On The Road Again with Perfect Aim....

AS SON AS i CAN FUNCTION AGAIN...

I wasted allot of time before my surgery playing pool but I'm glad I did it. I had planned on learning how to get this all done and finding the right person to help.

I played allot of pool the last 2 months before the surgery and won a couple of tournys pretty easily. Kind of selfish on my part but I guess I'm a pool player and that's what we do.

I have more rehab to do than I could have ever imagined. So I need to play this one by ear. But i'm going to pursue this with all the passion I have for the game while I rehab and try to put my game back together.

After 3 surgeries in the last 6 months I'm kind of mentally and physically spent. I'm on a daily regiment right now of oxys and percocets right now. Life can end pretty abruptly and it sure would be a shame if something happened to me. I started teaching this aiming technique with a passion to help players everywhere play so much better quickly. So many people out there had the impression that I was just trying to make a buck real quick and I don't blame them because there is so much of that going on that it is just ridiculous.

When something new and exciting that really can change the game quickly suddenly appears people and players have to sort it out from so much other rubbish and I mean rubbish.

If something happened to me it would be a shame that this whole thing would kind of get buried. It would take years for someone to even get close to where I have taken this.

I'm not egotistical but just know how important this is to each and every pool player out there and at every level.

Thank you for the question on here to allow me to answer in this kind of drawn out response.

I plan on pursuing this vigorously with small downloads that will be easy to understand. There is so much that I teach that it is hard to absorb it all too fast.

These will be very affordable also.

Thanks again. The best answer I can give is as soon as I can possibly get it done.
 
I am too........

pocket said:
Looking forward to it Sir.
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This is going to be real fun. Just like telling a story.

It all starts with the eyes and it leads to everything else.

By doing these smaller downloads I can do justice to each and every part. Many which are totally unique in itself.

Now I just need to hurry up and heal.
 
It's been a real battle, totally unexpected on my part...

I had no idea how brutal a knee replacement could be. All I heard was how people were up walking the same day. I had visions in my head of them just getting up and walking?

Not so much like that.

I could step on it the first day but I didn't because of the swelling. The more you try walking on it the more it swells.

The rehab people are telling me it is the most painful surgery and the recovery for the most part is pretty brutal.

Tomorrow will be 2 weeks. I can sit in a chair with my leg straight down but that is about all the further I can bend it for now.

I am looking forward to working out both legs so my stance can get solid again. Ever since about 1997 it's been real bad and so was my balance. Many players don't even think about how solid their stance is but if you've ever lost that stability understanding becomes pretty simple.

I picked up some kind of rash on my back. Hard telling what it is but nothing they could do at the rehab place seemed to help. They tried some cortisone cream and some other type of cream. Neither one really helped. It got so bad sometimes that my shirt would stick to my back a little.

On a scale of 1 to 10 on the itch level this is about an 11 or 12. It's been real terrible.

I had a blood transfusion during the surgery, maybe. Not sure but I signed the papers in case they needed to. But chances are I got it from no bath for about 3 days. Then they just tried to use these wipes on me. These wipes made my skin itch right away.

I thought I was doing real bad with my rehab but I'm seeing it has been no cake walk for none of the people that had new knees checking in.

I can see that I will be playing in a couple of weeks. This should be good rehab by itself alone.

I skipped a couple of meds last night only to wake up in the morning in terrible pain.

I do an extended oxy twice a day and 2 percocets every 4 hours. I don't even want to miss any of these again at least for a week anyway.

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now anyway. The first few days were pretty bleak. I felt like walking again was just a dream. It almost seemed an impossibility. But knowing that thousands of knees have been replaced before me made things a little easier for sure.

I'm going to start scheduling lessons again after the 17th of Nov. and I will stay in the Eau Claire area until the middle of January for sure. So much for avoiding the snow and cold this winter.

