Here We Go Again - News From The Holler

st11ray said:
Good luck with your surgeries. Are you going to be able to ride at the BRG?
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That's the plan - I will definitely not have shoulder surgery before then by choice. ;)
So if the artery stuff goes without any 'surprises', I should be healed from those and good to go - maybe not as fast, but still go! :biggrin:
 
It has been ny experience, over multiple rallies and group meetups and many years, that it is a common - yet flawed and foolhardy - practice, to underestimate and dismiss these "old guys" (OG's).
Particularly if they ride older bikes, and ESPECIALLY if they are near their home turf or familiar territory! Even moreso, if they exude a smattering of humility and / or self-deprecation.
Take it from me.
You have been warned!
I would suggest extreme caution, should we feel inclined to try to keep up with him, unless he takes pity on us and understands he can easily and quickly leave us in his dust at any given impulse.
 
Sadlsor said:
It has been ny experience, over multiple rallies and group meetups and many years, that it is a common - yet flawed and foolhardy - practice, to underestimate and dismiss these "old guys" (OG's).
Particularly if they ride older bikes, and ESPECIALLY if they are near their home turf or familiar territory! Even moreso, if they exude a smattering of humility and / or self-deprecation.
Take it from me.
You have been warned!
I would suggest extreme caution, should we feel inclined to try to keep up with him, unless he takes pity on us and understands he can easily and quickly leave us in his dust at any given impulse.
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Boy, I'd like to meet that feller - he sounds pretty quick! ;)
 
Good luck Phil, with your body parts replacements. ;)
You may already know this, but ask for a nerve block from your anesthesia provider, before you go to the OR.
My shoulder nerve block lasted 14 hrs. That's when I opened the tubing clamp on my "pain pump" that the surgeon had placed (100 ml bulb prefilled with Marcaine (local anesthetic) that self injects 2ml per hr. until empty, bout 3 days). These steps can really make your post operative experience more tolerable.
Good Luck, Prayers sent your way :thumb:
 
I've had six orthopedic procedures in six years. I find the recovery sucks much more than the surgery. Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery!
 
Uncle Phil said:
Aw shucks, I've met him and he ain't much ...
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So for the naive and for the uninitiated, this is the classic example of the smattering of humility and / or self-deprecation to which I referred. (Told ya I've been there before.)
See Post #167, above.
My last warning.
Oh, don't get me wrong, now. We can most definitely ride with him. He wants the company.
But if he starts to get to feeling foggy and starts to wick it up, just let him go.
He will wait for us. Of that, I'm certain.
 
A guy at work trashed his shoulder , falling on a icy parking lot , after surgery he didn't exercise it cause it still hurt some , it locked up on him bad . so worse off now .
> PT !
 
TourNut said:
A guy at work trashed his shoulder , falling on a icy parking lot , after surgery he didn't exercise it , it locked up on him bad . so worse off now .
> PT !
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My shoulder was immobilized for 8 weeks. Automatic frozen shoulder. Regaining mobility was less than fun. Imagine stretching your hamstring. Imagine stretching your eyeball. Now combine those two and you'll get the picture.
 
I just love those terrorists ... I mean therapists! :biggrin:
But in reality, the docs do the installation, the therapists getting it working.

And I love those blocks - until they wear off!
My funniest story on blocks -
When I had my right (and first) knee replacement they gave me a good block.
I was up the night of the surgery whizzing around the ward on a walker thinking to myself -
"This is a cakewalk. I'll be walking out of here tomorrow on my own!"
Needless to say, my tune changed to a minor, off key when the block wore off in about 6 hours ....
 
OkieRider said:
I've had six orthopedic procedures in six years. I find the recovery sucks much more than the surgery. Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery!
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Last count, I think I've had 15 in the last 15 years - and ain't none of them fun!
I just had this conversation with one of my ortho docs this morning. I told him -
'It's guys like you that keep guys like me out of wheel chairs!'.
As I've said before, as long as they keep doing repairs on the older models, we'll be good to go.
I'm sort of like an old Chevy - the headlights are little dim, the doors don't shut quite right, the windows are hard to roll up, the clutch sometimes slips,
the bodywork is kinda of rusty and dented, the windshield has a crack or two ...

BUT THE MOTOR STILL ROARS!!! :biggrin:
 
Uncle Phil said:
Last count, I think I've had 15 in the last 15 years - and ain't none of them fun!
I just had this conversation with one of my ortho docs this morning. I told him -
'It's guys like you that keep guys like me out of wheel chairs!'.
As I've said before, as long as they keep doing repairs on the older models, we'll be good to go.
I'm sort of like an old Chevy - the headlights are little dim, the doors don't shut quite right, the windows are hard to roll up, the clutch sometimes slips,
the bodywork is kinda of rusty and dented, the windshield has a crack or two ...

BUT THE MOTOR STILL ROARS!!! :biggrin:
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I like to remind my GF, although there's some body damage, they're all original miles.
 
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Best wishes for speedy recoveries from your upcoming surgeries. Hope everything goes as planned and you're back in action soon.
 
WingMan1500 said:
Uncle Phil, I’ll pray for you at our men’s prayer breakfast tomorrow morning!
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I certainly appreciate at that! The next few months are certainly going to be 'interesting' from a medical point of view. :biggrin:
I like what one old wise doctor said - 'God does the healing, I just send the bill.' ;)
 
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