Fresh Start

I was doing real good at this blogging stuff for a while and then I just fell off like a ton of bricks. I guess now that I'm retired and not driving the roads every AM with a bunch of fools that don't care if they live another day I don't have much to moan about. I'm still trying to figure out what makes a person spend + $20K for a car and drive like a fool? That is something that is way beyond my thinking style. When I got to Alabama it didn't take me to long to figure out that a truck might be a handy thing to have. I had a SUV at the time and it was kind of a gas sucker so I didn't think a truck could be that much worse. I was not thinking about the little fact that North Alabama were I live is all rolling hills so no matter were you go it is up and down hill all of the way. When I go visit my Aunt my truck will get about 18 mpg and when I come home I get 17 mpg. I told my wife the trip north must be up hill because I get lousy gas mileage. Hard telling when you are behind the wheel it feels like the same trip just going a different direction. Last Christmas I started having trouble with my left knee so finally after way to much pain I thought it was not going to get any better till I see a doctor. I had no idea what was wrong with it. I did have a knee replacement done on it in 2006. I thought that it was going to last me a life time but I had no idea what I was in for. My doctor did some testing and told me that my knee had come apart were the knee meets the bone. I asked him what was the fix and he told me more surgery. As it turned out he called me in and told me that he wanted to put in a different style knee that would be more sturdy. All I could think about was the pain of recovery but I knew that was short and what I was doing was going to be forever unless I had the operation. I had Surgery on Feb 25th and I had my first rehab therapy on March 2 nd. I knew what I was going into but I had no idea that they were going to do what they did. The therapist took my leg and put it in her lap and she was stroking my Knee and said are you ready and she pressed down on my knee. The pain was unreal I thought that I was going to hop out of my chair and then she told me she was going to do it two more times. That night when I went to bed I told the nurse that I wanted my pain medication. When I got out of bed in the Morning I told the nurse I wanted my pain medication. I could take the medication every 4 hours. I wanted to make sure that I had plenty of pain medication in me because I knew what was ahead of me. I went in for Therapy and the young lady gave me a Ice pack for my knee and I had a little bit of a work out and then went for breakfast with the ice pack still on my knee and after breakfast it was once again time to stretch my knee. I thought to my self well I'm good and stoned on pain meds this should not be to bad. Well the results were about the same and all I could do was try to suck it up and cry. Tears would run down my cheeks and there was nothing that I could do to stop this. I felt kind of strange in a room full of adults and here I am crying. Finally one lady said I really feel sorry for you I can see how bad that hurts. I told her well it is something you have to go through if you want to walk again and that is a desire of mine. First time I had this done it was all different. I was home for two weeks getting home therapy and after that I had to go to out patient therapy. Right now it has been 36 days that I had my surgery and I'm up and walking in the house with out a cane or walker. Yesterday I was out most of the day cutting my grass. I am so amazed how fast my knee is healing. I saw my doctor last week and he was amazed to see how well I was doing. He checked out the movement in my knee and told me Mr Fisher you are a blessed man. I told him ya it is all God's work that is for sure he just gave me the courage to endure. Once in a while at night it will ache some but there is not much I can do about that it just makes it kind of hard to sleep. The good part about that Is I can sleep when ever I want.