Can Tsu still enjoy the Country Fair after her fall?

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Tsu suffered a hip fracture after slipping on gravel in a hospital parking lot, requiring immediate surgery. She is expected to undergo surgery tonight and return home the following day. The injury will keep her incapacitated for about six weeks, disrupting her plans for the Country Fair. Tsu's recovery will involve using a walker and managing pain with medication, including blood thinner injections. Despite the seriousness of her injury, she maintains a light-hearted attitude about her situation, joking about her new mobility aid and the need for care from her husband, Ivan. The community expresses their concern and support, wishing her a speedy recovery while sharing humorous banter about her predicament and the challenges of her recovery process.
  • #31
Kurdt is supposed to be making us kevlar bubble wrap armor.

KURDT!
 
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  • #32
GeorginaS said:
I'm glad to know everything went well. Thanks for the update, Ivan.

Moonbear, when you order your suit, get one for me too, please? But of course, not in exactly the same style, because then we'll never be able to go anywhere together.

:smile: We can get different colors and pockets in different places.
 
  • #33
Mmmmmmmm, bubble wrap
It's addicting :biggrin:
 
  • #34
NoTime said:
Mmmmmmmm, bubble wrap
It's addicting :biggrin:
I'd have to be squeezing and handling the sisters constantly just so I could hear the popping!
 
  • #35
Thanks everyone! :biggrin: I'm doing well, now that I'm home with Ivan and Little Tyke and Zoobie. Got good drugs so it hardly hurts at all. I can't bear ANY weight on the hip for 6 weeks so I had to buy (oh god) a WALKER! I just can't believe it. Ivan's mom might actually hurt herself laughing. Last winter, when I took 3 months off to take care of her after her last back surgery, she had a walker that I kind of played with and learned to use (sort of - plus is was hysterical when I hid it from her... :smile:)

Here's what happened. I was walking to my car in the hospital parking lot after work Wednesday night. I slipped on a piece of gravel, pitched forward (doing a total face plant into the side of my car - cut my lip, scratched up my nose) and then landed on my hip. I just groaned and pulled myself to my feet (again! - I do this kind of thing fairly frequently, just usually not quite this bad :redface:), picked up all my stuff (except my glasses - I ran over them as I pulled out :mad:) and headed home. When I got home and got out of the car, I realized my hip really hurt pretty dang bad, but I figured that since I could walk, it was probably just a really bad bruise. By the next morning, I couldn't walk on it, so Ivan took me to Urgent Care, had my xrays and was very surprised at what I saw! What I did was - I impacted the femoral neck into the head and had to have it "pinned". This procedure drills 3 long screws from the side of the hip through the femoral neck and into the femoral head securing those parts in place so that it heals properly. But now I'm on really hard drugs and about to fall asleep as I type so I have to go to bed. :smile:

Later
 
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  • #36
A walker. Hee! :smile: Oh, sorry.

Drugs are good. Sleep well. Rest lots.

And, STOP doing stuff like that. Between you and Evo, good heavens. I hope y'all aren't contagious. :wink:
 
  • #37
Good that your back. Heh, my mom's had worse this year with the aftermath of her knee replacement (namely scar tissue, including them having to open her leg back up to take out the scar tissue). Get well soon
 
  • #38
Tsu said:
3 long screws

On the bright side, it's probably the first time that's happened since you got married. :rolleyes:

I'm so sorry that I didn't read about this and respond with my best wishes earlier. I've been absent lately, and probably will be on limited availability for a while. It's great that you have an inside track on this; at least you understand your own predicament and the medical consequences thereof. A lot of people would be in much greater distress because of the severity of the injury, which is counter-productive as regards recovery.
I agree with the others that you should capitalize upon this as much as possible, regarding the 'Ivan as slave' aspect. :biggrin:
 
  • #39
Thanks, Danger. Ivan's been an admirable slave so far and I will surely be showing my undying love and appreciation at a later date. :biggrin:

The only thing I really don't like about the drugs are the temporary shots in the stomach I have to take as blood thinner along with my coumadin. They FREAKIN' HURT! Ivan just loves to give them to me! He's evil! :devil: I just had another one and I'm taking a Percocet and going to bed. My shower pooped me out. :rolleyes: I do seem to be healing quickly. I know its because all of your thoughts and good wishes. THANKS! :smile:
 
  • #40
Glad to hear that you're mending Tsu!

I hear you about the shots in the abdomen. I had a stroke about 6 years ago (bad reaction to a sinus medication>fibrillation>clot to brain-stem) and since I have severe reactions to fragrances, I didn't want to stay in the hospital and risk having some nurse, doctor, or orderly come in wearing cologne, etc. The doctor said that he would let me go home if I could give myself injections several times a day (Heparin, I think) and I told him I could. I didn't know if I could, because I hate needles, but he had an assistant bring a syringe of the stuff, and I gave myself a shot to show him that I could do it. By the time that series of injections was over, my whole abdomen was black and blue from all the capillary leakage. I'm glad we had good insurance. That box of pre-loaded syringes cost over $5000.
 
  • #41
Evo said:
Kurdt is supposed to be making us kevlar bubble wrap armor.

KURDT!
We're working on them. Customized and choice of colors!

Helium filled bubbles to lighten the load.

Kurdt will be available for circumferential and diametral measurements. We need to get the optimal lift and separation. :biggrin:


We're in the design process, and test process. We have to finish the ballistic test (a variety of tools (e.g. nail gun, chain saw, . . . ) and missiles, flame test, carving knife test, flexibility test, . . . .

Is there anything that Sisters do that we should know about? :rolleyes:
 
  • #42
Glad you're home and on the mend. Holy smokes! When you injure yourself, you sure do a spectacular job of it! I'm surprised you managed to get yourself home with that bad of an injury. You must have taken the entire weight of the fall onto your hip (I suppose your nose didn't break much of your fall when it hit the car...that's what you get for having a dainty nose instead of a big honker).

