I'm done for the year

j_h_smith · Sep 30, 2014

Seems like my left knee doesn't want me in the woods anymore this year. I can walk on level ground (kind of), but getting out into the woods tonight ended up with me not getting to my stand and turning around and almost having to crawl the last 30 yards, back to my house. I could probably make it another couple of days if I took my meds, but I don't think I want to be climbing nor hunting with a crossbow being under the influence. I may be able to make it into the woods after the first of the year, but that may be a little too ambitious.

So,hopefully the 2 10 pointers and the giant 8 pointer live for another year and I get another shot at them next year.

Good hunting to all and may you keep your powder dry!
Jim Smith

PHRFcrewman · Oct 1, 2014

I hope you feel better soon.
I'm dreading the time my knees gives up on me.

marko12 · Oct 1, 2014

I know the feeling all too well, total replacement of the left knee and now the right knee is acting up with a banker (sp) cyst that burst and doubled the size of my right leg.

Hope you are doing better than me.

j_h_smith · Oct 1, 2014

marko12 said:
I know the feeling all too well, total replacement of the left knee and now the right knee is acting up with a banker (sp) cyst that burst and doubled the size of my right leg.

Hope you are doing better than me.

I had my pre-op doctor's appointment today and he moved it in unnatural ways that just took it's toll. He also gave me another cortisone shot in my other knee, just so I can make it through therapy. The right knee will be replaced sometime next year, maybe June. I'll be out of work until at least January with this knee, then I'll go back to work for 6 months and then I'll be off again for the other knee.

I really enjoyed playing lacrosse as a kid. Never thought I'd have this much trouble now.

fabsroman · Oct 1, 2014

Hope you are back out there the first of 2015. As my father in-law says, "getting old SUCKS, but the alternative SUCKS even more."

vinjet700 · Oct 1, 2014

j_h_smith said:
Seems like my left knee doesn't want me in the woods anymore this year. I can walk on level ground (kind of), but getting out into the woods tonight ended up with me not getting to my stand and turning around and almost having to crawl the last 30 yards, back to my house. I could probably make it another couple of days if I took my meds, but I don't think I want to be climbing nor hunting with a crossbow being under the influence. I may be able to make it into the woods after the first of the year, but that may be a little too ambitious.

So,hopefully the 2 10 pointers and the giant 8 pointer live for another year and I get another shot at them next year.

Good hunting to all and may you keep your powder dry!
Jim Smith

Hope you get to feeling better soon. my knees are really starting to bother me too, HOWEVER if the 2 10 pointers and the giant 8 pointer really just get on your last nerve, just let me know and ill be happy to take care of them for you. :innocent0

just sayin....

j_h_smith · Oct 1, 2014

vinjet700 said:
Hope you get to feeling better soon. my knees are really starting to bother me too, HOWEVER if the 2 10 pointers and the giant 8 pointer really just get on your last nerve, just let me know and ill be happy to take care of them for you. just sayin....

The wife and I have this standing argument about the deer. We moved in a little more than 2 years ago. She got to enjoy them the first fall and I let her have them again last fall, but I told her, they are mine this year. So, I don't know (in my wife's mind) what our agreement will be for next year. If that giant 8 pointer continues to grow like he has over the last 2 years, he's going to be spectacular next year.

Thanks!
Jim Smith

outrider58 · Oct 1, 2014

Good luck with your surgery and be sure to take your pain meds as directed before your PT sessions. Very important.
Next year they may be 12 pointers!

j_h_smith · Oct 1, 2014

outrider58 said:
Good luck with your surgery and be sure to take your pain meds as directed before your PT sessions. Very important.
Next year they may be 12 pointers!

Thank you!

Jim Smith

Alea Jacta Est · Oct 1, 2014

Feel better soon. Hope your surgery goes well.

Bad knees suck. I'm not sure I would have done the sports thing any other way growing up... That said, I might have done it with a touch less vigor. Maybe not. Who knew??

I echo the offer to help you with your excess venison problem and hope you'll at least post pics this year or next year.

Good luck. Take it easy, literally.

wilcam47 · Oct 1, 2014

sorry to hear that, hope you heal up quick. and get you PT appointment in ASAP...if not you can end up having more troubles...as my wife did with her shoulder surgery..Good luck!

j_h_smith · Oct 1, 2014

Thanks, I've got 10 days of in house PT and I already have my outpatient PT set up. We're going to get this one right, so I can have the other knee done around June 2015.

I was too chicken to have them both done at the same time. Plus the wife needs to work so I can still keep up with my hobbies...That bang you heard was a frying pan coming into contact with my head.

Thanks Again!
Jim Smith

iH8DemLibz · Oct 1, 2014

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Go all Afghan sniper wannabe on those deer from your house.

Or go Mogadishu on them. "Bambi Be Down".

Don't give up and do get well.

j_h_smith · Oct 1, 2014

iH8DemLibz said:
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Go all Afghan sniper wannabe on those deer from your house.

Or go Mogadishu on them. "Bambi Be Down".

Don't give up and do get well.

I was thinking a suppressed 308 could work...yeah, that's the ticket...

Jim Smith

Lou45 · Oct 1, 2014

Good luck wiff da' knee. :thumbsup:

Inigoes · Oct 1, 2014

Get a handicap license, and hunt from a vehicle

http://dnr2.maryland.gov/Documents/vehiclept.pdf

http://dnr2.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/udpexplanation.aspx

Get well soon

j_h_smith · Oct 1, 2014

Lou45 said:
Good luck wiff da' knee.

Thanks Lou, I'll be seeing "Citizen Lou" at the show on Saturday.

Jim Smith

j_h_smith · Oct 1, 2014

Inigoes said:
Get a handicap license, and hunt from a vehicle

http://dnr2.maryland.gov/Documents/vehiclept.pdf

http://dnr2.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/udpexplanation.aspx

Get well soon

That would be cool, but my land is kinda hard to get to by vehicle. I'm just hoping I'll be able to make it up and down my steps, much less out in the woods. But ya never know what a late season turn around could do for me. I'm hoping for the best but preparing for the worse.

Thanks to all,
Jim Smith

Inigoes · Oct 1, 2014

That's a good reason to go buy a UTV.

ATVs might be too much, since you sit on them like a motorcycle.

G O B · Oct 1, 2014

I had the right knee replaced after it collapsed from 30years of no cartilage.
If you are going to have BOTH knees replaced, do them BOTH at the same time. The recovery time for 2 at once is a a lot less than the total of doing them consecutively.
Hurt me once and get it over with!

As far as hunting from a vehicle----
Years ago my first wife's father had part of a lung removed. He was still in bandages and had no use of his left arm. His hunt club buddies took him along to West Va. for a hunt. All the way there (they drove HIS car) everyone was ribbing him that it was time to sell them his rifle and fishing rod as he would have no more use of them.
Everyone else left Marcus at the car as walking was still hard for him. While they were out getting no where, a deer came to the edge of the clearing. It totally ignored him. So he quietly got out and pulled his Marlin .32 from the trunk. The deer still grazed at the edge of the clearing so he quietly chambered a round and one handed he braced the but stock on the B pillar of his70 Plymouth and dropped him!
When his buddies got back to the car empty handed Marcus had driven the car over to the deer, managed to get a rope over a tree branch and used the car to hang it. He had even dressed it one handed!

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