@marieltha Those napkins are adorable!
I know they say every knee is different, but this isn't at all what I expected. Part of it is proper pain management. I can tell that is huge. I still hurt a lot lifting the leg in and out of bed, and the bending exercises I like to do are decidedly Not Fun, but everything just feels a lot easier this time. I suspect that my body hadn't really recovered from the initial trauma in July, and this has been accepted as additional trauma instead of a new one. In any case, I'm taking the blessing as the gift it is.
I'm still feeling much more mentally present than I was the first go. A blessing and a curse together. It's nice to not be completely stupid, but it will make resting and keeping my feet up much more of a challenge.
My new incision itches a lot. More than the original one I believe. And I've had a few 'zingers', so now I know about those. Wouldn't want to miss any major milestones from this adventure. My biggest problem isn't knee oriented, exactly. I'm having some sciatica pain radiating from my hip. I went to the chiro last week to try to avoid something like this, but who knows how something got tweaked while I was being man-handled into, out of, and during surgery. Managing that is more antiinflammatories, ice, gentle stretches, and ice, so I'm already doing what I can.
@mtmtoronto I hope your second will go as well. I can definitely say the second is easier because it was the stronger leg in the first place.