how about drinking?
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Sandy, the wedding sounds great and glad u had a good time. U know certain things u must fear like gates, stairs and floors altogether.But glad u finally got in. And let us know how u think Tommy was with Daltry, i'm not sure about him but u never know.
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ChiSandy- I was a 15 year old when I saw the movie, and think it was probably the first movie/musical thing I ever had seen. I was really getting into music at that age, and remember going with my high school buddies to see the movie and we thought it was GREAT. I am sure if I went to see it now, I would cringe, lol.
Some of the old 1970s movies leave a lot to be desired. For example, the Posiedon Adventure was another favorite of that era, and have seen that on reruns since and well, after Titanic and all the special effects......and they remade the Posiedon Adventure in 2006 and it was even worse?
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Well here it is, the end of the weekend and I don't have the energy to reply individually - I want to thank you all for advice, support and all that jazz
I cannot handle cold, so the heat pad and massage are my go tos...I will try to make sure I eat at least 1 banana a day as well. My trip is dependant on scan results because - my MO told me to wait till we knew more about my progression as I am in a trial and have to report in every 3 months for scans etc., then meet with an RO - I will double check this week and see if I can go ahead and book sooner.0 -
Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy Monday Monkey Day! Getting up to a rainy morning, supposedly this rain will blow through over the next couple of hours, but with a chance of more this peeyem. The heat pump works pretty darn well as a fan, quiet at can be, can play with the settings up and down and back and forth, lots of fun! I think I annoyed Sadie a little bit, every time I reset the fan she had to move to find the perfectly comfortable spot to nap in. Oh well, she still cuddled up at bedtime for belly rubs and tummy tickles.
Goldie--I don't grow things on the scale you do--I'm talking about 3 plants of big tomatoes, 4 of cherry tomatoes. Mostly for directly eating out of the garden, sometimes in a salad if I get lettuce and maters ripe at the same time. The lettuce is in a planter on the deck, the maters in the yard. Bean suppahs are all similar in that they offer beans, bread, sides and pie. They are all different in that all the food is homemade, the beans can be big beans or little beans or both, everybody's recipe is a bit different. Some places serve brown bread (the traditional to go with beans), others homemade loaf bread, others biscuits, others rolls. There can be cole slaw, potato salad, garden salad. Sometimes there is American Chop Suey. And then there are the pies. At a good suppah there are dozens of pies to choose from: blueberry, strawberry, strawberry rhubarb, chocolate, lemon meringue, toll house, peanut butter, graham cracker, custard, apple, all homemade. Sometimes cheesecake or cookies. So they are all similar, but each is unique as well.
Jazzy--sounds like a great evening with the musicians! So glad your feet are feeling better.
Cammy--So who were you going to feed the pet food to? Or are you getting a pet? I hate it when I see something on my shopping list that I can't identify from my freaky abbreviation. LOL at scheduling by accident on Sunday. I thought I was the only person who ever slept so hard I didn't know what day it was when I woke up!
Chi--Glad the wedding went well. The show sounds like fun, especially the charcuterie and bubbly.
Countess Bunty Rothschild's DOTD:
Tommy's Margarita
Ingredients
2 oz 100% agave blanco tequila
1 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Agave nectar
Garnish: Salt rim
How to make
Prepare a rocks glass with a salt rim.
All all of the ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake.
Fine-strain over ice into a rocks glass.
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Mornin' ladies,
Oh Janky I'm so sorry for all ur going thru, this just sucks. I'm not good at giving advice about all of this, I honestly never paid attention---My Drs. always knew I didnt, even with my DD just going thru this I couldn't help much except to listen and knowing some SE's that she's been having and had. Listening to my sister, cousin and niece added more SE's, but tests and numbers i don''t know. Even when they tell me I usually say Blurp meaning fast forward cuz they still try and tell me. Especially my DD, who sounds all Doctory, so I'm here for u, just no advice, well some like eat an avocado too. I really don't get my meds or tests, well except my morphine and codeine that I'm on board with.
