UPDATE:

I'm still in the hospital. Have been since April 30th. The surgery that was supposed to remove my hematoma from my left artificial knee didn't happen until May 7th. I now have a very painful vacuum drain poking out of my thigh and pulling blood + fluids out of the space left behind by my doctor. It burns and stings like a mofo.

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#cosomedical

Things just keep getting worse, #CoSoNauts. I've been seen and understood by my knee doctor's assistant - fluid and gunk is building up again in the joint, and it will have to be removed. My surgeon will have a spot open on Thursday, so that's when it's going to happen. Gimme dat sneaky ass for fun..

There is a COSOCALL Going on right now!!! Rtfm before joining. https://call.counter.social/OxANNub3TK !!!!! #CoSoCall

I'm going to start up a CoSo Call in about a minute here. Please stand by from a call from my hospital room.

#CoSoCall
#cosomedical

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We motored back to my room, where they re-wrapped my leg (for a second time - it came unwrapped during an earlier walk as well, but it didn't bleed).

The doctors are planning to keep me here until Monday, possibly even Tuesday if they need to reopen my knee and operate on the hematoma. All I know is that they keep extending my time here while reducing the frequency of my Dilaudid doses. Come on, folks, that's not fair. Extend the IV pain meds, too!

#cosomedical

Well...ahem.

My revision surgery on my left artificial knee didn't go exactly as planned Tuesday. It's now Saturday, May 4th, and I'm still in the damned hospital, thanks to what they think is a hematoma in the joint. They got the idea a couple of days ago when it open and started bleeding during a Physical Therapy walk. Not just a blood drop down my leg, mind you - it formed a puddle beneath my calf. Needless to say, the Physical Therapy walk came to a screeching halt.

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#cosomedical

I've just had my pre-hospital talk with my son, who's going to be submitting my chamber music works to a publisher for me after their window opens up at midnight EDT May 1st. (I'll still be in the hospital with no computer.) He's got all of the info I can give him, so here's hoping he can make it through things without a hitch. I've given him 6 works to submit, so hopefully this scattershot approach will mean one of the works will finally get accepted. Wish me luck, please!!!

#cosomusic

Sorry I didn't acknowledge everyone's well wishes as soon as I should have re: my knee surgery tomorrow. I kinda went narcoleptic for a couple of hours there.

It happens, thanks to all of the meds I'm on. My apologies.

It's finally going to happen, CoSo! Tomorrow is the day for surgery to fix my artificial left knee and the joint in which it sits. They're going to remove scar tissue and then install "shims" to keep the joint from wobbling side-to-side. I go in at 5:30am and I'll be admitted overnight, so I'll be out of touch for a while. Please wish me luck, because I'm going to need as much as I can possibly get. Thanks.

Now cooking: Betty Crocker Creamy Potatoes & Bacon, with Chicken & Apple sausage on top. T minus 45 minutes and counting.

#foodporn

@MrGoat Thank you for the CoSo Call! It was great fun.

@jasontrebilcock In a similar vein - not the same, but similar - I've got music picked out to be played at my funeral. It's a piece I wrote for my first album called "Spicewood," and it was dedicated to my late grandparents, who lived in the community of Spicewood on Lake Travis, northwest of Austin, TX. It's a serene piece, and it brings back memories of days spent growing up near the lake.

#cosomusic
/nosanitize

https://youtu.be/dNFl_LVDb3c?si=YLdBxZkeD9kF-xWb

@Susandoyle Seconded. I take advantage of the bandwidth to try and get people to listen to my music, but in return I interact as best as I know how. 😅

@dreandmax I sympathize. We still haven't got our latest rescue cat acclimated to the occasional guest coming over. He skitters on all three legs as fast as he can back to the bedroom and hides.

@dreandmax Pics, please!!!

#cosomusic

CIVIL CIVIC
The Shift

/nosanitize

https://youtu.be/mF72NY1xCGU?si=89xu-2--9boJYdc2

Time to get back to work, this time on an arrangement of a Beethoven piano sonata for a woodwind quartet. This has already gone through a lot of tweaking, but I've changed my style in the months since I last picked it up, so I'm probably going to have a lot more tweaking to do.

Oh, well...here we go.