hopeful788
junior member
Hello, got home yesterday, 4 days in the hospital, 6 days rehab. The hospital experience was great, unbelievable, totally professional, all of my needs or expectations were all met far beyond any of my expectations. However, the rehab was another story.
I picked a rehab that was close to my wife's school, (she teaches), so she could stop by and visit on her way home. I picked a nursing home which said specialized in knees and hip rehab. The PT was excellent, but everything else in that place was limiting at best, the good news is, I'm home.
Start outpatient PT today at 3:00 pm and feel pretty good. I want to know a couple of things. I wake up from a somewhat unrestful night sleep, trying to find a position that works for all parts of my body, stiff, and sore. Once I get going, as if I need to warm up the knee, the knee feels good. Once I start my exercises the knee begins swell and I get tried. I been living on raising my leg above my heart, pain meds, ice, ice, and more ice, and then a nap, and than more of the same. Does that sound fairly normal?
My ROM is 88-90 depending on the day. I had my computer with me during the last 10 days, but sitting down and posting seem to be an effort instead of a joy, as it is this morning. Also, I had one other stress I had been dealing with while I was rehabing, my brother stomach cancer surgery.
Thank you all for your prayers and good thoughts, he is now home, half his stomach remove, but they think they got all of the cancer. Won't know until the results of the lab work comes back Monday, but the doctor seem confident that this problem is behind him. Having said all that, my family will be having a very upbeat Thanksgiving. Thank you all for being there for me during the pre and now the post, Bob
I picked a rehab that was close to my wife's school, (she teaches), so she could stop by and visit on her way home. I picked a nursing home which said specialized in knees and hip rehab. The PT was excellent, but everything else in that place was limiting at best, the good news is, I'm home.
Start outpatient PT today at 3:00 pm and feel pretty good. I want to know a couple of things. I wake up from a somewhat unrestful night sleep, trying to find a position that works for all parts of my body, stiff, and sore. Once I get going, as if I need to warm up the knee, the knee feels good. Once I start my exercises the knee begins swell and I get tried. I been living on raising my leg above my heart, pain meds, ice, ice, and more ice, and then a nap, and than more of the same. Does that sound fairly normal?
My ROM is 88-90 depending on the day. I had my computer with me during the last 10 days, but sitting down and posting seem to be an effort instead of a joy, as it is this morning. Also, I had one other stress I had been dealing with while I was rehabing, my brother stomach cancer surgery.
Thank you all for your prayers and good thoughts, he is now home, half his stomach remove, but they think they got all of the cancer. Won't know until the results of the lab work comes back Monday, but the doctor seem confident that this problem is behind him. Having said all that, my family will be having a very upbeat Thanksgiving. Thank you all for being there for me during the pre and now the post, Bob