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  1. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    Thank you! I feel so much taller. I do love my new knees. Using a cane for balance but able to walk some without it too. Spring is a good time to recover. Feel better mentally.
  2. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    @Layla wow, 2 months isn't really very long, is it. I went out with friends for the first time since my second surgery Sunday. People are commenting how much better my posture is and how I am taller. I feel tall again. It's amazing. @trinket @Whoodee We are tough people. I find my balance is...
  3. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    I started doing computer work. That time sitting at the computer caused me some soreness. It would have been a better idea to rest longer. Definitely need to improve my balance. I'm using a rollator outside and sometimes a cane inside. The mental part feels tough. Just being patient, and I feel...
  4. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    @Layla really I think it has been going well. Was all just so much to go through
  5. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    @Axx72 thanks. I'm anxiety prone to begin with. It hasn't been easy leaning on bf so much either, for me or him. One day at a time
  6. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    Thanks for asking. I'm still using a cane inside and have a rollator walker for outside. My balance still feels a little wonky. My stamina is better. It's not a fast thing. I get tired pretty easily. I'm only taking extra strength Tylenol now, about every 12 hours. I can see being able to cut...
  7. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    Thank you, it's a big relief
  8. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    Great you're on week 4. I stepped up the ice and elevation and movement today. It's a lot easier now that I have a better handle on the pain meds. Good luck.
  9. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    They gave me a chart of my medications. Last time the nurse wrote down specifically what to take when and I was religious about it. I am going back to that, and Rob is helping me with reminders, plus alarms in phone. You're right, I couldn't do it in my head in this state of mind. Thank you.
  10. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    Thanks. PT guy said getting the swelling down will help. Going into the second week, so elevating and pumping my feet.
  11. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    Thanks so much. The two knees are really different.
  12. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    I spoke to the home nurse this morning and went over everything with the home PT person this afternoon too. I am scheduling alarms in my phone and filling in the scheduling chart. Thank you. You'd think after going through it a few months ago I would have handled it better this time. Enough...
  13. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    Thank you, Marie
  14. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    I had my second replacement, TKR-L, 1/27/23, a little over a week ago. They gave me extra strength Tylenol, 5 mg oxy, and tramadol 50 mg. Instructions Tylenol 2 every 6 hours, oxy every 6 hours for breakout pain, tramadol every 6 hours as needed for severe pain, 7 - 10 pain scale. Not to take...
  15. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    Nov 15th will be my 4 month anniversary for RTKR. Tomorrow I'm going to see the surgeon to start the process for LTKR. I did do a couple of months of PT and I like the PT woman very much, had worked with her before surgery. I get that it's not for everyone, but it helped me, thank goodness. Lots...
  16. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    @hawk2go I went again today with a friend. Ho Chi Minh City, it was hotter and we went after lunch. I had a dizzy spell and had to sit on a fire hydrant for a minute. It's true that chart here about your energy going into your healing. @benne68 I know, that transition from, yay, it's done, I...
  17. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    I decided to take a couple of more weeks before I go back to working. That experience (plus thinking about doing the other knee) put me in a funk for several days. MyChart had some exercises for me, I think it was the prone hamstring curl that irritated my knee. Nixed that. Did resting and...
  18. badkneesnyc

    TKR Ebrown64’s Day 1 LTKR Recovery

    @Bunnyhead that was pretty much the pain meds I did too
  19. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    Yes, it was too soon to do computer work this week, end of week 4. I can put my leg up on a chair and work for about an hour, after that I start getting sore. Live and learn. After this job I am taking more time off. I can take a shower without a shower chair now. That was a good milestone...
  20. badkneesnyc

    TKR Marge's recovery thread RTKR 7/15/22

    First post-op appointment today. Surgeon said I was a star. Made me super happy to hear that. Took x-ray and it looks good. At 115. He said it was up to me if I want to do outside PT but with my progress he didn't consider it necessary. I'm on the fence since I have done a lot of therapy, and I...
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