All is well
All is well but there are some minor complications that will take up my time for the next few days. I might get time to post soon, but the priority is dealing with my health.
My deepest thanks to everyone for their well wishes. I really appreciate it.
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All is well but there are some minor complications that will take up my time for the next few days. I might get time to post soon, but the priority is dealing with my health.
My deepest thanks to everyone for their well wishes. I really appreciate it.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Bob,
We expect, like Steve Austin, you will now be able to accomplish great feats of strenght and endurance, since the operation no longer costs six million dollars. 😀
Glad you are doing well in your recovery.
Bob,
We expect, like Steve Austin, you will now be able to accomplish great feats of strenght and endurance, since the operation no longer costs six million dollars.
Glad you are doing well in your recovery.
Better to take a few days for one’s health than wasting it to get a few more clicks. Take care!
Publius–
Hilarious.
Bruce A. Peterson Research Pilot & Engineer
“The Real 6-Million Dollar Man” (May 10, 1967)
https://youtu.be/UK15_Cqwx2Q
(2:15)
Glad to hear you made it through the surgery. Minor complications happen. Best thing to do is rest. My wife had her should and both knees replaced in the span of a year. The times she rested, everything went smoothly. Follow the rehab recommendations and you will be back better than normal in no time.
Anyone else here “dah tah dun dun dun dun” in their head?
Mr Z,
Make sure to follow the physical therapy regimine.
Or else you may end up like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xU31HGcNT8
All: Thanks to all for your kind words and advice. FYI, I have a lot of experience with PT due to the many broken bones I have experienced since childhood. I do what they say.
I will likely write a post describing the experience once I am past this first week.
No rush
It is just as well you aren’t bionic–Nate would fuss over that cost too: “Hand over the legs, Austin.”
In unrelated–but-important–medical news:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-link-medical-gender-reassignment-mental.html
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apa.70533
This study MUST be promulgated….and quickly, before phys pulls it like they have elsewhere.
PRINT!!!!
No worries and get healthy, Bob. We’ll wait!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
Best wishes. Thanks for providing an insanity-free site for space news and discussion.
“Kneedless” to say, I wish the best the fastest!
Hoping for a quick recovery.
A friend of mine has a daughter who skinned her knee when she was about ten years old. He told the crying child that they would have to go to the knee store and get her a new knee, and he made up a story of knee replacement that involved sawing, drilling, and hammering, along with tugging, pulling, and pushing, with some welding to hold the new knee in place.
His wife was concerned that he had said such things to their little girl, but he pointed out that she had gone off happy and had forgotten about the skinned knee.
A decade and a half later, his girl calls him from medical school and tells him she had just sat in on a knee replacement surgery. It turns out he was largely correct in all that stuff he had made up. He thought that was hilarious but was a bit concerned that she had remembered that conversation, all those years later.
I didn’t learn whether he was right about the welding, though. Maybe I should ask.
Edward: I have discovered that different doctors do different kinds of replacements.
In some cases, the cut was down the center of the knee, and included a lot of new parts.
In my case, the cut was smaller and down the inside of the knee. It also included far few parts. My doctor said his method is the newer one, where they simply grind off a little bit from the ball on the top bone and a bit from the bottom bone in the socket and install caps. Eliminates the bone-to-bone contact that causes all the pain.
I don’t know which is better, but I think I prefer the newer method. As we all know from Elon, “the best part is no part.”
Just keep up that therapy.
My friends muscles hurt the worst. Took almost two weeks to get things back to walkable just enough.