<p>aaarrgggh! How ridiculous that someone would leave the clamp to the meds closed! Uh, hellooooo… Hope things are smooth sailing for your DH from here.</p>
<p>Thanks, Cpt-
and LOL about the Fridays/weekends/holidays illness. I needed surgery right at the end of June/early July once when all the old residents and interns were leaving and the newbies were just starting. The ones finishing their training were all partying the night before my surgery and the new kids on the block were about to start. Bad timing.</p>
<p>momof3 and ivoryk-
I could use a few days, weeks, months of a DULL, BORING life. I feel badly for our friends in Texas, but I admit to feeling glad that Hurricane Ike isn’t heading to NOLA and that older s is no longer in Houston.</p>
<p>jym, I missed this nasty news last week and am sorry to hear about this. What a week! What a month! Tell your DH I wish him the best and am thinking of him. Yowser.</p>
<p>I’m glad he’s through the surgery and tell him we’re thinking about him! What a nightmare with the clamp. Drug him up extra good for a few days!</p>
<p>jmy626 … Thanks for the update. Hope your H heals quickly and easily. </p>
<p>gak! for the extra drill bit… what’s a little extra hardware, but it sounds like he has nice strong bones.</p>
<p>So sorry things are never smooth for you. All the best for you and family. Hope dad is doing well, don’t recall anything recently.
LA</p>
<p>Thanks, MOWC, veryhappy, esobay and lamom-</p>
<p>Anyone want to don a chauffeur’s hat ? DH can’t drive for 9 weeks!</p>
<p>lamom-
How’d you remember about my dad? I am so impressed!! He is hanging in there. Had a few falls wearing non-tread slippers (the name “slippers” is appropriate, unfortunately) and we are taking it as it comes. Thanks so very much for asking. We were up there in late July and planning to get up there again soon, but travel will be limited for DH right now (though we are going to ds’s parents weekend in a month or so if we can pull it off.)</p>
<p>MOWC-
I remember your knee surgery-- How long did it take to heal?</p>
<p>jym626,
I remember reading about one of your visits to him and feeling the love you have for him.
LA</p>
<p>jym, thanks for the update. I wish you a few weeks of dull, boring, plain, uneventful life. You deserve it 
And a speedy recovery to your husband!</p>
<p>The part about the clamp is absolutely ridiculous! He did good to make it till 5 a.m. with no pain meds! How awful. And now he gets to set off airport alarms for the rest of his life…</p>
<p>But at least we will assume the worst is over and it’s downhill from here. Give him our best, and tell him we’re thinking of him.</p>
<p>^^^ thanks, lamom, bunsenburner and binx-</p>
<p>I think (I hope??) its uphill from here. If we go any more downhill, I think I’ll have a stroke!</p>
<p>No, no, downhill in the “easy” sense. I had actually written uphill first, because I was thinking the same as you - that you’ve had enough “down.” But I edited it, because colloquially, downhill is supposed to indicate that the hard stuff is over. I’d say let’s go for “level” but we don’t really want things to stay the same!</p>
<p>jym: </p>
<p>I do hope things improve quickly! Can your H rely on taxis for a while?
Hugs to you.</p>
<p>Thanks, Marite.
Taxis are available, but our metro area is very spread out, and he might have a meeting that is 20 miles away or takes an hour to get to in traffic. We’ll have to explore all options…</p>
<p>Right now he’s at a breakfast meeting with old work colleagues. He invited a friend in our neighborhood who is between jobs but in the same industry, who could benefit from meeting these folks. So, the friend happily accepted the invite. H of course asked his friend if he could drive!</p>
<p>Thanks for the updates.</p>
<p>Every surgery is different, of course, but my knee surgery was July 21 and I was totally non-weight bearing for 6 weeks and then started doing some light exercise Sept. 6. In the meantime I could swim and do deep water running. I started running (I know your H wants to run again) in late September and ran my first post-accident/post-surgery race on Oct. 27. Mine was a bone fracture with no tendons involved.</p>