And to think this all started out with a sore neck from a car accident in Peoria, Ill about a year and 1/2 ago. Got some good insurance and found out I had a huge cyst on my thyroid, size of a tennis ball. Got that removed,

Got an MRI on my left knee that I injured about 3 years ago. At the same time they gave me a shot of some type of gel in the right knee that was junk already.

Had to get a smashed and torn meniscus surgically repaired. Then I had to have the right one replaced. The gel was like using a bandade where stitches were needed.

Sad thing is I never did get the neck fixed. But the good news is that during all these other recoveries from surgery the meds really help with the neck pain.

I'm pretty drugged up right now but getting pretty bored sitting around in the rehab this weekend.

Can't hardly wait to try out my pool game again with being able to really practice again.

Thanks again everyone for your prayers and support.

Good Night.............:thumbup2::dance:
 
My father has had both knees replaced at the same time. It is tough. But it is worth it in the end, stick through it!
 
genomachino said:
I had no idea how brutal a knee replacement could be. All I heard was how people were up walking the same day. I had visions in my head of them just getting up and walking?

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I am sorry to hear your recovery continues to be painful and difficult.

One friend of mine had the surgery about age 60, and she had a long painful recovery and swears she will never have the other knee replaced no matter what. Another friend, also female, had a knee replaced about age 50 and she was walking well during the first week after surgery, and finished with a pain and medication free rehab by four weeks out - and fifteen years later still has great results from that long-ago surgery.

There is a wide range of outcomes from knee replacement surgery, but I doubt even the surgeons will quote a percentage of how many have a good vs a bad time of it following surgery.

Please try to keep up your posts - many of us lurkers follow you with great interest.

If I had a pain magic wand I would loan it to you for the duration...
 
Thanks you sir for your concern..........

My brother had it allot easier. He had his done about 2 weeks before mine and is doing great. I was in rehab for about 2 weeks after surgery and it still is pretty painful and the range of motion is coming slowly. My brother says that is the secret. Once the range starts coming the pain starts letting up.
I got 90 oxys that they gave me and I know why. And I know why people say that they are never having the other one done.
In the rehab I met 2 people that had the first one done but the newest one was terrible. Pretty tough.

I had this done on the 27th and I hope the magic less pain time is 30 days like with my shoulder surgery about 5 years ago.

I have a pretty high pain tolerance but this really has taken it to another level.

The good news is that I needed this for about 15 years and really bad the last 10 years.

It's kind of nice at my sons house here. I can do some rehab and then hit a couple of balls. Then I can do some more stretching and then throw some dart ball. Mix a little fun with the work.

My focus is pretty short right now. Might be from all the pills.

But if you need a new knee out there anyone you still need to do it. About a 50 50 chance it might be tough or it might be easy. But I pretty much can tell you that everyone is surprised how painful it is. Even the easy ones are painful for awhile.

I need the other one done in the near future and that might be a snap. I just hope the left one holds me up until the right one is healed. Dr Wallace did a scope on the left one and removed the back of the meniscus. That was about 3 months ago. Still pretty weak. She told me the whole knee was in pretty bad shape. She told me I would know when it is time to do that one.

Can't wait to get back on the road but for right now it seems a long ways off.

Just very grateful I have a place to stay while I heal up. many people are not so lucky.

I don't have a place of my own and without my son it would be pretty tough.

Thanks again for your concern. Just doing what I need to do and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
 
I just made the 3 week mark.........

Texdance said:
I am sorry to hear your recovery continues to be painful and difficult.

One friend of mine had the surgery about age 60, and she had a long painful recovery and swears she will never have the other knee replaced no matter what. Another friend, also female, had a knee replaced about age 50 and she was walking well during the first week after surgery, and finished with a pain and medication free rehab by four weeks out - and fifteen years later still has great results from that long-ago surgery.

There is a wide range of outcomes from knee replacement surgery, but I doubt even the surgeons will quote a percentage of how many have a good vs a bad time of it following surgery.

