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Hello farmerjan, sure hope you are feeling better than you expected to 
. Just wanted to say hello and wish you a speedy recovery...
. Just wanted to say hello and wish you a speedy recovery...
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Duckfarmerpa1
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I can’t handle scents...very sensitive to lotions, etc. So, I know exactly what you mean about the laundry detergent. Plus, my son has sensitive skin, so we always had to buy it anyways. Cleaning products are the worst in the winter when the house is closed up. I try to use organic, etc...but sometimes I just need bleach.Those places have rules that make no sense to me. I can't stand scented laundry products, not on me, not standing near somebody that stinks like a pile of dead flowers 3 days after a funeral mixed with a mad scientist chemical concoction. Nasty. People are stupid, they are conditioned to use scented everything. Mix it all up and all you get is an assault on the olfactory senses. I can all but see the stench fumes rising from "this smells good" people drenched in every smelly product they can find.Not to mention that cleaning products have degraded to chemical mixes that are pure toxins to sensitive people.
Maybe you can take an EMPTY suitcase and HIDE your dirty laundry in it. Visitors can then take it home. Put some bags in the empty suitcase to make removal of the offending garments easier.
Baymule
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A note from Jan!
Just an update. Still mostly numb & tingly in foot-leg. They say thats good driving me nuts but no pain yet. This block is suppose to be long lasting up to 72 hr but im already past that. Guess i should be glad & it might still hit but they say i am past the normal time for the intense pain. Going stir crazy. To rehab on monday ? Ready to get out & smell COWS!
Just an update. Still mostly numb & tingly in foot-leg. They say thats good driving me nuts but no pain yet. This block is suppose to be long lasting up to 72 hr but im already past that. Guess i should be glad & it might still hit but they say i am past the normal time for the intense pain. Going stir crazy. To rehab on monday ? Ready to get out & smell COWS!
Baymule
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Part 2
Nurses said that they are not worried about me just policy to have to make sure i am safe. I have taken myself to bathroom a couple times without help but dont want to get them in trouble. I get up & stand just to change positions as i go stir crazy. I do know my limits but i wont keep up my strength if i dont move. Maybe if i had pain i would be in a different position.
Nurses said that they are not worried about me just policy to have to make sure i am safe. I have taken myself to bathroom a couple times without help but dont want to get them in trouble. I get up & stand just to change positions as i go stir crazy. I do know my limits but i wont keep up my strength if i dont move. Maybe if i had pain i would be in a different position.
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Good to hear you're not in awful pain. Maybe somebody can smuggle in some cow poop for you. Just a tiny bit...
Senile_Texas_Aggie
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Miss @farmerjan, glad to know you are doing OK! Just think -- in a few weeks you will be able to walk without your ankle hurting. 
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Glad to hear you're doing well!
Duckfarmerpa1
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I had one of those wire pain block tube things with my ankle surgery ten years ago. I was the same way. After a couple days I ripped the cords out. I knew I was probably hurting my foot by dragging it on the floor without knowing it when I went to the bathroom, etc. She’s a tough cookie!
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Finally got to the rehab facility this afternoon. Transported about 3 miles on stretcher in ambulance and all that BS. The case worker seemed to act like this was a good place to come, but I can tell you right now that I will be out of here as soon as the Dr takes out the stitches and puts me in the walking boot. Have not said much to my son yet, will have a PT "evaluate me tomorrow" but I am not sure what there is to evaluate since they can do nothing on the ankle. Since no fusion, there will be very limited time of no weight bearing.
This is a short and long term rehab. Medicare covers semi-private.... private is 60/ day more. My room mate is a 95 yr old lonely, needy, nosy lady who YACKS. And went to bed at 7 and has to have the fan on which I hate. It is in the city so the noise is typical.
I haven't seen anyone near my age. It is more an old age home with rehab for old people. Sorry, I may be 66 but I don't consider myself "OLD".
Rooms are tight, and just found out that the bathroom is shared with the semi-private on the other side.
Make your own assessments.....
They will not be touching my laundry or clothes or anything.