Jazzy sometimes when we go back into our memories and then try to experience them again it's all different, and sometimes sad cuz u ruined something u held funny or special in ur life. I don't live very far from where I basically grew up and i've gone by my old house and when I was young there were always kids out in the street playing something and moving when any cars came. And yet now I see no kids and it looks so quiet and boring to me and I remember great times with everyone out all year long. LOL
OK I'll be back have to check on how every one's weekend was.
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Jazzy, things
feasting in my garden is an on going thing every year. The birds will eat my
maters too, I put out rubber/plastic snakes to deter them. It's ok, well not really, as I know this will
happen. Sounds like you had a very nice time at your outing and more to come.
Mmmmmm lima beans, I love them!
LOL Cami, growing
cakes! Very true about everything being so far away. The closest thing is the
post office, only half hour away! Yep, there she goes, using "cock" whenever
she can!
Sandy, enjoy your
date with your son.
Janky, I was going
to say, if I were you, I would take that trip regardless. But, I guess if you
are on a trial, you have to follow the rules eh? What is the trial? I've never
been offered one.
NM, funny how
Sadie had to move when you adjusted the heat pump, c to find a comfy place to
lay. Mmmmmm, I'll have a piece of strawberry/rhubarb please. You mention big
beans and small beans, what kind? My DH grew up eating Pinto beans, served with
cornbread. 4 cherry mater plants, that's a lot of cherry maters. I used to grow
just one cherry and more than enough for us and some to give away. Love the Margarita
for Cami.
Pretty uneventful
here over the weekend. Made some sketti yesterday from some tomatoes I had
frozen, I'm out of canned ones. Was still just as yummy. One of my brothers
landed in the hospital, diverticulitis acting up, keeping him as they are
keeping an eye on a hole.
A Monkey Day
cocktail for Mema and Janky to get their potassium! And a largen than life
photo of it! The
Banana Frozen CocktailIngredients
In a large blender, combine:
- Two fresh, sliced bananas
- 2 cups ice cubes
- 4 shots vodka
- 4 shots banana liqueur
Preparation
1. Blend until well mixed, but still somewhat chunky.
2. Pour into pre-chilled margarita glasses.
3. Top with a fresh summer cherry and dust with cinnamon-sugar garnish.
NOTE: To turn this adult delight into a family-favorite dessert, use 4 bananas, omit all the alcohol, and replace with 4 scoops of your favorite flavor ice cream or non- dairy frozen dessert.
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We have pavilion seats, so no bringing picnic stuff along (not allowed in the theater area and nowhere to check it). No reservations available for the restaurants—maybe some walk-ins—but it looks like we’re limited to sitting at the bar if we can, otherwise self-serve sandwiches or salads & drinks from the “market” area and try to find some bench to sit down (or stare down some evidently younger & able-bodied seated people and guilt-trip them into letting me sit—the sling and splint might do the trick). That to-go market’s prices are pretty high for what you get, but we’re “captives.”Not gonna go to the trouble of making & hauling sack lunches—larder is pretty much empty after the weekend anyway.
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Pinot Grigio tonight ladies.
I am on my last day of vacation that I have been on since June 15th! Spent nine days in Ireland with my husband and 17 year old niece. Had an amazing time!
I go back to work tomorrow, but had an MRI scheduled in the morning since last December, so I'll miss a half day of work.
So nervous about this one! (like I haven't said that before!) My cancer was not found on mammogram, only MRI, so the mammogram I had 6 months ago doesn't give me any comfort.
Wish me luck, pretty please!
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readytorock - wishing you the best results!! Glad you had an awesome vacation, try to relax and not stress
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Finally I have something to add to the conversation. My youngest has been home for the past week--graduated from college, went to Europe, will start a job next week--but I've been saving a bottle of wine I bought with him out in Napa two years ago. Tonight is his last night here so we're breaking out the Plumpjack Cabernet. This is the most I've ever spent outside a restaurant) on a bottle so I am *really* looking forward to it!!
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Good Morning, Loungettes!Just spent a frustrating half hour trying to figure out why my phone wasn't working to find out that I forgot to update the credit card info when my new card came. Funny how the charge won't go through just because the expiration date is passed and the CVV code has changed! Ah well, got that all taken care of. And then, since I could get the security code, I could log into the bill payment service and check on a bill and find out that the e-mail was wrong, I don't owe them money, I have a credit on the account! So, all in all, a good start to the ayem. Sadie is curled up in my recliner snoozing.
