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Nobadays
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# Posted: 11 May 2025 09:09am
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Thanks guys!
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jsahara24
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# Posted: 12 May 2025 08:15am
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Yes very good to hear! Keep us updated...
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 2 Jun 2025 09:42am
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Little update....
My wife had a rough time the first week. Her nerves just went crazy and she had shooting nerve pain ANYTIME she moved, nearly debilitating. She called her doctor the Monday after her surgery, 5 days, and they started her on gabapentin to calm the nerves down. That took a few more days to work. She had been trying to walk from the start but couldn't manage more than a few steps around the house. Once the gabapentin settled her nerves down she started getting out walking our road. I'm happy to say she is now doing over a mile a day and has scaled the gabapentin back from 900mg/day to just 300mg at night and will taper off that over the next couple of weeks. Overall it was a successful surgery but it wasn't an easy fix.
Me, yeah ok. As many of you know I only have one arm so lifting things requires a lot of core strength as there is no way to distribute weight evenly. So, 8 weeks out I lifted a 23# battery out of a box sitting on my workbench. Suffered for two weeks and thought I had herniated at my incision. It did heal and quit hurting. Then two weeks later I was lifting a 6 gallon pail of beer Wort onto a counter.... from the floor to an 8" stool, I got on an 18" stool squatted down and then lifted it up and onto the counter. Didn't feel any real strain.... until later. That was a little over a week ago. Still not sure if this will heal or if I herniated. Way less painful than the first few days but still there. Feel so handicapped! I'm just not used to being one armed slowing me down! This not being able to lift much of anything really causes me to slow down and I have things to do!
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FishHog
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2025 07:22am
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Sorry to hear about both of your struggles. Getting older isn't for the weak, but don't give up. Healing takes time, go easy but keep going.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2025 11:20am
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Thanks FishHog.... we both realize it's going to take time to heal but I just have a hard time "resting" !
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