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kaput - cranefly - 12-13-2013
Come Dec. 26, if I don't jump up and refresh your drinks on a regular basis, it isn't because I don't care.
I went to the doc about my hip. She felt I was a couch potato (I guess because I said I do Tai Chi), nagged me to expand my exercise horizons, do more running, take up yoga, do a lot of the pigeon pose. In other words, more exercise, more stretching, and essentially, "Walk it off."
I finally talked her into letting me get an x-ray.
Here's what she says now:
Quote:Hip xray showed quite significant degenerative arthritis. If you are interested in injection or maybe hip replacement, a referral to the orthopedic department can be helpful.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Okayyyy.
Decisions, decisions. I'll be heading back to Indiana on Jan. 14 for 2 weeks. My mom isn't doing well at all. Trying to figure out how to play this....
Re: I'm more broken than you - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 12-13-2013
Faker. Rub some dirt on it and get back in there.
Or malingerer. I don't get to use that word often enough.
Re: I'm more broken than you - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 12-13-2013
Two things:
Thing One: Physical therapy often has good ameliorative results on things like this.
Thing Two: Of all the people I know who got a hip replaced, all of them said "why did I wait so long"?
Well, the ones that lived, anyway.
Two for one on Tuesday. - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 12-13-2013
Maybe they should have had a professional do it, rather than in your workroom at the back of Victory?
Re: I'm more broken than you - cranefly - 12-13-2013
I tried rubbing dirt into it, but now the bone that's sticking out is all dirty!
Been chatting with a former co-worker whose daughter is attending UCSF to be a PT.
Yep, she says PT is the first thing to try, and could take a couple months to evaluate. When I see ortho, they should recommend PT first or they're not legit.
As for those who've had hip replacement, yep, been hearing that same refrain. Why did I wait so long?
Ortho specialist holds forth on hip - cranefly - 12-18-2013
He says I have arthritis in both hips. The x-ray actually covered both of them. I wasn't aware of that.
As for the right hip, he says the arthritis is not mild, not medium, not serious, but severe.
He showed me the x-ray. The top of the ball is against the socket. Bone on bone.
As for what I'm going through right now, it's a flare-up of the outer bursa.
He could give me a shot, but does not recommend it, as it puts steroid directly into tissue and will cause some scarring.
So I opted to follow his advice and not get one.
He asked how far I could walk -- before this flare-up. I told him I was walking a couple miles.
He asked how I was sleeping. I said fine, except maybe an occasional need to shift my hip.
He asked what I knew about hip replacement. I told him that all my friends who have had it have commented, "Why did I wait so long?"
He said I needed more friends with hip replacement, because then I'd hear the dissatisfied patients -- maybe 20%. In other words, it should be viewed as a last recourse, because it is a major surgery, and things can go wrong, and it limits you. Too many patients think it will make them good as new, and that's not true.
He says that people who are candidates for hip replacement can only walk a couple blocks, and they are having a terrible time sleeping because of the discomfort. He says that my degenerative hip condition did not happen overnight, not even in the past year; rather, it has existed for several years. My high level of fitness has allowed me to function on an almost normal level while those less fit and less active would be much more severely affected with my condition. I should view myself as a jalopy with four bald tires, and the goal is to make those tires last a lifetime.
He's glad I stopped running this year. Even a lot of walking is contraindicated, because it is jarring. I asked about my shoes (flat-soled, which is the new health fad), and he agreed that maybe I should shift back to ones with more cushion. In the martial arts, he says doing katas would be good, as long as it's nothing jarring. (That probably eliminates any aggressive xing yi.)
What would be best is stretching, yoga, water exercise (a pool), lifting weights, and biking. He says a lot of people do very well with biking.
I should be patient, give the bursitis maybe two months to go away on its own. If it doesn't, we'll have to consider other options.
Also, if I ever did want a shot, just call up ortho and it will be arranged pronto.
Re: I'm more broken than you - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 12-19-2013
An Ortho who doesn't want to cut as a first choice sounds good. He even recommended that you get more friends (albeit friends with bad hips). I can say that water-aerobics will kick your ass (it did mine, and I'm more buoyant than you). You could prolly do your energetic katas in water and start a new fitness craze.
doing forms underwater is old news - Drunk Monk - 12-19-2013
shots are only temp fixes. i used to get them for my arthritis. then i just started poking myself with a needle instead.
i take a joint formula regularly - chondrotin, msm, ground bone of baby puffins. i don't think it really helps but i take it anyway.
i have all sorts of ergonomic pillows on my bed and funky cushions in my car and at my desk here in the office. i find i have to shift it all around every once in a while.
and i do qigong every day. i slowed up when i moved to the cruz, which was a mistake that i've paid for dearly. i'm back on it now. that probably helps the most. i do 8 section brocade, which might not be the best for hips as half of it is in horse stance. i imagine five animals is better for hips just from looking at it. but i think any qigong is helpful. it's better than tai chi for therapy. in fact, i think that's what most people think tai chi is - they think it's qigong only. when you take the quan out, qigong can be strictly therapeutic.
2014: the year of the itch - Drunk Monk - 07-01-2014
As Duckie Glynch revealed, dm's once-beautiful bod is scarred with mite bites from some nasty parasites he picked up and brought home from an L.A. hotel. It sent dm on one of those medical journeys. The bites were brutal, incessantly itchy, and left scars all across dm, making his bod look like a constellation map. He was worried at the excessiveness of the bites, went to the Dr., and after confirming that they were indeed mite bites (or as Letterman sez 'chigger bites' - yeah, Letterman - remember him?), dm was sent home with some antihistamine PLUS blood pressure meds (isonopril). The BP meds caused horrible coughing which kept dm from sleeping the night through. Eventually, he was switched to the beta blocker and diuretic tenoretic, which he now takes daily.
