Las Vegas leviathan floats to the surface to beg

[Carl]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025990714

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 11:25 PM

Star Member Systematic Chaos (8,464 posts)

Nearly 7 months in the hospital and/or long-term facilities has me feeling down. Got a moment?
Mods: If you feel that this is more suited to the Lounge, then feel free to move it. I just felt the gravity of my situation warranted that this be a GD post. Thank you for your understanding.

Hello everyone! I realize that in all my many years as a member here I haven't made more than a handful of friends and I'm not terribly "cliquish," but tonight is especially hard on me for some reason and I feel the need to reach out.

You can read about my near-death experience and the loss of my left leg in 2013 here, in this rather long thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024309273

At the end of that long post, I said a little "prayer" that 2014 might be a better year for me, and for DU'ers in general. Well, my 2014 may turn out okay in the end, but I have been away from home since early June, trying to save my right leg by the use of a surgical procedure designed to save limbs on obese people who suffer from a condition known as "charcot foot" -- pronounced as shark-o foot. Here is a short, educational video explaining what I have undergone in terms of treatment:



My fixator halo has been off for a few months now, and I'm awaiting the healing of some remaining wounds on my foot so that I can begin full weight bearing and start strengthening to walk with my prosthetic + a walker.

In the next week or so I will be getting new glasses for the first time since my wife, Jeanette, bought us each two pair back in 2002 when we were first dating. Yeah, this wife of mine -- she is an absolute angel, and she is the ultimate "without whom." I graciously accept the fact that I would not be alive today without her love and support. I hope that everyone has -- or will eventually find -- a life partner as sweet and wonderful as my Jeanette.

I have to say though, with regards to my eyes, that the optometrist determined that I will need bifocals, BUT when the correction was optimized I had only minor problems reading both the near and far 20/20 lines! So, while my feet and legs have been turning traitor on me this past few years, my eyes remain largely undamaged from diabetes, and are just in the degraded condition they have been in from birth.

All of this time away from home has alienated me from our cats, and there are going to be some expenses upon my return home which I fear we may not be able to cover, such as the absolute must buy of at least a queen-size bed to replace the full-size one which was provided with our furnished apartment. The reason for that is simply that my body is as long as a full-size mattress, so it's a given that either my feet or my head will be hanging off the top or bottom of the bed. This is very bad because my feet hanging off the foot of the bed causes pressure sores to form from the wire which goes around the mattress. A queen-size or larger is about 6 inches longer, so that I can count on my whole body resting on the main body of the mattress, and there won't be any pressure sores from the metal wire which goes around the perimeter. So there is needing a good, sturdy bed. Then, I need clothes something fierce! I am about a size 4x, which means that I can find decent shirts in Wal-Mart (much as I hate to shop there) or online. I'll also need good compressive socks for my right leg, which I'm not sure insurance will cover, but I know they do cover diabetic shoes.

You get the idea. I am not resorting to e-begging here at this stage. If we can get some help before I am discharged, then everything is fine. But if you see me posting something on wish-a-doo or elsewhere a couple months down the line, please spare me a thought!

I never would have guessed after what all I went through in 2013 that this year would find me spending more than half of it in hospitals and facilities yet again! But it is what it is, and all I can do is try and keep my emotions stable, and ride this journey out in the hopes of finally receiving a break in 2015, where I'll be able to spend my time learning to walk again, practicing my guitar, loving on our wonderful cats and for the love of all that is good and right, spending some intimate time with my poor wife who has been every bit as lonely as I have over this past few months!!

This post is growing long, and I'm getting tired. I have another appointment to see my surgeon early tomorrow morning. I hope he will be pleased with how things have been coming along, and that I will be able to feel really relaxed and positive as we cruise our way through another holiday season!

Thanks for reading and understanding, if you got this far, and may we all experience a great 2015...FOR REAL THIS TIME!!

 

[JohnnyReb]

Bed not big enough....Solution: sleep on the floor.

[67 Rover]

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 11:25 PM

Star Member Systematic Chaos (8,464 posts)

Nearly 7 months in the hospital and/or long-term facilities has me feeling down. Got a moment?
Mods: If you feel that this is more suited to the Lounge, then feel free to move it. I just felt the gravity of my situation warranted that this be a GD post. Thank you for your understanding.

Hello everyone! I realize that in all my many years as a member here I haven't made more than a handful of friends and I'm not terribly "cliquish," but tonight is especially hard on me for some reason and I feel the need to reach out.

