Hello from the other side!! I am in my room. I will try to the best of my memory tr to recount the days activities.
9:30 am went to pre-op the usual questions. got all scrubbed down and into bed. The gown I had to put on was a paper /plastic contraption. The nurse told me it does not breath, so the hooked me up to a temperature controlled blower. It worked just different. It took 2 tries to get a good IV in. The down side of no liquids. Also had a 12 lead EKG, My heart was doing fine.
10:00 am to 11:00 was interviewed by the anesthesiologist. The plan Spinal with versed and propofol to keep me under. My OS stopped by for a chat. Plan to do a partial if the rest of my knee looks up to it. I expressed that my only concern, I do have some pain under my patella. Other than that, He was going to thry to cheat the incision slightly in board. I Can kneel on my1.5 year old right PKR, but it does not feel like something I should be doing. I was also informed that he was running a bit behind, surgery delay about an hour.
11:45 was taken back to the OR. I was moved to the OR bed. I was awake for the spinal. It was not as bad as I thought it would be. It was very strainge not being able to feel anything from the waist down.
I remember my OS in the room, said hi, then off to sleep..........
I remember waking up in the OR when they were moving me to recovery. I was awake for the trip to recovery, but it is fuzzy.
around 1:20pm, I think that is the first time I remember. Cant move my feet. slight response from my upper legs. The sensation of not being able to move my feet is mind-blowing!!! If I did not know it was temporary it would have bee terrifying !!!! Was able to get some Ice to chew on, so thirsty!!!
2:00pm. My feet are starting to respond. My leg mussels have all responded to mental commands.
Knee pain 0 still numb, I am sure that is a good thing!
2:30pm. able to wiggle my toes, time to send me to my room for the night.
Got to my room, transferred to the room bed. Daytime nurse tucked me into be all comfy and cozy.....
Got some Tylenol for pain. Doing fine.
4:30 PT arrived. Explained that I tried to over achieve on my Right PKR. I was NOT going to do that again! My biggest issue at the moment,, I feel like I have to PEE!!!
OK let's get you to the bathroom. Here we go first journey for the new baby knee. Carefully swing over to the side of the bed. transfer weight to the legs. so far so good. advance walker slightly forward. Move right leg, move left leg, first step complete on new knee. got to the bathroom fine. Rest of the body did not want to comply with the need to pee request.... I hate failure!!!
Back to bed, try again later. did the usual PT stuff, ankle pumps, gentle heal slides, I only got to about 60 degrees or less. The PT seemed disappointed. She told me I already got to 90 with my leg hanging off the bed. I very nicely told her I will be just fine. I measured my other knee, and I have a ROM of 135 to 140. I tried to overachieve my right PKR, that if NOT happening with my left one. She understood, Tomorrow I will show her the picture of my right if she tries to push.
5:15pm, My OS stopped by. He told my my Patella looked VERY good! He said it looked better that my right. At that point I very nicely asked, do you really remember? He said yes, he has a very visual memory. I believe him He will asked me questions during office visits that we talked about on previous visits. I also told him I was NOT going to abuse his handy-work this time around. My recovery code name it "operation turnip" Other than walking around once in a while, and going to the bathroom. I am going to plant myself in our extra bedroom, Ice, elevate, and take drugs as needed.
6:15 pm Dinner,, Baked zete, some seemed veggies, mellon, a roll, double chocolate truffle something. It was Good!!!
6:45pm, Time to try to Pee again,,,, SUCCESS!!!!!
I feel so much better!!
That is about it for now. I have power for my laptop, Cell phone plugged in got my ear buds to rock out to some good music!
Happy to have gotten a matched set, Right and left PKRs
Rick