When I fell in the Dubai Airport way back last November the 25th, I seem to have\u00a0also seriously injured my left knee as well as breaking my left hip.<\/p>\n
This would explain to me, in my mind, why I was in some, let me see the adjective to use, got it, I was in some considerable discomfort on long flights to Hong Kong (7+ hours) and to Seattle (12+ hours) with a layover in the Seattle Airport (3+ hours) and finally the flight to Phoenix (3+ hours).<\/p>\n
A broken hip coupled with a damaged knee would add up to some discomfort.<\/p>\n
Where am I going?<\/p>\n
When I entered the Mayo Hospital here, the major point of interest in the emergency room was my left (broken) hip.<\/p>\n
But I also asked for X-rays to be taken of my left knee.<\/p>\n
The X-rays showed ‘only’ a considerable amount of arthritis and NO broken knee parts.<\/p>\n
Last Tuesday evening, my left knee just blew up in pain. I could hardly get up from a chair, using a walker was a 100% necessity, and from time to time I would shout out in pain.<\/p>\n
Yesterday (Wednesday) Patti and I returned to\u00a0the Mayo Hospital Clinic where I had a cortisone injection into my left knee. My Doctor surmised that perhaps the fall had severely inflamed the arthritic condition in my left knee.<\/p>\n
Now I Know, Now I Understand, the enormous relief such an injection of cortisone can provide a sufferer.<\/p>\n
Moving right along here in providing you with more X-rated information, information I do NOT like to discuss or even think about, read on.<\/p>\n
Last Saturday, upon awakening, with my CPAP mask still on my face, I did a big ‘sniff ‘ to clear my nose. Why I did not swallow the results of my big ‘sniff ‘ I shall never know but I did not.<\/p>\n
When I spit the results out into our sink, I saw that I had experienced a nose bleed while sleeping because I really spit out a lot of blood including two clots, one of which was several inches in length.<\/p>\n
Do you want frightening? THAT was frightening.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n In short: I could have ‘bled out ‘\u00a0before I awoke.<\/p>\n And?<\/p>\n GOOD NEWS too.<\/p>\n Patti and I are very much\u00a0enjoying eating out. We loved the NFL football playoff games last Sunday. Atlanta beat Green Bay and the Patriots beat the Steelers.<\/p>\n Captain! This is a program of honesty here.\u00a0So it is. I missed the second half of the Patriot \/ Steelers game because I had to lay down and sleep several hours due to the enormous fatigue that continues to overtake me each and every day.<\/p>\n Continuing. My mood is very postive and upbeat. Patti and I are going to meetings regularly. I have given two talks and both were extremely well received.<\/p>\n And .. Taa-Daa .. Two of our very best friends, Tom and Ginny, from the Detroit area, are visiting Phoenix and environs for 10-days looking to purchase property. We have greatly enjoyed our short and very sweet visits.<\/p>\n So this is not a totally negative nor dark experience.<\/p>\n Recovery is a process NOT an event.<\/p>\n My process seems to be continuing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Still Smiling ..<\/p>\n Cap and (not exactly smiling) Patti ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I fell in the Dubai Airport way back last November the 25th, I seem to have\u00a0also seriously injured my left knee as well as breaking my left hip. This… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,456,976,338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blood-clots","category-hip-replacement","category-mayo-phoenix-2017","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24143"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67162,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143\/revisions\/67162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}