Sometimes pillows on the seat of a recliner can throw the positioning of back and/or neck cushions off so be sure and test before planning on sleeping much in it.
Yes, I was thinking about that! It is so hard to test beforehand, as I can get into it fine now!..I just can't imagine how it is going to be when I can hardly bend my knees! I don't need to use a recliner now. I sit on a sofa with a high back, and I have a big footstool the same height as the seat, upon which I put a cushion on top to support my legs. especially my right one. So I will just have to try it out and see. Hopefully after a couple of weeks I will be able to get in the recliner without a higher cushion.
he cautioned that you have to be very careful that the chair won't slide off the platform when it's raised/lowered or tilt so far back that it topples over backward.
I hear you! so I don't think I am going to try to go down that route! I think the recliner will be good for napping, and getting my legs high, but I'm hoping that it won't be too long before I can get back on my sofa!, where I like to be.
I have bought a leg wedge for the bed, and could use that on my footstool eventually too!
I've been using the 4" high throne on my toilet for years also and believe me it's not one bit too high for me but I'm 5'4" so don't know your height.
I'm 5'2" Iused to have 1/2 more than that, but I expect I have lost that 1/2 inch now! Hoping I'll get it back, with straighter legs!
I don't know that I'd trust velcro
I hear you. It was a cheap one, so if the OT offers me another better one, I'll take that! I know that the OT attached to my unit doesn't cover where I live, so she will have to communicate with the OT who does, and I could just forsee delays in getting the equipment to me. It is obviously in the early days that you need it the most, so for peace of mind I have been getting some in myself, especially as there are two bathrooms that I will be using.
someone has promised me a walker
I have got two walkers! They were my mothers. She was shorter than me, but the handles can easily be raised up, a bit like bicycle handlebars. I imagine if the physio says I should manage with crutches I will try to manage with those, but it is good to have a walker on hand, just in case I find the crutches too difficult in the early days.
things are quite different in different areas and with different surgeons, etc. so it's hard to know what to expect.
Absolutely and in different countries especially! All the talk about different insurances, and what they will pay for, is quite beyond my experience! I think it makes those of you in the US, better informed beforehand, as you go through the process of choosing a surgeon. We do have some choice here, but from a more limited range I think. Many of us accept the advice of our gp, as to which surgeon we are referred to, we are maybe more trusting!, which is not necessarily to our advantage. I did a little more research, and chose a knee specialist with a good reputation who works in a well respected, and facilitated stand alone Ortho Unit with 0% rate of
MRSA infection. However many of your compatriots, have gone into the OS decision making process far more thoroughly than I have.
so let's all keep in touch
Absolutely!! We're stronger together!!
Canada
I am one of those who goes into overdrive when faced with something big like this!...my husband says I am obsessed, and he is probably right! I think it is just my way of trying to have some control over something, which, on the day when I have given myself to the care of my OS and anaesthetist, I will have no control over! 
because on one else bid for it, so I got it for a ridiculously low price.....so now I am sorted for both my loos!! doesn't matter what the OT is able to supply, I know in advance I will be fine. It is quite movable too, (although stable) so others will be able to move it out of the way, when they want to use the loo normally! (more hygienic anyway, to keep it just for me!! ) 
