It sucks growing old

[p0rtia]

"Place" dreams have been my thing since high school. I have recurring dreams about several different places that don't exist. Some are single rooms, some multiple city blocks. The streets and buildings are always the same, but they are usually background for whatever action is taking place. Different people, different adventures, and different actions, but in the same landscape.

Oddly enough, I don't remember having a single recurring dream since starting chemo, although wild dreams are a pretty common side effect. I still have incredibly vivid dreams, just not ones in the comfortable confines of my imaginary cities and buildings. I'll be happy when I can go back to the relatively familiar.

Me toooooo.

[John Thomas8]

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Just read GG the Borg’s post. Sounds like you can be the life of any party now.

Shizzle - my sympathy. Dr. Hanscom’s book about chronic pain is excellent. He is also developing an app.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/back-in-c ... n=10987196

[mojosapien]

tHEY LAUGHED THEY LAUGHED

[RTH10260]

Been there, done that mid-summer of this year. the procedurehad already been suggested earlier by my doctor, but once I decided to go for it covid locked down everything last year. One polyp, so next checkup in three rather than five years.

[Gregg]

Well, I am having heart ablation in the 17th. I know its totally routine and about as dangerous as getting your tonsils out, but I'm a little uncomfortable just at the thought.

It will once and for all fix my AFIB which has gone from a curiosity to a thing to a thing to worry about.

[Estiveo]

[Foggy]

Yeah, we expect you to come through it in good condition, por favor.

This coming year I expect a second total knee replacement and a total shoulder replacement. Cyborgs-R-Us.

[raison de arizona]

Heart ablation, wowsers! I've had radiofrequency ablation for my back. Twice. And I threw it out again last week or so. I was on a walker for awhile, but now I've moved to a cane. I was SUPPOSED to have an MRI today, but the insurance is dragging their feet after the doctor office took an excessive amount of time to even submit the request, so now this Wednesday. The doc originally gave me some trigger point injections, which was nice for a few days. I see him again on Monday, hoping he's up for a few more. Could be worse. But this sucks. I'm only teh 48. I always thought I would live hard and die young, now I just lived hard and am broken down. I call bullshit.

[Greatgrey]

Been there, done that mid-summer of this year. the procedurehad already been suggested earlier by my doctor, but once I decided to go for it covid locked down everything last year. One polyp, so next checkup in three rather than five years.

There’s a new device under development in Europe that plans on using different frequencies of light that will be able to examine polyps etc down to a cellular or molecular level. Showed it to my colorectal surgeon & she’s interested.

https://www.proscope-h2020.eu/

Kinda related, my trial period in the Borg went well, the temporary device was removed and my permanent one gets installed next Wednesday. Just call me 1 of 747 for now.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Hubby had the heart ablation after his quadruple bypass. I call it "map and zap" because they test your heart and map the places not working then zap them with radio waves.

[Gregg]

Hubby had the heart ablation after his quadruple bypass. I call it "map and zap" because they test your heart and map the places not working then zap them with radio waves.

Yeah, I think I understand it as much as I want to without it making me sick. I'm just gonna show up, go to sleep, hopefully wake up and drive home the next day.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Hubby had the heart ablation after his quadruple bypass. I call it "map and zap" because they test your heart and map the places not working then zap them with radio waves.

Yeah, I think I understand it as much as I want to without it making me sick. I'm just gonna show up, go to sleep, hopefully wake up and drive home the next day.

WARNING!!!!!My friend required two ablations.

[pipistrelle]

Hubby had the heart ablation after his quadruple bypass. I call it "map and zap" because they test your heart and map the places not working then zap them with radio waves.

Yeah, I think I understand it as much as I want to without it making me sick. I'm just gonna show up, go to sleep, hopefully wake up and drive home the next day.

WARNING!!!!!My friend required two ablations.

My eldest sibling required several; so many I lost count. Now has a pacemaker thing.

[RTH10260]

Off Topic

Totally past bed time - thread title reads as "It sucks owning gold" but still may be better than "owing gold"

[Foggy]

... my trial period in the Borg went well, the temporary device was removed and my permanent one gets installed next Wednesday. Just call me 1 of 747 for now.

