Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday… Well, in the last several days, a lot has happened. First, I got some wheels. I managed to get Atlanta Rent-A-Car to rent me a Chevy Lumina, which has just barely enough room up front for me to get my 30-degree-limited left leg into the car (if I slide my left toes […]
How do you feel? What hurts? What’s tough to do? What sucks? I feel basically OK. Better than I expected, and in less pain than I expected. This afternoon, I did let my pain get out of control (trying to trim back on the Lortab), and this is not good – it takes a while […]
First Follow-up day – 2/7/2000 Well, before I start, I should say that it really helps to get out of the house, if only for a while. It’s kind of easy to start to feel like a loser laying around the house for 3 days, but all is made better by crutching outdoors on a […]
Several flavors of trouble: Sunday 2/6/2000 6 PM Hard to describe this delicately, but I’ll try. Lortab, in addition to doing its wonderful job of suppressing pain, also can suppress appetite, and some of the…uh…more prosaic functions of the digestive tract. Seriously. It’s number one on the list of possible side effects. The hydrocodone component […]