Lots of changes in a couple of days. Got my exteranl fixator removed. Dealing with some anticipated pain and discomfort but managing okay. Was a little unsure where it was leading to pain wise yesterday so I spent much of the day with ice packs on my knee. Figured out I need to use a bungee strap to hold my leg on the wheel chair leg support. (pretty bulky and too wide with the leg brace on)
Now I'm learning what I can do with my right leg now that the fixator is off. My leg and I have kind of led separates lives under the same roof and it’s time to get reacquainted so we can act like we are one body again.
There are concessions to negotiate. This is what I have been dealing with.
Leg says, “You have to find another way to lift me now that I’m not artificially locked in one position”
I say “Can’t you cut me a break? It’s not as if I were the one laying around doing nothing for 6 weeks. Won’t you rise up on your own just a little and make some effor to bend a little?”
Knee says, “ I’m not ready to bend yet.”
I say, “ But the surgeon bent you 90 degrees yesterday, surely you can give me 45 degrees!!!!.”
Knee says, “ I don’t recall the surgeon asking me how I felt about the idea of going 90 degrees the first day out of “lock down”!!!
I say, “ Well being isolated in "lock down" and being bent 90 degrees first day out WAS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD. WE needed time so the part of the bone where the patellar tendon inserts could heal back in place! And you never would have agreed to stretching to your limits if you weren't on propofol.
Knee and leg scream, "Propofol!!! You let them put us on Propofol? How dare you!"
I say, "Get a life, it's perfectly safe when used in the O.R.
Knee says, “All right - End of conversation, the leg and I, we have feelings you know!”
I Say, “ I know YOU have feelings! Have you forgotten we are “joined at the hip’?” Just look at how great the pin site wounds are healing. Why can’t you cooperate like them? And remember the ribs? They were healed in less that 4 weeks. Look: just give me a few degrees today, no more than 45 and Leg just try to lift up with me just a couple times. Deal?
Knee says, “30 degrees max.
Leg says, "I’ll maybe give you half a dozen lifts if you are nice to me."
I concede, “ Deal!”
Leg and knee say say, "deal!”
(Body parts: they can be such a pain!)
12The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. 13For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
14Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 16And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 17If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" 22On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues. 29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues[d]? Do all interpret? 31But eagerly desire[e] the greater gifts.
