Cataract
04-30-2009 | 07:38 PM
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[QUOTE=Lainey,Apr 30 2009, 09:28 AM] Rant away....I'll be starting my own ranting thread after shoulder surgery soon.
Last night I made an attempt to sleep in the recliner when I could not get comfortable in bed. It was not pretty
Last night I made an attempt to sleep in the recliner when I could not get comfortable in bed. It was not pretty
04-30-2009 | 07:53 PM
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From: Mish-she-gan
Horses are 10x more dangerous and problematic than just about anything I can think of. Glad I never got that sickness, but as you know my wife has it. I can relate; both my shoulders hurt every night and wake me up - just another night when I get to bond with my dog. 
05-01-2009 | 07:21 AM
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I had my cataract done on April 13. I did not get all those severe restrictions except for the bending over below the waist and no heavy lifting for a week. Also not sleeping on the affected eye side and waring a protective shield at night for one week. On my follow up visit last Wednesday he found that my vision is now 20/30 in that eye and I can now legally drive without glasses. He said my eye will continue to improve and will have a final visit (for that eye) in one month.
Of course I still need glasses for reading. I'll have to get some non prescription sunglasses for outside.
Of course I still need glasses for reading. I'll have to get some non prescription sunglasses for outside.
05-01-2009 | 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by silvershadow,May 1 2009, 11:19 AM
I'm not ranting - if you want to hear a rant just get me started on speed cameras 
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Great news on your cataract surgery, Herman!
05-01-2009 | 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by silvershadow,Apr 30 2009, 11:38 PM
I had shoulder surgery in November of 06. My horse came out from underneath me - yes he slipped on some mud, I did not fly off. I was more concerned about getting my leg up before the horse hit the ground, so I got whiplashed into the ground on my right shoulder. Result - shoulder separation and torn rotator cuff. This happened in August 06 and I waited to have the surgery because of work reasons. Therefore, I got frozen shoulder.
The other result is that I was very hard to live with from August until April because I couldn't sleep worth a damn - I was sleeping about 1-1/2 hours at a stretch, waking up and then I would try to rearrange myself so my shoulder didn't feel like it was on fire and try to go back to sleep.
I finally found the right combination with the recliner and then started sleeping about 4 or 5 hours at a stretch. I became much more easy to live with at that point.
We have recliners that have a small table in between and no armrest next to the table. So, I could put pillows to exactly the right height so that there was no pressure on my shoulder.
The other thing that helped immensely was this apparatus called a Game-Ready. It is basically an automated icing machine. You put on a shoulder cuff and hook this thing up and it cycles cold water through the cuff. There is a small ice chamber that is filled with ice and water. The computer controlled pump pushes cold water through the cuff for 30 minutes and then 30 minutes off. I felt like making a bumper sticker "You'll get my Game Ready when you pry my cold dead fingers off of it".
The day after my surgery, I loaded all three extended versions of Lord of the Rings into the DVD player (14 hours of movie going pleasure), hooked up the Game Ready, took a Percocet and went on a painkiller induced journey through Middle Earth. I would watch the movie and drift off - wake up an hour later - shift around and watch more of the movie and drift off. If I hadn't had to get up to go to the bathroom, it would have been sheer bliss.
After my surgery, my doctor prescribed oxycontin for me for night. It worked and I slept like a baby. However, at Thanksgiving, two weeks after my surgery, my next-door neighbor's son related a story of a friend of his that was in a bad car wreck and was put on oxycontin (basically a time release form of pharmaceutical grade heroin). The friend started grinding it up - destroying the time-release aspect of it. Then he started injecting it, then smoking it, and then freebasing it. Needless to say he was one effed up person for awhile. I didn't take another oxycontin after that. Even after two weeks of only taking one a day, I felt the effects of withdrawing from it.
Anyway, good luck with the surgery. Work hard on the physical therapy - it really pays off. I basically have 95% of the mobility I had before the accident. Just think how buff your shoulders will be after all the shoulder and arm exercises
The other result is that I was very hard to live with from August until April because I couldn't sleep worth a damn - I was sleeping about 1-1/2 hours at a stretch, waking up and then I would try to rearrange myself so my shoulder didn't feel like it was on fire and try to go back to sleep.
I finally found the right combination with the recliner and then started sleeping about 4 or 5 hours at a stretch. I became much more easy to live with at that point.
We have recliners that have a small table in between and no armrest next to the table. So, I could put pillows to exactly the right height so that there was no pressure on my shoulder.
The other thing that helped immensely was this apparatus called a Game-Ready. It is basically an automated icing machine. You put on a shoulder cuff and hook this thing up and it cycles cold water through the cuff. There is a small ice chamber that is filled with ice and water. The computer controlled pump pushes cold water through the cuff for 30 minutes and then 30 minutes off. I felt like making a bumper sticker "You'll get my Game Ready when you pry my cold dead fingers off of it".
The day after my surgery, I loaded all three extended versions of Lord of the Rings into the DVD player (14 hours of movie going pleasure), hooked up the Game Ready, took a Percocet and went on a painkiller induced journey through Middle Earth. I would watch the movie and drift off - wake up an hour later - shift around and watch more of the movie and drift off. If I hadn't had to get up to go to the bathroom, it would have been sheer bliss.
After my surgery, my doctor prescribed oxycontin for me for night. It worked and I slept like a baby. However, at Thanksgiving, two weeks after my surgery, my next-door neighbor's son related a story of a friend of his that was in a bad car wreck and was put on oxycontin (basically a time release form of pharmaceutical grade heroin). The friend started grinding it up - destroying the time-release aspect of it. Then he started injecting it, then smoking it, and then freebasing it. Needless to say he was one effed up person for awhile. I didn't take another oxycontin after that. Even after two weeks of only taking one a day, I felt the effects of withdrawing from it.
Anyway, good luck with the surgery. Work hard on the physical therapy - it really pays off. I basically have 95% of the mobility I had before the accident. Just think how buff your shoulders will be after all the shoulder and arm exercises
