AlaskanTKR
graduate
Hi everyone!
First of all - Thank you to all of you wonderful posters! You have made getting prepared for my tkr, the tkr and these first 2 weeks post tkr so much easier. The advice, suggestions and ideas you share are awesome and the fun comments and threads that are just so silly are great to read to help keep spirits high when dealing with all of this! So THANK YOU!
OK - As you can tell I had a very good day! My new knee is 2 weeks old and I got my staples out this afternoon and spoke with the OS for the first time since surgery in a coherent state. He was great about coming in each day I was in the hospital - but - shall we say I was a bit "Spacey"??? Anyway - the 35 staples in my 9 1/2 inch Frankenstein knee came out - and yes it felt like bee stings. Piece of cake! The OS and the nurses were extremely pleased with the inscision. All looked great. Clean, no more ooze and just right!. The layered it with some sort of glue and then tacked on what seemed to be a million steri-strips. He then placed a very nice ace bandage over it. He told me not to get it wet for another week - oh well - that was the bummer - back to baggin' the knee each am for a shower. He checked with the PT notes and was thrilled about the 0 extension. 70 for flexion was ok - but he told me he expects to see me at 110 in 4 weeks.! I guess I had better get cracking. The best thing of all - I got to retire those fancy white stockings - YEAHHHHHHH!!!! I hated those ted things. He said since I am in motion and getting ready to head to school I should be fine without them. If I start to notice any swelling in excess of what I already am dealing with then I might want to wear them. He also though I am very swollen - but just keep icing, elevating, etc. He offered to write me out of work and we both laughed (He knows that I hate being out of work).
It was an excellent visit - I am getting copies of the b4 and after xrays when I go back in 4 weeks. The after pic was great - I am so much straighter and there is a wonderful gap where there was supposed to be. He was thrilled I have already been on the treadmill. I left grinning from ear to ear - and the neat thing was he was smiling too. I feel like I am already on the way to getting back my life!
Bad side - UGHHH I am soooooo tired. We left the house at 1:30. My apt was 2:30, finished at 3:25 - took my sister-in-law and the kids out for an early dinner/late lunch till 4:30. Made a pit stop at her house to let her dog out and finally got back here at 6:30. Long day with no ice and elevation. Now I am elevating and icing my brains out!
Enjoy the night!
Marianne
(By the way - the sun FINALLY came out - Maybe that is why I am so wired!)
First of all - Thank you to all of you wonderful posters! You have made getting prepared for my tkr, the tkr and these first 2 weeks post tkr so much easier. The advice, suggestions and ideas you share are awesome and the fun comments and threads that are just so silly are great to read to help keep spirits high when dealing with all of this! So THANK YOU!
OK - As you can tell I had a very good day! My new knee is 2 weeks old and I got my staples out this afternoon and spoke with the OS for the first time since surgery in a coherent state. He was great about coming in each day I was in the hospital - but - shall we say I was a bit "Spacey"??? Anyway - the 35 staples in my 9 1/2 inch Frankenstein knee came out - and yes it felt like bee stings. Piece of cake! The OS and the nurses were extremely pleased with the inscision. All looked great. Clean, no more ooze and just right!. The layered it with some sort of glue and then tacked on what seemed to be a million steri-strips. He then placed a very nice ace bandage over it. He told me not to get it wet for another week - oh well - that was the bummer - back to baggin' the knee each am for a shower. He checked with the PT notes and was thrilled about the 0 extension. 70 for flexion was ok - but he told me he expects to see me at 110 in 4 weeks.! I guess I had better get cracking. The best thing of all - I got to retire those fancy white stockings - YEAHHHHHHH!!!! I hated those ted things. He said since I am in motion and getting ready to head to school I should be fine without them. If I start to notice any swelling in excess of what I already am dealing with then I might want to wear them. He also though I am very swollen - but just keep icing, elevating, etc. He offered to write me out of work and we both laughed (He knows that I hate being out of work).
It was an excellent visit - I am getting copies of the b4 and after xrays when I go back in 4 weeks. The after pic was great - I am so much straighter and there is a wonderful gap where there was supposed to be. He was thrilled I have already been on the treadmill. I left grinning from ear to ear - and the neat thing was he was smiling too. I feel like I am already on the way to getting back my life!
Bad side - UGHHH I am soooooo tired. We left the house at 1:30. My apt was 2:30, finished at 3:25 - took my sister-in-law and the kids out for an early dinner/late lunch till 4:30. Made a pit stop at her house to let her dog out and finally got back here at 6:30. Long day with no ice and elevation. Now I am elevating and icing my brains out!
Enjoy the night!
Marianne
(By the way - the sun FINALLY came out - Maybe that is why I am so wired!)
United States