There's something oddly amusing that it happened at the hospital, yet you went home and then had to be dragged back to the hospital again. Your coworkers are probably having a field day with you.

Is the arterial supply into the head of the femur intact after this injury?

Well, keep enjoying your drugs while they last. We'll laugh at you with your walker later. :biggrin: You should get a bicycle horn or bell for it, and dress it up with racing stripes. At least with a walker we don't have to worry about the next injury being Ivan's foot from getting run over by a speeding wheelchair. :wink:
 
  • #43
turbo-1 said:
That box of pre-loaded syringes cost over $5000.

:bugeye:

Either it was something else, or I am not moving to US for any price. Several years ago Junior had his leg put into gypsum (or whatever they use now) and had similar box of shots. It didn't cost even $50.

No, it had to be something else.
 
  • #44
The insurance company paid it willingly, Borek. Lots cheaper than staying in the hospital for days.
 
  • #45
Keep working on those bubble suits, guys! I need mine ASAP. You're right, Moonbear. When I have a job to do, I do it up BIG! :rolleyes:

Astronuc, there's LOTS that we Sisters do, but nothing that you can know about. :biggrin: If we told you, we'd have to, of course, kill you. :smile:

I will be spending the day watching movies, reading and napping. I'll check in with y'all later.
 
  • #46
Borek said:
:bugeye:

Either it was something else, or I am not moving to US for any price. Several years ago Junior had his leg put into gypsum (or whatever they use now) and had similar box of shots. It didn't cost even $50.

No, it had to be something else.

They must have had some employees with really STEEP hourly wages filling those syringes to make them that expensive. Heparin is pretty cheap (even when it's not the fake stuff from China) and a box of syringes costs about $12.
 
  • #47
Moonbear said:
They must have had some employees with really STEEP hourly wages filling those syringes to make them that expensive. Heparin is pretty cheap (even when it's not the fake stuff from China) and a box of syringes costs about $12.
I was flabbergasted by the cost - I figured that stuff would be pretty cheap because it's used so commonly. Nope! Is it because of the potential liability associated with the risks of self-injection? I wouldn't think so.
 
  • #48
The ones that we got were $50 a shot.
 
  • #49
We're talking about Coumadin vs. Heparin therapy here. Heparin is not used much on an out-patient basis anymore. Coumadin seems more effective in lowering blood clot risk. It is MUCH more expensive than Heparin. The shots are a supplement to the oral Coumadin that I'm taking because I had a low INR (my blood is thick). They're a quick boost to the thinning process.
 
  • #50
Astronuc said:
Helium filled bubbles to lighten the load.
That's a really dangerous suggestion to make...
 
  • #51
Tsu said:
Astronuc, there's LOTS that we Sisters do, but nothing that you can know about. :biggrin:
I kind of expected that.

If we told you, we'd have to, of course, kill you. :smile:
Would you guys settle for a stern talking too, with "cross my heart, hope to avoid severe injury or death"?

Hurkyl said:
That's a really dangerous suggestion to make...
Well, He is not flammable and it's easier than Dark Energy. Of course, I thought about spraying DE on the surface, but it doesn't stick to anything.
 
  • #52
Hurkyl said:
That's a really dangerous suggestion to make...
Astronuc said:
Well, He is not flammable and it's easier than Dark Energy. Of course, I thought about spraying DE on the surface, but it doesn't stick to anything.

It was a significant improvement on the 'Hindenburg' suits.
 
  • #53
Tsu said:
We're talking about Coumadin vs. Heparin therapy here. Heparin is not used much on an out-patient basis anymore. Coumadin seems more effective in lowering blood clot risk. It is MUCH more expensive than Heparin. The shots are a supplement to the oral Coumadin that I'm taking because I had a low INR (my blood is thick). They're a quick boost to the thinning process.

Ah, when you said it was something to supplement the coumadin, I assumed you meant something other than coumadin. Turbo then mentioned heparin as well, so that's what I thought was going on. Heparin is pretty cheap, I don't know what coumadin costs.
 
  • #54
I suppose that it could have been Coumadin, Moonie. I assumed that I was getting an injectable version of whatever they were dripping into my IV, which I think was Heparin.
 
  • #55
Best wishes to Tsu!

Get well soon!
 
  • #56
Astronuc said:
Helium filled bubbles to lighten the load.
You know this gives me an idea.

Boost the girls' cup size a few - and use helium instead of saline.

Looks great on the bathroom scale and under the tight sweater and after the car accident.

Three bonuses for one low, low cost!
 
  • #57
DaveC426913 said:
You know this gives me an idea.

Boost the girls' cup size a few - and use helium instead of saline.

Looks great on the bathroom scale and under the tight sweater and after the car accident.

Three bonuses for one low, low cost!
Plus floatation for drown-proofing.
 
  • #58
Astronuc said:
Well, He is not flammable and it's easier than Dark Energy. Of course, I thought about spraying DE on the surface, but it doesn't stick to anything.
I was more worried about the fact you suggested the sisters have a load that needs reducing!
 
  • #59
I'm so sorry to hear of your broken hip. Did Ivan decorate your walker? Or do you need the sisterhood to come do it? I got some really cool flame decals, gives you the look of really moving fast!
Good to hear the healing is going well for you {HUGS}
 
  • #60
The healthcare system and hospitals are just as bad as Big Oil in how much price gouging goes on.

I like Dave's idea, don't know why or where it came it, but I like it. The only downside is that gases compress and liquids don't (much) so yeah, it wouldn't take much pressure to be applied before they'd have shrunken sizes temporarily.
 

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