Please try to keep up your posts - many of us lurkers follow you with great interest.

If I had a pain magic wand I would loan it to you for the duration...
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I just hit the 95% mark as far as bending my knee. That's not to say without pain to get there.

Everyday you need to work this knee with stretching and exercises that make it hurt almost as bad as the first week did. You need to continually hurt yourself to get better.

When I go my script for the 90 oxys I was kind of surprised. But not anymore.

Today I will be doing a phone lesson with Harry. He has been waiting patiently for the phone lesson that goes with the Perfect Aim video. There are many others and I hope they will start calling for the phone lesson now because it is so vital to learning this completely.

Had a rough night last night because I told the guy at therapy I needed to really push it yesterday. And push it we did. I woke up about every 4 hours just like clock work to ice and take a couple of oxys. But it seems like that is what it will take to get there.

Many surgeries that we go through in life have that period that you can't focus on things because of the pain and really don't care to do much. This varies with what surgery it is and the amount of sustained pain we experience.

I've had 3 knee surgeries, Back surgery, Shoulder surgery and about 5 other not so major surgeries but this knee replacement wins the pain trophy for sure. Shoulder surgery was pretty brutal but the knee would be spotting the shoulder the 6 7 and 8 ball to be even close to the same.

I go back to the same place for therapy that I went to for rehab and many of the people that had surgery the same time as me are still there so I tend to think there is allot more slow recoveries like mine than fast with less pain.

These people are older than me by 5 to 10 years and this might have a bearing also.

My brother Terry is 10 years younger than me and his rehab has went real well. He was off the pain meds after about 6 days. To me that would almost seem like a miracle comparing what I've felt and am still feeling.

I am so glad I did it though.

Back in 1997 when I first wrecked my knee deer hunting I was playing some pretty good pool. After the surgery I slipped and fell on a patch of ice 2 days later, smashing my right knee into the cement. Then I fell backwards bending it all the way back. They took out the whole meniscus about 2 months later and said I would get 5 years out of it at the most. That was a long time ago, almost 20 years. I wore a brace for most of this time and endured lots of pain.

I quit playing pool in 1999 because I just couldn't play at the level that I did. My stance just wasn't strong enough. Kind of wobbly.

I started again in 2008 with the idea of sharing my Perfect Aim technique but got caught up in trying to play again starting at a lower skill level than I had ever experienced. I had lower back surgery also in 2000 and my back didn't much like the bending that pool required to do. it was a struggle all the way around. But I'm a pool player and we just love to play this game. Regardless.

Now I can get down on a shot and I feel like my legs are as solid as cement. There is no wobble at all. As I stroke the cue my body stays right there and so do the eyes. Something I haven't experienced for many years.

Pretty excited to get this healing all done and see what we got.

Looking forward to my phone lesson with Harry, as I said.

Love this game.........
 
Infact... get off of them (oxy) like now!! / Use Advil (3-4 every 4-6 hours) like we discussed previously. ..3-4 days max... great your neutrician back on board *(and a good multi vitamin and chondroitin etc) ...btw your rehab should NOT see significant swelling (like you've said)... You're pushing it too far in Rehab if this is the case Geno...prolly due to the Oxy making you not care that your hurting yourself. Its masking the discomfort/pain too much... plus you need an ANTI inflammatory on board anyway..

We got you covered with insurance just in time to put the pieces back together for you, now don't do unnecessary harm to mess it all up. Slow and steady wins this race (back to health). Feed your immune system right and get off the Oxy.

Randy
 
What you say makes good sense...........

rhatten said:
Infact... get off of them (oxy) like now!! / Use Advil (3-4 every 4-6 hours) like we discussed previously. ..3-4 days max... great your neutrician back on board *(and a good multi vitamin and chondroitin etc) ...btw your rehab should NOT see significant swelling (like you've said)... You're pushing it too far in Rehab if this is the case Geno...prolly due to the Oxy making you not care that your hurting yourself. Its masking the discomfort/pain too much... plus you need an ANTI inflammatory on board anyway..

