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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.." Theodore Roosevelt Exposure 101
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Hey, no fair! I wanna know how to steal all those smilies! YIKES, PIO!!!!! 
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Amazing how ML never misses the spitoon. Years of practice I guess.
Okay my PCL is gone forever. Good news is my LCL is recovering nicely. Bad news is my MCL is shredded but will more or less heal with a lot of PT and pain over the next three or four months. At least I should be walking by then. I did find out in second opinion that I did some internal damage to the bones to he equivalent of a fracture. Actually I didn't know that was possible but I'm learning.
After the MCL and LCL are okay, they'll decide whether they need to attempt surgery on the PCL or just give me a DonJoy for the rest of my life.
If anyone has recommendations on DonJoys BTW, I'm interested.
I should also say that I'm somewhat in a moderately serious mild depression. I'm normally a very active person and I continually discover things I cannot do any longer. I did accompany gemela to the grocery store last night in my wheelchair. I found a lot of things on the bottom shelves I never knew they had. I only now realize they keep the Oreos on the top shelves. The b@st@rds!
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>I only now realize they keep the Oreos on the top shelves
Well, that's just not right.
Here, they keep the Oreos on the middle shelves so the kids can see them and beg for them. It's American marketing at it's finest.
I'm so sorry about the injuries...what the heck is a DonJoy? It sounds like something in gay porn...
(thought that would make you smile)
I never had to take the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?O'hana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. My Story Recovered!
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Pio~~~>![[Linked Image from s6.tinypic.com]](http://s6.tinypic.com/w71kyr_th.jpg)
Feel better soon, young man.
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Pio-I feel your pain. My experience with the DonJoys is limited to about 15 years ago--I'm sure they've come a long way since then. I will say that I got better results by just wearing the neoprene sleeve than with the whole brace. (My ACL was blown and MCL partial).
The P/T said it was probably because the neoprene provides additional sensory input to the nerves around the knee, allowing your fast twitch muscles to react to any imbalance.
I think my DonJoy started collecting dust after about 6 months. But I haven't had a knee slip (knock wood) since about 1990. Granted, I'm a green/blue skiier and weekend warrior in volleyball so I don't put a lot of lateral pressure on it. Good luck!
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Bummer about the knee. I swear, the further past 25 I get, the less I like it.
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Hey pio! How are you? I think BigK and his lovely W are on vacation.
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My goodness, Pio, here's a voice from the past! Hope you and your family are well.
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Hi Piojitos! Are you updating us? Hoping all is well!
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He and the missus are on "holiday" right now, Pio...They won't be back for another week... Hope all is well... Mrs. W
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Updates?
My knee is still messed up. They have now decided that the injury caused CRPS so the pain has become an animal all its own. I'm now at three weeks without crutches so that's something.
Gemela and the DDs left yesterday for Mexico so they should be getting to DF just about now. I'll see them in Houston in 30 days. After our vacation, I'm planning surgery on the knee. I either want it fixed or get the leg cut off. I'm tired of being in pain. A couple of months ago I was near suicidal.
The doctors have me on a trial-and-error process of dealing with the pain. So far it is mostly error.
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I'm sorry to hear that Pio. I hope your knee gets fixed up in the US.
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Well I guess I do owe an update. The past 18 months has been really tough. First I had the TFCC injury. Good news was a got to a 21 handicap playing golf with only one arm. I finally started playing with two hands again about three weeks before we went to Switzerland where I destroyed my knee.
I haven't been in the best of spirits. For her part, gemela has been stellar. Even so, I think I spent the better part of last year actually hoping gemela would cheat again so I would have an excuse to get divorced. I still had a lot of anger.
Now we are just at Dday plus 5 years and suddenly I think I feel like Lieutenant Dan when he was looking at the sunset and decided to jump off the Jenny and go for a swim. And that's all I have to say about that.
I guess maybe 5 years is a magic number but I seem finally to be happy.
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![[Linked Image from s6.tinypic.com]](http://s6.tinypic.com/35iyavr_th.jpg) Sorry to hear you have not been feeling well, Pio. Glad to see you back!
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