You can read about my near-death experience and the loss of my left leg in 2013 here, in this rather long thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024309273

At the end of that long post, I said a little "prayer" that 2014 might be a better year for me, and for DU'ers in general. Well, my 2014 may turn out okay in the end, but I have been away from home since early June, trying to save my right leg by the use of a surgical procedure designed to save limbs on obese people who suffer from a condition known as "charcot foot" -- pronounced as shark-o foot. Here is a short, educational video explaining what I have undergone in terms of treatment:



My fixator halo has been off for a few months now, and I'm awaiting the healing of some remaining wounds on my foot so that I can begin full weight bearing and start strengthening to walk with my prosthetic + a walker.

In the next week or so I will be getting new glasses for the first time since my wife, Jeanette, bought us each two pair back in 2002 when we were first dating. Yeah, this wife of mine -- she is an absolute angel, and she is the ultimate "without whom." I graciously accept the fact that I would not be alive today without her love and support. I hope that everyone has -- or will eventually find -- a life partner as sweet and wonderful as my Jeanette.

I have to say though, with regards to my eyes, that the optometrist determined that I will need bifocals, BUT when the correction was optimized I had only minor problems reading both the near and far 20/20 lines! So, while my feet and legs have been turning traitor on me this past few years, my eyes remain largely undamaged from diabetes, and are just in the degraded condition they have been in from birth.

All of this time away from home has alienated me from our cats, and there are going to be some expenses upon my return home which I fear we may not be able to cover, such as the absolute must buy of at least a queen-size bed to replace the full-size one which was provided with our furnished apartment. The reason for that is simply that my body is as long as a full-size mattress, so it's a given that either my feet foot or my head will be hanging off the top or bottom of the bed. This is very bad because my feet hanging off the foot of the bed causes pressure sores to form from the wire which goes around the mattress. A queen-size or larger is about 6 inches longer, so that I can count on my whole body resting on the main body of the mattress, and there won't be any pressure sores from the metal wire which goes around the perimeter. So there is needing a good, sturdy bed. Then, I need clothes something fierce! I am about a size 4x, which means that I can find decent shirts in Wal-Mart (much as I hate to shop there) or online. I'll also need good compressive socks for my right leg, which I'm not sure insurance will cover, but I know they do cover diabetic shoes.

You get the idea. I am not resorting to e-begging here at this stage. If we can get some help before I am discharged, then everything is fine. But if you see me posting something on wish-a-doo or elsewhere a couple months down the line, please spare me a thought!

I never would have guessed after what all I went through in 2013 that this year would find me spending more than half of it in hospitals and facilities yet again! But it is what it is, and all I can do is try and keep my emotions stable, and ride this journey out in the hopes of finally receiving a break in 2015, where I'll be able to spend my time learning to walk again, practicing my guitar, loving on our wonderful cats and for the love of all that is good and right, spending some intimate time with my poor wife who has been every bit as lonely as I have over this past few months!!

This post is growing long, and I'm getting tired. I have another appointment to see my surgeon early tomorrow morning. I hope he will be pleased with how things have been coming along, and that I will be able to feel really relaxed and positive as we cruise our way through another holiday season!

Thanks for reading and understanding, if you got this far, and may we all experience a great 2015...FOR REAL THIS TIME!!

FIFY 

[GOBUCKS]

It sounds like the trouble the DUmmy has had with a short mattress is being solved surgically.

Nevertheless, all that dough raised by DUmmy stewert and the pedophile ColesCountyDem has not gone unnoticed.

[landofconfusion80]

Come on guys, how about we find the absolute finest bed bug ridden mattress we can for the guy? You know he deserves it.

[franksolich]

Okay now, I'm confused.

I will admit I've never been familiar with someone grossly obese who lost a major limb. so I may be in outer space here.

Wouldn't someone who's undergone major bodily trauma (removal of a limb) and who's probably got a host of other ailments (heart, kidneys, stomach, whatnot), tend to lose weight involuntarily, instead of keeping it or adding on to it?

[Carl]

Okay now, I'm confused.

I will admit I've never been familiar with someone grossly obese who lost a major limb. so I may be in outer space here.

Wouldn't someone who's undergone major bodily trauma (removal of a limb) and who's probably got a host of other ailments (heart, kidneys, stomach, whatnot), tend to lose weight involuntarily, instead of keeping it or adding on to it?

I would also think that spending all that time in a hospital would have halved his giganticness.
Something is fishy.

[wasp69]

Wouldn't someone who's undergone major bodily trauma (removal of a limb) and who's probably got a host of other ailments (heart, kidneys, stomach, whatnot), tend to lose weight involuntarily, instead of keeping it or adding on to it?

Not unless they're a diabetic on a high carb/no protein diet.

