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mistressofmuses) wrote2024-08-27 10:47 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2024-08-27 10:47 pm
Responsibilities, Oopses, and Visiting Family
Today was kind of a weird one. It was supposed to be our responsibility day, which is always kind of a bummer to spend a day off doing. (Often Alex does take care of stuff while I'm at work, but sometimes I do have to help.) So on the slate for today was going to the laundromat, a big-ish grocery trip, and then coming home to finish some prep for an upcoming model show.
Alex really wasn't feeling well - more of the unexplained dizziness, exhaustion, and weakness that hits him sometimes - but eventually we did get laundry together to take to the laundromat...
...Where we locked the keys in the truck when we were going to switch the clothes from the washer to the dryer.
First time we've locked the keys in, though Alex has been afraid of doing so. Fortunately my mom has the spare key, and she came to rescue us. VERY glad that was the case. (Even if we'd had a spare of our own, it probably wouldn't have helped us today - if it had been in my purse, I left that in the truck. Ditto Alex's wallet. If we'd had it back at the apartment, we couldn't have gotten IN to the apartment, because again, the keys were in the truck. I was just really glad I'd grabbed my phone, because I almost left that in the car, too.)
Finished the laundry, and went to do a semi-large grocery trip. That was fine.
It turned out that my uncle, who lives in New Mexico, was in our specific city at the hospital, getting a knee replacement today. Had zero idea until my mom told me this morning! So after groceries, I went over to my mom's, and she, Taylor, and I headed to the hospital to visit my uncle.
The surgery went well, and he's very enthusiastic about how non-invasive this particular type of procedure was. (The non-invasiveness is why he came here; there are only a few surgeons in the country that perform this particular operation, and one of them happens to be here.) He should already have been weight-bearing by this evening, and can head home tomorrow. He'll be back next April to have his other knee replaced.
Nice to see him. He and my mom don't always get along - he can be self-centered and braggy to the point of annoyance, but he's not like, a bad person or anything. We used to see him every summer when we went down to New Mexico, but I haven't seen him in a long time. The most recent time we spoke directly was via a video call when I visited my grandmother several years ago.
So felt like a weird coincidence to see him in the hospital here! (But a less alarming one than a previous time: at an anime con when I was in high school, he wound up in the same hotel as the con was happening in after my aunt was flown to a Denver area hospital after she had an aneurysm. That was a MUCH bigger coincidence, and a significantly worse situation.)
I did get home in the early evening, but Alex was in bed, still tired from the earlier bout of not feeling well. He didn't end up waking up for several more hours, so the other organizational stuff we were supposed to do will have to happen later in the week.
Alex really wasn't feeling well - more of the unexplained dizziness, exhaustion, and weakness that hits him sometimes - but eventually we did get laundry together to take to the laundromat...
...Where we locked the keys in the truck when we were going to switch the clothes from the washer to the dryer.
First time we've locked the keys in, though Alex has been afraid of doing so. Fortunately my mom has the spare key, and she came to rescue us. VERY glad that was the case. (Even if we'd had a spare of our own, it probably wouldn't have helped us today - if it had been in my purse, I left that in the truck. Ditto Alex's wallet. If we'd had it back at the apartment, we couldn't have gotten IN to the apartment, because again, the keys were in the truck. I was just really glad I'd grabbed my phone, because I almost left that in the car, too.)
Finished the laundry, and went to do a semi-large grocery trip. That was fine.
It turned out that my uncle, who lives in New Mexico, was in our specific city at the hospital, getting a knee replacement today. Had zero idea until my mom told me this morning! So after groceries, I went over to my mom's, and she, Taylor, and I headed to the hospital to visit my uncle.
The surgery went well, and he's very enthusiastic about how non-invasive this particular type of procedure was. (The non-invasiveness is why he came here; there are only a few surgeons in the country that perform this particular operation, and one of them happens to be here.) He should already have been weight-bearing by this evening, and can head home tomorrow. He'll be back next April to have his other knee replaced.
Nice to see him. He and my mom don't always get along - he can be self-centered and braggy to the point of annoyance, but he's not like, a bad person or anything. We used to see him every summer when we went down to New Mexico, but I haven't seen him in a long time. The most recent time we spoke directly was via a video call when I visited my grandmother several years ago.
So felt like a weird coincidence to see him in the hospital here! (But a less alarming one than a previous time: at an anime con when I was in high school, he wound up in the same hotel as the con was happening in after my aunt was flown to a Denver area hospital after she had an aneurysm. That was a MUCH bigger coincidence, and a significantly worse situation.)
I did get home in the early evening, but Alex was in bed, still tired from the earlier bout of not feeling well. He didn't end up waking up for several more hours, so the other organizational stuff we were supposed to do will have to happen later in the week.
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OMG, I've locked my keys in the car before! Luckily I had AAA (and my phone, as you said) so I called a local tow truck company. But my first reaction was PANIC!!!
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Locking the keys in the car is the worst! We haven't done that in a long time. I feel like I need to never ever leave my phone in the car, no matter how quick I think the trip will be!
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He should already have been weight-bearing by this evening, and can head home tomorrow.
WOW. That's incredible!
I hope Alex is feeling better today.
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I am extremely impressed by the whole surgery! It's super non-invasive compared to a "regular" knee replacement, I guess. They replace the whole joint, but do so without cutting any of the muscle, tendons, or ligaments, which makes the recovery a lot easier. Still obviously fairly major, but it sounds like a fantastic method.
And thank you. It seems like today was a lot better for him.
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It sure sounds like it! My mom's had both of her knees replaced in the more usual way, and it was an excruciating experience for her. After she got the first done, she put off the second as long as she possibly could even though the first one helped immensely once it had healed up. :/
(I have concerns about making it through without needing to have it done myself eventually, but at least my knee arthritis is currently very minor. Hopefully I can get a couple more decades out of them!)
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Alex will likely need a knee replacement at some point - he had to have surgery to remove the meniscus after it tore, and it left it bone-on-bone. They want to put it off as long as possible in the hopes of not having to redo it years down the road.
I hope you're able to avoid it! It's crappy how badly human joints wear, to the point we fairly regularly have to replace them!
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That's such an awful balancing act to have to do. :( So much pain and so much guesswork.
I feel like when my mom got her first knee replacement, the guess was that they'd have to replace it in...I don't know, ten years or so? And somehow, fortunately, it's been way longer than that, and the replacement is still holding up. (At this point, she's in her late seventies and I suspect she's hoping it'll outlive her.)
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I think 10 years seems to be the standard estimate for joint replacements... both of my uncle's hips were given that same 10 year timeframe, but those were both closer to 20 or more years ago, and show no signs of degradation. So it's at least encouraging that it seems like they often DO last longer than those estimates.
I hope your mom doesn't ever have to do another! Especially when it was such a bad recovery.
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Quality of life gets factored into things so badly so much of the time. :(
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I hope Alex is doing better
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Thank you. He seems to be feeling better.
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