Ice Ice BabY!

Its the magical thing that takes away pain when you really just need it gone! Its called ice, ice packs, frozen vegetables will even work. I remember one time i used some frozen peas so many times i was laying in bed and smelled something rotting. Yup it was my "ice pack" of peas..... So remember kids alternate your  ice veggies or throw them out after a few uses.

Kaylee spent the night over mimi and bumpas house so Mel and I got to sleep in today. I think i woke up sometime around 7:30am, yes that is sleeping in nowadays. We were scheduled for a 9:30 arrival at cooley dickinson for surgery prep work. We could tell right away that they were behind in the schedule. They took me in to get my cool jonny on and get me prepped for surgery. I got to get my whole hip shaved and wiped with slimy antibacterial cloths. After much waiting and waiting and waiting(ok so i dosed off alot) i was finally wheeled away for surgery around 12:15. So not too horrible considering my Time was scheduled for 10:55.  NExt thing i know im being yelled at by tons of people saying  "WAKE UP KORTNEY WAKE UP" and i could not stop shaking . I felt like my body was unvoluntarily harlem shaking against my will! A couple big thick warm blankets later and lots of deep breaths of oxygen and i was good to go.  In comes wifey, a bit of monitoring and off we go for the ride home. I gotta say my experience with cooley dickinson was the exact opposite as last time i had surgery there. Everyone was nice, caring, kind and you could tell they actually gave a shit what was going on around them.  

Stockings to eliminate blood clots in the legs. And they are sexy toO!

SMILE!

Pre surgery nap, Thanks to  IV FentanyL!


For anyone who is reading this and may ever have or thinking of having this surgyer, here is some items i HIGHLY reccommend you get and have at home prior to you returning home from surgery.

1. Make sure you have plent of either Ice pakcs, Gel packs or better yet rent or borrow a Cryocuff type machine. The best of these being the gameready machine which is a hefty price of $300 for 5 days.. EeK

2. Have towels near by that can easily be rolled up and stuffed next to your leg to keep it from moving. THe leg tends to tilt and it hurts VERY  bad if not propped with a pillow.  

3.  try and be as invisible as possible. I know during recovery you will need help from your spouse friends etc. But try not to be annoying and get on their nerves. Do as much as you can for yourself. Grab more than one drink and keep it next to you on your end table so you are not asking over and over again for help.

If anyone needs me Ill be hanging out with my good friends El Senor ice pack and Mr Oxycodone!... VIVA LA RASTA!!!!

Arthroscopic Surgery, llamas that spit, coil packs and shes 4 and a half now!

              Some of them try to rhyme but they can't Rhyme like this NOOOOOOO!!!!. Yes folks we are t minus 1 day until Revision surgery number 1 on my left hip. The surgery i got December 6th 2012 most definately did not work and stuff is a complete mess in there.  My last surgery recovery may have been tainted by the fact that i could not afford Physical therapy. It is $150/week and that doesn't include my doctors visit co pays too. Who just has an xtra 600/month laying around for PT.  And every time i went they just talked to me, asked some questions and did a few exercises. So not worth the $50 copay. If anyone has suggestions for a good Physical Therapist that deals with FAI or Arthroscopic recovery please email me jeepkort@yahoo.com, or message me on Facebook. I had to drive down and get tested for MRSA and got a call a few days ago saying that i was positive for colonization of MRSA. At first i was freaking out but after reading some inter webs sites i learned that a good amount of people carry it around without even knowing it. I most likely got it from wifey who is around it almost daily at the hospital. MRSA Is Disgusting!

As i was driving home from picking up kaylee from Ja'duke the other day all of a sudden i noticed i was getting a serious back massage from my seat in my truck. There was a severe shuttering vibration coming from the engine compartment that shook the whole truck like one of those seats at six flags where you spend a quarter to vibrate the shit out of your feet to make them feel good.  After a trip to autozone and a Computer code reading it was identified that cylinder #2 was not firing correctly. SO i purchased a coil pack for my truck and off i went vibrating down the road. If anyone is wicked bored and wants to install my coil pack for me let me know :).  I looked on ebay and for 8 Coil packs it was $54.. Guess how much just 1 was at autozone.............. Yup it was $56 for ONE!!!!!! holy RipOff Batman! 

