@Jockette I’ve been thinking about getting one of those toilet seats from Amazon but I was worried about their stability. Good to know that they are manageable. It makes me crazy to request a handicapped room and discover that all they’ve done is add a handrail.
@Jolease no I’ve never tried elbow crutches. I’ve thought of 2 trekking poles. I just need a small amount of support on each side. I can walk with a cane, but after even a short distance my leg gets so weak that I start to limp, and that’s what I’m trying to avoid. My knees were severely valgus for a few years before my back surgery in 2016, so I’ve had an altered gate for probably 5 - 6 years. I feel like PT will start me on some more exercises next week, but my OS has put restrictions on them, I’m glad about that, but at the same time I want to be able to see some progress. I feel like this is the slowest recovery that I’ve been through.
@eelainea65 you are so right. I’m tired of this! I’ve actually been recovering from surgery for 3 years next month, it started with back surgery for me and I’ve had 2 knee replacements and now a revision. I had 4 major surgeries in less than 3 years. I have a love/hate relationship with my ice machine. Love how it keeps my knee nice and cold at night, but I’m a little claustrophobic, so I hate feeling tethered to it. I hope you’re not allergic to anything, but if you are, hopefully your surgeon will be able to choose an implant that will work for you. Whatever the results are, at least you can be assured that you have done everything that you possibly could to achieve the best possible outcome. And that’s all we can hope for. There are plenty of people on this site who’ve done this recovery alone, I’m sure they can give you some tips on how they were able to handle it.
I sent you a message back. I asked the allergy place to email my results to me, so much faster than “snail mail “.