Cammy--it is funny how things from the past look different when we try to go back to visit.
Goldie--the beans are yellow eye, soldier, kidney or cattle beans.The important thing is that there is salt pork in the pot. Around here we have to plant a few more plants of any kind to get the same kind of yield in places with longer growing seasons. Praying your brother recovers quickly.
Love the drink!
Chi--Gotta love the captive audience plan. Makes for expensive food, though.
Readytorock--what agreat vacay! Good luck with the MRI, and here's to a clean scan result!
Countess Bunty Rothschild seconds Goldie's DOTD!
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Ready, sounds like a great vacation! Try not to worry, as it doesn't change things. I know, easier said than done and I often have to remind my own dumb self the same thing. Every 6 weeks when labs are due! Have you been here before? If not, WELCOME!
Ingerp, enjoy that Cabernet. Where is your DS off to? You must be so proud. May I ask what your "name" Ingerp means?
NM, what happened to your chair being off limits to Sadie? I see who wears the pants in that family! Of the beans you mention, I know only of the kidney bean. Will have to Google the others! Amazing how many beans there are!
DH going to have more skin cancer removed today, on the back of his neck. Having more mohs surgery.
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DS will go back to Montana for a few days (U of M grad!) before transitioning to his shiny new job in San Francisco. And I am *so* creative--my screen name is my first name + last initial. ;-)
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Morn' Ladies,
Oh Boy Ingerp As creative as I am, Wow the old 2 mind thing. Well wishes with u bottle of wine and ur DS.
Readyto rock WELCOME and hoping any tests come out good. What a vacay it's hard t get much better.
KIM LOL it's funny how sadie can look so small curled up. Thanks for the pic. BEANS I thought there were 2 Navy, and Kidney <named after the body part cuz of the shape> As I've said before the kitchen was not my room to be good in. And I wasn't a prize in the other. But I could say I was there are no witnesses since they are all dead now.
Lori good luck for ur DH and i think of the exact questions u do so we get answered with one stone.
OH I can't get the hang of this stupid computer app for work. u know when I first got this computer maybe 8 yrs. ago I actually set it up on my own no help. Now as u know I can't get anything right now. My brain is atrophied like my body. I'm not proud of it I just recognize this stuff . My poor boss, he tries with me so hard and always gives me atagirl even tho it should be u stink old lady.I can't change what is, I can only ignore it, which I'm really gifted.
I just thought of this <another stupid story> When I was in 8th grade our nun said to all of us God gave each one of us a special gift, now think of what urs is. well we all were uiet for once thinking---well I was looking out the window--- anyway after a while kids started raising their hands and say what they thought, then she started calling on us. Ha by the time she got to me I had nothing, nada, nil as did my BFF ---but I just realized I'm gifted to ignore or deny whichever works. LOL
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The formal restaurant (Park View) was full, but the “chef's stations" buffet Tree Top had room. Very nice, albeit pricier than the Park View; last night's theme was Southern Comforts. Will describe in the What's for Dinner thread. I drank a crisp, dry & fruity Scarpetta “Frico" rosato from Tuscany.
We chose to take our neighborhood CTA Red Line to the end and transfer to the suburban Purple Line for Metra rail access (only a block’s walk between CTA & Metra stations). A few unpleasant logistical surprises en route: the stations we chose for transfer from the CTA to Metra rail turned out not to be “accessible” as promised: Main St. CTA had only stairs (with both hands unavailable to securely grip banisters and my right hip bothering me), and the elevator at the Metra station was on the wrong side of the tracks, with the exit door locked; but at least there was a ramp so I didn’t need banisters.And when the Metra train arrived, the bottom step was too high off the ground. The conductor helped me aboard and told me I should should’ve boarded the first car, which had a wheelchair lift. He led me to the first car before we reached the park. On the return trip, we opted to change from Metra to CTA at Davis St., where both stations were accessible by ramp & elevator
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Hump Day! I'm sitting in the hospital cafeteria getting a bite of breakfast after dropping Mom off for her "hoses", colonoscopy and endoscopy. Going to be a long, boring morning. As long as it stays boring I'm good with that. Driving her home ought to be entertaining. She's a notorious back seat driver and going to be loopy to boot, but won't think she is then be mad tomorrow when she doesn't remember the ride home! Ah, well, such is life, right?
