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Starting my rehab regime at Magee. You start with small steps, then follow with more steps. A journey of 1,000 miles . … “Please hold on to the rails,” says my PT princess, who took this excellent photo. Love the low angle.
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This is a medical update for friends, family, subscribers, and the critics, too. Today I started rehab at Magee Riverside Rehab on South Columbus Blvd. (There may be a view of the river from the roof.) 😉 This is my fourth encounter of the close kind with the famous rehab facility.
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I’ll keep this brief. My recovery from hip replacement surgery is much more painful than I expected. I don’t want to go deep into detail. Researching material, and even just typing, is very difficult because I can’t sit at a desk. So this means I will probably
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Thanks to all of you who took the trouble to wish me well. There are so many I can’t find them on my iPad. The Wednesday surgery went off with no hitches. By 5 p.m. the nurses had me taking a few steps. As of Thursday 1:10
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By the time you read this, what you see pictured should be completed. That is hip replacement surgery. Looks ugly. Glad I will be asleep. For me, it was the left one, which has been giving me a lot of problems for the past year. I controlled it with cortisone
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I guess I went about 60 years before ever visiting (interesting word choice) a dermatologist, a.k.a. skin doctor. That was at the recommendation of my GP, a.k.a. General Practitioner, or my family doctor, located deep in South Philly, where I lived for a decade. This was
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I am feeling less wise today than yesterday. (Make up your own jokes.) “It’s a wisdom tooth, you’ll never miss it,” I was assured by Dr. Andrew Miller, my peerless oral surgeon, as he reached for the pliers. Miller is youngish, and my go-to guy for implants. The
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“Medical coverage is a human right.” Says who? Most Democratic candidates. Maybe most Democrats. They talk as if it’s real, but it is aspirational, as make believe as Cinderella. Where does that notion come from? Not from our founding documents. The Declaration promised life, liberty and the pursuit of