Comments on Wheelchair Kamikaze: That Was Then, This Is Ow...

Have any of the anesthetic patches been tried? Li...

2010-11-17T02:00:48.714-05:00

Have any of the anesthetic patches been tried? Lidocaine patch right where it hurts. Or if you can't use the joints anyway, Botox injections? Or so what if you can't properly do the post op therapy. If it relieves some of your pain and makes it actually possible to do some basic things like sit on a commode, then it would be worthwhile. From my point of view.

One of my sons was in a terrible motorcycle accident. His hips and femurs and pelvic bones were crushed, amongst other injuries. With replaced joints and rods instead of marrow in his femurs, it took a long, long time for him to walk and sit and get up from sitting and use the sitting down function of a toilet. But knowing that it would eventually get better instead eventually worse and worse, made it so that he could keep at it. Who wants to try to do anything if will only make the pain worse and crumble more bone? I am so sorry that you have to experience this terrible pain.

Thank you for all that you have done,
Ye Olde' Swamp Granny

Whenever I feel an "ooooOOOO" escape my ...

2010-06-11T22:47:14.675-04:00

Whenever I feel an "ooooOOOO" escape my lips- usually due to built up tension, I burst into a beloved song from Nellie McKay's Obligatory Villagers (though it is sung by men in drunken barroom style). So "ooooOOOO" goes into "livin's a bunch of shit, shittin's a part of livin, fartin's a friend of shit and so we carry on..." It never fails to lift my spirits.

I'm really sorry about the avascular necrosis, it is inspiring that you can keep up your sense of humor after all you have been through.

Look, thanks for the words of sympathy. I hope my ...

2009-05-17T02:41:00.000-04:00

Look, thanks for the words of sympathy. I hope my sense of humor will be the last thing to go. It's all so absurd, how not to laugh?

Centennial, if only my little jokes could cure us all. I go from hospital to hospital, curing the sick with a few well-timed "knock knock" jokes...

anonymous, yes, one must definitely be aware of the differences between your actions in public and in private. I think the public might try to have the private me institutionalized...

kicker, I'd love to hear the Chickadee song. I agree, sometimes you just gotta...

I'm having a problem right now, I easily burst int...

2009-05-16T12:55:00.000-04:00

I'm having a problem right now, I easily burst into tears of anger and frustration, which DH (Men!) has trouble with. In moments a discomfort and what-ever I tend to loudly sing a song I learned in 4th grade "The chickadee sings.....
My 4th grade teacher was a birder, I know odd songs. When alone I have many sounds I make and words I use. Sometimes you just gotta.
Kicker

In the privacy of your own home, the noise-making ...

2009-05-16T11:59:00.000-04:00

In the privacy of your own home, the noise-making is natural and good (like farting or making animal noises during sex). When I struggle up from sitting to standing, there's a sort of drawn out marine "Hoo-Haa" followed by an "Oh *@!$&%* followed by exaggerated grimaces as the weight settles on my hips and back and the "standing pain" sets in. But as Miss Manners will tell you, the problem is, when you're in the habit of doing this, it's easy to forget sometimes that you have company or you're out in public. Those noises can scare the crap out of other people! LOL!

The condition you've described is not funny at all...

2009-05-16T03:51:00.000-04:00

The condition you've described is not funny at all (dittos, jstlookin333), but here I am, crackin' up! And if you keep this up, you might wind up curing us all; your infectious sense of humor has to be the best medicine in the world!

Oh PHOOEY, Marc...That's just no fair at all. Suc...

2009-05-15T20:18:00.000-04:00

Oh PHOOEY, Marc...That's just no fair at all. Such a great guy being inflicted with even more crap..Please don't lose your sense of humor during this dreadful time...I'm so sorry..so very sorry, my friend...
jstlookn