TAN #190: YanTAN sneaky Ironpants ... (Page 61)

OHHH!

ACL is lateral movement.  So you should be fine running/swimming pretty quick after that if it's done right.

Meniscus in 2009 makes sense.  Arthroscopic surgery has really improved in the last 30 years.  My mom did knee surgery on Deacon Jones.  Cut his knee open entirely to do something that would be an outpatient arthroscopic thing nowadays.

That is really a good idea and I think about it all the time.  And rarely do I go back and reread books.  But there is some part of me that like to "collect" books I read.  That's one thing I don't like about the Kindle.  I worry that it could all disapear (doubtful) and I like looking at all my bookcases of books I will never read again! 

Thanks Matt and Dave

I appreciate the input and hope that the recovery is going to go well.  I am glad it is taking place over the winter and off season. I will work at it properly to bring it back.

I am still freaked a little I have never had a general and been knocked out. Tell people you are and all of a sudden you hear every horror story of anyone who's uncles brothers mothers distant cousin seen

you sound like my husband.  i spent an hour dusting our bookcase yesterday and made him pick 20 to throw out.  UGH UGH UGH.  i never keep books, part of why i love nook.  and when i actually buy books, i usually give them away to someone when i am done.

I don't buy anything new now.  Just on Kindle.  But believe it or not, felt like getting rid of the "real" books and buying them again on Kindle because I had an urge to reread all the Clancy books again and the Kindle is so damned convenient.

Oh, the ONLY time it's not?  Take off and landing.  They make me turn it off when it's perfect reading time.  Or when I'm sweating on the trainer.

Yay!  Thanks so much for this, it makes me feel just a tad better to know that someone has borrowed ebooks from the library with success!

As for the Outlander series, that's one that left me heartbroken to donate the entire set when I moved to the UK and it's one that I WILL eventually be buying again.  I've also suggested this particular book crack to others with excellent success.

You got me thinking.  Maybe I should run it by the wife to get rid of them (books).  I think it's ammusing I have all my college text books taking space and haven't cracked them open since the early 90's.  If I really want/need them again, I could re-buy the ebook version.

Bending over so someone can kick you in the butt is not yoga...

if you really needed them, you would have opened them in the past 20 years!!!!

mr meh keeps his engineering books at his office because he does use his (supposedly).  i don't care if they get dusty there!

Maybe they can use a local, but then you'd hear them laughing at your weenis... It's cold in those operating rooms...

general anesthesia is nice.  one minute you are in the little prep room, the next minute you are dizzy and in the recovery room.  fun times.  ignore the horror stories.  in college i volunteered in anesthesia and never once saw something go wrong.

I hate general anesthesia unless I am really well medicated after I come to.  I do not react well to a number of the anesthesia types .  I wake up shaky and and feeling lousy.  It wears off without any lasting effects but those first few hours suck!

i did once see them cut some guy's knee open with a power saw!

I honestly didn't want my wife or FIL there when I woke up.  I was afraid I would say something completely out of line after my Thyroid surgery.

Comming out of it is weird.  There are brief moments of clarity that I SORT of recall where I asked a bunch of questions, then fade out, then come back and ask them all again.  3-4 times.

Aw Yeah and those cranial saws are awesome!  Kinda like a dremel tool.

Reminds me of silence of the lambs or was it Hannibal?

There was some medical channel on cable once and they showed a knee replacement surgery from beginning to end.  I was shocked how rough they were.  I sort of thought surgery was delicate.  But they had serious power tools and hammers and chisles and just going to town, like they were building a book case or something.

Sounds interesting. You should make a thread about that...

you are also likely to say weird stuff in that first few minutes after they start the anesthesia.  last surgery i had i asked my husband to leave the prep room before they hit the button, and he couldn't come into recovery until i came to.  he was like "what are you afraid to say around me, huh!?!!??"