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Cpl Punishment

Cpl Punishment

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Well, I got more bad news.
After last year's foot surgery, I thought I'd be able to recover and get on with things. Now, just as I finish paying the interminable bills associated with that, I find out I need laser surgery for my eyes to cauterize blood vessels. OK, not terrible.

Today, I just got home from the hand doctor. Went to see her for some pain and tingling I had in my hands. Turns out I have severe tendonitis in two fingers and severe carpal tunnel syndrome. No prob, right? Surgery is eays for those, right? Yep.

Except, now I'll have to look at ANOTHER three to five weeks out of work to recover.

Seems like every time I get to the point of being able to break out of the hole I'm in, I get kicked back into it again.

Sorry, just needed to vent, I'm just getting so sick of this crap. It's rapidly coming to the point of not being worth the effort anymore.
 
Of course it's worth the effort. No one wants to go through all this, but if you don't, you know what the results will just be. Take care of the problems one at a time, and be glad they can be treated. My "foot surgery" was an amputation, and "recover" from that means learning to live without. Better to recover when full function can be restored.
 
Smoke and prayers up from this end. Brother sometimes it is darkest befor ethe dawn. Walk through it and keep on trukin.
 
Smoke up. Dude, that's one serious run of terrible luck. Just keep on truckin' man, and you'll get through it.
 
I had a pretty bad run of medical issues and surgeries about 10 years ago, and considered "alternative solutions"...glad I didnt act on them.

I know its cliche, but someone out there with less to lose is dealing with a worse situation.

Get fixed, and in 6-8 weeks youll be better for it physically and mentally.

Best wishes Cpl.
 
how old are you Cpl? I started getting arthritis in my hands when I was 19 years old.
Crazy right?? Yep, the neuro doc said it was a reaction eithe rto the meds for a slipped disk I got a few months before or it was a reaction to the injury itself. Dont know how they worked that out, sounded like BS to me but the arthro was there.

I got on a serious supp diet with so many different types of fish oil and glucosamine that I felt a tail start growing.
Thats not all. My mate's Grandad (lives in their backyard flat) gave me a stack of bamboo chopsticks tied up with cord and said," Rub together with your hand until you feel better".

No kidding, my man. I rubbed it for 10 minutes and my hands went blood red and ached.
I stopped and carried on playing tekken, then he walked past and said,"Rub kwai zi more!"

I asked him how much I must rub. He said till sticks are thin like a toothpick. "Then get more chopsticks and do again!"

Well, that took about 2 years and a bit.
I rubbed those sticks together at work, at the dinner table, at my mate's house, at the guan and in bed.
My palms to this day are still red most of the time, looks weird. But i do not suffer from stiff joints anymore. Not even a little bit.
I am not saying this will help you. Just saying that my mate's Grandfather was strange and that my handshake is firmer than my belief in morlocks. he he
 
Originally Posted by Esav Benyamin View Post
If your relations with the membership who post on this subforum are so poor that you have a significant number of them on ignore, you have no business addressing the subforum at all. You have defined yourself as unable to deal with its dynamics.

Word.
 
Yipes! :eek: That's really rough, man. :(
Best wishes, good thoughts and earnest prayers for ya' Cpl. :thumbup: You are made of sterner stuff! ;)
 
Cpl. Pun,
I know how you feel,
I have been going through some medical stuff myself as well as Ed. It really sucks when you think you have on thing beat just to find something else IS WRONG!!

Candles and Positive energy sent your way!!

Blessed Be!
Willow & DocH
Sandra & Ed
 
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Good luck and god bless!! Keep us posted.

Heber
 
Sorry to hear life's running you down these days, CP.

I like Esav's advice (I usually do :)). Just take those problems one at a time; knock each one down as it comes.

Surgery is a real pain, in many ways, but it does bring relief and the return of function. One day, you can look back at all this and laugh.:thumbup:

And you could think of it this way. It took a lifetime to develop these problems, but it only takes a few weeks to eliminate them. That's not so bad.

We're all rooting for you.:thumbup:
 
OldPhysics said:
And you could think of it this way. It took a lifetime to develop these problems, but it only takes a few weeks to eliminate them. That's not so bad.

We're all rooting for you.:thumbup:
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Yes. A year or two down the line, you might remember you once had a problem. You will know you don't have that problem anymore.
 
Thanks for all the kind words guys.
The last (hopefully) laser surgery on my eyes is next week.

It's not really the medical procedures that bother me, it's the [bleeper-blanking] month off of work that they always want me to take afterward. I'm not mad at the docs, they're proscribing what will get me better.

Thinking about it a bit after waking up a few minutes ago, it's not even the financial hardship that's really bothering me (I'm done letting my wallet dictate my health), but the damn month off where I can't do anything. A month!! The last time I had a vacation, where I could DO anything for an extended period -- i.e. I had money, health and time, I think I was in high school. Now, I've got to sit around and vegetate? Grrr.

I guess I'm more bothered by the recovery process than the procedure.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
You've got good weather coming up, you can get out and around. Sitting is stultifying. :)
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Yeah, Esav would know.

The sun is an amazing source of healing. Light is quite remarkable.
It does the opppsite of what sitting does!

In otherwords, Light destultifies you! (New word coined and copyrighted. For use by HI forumites who want to sound clever only. Lulz)


Sidenote: I am scared of operations. Dont know what the phobia is called, but thats what I got. I avoid ops like shish kebabs
 
Esav Benyamin said:
You've got good weather coming up, you can get out and around. Sitting is stultifying. :)
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Very, very true.

Even if one eye is covered, the other one will suffice to get you around.

Springtime! Everything is fresh and new ... and you can be right out there in the middle of it.

I envy you.:)
 
Thanks, the eye isn't a problem. One night covered up and off work, next day I'm back at it.

It's the hands that I'll be scuttled on.
 
Cpl Punishment said:
Now, I've got to sit around and vegetate?
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How about somehow getting a wireless laptop, taking it out into the yard, sit in the sun and post, post, and post some more here and in other parts of BF until you get about the same number of daily post counts as Esav?;)

Seriously, thoughts and prayers for a quick recovery and quick return to work.
 
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