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 Feb 18 2006, 12:03 AM
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Hi, all... as I may have mentioned earlier, I had a knee surgery scheduled for today. Just a relatively simple arthroscopy to remove and trim back a couple of very badly torn meniscii that were causing a *lot* of pain.
All went well, I'm back home and parked in front of my computer for the next three or four days. I'm also under the influence of some pretty powerful pain meds -- oxycodone, to be specific -- and while I feel completely rational and all, and while I'm sure my posts will make as much sense as they ever did, I just wanted to give a very brief explanation in advance, just in case...  -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Feb 18 2006, 12:49 AM
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 Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 17 2006, 04:03 PM)  ....oxycodone, to be specific.... Mmmm. Get well soon. --Emily
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Feb 18 2006, 12:59 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
Get well soon.
 The other thing is that you are lucky to have plenty of time for reading all things related to space exploration.Rodolfo |
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Feb 18 2006, 01:10 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 18 2006, 12:03 AM) Hi, all... as I may have mentioned earlier, I had a knee surgery scheduled for today. Just a relatively simple arthroscopy to remove and trim back a couple of very badly torn meniscii that were causing a *lot* of pain. All went well, I'm back home and parked in front of my computer for the next three or four days. I'm also under the influence of some pretty powerful pain meds -- oxycodone, to be specific -- and while I feel completely rational and all, and while I'm sure my posts will make as much sense as they ever did, I just wanted to give a very brief explanation in advance, just in case... -the other Doug Would you like to hear some Right Medial Ligament stories? I got 'em! Oxycodene... ...luxury, I tell you. In my day, we had to saw our own legs off with a frozen ferret, had to hold it 'tween our teeth (if we had any - luxury, wos teeth...). Pah! Young people, don't know how to make their own entertainment... Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Feb 18 2006, 01:23 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Hey, there were times in the past few months when my favorite daydream was getting my hands on a chainsaw, and just lopping my leg off above the knee, it was hurting that badly.
When people would ask me if it really hurt all that bad, I'd tell them to go get me a tire iron, and to stand still for about five seconds, and I could demonstrate quite effectively just how bad it was hurting. Heck, this immediate post-surgical pain is no worse than the pain I've been dealing with, day in and day out, for the past six months or so. (At least, what I can feel of it through the pain meds.) I'm just tremendously relieved that it should now start hurting LESS each day, until I have my full mobility back. That day is going to be a celebration, let me tell you. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Feb 18 2006, 01:41 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 17 2006, 05:23 PM) I'm just tremendously relieved that it should now start hurting LESS each day, until I have my full mobility back. That day is going to be a celebration, let me tell you. Best wishes that that's what will happen -- but don't be afraid to tell the doc if the pain sticks around, so they can try switching meds on you....I had jaw surgery a few years back, and it got better to a point, then stopped getting better for a few weeks. Let's just say that I wish I could market the Jaw Injury Diet for anyone who wants to shed some pounds, it was very effective for that. ("For the cost of a simple tire iron, you too can go from flabby...to fantastic!!"?? Every cloud has a silver lining though: eventually I had to have a consult with a nutritionist and actually received medical advice to go home and eat ice cream.) Finally I asked my doctor if there was anything different I could try, he switched medications, and it cleared (most of) the pain right up. (I'm still eating the ice cream. Got to listen to your doctor, right? )--Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Feb 18 2006, 01:48 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 180 |
QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 17 2006, 07:03 PM) I'm also under the influence of some pretty powerful pain meds -- oxycodone, to be specific -- and while I feel completely rational and all, and while I'm sure my posts will make as much sense as they ever did, I just wanted to give a very brief explanation in advance, just in case... -the other Doug Sure, suuuure, that's your excuse every time you make a post that doesn't quite make sense. "Uh, uh, I uh, had.....surgery! On....my wrist! Yeah that's it." 
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Feb 18 2006, 02:20 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Yep! That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Feb 18 2006, 02:33 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 18 2006, 12:03 AM) I'm also under the influence of some pretty powerful pain meds -- oxycodone, to be specific Hey man, sounds like you got some good drugs and you aren't offering to share them with your friends here... 
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Feb 18 2006, 03:43 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Hey, no problem, Dan! Lessee, what button do I click to attach a pill to my post, here?
Or maybe I should just shove one into the ethernet port... drat, it doesn't fit!  -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Feb 18 2006, 03:45 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
This is why we need to start putting our brains in artificial bodies.
Of course, you'll have to come up with all new excuses.... http://www.primidi.com/2003/11/05.html http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/defau...ttype=6&tid=150 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 18 2006, 03:47 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Yikes! Hillbilly Heroin?!?!?! Just don't put on any Jefferson Airplane while convalescing....
QUOTE Oxycodone has similar effects to morphine and heroin, and appeals to the same abuse community. Armed robberies of pharmacies where the robber demanded only OxyContin, not cash, have occurred. In some areas, particularly the eastern U.S., OxyContin has been the drug of greatest concern to enforcement authorities. Oxycodone abuse has been notably problematic in Appalachia; because of this, the drug has earned the nickname hillbilly heroin. I hope you are able to resume your break dancing career with only a minor interruption.
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Feb 18 2006, 06:12 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (lyford @ Feb 18 2006, 03:47 AM) Yikes! Hillbilly Heroin?!?!?! Just don't put on any Jefferson Airplane while convalescing.... He's taking up the banjo during his recuperation.
I hope you are able to resume your break dancing career with only a minor interruption. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Feb 18 2006, 06:25 AM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Feb 17 2006, 09:33 PM) Hey man, sounds like you got some good drugs and you aren't offering to share them with your friends here... All we get is Lipovitan. |
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Feb 18 2006, 06:27 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
QUOTE (Jeff7 @ Feb 17 2006, 10:25 PM) All we get is Lipovitan. You did? Where'd you score that? --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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