The Max Murdok Program

Well, it’s two days before my surgery and I still think I’m going to die. BUT if I’m wrong you will be able to chat with me while I am in the hospital. I have yet to figure out how you can chat with me if I die, check your nearest Oiuji Board for that little trick. If you don’t already have AOL’s Instant Messenger “AIM” go here and set up and account and grab it: AOL INSTANT MESSENGER. For those of you with AIM, simply click this and start shooting the proverbial. Chances are I won’t be doing much typing, so I’ll have the web cam rolling. You can also just add me to your buddy list and talk later as well. Maybe I’ll even show you my scar! Yipee!So the plan is, if I am able, to post some pre and post surgery messages here and tell you my experiences with this whole hip replacement surgery thing. I will even have a few pictures of the surgery taken from the operating room. I tried to webcast it but the hospital policies and lawyers kinda don’t like that sort of thing apparently. And so, until next time, I look forward to chatting with you all,…well at least some of you. I look forward to the surgery and hopefully living thru it, and I look forward to actually walking again someday. Thanx for dropping by and checking in. Chat soon.

Well it’s been nearly impossible to find a facility near by my place here in Bailey to do water therapy prior to my surgery. See, my idea – and my doctors all agreed that doing so would obviously and simply make me feel better. Maybe I could get off some of the junk I’m on, namely the anti-depressant which just admitting to needing makes me more depressed so what’s the point… but therapy in a pool would help my post surgery recovery time as well. The closest places for me are down the hill in Littleton or up in Boulder ( thank you Carla ). One thing that did look promising, if not freakin’ awesome but crazy expensive was this boss and coolio info swim tub pool thing, just a tad outta reach but neat. I was gonna link it, but I’d come back to my own site too much and daydream over it. See the problem with going down the hill is 9 times out of 10 I get sick as hell and we have to turn back. Luckily I did make it down to see Dr. Westerman and we basically came to the conclusion – just do the damn thing. And so, the damn thing is scheduled for 4/7/2008 – which is also a year to the day when I decided to buy the place Im in now in Bailey Colorado.

Side note, and apology. While at Dr. Westermans his lovely nurse and assistant was taking my blood pressure and as she leaned in to read the dial, her mammalian protuberance landed squarely and quite perfectly in my relaxed and open hand. I did not catch her name, but I would like to say I’m sorry. Sorry for not moving my hand but I sensed she knew where her teet had landed and also didn’t want to draw attention to it and sorry for not know her name, as a rule I like to at least know a persons name if I am going to fondle them. Even if by accident.

No. You can not take me anywhere.

On to something MUCH better. Since last year sometime, getting my hair cut has been the least of my worries or concern. And so, it is as long as it was in the old days. I was just gonna go in and have it snipped off before surgery by my bestest buddy in the whole world and favorite pain in the ass Hana suggested I donate it to Locks of Love ( link is in the blogroll ). I would like to add that out of all the Koreans I know, which is none beside her, she’s my favorite. They basically take your hair and weave it into wigs for cancer patients. Mainly kids I believe,…so as long as they pull out the VERY FEW gray hairs some lucky kid will have my hair. I’m actually thinking of shaving my head. ( Who the hell do I have to impress – except the next person that takes my blood pressure. ) and donating enough hair for two wigs. I’m going to email them to see if that’s even possible. Even just the one donation will be fine by me. I’m just glad to to it. Yes – I will be sure to post a before and after and I will keep it unaltered,…unlike the hip pic.

Other than that stuff which is a lot I do want to mention the serious stuff. I’m still dealing with shoulder pain that is sometimes off the scale. This has me alarmed. Dr. Westerman wants me to do some exercises to see if it just a result of being sedentary but he and I are both concerned though he seems skeptical that the pain is AVN like in my hip. Keep you posted on that one. Also new to the mi, chest pains. VERY infrequent but enough to warrant posting here. Again, may be due to the fact that I can barely move some days, I dunno.

So consider yourself caught up and I’ll post again soon. Thanks for poppin’ by.

OK. I had promised to pop up an X-ray of my hip – and here it is. Actually unless you have the trained eyes of a medical professional you can’t really tell that what you are looking at is a bad hip. But the best way to describe the issue is,… basically the knob on my femur ( leg bone ) where it connects to the pelvis ( hip ) should be nice and smooth not flat. The whole upper part of that knob is in effect,….dead. So here it is. My dead hip area x-ray…. YAY. Click on the image for a larger view.

OK. There is another image that I am putting up here in the interest of medical debate and for my friends and family who are curious about my health. I have to be honest and say that even tho these are X-rays, my genitalia are semi-visible. I would hope we can handle this like adults and that you realize the seriousness and purpose of this web site to to be honest about my condition and my health. And sometimes there will be things here that are frankly, reveling. I’m putting this up in the hope that this and the rest of my site can help people cope with their condition and help my friends and family cope with me. I trust that you all understand that. PLEASE DO NOT LOOK IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED. Thank you for your understanding. Please click here for the other X-ray.