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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    @JusticeRider Good to hear from you. I hope you’re doing well! What’s interesting is that my right knee WAS the bad one. I had arthroscopic on it and it felt much better, and then I injured the left one while officiating a high school basketball game (which turned out to be an ACL issue). It...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    @EalingGran Yes, it does still get a little bit warm, and it does still swell up a little bit with a lot of activity. My OS told me this would be normal for a year or so. It isn't intolerable. A little bit of ice after I've been active takes care of it.
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    6 month report: Yesterday marked 6 months post surgery, and I'm happy to report that everything is still going extremely well. I'd say I'm probably about 90% recovered and able to function fully normally with almost no limitations. I was just on a cruise last week and I took the stairs...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    A small milestone today - I was able to put ice skates on and do a little bit of skating for the first time in a few years! Nothing major, just a few laps around the rink. It felt good to be back out there and everything went just fine. The background on that is 15 years ago when my daughter...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    @JusticeRider My surgeon hasn’t tried to recruit me, but she did tell me I’m one of the best recoveries she’s ever seen. I had a follow-up appointment with her over the phone on January 20 and she was shocked that I wasn’t taking any meds at all, not even Tylenol. She said that’s unheard of. The...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    @Layla Thank you! All is still going well. I am in New Mexico for the weekend, back to my old college town for an event hosted by my alma mater that my daughter is in. On Friday morning we had a few hours to kill before her event started, so we decided to go for a little morning hike. This...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    For me it was two things - 1) being able to increase activity level due to not being in pain, and 2) simply cutting down on how much I eat. I looked at the nutritional info for all of our favorite restaurants. I don't know about the UK, but in the US all of the restaurants have to publish that...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    I just had a virtual visit with my OS this week. She said because I was doing really well there was no real need for me to go in - we could just do it over video chat. Of course if it had been an office visit I would have had my BP checked as part of the routine. Oh well, I'll find somewhere...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    @EalingGran Thanks for your response! My resting pulse has actually gone down since my surgery. I need to find a BP cuff and check to see if it has gone down to normal. The last time it was checked was 3 weeks post-op and it was still high. I've been sleeping very well since about the 3 week...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    Quick question: How common is it for blood pressure to spike after TKR? My normal BP is somewhere around 100/60. The last new times I had it checked were in the days and first couple weeks after my surgery, and it was in the range of 138/82. I didn’t think much of it until I got a new...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    @JusticeRider Thank you! We had an amazing time at the parade. Lots of great bands, and so much fun hosting a couple of young ladies from the Japanese band at our home. I had no problem at all making the mile walk from our parking space to our seat. In fact the rest of my party had trouble...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    @Layla Yeah, some of the networks really cheat the bands. The best coverage this year came from KTLA - they gave the band about a minute and a half and even zoomed right in on my daughter for a few seconds. They have their video of the entire parade on their YouTube channel. The National feeds...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    Thanks for stopping by @Layla! We are excited for the Rose Parade tomorrow. It will be my daughter’s second. If you watch on TV look for the Pasadena City College Tournament of Roses Honor Band. She’s one of the high school students who made it in. We are also hosting two young ladies from...
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    TKR Michele's RTKR recovery journey

    Happy New Year, @Cheleigh! Thanks for checking in! Sorry to hear about the illness that spread through your family. I had an adventure of my own. The short story is I got stuck in the Southwest Airlines mess, but it all worked out in the end. I’ll post the full story in my own thread soon...
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    TKR Michele's RTKR recovery journey

    Glad to hear that you’re doing great and able to do most of your traditional holiday activities! I feel like I’m about 75% back to normal, but the last 25% will take a while. My family and I are taking a 2 hour flight to Denver on Friday to spend Christmas with my in-laws, but then we have to...
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    PKR JusticeRider’s rehab adventure

    I also think you are doing really well. I know you've read and commented on my posts that I seem to be having a faster recovery than you are. Truth be told though, I'm probably not much further along than you. I don't have a farm to contend with - I'm a small business owner and my work is...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    @Layla Thank you! I’d say it was a bit more than normal fatigue. Normally I wouldn’t be done and ready to go home by 7 PM - I’d be good for about 25,000 steps. I’m also not quite moving full speed yet. I consider this amazing progress though. At this point I feel like I’m about 75% recovered...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    Thank you, @JusticeRider! Yes, this is definitely what it’s all about. Just a little more than two months post-op and I’m already walking better and with less pain than I have in years. I’m still not out of the woods and have a long ways to go for full recovery, but I couldn’t be more pleased...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    And now the morning after...and everything is fine! My hips, ankles, and back ache from all the walking, but the knee is 100% fine. It's perhaps a tiny bit more swollen than it normally would be, but nothing really noticeable. I'm still going to roll back activity a bit today and tomorrow...
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    TKR Panammaniac’s Recovery Thread

    I did it! Spent 11 hours at Disneyland today. Walked 15,000 steps and held up just fine. I had a foldable cane in my backpack but never took it out. Never rented a wheelchair or scooter. I was getting pretty tired at the end - in fact I was pretty much done at that point - but we had already...
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