Went to see the surgeon lady today so she could look at my foot. I am not kidding when I say this has to be the most painful self inflicted injury I have ever inflicted upon myself. The fucker just screams pain all day like someone is pouring acid into an open wound every time I stake a step on it. She says it is finally starting to heal, but very slowly.
At least it isn’t infected anymore. While I was there I started telling her about the pain in my lower left leg that is now constant, 24/7 and is so bad that I can’t get any sleep anymore. The last 3 days have been absolute hell.
Combine the two and the pain pills I have been taking won’t even touch this level of pain.
So we discussed a possible alternate to what I’m taking now which is called NORCO. It has some codeine in it and a bunch of Tylenol.
It’s been so bad that I have basically been taking twice what the prescription calls for. I looked up what the maximum amount of Tylenol per day is and I am still under that but I still don’t like taking that much.
So she is going to order up something that has just a little more of the Codeine but without the Tylenol. I can’t take that Hydrocodone shit that everyone was getting hooked on a while back. It makes me itch all over like a dog with mange.
She says it’s a histamine release caused by the codeine and they will all do it if you take enough. So we shall see how this new shit works She also said that the pain in my shin muscle is caused by the blockages in my arteries. It’s been so bad lately that I am having to lay sideways on the bed at night and alternate between putting my feet on the floor for a couple of minutes and then putting my feet on the wall above my head trying to flush blood through my legs. I’m having to do this 2 and 3 times a night because the pain keeps waking me up, which means I am getting fuck all for sleep.
Sometimes I nod off sitting up and jerk awake when I start to fall over.
Good times.
Also me left foot goes completely numb all the way to the ankle. I had to get up to piss Tuesday night and took one step onto that foot not realizing it was asleep and wound up bouncing off two different walls trying to keep from falling on my ass.
So we started looking at the the images from my last cat scan in mid December and she says the only thing she can do at this point is another surgery to try and bypass the plugged up artery on my left side right where the Aorta splits into what they call the Iliac arteries.
She got a stent put in on the right side last time but the left side was plugged up with concrete calcium deposits so bad she couldn’t get it all out. So now she wants to bypass that. She isn’t quite sure how she wants to go about it yet so I have another appointment next week. She is talking about using some kind of tubing and tapping into the blood supply on the right side. She says she could also go in to my right arm, literally drill down the side of my rib cage with a long dull tipped poker and connect it that way. I already said no to that shit.
Jesus, I can just imagine the amount of pain that would be involved with that option.
She says there may be yet another option but she wants to consult with some of her peers that apparently already know all about me.
It looks like my charming personality and orneriness has been the talk of the break room before.
So sometime at the end of this month I’m going back in under the knife for a procedure that sounds quite a bit more invasive than the last one that took 2 1/2 months for the incision to heal from.
Oh. Yay.
I can’t wait.
That means I’m going to be laid up for at least another month.
The Wifely Unit is thrilled at the prospects too I’m sure.
I guess I can hope that this one does really make a difference and hopefully I will quit being in pain 24/7 because I can tell you right now that shit sucks ass.
I don’t know about anybody else but I miss the days when cars had style.
I also miss the sound of the exhaust on a finely tuned V8 engine.
When I was younger, I could tell the difference between a Ford, Dodge and Chevy V8 going by with my eyes closed.
Now everything is a hideous face on a rolling soap bubble and I can’t even hear the engines running, if they even have one. I have noticed that all of these electric and hybrid fuckers make a ringing sound when they back up.
That’s why I really appreciate one of these when I see them now.
I worked 11 and 1/2 last night and was on my feet climbing on shit all night. I got no sleep because both legs were hurting bad all night.
At 4 this morning I finally couldn’t take and got up and took some pain relief. Of course that takes a while to start working and I think I finally nodded off about 6 this morning so I am running on fumes.
I also somehow managed to break my fucking phone while thrashing on a machine. I got up early (for me), slammed half a cup of coffee and drove down to get a new phone. I got there about 10 after 10, only to find out this particular store doesn’t open until 11. Came back home, threw down some breakfast and the usual dozen fucking pills and am getting ready to head back down there and then straight to work from there.
Ain’t no rest for the wicked and I’m beginning to think I was Atilla The Hun in a previous life.
I’ll see how I feel when I get home tonight but I already know it’s going to be a long day.
By invoking a National Emergency, Trump is shit canning all of the regulatory strangle holds the Tree Huggers have burdened the Timber Industry with over the last 50 years.
Spotted Owl is on the menu again boys.