Asked nurse if someone could get the wi-fi to work, and she showed me how to get on it since I told her I live so far out in the country that we still have internet through the phone DSL since there is no service. She was nice. There are more assistants than you can count, all have been nice but it is really just a glorified nursing home for people who need rehab after surgeries. The hallways are long and this hopping with the walker isn't going to cut it with the walker as it will make the knee hurt and swell worse.
Yes it is clean. If you are one of that generation of "gentified people" ...... think a movie from the 40's era of when the rich went to the country to "take the cures" of a resort...... soft big band and piano music, all sorts of arranged activities.....
This farmer is SOOOOOOOOOOOO out of place. The staff have been nice to talk to but they are babysitters for these people. The roommate lady just had stomach surgery, she broke her leg last year.....and she drives them nuts and I saw that in the first half hour.
10 days to the post op appt. I am going to see if my son will be able to come down that thursday, and go home. No sense of changing places now, but it might be great for old people but not for me. I should have just gone home and gotten someone to bring me back for the post op appt. But I thought I was going to be in alot of pain and all that.
Maybe all this tingley, weird numbness is what some call pain?????? Dr said this morning that I was probably well past any of the "severe pain" that most feel after surgery. Am I that pain tolerant?????
We'll see ow the evaluation goes tomorrow.
I don't have the right frame of mind to answer any of the threads I have read tonight. The bed is not comfortable and I need to figure out a way to try to sleep on it. No other way to keep the ankle elevated except in bed and that is limiting how much time I can sit up before it gets even more numb and I have to stretch out to relieve it. So I am going to try to go to sleep here shortly.
THANK YOU to all who said a prayer for me. It has all turned out much better than I was trying to be prepared for. Without any other complications, I will be up and going in a boot faster than I ever hoped for.
This is a short and long term rehab. Medicare covers semi-private.... private is 60/ day more. My room mate is a 95 yr old lonely, needy, nosy lady who YACKS. And went to bed at 7 and has to have the fan on which I hate. It is in the city so the noise is typical.
I haven't seen anyone near my age. It is more an old age home with rehab for old people. Sorry, I may be 66 but I don't consider myself "OLD".
Rooms are tight, and just found out that the bathroom is shared with the semi-private on the other side.
Make your own assessments.....
They will not be touching my laundry or clothes or anything.
Asked nurse if someone could get the wi-fi to work, and she showed me how to get on it since I told her I live so far out in the country that we still have internet through the phone DSL since there is no service. She was nice. There are more assistants than you can count, all have been nice but it is really just a glorified nursing home for people who need rehab after surgeries. The hallways are long and this hopping with the walker isn't going to cut it with the walker as it will make the knee hurt and swell worse.
Yes it is clean. If you are one of that generation of "gentified people" ...... think a movie from the 40's era of when the rich went to the country to "take the cures" of a resort...... soft big band and piano music, all sorts of arranged activities.....
This farmer is SOOOOOOOOOOOO out of place. The staff have been nice to talk to but they are babysitters for these people. The roommate lady just had stomach surgery, she broke her leg last year.....and she drives them nuts and I saw that in the first half hour.
10 days to the post op appt. I am going to see if my son will be able to come down that thursday, and go home. No sense of changing places now, but it might be great for old people but not for me. I should have just gone home and gotten someone to bring me back for the post op appt. But I thought I was going to be in alot of pain and all that.
Maybe all this tingley, weird numbness is what some call pain?????? Dr said this morning that I was probably well past any of the "severe pain" that most feel after surgery. Am I that pain tolerant?????
We'll see ow the evaluation goes tomorrow.
I don't have the right frame of mind to answer any of the threads I have read tonight. The bed is not comfortable and I need to figure out a way to try to sleep on it. No other way to keep the ankle elevated except in bed and that is limiting how much time I can sit up before it gets even more numb and I have to stretch out to relieve it. So I am going to try to go to sleep here shortly.
THANK YOU to all who said a prayer for me. It has all turned out much better than I was trying to be prepared for. Without any other complications, I will be up and going in a boot faster than I ever hoped for.
