JamesAB
member
Hi, thought you might like an update on my recovery following my Patella resurfacing on January 5th:
Pain not too bad and easily manageable with paracetamol. Experiencing quite a degree of swelling but I expect this to reduce before too long.
Having some trouble sleeping, I'm waking up every 75 minutes or so either to use my urine bottle or waking up prompts me to do so! This is a real pain!
I find it difficult to turn over in bed at the moment and I tend to rotate every so often which is not doing my vulnerable back much good.
I have been doing various exercises to get the knee mobile.
Relying heavily on the bannisters I can haul myself up to the attic where I spend most of the day playing games on my Computer! (It's an ill wind, as they say)
Tomorrow I have to change the wound dressing. The dressing is quite impregnated with dried blood (The wound stopped bleeding about 48 hours ago)
I phoned the hospital to ask how I should clean the wound (not having any sterile solutions) and they said don't, just peel the dressing off and apply the new one. I think I'll probably have to clean the area of skin where the dressing adhesive will be applied as some blood has seeped through, but that's all. The dressing is licenced for 7 days and on the 16th January can be removed completely. No clips were uses to close the wound, just dissolvable sutures.
Regards, Jim
Pain not too bad and easily manageable with paracetamol. Experiencing quite a degree of swelling but I expect this to reduce before too long.
Having some trouble sleeping, I'm waking up every 75 minutes or so either to use my urine bottle or waking up prompts me to do so! This is a real pain!
I find it difficult to turn over in bed at the moment and I tend to rotate every so often which is not doing my vulnerable back much good.
I have been doing various exercises to get the knee mobile.
Relying heavily on the bannisters I can haul myself up to the attic where I spend most of the day playing games on my Computer! (It's an ill wind, as they say)
Tomorrow I have to change the wound dressing. The dressing is quite impregnated with dried blood (The wound stopped bleeding about 48 hours ago)
I phoned the hospital to ask how I should clean the wound (not having any sterile solutions) and they said don't, just peel the dressing off and apply the new one. I think I'll probably have to clean the area of skin where the dressing adhesive will be applied as some blood has seeped through, but that's all. The dressing is licenced for 7 days and on the 16th January can be removed completely. No clips were uses to close the wound, just dissolvable sutures.
Regards, Jim