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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Sunday, April 27

9:35 a.m. - It's Sunday, 11 days after surgery.  People are getting tired of me being laid up...Amber's tired, the staff at ICE are tired, I'm having to lean on family and friends for help.  I need to recover faster.  Yesterday I tried to go without the narcotics for pain, and that wasn't easy.  I think tonight I may take one just before bed to try to help me sleep a bit better, and then stick to the Extra Strength Tylenol the rest of the day.  

I've gotten my morning pills taken (iron, baby aspirin, and stool softener) with a little breakfast Amber made for me.  I've also completed my a.m. exercises, so now as I'm typing this up, I'm applying and ice bag treatment.  I think I'm going to experiment with some driving starting with the HHR to get it out of the garage.  It needs to get out of the garage in order to put the mower in there, as Shawn said he could come over and help me get the deck off to see what kind of parts I need to get it fixed.  I'm still hoping it's just a belt.  

I'm also going to try the truck out and see how driving that goes.  Nobody will be in the school parking lot today, so that's going to be my experiment area.  I'm also going to see if I can drive the tractor up in the garage, but that might be the hardest of the three experiments.  I just have to figure out how to get my walker with me.  

And if all works well, I might drive out to ICE to get my cane and see how I can use the bathroom.  I'm a little worried about the bathroom thing, since I still have to pee every 2-3 hours.

Things for School 

  • absent days for staff entered into SDS by the 15th of each month
  • March check reconciliation
    • take back to Kim 

OTHER THINGS

  • spray weeds
  • a hood light switch for the Ford
  • April 28 - 9:20 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
  • April 30 - 9:00 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
  • April 30 - 10 a.m. - Milan Optical
  • May 2 - 9:00 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
  • July 13-18 - Summer Camping Trip to Mackinac Island
  • April 16 - knee replacement surgery - Illini Hospital
  • July 13-18 - Summer Camping Trip to Mackinac Island
  • July 29 - bus refresher course 5 p.m.


Schedule of Knee Appointments
Jan. 14 - consultation with Hussein and cortisone shot - scheduled Apr. 16 surgery
March 24 - went to Illini Hospital - ekg, blood drawn, chest x-ray, urine sample, instructions
April 8 - 8:30 a.m. Pre-op with Hussein at Clinic
April 15 - appointment with Wang to clear me for April 16
April 16 - knee replacement surgery - Illini Hospital
April 18 - 9:00 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
April 21 - 9:20  a.m.  Moline ORA Blackhawk
April 23 - 10:00 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
    1:30 Silvis Post Op Appointment (Avenue of Cities)
April 25 - 9:20 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
April 28 - 9:20 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
April 30 - 9:00 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
May 2 - 9:00 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
May 29 - 8:30 a.m. Post Op Appointment with Hussein in Moline

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