just came back from the Hospital....

diamondj · Post by **diamondj** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:50 pm

Best wishes for a speedy recovery John!

As for the six months down time - do you like to read? Maybe we can forward you some good books?

Jim

Wayne Meuir · Post by **Wayne Meuir** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:39 pm

Good luck wity the surgery, John. I am much like you, I can't sit still. I am recovering from rotator cuff surgery and being down sucks, but sometimes, you just have to do it.

Wayne

johnakay · Post by **johnakay** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:44 am

we all must getting old with these ailment.
at least I'll still be around to bug you all

it is just the waiting game I don't like either but at least it'll give chance to knock some rails out before I'm forced to put my feet up.
yes I do like reading.
I have a load of history books which I haven't read in years.
I like reading about the old stuff like the Romans,Pharaoh's Assyrian's
how we lived in Victorian times and not forgetting quite a few books on classic and modern bikes. and last but not least the computer. john

johnakay · Post by **johnakay** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:34 pm

got a letter this morning .I go in for my op on the 4th nove at 8am.
so I've got some thing to look forward to

so Iwill have to get cracking making the rails etc.

Ron Jessome · Post by **Ron Jessome** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:14 pm

Yeah, especially if you're flying out on vacation shortly.
Enjoy you vacation and best of luck with your down time.
I look forward to the Egyptian jokes you find in your history books.

tz375 · Post by **tz375** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:57 am

The length of time for your recovery seems to be dependent on your general health level and the size of the surgeons hands.

Your fitness and general health makes a huge difference, so time to pack in some exercise (nothing silly mind) and watch the diet. The healthier you are going in, the faster you heal after. Bit obvious really.

My surgeons must have have hands like feet because they left me with a scar from one inch right of my navel to my side. The issue that causes is the amount of muscle they have to cut through to get the kidney out. That's what takes time to rebuild. The staples come out soon but the internal stitches take a while to dissolve, so that limits your ability to lift things and bend , so don't be a hero. I was out of hospital within a few days and got rid of the narco painkillers a day or so after that and moved to something less strong so I could function.

The pain you can manage, but it does slow you down for a few weeks.

So get healthy, do what needs to be done before the op and don't rush after.

johnakay · Post by **johnakay** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:42 am

thanks for your advice..bit late for the exercise

tz375 · Post by **tz375** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:30 pm

it is never too late. Start with taking a walk around the block every morning or evening - or both.

kingofvenus · Post by **kingofvenus** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:52 pm

tz375 wrote:The length of time for your recovery seems to be dependent on your general health level and the size of the surgeons hands.

Your fitness and general health makes a huge difference, so time to pack in some exercise (nothing silly mind) and watch the diet. The healthier you are going in, the faster you heal after. Bit obvious really.

My surgeons must have have hands like feet because they left me with a scar from one inch right of my navel to my side. The issue that causes is the amount of muscle they have to cut through to get the kidney out. That's what takes time to rebuild. The staples come out soon but the internal stitches take a while to dissolve, so that limits your ability to lift things and bend , so don't be a hero. I was out of hospital within a few days and got rid of the narco painkillers a day or so after that and moved to something less strong so I could function.

The pain you can manage, but it does slow you down for a few weeks.

So get healthy, do what needs to be done before the op and don't rush after.

December 27 will be nine years for me. My scar is like that, just under fourteen inches long. I was misdiagnosed for almost a year, my entire left one was a tumor. Ten months later they found several small ones in my right lung. Eleven months on Interfeuron shrunk them and I am cancer free. A positive attitude is everything. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

jkevinlilly · Post by **jkevinlilly** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:59 pm

A positive attitude is everything.

My thoughts exactly. I never doubted that my surgery was just a bump in the highway of life. And damn it, this time I was right.

Kevin

johnakay · Post by **johnakay** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 3:22 am

thanks once again. I do have a possitive out look.

to the growth.
I aint going no where. I can't I 've got so much to do.

anyway as luck would have it.
I got a letter this morning to attend an interview.
next thursday 1st Oct.
I am now on sick leave,away on hols for 2 weeks then home for 2 weeks and then into hospital. I'll be in there for a week and then a month or so to recovered.. and it will be after dec before I'll be fit enough to work.
the JOB? mobile care worker part time.
this is some totaly different to what I've been doing for the last 40 years or so. so that is that out.
I'll give them a ring on monday to see what chances that I have.

doug rooney · Post by **doug rooney** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:18 am

Best wishes John. Get in, get er done, and get on with living. You have some time left I think to do much more in life that you love to do. We'll all be pulling for you. Think positive! Doug

H2RICK · Post by **H2RICK** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:15 am

Chin up, John. You can do this. There's not a doubt in my mind.
You aren't a quitter and as mentioned by other posters, a positive attitude will see you through.....
And, yes, a "nuclear finger" to the tumour from me too !!!