Medical notes
Medical notes below:
Fell off a ladder two weeks ago while painting my living room. Rode the ladder down and landed on it, cutting the knee up and exposing the patella. Very little blood, but the knee just opens up when you cut it that way. Called 911, the fire department paramedics thought it was cool they could see the patella, the ambulance paramedics were more professional. The physician's assistant (nice lady) put 7 stitches into it using a double mattress stich. Doctor Yang took the stitches out Monday and said keep putting band aids and antibiotic ointment on it for three more days.
Course we went to Disney for a week two days after I did that. Walked between 5 and 11 miles per day per Jen's pedometer app, and climbed up and down the Swiss family Robinson treehouse. Kept the leg in an immobilizer brace for the first few days, and couldn't bend it much afterwards so skipped most of the rides. Had good time anyway though. Took lots of ibuprofin.
Had my first colonoscopy this morning. The prep is a bad as you would expect. The procedure itself was not bad. The recovery is tricky, you feel more alert than you really are. They found and removed a small (4mm) polyp, which means I win the go back and have another colonoscopy in five years award. Also found hemorrhoids, which explains the discomfort I've been having. Going to try some medicine for that.
Had the same nurse, Carole, at the surgery center as the times I was there for my hernia and gallbladder surgeries. She remembered me. Very good at faces. Same anesthesiologist too, who has not bad jokes: "what did you have for breakfast".
Fell off a ladder two weeks ago while painting my living room. Rode the ladder down and landed on it, cutting the knee up and exposing the patella. Very little blood, but the knee just opens up when you cut it that way. Called 911, the fire department paramedics thought it was cool they could see the patella, the ambulance paramedics were more professional. The physician's assistant (nice lady) put 7 stitches into it using a double mattress stich. Doctor Yang took the stitches out Monday and said keep putting band aids and antibiotic ointment on it for three more days.
Course we went to Disney for a week two days after I did that. Walked between 5 and 11 miles per day per Jen's pedometer app, and climbed up and down the Swiss family Robinson treehouse. Kept the leg in an immobilizer brace for the first few days, and couldn't bend it much afterwards so skipped most of the rides. Had good time anyway though. Took lots of ibuprofin.
Had my first colonoscopy this morning. The prep is a bad as you would expect. The procedure itself was not bad. The recovery is tricky, you feel more alert than you really are. They found and removed a small (4mm) polyp, which means I win the go back and have another colonoscopy in five years award. Also found hemorrhoids, which explains the discomfort I've been having. Going to try some medicine for that.
Had the same nurse, Carole, at the surgery center as the times I was there for my hernia and gallbladder surgeries. She remembered me. Very good at faces. Same anesthesiologist too, who has not bad jokes: "what did you have for breakfast".