/

[ellis4538]

Can't argue that the knee replacement doesn't hurt - never had one.  I can say, from experience, that a "golf ball" size gallstone is nooooo picnic especially if your in for something else when it clobbers you without warning!!!!!!!!!

Wish them well,

Richard

[k39noodles]

Hi M[ette,

I wish I'd had replacements.  In a stupid fall on some stairs, I ruptured BOTH my quad tendons.  The quads are the four muscles that form the fronts of our thighs, and are what hold us upright.  I had that same BIG incision on both knees, and holes drilled in my patella to hold the sutures reattaching the quad to the knee.  If I had had replacements, I would have been up and walking right after surgery, but I had to have rigid braces on both legs to keep my knees straight FOR A MONTH. 

I got off the pain pills during the five days in the hospital, but because of the risk of clots forming due to the inactivity, I had to give myself a shot of Lovenox in the belly every day.  That was a piece-of-cake, but getting off the hospital bed, that was set up in our living room, to get to the powder room was the worst pain that I've ever experienced.  Even with the braces, if my lower leg was not supported, it had to deal with gravity, and the slightest flex produced sickening pain.  Swinging my legs off the bed to get to crutches or a wheelchair wasn't fun, but I was lucky to always have good upper body strength, so I could fling myself around pretty good after a while. 

But the mind takes all that bad stuff away, and it seems now as though that was another person.  I worked very hard and got my full range of motion back VERY quickly.  The only lingering problem is from the atrophy to the muscles from the immobility.  Getting full strength back is taking a bit longer.

I'd say that if you need a replacement - GO FOR IT!  One leg would be a piece-of-cake, and you won't have to sweat the atrophy.  Nothing beats painless mobility.

Later,

Bill  (k39noodles)

P.S.   The capper was that after all was done, the good folks at Blue Shield sent me a letter asking if their was somebody THEY could sue to get back their money!  I always thought that insurance companies were in the business of taking risks - not sure things.  I told them to shove it up their jumper and gave the letter to the owner of the pistol range where I fell, with advice to pass it on to his lawyer.  I was out a couple of grand myself, but how do you sue your own clumsy feet?  It sure wasn't the gun store's fault.  Get the insurance companies out of the equation, and there's all the money you need for a health-care program.

[jaybet]

My mother in law had both knees replaced (separately), the second one at about 76 years old, and she felt better a week after surgery than she had felt in years. Of course, they used to let people go longer before doing the surgery.

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[DesertMarine]

If you have had a knee replacement or are going to have to have one..You might want to look at this website.
 My brother in law just had his knee replaced. he is a retired professional body builder..and has one of the highest pain tolerances that I have ever known anyone to have. But this surgery has made him question his ability to block out the pain. he is doing great.. but he said it hurts like nothing in the world he has ever gone through.. My youngest son and my ex are going to have to have it done in a year or 2.. so I have really been looking at the pictures etc.. ( have to tell you that I got queasy as hell too.. about made me want to faint.. LOL )

Here is a website.
 Go to virtual knee surgery....You can see actual pictures of the surgery and then you can perform the surgery.

http://www.edheads.org/activities/knee/

I saw a knee operation on tv some years ago.  Interesting.  Two and half years ago I had a knee replacement.  Painful, I am a candy-ass when it comes to pain.  The key is to do your therapy as prescribed.  The pain goes away and soon you can walk like a normal person.  Glad I had the operation and went thru the pain of therapy.  No pain anymore.  I think this saying is attributed to either the Puking Buzzards or the 82nd, "No pain, no gain", so true.

[tombogan03884]

We have our own, "Pain is weakness leaving the body" Semper Fi !

[DesertMarine]

OOhrah.  We did not have that saying in the old Corps.  "Lets go girls" common one.

[SwoopSJ]

In a stupid fall on some stairs, I ruptured BOTH my quad tendons.  I was out a couple of grand myself, but how do you sue your own clumsy feet?  It sure wasn't the gun store's fault.

Wow!  That is a truly refreshing attitude when you consider today's society wants to reward us for doing "dumb" things.  The one that comes to mind, right off the bat, is the lady who sued McDonald's for burning her crotch with coffee.  Duh, it's coffee, it's supposed to be hot!  Just wanted to commend you, k39noodles, for not taking advantage and perpetuating this "sue happy" system.  It's nice to know there are still people with common sense and morals out there. 

Swoop

[PegLeg45]

Wow!  That is a truly refreshing attitude when you consider today's society wants to reward us for doing "dumb" things.  The one that comes to mind, right off the bat, is the lady who sued McDonald's for burning her crotch with coffee.  Duh, it's coffee, it's supposed to be hot!  Just wanted to commend you, k39noodles, for not taking advantage and perpetuating this "sue happy" system.  It's nice to know there are still people with common sense and morals out there. 

Swoop

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