Gene has now entered the depressed stage of recuperation. He is still in a lot of pain, and we still do not have any diagnosis as to what has really happened to his hip. This hip pain is all too familiar to him - causing him to relive the long recuperation after he broke his hip when he was a child.
Today we go to the hospital for a bone scan, but they do not have an MRI scheduled until next Friday, so it will be over three weeks before we have an accurate diagnosis. To make matters worse, his cholesterol is up, in spite of all of our exercise and eating right this summer, making him wonder - what is the point? It is hard to remember how great you feel out on the trail, pushing your body to it's limits, and forcing those limits to expand, when now you cannot walk unaided across the room.
We will be having a word with the doctor today.
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Tell him to keep his chin up. The little hiccups that slow us down is life telling us to take a small break.
And I know that he won't like that answer, but that's all I got. I used to repeat that to myself over and over when I was stuck in bed after knee surgery and needed my dad's help to get up to go to the bathroom.
Stupid pride and independence.
Maybe an increase in magazine subscriptions for his Christmas present? =)
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