anticipation....
...with, perhaps, just a bit of apprehension added in....
tomorrow i get one of these installed. i bet it costs more than a new titanium cassette.....
i like the surgeon who is going to do the job. he gets good marks from my #1 source of medical info.
and assuming all goes well and the healing happens the way it is supposed to, the outlook for rehab looks like a tolerable schedule. I should be back out on a road bike in 6 to 8 weeks. and you know i'll be shooting for 6....
but, here is the big thing that has me worried about tomorrow.
my surgery is at 3pm.
i don't get to eat or drink ANYTHING after 7 am.
this could be ugly.
posted by PAB(a.k.a.CID) @ 9:54 PM
23 comments
23 Comments:
someone help him here
he's threatening to go berserk due to lack of water and i'm threatening to leave him in the next county with his shoelaces untied
I'm gonna blog about food tomorrow
and I bet your surgeon makes a lot more money than your bike mechanic!
good luck tomorrow. I've always been lucky to have early morning surgeries so I didn't have to feel the hunger. you aren't even supposed to chew gum, are you? I guess you could just stay up all night and feast until 7:00am, right?
vg-i am way ahead of you. i plan to stay up all night and eat periodically. then i will sleep all morning tomorrow.
vb-may the cat(s) barf in your sock drawer.
good luck pab!
chocolate sauce. caramel. toasted nuts. ice-cream.
BUDINO!
You probably won't be thinking about food!! If you do, there's something wrong.
Recover fast...
and i have one of those plates in me.
it's not as fun as i thought -- nothing beeps at airports.
good luck
(budino)
oooh, good luck today!
can you dial in the float?
I think I see Shimano stamped on it...
i like the way they have this huge glamour shot for that chunk of medical metal, like they are actually trying to sell it in catalogues or something.
my dad has a metal thingy in his wrist and he claims to be able to tell when the weather is about to change.
Heal fast.
ps: jd-d so nailed the cleat thing. hilarious.
budino...good luck this afternoon...surgery is always funny...waking up cold and naked in a strange room... budino..
NO FOOD? Oy. I hope you pigged out last night...
Good luck and fun anesthesia dreams to blog about!
Good Luck Jeff!
Sweet dreams. I always say stupid stuff (more so than ussual) when I go down and come up and when I wake up everybody is laughing at me. So I guess that is different than ussual.... hmmm
steve
Oh, and update us when you are able.
K.C. and Morgen wish you well...
and Morgen wants to know if she can eat your lunch meal.
good, positive thoughts sent your way by us Salinas folks.
I hate being hungry! Make sure the bunny has a favorite tasty snack at the ready.
Good luck Jeff.
"Passive range of motion exercises", your new best friend.
The track is still fun in October. You and OV in a no-holds-barred chariot race!
Is that thing available in Titanium or carbon fiber?
and when it comes out in a few months, he gets to keep it
i see a metal sculpture idea forming in his mind already
I had a fractured left scapula and then a separated right shoulder last year. Max got me using these, several times a day...
http://www.rehaboutlet.com/shoulder_pulleys.htm
Then you get the colored elastic bands. Then the exercise ball and some studly 3-pound dumbells.
And riding on a trainer every day is important. The blood flow helps the healing and the mind.
I used lots of pillows to prop myself into a reasonable position for sleeping, and keep me there, and lots of triazolam. (less expensive than Ambien CR)
I never knew before how tiring pain could be.
It does get better.
I want PAB to blog while he's all hopped up on pain meds..
hope you guys are both managing well!
its been a rough 24hours. i'll write some details later.
thanks for all the kind thoughts everyone
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