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    TKR Spring in my step?

    Thank you @Layla for thinking of me! You're right, temperatures have been much easier, and we've enjoyed some pleasant walks. We managed a three night break further east along the coast to visit my oldest niece and her younger son, lovely to catch up with them in the flesh. And strange to be...
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    TKR Spring in my step?

    Thank you @Layla! All going well, although the dry hot weather has persisted - cooled very slightly, and although there has been some rain around, it largely seems to miss us. So watering the garden is still a major evening activity, and some plants are not looking so great. We've had a few day...
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    TKR Spring in my step?

    Thank you @Layla Not a lot to report! We've had very hot weather with very little relief, so outdoor activities have been very limited. A walk 10 days ago when the temperature was reasonable in the morning down to our local river, alongside and then back in to town for an early lunch - about 3...
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    TKR Spring in my step?

    @sistersinhim I think we were served carp or something similar in a restaurant in Warsaw 30 years ago - very bony! This lake is owned by the water company, people get licences to fish, but there are notices telling the people that they must not fish for food, that fish have to be returned to the...
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    TKR Spring in my step?

    Thank you @Layla All is going well. Last week was excruciatingly hot here; our lovely house is brilliant at enabling us to keep cosy and warm in the winter, not so great at keeping cool in very hot weather. So we ere mostly hunkered down sipping our iced drinks, poor husband suffers with fluid...
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    TKR Spring in my step?

    @benne68 We had a wonderful few days away. We went by train - relatively simple and much more relaxing than driving. We were able to spend an hour or so with my brother and his wife before they went to wedding rehearsal, and then joined them, the happy couple, the groom's parents and various...
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    TKR Spring in my step?

    Thank you @Layla! It is beautifully sunny here - a tad too hot to be outside! Quite a contrast to earlier in the week when there was torrential rain and the evenings were so chilly we had to put the heating back on! We had busy days Thursday and Friday, the first mainly about clothes shopping...
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    TKR Reader's Left TKR Spacer Exchange

    I cannot offer any practical advice, just want to let you know I read your story and hope you can get the answers you need and relief from your pain and frustration. You sound as if you will be a powerful advocate for yourself, but it is a shame you have to expend so much energy in doing that...
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    TKR Spring in my step?

    @ Layla Thank you! Doing well .. despite a little hiccup. Saw the physio last week and she was quite happy with my progress, made a few suggestions for continuing exercises for increasing flexion and strengthening, but said I do not have to go back, though I can if I want up to up to the six...
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    TKR Spring in my step?

    @Layla interesting your research into dry skin after surgery, I do like to find logical explanations to what is going on. I do apply moisturiser after showering, but will try keeping my legs damp when I do it. I've also tried using a heavier ointment on a couple of days which is making a...
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    Bilateral PKR On the other side

    I found a leg rest from backcareonline.co.uk, made by Putnams in the UK for £78.89 that I found very comfortable, it has a washable cover that zips off. Very speedy delivery. Night time I found I couldn't sleep with the wedge, more comfortable on my back with straight leg - yearning for when I...
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    TKR Spring in my step?

    I had a practice walk up and down a nearby hill about 10 days ago, and then my hubby came with me last Sunday and we extended the walk right to the top of the hill coming back a different way. I was tired when we got back home - but he told me we'd covered 2.5 miles. Quite astonished I managed...
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    TKR RunningFree's Second TKR Recovery

    Like you, I cannot take NSAIDs so relied on a combination of codeine and paracetamol when I had my TKR in 2023. From memory, over the first 4 weeks I gradually reduced from 4x30 mg codeine to 2x30 mg, then to 3x 15 mg and by week 7, just the 15 mg at night, all the while taking 2 paracetamol 4...
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    TKR Spring in my step?

    Thank you @Layla, all going well, and I did recover from the gardening! I saw the physio last Thursday and she was very pleased with my progress, a little concerned about some redness around my wound, so she asked the ward doctor to come and have a look - she did not think there was a problem...
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    TKR Spring in my step?

    Whoops - overdid it on Saturday - gazing out at the garden these past 3 weeks, I decided I really had to get outside and do some pruning and cutting back before growth got too advanced. If I had stopped at the 5 plants that did need urgent attention, I might have got away with it, but with the...
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