Just to clear a little bit of confusion up, Kaylee is not 4 years old! She is 4 and a half years old. She makes sure she corrects me when i say she is 4.. What was i thinking, apparently that half year is a HUGE deal to a 4 year old :)

I will be blogging almost daily hopefully during my recovery from my surgery as i know there is alot of people who visit my blog just to learn more about FAI and the issues i have with my hips.  Sorry if this Bores the majority of you but ill get back to more interesting things some day!  Thanks for taking the time to suffer through another blog post :)

Here are a few pictures from adventures I call LIFE!

Femoral Acetabular Impingement, FAI, Failed surgery is for the BirDs!

                      December 6th 2012. That was the date i had my Minimally invasive surgery to Correct my FAI and to clean out my labral tears in my left hip. For anyone who doesnt know i was diagnosed with bilateral FAI and Labral tears in both hips. Here is some info on FAI  Sooooooooo here we are 8 months post op and i have to say that my surgery was a complete failure.  My surgeon was not too impressed when i told him it didnt work, in fact Theres more grinding, popping, cracking now and sometimes randomly when i step on my left leg something gets pinched in my groin and i have to remove the weight from my leg at warp speed!  Im quite lost at this point, i know i have SI joint issues, What i dont know is which one caused the other one or what is my next step. I just finished 3 synvisc injections and those also dont seem to have improved the situation any. Bah humbug to doctors and their slow ass way of doing things.

                     Theres a chill in the air, evenings are getting down to around 45-50 degrees and you can tell fall is on its way! Days are still near 80 which is nice and i can totally handle the heat anyways. Its the cold weather im dreading. The snow, sleet, Aching spine type of weather where if i didnt have a kid i wouldnt even step outside ever.  Bring on the haunted hayrides, hot cider and Leaves all over the yard! Bring on the sweatshirt wearing, jeans wearing, sock wearing weather. Im ready for you dammit.   Heres to hoping everyone has a GREAT fall season and makes it through winter ok!

Kaylee 4 years 5 months old.

Kaylee showing off her Mr Potato head creations!

Sometimes I am a fantabulous parent!

Yes a fantabulous parent! Is fantabulous a word you ask? Well of course it is not but that is not reason enough for me to stop using it.  I have been having this serious issue as of late with my daughter(kaylee). Now that she is getting older i am starting to notice that she has definately gotten my sense of humor and sillyness. My issues are that when i should be reprimanding her for something im usually borderline cracking up because she is so funny. Times when i know i should have a stern face and be disciplining her im usually holding back humongous amounts of cackling laughter.  I mean obviously i want to stick to my guns and teach her right from wrong but this girl is seriously hilarious and i just cant take it!  Does any other parents laugh when they should be scolding their child? I hope that its a normal occurrence and i'm not just some weirdo! .......

 For those who dont know, with LOTS of help from kaylee the fernette family has planted a garden this year.  We decided its a great way to get kaylee to eat some more veggies,and to add some vegetables to our dinners more often. Too often ill cook chicken with mac n cheese and no veggie type of meals.  Today while kaylee was outside playing i noticed the peas are starting to sprout! Soooooo exciting!!!   I figured might as well have a garden before the government makes it illegal to grow your own veggies and have a garden.  Now if i could just discover how to grow a money tree all would be grand!  This post is going to be a short one. As you can see not very much interesting goes on in my life al too often. Melissa is still in school finishing up her bachelors degree(1 year left). Then she moves on to her masters. I graduated Porter & Chester and am investigating other educational Avenues that i might be interested in doing.  Kaylee still goes to Jaduke preschool one day a week and does Tball on weekends.   I quickly wanted to share an experience i had with all my male friends with wives/girlfriends. DO NOT let your Gf/wife mow the lawn or you will never be able to do it agian. I made the mistake of letting melissa mow with the rider mower and ow i cant get her off that darn thing!!!!  What a mistake grrrr.  But come summertime i guess that gives me more time to sit in the pool. Sitting in the pool or any water for that matter is my happy place. it is the only place where i can say my back feels "normal". All the weight is taken off the discs/joints and it makes me want to invent a water suit :).

