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04-28-2009, 07:49 PM
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Meh, loving the medical system - finally got my appointment with Dr wiley (ortho - not surgeon) at the U of C sports med clinic today... Got refered April 9th - appt may 22nd... Luckily, sounds like I've actually done enough damage to my knee this time around to be a surgical candidate (they've been letting it get worse for the past few years because they don't think they can do further arthroscopic - too many already - thus it's gotta be 'bad' before they'll do more).
But like you guys - lb's have packed on over the past 5 years - mostly because I can't do much walking, hiking or biking before the knee flares up and I end up back on crutches... Yet last 2 years orthopaedic referals have gotten me all of 'you need to loose 60lbs to hit your BMI' - very useful information and advice, given about all I can manage because of the knee problems is 20-30 minutes a day on the eliptical trainer... And the medical system wonders why people look at medical tourism...
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04-28-2009, 08:25 PM
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my shoulder was in bad shape after the first surgery and I was reffered to Dr. Richard Boorman. All this guy does is shoulders and elbows and i was doing well after the second operation, but he told me that once you have a shoulder operation it's only a matter of time before you're looking at partial to complete replacement, which is what i'm looking at now...woot woot
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04-28-2009, 09:28 PM
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You'll be like a cyborg! Make sure you don't get some of that self-aware metal though. I watch Terminator. Mmm, more Summer Glau kicking butt, please, and less of this "Sarah Conner's weirdo dreams" stuff. It's so depressing!
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04-28-2009, 09:41 PM
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ha ha!
I just can't get into the one they're showing on tv....I've tried, but meh
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04-28-2009, 10:31 PM
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While looking around last year - had some long discussions with a surgeon down at johns hopkins; Pricing wasn't actually too bad - and unlike the canadian system; apparently in the states I have several options as to how to repair... Hoping this time around I get something done - if not, I'm going to end up pulling an rsp and heading south...
Same with knees - they keep telling me the more they go in the worse it'll get; but I can't qualify to even get on the replacement list until 40yrs of age... Without a catastrophic failure (lol, anyone wanna join me for some extreme skiing? Guaranteed you'll get a helicopter ride out!) I'm just in limbo for the moment...
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04-29-2009, 12:44 AM
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Since we are talking war wounds.... blown knee to basketball scoped for that one and ended that..So i thought I thought I would take up a less dangerous sport and got into rugby and power lifting.......was told 4 years ago by the neurosurgon that I had to choose rugby or being able to walk do to major damage to my back...now i have to wate until narcotics won't control the pain before I get to have surgery....but so far it is all under control.
Worst part is I cannot use them as an excuse at home because my wife was mauled by a bear ...over 30 rib fractures and a broken back before I killed him...she always wins in that contest...LOL
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04-29-2009, 01:51 AM
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wow. You're wife has all of us beat...times 10
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