Morning Misfits. Simple day for me. Only my daughter and Son in Law are coming this year. Covid sure has changed things. Just less of a mess to clean up and more leftovers.
It sure has! We've always been the family gathering place for Thanksgiving until this year. The wife mate's family all stayed home and my sister declined, so we invited a bachelor friend recently split from a relationship and alone.
I've been doin' this a long time, TOG: With internal owies, you HEAT them up, then COOL them down. It is not as effective if you just start with cold. <-- Ya gotta get extra blood flow first to drain the owies. I have a heating pad on my busted back right now. After about 1/2 hour, I will put the ice pack on. That, and a special hit from a very good friend here's nummies, and I am ready to whip my weight in butterflies.
I have not taken Oxycodone or any of the other constipating, brain-fusing narcotics in five years. HEAT up, COOl down.
I've had the same experience with sports injuries over the years, so called my doctor and asked if I could use some heat too and it made her nervous with my surgery. She admonished I could use some heat, but should use mostly cold to keep the swelling down.
I used a heating pad under a magazine and placed over my knee to heat and spread out the load over my knee joint from the weight suspended from a belt around the whole assembly. After I has straightened the knee, I followed up with an ice pack.
Interestingly when I had physical therapy, the first thing they did was warm up my knee, and the last thing they did was pack it in ice.
I mostly don't use opioids either, cause they don't work that well even at maximum dosage of three ever three hours and they constipate me, but I sure did this time the next night after surgery to be able to dull the pain enough to sleep. I haven't since then and still have the full 70 that they prescribed, because I still had the ones I didn't use following my recent oral surgery.
I stick them in my safe because certain visiting family members steal them from the medicine cabinet, so I just checked and still have the oxycodone given to me when I replaced my right knee in 2012, as well as some hydrocodone prescribed in 2019 for oral surgery. Also some Pseudoephedrine prescribed for something in 2007.
I left them out to return to the pharmacy for disposal.
