Oh, I forgot to count the staples when we were changing the dressing last night. I just looked at a photo and it looks like there are something like 28 of them. They come out Monday after next. I have a very basic light bandage on the incision, which the hospital nurse said I should just use until it seals up and stops leaking. Then there are two puncture wounds, one of which was the drain. I don't know what the other one was for. My OS is not a wealth of information. He did stop by twice, but basically all he said was that I had a really bad knee, and that he had to do a lot of work on it, and another time that I had a lot of surgery compared to some others. As far as the nuts and bolts of all that, I don't really know what specifically he had to do that was extra.
I do know that I now have a Stryker Triathalon knee in there, and it's stable! And I list to the starboard when standing up to pee now. Guess I better start adjusting for a new windage.
Oh, the CPM. I had read here that some people hated it. I did not hate it at all. I cranked it up to 90 degrees and -10 the first morning after surgery. I had it at 100 degrees before they took it away from me yesterday. It was relaxing. I could have fallen asleep with it. So for those who are just starting down this trail, I would say not to fear the CPM machine. Heck, I wish I had one here at the hotel. It gave me no pain at all.
Wednesday night after they pulled the catheter out I was sneaking off to the bathroom in the hospital alone, without calling the nurse, just to do it. They had me listed as a "fall risk" on the paperwork, since I had two bad knees to start with, and told me I was not to get up unassisted. Ha! Us old rebels don't put up with that!