Sooooo as i sit here listening the the neighbor drive his mower around for hours on end I will say Adios Amigos! Hasta la bye bye!



KorT!

-=EVIL CUSTOMER SERVICE BITCHES!!!!=-

EVIL CUSTOMER SERVICE BITCHES!!!!!!!

Do you know the ones that i am talking about? The (mostly) girls sometimes guys,  who hate their jobs but  for some ungodly reason still work in the customer service occupation. Listen if you hate your life, and want to be rude to people who are obviously already at a doctors office because they have their own problems to deal with FIND A NEW JOB...... Be a trash collector... Or maybe be a Furniture repair person? Anything where you don't have to interact on a daily basis with any other person.  I'm not the type of person to be picky or critique someone either but holy COCK N BALLS cant you at least return the "hello how are you" that i offered when walking up to the reception desk?  

My experiences today involved me walking into my doctors  reception, saying hello not having the girl say anything back and just put her hand out for my paperwork. I had all i could do to bite my tongue and ask her why is she such a bitch. For anyone who knows me i'm very understanding and brush stuff off easily but today everyone hated their jobs, doctors Slammed you through like a puppy mill and no one cared about anything. It seems to be getting worse and worse every time i go to the doctors. When i arrived the lady in front of me had a 8:30 appointment with my Dr and the lady behind me had a 8:30 appointment with my DR... ?? my appointment was for 8:30 and melissa knew the lady in the back of me and she was still waiting for the doctor when we were back on our way driving on 91.... They just keep triple and quadruple booking people to get more and more $$......

BAH It only cost me $100 dollars in co pays to see 2 doctors today. My copay used to be $25 which was much more manageable. Speaking about co pays how about the ones they expected me to pay to go see Physical therapy 3 times/week after my FAI and Hip labral tear surgery. How do they just expect me to have a spare $150 laying around that i would not miss at all to pay for the Physical therapy. Do i wish that i was doing physical therapy? OF COURSE I DO, My hip is killing me and most likely not recovering the way that is should be, but i just cant justify spending $600 a month to go to a 30 minute PT appointment where they get you in late and rush you out because they are running late. Appointments usually never lead to anything being accomplished because there is no time for anything besides the Physical Therapist asking a few questions then kicking you out the door. So i did talk with my hip doctor today and he affirmed my suspicions that my deformed femur bones and FAI were most likely the cause of my destroyed back. SI joint and hips. Its nice to finally here a reason from a doctor as to why i am dealing with this clusterfuck Im dealing with. We are paying more for healthcare, getting less in services and most definitely having to deal with A SHIT TON of more grumpy customer service bitches! .... ............and bastards :)

Pretty Princess sparkles Candy world!

                             If you have not guessed already my daughter kaylee was 100% in charge of coming up with todays blog post title. Although i don't understand it, it seems pretty Dope so we will keep it.  She wants to let everyone know she likes Mike and sulley and all of their monster friends.  So the other day i was sitting here taking a break from playing barbies and Hide and seek. I was playing on my computer and kaylee looked at me and in a wicked snotty voice said " Daddy don't you know your daughter is more important.... then the computer. You need to play with your daughter".  Are you kidding me? Where does she learn this stuff lol.  Needless to say it made me feel horrible but i did not want her to know that so i told her she couldnt talk to me that way but inside i was ROFL like a MofO!   She has the quickest wit ever for a 3 year old, she is definately my daily dose  of humor for sure.  Don't forget to check out my sponsors

