[Mishmash] On my way to the hospital

[Fred Atkinson]

Ingrid,

    I had been practicing three times per week for several years when I had
my first arthroscopic surgery.  That one went awry.  It was a few years
before I could return to my Tae Kwon Do training.  And even then, the leg
wasn't 100% for a couple of years after that.

    However, the surgery went well.  I have an enormous Ace bandage wrapped
from halfway between the leg and the hip to two thirds the way down from the
knee to the ankle.  So the leg is very stiff from that.  But I seem to be
able to walk on it just fine.

    Will find out how it goes as the days go by.  Will keep you advised.

    Regards,


                                                        Fred


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ingrid & Eric Holzman" <ieholzman at verizon.net>
To: "Mishmash" <mishmash at mishmash.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Mishmash] On my way to the hospital


> Hey Fred,
>
> Hope all went well.  I had my second arthroscopic knee surgery back in
> January.  I healed fast the first time (8 years ago) and even faster this
> time around.  Within one week I was back to bending my knee.  Both times I
> had work done on the meniscus.  I've torn it now 5 times total.  The
latest
> doctor thinks it's bad luck -- I call it bad genes.  I've had knee
problems
> since I was 12 years old.  You'll probably recover quickly since you have
a
> good muscle base to work with from your karate workouts.
>
> Good luck!
> Ingrid
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fred Atkinson" <fatkinson at mishmash.com>
> To: "Mishmash" <Mishmash at mishmash.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:35 AM
> Subject: [Mishmash] On my way to the hospital
>
>
> > Folks,
> >
> >    Also, I'm on my way to the hospital this morning.  I have having
> > arthroscopic knee surgery.  There appears to be a very small, loose
object
> > in my left knee that is getting caught between the two bones (they think
> > it
> > is a loose piece of calcified cartilage).  It causes my knee to buckle
and
> > I
> > have to shift all my weight to my right leg to keep myself vertical.  It
> > has
> > never caused me to fall.  I guess all that Tae Kwon Do training gave me
> > that
> > ability.
> >
> >     I should be home by about five PM at the latest.  Will try to let
you
> > know how well it went.  I'm going to be home bound for three days
> > afterwards.
> >
> >    To that end, my cablemodem has been down since Thursday.  The
> > cablemodem
> > technician finally came over yesterday morning and found that I had too
> > many
> > splitters up under the house.  He removed them and we got a good level.
> >
> >    However, I'm still having trouble with the cablemodem.  I woke up
this
> > morning to discover that my router had no IP address from the cablemodem
> > provider.  I tried rebooting the router, but still didn't have any IP
> > address.  So I rebooted the cablemodem and miraculously the router
gained
> > an
> > IP address from Mediacom.  So I'm back up.
> >
> >    That's bad because I have Internet telephone service at home.  If I
> > loose that IP address, I will not be able to receive telephone calls
until
> > I
> > reboot the cablemodem again.  If I am not aware of it, I won't be able
to
> > receive calls.  If it goes down altogether, I will not be able to make
or
> > receive calls.  Since I won't be able to drive either, that's a big
> > problem.
> >
> >    I called Mediacom about it.  They are sending someone back here
> > tomorrow
> > morning.
> >
> >    I've had Cisco look that router over.  They can't find anything wrong
> > with it.  But I'm also experiencing slow throughput.
> >
> >    Maybe they'll swap out the cablemodem unit itself and see if the
> > problem
> > clears.
> >
> >    Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> >                                                            Fred
> >
> >
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