Phil from the Bustednuckles Blogwill be having MAJOR surgery Tuesday to repair some circulation issues. I have posted his most recent update below.
Please be Praying for Him and his Family! 🙏
Let’s not Forget that this is what the Christmas Season is really about: Celebrating the Birth of the Lord Jesus Christ by Showing the LOVE of Christ in All We Do!
After 19 months of fucking around with doctors and having every test you can imagine and some more than once, I am going in to have 2 stents put in on Tuesday.
In case you weren’t aware, I have 8 plugged arteries between my belly button and my ankles.
This is causing a lack of blood flow to my legs which has led to a severe lack of mobility. I can’t walk 100 feet without having to stop because my calves and shins cramp like a dirty bitch. Both of my feet have neuropathy and the toes are kinda numb plus my lower back has been fucked up for 45 years too with a fusion and a blown out disc.
So the lady vascular surgeon I have is going to go in through my groin on both sides and put a stent in on either side where the aorta splits in two.
Called the iliac arteries at that point.
One side is going to have an incision and the other side she is going to poke through with a tiny catheter.
Whether or not this is going to improve the blood flow to my legs is anyone’s guess at this point but she says because the clots in my legs are so bad that no surgeon would touch them. Oh yeah, the artery going to my right kidney is 90% plugged and the two arteries that wrap around and go to my butt cheeks are also clogged.
This may improve that condition.
So anyways, this kinda came out of nowhere after all this fucking around with these damn doctors but I told her that I needed this to happen before the end of the year because I have paid so much in doctor bills that I would have paid my out of pocket deductible limit and the insurance company would pay for this whole thing without costing me anymore money.
I laid out almost $2,000 yesterday and paid off one hospital bill and that should have put me over the top for that to happen.
That is good because this is going to be wicked expensive.
She says I’ll be in the hospital for 3-5 days, I kept saying three and she kept saying 3-5 until she got frustrated. She’s a good lady, a youngish lady with Vietnamese heritage. She gets a kick out of me because I am so ornery and she likes the hats I wear saying I won’t comply and I identify as a pissed off American. So she has a sense of humor which I require.
So there it is. I’ll be gone for a couple days at least probably, I’m going to try and get my laptop in there so I don’t go insane because of course, gotta give up the smoking and can’t smoke in the hospitals anymore like ya could back in the day.
Fuckin’ Commies anyway.
There is of course, a lotta things that could go sideways here but I’m hoping for the best and going in hoping this will help at least a little.
Wish me luck and pray for The Wifely Unit because she is going to be worried.