We got you covered with insurance just in time to put the pieces back together for you, now don't do unnecessary harm to mess it all up. Slow and steady wins this race (back to health). Feed your immune system right and get off the Oxy.

Randy
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Right above my knee seems to swell and get hard. Those oxys are pretty brutal.
I talked to the doc and he says if I don't get more movement then I am they will have to do a procedure where they put you to sleep and bend it all the way called a manipulation. I'm really trying hard to get it moving further.
when I do my stretching it really hurts for about 5 to 6 hours and sometimes all night. . I was using the ice and oxys but I'm going to get some advil for sure. The outside of my knee is all numb. Maybe this is normal after they cut everything wide open to do the work.
Got therapy at 11:00 AM tomorrow. I'm going to talk to the rehab guy. All my doc did was give me the oxys?
I think I need to give him a call. thanks for the input here.
 
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I didn't have the total knee replacement but have had a reconstructed ACL and torn my knee cap in half. The recovery of total knee was 1/2 the time of what I went through and that was back in 98. Definitely get working on the strengthening and stretching. I will help you get back to a normal routine much faster
 
Have your son sneak out to the farmers coop and buy a DMSO roll on...

They use it on million dollar race horse so using it on a Geno is a no brainer....

Use the roll on.... As soon as the DMSO pools on the skin clean with a wet clean white wash cloth and bottled water..... Repeat 3 times...

The imflamation will go way faster than you can even imagine....

Chris
 
genomachino said:
I see people in here that have had a knee done and now are doing the other. For some the first one was easy and the second one was real tough.

There are so many variables to factor in.

Mine was in bad shape for 18 years. The muscles were real small and I could not exercise it.

Good luck with your wifes knee. If the insurance will pay for it stay at a assisted living place and do everything your supposed to.

When it's time it's time.

Good Luck..............
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Gene, about 5 years ago I had a pretty bad snowboarding accident. On my left knee I tore my ACL. On my right one it was much worse. I severed my ACL and tore up my meniscus. They did reconstructive surgery on the right one and removed meniscus. They wanted to go to rehab, I didn't. They gave me rehab exercises to do at home - I did none. What I did do was stay in bed for a month straight ( with the exception of short walks to fridge for beer) some handfulls of meds, then after a month started taking walks. After bout 6 weeks started hiking in the mountains. By about a year I was walking 10+miles a day. They're ok for now but still some pain once in awhile however drs are telling me that at some point will need a replacement on the right one due to the bone on bone action or whatever. Not looking forward to that but glad to hear ur doing a little better though.
 
It's a grind for sure.........

Those of you that have had knee replacements know what I'm talking about.

The highlight though is seeing a little improvement each week. just when it looks like your not getting anywhere you realize that you can do this again and that again.

Kind of like getting back in stroke playing pool.

Off to therapy at 11:00. These guys are great. They help keep you on track.

Gave a phone lesson to Harry from Canada yesterday. Thought he was right eye dominant. Those are so much fun. Especially when they see that unless they know which eye is dominant for sure they can't manually correct their aim and Harry was no exception.

Good Luck Harry if you read this.

I can focus enough now that I can do the free phone lessons. I will do one or 2 a day so I'm only going to make the offer on this thread.

Late in the afternoon is the only time and some evenings. Just give me a call and be by a table. If I can do it right then we're on. If not I'll set up a time.

This offer is priceless. 715-563-8712 After 4:00 pm central time.
 
It's a small world. I was playing league on Monday and a fellow on the opposing team heard me mention Gene's name and it turns out this fellow plays on Gene's league team@Happy Hollow. Maybe he was joshing me, bout he's a pretty stand up guy.
 
