Comments on: Feeling Sorry For Myself Therapy: An update on my knee

By: Giuseppe Lowe

Giuseppe Lowe — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:44:21 +0000

I would heartily recommend either a hippie skirt or a wraparound skirt – trust me, they are comfortable and (relatively) easy to manage.

By: kellie

kellie — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:53:54 +0000

I have had my tendon cut as well. Totally get the pain descriptions. It never totally goes away. Still feel the odd gripping and white hot poker at times. Oh and like I scraped my knee on the inside of my skin. Hope things have improved for you.

By: Kimmy

Kimmy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:51:10 +0000

Hey, I understand all too well about the twisting sensation even when you’re sitting still, not moving the knee(s) at all.
I’m at a place in my arthritis (both knees, lower back, right thumb) where the cartilage seems to go all chalky and fall apart in spots.
There’s swelling, a feeling that someone is jamming a thumb between the bones and wiggling it around and, my favourite: the sudden, unpredictable & EXCRUCIATING pinch like biting one’s cheek/tongue, or getting a finger caught in the car door hinge.
At times like this, all I want to do is curl up in front of the TV, wrapped in a big warm quilt & overstuffed pillow, a hot chocolate and big bag of tortillas with dip. I don’t want people over, and I don’t want to do anything. I’m angry and frustrated and ashamed of being so pathetic.
Still, the stark reality is, IT *HURTS*, DANG IT!!!!!

By: DuWayne

DuWayne — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:42:12 +0000

I would heartily recommend either a hippie skirt or a wraparound skirt – trust me, they are comfortable and (relatively) easy to manage.

And as I have the capacity, I will feel for both your family and you. I hope you manage to heal quickly and without complications.

Finally, I would like to congratulate you on managing a relatively rare sort of injury. The best I have ever managed was to pull a muscle in my back that is almost impossible to pull. This totally blows that out go the water, though it did in fact have me crying like Huxley probably cries sometimes.

By: Sojournposse

Sojournposse — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:51:47 +0000

I know the feeling. Broke a shoulder, and could not move half of my body for two weeks, another six weeks before I could shrug. Do ask friends and families who come to visit to read to you. While convalescing, I learned to sit still and listen. It wasn’t bad. Pain and injury can get one feeling down (don’t underestimate that) so there’s a good reason for you to be determined at being cheerful.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:33:01 +0000

I am a compulsive reader (can’t go to sleep at night without reading) and I read mostly non-fiction. However, Verghese’s “Cutting for Stone” is an incredible novel and out in paperback and I highly recommend it. If you are interested in reading about the causes of the current recession, get the Joseph Stiglitz book “Freefall.”

I review some books before they are published as part of Amazon’s Vine program.

Here’s a link to my reviews on Amazon if you have any interest in adding to your “to be read” pile:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A27UE9HJRZ22YI?ie=UTF8&ref_=sv_ys_4

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:20:42 +0000

Aha … people going ice-shy and “any hard surface shy”. When I was smacked in the head with a softball I turned softball and baseball shy for a few months, but for whatever reason when I was shot by a moron I never turned gun shy.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:16:53 +0000

Having an arm in a cast drove me insane (I don’t think I ever recovered). Tearing a piece of my patella was no fun either, with the leg atrophying (losing ~30% of volume) in only a few months and taking years to get back to almost normal. I wonder if brains atrophy at a similar rate? With my current job providing no intellectual stimulus I suspect my head is almost as empty as Jenny McCarthey’s by now.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:55:00 +0000

It is true that I’m not spending a lot of hours in the day reading, but I am reading some.

I’m reading an unpublished novel that I won’t say anything about, and a book called The Dante Club. Later today I hope to get my kindle charger and then I can also start reading whatever the heck I was reading before. Which I recall not being very good.

By: TEBB

TEBB — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:24:01 +0000

Okay, so what are you reading while you are incapacitated? Unless the pain meds make it heard to concentrate, I’m guessing you are reading a lot and we’d like to hear what, and what you think about it.