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I got a new hip

LeicsDom said:
You may be able to medicate to hold the pain at bay but you have to think about how much more damage is being done to your bad hip
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Unless I totally shatter the femur, the damage is to an extent irrelevant: the hip needs replaced anyway. Besides that, it's still nowhere as bad as the other one was!

LeicsDom said:
I think you have proved that you don't need as much extreme convalescence as you think ;)
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Heh -- yeah, "but...." :lol:
 
gsdx said:
Indeed, but not with my hip. With me, it was (and still is) my back. I could easily have become an alcoholic or a druggie, but I know my limits with my back and, when I reach it, I stop. However, with alcohol especially, it made me oblivious to the pain and I would go way over my limits and end up in such pain that it would lay me up for days. That's one of the reasons I haven't had even a sip of alcohol of any kind in over 2 decades.

It can become a vicious, vicious circle.
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I've had that problem the couple of days I've had to pop some oxies to make it through an afternoon of conservation work. But I'm working out a rhythm: a day of heavy work gets followed by one of light work, then mixed, then light, then one off if I feel the need. A light day can mean just a small load of materials or none at all; so far it usually means hauling a couple of bushel baskets of lawn clippings out to put around pioneer clumps of beach grass (an effort that along with watering them with 'compost tea' is having impressive effects) -- though the last time what I hauled was one bushel basket of clippings and a huge contractor trash bag of mixed hay and straw from the farm store's bale warehouse... it took up most of my bike trailer and didn't weigh even fifteen pounds.
 
frankfrank said:
What do you do about the "high" part? Doesn't that intrude on what you may be trying to do, perhaps you would prefer not to be high...or are you using a strain that is less THC-potent but still retaining the other therapeutic ingredients? I would not want to need to depend on pot to manage my pain, because if I'm high I simply get nothing done...ever.

Some people get a lot done when high, so my experience is not a universal one.
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So long as I'm not totally stoned out of my mind it actually contributes to the experience, as far as conservation work. "Augmenting" nature is very meditative for me anyway, and the mellowness is a bonus.

It doesn't work if what I'm doing is too complex. For example, I probably wouldn't want to scout out a route for a new trail, or build a fence, but I have plenty to do that doesn't rise to that level of complexity. The issue is losing track of what I'm doing, so if it's simple and familiar there's no real issue -- in fact it sort of forces me to evaluate often!

And when the weather's good, Bammer makes a decent pillow and I can stare at the surf or sky. :D

frankfrank said:
That's why, in the very rare instances I've been subject to some kind of pain management [NOT SINCE 2003], I actually used the meds only when it became intolerable. When I had a kidney removed in 2003, the doctors were very surprised that I "pushed the morphine button" only three or four times during recuperation. Even if I don't like it, I realize that pain is a signal, and I want to know that I'm not going past my limit and harming myself in the process.
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I'm actually having days when just a cannabis capsule in the morning and a CBD cap in the afternoon gets me by. I carry brownies to nibble in case, and oxies for backup.


The worst day lately was when I went out crabbing, and the friend driving the boat just cut loose once we were out of the no-wake zone. The boat went slamming, wham-wham-wham, across the choppy bay, at which point it didn't matter if I was sitting or standing or what, both hips got pummeled. So I took over driving, and made him deal with the crab pots. That night, even with a soak, I had trouble getting comfortable enough to sleep.
 
Because things might have changed in 4 months.
Or, maybe they want you to be a poster boy for the procedure?!
 
Kulindahr said:
How to move with the new hip while it's healing, is what it comes down to.
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Oh, we don't get those. I had occupational therapists instruct me on how to get about and do stuff while the hip healed and loosened up. I guess that is the same thing

It has just occurred to me that, you being in the US, it is probably a money making thing dreamt up between the surgeons and therapists
 
LeicsDom said:
Oh, we don't get those. I had occupational therapists instruct me on how to get about and do stuff while the hip healed and loosened up. I guess that is the same thing

It has just occurred to me that, you being in the US, it is probably a money making thing dreamt up between the surgeons and therapists
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No, it's probably required in order to satisfy liability requirements for the bloody insurance companies.

I once got out of a bill like that by writing "services not requested" and mailing it back. Never heard from them again.
 
Gotta give it to Neil - putting a positive spin on a rather less than pleasant circumstance.
 
gsdx said:
Mine was more of a 'crash course'.

BA DUMP BUMP

Thank you very much! I'm here all week!
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Arrgh -- I just got that.


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Kulindahr said:
Never heard of "Compensation Culture". But yeah, all kinds of things here are driven by liability issues.
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Compensation Culture was 'invented' in America
In 1994, a 79-year-old American woman who spilt a McDonald's coffee over her groin area suffering 3rd degree burns was awarded nearly $3million damages by a jury.

She was in a moving car at the time, but McDonald's admitted they had been serving coffee at temperatures of 180 to 190 degrees fahrenheit, which was far above the norm.

The amount of compensation was later reduced on appeal.

This is the case that is said to have kick started the ridiculous compensation culture whereby everything is always somebody else's fault and someone can always be made to pay
 
LeicsDom said:
This is the case that is said to have kick started the ridiculous compensation culture whereby everything is always somebody else's fault and someone can always be made to pay
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There was nothing ridiculous about it, and the compensation should not have been reduced.

. . . The sweatpants Liebeck was wearing absorbed the coffee and held it next to her skin. A vascular surgeon determined that Liebeck suffered full thickness burns (or third-degree burns) over 6 percent of her body, including her inner thighs, perineum, buttocks, and genital and groin areas. She was hospitalized for eight days, during which time she underwent skin grafting. Liebeck, who also underwent debridement treatments, sought to settle her claim for $20,000, but McDonalds refused.

During discovery, McDonalds produced documents showing more than 700 claims by people burned by its coffee between 1982 and 1992. . . .
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debridement |diˈbrēdmənt|
noun Medicine
the removal of damaged tissue or foreign objects from a wound.

Third-degree burns.
 
LeicsDom said:
Compensation Culture was 'invented' in America
In 1994, a 79-year-old American woman who spilt a McDonald's coffee over her groin area suffering 3rd degree burns was awarded nearly $3million damages by a jury.

She was in a moving car at the time, but McDonald's admitted they had been serving coffee at temperatures of 180 to 190 degrees fahrenheit, which was far above the norm.

The amount of compensation was later reduced on appeal.

This is the case that is said to have kick started the ridiculous compensation culture whereby everything is always somebody else's fault and someone can always be made to pay
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The $3mn was ridiculous, but the system worked and the award was reduced to less than a sixth of that.
 
Keeland said:
There was nothing ridiculous about it, and the compensation should not have been reduced.
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We don't actually know what the final compensation was, but the $160k + $480k (=$640k) seems plenty.

I believe he was referring to the sue-for-anything culture as being ridiculous. One of the first things I was told when I found out how bad my hip was was to sue everyone in sight.....
 
Kulindahr said:
I believe he was referring to the sue-for-anything culture as being ridiculous. One of the first things I was told when I found out how bad my hip was was to sue everyone in sight.....
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Exactly my point.
The law allows compensation for being an idiot!
If you trip over a paving slab because you are not paying attention to where you walk then you sue the local authority.
 
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