Several years ago, I had emergency surgery for kidney stones at 2:00 AM one morning. I had a bunch of stones. One side was completely blocked and the other was partially blocked. Some are still lodged in my kidney because he drove some into the kidney wall while trying to get others out. He couldn't get them all out. The doc said I could've died and I was the toughest man he had ever seen. Not that I could outfight people, but could take pain. My dad taught me that. I've found drinking a lot of water and cutting it with lemonade helps reduce the number of stones I have.
I forget how old I was, but I needed a loose tooth pulled and instead of letting dad pull it, I ran and hid. Boy was he mad when he found me! I still remember that whupping!
I have been Johnny since my first breath. 5:55 PM, July 21st 1943. My daddy was John so they called me Johnny to keep from confusion. It stuck all through life. Most of my uncles called me Johnny Boy and a few cousins still do.
Shame was the best method to keep me in line when I was growing up. My father taught me your family's name was to be honored and you were not to do any thing to bring shame or disgrace on it. I was taught a woman, especially your mother was the most important of God's creation. You respect your mother and you protect her honor. The word S.O.B. was seldom heard or used and if someone directed that at your mother, the person was surely going to get you in a serious, very serious fight. No kidding around about one's mother.
I loved the first few seasons of MASH but Alan Alda really got on my nerves by the 3rd season. Oh well, Radar votes for grape Nehi as the best.
Gonna watch Night At The Opera tonight. Classic.
When it came to switches, I quickly learned that bigger was better. The small ones would wrap around your legs and could be swung faster.
Losing Wayne Rogers along with McLean Stevenson at the end of season 3, really hurt the show from a comedic standpoint.
You should have been a baseball player, especially in the late fifties. Traditionally hitters used big heavy bats. A skinny guy named Ernie Banks switched to a light bat late in his rookie year and the following years. People wanted to know how a skinny guy could hit so many homers. He told them the light bat let him whip the bat quickly through the hitting zone. Now everyone uses a light bat and swings for homers.
And a good morning to you. Any time I wake up I feel it was a good night. I am blessed and grateful.
Good luck to you buddy. You have a lot of years left on those bones so a good tune up would be the best route IMO. About 6 months before I retired I had a complete physical with emphasis on anything I need to have fixed before I retired. I wanted to be in top shape day one of my retirement. My neurosurgeon found a need for a lumbar fusion and I had that done in January and retired the first day of July.
Sawnee, Thanks for that perspective, and the thoughtful words.
On hip replacement: if you are relatively skinny it is a great procedure as they can go through the front instead of the old procedure that came in from the back.. I was 73 and they made me stay overnight because I had had open heart surgery. I had physical therapy for 5 times and was released. It was a little more painful the second day than knee replacement, but I suppose that hip replacement may actually be simpler for the doctor.
Thanks for that insight Bert. I'm told at my age (mid-60s) its an outpatient surgery. We'll see how it unfolds. Not too concerned about it, just hoping against hope for that moment afterward when I say, "yeah, I feel better. That was worth it."
My philosophy was the day I retire is the day I want to be in the best condition I will be in for the rest of my life. After I retired we immediately took a trip to Israel and Jordan. If I had been hobbling around it would not have been enjoyable.
Not boring and also, I would question why he would not suggest replacement surgery as soon as you can. Would not bone on bone rubbing chip and wear down the hip? Not a doctor so bear with me, but it seems like that would be the case. I wonder also, perhaps you have researched, what would be the recovery time for that?
Warrior -- The sense I got from the guy was that once the hip was bone-on-bone it wasn't going to get any MORE destroyed, and whenever it was replaced, all that was damaged would go. So, getting it done just depended on how much pain I could tolerate -- he seemed to think I SHOULD be in more pain than I am, based on my x-ray. But it's not that bad right now.
One of my sons (twin 41 years old) is a big liberal and he believes that if you give everyone UBI, a home, and a car to get around, most will want to better their conditions and go to work to add to it. He said that some people deserve have this given to them because they did not ask to be brought into this world, so we need to take care of them. I told him he was out of his mind and that these days most would just stay home and do what they wanted. If fact, I told him they would in short order start complaining that this was not enough. He has been corrupted by our higher education system as he was a professional student up until a few of years ago changing his major a few times until he landed on environmental science and chemistry. Now, he is all about recycling and the Green New Deal. Whenever he visits us, he gets upset when he does not see about 5 or 6 bins set up in my garage for recycling and sets them up for me. They promptly go away after he leaves.