Goldie--I need one of those posters that says "This house is run for the convenience of the dog." She really is the mistress of the household! Besides, I like sitting down in a warm recliner on cold days!
Cammy--saying you are not good in the kitchen and then saying there are no witnesses is NOT a good thing to do, it leads imaginative people to think you killed all the witnesses to your bad cooking off with your bad cooking! Denial is not a bad gift to have, sometimes. I can just picture you in that classroom.
Chi--the logistics of navigating public transportation sound pretty daunting. Glad you found a better route. Don't you hate it when the advertising isn't right?
Countess Bunty Rothschild's DOTD:
Pour a cup of your favorite coffee,
add a shot of your favorite liquour
add whatever cream/sugar/etc you like
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Inger, MT to CA, quite the transition! CA is beautiful, but too many people to my liking and they are the craziest drivers!
Oh my Cami, you always have me laffing. Atrophied body and the gift to ignore or deny! I know of few beans, kidney, lima, pinto, butter, green, navy, cannelli, hmmmmmm, about all I can think of.NM, skeered me for a second when I read "sitting at the hospital". Hope all goes well for your mom.
I'll have some Bailey's in mese coffee please!
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Mornin' Ladies,
Sandy getting around Chicago is not easy. I know ur used t it, but thinking about it plus the idea that walking was never a problem it makes it twice as hard. <things we used to take for granted not long ago> But Chicago has always been a maze to me since my first job downtown, so wherever u go u are super familiar, but I'm sorry its so much harder for you. But u dd get me interested in the menu, u know I'm a food junky.
Lori I had the same thought when Kim said "in the hospital" but since I am a slower reader than u I had a reaction longer than you. How is ur DH??? This has been a difficult time for you and u always come up good. That makes me happy..
Kim all our furbabies rule us. I think it's all part of living with them cuz we love them and they know it, but then again they do give us so much happiness no matter what we do
Holy chit, I've been away for 1/2 an hour, with a complete shut down I thought for sure I'd lose this
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HELLO! Thanks to everyone who gave me well wishes for my MRI!
I found out this morning that all is good! SO relieved!!!!!
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About to leave in a few for our wine dinner at Mon Ami Gabi--various French wines paired with bistro classics. Our 47th anniv.
Was hoping to get a cortisone shot into my TFCC for an anniversary present from my surgeon today. Instead, I got a July 10 surgery date.
. (Could have done it as early as next week, but my housekeeper is off, entertaining her family coming in from Alabama--we might have them over to BBQ--I will need a driver, but my son doesn't drive, & my husband can't take the time off).The R radius, nicked at both the elbow and wrist ends, is healing nicely enough that the sling is now optional (good thing, as it's black and my orange&white kitty likes to snuggle up against my R side in my recliner, making me look like a crazy cat lady if I forget to use a lint roller before going out). Treatment is common sense (no hard pulling or pushing--which means my recliner is now just an easy chair since I can't work the lever). Not so good news for the L hand & arm, though. L scaphoid is definitely fractured along its "waist," a little more prominently than last week. W/o surgery, if (and only if) it heals, it would take >4-6 months to fully "knit" and scaphoid fractures are notorious for non-union. So my surgeon will go in and put in a screw to keep the fracture non-displaced and let it knit. As to the TFCC, still torn. He could go in & debride the tear ("clean out the schmutz," as he put it), but my too-long ulna (congenital positive ulnar variance) might re-injure it. So I have to have an "ulnar shortening osteotomy:" rather than grinding down one end (which would be excruciating for a long, long time), he will go in, saw through the ulna and shave off a 3-4mm "wafer" from the middle and then screw & plate it back together. 1 wk in a cast, 6-8 wks, in a hard plastic brace 24/7 and another 6 wks wearing the brace to bed. So I will be good to go to play again--assuming I can do so w/o pain--by mid-Sept.
