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When Hospital Socks Tell the Real Medical Story
Welcome to a winning haunt. You guys, I am just going to cut straight to the to tell you how I found out about it because, yeah, I you remember, I went to the hospital, I recorded an episode from rehab and all that jazz. Well, I do have a broken hip. Fun, fun, fun. I do have a broken hip, fun, fun, I do have a broken hip. That's why it has been so incredibly painful. The hospital didn't diagnose it as that well, they did for a minute of two seconds and they were preparing me for surgery, but they all of a sudden changed their minds and then, if it's been, and I went to rehab for two weeks, just got home from that, and then it's. It's been incredibly crazy. And then I have another surgery on wednesday. It's sunday, august 3rd, as we're recording this.
Speaker 1:So August 6th, 2020, 25, I have surgery to see if I'm a candidate for a back-living pump, which means I, I let me back up. Back living is a muscle relaxation used typically used for cerebral palsy and it's used for a bunch of other things, and then it's wonderful, and then it's wonderful. But the wonderfulness of all Baclovin is they can't get the dosage high of back livin. And so with the back livin pump which, yes, will go into my spine. Yes, my spine has a bunch of hard wearing, yes, I have to get that organized. And yes, it will go into my spine. They will tube it to the front. And so I'll have two incisions to tie me. Two incisions, one on my back and one on my right side of my stomach, because I sleep on my left side. Well, you can't necessarily sleep on a lump of a hockey puck when you fall asleep, and so that's why they're putting it on my right side. And I'm so little I'm about five feet 100 pounds that it's going to be interesting. So that's what's going on with that.
Speaker 1:And then I have a two-week follow-up with my whether I need hip surgery or not. And that's fun. This has all been huge shits and giggles. And then so how? I found out that my hip is broken. Is I landed up going to the orthopedic surgeon with my leg halfway up in the air, wearing hospital socks? Yes, talk about embarrassing. And for the back living appointment, I was screaming in pain, basically. And so, yeah, screaming in pain wearing bedroom slippers Looks like I lost my other, one of mine.
Speaker 1:And then, for the fraction hip appointment, which I'm calling it. I was wearing hospital socks. I wasn't in that much pain because they've loaded me up with. Therefore, the doctor gets me on. You can see the doctor's wheels and his brain turning away, like, how did you get in this position in the first place? Was it your leg halfway up in the air, your leg touching your butt? Yeah, able to move.
Speaker 1:Well, then we find out that and, yes, the good news is, yes, my femur's healing. Well, for those of you that don't remember, they had to wipe my femur when I had knee surgery, and so that can take a while, but whatever, that's beside the point, and so that can take me a little bit, whatever that beside the point. And so, basically, the surgeon looks at the dang thing and says when did you know you broke, you fractured, the ball of the femur right, and I'm like what, what? I thought it was a psoas and fingermen. Nope, I broke my hip by falling off my bed. I admit it, by falling off my bed. Yes, I had the cancer. Yes, it was on my birthday. So I fell off my bed on my birthday and, not realizing that, I broke my hip on my birthday. So happy birthday to me. Now I'm dealing with a very late birthday person of a broken hip and we'll see.
Speaker 1:I'll keep you guys updated as to what's going on, but I really just got home from rehab today. That was a complete disaster to have because, yeah, that was a disaster to have because they wrote the wrong diagnosis down and at the end they all figured out oh yeah, she has a broken hip. So therefore it wasn't very successful and I feel like a complete failure, which is not a good thing. I cried for half an hour about that me being a failure who spends two weeks in rehab and a million dollars later in rehab and then comes out with no difference. So that's my story. I've been sticking to it and I will keep you guys updated on the back-lifting pump story and then I will keep you guys updated on the broken hip story. So back-lifting pump and the broken hip Fun. Keep you guys updated on Broken Hip Story. So Backliving Pump and Broken Hip Fun. And so I'll catch you guys next week.
Speaker 1:By the time next week's episode comes out with Danielle and I it my um, I'll be one step further to getting the back flippin' pump. Because what they do the reason why I said I'm having surgery on Wednesday is they poke a hole, low bell spine puncture again. I've had one before. It's not good and they literally inject the baclovin in the hole. They have you see a physical therapist after they, after they inject the Baclovin, and she tests your spasticity and she also does a test beforehand and if your spasticity meets the numbers they want it to meet for the Baclo pump, and then yes, you are approved. So that's that, and so that's going to be fun Wednesday. I have skill in the knife for small surgery. Yeah, that's going to be great, fun, lovely, and so, yeah, medical servant Shelby on Lovely, and so, yeah, medical summit Shelby, and so it's really interesting what they say. But I'll keep you guys updated what they say and I'll keep you guys abreast of what's going on with my broken hip. So we'll see you guys next week.
Speaker 1:Thank you for following us. Yeah, you should follow us. What the cute Bonnie said on the other side of the screen. Thank you for following us. Thank you for following us and I will keep you guys updated. And I will definitely keep you guys updated on the Backlubbin' Club and the Broken Namb saga. So there's my two soggers. You guys can think about that. Send me all the good vibes and we'll call it good. I'll somehow get this leg straight, and it may take a little while, but I'll get this leg straight and I'll be good to go. So thank you for following us. Bye, you guys, bye.