BREAKING: President Trump just signed an Executive Order terminating all regulations & processes that delay the production of timber, lumber, paper, bioenergy, and other wood products. It’s time to cut trees and use them to make houses, & other things affordable again. “The United States has an abundance of timber resources that are more than adequate to meet our domestic timber production needs, but heavy-handed Federal policies have prevented full utilization of these resources and made us reliant on foreign producers.”
This is going to trigger a huge economic boom here in Western Washington state, Western Oregon too.
The timber Industry has been wiped out over the last 50 years in these areas.
Companies like Weyerhauser still own hundred of thousands, if not millions of acres of timber in both states.
Modern technology will replace the lumber mills of old and if they fast track the investments it could well be within a year, a burdgeoning new Lumber Industry could see truck loads of logs coming out of the forests bumper to bumper again.
Small lumber towns will be revitalized and shattered economies will spring back to life.
It will also go a long ways towards preventing the monsterous wild fires that have become all too common over the years by thinning over crowded forests and getting rid of the fuel they thrive on.
Lumber prices will come down allowing contractors to start building more affordable homes by the thousands.
Win, Win, Win.
This could be bigger than most people can even comprehend.
I recently received an email from Friend of the Blog Steve up in Canada.
He said I can repost this so maybe it can help someone else.
Hey Hows it going. Eventful day here today. About a year ago wife and I been sleeping in separate bedrooms. Not cause of hating each other but just more comfortable for us in our old age. My dachshund Fritzi always always crashes with me and Charlie the old spaniel sleeps at the foot of her bed. Two nights ago Fritzi crawled into bed with Alissa and I felt a bit out of sorts but ok…
Yesterday morn after her shower she was complaining her left arm was sore. My spidey senses then went up and I asked if we should go to the emergency. She says no its not too bad and she had pains before. First I heard of this but she insisted we do our grocery shop we had planned the night before. Did that …came home…relaxed…I make supper and hit the sack early
This morn she says she had a hell of a time sleeping and her arm is still sore …mabe even worse than yesterday. I told her lets go…off to the hospital.
Sure enuff its a heart attack. Few hours in the small town emerg then a transfer by ambulance to the big city emerg.
When all said and done…no tears to the heart…no surgery needed. Me and my boy just got home but she of course is gonna be in the hospital for a week or so for stabilizing and observance.
Next time my little buddy Fritzi tells me something wrong like what he tried a couple nights ago …Im gonna listen and ….she going to the emerg right away
I keep you posted
Steve in Canehda
I replied that it was some serious paying attention on his part and was glad it turned out OK. he replied to that with this,
Good Morning. Yeah …While working 38 years in heavy construction for various contractors…we were orientated and safety trained up the wazoo at the start of every job. One very high risk job we were told it would be a very good idea to take the St. Johns safety training as well…company would pay for the course and for the hours that we attended. We were taught what to look for… for signs of someone stroking or having a heart attack.
Heart attacks arent always a short or violent instance. My wifes heart attack lasted well over 24 hours and finally stabilized with three sprays of nitro under her tongue. She bitched about the taste and it giving her a headache but she is alive.
Like I said I saw the signs the previous day and I should have acted on them right away but she tuffed it out for another day before I put my foot down and said we going to the emerg NOW. Thankfully she alive.
Laters
Steve in Canehda
PS If you want to post what I sent you yesterday and today on your blog …kind of a public service or special interest thing…go ahead. I know a lot of older guys and gals are readers and commentators so it might serve as a good reminder
Yes, very good advice and since it only takes me a few minutes to copy/paste this, I hope it may help someone else out in the future.
The State Department this week terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine’s energy grid from attacks by the Russian military, according to two USAID officials working on the agency’s Ukraine mission.
Power outages have been applied overnight in some regions of Ukraine due to the attacks on energy facilities. The country’s systems have sustained near-constant impact throughout the course of the three-year war.
“It significantly undercuts this administration’s abilities to negotiate on the ceasefire, and it’d signal to Russia that we don’t care about Ukraine or our past investments,” one USAID official involved in the Ukraine mission told NBC News.
The official continued: “Russia is fighting a two-pronged war in Ukraine: A military one but also an economic one. They’re trying to crush the economy, but USAID has played a central role in helping it be resilient, [including] shoring up the energy grid…We’ve provided vast amount of support to the Ukrainian government to avoid a macro economic crisis.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the White House on Friday to meet with President Trump to discuss his rare earth mineral rights proposal.
However, President Trump canceled the joint press conference with Zelensky on Friday afternoon following an explosive Oval Office meeting.
Trump and Vance absolutely lit Zelensky up as he folded his arms and tried to lecture the United States.
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So how’s that little temper tantrum working out for ya Pipsqueak?
