March 26, 2023 • 5 mins
How has Amanda been coping over the past week?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nations.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Nice to be back at work. It's nice to see
your little smiling face. Albeit I'm seeing you via Skype.
You're at your home studio.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And everywhere say home studio. It's kind of just a desk, really.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Looks good light, set a man in the background.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
There, that's right. This is where Liam studied HC all
those years ago, and it's sort of just you know,
I've moved, and this is where Harley has his VR setup,
so he said, with his car games, He's had to
move that aside so I can do the radio show.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
That i'll I noticed you was rumping a bit.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm plugging and stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm going to go.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
They know I'm halfway through Lamont. But this time last
week I was having a very different experience. I had
a hip replacement last Monday, and it's gone so well.
It really has. And I had one eleven years ago,
and the difference in the technology to me is astonishing.
I'm up and around easily. I'm not in pain. My
(00:55):
leg's a bit achy, but I'm not actually in pain,
and I know it's sorting some painkillersn't there. But these
days also they use robotics so that there's less wear
and tear on the muscle, less pulling of the muscle.
So the recovery is quite extraordinary. And it's still the
same thing though that the surgeon, and my surgeon was
just wonderful. He comes up and he says, I'm just
going to draw on your leg, and so there's a
(01:18):
texture with an arrow as to which leg you're having done.
It comes down to the absolute basics. And every time
someone comes in to give you drugs or whatever it is,
you have to say your name, your date of birth,
check a number on your wrist. It's all cross checked.
But it still comes down to a texture on your leg.
This one amazing, isn't it. So the first night didn't
(01:40):
get a wink of sleep because you're lying in the
hospital bed. You've got oxygen up your nose, and you
know those things they put on your arm for blood pressure.
I had one of those like shin pads on yeah,
but I had one on each calf like shin pads,
like soccer shin pads that would just gosh, take turns
(02:00):
to I guess it's for blood clots and things. So
instead of having a stocking on my leg, this was
moving the blood through, so they inflated at various times
throughout the night, And because there's morphine and stuff involved,
they come in every hour to make sure you're okay.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
How good's morphine? By the way, I can see why
people get into it.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, No, it just made me very, very nauseous. But
at least because I was in the hospital, they were
able to give me stuff, put something in my drip
or I had a little tableg put under my tongue
so that I didn't get nauseous with the pills. So
that stuff was terrific. You know what I did love
and I don't even want to it sounds terrible saying
it out loud. I loved having a catheter in it
because I drank about ten bottles of water every day
(02:40):
and didn't have to hurl myself out of the bed
using that the brace above the bed crutches on and
go to the loop. But I didn't have to go
to the toilet.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Does it feel like I've won with a catheter? Does
it feel like you need to do a week so
you don't get that sensation.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You never get that sensation, So you just drink and
drink and drink cups of tea, bottels of water whatever
it is, prune juice at one point because we needed
to get things moving and I will for number two.
Now I had to go to the tour. It's not
like that, as I discovered. No, no, I'm joking, but
the capita is just for number one.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yes, that's good information now.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
But there was one point where I thought, oh, I
feel like I need to go to the loop. I thought,
hang on, I've want a catheter, and the nurse said,
I'll just check it for you. Because sometimes if there's
a slight kink in it, or there's an air bubble
or something, it can touch on the nerves that make
you think you need to go to the loop. But
other than that, I'd like to get that for long cust.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yes, or midnight final show. Because I was right up
the front of the stage. I don't want to lose
my spot. I don't want to do a Molly meldrum.
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It's interesting too for the first Earth see you for
the first miss you miss Molly. No I know, or
I read it all the first I thought, this is
the slowest moving day of all time. Every time I
look up it's two thirty and I realized the next
hours looking the temperature on the air conditioning and someone
(04:04):
I was at St. Vincent's private hospital, which was just magnificent.
The staff were wonderful, the.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Food was good.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It was just great. And someone from pastoral care came
around and she said, are you okay? Do you need
anything for me to sit with you? And I said, look, really,
I'm fine. And she said, it's so interesting that women
say I'm fine, I'm enjoying the quiet time. Whereas men,
she said, often they're from places out of Sydney and
they're on their own. They're out of their comfort zone,
(04:31):
and they often want someone to come and sit and
talk to them because they lost, they don't know what
to do, Whereas women take advantage of the peace and
quiet and say, no, please leave me alone. I'm enjoying
this part.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That could be a side hustle. You just get ladies
to go for a little procedure.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, And I thought that because often that's the only
time we give ourselves a break, is when we're in hospital.
And I thought, maybe we should pretend we're having procedures. Yep,
just say women's business. Go to a lovely hotel, get
a fake receipt that says you've been in hospital, enjoy
the sandwiches, enjoy a glass of wine, and then go
home again the next day.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And maybe that catheter thing, we should work.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
On that as well. Let's work on the catheter social.
Catheter social.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's a new society. We'll sign Molly meldrem up.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And thank you to everyone who has been so kind
and asking how I'm getting on and sharing their stories
as well. All is well, and I'm doing very well,
and thank you
Jersey and Amanda jam Nations.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Nice to be back at work. It's nice to see
your little smiling face. Albeit I'm seeing you via Skype.