His name is Bill.....

medallio said:
It's a small world. I was playing league on Monday and a fellow on the opposing team heard me mention Gene's name and it turns out this fellow plays on Gene's league team@Happy Hollow. Maybe he was joshing me, bout he's a pretty stand up guy.
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It's the first time in about 15 years that I have played league. Chuck, a friend of mine and captain of the team, asked me to sub one night. I had just had throat surgery and was going to have my left knee scoped. I told Chuck I would sub and if I could would play when possible. Was and did get a new right knee during this period also. As soon as I'm healed up good I'll be back on the road teaching and playing again.

So far I have played just about every week except one. It's really been a treat playing with these guys. The leagues is what keeps pool strong everywhere. It gives the local player a real reason to practice and improve their game.

Another thing that league does is you have to make that one shot for all the bananas when it counts. Hard to get that kind of practice by yourself. Puts a little pressure on the player.

Not only has it been fun playing with these guys but it's fun playing against all the players that I knew from the past and the new up and comers from the area.

And Bill is a stand up guy. I worked with him the other day on his game. it turns out he has ocular vision. He shoots with only one eye like with a gun.

I was really glad I could help him. Bill works real hard at the game and this will help him get to another level. I was so glad to help.

And yes, the world gets smaller every day.;):D.
 
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Tough 2 days but happy ending........

Just needed to share this story.

Could have turned out real bad but I out ran the nutz so to speak.

It all started with my brother telling me that is I needed some extra meds he had them. His knee surgery went real well. He quit taking the pain meds after 6 days. good for him.

So Friday I called him to let him know I would definitely need some. It was exactly the same thing I was taking so it shouldn't really matter I thought.

Friday night he calls me and said I could get them on Sunday morning before the Packer game. I had just barely enough to hold me through till then if I only took one instead of 2.

I get up at 10:00 sunday morning so I could get there about 11:30 and maybe watch some football at his house. As I was ready to leave I checked my messages and he had text me that his wife had thrown out all the meds. I thought Great.

To get the oxys I need a written script. By Sunday night I was in terrible pain. I called the doc on call and she told my I needed a written script from my doctor and that would not be possible until Monday. In fact Monday is when he does his surgeries. She told me I shoud go to the ER and see the physician there, get a script for a few to get me through.

I went to Sacred Heart here in Eau Claire and It took me about 1 1/2 hours to get in and get the script. Off to walgreens I go.

I got there and gave the girl my script and she said it would be about 25 minutes. I went over in the parking lot and sat there still in terrible pain. My leg is just throbbing.

I go back to the window and there is a guy there now and he says they didn't fill it because the insurance won't pay for more until the 27th. I immediately told him I'd pay for them. He says OK. Come back in 20 minutes and it will be ready.

Came back in 20 minutes and the girl is there now and she says I've had the max and they were not allowed to fill this script. I can't get anymore until the 27th.

I called the lady back at the ER and she tried to convince Walgreens that I really needed them. Walgreens told her NO.

I went home and iced up doing the best I could to minimize the pain but nothing I did seemed to help.

Got showered and dressed to go to therapy at 11:00. I called my knee surgeons office and the woman said there would be no problem. She asked me if I got 60 oxys and then another script for 90. I told her no. That all I got was 90. Somehow in the computer it showed the extra 60. This is why I had the trouble at Walgreens. Way too many pills.

After therapy I went to Marshfield clinic, the roads are terrible now and it looks like about 3 inches of real slippery snow so far. As I was picking up the meds the woman asked me for my ID. I couldn't find it. I had it at Walgreens and they might not of given it back to me. I called there but they said no. I tore my car apart but no luck. I drove back to the house and went through everything. No luck.

So I drove through this mini blizzard here and went to the DMV to get a duplicate drivers license.

I went back to Marshfield clinic and finally got the meds.

What a day so far.

Got to go. I have 15 minutes to get back to the Marshfield clinic to see the doc.

Happy ending to a very frustrating day.
 
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