Ok - 9 days post op - a few issues, problems, observations. Have no idea if mine was typical or worse as I talked to the doc for maaaybe 3 min since then.
Went home the day after, a Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday sucked - first full day at home. Watch out for that day it can be rough - fully off the hospital meds/blocks whatever, takes time to kind of recenter at home.
Had first PT that thursday, 3 days after surgery. Pretty gentle, the person was much easier then the lady at the hospital, gave me a break on the quad exercises cuz they were just not happening at all. all in all it was encouraging.
Days 3-5 were just pushing the walker around the house, playing nintendo, eating frozen food.
Monday was 1 week, had another PT appt, this on they started up on the stretching. Extentions hurt more then bending for me, maybe because i haven't been able to straighten my leg before this for years anyway.
Day 9 now - had another PT appt - more pushing etc. range of motion at about 5%-90%. Fully off the walker just using a single crutch - driving aroung myself, went to sons basketball game monday night. Have yet to sleep for more that like 2hrs at a stretch.
So all seems to be progressing ok on paper - but have a few big nitpicks.
1) Pain Meds - lemme know if anyone else had this problem. When i went home on the 10th, i had a prescription for 60 x 5mg Oxycodone tabs. Now I have had a bunch of knee surgeries, lots of prescriptions, never had any addiction probs or anything. But they flat work for me for pain so I am not afraid to use them. They say take 2 every 4 hrs for pain. Well - for the 1st 4 days , I am taking those on the button, plus overnight as it hurts worse then. So I went through 40 of those in 4 days easy on steady dosing.
At that point PT starting, weekend coming up, I could have started milking those remaining 20 if i needed to. But used them during the night and after walking around, under the impression that it's best to "stay ahead of the pain", and I would "call my care team for a refill if needed". Guess what - I
call on Tuesday morning when out, get a refill prescription, try to fill it, and am told by law they cannot fill it until the 20th. .. .. .. That means those 60 tabs needed to stretch 10 days - only no-one told me this at all! I am totally out of luck until Friday now, stuck taking Tylenol and icing it - means no sleep at all cuz it aches so bad. Law is Law - but I am annoyed. I sit up at night hurting because no one warned me about it at all.
2) My 2 weeks post op was supposed to be the 23rd. But the scheduled it in the 30th for coverage. Got a call yesterday they have to reschedule to Jan 2nd. This means I'll have my staples in there for almost 4 weeks, which is gonna suck when they try to remove, but also I am into 2020, under new year deductible, so its gonna cost me another 150 bucks or something. And my PT guy said i shouldn't bend it much past 90 with staples, so its gonna limit my recovery.
Beyond those 2 things hacking me off, I am OK with recovery so far. Getting around much better on the crutch, quad is starting to work again tho it hurts bad, and cannot sleep at all because it just aches so bad overnight.
Welcome questions/comments, anyone needing a shoulder.