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy thirsty Thursday! Raining today, supposed to rain all day, possibly as much as an inch over the next 24 hours. Tomorrow is supposed to be hot and humid and sticky and icky. Hopefully it will be nice over the weekend. Mom's procedures went well, but she's not very happy. She has to stay on clear liquids until she talks with the gastro guy today. He had to work pretty hard to get one big polyp out and had to burn more tissue than he would have liked, so there is a tiny chance of a perforation, so clear liquids for a while to give the spot a chance to heal a bit before being made to work again. The drive home was just about as entertaining as I thought it would be. She stomped on the imaginary breaks on her side and grabbed for the dashboard and yelped every time she saw break lights ahead of us, and anytime I stopped closer than 3 car lengths to the car ahead of us, and once when she thought the green light was going to turn yellow before we got to it (it didn't). I'm not sure what is scarier, riding with her driving or driving with her riding! Sadie says "Hi" to everyone.
Goldie--Sorry, didn't mean to scare you! Mom did well, and she was done exactly to the minute they said she would be!
Cammy--Yep, letting Sadie curl up in the recliner is a small price to pay for the night time cuddling, and wintertime bed warming, and year round entertainment and love she gives me!
R2R--YEAH!!HOORAY FOR ALL IS GOOD SCANS!!!!!!!!
Chi--Happy Anniversary!Talk about a good news/bad news scenario. The left sounds like it's going to need some real work and healing time. Playing again by mid-September sounds like both a long time to wait and a short time to heal all that work. Glad the right side will heal with less intervention.
Countess Bunty Rothschild's DOTD:
Dancin' Bones
Ingredients
- 2 tsp Gin
- 2 tsp Cherry Brandy
- 1 1/2 oz Dry Vermouth
Pour vermouth, gin and cherry brandy into a mixing glass half-filled with ice cubes, and stir. Strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Best served in a Cocktail Glass.
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Oh my sweet Cami..."a longer reaction cuz you read slower". I have said this before, you should have your own stand up comedy show! My DH is fine.
Ready To Rock (R2R), drinks around for a clear MRI! ChEeRz!
Happy Anniversay Sandy. Hoping the surgery fixes you up like brand new!
NM, I guess as we get older the polyps are to be expected. Hopefully no perforations. Do you chuckle to yourself and the "back seat driver"? I saw on the news about the rain in your area. I wish we would get some, it's been so hot, reaching t
triple digits everyday.Went out last night with neighbor and her 2 grand daughers, 15 and 16, on the quads. Had a wonderful time, albeit the heat. Let the girls drive, they were super excited. Super cute and tiny girls! But Nana is even tinier! MAYBE 4' tall! We were gone for about 2 hours.
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Morning DahhhhLinKs,
jes poopin in to tell you I have finally got my scans sched'd. Today is bone scan and tomorrow PET. Gotta leave for LV soon so not much time to visit today. I'm so excited I cud jes sheeee....
Will let you all kno as soon as I kno.
Lubslubslubs
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Dinner last night was wonderful--but larger portions of both food & wine than at most wine-pairind dinners, and I am paying the price today (I really hate feeling "buzzed:" had to lie down to nap when I got home, awoke 3 hrs. later, and didn't get back to sleep till after Bob left for work; and my lower GI tract has been working overtime). Right now, the movers are here, getting Gordy's stuff loaded into the van; my housekeeper is taking my car (bigger cargo capacity, and hers is blocks away) with Gordy over to the new place. I could Uber it there, but I'd probably be pretty useless. His new (queen) bed hasn't arrived, and his AC hasn't been installed, so he'll come back here tonight to sleep. (We're keeping his twin bed for guests).
I'm having second thoughts about the ulnar shortening procedure and the scaphoid repair--maybe I should have a repeat MRI to see what I might have injured (or not) from last week's tumble that didn't show up on x-ray.