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                        I recently had a doctors appointment and we talked about me losing weight. I brought the topic up and the doctor gave me some pointers and pretty much the less i weigh the less pain i will have in my pinched nerve in my back. So Wife and I have decided to change everything we eat and are on a low carb low calorie diet.  It was very interesting going shopping for the first time looking for low carb items.  Melissa had told me pretty much shop around the outside edges of stores to eat the more healthy things. I said that was silly but after spending some time in the store and looking at items she was right. Milks, cheese items are healthy. Meats are healthy and of course veggies are OOBER healthy.  But how ok is it that shopping healthy is 2 to 3 times more expensive then buying junk food.  It should not be that way! Grrrrr.    

                       So for anyone who wants to follow my weight loss i will be updating it on my blog of course.  At my doctors appointment i was 266.5 LBS so i will use that as my starting weight. My goal is to get back down around 225 which is what i weighed while working at c&s wholesaler Grocers.  I kno when i was in bootcamp i was at my lowest weight which was 196 and i was a complete toothpick.  I dont want to be skinny skinny but i dont want to be Morbidly obese anymore either. I owe it to kaylee to lose some weight  so i can do more things with her and get my back healthy!   Can i lose 40 Pounds?  I think i can!  I have replaced bread with  this cool flax, bran pita stuff which is only 4G of carbs per pita. And they are actually fairly yummy.  But like i was saying i can get 6 Pitas for 6 dollars or i can get a whole loaf of bread for $1.......    Unacceptable I say!!!!!! BAM!

Check back often for updates! I will try and do weekly updates but my life is not  exactly interesting enough to write that often.

Heres some words from the Super wise Kaylee -  Hi everyone! monsters is chasing the princesses! a penny is chasing a cat monster. A fair a fair a fair......   When the fair goes to peoples houses, people goes to the fair ever ever ever. For the end of their life and they play and sing and play games. And play on rides and go on rides.  I love them very much. ( shes talking to all of you here)  Doesnt that blog look good daddy? Princesses, princesses i wish i could go to the lala loopsy land. I wanna go to it right now but i cant because i cant. And i want to and i cant find my snow globe anywhere to make my wishes come true.  I paint really much at school i like to play dressup, and they got new costumes from upstairs at school.  i have friends in my class, they are patrick, xander, and ivy, and kaylee, and patrick, Madison and yes my teachers are ms juniper and ms dani.


LOL i got a future blogger on my hands i do believe!

Kindle Fire HD Review and some BLAHBLAHBLAH!

Soooooo prior to Christmas time i had won $175 worth of Amazon gift cards from dealdash.com and they had never came till after Christmas. I used the gift cards and a little of my money to get a Kindle Fire HD. I gotta say that i am pleasantly surprised with the little bastard!  For anyone who doesnt know a Kindle Fire HD is a 7 inch tablet running a highly customized "amazon" version of the android operating system.  It has 1GB of RAM and a dual core 1.2GHZ processor. It has been able to handle just about anything ive thrown at it. And for anyone who knows me, you know ill be installing my own Operating system and hacking the crap out of it. Ill will pot an update on how that goes.  The fit and finish on the Fire Hd is very good. It seems very solid and actually feels a bit heavy in the hand but Id guess thats because the size of the battery. Speaking of battery life, it really depends on what you are doing with the Kindle HD. If you are reading you can get a whole day of use out of the Unit. If you are playing games, web surfing and doing processor heavy items the battery will only last about 4-6 hours. overall i would highly recommend anyone getting a Kindle Fire HD. It is far from being a ipad but at 199 for the HD and 159 for the Regular Fire its a pretty good deal. Of course i got mine from Amazon using shop.afriendtofriend.com so "A Friend To Friend" would get the donation. Good stuff right there.  Now on to the blah blah blah!

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