EXCELLENT.

[Volkonski]

We finally got around to getting a local doctor this week. He is the youngest doctor we have ever had only in practice 4 years. However his credentials are excellent. He is taking over for a retiring family practice physician in a large group practice with specialists, MRI, xrays, etc onsite. Very convenient and only 4 miles from our house.

My left knee has been acting up so he examined it, sent me for xrays and gave me a prescription for a handicapped parking tag. Went to the county tax office for the tag yesterday. Blue spaces here I come.

[AndyinPA]

We finally got around to getting a local doctor this week. He is the youngest doctor we have ever had only in practice 4 years. However his credentials are excellent. He is taking over for a retiring family practice physician in a large group practice with specialists, MRI, xrays, etc onsite. Very convenient and only 4 miles from our house.

My left knee has been acting up so he examined it, sent me for xrays and gave me a prescription for a handicapped parking tag. Went to the county tax office for the tag yesterday. Blue spaces here I come.

Hubby has the blue tag. Be sure to take it when you travel.

[Patagoniagirl]

I've had two procedures two weeks ago which required being knocked out for two hours. That was fine. But I have had brain fof forr these past two weeks. I sleep constantly and I wake up in the dark and think it is yesterday. I wake up and it feels like today,,but its yesterday! Or tomorrow! Twilight Zone.

[bill_g]

Mrs asks me what day is it every morning.

[RVInit]

Mrs asks me what day is it every morning.

for both of you.

[RVInit]

I've had two procedures two weeks ago which required being knocked out for two hours. That was fine. But I have had brain fof forr these past two weeks. I sleep constantly and I wake up in the dark and think it is yesterday. I wake up and it feels like today,,but its yesterday! Or tomorrow! Twilight Zone.

[RVInit]

I just discovered this thread.

So, yesterday I was working in my home office which is in a room that used to be part of the attic. The stairs were built into the original opening where there had been a pull down set of steps to get up into the attic. I have doubts that the stair steps are built to code, if I put my foot on the step and slide my heel to the very back, quite a bit of the front of my foot would be hanging over the step. I usually take those steps kind of sideways, it's just natural to kind of turn a little so your foot is safely on the step.

For some reason yesterday afternoon I just wasn't paying attention and I tried to walk down those steps as normal and the next thing I knew my heel slipped right over the front of the step, I landed on my back, which hit the hard edge of one of the steps, slid down almost all the way to the bottom (the rooms all have 10 foot or more to the ceiling in this house, so, very long steps), and have carpet rash all over the backs of both arms as well as all the bruises.

Not sure if that's due to age, but I'm going with that as my excuse for why it happened. Otherwise what? Dumbass?

[bill_g]

I just discovered this thread.

So, yesterday I was working in my home office which is in a room that used to be part of the attic. The stairs were built into the original opening where there had been a pull down set of steps to get up into the attic. I have doubts that the stair steps are built to code, if I put my foot on the step and slide my heel to the very back, quite a bit of the front of my foot would be hanging over the step. I usually take those steps kind of sideways, it's just natural to kind of turn a little so your foot is safely on the step.

For some reason yesterday afternoon I just wasn't paying attention and I tried to walk down those steps as normal and the next thing I knew my heel slipped right over the front of the step, I landed on my back, which hit the hard edge of one of the steps, slid down almost all the way to the bottom (the rooms all have 10 foot or more to the ceiling in this house, so, very long steps), and have carpet rash all over the backs of both arms as well as all the bruises.

Not sure if that's due to age, but I'm going with that as my excuse for why it happened. Otherwise what? Dumbass?

Oh, I'm glad you totally missed the opportunity to break a leg. Or worse. Ugh.

I call those ship stairs - narrow, steep, and open in the back so you can lose a foot or break your neck.

[MN-Skeptic]

It's not age that makes you slip down stairs. I was in college when I visited my boyfriend's home. Their old farm house had a wooden staircase with no hand railing. I slipped on about the 5th stair from the bottom and ended up at the bottom with a sore tailbone. His brother's comment as I walked into the living room: "I heard you dropped in."