The good news, the bad news, and the Oysters

RknRusty from last December, 2017 wrote:I'm Back!
I got home from surgery about 8 or 9 Friday night. Though some of these come-back threads with similar titles have fallen flat, this time it appears permanent as long as I don't bust the other leg. My left Femur is screwed together with a compression plate... yadayada...
Rusty

Well the good news is I haven't busted my right hip. The bad news is my impressive progress from late spring and early summer has inexplicably been sliding, and today the Doc explicted it to me, after I collapsed on Wednesday getting out of bed, why that is. All the screws and clamps in my hip are coming loose and I'm clanking around like the Tin Man. On a walker, shuffling slowly like a major geezer.

Options are slim and not confidence building. Option one is to be crippled till I croak... Nope! The only other option is a full hip replacement. But aside from the soft bones we know I have from the 33 years on dialysis(which is off of all charts and studies, as it's never been done(except those extended by x-plants)), artificial heart valve, there are many other underlying infection risks. This is gonna be risky. We'll be doing it in about 3 weeks. About the time of the Huntersville contest. That sucks too. If I get to go before the surgery, I can only sit on wheelchair row, the front bench under the shed.

I have too many things I haven't done yet, so I'll buck it up and lean into the wind and try to get through it again. One more time. I'm tired, but I think I can do it. It's going to be another long winter, but I've already got my flu and pneumonia shots. There's still a lot of stuff I haven't finished doing yet. And I'll still be doing my show, which is good for my head, and I'll be checking on you guys whenever I can.

This all sounds terribly whiny, but I wanted y'all to know what's going on. So that's enough about it.
See y'all later,
Rusty