I had an "incident" today. I tripped, and while I didn't fall, I hyper extended my surgery leg, and caught myself on the closet door. I felt intense pain for a few minutes and then the pain calmed down. Now I'm noticing a grinding type feeling when I bend my knee, but the grinding isn't in my knee it's right where the bottom of my femur is. I don't know if it's been this way the whole time and I just didn't notice it until now, or if I damaged something when I tripped.
I also had my bandage removed today as per dr orders. I have staples in this time with a steri-strip along the incision over the staples. When she took the bandage off I was shocked. The entire area where the bandage was is covered in little tiny blisters, some of them were leaking clear fluid and there's one medium sized blister right at the top of the incision. I have no idea what caused this, the bandage they used was the same type of bandage used in my first surgery. Idk if they were different brands and maybe there was something in the glue that caused this. I know I've never seen anything like it and the blisters burn like the top of my leg is on fire. I did call the doctors office about it and his nurse asked if I could take some pics of it and email them to her so she can forward them to my doctor so he could decide what needed to be done. He ended up calling in some steroids for me. So hopefully that will help them go away, I'm already taking benadryl because my pain meds make me itch sometimes. It's been a very rough day all around :(
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I had an appointment with my doctor on the 21st. They took my staples out and asked all kinds of questions about how well my pain is being managed. The oxycontin they had me on was losing its effectiveness at night while I was trying to sleep so he replaced it with morphine. It's pretty strong stuff lol I sleep alot. However the healing process is going very very nicely. It does swell up a bit if im up on it too long, but it's not even 1/4 as bad as it used to swell before my revision. It doesn't turn that nasty purple red color anymore. He started me in outpatient physical therapy today and at first I was really scared because I've heard so much bad stuff, but it was actually very good. Alot of what the therapist did actually felt good. She had me bend my knee so she could measure it and im at a 114° bend and my extension is at 5, so it's almost straight. She did some things where she would lift my leg up and rest my foot on her arm while allowing my leg to gently stretch and then she would lightly massage the back of my knee while bending it just enough to stretch a little bit and it didn't hurt at all, it felt good lol. We did a bunch of different exercises, all of them gentle and we worked on my gait since I can walk without a walker already, in fact she cleared me off the walker and said I can walk with my cane if I choose to. I can still use my walker if I have to but im not required to anymore.
