https://rons-home.net/en/blog Stay up to date with Ron Piggott's day to day life, activites and efforts to serve individuals living with chronic pain, physical disabilities and those who rely on a wheelchair for their mobility. https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3410 I have broke the mattress I purchased 6 years ago. It has springs in the bottom layer. The springs bent outwards where I have my electric hospital bed positioned to support my body and reduce pain. It is no longer usable. I have done the re https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3410 2026-05-30 13:38:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3409 I had the first appointment after my right knee joint was replaced with my surgeon. It was sufficiently unpleasant. My pain flared up really bad about an hour before this appointment. I had to use the anti-nausea medication. The medication to https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3409 2026-05-28 12:08:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3408 I have sent the following suggestion to Kingston General Hospital after being an inpatient from April 24th to 30th 2026: I have a suggestion I want to make. I am approaching you in the hopes you'd add momentum to it. This is for all the inpatient https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3408 2026-05-25 19:18:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3407 About 3cm of my right knee replacement incision doesn't want to close. My family doctor told me "slough" formed. The area of my incision that is affected is in a degraded state of healing. It can lag behind by up to 3 months. It became infecte https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3407 2026-05-25 09:53:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3406 I have the "white coat syndrome". My blood pressure readings are typically high until I've been at the doctor or hospital for a few hours. The reason why is pretty simple. It isn't anxiety. I go to my medical appointments to face my orthopaedic https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3406 2026-05-21 19:27:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3405 It worked. The additional dose I got yesterday for my nerve has worked. I haven't been out of nerve pain during the pay time for 2 freaking weeks. I can really get use to this. I need to send my family doctor a thank you card. https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3405 2026-05-21 09:04:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3404 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3404 2026-05-20 20:09:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3403 The prescription my family doctor gave me has now been counted and I have the medication. This is a medication I have already been using for nerve pain. We have upped the dose by 10 mg. We did this last summer when the seroma kept drainin https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3403 2026-05-20 11:33:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3402 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3402 2026-05-19 11:33:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3401 The recovery from surgery took a serious turn. I have an infection in my new artificial knee joint. I caught the infection at the start. Over the past 24 hours the swelling has gone down in my right knee, lower leg and right foot. About https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3401 2026-05-18 17:24:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3400 I developed all the classic signs of an infection with my right knee replacement incision. I made an appointment with my family doctor's after hours service. I have been prescribed a 7 day course of antibiotics. Two instances of slough formed whe https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3400 2026-05-17 13:17:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3399 I have a hamster for a house mate now. My hamster is extremely stressed. He was hissing at the pet store staff out of pure fear when they were moving him into a box to bring to my home. This is the step before the hamster start biting to def https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3399 2026-05-15 16:11:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3398 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3398 2026-05-11 10:59:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3397 My recovery has taken a turn for a worse. It is going to take a bit of explaining. Instead of using stitches or staples to close the incision my surgeon uses a product called DermaBond. It is a 2 part product. A mesh is applied evenly over the in https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3397 2026-05-11 08:23:00+00 https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3396 The peddle exerciser that I ordered has arrived. I am hoping to use this to make gentle arcs. I am planning to peddle to higher edge of my range of motion, hold it for 5 seconds and then peddle to the lower edge of my range of motion. I am reall https://rons-home.net/en/blog/read/3396 2026-05-10 14:08:00+00