You're at your home studio.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And everywhere say home studio. It's kind of just a desk, really.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Looks good light, set a man in the background.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
There, that's right. This is where Liam studied HC all
those years ago, and it's sort of just you know,
I've moved, and this is where Harley has his VR setup,
so he said, with his car games, He's had to
move that aside so I can do the radio show.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
That i'll I noticed you was rumping a bit.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm plugging and stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm going to go.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
They know I'm halfway through Lamont. But this time last
week I was having a very different experience. I had
a hip replacement last Monday, and it's gone so well.
It really has. And I had one eleven years ago,
and the difference in the technology to me is astonishing.
I'm up and around easily. I'm not in pain. My
(00:55):
leg's a bit achy, but I'm not actually in pain,
and I know it's sorting some painkillersn't there. But these
days also they use robotics so that there's less wear
and tear on the muscle, less pulling of the muscle.
So the recovery is quite extraordinary. And it's still the
same thing though that the surgeon, and my surgeon was
just wonderful. He comes up and he says, I'm just
going to draw on your leg, and so there's a
(01:18):
texture with an arrow as to which leg you're having done.
It comes down to the absolute basics. And every time
someone comes in to give you drugs or whatever it is,
you have to say your name, your date of birth,
check a number on your wrist. It's all cross checked.
But it still comes down to a texture on your leg.
This one amazing, isn't it. So the first night didn't
(01:40):
get a wink of sleep because you're lying in the
hospital bed. You've got oxygen up your nose, and you
know those things they put on your arm for blood pressure.
I had one of those like shin pads on yeah,
but I had one on each calf like shin pads,
like soccer shin pads that would just gosh, take turns
(02:00):
to I guess it's for blood clots and things. So
instead of having a stocking on my leg, this was
moving the blood through, so they inflated at various times
throughout the night, And because there's morphine and stuff involved,
they come in every hour to make sure you're okay.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
How good's morphine? By the way, I can see why
people get into it.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, No, it just made me very, very nauseous. But
at least because I was in the hospital, they were
able to give me stuff, put something in my drip
or I had a little tableg put under my tongue
so that I didn't get nauseous with the pills. So
that stuff was terrific. You know what I did love
and I don't even want to it sounds terrible saying
it out loud. I loved having a catheter in it
because I drank about ten bottles of water every day
(02:40):
and didn't have to hurl myself out of the bed
using that the brace above the bed crutches on and
go to the loop. But I didn't have to go
to the toilet.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Does it feel like I've won with a catheter? Does
it feel like you need to do a week so
you don't get that sensation.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You never get that sensation, So you just drink and
drink and drink cups of tea, bottels of water whatever
it is, prune juice at one point because we needed
to get things moving and I will for number two.
Now I had to go to the tour. It's not
like that, as I discovered. No, no, I'm joking, but
the capita is just for number one.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yes, that's good information now.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
But there was one point where I thought, oh, I
feel like I need to go to the loop. I thought,
hang on, I've want a catheter, and the nurse said,
I'll just check it for you. Because sometimes if there's
a slight kink in it, or there's an air bubble
or something, it can touch on the nerves that make
you think you need to go to the loop. But
other than that, I'd like to get that for long cust.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yes, or midnight final show. Because I was right up
the front of the stage. I don't want to lose
my spot. I don't want to do a Molly meldrum.
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It's interesting too for the first Earth see you for
the first miss you miss Molly. No I know, or
I read it all the first I thought, this is
the slowest moving day of all time. Every time I
look up it's two thirty and I realized the next
hours looking the temperature on the air conditioning and someone
(04:04):
I was at St. Vincent's private hospital, which was just magnificent.
The staff were wonderful, the.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Food was good.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It was just great. And someone from pastoral care came
around and she said, are you okay? Do you need
anything for me to sit with you? And I said, look, really,
I'm fine. And she said, it's so interesting that women
say I'm fine, I'm enjoying the quiet time. Whereas men,
she said, often they're from places out of Sydney and
they're on their own. They're out of their comfort zone,
(04:31):
and they often want someone to come and sit and
talk to them because they lost, they don't know what
to do, Whereas women take advantage of the peace and
quiet and say, no, please leave me alone. I'm enjoying
this part.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That could be a side hustle. You just get ladies
to go for a little procedure.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, And I thought that because often that's the only
time we give ourselves a break, is when we're in hospital.
And I thought, maybe we should pretend we're having procedures. Yep,
just say women's business. Go to a lovely hotel, get
a fake receipt that says you've been in hospital, enjoy
the sandwiches, enjoy a glass of wine, and then go
home again the next day.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And maybe that catheter thing, we should work.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
On that as well. Let's work on the catheter social.
Catheter social.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's a new society. We'll sign Molly meldrem up.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And thank you to everyone who has been so kind
and asking how I'm getting on and sharing their stories
as well. All is well, and I'm doing very well,
and thank you
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