Couch 117: Come On In and Set-tee A While

Almost 3:30am and I am still awake. I was syncing my iPhone with iTunes and downloading more songs from the apple store to my computer. I am now syncing my iTunes to my "old" iPod (it is a 2nd generation iPond nano). Yes, I rarely upgrade. My iPod is 8GB and that is about 2000 songs, and I do not have THAT many.

Think I had too much caffeine today (it normally does not bother me). I am wide awake and it is almost 4am. Oh well, I have no plans tomorrow.

iPod done syncing (only took 50 minutes). I am now listening to some Bon Jovi. After I get through those songs I will probably switch to Rolling Stones or Guns and Roses.

Hello, sober now! Yes it is a song:
Thanks couch for holding my drunkness last night

I have T in 1294 hours. (How pathetic am I?)

so as it turns out my son has really messed up his knee big time . it may never be the same .he is looking at almost complete reconstruction of his ligaments and tendons . he tore his ACL, meniscus, his medial lateral something or other ,and some other tendon. what was not torn was pulled and sprained. he has massive bone bruising do to the tears and unstable knee. do to the huge amount swelling the surgeon cant touch it . so he has to go to PT now to get the swelling down and get the knee in shape for surgery. he is looking at surgery in september. after that he has a 9 to 12 month recovery time .

So sorry to hear that, Granite.

Morning couch. I finally went to bed about 4:30am, then woke up on my own at 8:30am. I laid in bed trying to go back to sleep, but couldn't so I finally just got up. I am now up on less than 4 hours sleep. Oh well, I should sleep well tonight from it.

The knee thing sounds rough -but for what it is worth, a couple of my friends have had knee reconstruction and although it was a somewhat lengthy recovery period (and one of them kept trying to show everyone some creepy damn video of the knee surgery) - they are doing well now.

thanks MCAC things are going to work out for him financially any way . i forced him to go to the va assistance office and they are going to pay for him to move back to MA and give him some money to get an apartment. so he wont have to live home

thanks for this . i have been so worried because the doc did not sugar coat it al all for him . i hope he was just giving us the worse cast scenario. my son is scared

Thanks! Yeah ill prolly need a new pair of undergs!

You're not pathetic...but you are very good at arithmetic.

While I wouldn't show anyone a video of my surgery, after my experience last fall, plus the stories about people putting their cell phones on record during surgery and catching the OR staff making fun of them, I think all surgeries should be videotaped.

Not that that will ever happen.

I am not anti videotaping them at all. I am anti me watching them. I was terrible at personal injury law because I hated looking at the injury- I get all squigged out by medical stuff. For some odd reason - photos of dead guys and such are not a big deal (public defender work) - but watching a surgery makes me queasy.

Sometimes I am thankful I grew up with parents who often had bones (mostly fake) lying around the house. Or left their medical journals open to graphic photos of injuries or organs gone wrong. We all ended up not minding the sight of blood or injuries.

There is a reason we have skin.

I am fine if I have to do something - like take care of my person when she has had surgeries etc.

Kind of too bad I was not good at personal injury - I am poorer for my queasiness.

I'm sorry to hear that, granite, and sending good healing thoughts your/his way.

Well I'm off for another day of training! Have a good day/night, couchies!

I've seen my foot while it was dying and rotting away while still a part of my body. I still can't stand the smell of rotting flesh.

My T is awesome and very, very kind. I'm not up to sharing how, exactly, she proved that today, but just wanted to say it is so.

My personal troll informs me every day that I am stupid, mindless, unethical, and a waste of space (though he calls it "waist of space"). A week or two ago he called me a "waist bin" many times, which was a bit amusing.

Anyway, today I know he is right. Not going to go into the reasons why, but I know.

Trolling. It really works!

That's good to hear, breadfish. Yay for helpsome Ts!

Well, I think you're awesome. And I'm always right.

Why let an unknown outsider define you?