[wasp69]

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 11:25 PM

Star Member Systematic Chaos (8,464 posts)

But it is what it is, and all I can do is try and keep my emotions stable, and ride this journey out in the hopes of finally receiving a break in 2015, where I'll be able to spend my time learning to walk again, practicing my guitar, loving on our wonderful cats and for the love of all that is good and right, spending some intimate time with my poor wife who has been every bit as lonely as I have over this past few months!!

He's going to hang out with his cats, play his guitar, and try to get a little leg from his enabler...  Nowhere in there did I read a single word about "job", "earn an income", or "find some way to not be a total leach on the taxpayers".

How about the rest of you?  Did anyone else see it?

[obumazombie]

He's going to hang out with his cats, play his guitar, and try to get a little leg from his enabler...  Nowhere in there did I read a single word about "job", "earn an income", or "find some way to not be a total leach on the taxpayers".

How about the rest of you?  Did anyone else see it?

These Dummies just seem to run altogether in my mind after a time.
Is this the guy who ate so much because he had a hollow leg ?

[Big Dog]

He's going to hang out with his cats, play his guitar, and try to get a little leg from his enabler...  Nowhere in there did I read a single word about "job", "earn an income", or "find some way to not be a total leach on the taxpayers".

How about the rest of you?  Did anyone else see it?

No, but I saw what you did!

 

[Big Dog]

These Dummies just seem to run altogether in my mind after a time.
Is this the guy who ate so much because he had a hollow leg ?

I think he is the Dummy with four stomachs, like a cow.

He also came over here and whined about himself - last year, if I recall.

[thundley4]

I think he is the Dummy with four stomachs, like a cow.

He also came over here and whined about himself - last year, if I recall.

He showed up here and so did his poor wife who suffers from Stockholm Syndrome.

[GOBUCKS]

He should have lost two hundred pounds when that leg went into the the hospital trash.

[BattleHymn]

Well, I am feeling rather generous, so here goes:


Kirk, I'll buy you all the left-footed shoes your big heart desires. 

[BattleHymn]

Something is fishy.

It's probably one of Kirk's sandwiches he lost in his folds. 

[Big Dog]

It's probably one of Kirk's sandwiches he lost in his folds.

Lost, or saving for later?

Think about it- we keep a supply of food for storms or emergencies, but we do it in pantries, cellars, and freezers. Kirk is storing it onboard.

[98ZJUSMC]

These Dummies just seem to run altogether in my mind after a time.
Is this the guy who ate so much because he had a hollow leg ?

   Me, too.  I don't know how you guys can keep these vermin straight. 

He also came over here and whined about himself

 

[Conservative Libertarian]

Not unless they're a diabetic on a high carb/no protein diet.

I'm diabetic and such a diet is not recommended.

[BattleHymn]

Lost, or saving for later?

Think about it- we keep a supply of food for storms or emergencies, but we do it in pantries, cellars, and freezers. Kirk is storing it onboard.

Well, I guess it's only for later if you can find it again. 

My vote is for "lost". 

[BattleHymn]

It sounds like we might need to open up a dead pool on whether Kirk's sole remaining flipper.  It sounds like by this time next year, he will no longer be equipped with either of the ones God gave him.

Oh, and just in case anyone has not already done so, I would advise against nadining "charcot foot".

[thundley4]

It sounds like we might need to open up a dead pool on whether Kirk's sole remaining flipper.  It sounds like by this time next year, he will no longer be equipped with either of the ones God gave him.

Oh, and just in case anyone has not already done so, I would advise against nadining "charcot foot".

It can't be worse than "blue waffle" can it? Can it?   

[VivisMom]

Not unless they're a diabetic on a high carb/no protein diet.

This is what absolutely stuns me; he's diabetic and KNOWS it, yet goes on an all carb diet? He's lucky he only lost a foot. 

[Big Dog]

This is what absolutely stuns me; he's diabetic and KNOWS it, yet goes on an all carb diet? He's lucky he only lost a foot. 

He's not done yet.

[Conservative Libertarian]

This is what absolutely stuns me; he's diabetic and KNOWS it, yet goes on an all carb diet? He's lucky he only lost a foot. 

They aren't called DUmmies for nothing.

I can't claim to be perfect. However, I have been able to manage my diabetes and keep it at type 2 for 11 years now. While the doctor isn't happy about my weight, I haven't gained any and I can still get around quite well. I didn't lay on my lazy ass for years at the taxpayers expense and only make my situation worse.

That's the problem with this DUmmy. He has no incentive to do anything but lay on his ass and let it get worse. He does have his own skin n the game but is too stupid and lazy to even try to do anything about it. I really hope that he eventually sees the light and tries to correct his situation. However, with his entitlement attitude and liberal/commie/democrat dregs that he calls friends, that probably won't happen.