From yesterday's x-ray, the faint gray streak on the scaphoid now appears to extend across the entire "waist" of the bone--but the surgeon also cautioned that is exactly where the blood vessel that serves it is located. I was so freaked out by the ordeal of my prior MRI that I agreed with his suggestion that if he has to go in for the TFCC debridement (and because it's tough to visualize a scaphoid fracture through a scope, there's no harm in placing a tiny screw either way), he might as well stabilize the scaphoid because I am feeling some mild pain in it. I do know that the TFCC debridement alone would be compromised by a too-long ulna continuing to poke at it, so it makes no sense to fix the TFCC without shortening the ulna to prevent re-injury.
And for all I know, there might be something else going on in my R arm & elbow, because it hurts to push or pull stuff. The original (Feb.) L wrist X-ray didn't show anything except the too-long ulna and some mild arthritic spurring at the base of the thumb--yet the MRI clearly showed the TFCC tear. I have a week and a half till surgery--maybe I should just "pull up my big-girl pants" and get MRIs next week just to make sure.
There's also a maverick chain of orthopedic groups who advocate against ulnar shortening for wrist and TFCC issues (calling it "barbaric") and offer same-day autologous stem-cell injections instead (harvest from bone marrow--pretty painful anyway--treat and inject into the injured cartilage). It's beginning to dawn on me that ulnar shortening is gonna hurt like hell and I won't have meaningful use of my L hand & forearm for 6-8 weeks (I will be the "one-armed woman" but with my "good," i.e., R, arm in not-so-hot shape either. And about half of patients report significant pain from the hardware, so much so that it needs to be removed in a second surgery after the bone knits back together. I have hardware in my R tibia since 1996--it can't be removed because the bone it's holding together is essentially bone chips + epoxy. I get occasional dystonia (spasms) over that hardware bad enough to awaken me at night.
So I'm at a loss as to what to do--if I get another L hand MRI, I will definitely be torturing myself again perhaps for no change in treatment plan. If I get a R forearm/elbow MRI, who knows what can of worms that'd open up? (I can't imagine what it would be like with both arms out of commission for months--I would basically need a caregiver).
Oh, and since the surgery will be to my L hand & forearm, where are they gonna put the I.V. and BP cuff? I sent a message to my LE doc (who discharged me from his care more than a year ago) asking if it would be safe to use the R arm just this once.
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Sandy - they can put the BP cuff and IV in your foot....They did this with one of my wrist surgeries.
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Just a quick note to say all was good today at the imaging center on my yearly mammo and ultrasound.
Chi- can you do a pros and cons list for each type of scenario and see which comes out more pro?
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Jazzy, congrats on another year NED!
Last night's gory (actually, yummy) liquid details: at cocktail reception on the patio across from Lincoln Park, NV Marquis de la Tour Rose sparkler; with smoked salmon app, NV Canard-Duchene Champagne; with escargots, 2016 Domaine Quatre Routes Muscadet de Sevre et Maine (I usually have that with raw oysters, and choose a Chardonnay for escargots); with skate wing, 2016 Simmonet-Febvre Chablis (unoaked Chardonnay); with filet mignon, 2004 (not a misprint) Chateau Maurac Haut-Medoc (classic red Bordeaux blend); and with strawberries, 2012 Chateau de la Roulerie semi-sweet Vouvray (Loire valley, Chenin Blanc). No coffee--no room!!! Brought home half each of the asparagus & filet for tonight's dinner. (No wine, though--skipping Cellars' Taste of Italy 20-for-$20 wine tasting & buffet, out of both temperance & exhaustion).
(The above was 2 weeks' worth of my wine allowance. Oy. As close to a binge as I've ever done. At least I declined top-ups. Still, don't tell my MO).
Here are the pros & cons of the surgery, based on the risks my surgeon told me:
PROS:
1. Without installing a screw into the scaphoid, were it indeed broken (it does hurt when firmly pressed, and surgeon says that it definitely looks fractured when the monitor is viewed at a distance) there's a 50% chance the fracture would spread further and possibly become "displaced" (i.e., all the way through, bone broken in two)--without surgery, scaphoid fractures (especially at the "waist," the thinnest part) have a 50% "non-union" rate.
