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From the Lardins
Hopefully 2016 will be a better year for John health wise than 2015 was. His lasts bout involved his right hip. He saw Dr. Lennox on Thur., 12, 17, and x-rays revealed he had a severe case of osteoarthritis in his right hip, back and left hip and the pain in the left hip should be overbearing though John has never had any pain on that side. The pain on his right side was more in his thigh and it became too painful to put up with, making me hard to walk and sleep. Back to the Doctor on
Tues., 12/29, to fill out paperwork and have cortisone shot scheduled for the 31st of Dec. They called on 12/30 and because of cancellations were able to do it on Wed. The surgery was successful up to the point of a reaction that only 2% get from the cortisone shots called a cortisone slare anywhere to 24 to 48 hours after surgery. One of the effects of the reaction is 24 plus hours of pain worse than the pain before the shot. Fortunately John did make it through the pain with a lot of TLC from Judy and is finally on the plus side of recovery. They plan on leaving for Ft. Myers FL on Thur., 1, 7, and returning back to MI on April 12th. Mid December had Judy and John making another trip to Corpus Christi TX to celebrate granddaughter Christine birthday leaving on Thur., 12, 10, and returning on Mon., 12, 14, along with Christmas. The trip was good with no flight delays and no overbooking on either part of the trip. By the time most read this we will be in FL only five days late but it seems like two weeks to John.
