Scooter Bob Posted June 13, 2011 Author #26 Posted June 13, 2011 Today is the day. Finally got ahold of the scheduling folks yesterday, supposed to be there at 9:15, and operation starts at 10:45 this morning. I just wanted to bump this to the front page so Karen can find it if she needs to give an update this evening, if I'm not coherent yet. Thanks for the well wishes everyone, much appreciated. Later, Scooter Bob
Squidley Posted June 13, 2011 #27 Posted June 13, 2011 Best of sucess with your operation Bob, I hope it gives you the relief you need
eagleeye Posted June 13, 2011 #28 Posted June 13, 2011 Good luck today Bob! Hope everything goes as planned and you have a speedy recovery. Steve
Flyinfool Posted June 13, 2011 #29 Posted June 13, 2011 Good luck Bob. Are you gonna ride the scoot to and from the OR since that seems to make the back feel better?????
RedRider Posted June 13, 2011 #30 Posted June 13, 2011 Bob, Good luck on the operating slab. You realize with the right tools we would have taken a shot at fixing this Saturday. (Mechanics picks and a gasket scrapper would have you walking around like Dan.) Likely wouldn't have worked, but you wouldn't slip anymore. Keep us updated. RR
Scooter Bob Posted June 13, 2011 Author #31 Posted June 13, 2011 Been back awake for more than an hour already. Slid myself from one bed to another with less pain than this morning. Sitting here now, I have almost no pain anywhere, and it feels way better. Waiting for the chance to stand up and walk yet. Later, Scooter Bob
dingy Posted June 13, 2011 #32 Posted June 13, 2011 Been back awake for more than an hour already. Slid myself from one bed to another with less pain than this morning. Sitting here now, I have almost no pain anywhere, and it feels way better. Waiting for the chance to stand up and walk yet. Later, Scooter Bob I wish I was in your place. Still waiting for OK due to blood clot in foot. Gary
Flyinfool Posted June 13, 2011 #33 Posted June 13, 2011 Glad to hear its better. Don't rush the recovery by doing anything you not supposed to do to soon.
kbran Posted June 13, 2011 #34 Posted June 13, 2011 Sounds like good news Bob. Wish you the best of luck with it.
MongoE9 Posted June 13, 2011 #35 Posted June 13, 2011 I guess we need to trade MRI/CT pics. I am going in on the 29th for my second back surgery. After years of disk compression and degeneration I will have my bottom 3 disks fused together since there is next to nothing left between them. I had two herniated disks in the 80's and lived with sciatic nerve pain down both legs for many years. 27 years in the Corps and still going strong will do that to you I guess. Gotta love Navy medicine! Good luck getting your fixed. I have always been too damned stubborn to pay attention to pain and it has gotten me pretty messed up at this point. Hopefully I will be back to riding fairly soon. I still plan to make Sturgis this year. Mongo
Bubber Posted June 13, 2011 #36 Posted June 13, 2011 Been back awake for more than an hour already. Slid myself from one bed to another with less pain than this morning. Sitting here now, I have almost no pain anywhere, and it feels way better. Waiting for the chance to stand up and walk yet. Later, Scooter Bob WOW! TERRIFFIC! Glad to hear your doing so good. Now quit fooling around and get better for Cody! :rotf:
Scooter Bob Posted June 13, 2011 Author #37 Posted June 13, 2011 WOW! TERRIFFIC! Glad to hear your doing so good. Now quit fooling around and get better for Cody! :rotf: Ya, they wrote me off work for 6 weeks, returning on the 25th of July. So at work Friday, I handed them the doctor paperwork , and a vacation request for the first week back. We'll see how it goes, but I really want to get Karen out there for the sights. Oh, almost forgot, I just took a walk around the block already!! Later, Scooter Bob
Bubber Posted June 13, 2011 #38 Posted June 13, 2011 You'll be dancing the Irish jig in an hour or two.:rotf:
KarlS Posted June 13, 2011 #39 Posted June 13, 2011 Hope you recover quickly. I remember the worst pain from my surgeries were when they got me up to walk the first time (even with the morphine drip in my arm) but got less and less pain the more I walked. Good Luck.
wkoepke Posted June 14, 2011 #40 Posted June 14, 2011 hey bob, thats great news! heidi wants to know if you have any extra drugs left over, or maybe your doctor? don't push it to hard the first day, you have to save something for tomorrow.
Scooter Bob Posted June 14, 2011 Author #41 Posted June 14, 2011 hey bob, thats great news! heidi wants to know if you have any extra drugs left over, or maybe your doctor? don't push it to hard the first day, you have to save something for tomorrow. I wonder if all the pain over the last couple months didn't raise my pain threshhold? I passed on the morphine drip, and the vicadin pills. I've taken nothing for pain, and I feel way better than when I came in! Later, Scooter Bob
j_berg Posted June 14, 2011 #42 Posted June 14, 2011 glad to hear everything went well.thanks again for a great weekend. p.s. drilled out the mufflers already.
eagleeye Posted June 14, 2011 #43 Posted June 14, 2011 Bob, Glad to hear your doing as well as you are without the pain meds. They cause problems all by themselves. So, when do you go home? And what in the world are you going to do for 6 weeks? Steve
RandyR Posted June 14, 2011 #44 Posted June 14, 2011 good to hear the news. take it easy for a while though.
Scooter Bob Posted June 14, 2011 Author #45 Posted June 14, 2011 p.s. drilled out the mufflers already. Ya, I'm not surprised. It wasn't very loud when you left. Later, Scooter Bob
Scooter Bob Posted June 14, 2011 Author #46 Posted June 14, 2011 Bob, Glad to hear your doing as well as you are without the pain meds. They cause problems all by themselves. So, when do you go home? And what in the world are you going to do for 6 weeks? Steve Should be heading home this morning! I'll probably slowly work on getting the bike ready for Cody. Still hoping I will be ready for that, but will have to wait and see. Later, Scooter Bob
Kregerdoodle Posted June 14, 2011 #47 Posted June 14, 2011 Take it real easy on the back.... let it heal good before you get out riding again.. Should be heading home this morning! I'll probably slowly work on getting the bike ready for Cody. Still hoping I will be ready for that, but will have to wait and see. Later, Scooter Bob
Scooter Bob Posted June 14, 2011 Author #48 Posted June 14, 2011 Wow, you won't find tools this nice at Harbor Freight? Check out the beautiful engine hoist I found! http://tapatalk.com/mu/a6b5415d-677c-d023.jpg Later, Scooter Bob
Bubber Posted June 14, 2011 #49 Posted June 14, 2011 Bob thats not an engine hoist, thats a wheel balancer. Maybe you should take a few of thoses meds.
Scooter Bob Posted June 14, 2011 Author #50 Posted June 14, 2011 Here's a real high rise bike lift, change tires at waist high! http://tapatalk.com/mu/a6b541cc-9b46-2265.jpg Later, Scooter Bob
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