2. Without debriding the torn TFCC disc, it will not heal--the torn piece would continue to catch on adjacent structures and inflammation would be chronic.
3. And without shortening the ulna, the TFCC disc would still be vulnerable to the bone poking at or even becoming impacted in it.
4. I will never regain the full painless wrist rotation I had before the first fall regardless; but once the surgery is done, the ulna has "knit" and (after controlled immobilization coupled with regular physical therapy), it would feel 90% better than it does now--and I could play guitar & dulcimer (with some workarounds) well enough to resume performing.
CONS:
1. Eeuuw--I.V. in my foot? (knock me out first).
2. If the scaphoid isn't broken but that's only a blood vessel on the films (albeit a longer shadow yesterday compared to last Wed.), that's one more incision and invasion of the bone that might have been avoidable; sometimes the nerve that needs to be moved out of the way to get to the scaphoid could be irritated--resulting in numbness on the radial side of the wrist (tolerable, but wouldn't affect motion) or even a neuroma (an extremely painful knot, requiring another procedure).
3. Ulna shortening osteotomy hardware causes pain in 50% of patients; it can ultimately be removed by a second surgery--but that would need to wait till complete "union" of the sawed bone can be confirmed. (Sometimes the pain disappears after 6-12 mos. w/o hardware removal; and removal surgery doesn't require post-op splinting or casting. My skin & shin muscles over my tibial & fibular hardware was sensitive to pressure for about 2 yrs. but removal is not possible as my leg would collapse--my ulna is solid bone, unlike my shattered tib-fib, comprised mostly of bone chips & epoxy. Actually had to remove some of it during my R knee replacement because even that had begun to disintegrate).
4. There is a 4% chance of non-union of the ulna, requiring a second procedure possibly requiring a bone graft--as was done with my R tibia.
5. Even with the "full monty" of surgery, my wrist would probably not be completely soreness-and-stiffness-free, but it would definitely be better than it is now, though it could take 1-2 years to return to "near-baseline" (i.e, before the TFCC tear).
6. I will need to be in a plaster cast (and perhaps sling) for a week, and then in a plastic or fiberglass "Muenster splint" for 3-4 months (the first half of it 24/7). I will have full use of fingers & thumb but severe restrictions on weight-bearing (nothing heavier than a pen, pencil or lightweight fork or spoon). Will also likely need to obtain (or make) assistive devices for dressing (buttoning, bra-hooking, lace-tying, sock-and-shoe donning, etc.) and household stuff (already have a couple of reachers and a sock aid). Will have to get my hair washed & styled weekly until I can remove the splint for showering and can hold a brush or hair dryer.
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Chi- I see more cons than pros on the surgery. Second question, which option gives you best chance for quality of life longer term? I seem to think the surgery and some risks always with that, but know how important it is for you to be able to play your music. What does your gut say?
Thank you for the kind wishes too. Always grateful for good news. I get my Prolia shot on 7/13 and then have my yearly check in with the BS later in July and then will be done with cancer docs again for awhile......
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My gut says to go forward with it, because the cons are all more manageable than not healing. If I have the surgery I won't be fully back to my uninjured state--playing may be a bit sorer as my "new normal" (and I think of all those guitarists with hand arthritis who nonetheless persevere into old age). But if I don't have the surgery I will likely never be able to play at all--and I can't as of now.
That autologous stem cell procedure looks promising, but there's more than a hint of hucksterism to that chain's website (and disparagement of conventional treatments such as surgery is a huge red flag). If it were truly as effective and safe as claimed, more orthopedists would be offering it--instead of just one practice (in the same office bldg. as my primary care doc) in all of IL. I don't think insurance--including Medicare--covers it. 20 yrs. ago, hyaluronic acid shots (e.g., Synvisc, Suppartz) were considered experimental and my insurance refused to cover them (I went out of pocket and it didn't work). But now insurers cover them. And a couple of months ago, Consumer Reports had an article warning about stem cell therapies for pain & injury. (Not the same thing as harvesting some of one's healthy cartilage, culturing it, and reinjecting it into the affected joint--which still isn't done for those over age 45 &/or who aren't elite athletes or professional dancers).
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