So last weekend, there were some friends in town, so the dm clan hit the beach and boardwalk as tourist guides. Dm thought some tanning would be nice in order to slough off some of the mite bite scars. Funny thing about tenoretic. In the fine print, it warns users against photo-sensitivity. When exposed to excess sun, it causes a horrible rash. Once again, dm is covered with itchy sores, nasty welts concentrated in dm's bodily crevices - armpits and groin - embarrassing places to be itchy. Oh bother. There's some remaining antihistamine from the last time, but it's a night-time dose because it's a K.O. rx. Will probably dig into that tonight. Meanwhile, it's topical benedryl.
All that scratchin is makin me itch.
Yeah, no - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 07-01-2014
A point of order, your honor.
When and where was this beautiful body you speak so highly of?
Re: I'm more broken than you - thatguy - 07-01-2014
Quote:"You know what really makes me mad? Something that bothers me more than terrorism and crime is when people come up to me and tell me that they have 'chigger bites'! ... Don't they know the proper name of the insect is chiggero?! ... These people have no intelligance!" - Steve Martin
--tg
u know u want it - Drunk Monk - 07-03-2014
Greg Wrote:When and where was this beautiful body you speak so highly of?
I used to have a six pack. Now I have a mini-keg.
thatguy Wrote:Don't they know the proper name of the insect is chiggero?!
nitpicker.
mt082
I am now officially a Lynch - The Queen - 10-01-2014
I am now officially a Lynch.
I know we were married almost seven months ago, but today I am sure that I am officially a Lynch.
When Greg is around, he takes the dogs for their morning walk, and five days a week he comes with me on the afternoon walk. Twice a week, I do the afternoon walk by myself and I usually take one dog at a time, because being of small stature and limited upper body strength, controlling two Aussies, one full-size and one rather over-sized, is a bit much for me, especially if a timid dog walks by us. I can handle one at a time with almost no problems. While Greg has been gone, I've been taking the dogs for both their morning and afternoon walks, and as I'm enjoying my third cold/flu bug of this year, I've been taking them together so that I'm not completely exhausted. We've done really well, too, up until this afternoon.
This afternoon, the girls and I began our afternoon walk. Rather than take usual Wednesday path down Latrobe and into the park (there's one particular dog that lives in a house on Latrobe, a dog that Maeve and Dani hate with a passion, and I know I'd have trouble controlling them if we ran into her), so I took them to the park via the gate on Roberta.
We begin walking down the narrow path down the hill into the park. I have the leash handles around each wrist and one extra loop of leash in each hand for maximum control. As all as been going well, I am also listening to a podcast playing on my iPhone as we walk.
All of a sudden, the dogs stop and don't move further. I look around to see what's got their attention and see a big coyote. Not the biggest one I've ever seen and it wasn't closer to us than a coyote has ever been, but it was definitely large and close.
This is where the Lynch kicks in. "I should take a picture," I think. I don't have a real camera, but of course I do have my iPhone. And although I rarely take good pictures with it, it's just possible I might get something worth posting. So, I take the iPhone out of my shorts pocket, pause the podcast, open the camera app, and of course, that's the moment when Dani and Maeve decide it is necessary to go play with the coyote. Both of them launch forward, racing down the hill as fast as they can.
When they're with their father, he trusts them to come back to his call, and so he allows them off leash. I, of course, do not have this same confidence, because all three of us are perfectly aware that he's the alpha, not me, and they do NOT respond to me calling for them, regardless of what treats I might have brought. So, I'm still attached to Dani and Maeve by the wrists.
It's a pity there was no one filming this; further proof of my Lynchness, that I'm thinking this as I'm being dragged face-first down the hill by my girls. As I'm dragged down and around the corner and half-way up the next hill, collecting foxtails, burrs and lots and lots of dirt, I imagine that it would make one heck of a funny YouTube video.
Eventually the girls stop. I rescue the earbuds that got ripped out of my ears and fairly quicly find the iPhone that got dropped. I extract a few dozen foxtails and burrs out of my shorts, shirt and hair, and admire the road rash and rapidly swelling bruise on my left hip and knee, and the interesting lump on the knuckle my left pinky, wondering if perhaps it's broken. Naaa, it doesn't hurt that much.
I brush myself off and continue the walk. The girls, of course, make several more attempts to go after the coyote, but I manage to keep them in check. When we get to the first clearing in the park, I see there's no one around, so I take the girls to a bench, sit down and take an iPhone picture of the road rash on my hip. After all, if it doesn't get posted on Facebook, it's like it didn't happen, right?
Yes, my first thought for the entire process was, I should get pictures, and my biggest disappointment is not the collection of injuries (when I got home, I found a few more scrapes and bruises), but that the only shot I got was of the road rash. I don't think I need to go to the emergency room, but if I thought I did, I'd drive myself. Yeah, I think I qualify as a Lynch now.
Now where's the Neosporin? Oh yeah, in the garage. We last used it on one of the feral cats. I wonder if Buddy, our far-too-frequent oppossum visitor, is guarding it?
u got wrist-lynched! - Drunk Monk - 10-03-2014
I just had my BP med changed. The last one was a beta blocker and it was making my heart ache. The adjustment is making me pretty spacey, but fortunately I is used to that (bless my drunken style kung fu training!) Changing BP meds is a lot like being wrist-lynched by two dogs and dragged through the dirt, but on the inside.
Good thing the road rash wasn't on your butt cuz that would have lit up your facebook page. Hope your scratches heal.
Re: I'm more broken than you - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-04-2014
Phew! Glad that you got off with some good scrapes and a good story. Buddy will cooperate if he wants that promotion to the Lynch Menagerie.