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06-01-2011, 08:07 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
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Being In The Hospital
Hey gang, well, things haven't been going as well as I have planned, and I write this post from Sister Kenny Physical Rehabilitation Hospital in Minneapolis. Let me get you caught up on what happened.
On May 19, I was working on my birthday, about halfway through my shift I was lifting a tire off a truck when I felt a muscle go in my back. I felt tinging in my toes a few minutes later and knew I should go home. So after trying to work the muscle out in mu back and have a good birthday with my family I went to bed.
I woke up at 1 am to have no feeling or movement in my left leg, and I called for my Mom and Dad upstairs. We made the decision to get me to hospital as soon as posible, and off to the ER we went. By the time we got to the ER I couldn't feel or move anything from the waist down on my body. I had an MRI done at about 230 am and found that I had a massive disk herniation between my 4th 5th lower vertibrae in my lower back and I was put into emergency surgery at 530 am.
I woke up at 9 am and the surgery was a success, but the surgeon had found a dural tear in one of my spinal fluid sacks that had to be stitched, so I was put on bed rest for three days, and was not able to move from being flat on my back.
Last Thursday I was transferred from Mercy Hospital to The Sister Kenny Rehab facility in Abott Northwestern Hospital to begin to learn how to walk and move again, and progress is going well. I can walk slowly with the aide of a walker and leg braces, and can transfer from wheelchair and into bed, and have gained back a lot of feeling in my upper legs, but my lower legs and bladder are coming around slower.
My discharge date is June 21, so progress is coming around slowly, but I'll be out in no time!
Sincerely,
Kyle
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06-01-2011, 08:22 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: under the kitchen sink
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Dood...
I mean... dood.
Good luck.
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06-01-2011, 08:23 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
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Thank you sir.
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06-01-2011, 09:44 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
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SoD, warmest wishes for a great recovery!
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06-01-2011, 10:44 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
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Thank you madame!
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06-01-2011, 11:57 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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Hospitals suck. May recovery not be a pain in the ass, and well, good luck, SOD.
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06-01-2011, 01:25 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: A ship called Dignity
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Take your time, don't try to rush anything, take care and feel better soon man.
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06-01-2011, 05:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
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Thanks everybody, I'm glad to be back on here and get to know all the newer folks.
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06-01-2011, 06:51 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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SOD, that sucks man. But (if there is a bright side to getting your back buggered like this), it sounds like you and your family handled it as best as could be done. I spent 14 days in the hospital a few years back, and after the surgery the worst thing was not knowing when I was going to get out of there (I didn't know until the last day.) So I'm glad you've got a date for getting out and the prognosis is good.
But admit it, it wasn't a tire. You busted your back being a bit too enthusiastic whilst shaggin' a bird, right? You can tell us ... you're amongst friends! 
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06-01-2011, 08:27 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
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Wow, that's terrible. Best of luck with your recovery.
Only 20 more days until you get out!
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06-02-2011, 04:11 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
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Wishing you a speedie recover. Have they said anything about what you need to do in the longer term to take care of your back?
There are a bucket of stretches that can be done to strengthen the muscles surrounding the spine to support it, but I'd check with the rehab people first.
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06-02-2011, 06:32 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
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Shit, get well soon. Someone in my family has a prolapsed disc and it greatly limits what kind of exercise is safe, but I'm sure someone will advise you.
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06-02-2011, 07:16 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
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Thanks everybody! Ben, it was a tire believe me, I'm like the Canadian Army, I never see any action! *harhar*
From what the doctor has said to me by the time I get out I should be able to walk with the aid of a cane for a while and then after a few weeks of outpatient therapy, I should be able to walk on my own, so here's to that!
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06-02-2011, 07:53 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
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That's awesome news, SoD! ^_^
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06-02-2011, 09:58 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Denmark, thou Viking capital!
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Wow. Just.. Anyway.
I hope you get better soon mate  As far as bad news like this go, I suppose it's good that you have something to aim for instead of being stuck without knowing how or when
Good luck with the recovery
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06-02-2011, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
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Thanks! I'm getting stronger everyday, and I even got to have acupuncture today for my first time, it was pretty rad.
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06-07-2011, 01:19 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stormtrooper of Death
From what the doctor has said to me by the time I get out I should be able to walk with the aid of a cane for a while and then after a few weeks of outpatient therapy, I should be able to walk on my own, so here's to that!
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Look at the bright side. Canes fucking rock.
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06-07-2011, 04:21 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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I always wanted one of those canes that have a sword hidden inside. Oh, and some really cool ones have a compass or a drinking flask hidden in the top!
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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06-07-2011, 04:29 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Holy Moley! I am always the last to learn anything around here. Sorry to hear about your injury man, but I am super glad you seem to be making rapid recovery! I intended to post some well wishes earlier, but every time I see Judas' avatar I get sidetracked and...uh...what were we talking about?
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06-07-2011, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
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Holy Tits, Batman! 
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06-08-2011, 11:04 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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+1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
*edit* Do not, DO NOT put "nun tits" in google's image search!
I think I'm scarred for life.
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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06-08-2011, 11:29 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
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I know what I'm googling tomorrow!
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06-08-2011, 12:32 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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Oh, the nun tits were fabulous. I'm just warning you that some of the pics with dicks were a bit disconcerting ... and by disconcerting I mean "Holy Mother Of GOD!!!"
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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06-08-2011, 03:03 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Back in Wisconsin(thinking about invading the south)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger
I always wanted one of those canes that have a sword hidden inside. Oh, and some really cool ones have a compass or a drinking flask hidden in the top!
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I know a great website that makes quality swordsticks, as well an antique one I encountered the day that is apparently the UK that has a compass and a sundial inside a close able globe head. They also sell another one that contains a captains telescope AND a compass. Also it has another one that contains a flask inside.
http://www.vickymeyersticks.demon.co.uk/
You wont find (legally owned) sword sticks in the UK though because they are illegal there.
I came across it while browsing the Whitby Gothic weekend forums which contained a link to the following website that has a lot of links to high priced antique dealers.
http://www.portobelloroad.co.uk/specialist.asp
I'm quite good at finding the most wonderful little oddities.
But yeah get yourself a sword stick stormtrooper, and I hope you have a quick recovery.
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06-09-2011, 11:17 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Happy (extremely) belated birthday and all the best wishes for your recovery! I'd say I would come and visit you if I were closer but in all honesty I don't really like hospitals...good luck on finding an awesome cane, though.
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